Flying

Common Associations

Flying is associated with freedom, transcendence, escape, power, and the lifting of limitation. It can feel exhilarating or, when forced, like a way of avoiding what is on the ground.

The Jungian Lens

Flying can describe a movement of psychic energy that has broken free of its usual constraints — a capacity that is no longer bound by the limits the ego believed in. The question is whether the flight is an expansion or an avoidance of what waits below.

The Shadow Lens

The shadow lens asks what you are leaving on the ground. The image may invite you to examine whether the flight is genuine freedom or a way of rising above material that needs to be met where it is — and what you are not landing to face.

But What Does It Mean to You?

No symbol carries one fixed meaning. Sit with these questions; let your own association rise before you reach for an answer.

• ◇Were you flying freely, or struggling to stay up?
• ◇What were you flying over, and what were you flying from?
• ◇Did you want to come down, or stay up?
• ◇What in your life are you rising above — and is it still waiting below?

Integration

Consider what the flight is asking you to notice about what you are not landing to meet.