Mule
Mules carry the tension between effort and resistance — stubborn, steady, built for burden but rarely chosen for beauty. Perhaps you're shouldering something difficult alone, or questioning whether the path you've committed to will yield what you hoped, even as you keep moving forward.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mule, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety, but if you reach your destination without interruption, you will be recompensed with substantial results.
For a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy foreigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes. If she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers, but no offers of marriage.
To be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage.
To see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of riding a mule, or driving one, is a sign of celibacy: gentlemen or ladies who dream this may safely calculate that they will live single for the rest of their lives, unless some more vivid dream with a favorable omen should counterbalance the influence of this one. If married people dream of mules, it foretells that they will be childless.