What Does Dreaming About Fig Tree Mean?

Ibn Sirin reads the fig tree as blessed property and as a good person. Of the dreamer who eats its fruit it is told that they will reach lawful provision. A tree thick in leaf but bare of fruit he counts as a person of much speech and little work.

Al-Nabulsi ties figs seen in their season to abundant provision and out of season to news arriving late. The tree's shade he reads as the protection of a good person. Gathering dried figs he counts as savings that keep well, and eating unripe fruit as work begun too early.

By Ja'far al-Sadiq's method the fig tree is read in four directions: a hidden bounty, a protection with wide shade, blessing in the home, and earning gathered through patience. A tree loaded with fruit and wide in shade is the most auspicious. Sharing the fruit is said to increase the blessing.

In the Jungian approach wide-shading trees carry the protective mother archetype. The fig tree, bearing fruit without visible blossom, is the symbol of contents ripening silently in the unconscious. Sitting in its shade shows the self finding an inner space to shelter in.

From the Freudian perspective fruit hidden under its skin is the image of concealed desires and wishes never spoken plainly. Picking and eating the fig corresponds to a long-suppressed satisfaction finally being lived. Unripe fruit is the disappointment of a wish acted on too soon.

Those working where their labor goes unseen, those awaiting the return of something long prepared in silence, and those needing an elder's support see this dream often. The question the symbol carries is this: are you dismissing the fruit because you cannot display it, or has it truly not ripened? The dream calls the dreamer to patience and to sharing the shade.