Water Lily
A water lily — pure bloom rooted in dark water — often touches a close commingling of prosperity and sorrow or bereavement. The dream may ask where beauty and grief are growing from the same source for you, and whether you can hold the lovely flowering and the dark loss together, since the same still water often gives rise to both.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for water lily, 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 a water lily, or to see them growing, foretells there will be a close commingling of prosperity and sorrow or bereavement.