To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle in narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but fuller of honor.
To dream of the compass or mariner’s needle, foretells you will be surrounded by prosperous circumstances and honest people will favor you.
To see one pointing awry, foretells threatened loss and deception.
SYMBOLISM
Your unconscious may be showing you the way, either because you are not satisfied with the direction your life is going or because you need time to reorient. This dream manifests that the haze you feel will end soon.
If the compass deviates in the dream and guidance is uncertain, you may have to change route. Other elements may appear in the dream suggesting alternatives for the future.
According to feng shui, the eight directions of the compass symbolize eight different qualities. The south is fame, fortune, and recognition; southwest, marriage, and happiness in love and relationships; west, children and creativity; northwest, charitable people, mentors, and network connections; north, career success; northeast, knowledge, academy, and introspection; east, family, the elderly, people with authority, and health; and southeast, finally, wealth and prosperity.
Guidance. Finding one’s way out of situation in which one feels lost. We also talk about our “moral compass,” which guides us in making ethical choices.
You are in for a period of general upset in both domestic and business affairs if your dream featured a compass, unless the needle pointed north, in which case you should continue along your present lines and success will follow.
Read a compass in a dream, and you are looking for direction, trying to decide which way to go. You’ve got a decision to make, but you need to read all the signs first.
Prosperity is foretold by a dream of looking at the needle of a mariner’s compass aboard ship.