Leaves
Leaves often speak to cycles of vitality and decline, reflecting where life feels abundant or where something cherished may be fading. Fresh growth can suggest renewal or unexpected good fortune, while withered fragments sometimes mirror loneliness, loss, or the quiet fear that hope itself is drying out.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for leaves, 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 of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful improvement in your business.
Withered leaves, indicate false hopes and gloomy forebodings will harass your spirit into a whirlpool of despondency and loss.
If a young woman dreams of withered leaves, she will be left lonely on the road to conjugality. Death is sometimes implied.
If the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy and marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you see leaves growing freshly on a tree or plant, is a good sign, and shows you will live long and be happy; but to see leaves wither and fall to the ground, is a sign of sickness and death.