Willow
A willow — graceful, drooping, long an emblem of grief — often touches a sad journey ahead, with faithful friends to console you, though weeping willows can mean sickness. The dream may ask where sorrow is bending you low, and whether you can lean, like the willow over water, into the comfort of loyal friends who'll see you through.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for willow, 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 willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your grief by faithful friends.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of weeping willows is a sign of sickness and death: if they hang over a stream, it foretells sickness only.