Dream meaning of swan

You are focusing on qualities like grace, beauty, elegance, dignity, fluid movement, stateliness, and balance. The swan’s long phallic neck links to male sexuality. You want to be prosperous, with greater prestige and wealth. You’re singing your “swan song,” preparing to let go of something important, or leave a period of your life behind.

You are looking at your own inner beauty, ease of being yourself, and presence under pressure. Someone is being mean to you under the guise of beauty.

You’re focusing on intuition, transformation, ugly duckling to swan, and knowledge of the future.

A symbol of great complexity. The dedication of the swan to Apollo, as the god of music, arose out of the mythic belief that it would sing sweetly when on the point of death. The red swan is a symbol of the sun. But almost all meanings are concerned with the white swan, sacred to Venus, which is why Bachelard suggests that in poetry and literature it is an image of naked woman, of chaste nudity and immaculate whiteness.

But Bachelard finds an even deeper significance: hermaphroditism, since in its movement and certainly in its long phallic neck it is masculine yet in its rounded, silky body it is feminine. In sum, then, the swan always points to the complete satisfaction of a desire, the swansong being a particular allusion to desire which brings about its own death.

This ambivalent significance of the swan was also well known to the alchemists, who compared it with ‘philosophical Mercury’, the mystic Centre and the union of opposites, an interpretation entirely in accord with its archetypal implications.