Dream meaning of peacock
To see a peacock in your dream is a sign of pride and vanity. In some traditions, however, it is a sign of the soul and because the peacock can shed its feathers and grow new beautiful ones, for Christians it is a symbol of resurrection or new life.
If you see a peacock strutting
This may be a message from your subconscious that you need to become a little more humble in waking life.
If you hear a peacock squawking
This typically indicates that you are trying too hard to impress other people.
If you see a peacock fanning its feathers
This indicates that you will be presented with a new and exciting opportunity.
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SYMBOLISMThe peacock’s tail, in particular, appears in the eighty-fourth emblem of the Ars Symbolica of Bosch as a symbol for the blending together of all colours and for the idea of totality. This explains why, in Christian art, it appears as a symbol of immortality and of the incorruptible soul.
The common motif of the two peacocks symmetrically disposed on either side of the Cosmic Tree or hom—a feature which came to Islam from Persia and subsequently reached Spain and the West—denotes the psychic duality of man (related to the myth of the Gemini) drawing its life-force from the principle of unity. In the mystic horology, the peacock corresponds to dusk.
In Hindu mythology, the patterns on its wings, resembling innumerable eyes, are taken to represent the starry firmament.
A beautiful bird of exquisite color and grace that seems to strut with pride and even with arrogance, the peacock may indicate that the dreamer is as “proud as a peacock” about some accomplishment and would like to “show off.”
Represents vanity and the fragility of appearances.
A dream of these strutting birds is an omen of contrary containing a warning of possible loss of status or failure due to vanity and/or overconfidence; try a little underconfidence; it sometimes works wonders.
The male peacock is famous for his beautiful plumage, which has earned him a reputation for being proud. In this way, the symbolic meaning associated with this stunning bird connects with this sensation of being proud of your accomplishments. In a dream, this could be a call to step into such feelings about yourself or a warning that you are being too prideful. Allow the dream context and the feelings within the dream to illuminate which direction to go in.