Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums — long tied to remembrance and mourning — often touch loss, mortality, and the strange beauty found within sadness. White ones especially can stir a sense of parting. The dream may ask what you are grieving, and where a sorrow is quietly reshaping and deepening your spirit.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chrysanthemum, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss and much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.
To see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you, but a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down an avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one showing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness, from which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers. While looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel your spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud ``Glory to God, my Creator,'' foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future. If some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection with spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning. Often death is near you in these dreams.