Altar
An altar in dreams often marks a threshold between who you are and who you feel called to become—a place of consecration, yes, but also of doubt about whether you're worthy of the transformation. Perhaps the dream is less about repentance than recognition: that something in you is ready to be offered, changed, or let go.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for altar, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
WHAT'S IN A DREAM. 34 To dream of seing{sic} a priest at the altar, denotes quarrels and unsatisfactory states in your business and home. To see a marriage, sorrow to friends, and death to old age.
An altar would hardly be shown you in a dream, accept to warn you against the commission of error. Repentance is also implied.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of an altar, betokens gladness, and affection in love. Of an Ark, the same.