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.
R
R
The letter R is a nudge to stop and rest. You have been running without a real pause.
Rabbi
A rabbi brings your stance on Judaism into view, or confirms a faith you already hold.
Rabbit
A rabbit is luck, warmth, and plenty, with a sexual charge you may need to keep in bounds. White fur leans toward loyal love; black fur toward fear of getting close.
Rabbit's Foot
A rabbit's foot is luck you are borrowing. You are waiting on chance when you could steer the outcome yourself.
Rabies
Rabies stands for hostility you have not spoken. Left bottled up, it can break out in a harsh way.
Raccoon
A raccoon points to cheating or a secret being kept. Someone, perhaps you, is not telling the whole story.
Race
A race shows how you score yourself against other people. Finishing first feels like you can clear what blocks you; falling short says the bar you set is too high.
Race Car
A race car is a stubborn competitive drive and a pace that may be hard on your health. It can also poke at questions of ethnicity.
Racetrack
A racetrack is life at high speed, or the same loop of thinking you will not leave.
Racism
Racism here flags snap judgments based on how someone looks. If you are the target, it can show a refusal to be pushed aside.
Rack
An empty rack is a problem you keep turning over. A rack of clothes is indecision; being stretched on one means your actions are being questioned.
Racket
A loud racket is your mind demanding notice about something you have been ignoring.
See also Noise.
Racquet
A racquet is the guard you put up. There is a subject you do not want to face.
Radar
Radar is your sense for what is coming. A quieter signal is trying to reach you.
Radiant
Something radiant points to clarity, sharp thought, and a clean kind of wisdom.
Radiation
Exposure to radiation means negativity is crowding you and it feels like too much at once.
Radiator
A car radiator says the work has overheated you and you need to cool down.
Radio
A radio carries a hunch or an inner message about a situation. Switched off, it means you could help and are choosing not to.
Radioactive
Something radioactive is a feeling you pushed down, about to leak into the day and sour it.
Radish
Radishes in the ground point to plenty. Eating one can mark a careless slip, or a pun on something that feels cool.
Raffle
Raffling an item asks you to give more freely, and warns against handing your future entirely to luck.
Raft
A raft means the base under your plans is still thin. Drifting on one is life without a direction; white water means a rough stretch.
Rage
Rage is temper and anger you have been sitting on. It wants a cleaner outlet than a blowup.
Rags
Tattered rags are old problems you are finally clearing. Wearing them is worry about your looks and a thin sense of worth.
Raid
A raid is the fear that a private part of your life will be dragged into public view.
Railing
Gripping a railing is holding out for a chance with someone you want, or a plain need for support. It is all right to ask.
Railroad
A railroad is a fixed route toward a goal: steady, and a bit rigid. A blockage is an obstacle, or the sense that you lost the route.
Railroad Crossing
A crossing gate coming down is a short delay. A gate that stays up means you are no longer letting anyone block the goal.
Rain
Rain can be tears, a washing-off of trouble, or fresh growth. Acid rain means resentment is starting to define you.
Rainbow
A rainbow is hope after strain, and gladness in a bond. A white one leans toward purity; rainbow coloring asks you to take a kinder view.
Raincoat
A raincoat is a cover against feelings you do not want to meet. It can also mark a gloomy outlook.
Rainforest
A rainforest can mean your feelings are being cut down, or a real worry about the living world around you.
Raisins
Eating raisins points to a force working against you, or to someone who has grown dried-up and small.
Rake
Using a rake means the job will stall unless you do it. Watching someone else rake can mean you are turning a situation to your advantage.
Ram
A ram is pushy energy and a decision that needs more tact. Being chased by one can feel like something is being forced on you.
Rambling
Rambling means a pile of thoughts still needs saying, or they will keep circling after you wake.
Ramp
Going up a ramp is the effort a goal demands. Failing the climb means obstacles remain; heading down is a loss of steadiness.
Ranch
A ranch asks you to take stock of what you want from your work and your money.
Ransom
A ransom demand means you have been misled. Demanding one yourself means you feel treated unfairly.
Rape
You feel forced, cornered, or stripped of choice, and your sense of worth is under pressure. The image can also show a wish to be the one in control.
Rapids
Rapids are strong feelings pulling you along. You may be getting swept up.
Rapping
Rapping asks you to put thoughts and feelings into clearer words.
Rapture
Being taken up in the rapture points to a firm faith. Being left behind is the fear of being overlooked or not enough.
Rare
Something rare asks you not to treat a person or a chance as ordinary.
Rash
A rash is irritation you have not voiced, or a choice made too quickly. Other people may be planting doubt.
Raspberry
A raspberry marks something delicate and worth careful handling.
Ration
Rationing means you are not getting a fair portion of care, money, or goods. It can also show you trying to be even-handed.
Rats
A rat is doubt, greed, or a private shame eating at you, and sometimes a person who betrayed you. A white rat can mean help from a place you did not expect.
Rattle
A baby's rattle is ease and contentment at home. Hearing a rattle means some matter needs your attention.
Rattlesnake
A rattlesnake marks time passing, and a warning you can hear before you see the threat.
See also Snake.
Raven
A raven points to betrayal, bad luck, or the close of a phase. Someone may be using your trouble for their own gain.
Ravine
A ravine is a wish to be sheltered while you sort hidden feelings about a bond.
Raw
Eating something raw is an experience you have not tried and do not feel ready for. It can also be emotion that is still uncooked.
Razor
A razor is a problem that needs smoothing. Sharpening one marks a harsh, competitive streak.
Razor Blade
A razor blade is precision in how you work. Finding one in food is a cutting remark coming back at you.
RC Car
An RC car is quick decisions and a sense that you are steering your aims. Those aims may be set too low.
Reach
Reaching is a longing for what is still out of your hands, or a hollow in feeling you want closed.
Reading
Reading means you need more facts before you choose. Look at the options instead of rushing.
Real Estate
See also Property.
Reality Show
A reality show is the sense that your life is being judged in public. It can also be a call to face things as they are.
Realtor
Working as a realtor means you are hunting for a new way to understand yourself.
Reapers
Reapers at work point to plenty and to pleasure ahead.
Rear Ended
Being rear-ended means something from earlier is still hitting your present. You move ahead by learning from it.
Rearview Mirror
The rearview mirror is time spent on old hurts and what-ifs. Keep the past in sight without living only there.
Rebel
Being a rebel means it is time to stand as yourself, even when the crowd disagrees.
Rebirth
Being born again is a second chance at something you thought was gone, or a new stage that looks forward. It can also renew a religious commitment.
Receipt
A receipt is you owning some part of yourself. Losing it points to regret over something you did.
Reception
A reception is gathering and belonging. It can also pun on becoming more open to a person or an idea.
Recess
Recess says you need a short break so you can think and get your energy back.
Recipe
A recipe is skill and pleasure in how you make a life. A sweet one asks for leisure; one for meat leans toward bodily or emotional satisfaction.
Recital
A recital shows how much you trust yourself. How the performance goes mirrors a real situation.
Recliner
A recliner asks you to step back and look at a situation. It can also mark laziness and little getting done.
Recognition
Being recognized means your effort is noticed. Watching someone else honored can mean you want a quality of theirs, or that you feel fond of them.
Reconcilement
A reconcilement points to someone you need to meet again, or to making peace with a change.
Record
A record asks you to hear both sides before you decide. A scratch can mean you keep saying the same thing.
Record Player
A record player is circling one problem and getting nowhere. A broken one means you have left that loop.
Recording Studio
A recording studio means there is a message you need to take in and use.
Recovery
Recovery is you picturing a way through current hardship. Getting an object back is an attempt to live a piece of the past again.
Rectangle
A rectangle is something meant to last: solid, material, and steady. Its four sides echo the number four.
Recurring Dream
The same dream returning means an issue, a habit, or a feeling still has no outlet.
Recycle
Recycling is sorting your life and turning old mistakes into something useful. It can also mean you are stuck replaying yesterday.
Red
Red is heat, drive, anger, courage, and sexual urgency. It can also be danger, or the drained feeling of having no energy left.
Red Carpet
Walking a red carpet is wanting admiration for what you have done. Seeing one welcomes a celebration.
Red Cross
The Red Cross is a need for healing, and for help you should not be shy about asking. It also stands for care given to strangers.
Red Giant
A red giant means a job or a bond is nearing its end.
Red Light
Running a red light is doing the thing you were told not to do.
Red Snapper
A red snapper means anger is choosing your words and your actions.
Redecorating
Redecorating is a wish to change, including the way you present yourself.
Redhead
Becoming a redhead asks for more nerve and liveliness, and for a change that actually shows.
Redwood
Redwoods stand for a long span of life and for passion that runs deep.
Reeds
Reeds show how you bend and recover when a situation shifts.
Reef
A reef can be a wall that keeps inner material from surfacing, or a shelter from rough feeling.
Reenactment
A reenactment is a hard memory replayed at a distance, so you can look without being swallowed by it.
Referee
A referee is the fight inside you between your values and other people's. You want that conflict settled.
Reflection
Your reflection is the self you need to look at, flaws and strengths together. A stranger in the glass, or no face at all, means you have lost track of who you are.
Refrigerator
A refrigerator is cool reserve, or a plan you should pause. A broken one asks you to warm toward someone; a full one is unused capacity.
Refugee
Being a refugee is feeling shut out and without a place. It can also mean you are fleeing a problem instead of facing it.
Refusal
Refusing something is denial about whatever you will not take. It can also pun on trash you are throwing out of your life.
Register
Registering is a commitment to a goal. It can also mean something has left a mark on you.
Regret
Regret is waking disappointment you keep turning over, often a harsh view of yourself that you have not said cleanly.
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation is mending after an emotional injury, and the start of a new picture of yourself.
Rehearsal
A rehearsal is practice for a meeting, a project, a date, or another step that matters. A wedding rehearsal prepares you for a large change.
Reincarnation
Waking as someone else means you are not being yourself, or you are in the middle of a large change. An animal form asks you to notice that creature's traits.
Reindeer
A reindeer brings holidays, giving, and loyalty.
Reins
Reins are self-censorship, or control. They can also pun on reign: power held over other people.
Rejection
Rejecting something is a part of life you want gone. Being turned away is a thin sense of worth, or a sign you agree so often that you disappear.
Relationships
A relationship here often mirrors the waking bond and the part you are getting wrong. A stranger as partner can be a side of you that you are trying to meet.
Relative
Relatives bring family feeling, and they often stand for a piece of you.
Relic
A relic is an older self, or an old bond, that you still have not fully released.
Relief
Relief can be your mind softening a disturbing dream. It also asks for a pause before you judge.
Religion
Your own religion is faithfulness and spirit, or a habit you follow with devotion. Another faith asks you to borrow one of its strengths, or to be more tolerant.
Relish
Relish asks you to add zest, or shows you already savoring a hobby or a joy.
Remarry
Remarrying is healing into a newer self and another try at commitment.
See also Marriage.
Remember
Remembering means a past mistake taught you something, or a waking fear of forgetting has followed you into sleep.
Remodeling
Remodeling is a review of what you value, or a plain need for change.
Remote Control
A remote control is someone pushing your buttons, or a bond that feels too controlling.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a wish to leave the usual box and try something unlike you.
Renovate
Renovating is a new way of seeing, with old habits replaced. It can also mean you have come through a hard stretch.
Rent
Paying rent is responsibility and independence, or a life in transition. Not having the money means strain, emotional or financial. Letting your home to others is putting them ahead of yourself.
Repair
Fixing an object is mending after a hard stretch. What you repair names the area of life you are working on.
Repairman
A repairman stands for inner healing.
Repeat
Something repeating is a lesson you still need to learn, or the dull loop of routine.
Repent
Repenting is guilt and the need to learn from a mistake. Someone else repenting asks you to accept their flaws.
Replacement
Being replaced at work is fear about your place there. An object swapped out is a wider insecurity.
Replay
A scene on replay is something you will not admit, or a loop you cannot leave.
Report
Writing a report means think it through before you act. Reading one is anxiety, often about a deadline.
Report Card
A report card is how you are doing at work or in life, or school worry if you are still a student. The marks themselves matter.
Reporter
A reporter asks you to stay neutral and refuse to pick a side.
Reprieve
A reprieve means a worry that has weighed on you will ease.
Reproductive System
The reproductive system is the early stage of a project or a bond, including the wish or the worry around becoming pregnant.
Reptile
A reptile is raw instinct and sexual wanting you have kept down.
Reputation
A reputation under attack means you care too much about what other people think.
Rescue
Rescuing, or being rescued, is a neglected part of you trying to speak. It can also be pride that will not ask for help.
Reservoir
A full reservoir is feeling held in. An empty one means you spent your energy on everyone else.
Resign
Resigning means the old course cannot continue. A sharp change is due.
Resolution
Making a resolution is dedication to a change you have chosen. It can also pun on finally having an answer.
Resort
A resort is the need to rest and leave daily pressure behind. It can also be a last option when you feel desperate.
Restaurant
A restaurant is too many choices, or a search for emotional feeding outside your usual people.
Restrained
Being restrained is holding yourself back, or waking unable to move.
See also Paralyzed.
Restricted
A restricted area means an issue is still too close to look at, or that speech itself is being blocked.
Résumé
A résumé is you weighing whether your skills match the task in front of you. How the page feels tells you whether you think you are ready.
Resurrection
Rising from the dead means current obstacles can be cleared, and that old problems return if they were never dealt with.
Resuscitate
Being revived means something inner is coming up, or you are drained and want advice. Reviving someone else means you can offer insight.
Retainer
A retainer is feeling held behind the teeth. You feel shut in.
Retarded
See also Mentally Challenged.
Retire
Retirement is worry about aging, a change of phase, or something you need to lay to rest.
Retreat
A retreat is spiritual rest and a refill of energy. Pulling back from a fight means you lack the strength, or you are in denial.
Reunion
A reunion brings old feelings you still need to name, or qualities of those people you have already taken in.
Revelation
A revelation is a clearer view of a situation, or a new idea arriving.
Revenge
Taking revenge is feeling off balance, with emotion pushed down. Someone paying you back is fear and distrust.
Reverend
A reverend is a search for respect and guidance, and a nudge to help other people when they need it.
Reverse
See also Backward.
Revolt
A revolt is pressure from the crowd, and your wish to break away from it.
Revolution
A revolution is a large change inside you, with turmoil that needs facing. It can also be the way you picture the future.
Revolver
A revolver is lingering danger, a quick temper, and power used so you can feel safe.
See also Pistol or Gun.
Revolving Door
See also Door.
Rewind
Rewinding is the wish to redo something, and the need to stop living only in the past.
Rheumatism
Rheumatism is an unexpected snag that delays your plans, or habits so stiff that you need to loosen them.
Rhinestones
Rhinestones are pleasures that do not last.
Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros says push toward the goal and do not let a refusal knock you off course.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is getting free of a bond or a situation you do not want. It can also mean a pleasant stretch is staying.
Rhyme
Rhymes seek balance, and they may be how the dream helps you keep one line. They can also mean a situation with no sense in it.
Rhythm
A rhythm is the pace your life is keeping.
Rib
Ribs are a shield against heartbreak. In a biblical frame, a rib can stand for a spouse.
Ribbon
A ribbon is play, innocence, and celebration. Color shifts the point: blue for being best, pink for breast-cancer awareness, yellow for someone awaited home, red for AIDS awareness.
Rice
Rice is luck, fertility, and warm friendship. Eating it is peace at home; cooking it is a new duty that will please you.
Rich
Being rich is pride and confidence earned by staying with the work. The figure may also be someone named Rich or Richard.
See also Wealth.
Rickshaw
A rickshaw is a simpler life and slow, steady progress. Pulling one is a load you carry because someone else will not.
Riddles
A riddle tests your patience, or shows you hiding what you really mean.
Ride
A ride is the direction your life is taking. Riding off can mean you should put distance between you and a problem; going along can mean you are too passive. A bicycle, motorcycle, or horse can echo the pace of sexual feeling.
Ridge
A mountain ridge is challenges you have already met. Seeing one is the balance you still need to keep.
Rifle
A scoped rifle is anger aimed at one person or one issue, and a blunt image of male sexual energy. Standing on a roof with one is protecting what matters to you.
See also Gun.
Right
The right side is deliberate, rational action, or a pun that you are on a sound path. It can also be your rights, or a politically right-leaning view.
Rigor Mortis
A body gone stiff with rigor mortis is emotional numbness and distance from the people around you.
Ring
A ring is commitment, continuity, and honor. Broken or lost, it questions loyalty or shows a bond ending. A pearl ring is tender, early love.
Ringmaster
A ringmaster is you taking charge of a hectic life and looking for order.
Ringworm
Ringworm is a large annoyance that pulls you into work that does not help.
Ringworms
Ringworms are a nagging frustration that keeps dragging you off the useful path.
Rink
A rink is going in circles, or control over feelings that have gone cold.
Riot
A riot says speak up about what bothers you. It can also mean your own voice has vanished inside a destructive crowd.
Rip
Ripping something shows dislike for where a project is headed, or a pun on being cheated or insulted. A tear can also echo R.I.P., an ending.
Rising
Something rising brings unexpected pleasure or wealth, or you lifting yourself over a problem. A higher post comes from staying determined.
Risk
Taking a risk is pushing your limit and meeting a fear so you can seize a chance.
Ritual
A ritual is a habit that has turned into a loop. The pattern needs breaking, and you need an emotional clearing.
Rival
A rival means you have been slow to stand up for yourself, so your standing slips. Being outplayed means a duty was dropped.
River
A calm river is drifting without steering, or peace and plenty. A wild or filthy one is life feeling out of control, or deep tiredness. Crossing it is the obstacle before the next stage.
Riverbed
A dry riverbed is feeling emptied out, numb after something shut feeling down.
Roaches
See also Cockroach.
Road
A road is the way you chase a goal. Bumps and curves are setbacks; a dark stretch is a frightening choice; a smooth one is steady progress.
See also Street.
Road Rage
Road rage is emotion out of control and the certainty that someone is against you. The feeling needs a safer outlet than an attack.
Road Signs
A road sign is advice from your own mind. Read what it says and apply it to a real decision.
See also Stop Sign or U-Turn.
Road Trip
A road trip is the journey made of your choices. An easy trip is a smooth change of stage; a chaotic one matches waking obstacles. Notice the stops and where you are headed.
Roadblock
A roadblock is a setback in work or private life. Staying with it is what gets you around the barrier.
Roadkill
Roadkill is an ending you cannot dodge, often a habit or an idea that has to be laid down. An animal about to be hit is some part of life slipping out of your hands.
Roadrunner
A roadrunner is a quick mind that leaps between ideas and can still stop long enough to plan.
Roadwork
Roadwork is delay on the way to a goal. Give the task more time; the snags match difficulty you already know.
Roar
A roar is anger you have held in and now need to release in words rather than a blow.
Roast
A roast is warmth and comfort at home. Roasting a person is a pun: learn to laugh at yourself.
Robbery
Being robbed is a loss of identity, or credit taken for work you did. Doing the stealing is anger, plus the belief that the prize was already yours.
Robe
A robe is a private matter you need to face, or a wish to stop holding yourself so tightly.
Robin
A robin is a beginning and a lift of energy. It can also be self-sacrifice, or a person named Robin.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is compassion and a giving nature toward people who have less.
Robot
A robot is a life run on rigid routine, with feeling switched off. It can also be how your job looks to you.
Rock
A rock is steadiness and integrity, or a stubborn hardness that breeds unhappiness. Climbing one is ambition; being struck by one is criticism that catches you unready.
See also Stones.
Rock Climbing
Rock climbing is ambition that will not let obstacles win. You also feel you hold an edge.
Rock Slide
A rock slide is a rough stretch in which daily pressure feels as if it is coming down on you.
Rock Star
Being a rock star is wanting to be admired, or a pun that you need firmer footing. Seeing one marks the pulse of how you are living.
Rocket
A rocket means plans are about to lift, or that things feel as if they are moving too fast. Liftoff can also stand for male sexual energy.
Rocking
Rocking yourself is a slip into a younger, comfort-seeking mood, or a need to be reassured.
Rocking Chair
A rocking chair is ease, with nothing pressing. An empty one is quiet sadness, or unfinished business with someone who used to sit there.
Rocking Horse
A rocking horse is motion that never advances, or a memory from childhood.
Rodent
A rodent is something dirty or harmful moving through your life. The particular animal carries the finer point.
Rodeo
A rodeo says take charge of raw, animal urges instead of being thrown by them.
Rogue
Going rogue is pushing past your limits, with too little restraint.
Roller Blades
Roller blades are a fast, easy passage through life, with a feeling of being free.
Roller Coaster
A roller coaster is life's rise and drop, or a plan that has lost its speed. Missing rails mean you lack people to lean on.
Roller Derby
A roller derby says politeness alone will not move you ahead. The effort has to get sharper.
Roller Skates
Roller skates are steady, unhurried progress. Wobbling means the direction is unclear. Someone else on skates may be dodging an issue.
See also Skating.
Rolling Credits
Rolling credits are the wish to have your work named. Seeing your own name there is confidence that you can succeed.
Rolling Pin
A rolling pin is creative energy aimed at a new project. Swung as a weapon, it is temper about to snap over a hasty choice.
Roly Poly
A roly poly is curling inward and sitting in your feelings, or the sense that nobody understands you.
Roman Numerals
Roman numerals may be someone's initials, or the number they stand for: I for yourself, V for five or for victory, X for ten.
Romance
Romance asks for more affection, or shows that you miss it in the bond you already have.
Rome
Rome brings love, fate, and the old sayings about patience, local custom, and many roads toward one place. The ancient city is power and large ambition.
Romeo And Juliet
As Romeo you are close to your feelings and you chase what you want. As Juliet, something you want is being withheld. Together they are love set against hate.
Roof
A roof is the cover over your beliefs and the story you tell about who you are. A leak is unwanted influence getting in; a collapse means high ideals are falling. Standing on top is wide success.
Rook
A rook moves through life with ease, or scatters you across too many directions.
Room
A room is one part of you, or one relationship. Discovering a new room is a strength you are growing; a dirty room is something you are ashamed to admit.
See also Bathroom or Kitchen.
Roommate
An old roommate carries a lesson you can use now. The current one marks an issue you are not discussing. Searching for one means you want company and you are open to change.
Rooster
A rooster is pride, showiness, and male swagger, sometimes a pun on the penis. Birds fighting each other mark a bitter rivalry.
Root Beer
Root beer is a carefree mood. The brand on the bottle may add a private meaning.
Roots
Roots are core beliefs, family ties, or the bottom of a problem. Pulling them up means you are ready to leave what is behind you.
Rope
A rope is the tie that holds a relationship, or a restraint. Walking one is a risky balance; climbing up is determination; being bound is following the heart against your better judgment.
Rosary
A rosary is comfort, and the exchange of giving and asking. Receiving one highlights the care you give, and a wish that care come back to you.
Rose Garden
A rose garden is satisfaction with something going on while you are awake.
Rosebush
A rosebush means you are in a situation that has thorns.
Rosemary
Rosemary is sadness and the act of remembering.
Roses
Roses speak of faithful love and romance. White leans toward purity, yellow toward jealousy or friendship, and withered blooms toward someone missing. Thorns are trouble in the bond before you can enjoy the flower.
Rosette
Rosettes are hours spent on trifles while better chances pass by.
Rotate
See also Spinning.
Rotten
Something rotten is ability you are letting go to waste.
See also Spoiled.
Rottweiler
A rottweiler is confidence used as protection. If it growls, an inner conflict is waiting and you are afraid to face it.
Rouge
Rouge is a trick used to get your own way. If it smears off, the real intention shows. On another person, you are the one being fooled.
Roughneck
A roughneck is hard work through a difficult time. Being one yourself can mean feelings kept tightly in check.
Roulette
Roulette is readiness to gamble, with a warning to weigh what the bet could cost.
Round Table
A round table means equal standing. You have as much say as the people seated with you.
Roundabout
A roundabout is an indirect route toward a goal, or a decision you keep circling.
Rowboat
A rowboat is hard work done at your own pace while you handle problems and feelings. The state of the water matters.
Rowing
Rowing is a difficult path taken the hard way, with enough confidence to finish if you stay with it.
Royalty
A royal figure is grace and power with a hard edge, or a wish to command other people.
See also King, Prince, Princess, or Queen.
Rub
Rubbing seeks comfort when a choice has left you uneasy. It can also be sensual wanting.
Rubber
Rubber is the ability to adapt when a situation changes. It can also stand for a condom and a sexual concern. Being struck with something rubber means remarks bounce off you.
Rubber Band
A rubber band asks you to stretch how you think. If it snaps, you have taken on more than you can hold.
Rubber Chicken
A rubber chicken says you have grown too solemn. A little foolishness is allowed.
Rubber Duck
A rubber duck is play that stays on the surface, with little depth in how you show what you feel.
Rubbish
Rubbish is talk or thinking that does not make sense.
See also Garbage.
Rubble
A pile of rubble is parts of yourself you have rejected, or a life that is starting to come apart.
Rube Goldberg
A Rube Goldberg machine is a simple problem made needlessly complicated.
Rubik's Cube
A Rubik's cube is a challenge you want to set in order. Solving it means the problem can be beaten.
Ruby
A ruby is passion and desire that may not last, or the idea that wisdom outranks money. Ruby slippers are a journey toward knowing who you are. Someone may literally be named Ruby.
Rudder
A rudder is the course your choices are setting.
Rue
Rue is grief, memory, and regret for something you did.
Rug
A rug covers a hard fact you would rather not see. An old, worn one means you feel walked on.
Rugby
Rugby is competitive aggression, or heavy resistance standing against your goals.
Ruins
Ruins are neglect and a life coming apart. It is time to choose a sounder path.
Ruler
A ruler is worry that you do not measure up to other people's standards. It can also warn you to judge with care.
Rules
Breaking rules is frustration at unfair treatment, or the need to say what you think. Keeping them is integrity; writing them is a wish for more discipline.
Rum
Drinking rum points to excess and a lapse in the standards you claim to hold.
Rumor
Hearing a rumor is a buried message, or a warning not to trust every report. Spreading one shows insecurity.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is a hidden, harmful part of you that blocks progress, or the steep price attached to getting what you want.
Runaway
Being a runaway is trouble with belonging, or a refusal to face an issue. Leaving home means you feel mistreated and want somewhere kinder.
Rune Stones
Runes mean you are leaving the path to fate. The mark cut into the stone is the part that matches your life.
Running
Running away is an issue you will not own. Running toward something is determination. Legs that will not move are low confidence, or the body still locked in sleep.
Runway
See also Catwalk.
Rush
Being in a rush means time is poorly managed and the pressure is mostly your own. You may need to slow down.
Russia
Russia can mean a cold, hard season, colored by what that country already means to you. It may also pun on rush: move a decision along.
Rust
Rust is neglect, low mood, age, and talent left sitting unused.
RV
An RV is a feeling of being empowered, or a nudge to enjoy the trip while you are on it.
Rye
Rye standing in a field is prosperity still ahead. Rye bread is a cheerful, peaceful home.