Dream Dictionary
A dictionary from the Spellbook — symbols A–Z, and themes from Alphabet through Wedding.
The symbol list and themes follow the Dream Moods A–Z dictionary and theme pages. The readings here are written for the Spellbook. A symbol is a reading, not a prediction.
P
P
The letter P puns on urine. You need a clearer way to let feeling out.
Pac Man
Pac-Man is a habit or behavior that has started to eat the rest of the day.
Pacifier
A pacifier is a wish to be soothed and to step away from adult demands. Sucking on one can mean flattery toward someone, or a manner that is still immature.
Pacify
Pacifying someone shows you can stay calm when others look to you in a crisis.
Package
A package holds creative energy, skill, or feeling you have not opened. Receiving one is new resources acknowledged; sending one is feeling pushed onto someone else.
Packing
Packing means a big change and old ties being put away. Packing that never finishes is chaos, too many burdens, and business you still have not closed.
Paddle
See also Oars.
Paddleball
Paddleball is play that keeps you from going after what you actually want.
Paddleboat
See also Rowboat.
Paddling
See also Rowing.
Padlock
See also Lock.
Pagan
Being pagan when you are not suggests energy pointed the wrong way. If you are pagan, another pagan carries guidance you have been seeking.
Page
A page summarizes where your life has been and where it is headed. A blank page is stalling; being a page yourself is time spent on pleasure that leads nowhere.
Pageant
A beauty pageant is insecurity about how you look, and the habit of measuring yourself against a standard no one can meet.
Pager
A pager means someone is trying hard to get a thought through to you. It can also feel like their beliefs are being pressed on you.
Pagoda
A pagoda is your own sense of the spiritual, including a practice that is still unfamiliar. Its form can also be sexual.
Pail
A pail suggests your situation is improving: full, it is abundance, and empty, you will get past a loss. The word can also pun on pale.
Pain
Pain means the judgment you turn on yourself is harsher than the facts, especially where you had no control. It can also echo a real ache in the body, so notice where it sits.
Paint
Paint is feeling that wants expression; the color tells you which feeling. Wet paint means those feelings are still fresh and unsettled.
Paintball
Paintball is competition that is still playful, with a win available if you watch for an ambush. Being hit is a small setback; the paint color names the emotion.
Paintbrush
A paintbrush is harmony, creativity, and talent you can use.
Painting
Painting a house is success in a new project, or a cover over something. A finished painting is the need to show what is inside you.
Pairs
A pair asks for balance, and it can stand for a partner.
Pajama Party
See also Sleepover.
Pajamas
Pajamas say you need rest. Wearing them in public means you are missing something important that is right in front of you.
Palace
A palace is wealth, prominence, and potential you are ready to use. Living in one means success is close.
Pale
Paleness points to illness, fear, or a relationship that is draining you.
Palette
An artist's palette means you are willing to show what you feel, or that someone has dropped the act and is being real.
Pall
A pall marks an ending, or feeling you are covering so you do not have to face it.
Pallbearer
A pallbearer is a warning that temper needs a tighter hold. Carrying a coffin, the figure marks a move into a new work, home, or path.
Pallet
A pallet stands for factory work and labor done by hand.
Palm
An open palm is generosity and a willingness to help, while a closed one hides something. Either way, the power to act is already in your hands.
Palm Reading
A palm reading lays out the life you want and the direction you hope to take.
Palm Tree
A palm tree is calm, high hopes, victory, and a long span of life. It may be asking for a vacation.
Palpitations
Palpitations are fears you have not faced, or nerves about something specific.
Pan
A pan reflects your stance on a situation, and it can carry criticism or anger.
Pancake
Pancakes are pleasure taken in how things are, and comfort in what is simple.
Panda
A panda means a compromise that will not come, and a need for middle ground. It can also be the cuddly, childlike part of you.
Pandora's Box
Pandora's box is hope that things will turn, or curiosity and thoughts you need to let out.
Pangolin
A pangolin says your own drive needs a guard. You are moving too fast and should think before the next step.
Panic
Panic is a loss of control and the sense that you cannot decide. Slow down.
Pansy
A pansy is love that does not end, or thoughtfulness and a noble mind.
Panther
A panther is danger waiting and people working against you, with darkness that can also become a new start. Read the mood: it may instead be power, beauty, and grace.
Panties
Panties reflect a feminine point of view. Taking them off is your idea of sexuality, or a wish to reach what is actually underneath.
Pantomime
A pantomime recalls a freer, more spontaneous time, or it points dramatically at something you should notice.
Pantry
A pantry means help and resources are within reach. Bare, it is an emotional emptiness.
Pants
Pants raise a question about your role. Fabric and color refine it, and the garment can also hint at sex; velvet leans sensual.
Pantyhose
Pantyhose suggest sexuality worn close to the skin. A pale pair is discretion, black is desire still hidden, red is desire shown, and a run is confidence that has thinned.
Pap Smear
A pap smear is worry about your body and your sexuality, or plain anxiety about a real test and its result.
Paparazzi
Paparazzi chasing you means privacy invaded and a self that feels lost. Being one is the chase after fame; seeing them is a need to focus hard on one situation.
Papaya
Papaya points to sexual appetite that is lively and in good shape.
Paper
Blank paper is a wish to start clean, in writing or in speech. A tall stack is duty piled higher than you can handle.
Paper Bag
An empty paper bag suggests the womb, a secret, or the feminine. A full one says the ordinary outside may hide something remarkable.
Paper Plane
A paper plane is a light pursuit, time spent on ideas that never land.
Paper Plates
Paper plates are nourishment or reward that will not last, so use the chance while it is here. Writing on one is a message you must send quickly.
Paper Towel
A paper towel is a short setback. Clear the old mess so you can move.
Paperclip
A paperclip is an attempt to hold a relationship together, or to organize a life that has come loose.
Paprika
Paprika means a person or an event wants your notice. It can also warn that anger reveals a side of someone you have not met.
Papyrus
Papyrus says the past has a lesson you still need.
Parachute
A parachute is protection and a sense of safety, or the moment to leave a situation or an old habit. If it fails, someone you trusted has let you down.
Parade
Watching a parade is distraction from your own aims, or a cycle and a special event passing by.
Paradise
Paradise is a wish for spiritual completeness and a rest from stress. It can also mean you are living in a private world that is not realistic.
Parakeet
A parakeet carries a message moving from what you do not yet know into what you do.
Parakeets
Parakeets suggest you lack a fresh idea and lean on others in a way that is still immature.
Parallel
Parallel lines show a wish to avoid conflict, and thinking that stays in one straight track. A parallel world is regret over a choice already made.
Paralyzed
Paralysis can be the body's stillness during sleep, and it also means you feel pinned and unable to change a waking situation. The freeze may be emotional, a feeling you cannot say.
See also Immobility.
Paramedics
Paramedics mean a problem needs attention before it becomes critical. They can also point to a relationship you need to bring back.
Paranoia
Paranoia is hesitation: fear and suspicion so strong you will not take the next step.
Paranormal
Paranormal movement, switches flipping on their own, means you refuse credit for your own acts and let events happen instead of making them.
Parasite
A parasite is vitality leaking away because you depend too much on others. It can also be the habit of taking without giving back.
Parasol
See also Umbrella.
Parcel
See also Box.
Parchment
Parchment means the words on it carry special weight. Pay attention to what they say about your waking life.
Pardon
A pardon, for you or for someone else, asks you to be more forgiving.
Parents
Parents stand for shelter, power, and love, and sometimes for worry about the real people. Their death in the dream is a major change in that bond, not a prediction.
See also Father and Mother.
Paris
Paris is a hunger for romance and passion, and a sense of distinction. Your own memories of the city outweigh the general reading.
Park
A park is a brief escape and a quiet reset after conflict. Parking a car there is a wish to settle down.
Park Ranger
A park ranger is control of what lies under the surface, and emotions kept in bounds.
Parking Attendant
A parking attendant means you spend your direction on other people's goals and lack one of your own.
Parking Lot
A parking lot says slow down and leave the schedule for a while. No open space means you have not found your place; it can also mirror a life that is simply too full.
Parking Meter
A parking meter means carefree time is running out and a goal needs choosing. It can also warn that your manner is about to offend someone.
Parking Structure
A parking structure is going in circles, unsure what you want. A missing car means you have lost part of yourself on the way to the goal.
Parking Ticket
A parking ticket is feeling lost about your direction, and judged for the path you want. It can also match real setbacks and thin accomplishments.
Parkour
Parkour means obstacles are not stopping you, and you can adapt to the ground you are on. Watching someone else do it asks for a more flexible use of time.
Parliament
Parliament is leadership, and a need to speak on a public matter. It can also be a wish for the spotlight.
Parole
Parole means every action has a consequence, and something larger than you will ask for an account.
Parrot
A parrot repeats a message or a piece of gossip you should think twice before passing on. It can also be a person who mocks, echoes, or will not stop talking.
Parrots
Parrots carry talk you should not repeat, or a person whose copying and noise have become the point.
Parsley
Parsley is success about to be recognized, or a cleansing of what has been weighing you down.
Partner
A partner means you need other people to finish a shared aim. The figure can also be the two sides of your own personality.
Partner Swapping
Partner swapping is a wish for a more adventurous sex life, or for qualities you want a mate to have. Who you trade with matters.
Partridge
A partridge is independence and leadership. It can also be deception and temptation.
Party
A party says you need to go out and enjoy yourself; a bad one doubts your social skill. Planning one can be too much method, or real stress about an event you are actually hosting.
Party Horn
A party horn means you have no free channel for expression and feel stifled.
Passageway
A secret passageway matches something new in waking life: a chance, a bond, or an attitude. Waking before you explore it means you are unsure how to use the opening.
Passenger
Being a passenger means other people are steering your life. Other passengers suggest you spend too much energy pleasing people who take from you.
Passion Fruit
Passion fruit is a spiritual connection, or health, fertility, and long life, with sex in the invitation. It can also pun on a project you care about deeply.
Passport
A passport is identity and freedom to move through situations, a period of finding yourself. Losing it is that search gone urgent, or chances closing; a stamp is approval to proceed.
Password
A password is access and control over feelings you can unlock. Forgetting it is a loss of control; the characters in it may hide a message.
Past
The past means a current situation is repeating an older one, so use the lesson. It can also be unfinished business, or a habit of living backward.
Past Life
A past life is a deeper look at who you are and where you come from, whether literal or ancestral. It offers earlier lessons you can use now.
Pasta
Pasta is a need for energy; the shape matters. Narrow tubes are a narrow view, long strands a tangle, elbows a turn back toward yourself, and corkscrews a part of life out of control.
Paste
See also Glue.
Pastel
Pastel colors mean some feeling is only half admitted, and ambiguity remains.
Pastor
A pastor is a need for spiritual counsel, often with guilt mixed in.
Pastry
Pastry is indulgence, sensual pleasure, and satisfaction with rewards you are already tasting.
Patdown
See also Frisk.
Patent
Applying for a patent marks accomplishments, and a need to pursue goals in a more orderly way.
Path
An open path is clear thought and progress. A blocked or twisting one says the direction of work or private life needs a serious second look before you act.
Patient
Being a patient means you are in a process of healing. The word can also pun on patience, and on waiting for what is not ready yet.
Patio
A patio is openness toward a situation: open doors are a receptive mind, and closed ones are refusal. The threshold joins thought and spirit.
Patricide
Patricide is rejection of authority and of answering to anyone above you. It can also be killing off the part of you that is becoming like your father.
Patron
See also Customer.
Pattern
A pattern means life has gone repetitive and needs a break in the routine. A dress pattern is you copying someone you admire, or losing your own outline.
Patty-Cake
Patty-cake is a carefree rhythm, or time and energy spent where nothing grows. Children playing it recall your own early years and a reminder not to treat everything as grave.
Pauper
A pauper means talents and worth are sitting unused. You are not counting yourself as enough.
Pavement
Pavement is solid ground and a clear grasp of a situation. It can also be a path toward your aims that you have already laid.
Paw
An animal paw asks you to trust instinct. It can pun on your father, and bloody prints are animal desire pushed out of sight.
Pawnshop
A pawnshop means resources of body, spirit, or feeling are being used up too fast. It can also mean your way of handling problems is a poor trade.
Paycheck
A paycheck is the result of hard work and a measure of confidence. More than you expected is real reward; less is being undervalued, or worry about making ends meet.
Paying
Paying is the cost of your choices. Covering someone else's bill is an attempt to buy liking.
Payphone
A payphone is a message or advice that costs you something, or communication that is taking a toll. Out of order, you are shut out and cannot get through.
See also Telephone.
PE
PE class asks for a healthier base in how you live, colored by your real memories of those classes. It can also mean you need to work as part of a team.
Peace
Peace is a conflict inside you coming to rest, a pause before a new effort, and a steadier calm. The quiet can also be the hush before trouble.
Peach
A peach is pleasure in simple things, and a life that is going well. It can also stand for sensuality or for someone you love.
Peacock
A peacock is new growth, long life, and success in work or in a bond. It can also be pride and vanity.
Peak
A mountain peak is achievement and a life that will go far. The word can also pun on a look you were not meant to take.
Peanut
Peanuts ask you to reach the core of a matter and to use more of your ability. They can also be money, and how little of it you have.
Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is trouble getting thoughts out, words that arrive wrong and cause a misunderstanding.
Pear
A pear stands for the womb, fertility, and often a woman in your life. It can pun on a pair, and a pear tree is a new opportunity.
Pearl
Pearls are the soul, inner beauty, and purity, or tears. A string of them is sameness; earrings are advice worth taking; a black pearl marks crooked reasoning.
Peas
Peas are small annoyances that keep bothering you.
Pebble
A pebble is a minor difficulty. Throwing pebbles is hurt over small slights, criticism, and gossip.
Pecan
A pecan says large results often begin small, and it stands for staying power and potential.
Pedal
Pedals mean you are moving toward a goal by your own effort, at a slow and steady rate.
Pedestal
Standing on a pedestal is recognition, or an ego that has swollen.
Pedicure
A pedicure means progress is underway, with confidence and poise, and you may want that progress noticed. It can also be a simple need to be cared for and to rest.
Pedophile
This dream is a distress signal. If it echoes something that really happened, tell someone you trust.
Pee
See also Urination.
Peel
Peeling is the shedding of old habits and of a surface you no longer need.
Peephole
A peephole is a narrow view of a situation, and a decision made before you have the facts. It can also be a one-sided arrangement where someone else holds the advantage.
Peeping
Peeping is mistrust and unease, or fear of getting close. Being watched is confinement at work or at home, and a missing sense of privacy.
Pegasus
Pegasus is speed and agility, enough to get through a stormy relationship.
Pelican
A pelican is care, sacrifice, and putting others first. An attack by one means you have started to see that care as a weakness.
Pellet Gun
See also BB Gun.
Pelvis
The pelvis raises sexual questions and your sense of what is feminine or masculine in you, including how you create and express.
Pen
A pen is self-expression and communication, and a reminder that words can outweigh force.
Pencil
A pencil is a mark that may not last, including a relationship that feels temporary. Sharpening one asks for more flexible thinking, or for your best offer in a deal.
Pendant
A pendant is a relationship and the wish for love without conditions. It can also mean a person or a moment has touched you.
Pendulum
A swinging pendulum is trouble choosing, fear of change, and people waiting on your decision.
Pendulum Thrill Ride
A pendulum thrill ride is mood swinging hard, feeling carrying you farther than you meant to go.
Penguin
A penguin says the problem is smaller than it feels, and that you should keep your cool. It can also be emotion weighing you down until balance returns.
Penis
A penis stands for sexual energy, power, and fertility; slack, it is frustration. Damage or loss of it is a fear of losing power or identity, not a literal forecast.
Penitentiary
See also Prison.
Penny
A penny is fear of being broke, or a small talent you should not underestimate.
Pentacle
A pentacle is spiritual protection and strength for a conflict you have to face.
Pentagon
A pentagon shape is strength and a stance that feels solid. The building is a search for protection, or your view of national power and military policy.
Pentagram
A pentagram joins spirit with earth, air, fire, and water, and it reads as protection. Point down, it is conflict, guilt, or a preoccupation with material gain.
Penthouse
A penthouse is the creative and spiritual part of you, life seen from a higher vantage.
Peony
A peony is a plan thought through with wisdom from earlier experience. It can also be shyness and too much caution.
People
People you know carry qualities you want; strangers carry traits you have not faced. People blocking the way may be working against you, or shielding you, so read the mood.
Pepper
Pepper asks for more spice in a dull stretch, or it names an irritation. The dream may show where the bother comes from.
Peppermint
Peppermint is calm and a soothing change. A peppermint candy is a sweet reward, festivity, and pleasure.
Pepperoni
Pepperoni asks you to add zest to a flat stretch of life. It can also mean a sense of completeness.
Percolator
A percolator says slow down and think before you act.
Perfect
Perfection in a person or a thing is an expectation no real life can meet.
Perfume
Perfume is a search for pleasure, sensuality, and indulgence. Smelling it without wearing it is memory and nostalgia.
Peridot
Peridot signifies good company and a friendship that lasts.
Period
A period marks an ending.
See also Menstruation.
Periodic Table
The periodic table asks you to reach the core of a matter. A letter that stands out may be someone's initials; a distorted table means something is blocking the truth.
Periscope
A periscope says rise above the situation for a better view, and stop thinking in only one line.
Perm
A perm is a change in outlook, a new way of seeing. The word can also pun on a change that is meant to last.
Permission
Asking permission is a lack of freedom, or doubt that sends you looking for approval. Someone asking you is authority you already hold.
Permit
A permit is about your rights; the kind of permit names the area. A weapon permit treats anger as justified; a building permit seeks leave to move to the next phase.
Perpetual Motion
Perpetual motion is anxiety that will not settle, and a need to break a repetitive job, bond, or routine.
Persecution
Persecution means a waking situation calls for you to defend your ground.
Persimmon
A persimmon stands for delight, honor, and a win.
Person
Someone you are estranged from signals a wish to rebuild that tie, or to reclaim a part of yourself you abandoned.
Personal Trainer
A personal trainer says do not take the easy route; push for better. It can also be guidance you are seeking.
Perspective
A shift from your own eyes to an outside view means other people's perspectives need room. You may be too centered on yourself.
Perspire
See also Sweat.
Pervert
A pervert points to trouble with closeness. You keep distance so you will not be hurt.
Pet
A pet is instinct kept civilized, or a need for affection you are missing.
Pet Food
Pet food is a skill that still needs time and effort. Feeding it to an animal can mark disloyalty; eating it yourself means primitive thoughts want attention.
Pet Store
A pet store is responsibility you are taking on, and the animal you choose shows a quality to adopt. It can also be a search for love; stealing an animal undervalues your own worth.
Petals
Petals mark a friendship or romance that has split, along with regret.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a wish to escape duties and return to a time without deadlines. It can also be a flying dream, a need to see from higher up.
Petition
Signing a petition means you are ready for a major change and want to see progress.
Petrifaction
Being turned to stone is a rut, a bond or situation with no exit you can see. Someone else petrified is permanence, or time that feels stopped.
Petroleum
Petroleum is a part of life that could flare, or vitality and enthusiasm still stored.
Petticoat
A petticoat is reluctance to reveal something, a modest or conservative cover.
Petting
Petting an animal is you accepting a physical trait or a primitive desire in yourself.
Pew
A pew asks you to pause and look at past mistakes before you move on.
Pewter
Pewter means you are holding an old way of thinking that may be out of date.
Phantom
A phantom is guilt, fear, or memory you pushed down, using the dream to make you face it.
See also Ghost.
Pharaoh
A pharaoh is the authoritarian in you, or a link to the spiritual and the divine.
Pharmacy
A pharmacy says correct your thinking from the inside instead of waiting for an outside fix.
Pheasant
A pheasant stands for mothering and the care you give.
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is generosity, or a prompt to give more.
Philosophy
Philosophy is an attempt to understand the world and where your life is going, often a basic question you cannot yet answer.
Phlegm
See also Mucus.
Phobia
A phobia says face the fear before it runs you. The particular fear names the stake; heights, for example, can mean a high position that feels unsafe.
Phoenix
A phoenix is transformation and renewal, a move into another phase. It can also mean the past is still haunting you.
Phone
See also Telephone.
Phone Booth
A phone booth is a message that costs you, or a relationship taking a toll. Out of order, you are shut out and cannot get your thoughts across.
Phone Number
A phone number says reach out and ask for help. Forgetting or misdialing it is trouble getting through to someone; deleting one is a tie you should cut.
Phosphorescence
Phosphorescence is material you had suppressed now coming into view. You are careful about what you share.
Photo Album
A photo album is unwillingness to release memory, an idealized past you keep paging through.
Photo Booth
A photo booth warns that what feels private may not stay private. It can also be a wish to hold onto a feeling you are having now.
Photo Shoot
A photo shoot means the image you maintain is staged. The scene underneath does not match the pose.
Photocopier
See also Copier.
Photograph
A photograph is a relationship that needs a closer look, or a past you will not release. Altering it is a false image; tearing it up is letting that past go.
See also Picture.
Photographer
Being a photographer is the wish to preserve one era or one face.
Photoshop
Photoshop means you are fitting yourself to someone else's ideal, or arranging an outcome. A retouched picture is the self you want others to believe.
Physician
See also Doctor.
Piano
Playing piano is a search for harmony; where the instrument sits shows which part of life needs it. Silence from the keys is shaky confidence; a piano that needs tuning is discord you should give time.
Pick-up Truck
A pickup truck is hard work and a return to basics. It can also pun on something you need to collect.
Pickaxe
A pickaxe is sexual tension or aggression that needs loosening.
Pickle
A pickle is anxiety and fear of trouble ahead. Its shape can also be a sexual image.
Pickpocket
Someone picking your pocket is reluctance to share ideas in case they take the credit. Being the pickpocket means you will go far to get information you want.
Picnic
A picnic is a joyful, simple home life. A basket is a chance to share views; a table is togetherness, and hiding under it is a disagreement left unresolved.
Picture
A picture is an image that will not leave your mind, or a call to see the larger situation.
See also Photograph.
Picture Frame
A picture frame is the wish that a relationship stay as it is, dread of change. It can also pun on being framed by someone working against you.
Pie
A pie is the reward of hard work, or the share you expect to receive.
Piecrust
Piecrust is a promise that gets broken.
Pier
A pier is reflection and a willingness to look into yourself. It signals emotional and spiritual growth.
Piercing
A piercing often marks sharp words or a disturbing sight, and the place of the piercing tells you which.
Pieta
The Pieta is the lasting bond of mother and child, and a mother's loss. That loss may be an ending, not a death.
Pig
A pig can be greed, stubbornness, selfishness, or overindulgence, sometimes a person who is crude. If you find pigs appealing, the dream may show a misconception about someone you expected to be different.
Pigeon
A pigeon means you are taking blame for other people's acts, or carrying gossip and news. Being eaten by another animal is the cost of spreading a rumor.
Piggyback
Giving a piggyback ride is support that has become a weight you carry. Riding on someone else is lack of control, or a bond where neither of you stands alone.
Piggybank
A piggybank is money worry, and a hint to spend less or keep a budget.
Piglet
A piglet is someone, maybe you, whose flaws you accept anyway. It can also stand for children.
Pigsty
A pigsty is a messy situation that needs sorting before you can move. It can also be an attack on your character.
Pigtails
Pigtails are a slide back toward a more carefree childhood, and a wish not to be loaded with duty.
Pile
A pile is burden or excess. Papers are stress you are not handling; trash is what you reject in yourself; wood is passion that has grown too large.
Pilgrim
Being a pilgrim is a spiritual journey. Seeing one is the part of you that wants a larger understanding of yourself and the world.
Pill
A pill is inner harmony returning, healing, and an end to sour ideas. It can also be a person or idea that is hard to follow.
Pillar
A pillar is strength and a firm stand under pressure, or the support of people around you.
Pillow
A pillow is comfort and ease, or laziness. A lumpy one is an unsettled mind; a missing one is denial.
Pilot
A pilot means you are in charge of where your life is headed, confident in the choices.
Pimples
A pimple is shaky self-image and feeling out of place. Popping it is a negative feeling that needs to be let out before it bursts.
Pin
A pinprick is a sticky, unstable relationship, or someone who is being a jerk.
Pin Cushion
A pin cushion is stinging remarks and the sense of being used. It can also mean your own sharp words are meant to hurt.
Piñata
A piñata is celebration: breaking it open is reward for persistence, and missing it is success that stays just out of reach because you doubt yourself. Insects inside mean a promise that was empty.
Pinball
Pinball says patience, control, and precision can break a risky goal into pieces you can handle.
Pincers
Pincers for hands mean you are reaching for something by underhanded means. Being grabbed is a person or situation with a strong hold on you.
Pinch
A pinch is a reality check, goals that may be too high, or a stretch so smooth you distrust it.
Pine Tree
A pine tree is long life and fertility, or a pun on pining for someone. The scent asks you to feel lifted again.
Pineapple
A pineapple is confidence, ambition, and success, or hospitality and a need to rest. Eating one points to sexual trouble and fear of losing control.
Pinecone
A pinecone is wealth and good fortune, or a pun on pining for someone.
Ping Pong
Ping-pong is indecision: two options and no commitment.
Pink
Pink is love, sweetness, kindness, and healing through affection. It can also be immaturity in love, or the notice that a job is ending.
Pinky Finger
The pinky is mental power, intellect, memory, and communication.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio means you or someone else is not telling the truth.
Pinwheel
A pinwheel is success from your own power and creative energy, or childhood and a carefree streak. Color adds detail.
Pioneer
A pioneer is exploration of what lies under conscious life, and a fresh mode of expression.
Pipe
A water pipe is openness to ideas and connection with people. Being inside one is a narrow view; smoking a pipe is knowledge, comfort, or a reminder of someone who smokes.
Piranha
Piranhas mean something is eating at you underneath. Pent-up feeling needs a release.
Pirate
A pirate brings chaos into emotional life, or a wish for freedom and risk.
Pirate Ship
A pirate ship is a suppressed wish for freedom and adventure, or hidden hostility. A flying one means the adventurous side has taken the lead.
Pirouette
A pirouette is balance among many duties, and grace under the circumstances.
Pisces
Pisces points to sensitivity, imagination, and compassion, including sacrifices for what you believe. It can also be a self that will not shift.
Piss
See also Urination.
Pistachio
A pistachio says you are ready for a new experience that will be worth the difficulty. Eating them is joy.
Pistol
Aiming a pistol is a specific goal you are targeting, or fear and anger you meet with force.
See also Gun.
Piston
A piston is drive and ambition, the means you are measuring against the goal. It can also be sex that has become mechanical.
Pit
A pit is hopelessness about a situation, the sense of being at a low. A bottomless one is a setback you cannot see how to climb out of.
Pit Bull
A pit bull is defensiveness, the feeling of being threatened. Owning one is protection, sometimes more than the situation needs.
Pita
Pita is wholeness and the round of a life, including sacrifices that turned out well. It can also stand for the womb.
Pitcher
A water pitcher is ideas or feelings pouring out after you had kept them private. A baseball pitcher is control over the course you are on.
Pitchfork
A pitchfork is self-sufficiency, learning to do things yourself. It can also be a wish for a simpler life.
Pixel
Pixelated images are a situation that will not come clear. Focusing on single pixels means you are lost in details and missing the whole.
Pixie
A pixie is childishness, or energy and potential you have not recognized.
Pizza
Pizza is abundance, choice, and variety, or the sense that you are missing something. As a round, it can share the meaning of a circle.
Pizzeria
A pizzeria is love and warmth around you, a place you can ease into. Owning one is dedication.
Place Mat
A place mat shows where you stand in a relationship, including one just beginning. It also marks a sociable, sharing nature.
Placenta
A placenta is dependence on other people, and something in your life you no longer need to carry.
Places
A particular place shows your inner state through its feel, look, and color, plus the memories you attach to it.
Plague
A plague is a wide issue that touches everyone around you. Your decision will have large consequences.
Plaid
Plaid means a conservative side of you is arguing with a wilder one.
Plains
Plains are wholesomeness and a clear, smooth way ahead. The word can also pun on someone plain.
Plan
Planning an event asks for a more orderly way of deciding, and it may echo real stress about that event. A plan can also be the commitment you need to keep.
Plane
A plane can pun on someone plain, or on a new level you have reached.
See also Airplane.
Planet
A planet is creativity, exploration, and unused energy. Discovering life on one is escape from a situation, or a part of yourself you just found.
Plank
Walking the plank is emotional vulnerability and a plunge into new feeling. A wooden plank is something that needs repair, or making use of very little.
Planting
Planting is faith in the future and an optimistic view.
Plants
Plants are fertility, growth, and a caring nature. Drooping or dead ones are a standstill; growth you can watch happen means time is passing while you miss the small things.
Plaster
Plaster is a matter you are trying to settle. A plaster mold means you are stuck living in the past.
Plastic
Plastic objects suggest you are being artificial or insensitive, not genuine. They can also mean flexible thinking.
Plastic Bag
A plastic bag is a temporary burden you are carrying, and a need for better control. It can also be concern for the environment.
Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery is an attempt to rebuild self-esteem and how you see yourself. If a procedure is actually scheduled, the dream may simply be anxiety about it.
Plateau
A plateau is a rut, a stretch of life that feels flat. It can also be a quiet high point of mind.
Plates
A plate is hunger for life and promise ahead. An empty one is an emotional void.
See also Dishes.
Platform Shoe
Platform shoes say stand tall and aim higher. They can pun on a political platform, or recall an easy, party-minded era.
Platinum
Platinum is success and wealth earned by drive, a reminder that the goal is reachable. It can also be a cold, tough exterior.
Platter
A platter is laziness or envy, or a sense that you are owed everything without effort.
Platypus
A platypus is dwelling on emotion, with buried thoughts slowly becoming visible.
Play
Play is breaking the usual rules with free creativity, or a life that is all work and needs loosening. Being in a play is the roles you perform; watching one is inspiration drawn from others.
Play Doh
Play-Doh is making something real out of an idea, imagination at work. It can also be a situation you are trying to shape to your will.
Playground
A playground is escape from daily duty, a more carefree mood, and talents you should acknowledge.
Playpen
A playpen says make time for pleasure. It can also mark behavior that is still immature.
Pliers
Pliers say pull out the details before you decide. They can also mean something in your life needs to be removed.
Plot
See also Conspiracy.
Plough
A plough is growth and new ideas or projects you are cultivating.
Plowing
Plowing is a fresh start and ground prepared for change. It can also be the monotony of a daily routine.
Plug
A plug is power and energy you have not tapped, a reserve you can draw on. It can also pun on staying informed.
Plum
A plum is youth and vitality, and sometimes how you feel about your body. A plum tree adds innocence and the promise that a difficulty will pass.
Plumage
Plumage is a need to feel shielded, and a display of strength that tips into showing off.
Plumber
A plumber is an emotional issue you should deal with before it clogs, perhaps with a friend or with real help.
Plumbing
Plumbing is the flow of feeling. Clogged pipes are emotion held back; the system can also mirror the body and a health concern.
Plunge
A plunge is uncertainty you can meet only by taking a risk. Something plunging into a chest means you are ignoring an obvious truth.
Plunger
A plunger says force a confrontation with feelings that are blocking your progress.
Pluto
Pluto is an ending and a destruction that uncovers a new beginning, along with potential you had hidden.
Plywood
Plywood is flexible, creative thinking, and also warmth.
Pocket
A pocket hides talents you are not using. Empty, it can be the womb or a wish to withdraw; a hole means resources draining away.
Pocket Watch
A pocket watch is too much concern with time, or thinking that belongs to an older era.
Pocketknife
A pocketknife means a good friend will not show their real feelings.
See also Knife.
Podium
A podium means something important needs to be said so you can be heard. It can also mark status and influence.
Poetry
Poetry is inspiration and an ideal, and a need for clearer communication with someone.
Pogo Stick
A pogo stick is life's rises and drops. Without control, your feelings and thoughts are scattered; the motion can also suggest sex.
Poinsettia
Poinsettias are joy, good health, and festivity, or a spirit that needs lifting.
Point
Something pointed is action, urgency, and a decision reached. It can also mean there is a point to the dream, or one you still need to make.
Pointing
Pointing at someone or something says pay attention; it may be the way through a problem. Someone pointing at you is guilt or an accusation.
Poison
Poison names a harmful influence you should clear out of daily life. Taking it in means bitterness or jealousy you are swallowing.
Poison Ivy
Poison ivy is vengeful thought, resentment, or a person, habit, or situation you should stay away from.
Poke
Being poked means something needs your attention, a nudge to move. It can pun on being slow when you should already be acting.
Pokemon
Pokemon is a wish to widen your social circle and be accepted. Being one points to qualities that set you apart.
Poker
Poker means a waking situation needs strategy before you act. The word can also pun on trying to get a woman's attention.
Poker Chips
Poker chips are life's uncertainty, and the moments when you have to take a chance.
Polar Bear
A polar bear is a reawakening, or emotions that have gone cold.
Pole
A pole is security and something you can lean on. It can also be a sexual image.
Pole Dancing
Pole dancing is sexual expression and a wish to be more open about desire. The pole itself can mean someone you have wrapped around your will.
Pole Vaulting
Pole vaulting is an attempt to get over a sexual problem.
Police
Police stand for rules, authority, and the end of reckless behavior. Being an officer is your own conscience; running from them is refusal to face what your actions cost.
Police Car
A police car means help is coming for an inner turmoil that needs intervention.
Police Tape
Police tape is protection from going deeper than you are ready for, or a restriction in the way.
Polish
Polishing metal is honing a skill and coming into your ability. Polishing stone is seeing real beauty in someone, and the patience that takes.
Political Party
A political party says stand up for what you believe and be ready for the backlash.
Politician
Being a politician is deception, or an effort to win people to your view, sometimes by abusing a position. Seeing one asks you to pick a side.
Polka Dots
Polka dots are routine and sameness. Misshapen ones are the wish to break that routine.
Poll Booth
A poll booth is the wish to affect your community, or the feeling of being boxed in.
Pollen
Pollen is life's small irritations, or new ideas being spread.
Pollution
Pollution says clean up your words and your thoughts.
Polo
Polo is wealth, access, and prestige, or life inside a world run by men.
Poltergeist
A poltergeist is a lack of control and disruptions that block your goals.
Polyester
Polyester means you are getting by and have settled for what is merely adequate.
Polygamy
Polygamy points to sexual questions still unresolved, and a hint to be less rigid about desire.
Polygraph
A polygraph is lost confidence in other people. Taking one means face the facts and stop hiding from the pain.
Pomander
A pomander is protection, and worry about your health.
Pomegranate
A pomegranate is fertility, health, and long life, with sex in the invitation. It can also stand for blood.
Pompeii
Pompeii says life can stop without warning. Appreciate the people around you.
Pompoms
Pompoms are competitive spirit and encouragement to keep going. Waving, they say you are already aimed the right way.
Pond
A pond is quiet you need, and feelings you usually keep contained. Frozen, it is emotional coldness or indifference.
Pony
A pony is play, and power in you that is still untrained.
Ponytail
A ponytail is a casual, carefree attitude.
Ponzi Scheme
A Ponzi scheme is deep money worry and second thoughts about an investment. It can also mean a relationship that is no longer worth more effort.
Poo
See also Feces.
Poodle
A poodle suggests a manner that wants to look refined and above the room.
Pool
A pool of water asks you to face your feelings or to wash the past off, and dark water is emotion clouding your judgment. Shooting pool is competition, and a problem that needs harder concentration.
Pool Noodle
A pool noodle is a false sense of safety, or a need to bend rather than stay rigid.
Pool Table
A pool table asks for more cooperation, a pooling of effort.
Poop
See also Feces.
Poor
Being poor is a feeling of inadequacy, potential you will not claim.
Popcorn
Popcorn is positive growth and ideas, or a truth being shown to you. Unpopped kernels are potential still waiting.
Pope
A pope is spiritual guidance and belief, meant to inspire. It can also be self-righteousness and a holier-than-thou attitude.
Popeye
Popeye means you have stepped past a boundary, perhaps by forcing your views on others.
Poplar
A poplar stands for vigor and a life force that is still strong.
Poppy
A poppy is fertility and abundance, or the need to forgive and leave the past. A red one is sacrifice and remembrance.
Popsicle
A popsicle says cool a temper before it runs away. Its shape can also be sexual.
Popular
Being popular is the wish to be liked and looked up to, or insecurity hunting for approval.
Porcelain
Porcelain is smoothness, things going well, or a delicate situation that needs care.
Porch
A porch is the social face you show. Enclosed, you want distance and privacy; open, you are welcoming.
Porcupine
A porcupine says protect yourself from emotional harm, and value trust. It can also be someone on the defensive who will not show a soft side.
Pork
Pork is a wish for routine and normalcy. It can also pun on spending too much.
Pornography
Watching pornography raises questions of intimacy, power, and whether you can perform or be seen. Being in it is a wish to be more sexually adventurous.
Porpoise
A porpoise puns on purpose, a search for what you are here to do.
See also Dolphins.
Port
See also Harbor.
Porta Potty
A porta potty says express feeling more openly instead of holding it in.
Portables
A school portable says learn to adapt, and that an important lesson is waiting.
Portal
See also Door.
Portrait
A portrait of yourself is how you see you, or how you want to be seen. A family portrait is core values, and a reminder of what actually matters.
Posing
Striking a pose means the person on display is a performance, built to meet an expectation. The real self stays behind the act.
Posse
A posse is a unified support, or parts of yourself finally aimed at one goal after inner conflict fades.
Possessed
Possession, of you or of someone else, is helplessness and the sense that you are not in control.
Possession
Your possessions stand for identity and self-worth; each object adds a clue. The image can also mean you are holding on too tightly.
Possum
A possum says something is not what it appears. Dig for the hidden meaning.
Post Office
A post office is a message from inner wisdom, or a need to reach someone.
Post-Apocalypse
A post-apocalyptic scene says you will get through the current difficulty. It can also mean you must rely on yourself instead of other people.
Post-It Note
A Post-it is something you need to remember, perhaps a note from deeper in you. It can also tell you to go ahead and send a message.
Postcard
A postcard is a wish to be more open. Receiving one means someone is thinking of you; hunting for a specific card is an effort to say how you are.
Poster
A poster is personality you want on display. What it shows is the part of you meant for other people.
Postman
See also Mailman.
Posture
Good posture is self-confidence. Noticeably bad posture is low confidence and uncertainty.
Pot
A pot reveals attitude, often hidden anger, and it can refer to drugs. Boiling over is enthusiasm, or more emotion than you can hold.
Pot Holder
A pot holder is protection while you handle an emotional matter with care.
Potato
A potato is earthiness and simplicity, or laziness on the couch.
Potato Bug
A potato bug is intuition or a desire from underneath, or a negative influence you are facing.
Potato Chip
A potato chip is overindulgence.
Potato Chips
Potato chips are overindulgence, and a need for more self-control.
Pothole
A pothole is a setback on the way to a goal, and a sign that the approach needs changing. Things are not running smoothly.
Potholes
Potholes are repeated setbacks, and a rough stretch that will not smooth out until you change how you pursue the goal.
Potion
A potion is a negative influence, or an attempt to force events off their usual course.
Potluck
A potluck is your social life and how you connect. What you bring shows a quality to carry into waking life.
Potpourri
Potpourri is the sweet result of work you have already done, or a reminder of a particular time.
Pottery
Pottery stands for the womb and the feminine, or for thoughts you keep inside instead of saying.
Pottery Wheel
A pottery wheel says take time shaping a relationship. It also carries a feminine mystery.
Poultry
Poultry is togetherness, often around a special occasion.
See also Chickens or Turkey.
Poverty
See also Poor.
Powder
Powder on the face covers a flaw or a mistake. Something powdery asks for finer behavior and speech.
Power
Having power is growing confidence and skill. Lacking it matches a waking moment when you could do nothing; losing it is taking a strength for granted, or not being heard.
Power Lines
Power lines, especially if you are caught in them, are a struggle for power and an obstacle in work or in a relationship.
Power Plant
A power plant is potential, and success if you commit. It is also raw energy.
Powerboat
See also Motorboat.
Practice
Practice, of a sport or an instrument, is you rehearsing success, and commitment to a goal. It says keep going.
Prairie Dog
A prairie dog is a community underground, or a prompt to go against the crowd.
Praise
Hearing praise is pride in your work, or a search for encouragement. Giving it means hold your ground when others question your authority.
Prank
A prank played on you means someone is undermining you and questioning your character. Playing one means you need to take things more seriously.
Prawn
See also Shrimp.
Praying
Praying is respect, humility, and a wish to hand worry to something larger. It can also pun on preying, you or someone else taking advantage.
Praying Mantis
A praying mantis points to a destructive relationship, or to you taking advantage of others in a devious way.
Preacher
A preacher is a hard personal lesson, often guilt you should stop using against yourself. It can also mean you are forcing your beliefs on others.
Precipice
See also Cliff.
Prediction
Receiving a prediction is worry about the future and a wish to control it. Giving one means you trust your intuition.
Pregnancy Test
A pregnancy test is a new phase, such as work or a relationship, checking whether you are ready. It can also be literal fear of conceiving.
Pregnant
Pregnancy is something in you still growing: an idea, a project, or a direction you are not yet willing to act on. If you are not seeking a child, it can be fear of new responsibility.
See also Birth or Belly.
Prehistoric
Prehistoric times mean beliefs that are out of date, or a need to bring an old lesson into the present.
Premonition
A premonition signifies growth. A relationship or situation is moving into a new phase.
Preschool
Preschool is a transition, and sometimes old anxiety about being separated.
Prescription
A prescription is a search for clarity and for an answer to a problem.
Present
A present puns on being here, in the moment, instead of living in what already happened.
See also Gift.
Presentation
A presentation is the self you want the public to see, and the image you are building.
President
A president is authority and control, colored by your real opinion of that person. Running for the office is a quest for power; holding it is high confidence.
Press
The press is a message you need to get across, or a pun on a pressing issue. Being chased by it is a lack of privacy.
Press Conference
Holding a press conference is news others need to hear. Watching one is awareness that has widened.
Pressure
Pressure is stress, the sense of being overloaded. Ease off.
Pretend
See also Deception.
Pretty
Feeling pretty asks you to admit your own worth and carry yourself with confidence. Seeing someone pretty shows qualities you could take on.
Pretzel
A pretzel is devotion, belief, and life's sweeter rewards, or a tangled problem you do not yet know how to hold.
Price
A price is the value you set on your time and ability. High, you rate yourself well; low, you are discounting yourself or someone else.
Prickerbush
A prickerbush is trouble in a relationship, and a need to defend yourself. It can also name a person who is being a jerk.
Pride
Pride means you will have to defend your integrity when it is attacked. Other people's pride means a cause that needs your support.
Priest
A priest is spiritual need, morality, and sometimes sexual feeling held back. A condemning one is harsh authority and rules that feel unreasonable.
Prime Meridian
The Prime Meridian is balance between clear thinking and emotion, a line between the creative side and the rational one.
Prime Minister
A prime minister is authority and control, shaped by your real view of that person and by decisions you might borrow for your own life.
Prime Rib
Prime rib is indulgence in pleasure and in rewards you have earned.
Primrose
Primrose stands for youth, a clean feeling, and energy that has not worn out.
Prince
Being a prince is feeling important and admiring what you have done. Seeing one is honor, recognition, or a romantic ideal you are waiting for.
Princess
Being a princess is potential still growing, or a manner that demands its own way.
Princess Diana
Princess Diana asks for more compassion, or she stands for a loveless bond and the search for real love.
Principal
The principal's office is guilt and fear of exposure. Being the principal yourself can pun on your own principles.
Print
Printing something means you are about to reveal what you had kept private.
Printer
A printer is an attempt to put a thought in a form others can understand. One that fails is frustration at not getting the thought across.
Printing Press
A printing press is communication, or a failure to use lessons you already learned.
Prism
A prism is a spiritual connection, or the many angles of one problem. Try a new direction.
Prison
Prison is a life where expression and creativity feel censored. Someone else inside is a part of you that cannot speak freely.
See also Jail.
Prisoner
See also Convict.
Privacy
Having no privacy is feeling exposed, perhaps because you are hiding something. Having it can mean feelings kept in so no one sees the real you.
Private School
Private school, if you do not attend one, means privileged knowledge is about to reach you, a lesson of real value.
Prize
A prize is accomplishment and real progress on a personal goal.
Pro Shop
A pro shop means you lack the tools you need to succeed.
Probation
Probation says stop delaying and face the problem. Reflection has gone on long enough; make amends.
Procession
A procession means you are ready to stand for your beliefs. It can also be love that stays constant.
Profanity
See also Swearing.
Professor
A professor is higher learning and wisdom, and prominence in some field.
Profits
Profits are business aims, and sometimes a warning that someone is using a situation for the wrong gain.
Programming
Computer programming is a mindset that runs by habit without fresh thought. It can also be a lack of say over your own direction.
Projector
A projector says make yourself known and let your voice be heard.
Prom
A prom is an ending that opens something else, a turn in the cycle of time. It may also be ordinary anticipation if a real prom is coming.
Promise
A promise mirrors commitments in waking life, and worry about whether you can keep your word.
Promissory Note
A promissory note says give yourself more freedom and stop being so strict.
Promotion
A promotion is a rise in self-confidence and a good feeling about yourself.
Propane Tank
A propane tank is pressure or stress. Empty, the stress has passed.
Propeller
A propeller is forward movement, and sometimes a spiritual journey.
Property
Buying property is concern about your standing and the future, or intellect and stability. Losing it is security gone and ground that no longer feels firm.
Prophet
A prophet is knowledge, a need for guidance, and anxiety about a future you want revealed.
Proposal
A proposal joins you to a side of yourself you had not known, or it is real thought about marriage or a long commitment. Your reaction shows how you actually feel.
Prosecution
Prosecution is guilt about something you did, or a manner that judges too harshly, including toward yourself.
Prostate Exam
A prostate exam is an unpleasant task you still need to go through for your own good. It can also be tightness about something, or nerves before a real exam.
Prosthesis
A prosthesis is a new way of reaching, a different perspective. An arm is a new method; a leg is a new journey.
Prostitute
Being a prostitute is a wish for freer sexual expression. It can also mean you are selling yourself, emotionally or morally, where the situation is not literally sexual.
Protection
Needing protection is helplessness and too much reliance on others. Protecting someone is a wall you put up; who you guard shows what you are afraid to reveal.
Protest
A protest says use your voice for your own cause. The details may name an issue you have been ignoring.
Protractor
A protractor is an attempt to see from someone else's angle. It can also pun on wanting more time.
Prowler
See also Intruder.
Prune
Pruning is growth that comes from cutting away old habits you no longer need.
Prunes
Prunes mark an emotional or creative blockage. They can also suggest age, as in a face gone wrinkled.
Prybar
See also Crowbar.
Psychic
A psychic is the wish to know what you cannot yet see, and anxiety about the path ahead. Being psychic is intuition and a sensitive side.
Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis is control over your surroundings that has become too much control.
Psychologist
A psychologist is the thinking side of you, and a prompt to understand a situation without being so hard on yourself.
Psychopath
A psychopath means deception or manipulation is in play, or you feel detached. Being one is an ego growing past safe size.
Pterodactyl
A pterodactyl is sexual desire rising, or a fight between primal urge and rational mind.
Pub
A pub is how you relate to other people socially, and a reminder that you sometimes need to loosen up.
Pubic Hair
Pubic hair suggests you are letting sexual feeling be known in a shy, indirect way.
Public Speaking
Public speaking is a need to say what you feel, or fear of being judged if a real speech is coming. An empty room means your work is going unrecognized.
Pudding
Pudding is sluggishness and a need to move more. It can also say test a claim yourself before you believe it.
Puddle
A puddle is feeling you have downplayed. Small as it looks, deal with it before it overflows.
Puffer Fish
A puffer fish is anger held in until it is ready to burst, or people who underestimate you.
Puffin
A puffin is the ability to dig into yourself for answers. It can pun on a smoking habit, or on anxiety about something new.
Pug
A pug highlights a playful, sturdy character, and openness to change.
Puke
See also Vomiting.
Pull Ups
Pull-ups mean you can rise past a hard spot by your own persistence. They can also say pick yourself up and leave the past.
Pulley
A pulley means a burden is too much alone. It may be time to ask for help.
Pulling
Pulling something is struggle and a load you should set down, perhaps a relationship. It can also pun on influence you can use.
Pulse
Feeling your pulse is anxiety. Feeling someone else's is an attempt to connect with a quality of theirs and maybe take it on.
Puma
A puma is lurking danger and raw emotion, so keep your temper in check. It can also be power and grace.
Pump
A pump is unused energy or a health concern, and it can stand for the heart. If it fails, life has slipped off its usual course.
Pumpjack
A pumpjack is mindless agreement, going along without a question. It may also tell you to say yes to something you have been asking yourself.
Pumpkin
A pumpkin is openness to new ideas, and it can stand for female sexuality. It may also mean time is running out, as in the carriage that cannot stay a carriage.
Punch
Punching someone is hidden anger and strength drawn from inside, while being hit is helplessness or views forced on you. Drinking punch is vitality and renewal.
Punching Bag
A punching bag is anger that needs a safe outlet. It can also mean you feel like the target, blaming yourself.
Punishment
Punishment is guilt or shame, and a need to forgive yourself. Punishing others is resentment, or a trait in you that you fear.
Punk
A punk is rebellion, a choice to leave the norm and claim your own freedom.
Pupil
Red pupils suggest energy and vigor, or a force that has taken over until your behavior is unlike you.
Puppet
A puppet means you are easily swayed and letting others run you. You feel unable to stand up.
Puppeteer
A puppeteer is your tendency to control a person or a situation.
Puppy
A puppy is playfulness and a friendship just starting. Caring for one means people can rely on you; saving one is a wish to recover a lighter side of yourself.
Purchasing
See also Buying.
Purple
Purple is devotion, kindness, and a healing quality, and also rank, justice, and dignity.
Purr
A purr is contentment and a stretch of life that is going well. It can also pun on being pure.
Purse
A purse holds secrets, desire, and identity kept close, and it can stand for the womb. Losing it is lost power or a lost sense of self; an empty one is vulnerability; a new one is a fresh start.
Pursuit
Being pursued means you refuse to face an idea. Pursuing someone or something means your influence is being denied and your effort needs a better target.
See also Chase.
Pus
Pus means a feeling, prejudice, or bitterness is trying to get out and needs to be dealt with. Where it appears on the body adds the clue.
Push
Pushing is effort and a new drive to succeed. Being pushed is pressure you did not choose.
Push Ups
Push-ups say take initiative and use the ability you have been sitting on. One-handed, the effort needs to be stronger.
Pushpins
Pushpins say look at what is already in front of you. You may be missing something in plain view.
Putty
Putty is a person, bond, or situation you are still shaping. It can also mean someone, maybe you, is easy to influence.
Puzzle
A jigsaw is a mental problem, and missing pieces mean you lack facts; a crossword can pun on angry words. A lock puzzle asks for patience, and a slider puzzle for order.
Pyramid
A pyramid is long life and a solid base for success, or major change packed into a short time. Climbing one is fulfillment earned by persistence.
Pyrite
Pyrite means the offer glitters past its real worth. The surface is not the substance.
Python
A python is danger close by, constraint, and overt sexuality, or a relationship that squeezes you. Killing prey is emotional stress that leaves you unable to breathe.
See also Snake.