What Does Dreaming About Aunt by Marriage Mean?

Ibn Sirin reads relatives as the order of the household and as the bond of family ties. Being received with a smiling face he counts as a door opening with good. A distant manner he reads as a bond not yet settled and as an acceptance that will take time.

Al-Nabulsi ties a person who joins the family later to a new condition entering the household. Her bringing news he reads as word arriving from a relative far away. Preparing food together he counts as blessing in the home and as a weight shared.

By Ja'far al-Sadiq's method this figure is read in four directions: a new condition entering the household, a closeness about to form, news being carried, and a bond that will settle with time. Being received warmly and talking with her is the most auspicious. Her weeping asks for attention.

In the Jungian approach figures who join the family later symbolize the process of accepting a new side of the self. She may be the outward representation of an inner content not yet fully owned. Sitting at table with her shows that this content has been accepted.

From the Freudian perspective figures newly entering a family system stir feelings tied to the sharing of space and attention. Arguing with her is the expression of anxiety that one's own room is narrowing. Helping her is the unconscious counterpart of the wish to accept and to include.

Those whose family someone has newly joined, those rebuilding wider family relationships, and those awaiting news from relatives far away see this dream often. The question the symbol carries is this: is the newcomer keeping their distance, or did you never open the door? The dream calls the dreamer to set one more chair at the table.