The ancient Egyptians understood the importance of the leopard and that is why it is known to represent determination and power.
Similar to our dreams when leopards appear they represents your inner strength, feminine energy, wisdom, knowledge and intuition.
Because leopards come from the wild areas of the jungle they often manifest as the hidden or unconscious powers that are contained within you. In fact, the leopard was pursuing you this whole time it just you may have not been ready to acknowledge it presence until now.
In our dreams the leopard is commonly known to emerge in various different forms and colors, usually seen as a baby cub, a black or snow leopard. Depending it’s appearance and behavior you will soon come to realize how close you are from obtaining this new powerful trait. If the leopard was spotted with gold you might be in for a really big surprise.
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Leopard Dream Meaning
Seeing how the leopard is known to be a nocturnal hunter it will bridge the dreamer towards the feminine energy, mother EARTH, or the dynamic force of YIN energy. A symbol that tells the dreamer that the leopard in the dream contains more than just a symbol of strength. Perhaps this has now become a precognitive dreams suggesting you have now activated this once dormant energy within. But what exactly?
Since the leopard depends mainly on its acute senses of hearing and vision for hunting it connects us to intuition and psychic awareness. The leopard in your dream will always be a a solitary yet territorial animal that allows you to take this power with responsibility. The only time a leopard will attack you in your dream when you are not paying attention to this gift or using it for your own advantage.
Leopard Symbolism In Dreams
- creative
- intuitive, hidden wisdom and knowing
- warrior spirit
- receiving or allowing
- passionate but alone
- psychic awareness
Leopard Spiritual Meaning
The leopard in your dream will provide you with clues to help you piece together the meaning – locations, people that surround you and the leopards behaviour. The leopard characteristics mimic personal attributes which you inherit within, though it might not be recognized yet. Alternatively being attacked implies a fight or struggle ahead related to the feminine.
Leopards Spiritual Traits
- to hunt and seek
- camouflaged (spots that blend in)
- ferocious hunting techniques
- graceful
- solitary and territorial
- nocturnal
- extremely powerful
Similarly to the FOREST, the jungle in your dream is acts as a metaphor as something vast, unknown, mysterious and unexplored within until now. The wild nature untamed nature of the leopard suggests you are dealing with unconscious emotions, behaviors, urges and traits that need exploring.
A friendly leopard lets the dreamer know they are on the right path and to follow and trust their intuition. Naturally they hunt and live alone navigating though unknown territory – a personal reflection of your life journey trying to survive using your senses. Another important symbol is its feminine traits that mirror though the leopard. Opposite to a dog that might reflect male aggression or behaviors, these large cats mirror the feminine traits that might be unknown to the dreamer. The psyche partly made up of masculine and feminine traits; of indeterminate sex.
Dreaming Of A Leopard
If you are dreaming of a black leopard it represents hidden talents, powerful YIN energy, feminine strengths and the SHADOW; the side of the dreamer that remain hidden or unconscious can be for or against you. The black leopard is a rare find in the vast unknown part of you. Do you know what this could be?
Dreaming of a SNOW leopard is a powerful omen that brings you closer towards your emotions or blocked energy. The leopard becomes a messenger from the unconscious that will try and lead you out of this stuck area in your life. This YIN energy that connects with the feminine needs the SUN or masculine energy for balance. Once you integrate this area the leopard in your dream has done its job.
If you see a baby leopard or cub in your dream it represents new growth or underdevelopment of these hidden talents. To notice a leopard with a cheetah in your dream it represents swiftness, agility, force; a symbol that tells you how fast you will develop these new traits.
Aggressive Leopard Dream Meaning
An aggressive or threatening leopard in your dream suggests you are ignoring your senses and not following your own path. You might be trying to hard to blend in to your environment, a sign to become yourself and let go of who you think you are.
An attack suggests you might be confronted with an issues related to the feminine, an internal or external force. It’s ability to blend in with powerful jaws and strong muscles suggests you might be defenseless prey.