Oil
Oil — anointing, smoothing, fuelling — often touches your being the moving power in events, or excess in pleasurable enterprises if it's abundant. The dream may ask where you're the one lubricating and driving things forward, and whether the smoothness you bring is serving a worthy aim or sliding toward indulgence and indiscretion.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for oil, 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 anointing with oil, foretells events in which you will be the particular moving power.
Quantities of oil, prognosticates excesses in pleasurable enterprises.
For a man to dream that he deals in oil, denotes unsuccessful love making, as he will expect unusual concessions.
For a woman to dream that she is anointed with oil, shows that she will be open to indiscreet advances.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream it is spilled on the floor, signifies damage; to spill it on yourself, profit.