Altar
To dream of an altar represents feelings about great personal sacrifice or loyalty to a cause. A willingness to prove your faith or loyalty with a big gesture. A willingness to prove your loyalty to a large group of people with a serious sacrifice. Surrendering total respect and loyalty by whatever means necessary. Surrendering your ego to prove your faith or loyalty. The choice to consecrate a partnership or relationship.
Alternatively, dreaming about an alter may reflect your willing to make big sacrifices for God or your faith that are public or noticed by everyone you know. A willingness to prove you would put God before all else in your life.
Negatively, an alter may reflect an excessive need to prove your faith or loyalty to a cause. An excessive need to prove your faith to God. Showing off trying to prove your faith or loyalty. Alternatively, it may reflect total humiliation that you are intentionally sacrificing all your power away to someone more powerful than you. Choosing to "sell your soul" away.
Altar
To dream of an altar represents feelings about making a serious commitment, a significant offering, dedication, or sacrifice in your waking life in order to help yourself never give up. Feelings of dedication and sacrifice about an important choice or change being the right thing to do for the rest of your life. A sense of seriousness about your intentions, beliefs, or about making a significant change. A pivotal moment where you are considering or declaring a deep personal commitment to a relationship, principle, cause, or spiritual path. Your thoughts about the importance of adapting to new circumstances or evolving perspectives.
Positively, dreaming about an alter may represent your openness to exploring different paths, ideas, or approaches in order to achieve personal fulfillment or progress. A sense of empowerment or agency in shaping your own destiny. A strong commitment to personal growth, healing, or a significant life decision.
Negatively, dreaming about tradition could represent feelings of overdoing a serious commitment, a significant offering, dedication to immorality, or sacrifice of good things about yourself in order to help yourself never give up. Feelings of dedication and sacrifice about an immoral choice or change being the only thing you can do to save yourself. Fear of commitment, loss of independence, or feeling trapped by obligations imposed by others or by circumstances. Feelings about "giving up your soul" to a serious commitment or change. Feelings of being pressured into making a commitment or sacrifice that you are not fully prepared for or that conflicts with your personal desires or values. Feelings of resistance or reluctance to change. Feeling forced to conform to expectations that don't align with your personal values or goals. Inner conflict or hesitation about departing from familiar or comfortable patterns.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her best friend standing up at the altar getting married. In waking life, they had undergone chemotherapy and surgeries to treat breast cancer. In this case, the altar may have reflected her feelings about the serious commitment and dedication to her cancer treatments that were required to fight cancer. This dream may have highlighted her determination to endure the treatment and the sacrifices that come with it, viewing the process as a commitment to life itself, akin to the solemn vows made in marriage.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing an altar that was on fire, but never burned. In waking life, she was struggling with deciding whether or not to move away. She felt the need to move on with her life but didn't want to move because she'd lose her 2 jobs and the familiarity of her current life circumstances. In this case, the altar that was on fire but never burned may have reflected her conflicted feelings of dedicating herself to making a significant life change of moving that may be helpful with feelings of potentially being "burned" or ruined by such a change.
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