Dream of Harvesting Crops
The Dream Image
Dreaming of harvesting crops primarily signifies the reaping of one's efforts, the realization of wealth, and achieving success. Bountiful harvests and full granaries are auspicious, while withered crops and barren yields are inauspicious. It symbolizes the return on effort, the fruition of good fortune, and the balance of gain and loss.
Overall Interpretation Principle
A plentiful autumn harvest signifies blessings and honor accumulating in full. Grains returned to the storehouse mean all affairs are well and peaceful. Withered sprouts and plants imply plans will find little prosperity. A meager or empty harvest foretells fortunes distant and dim.
The Image Says
Fine grains ripening to fullness, energy and fortune amply sufficient; the harvest gathered into the barn, blessings and favor everlasting; seedlings wilted and fields barren, heart matters constrained and hindered; diligently reaping a laden load, the path ahead mature and abundant.
Specific Situations Explained
- Dreaming of mature crops, an abundant harvest filling the granary: Foretells that past efforts finally receive reward, financial fortune greatly prospers, and significant gains are made in both career and reputation.
- Dreaming of harvesting alongside fellow villagers, mutually assisting each other: Foretells harmonious relations and popular support, with many people aiding and sharing in successes, leading to prosperity in both household and business.
- Dreaming of harvesting plump, full grains, all gathered into the granary: Foretells plentiful savings, a substantial family fortune, where all exertions yield tangible returns, ensuring freedom from want for food and clothing.
- Dreaming of withered, yellowed, shriveled crops, yielding no grain: Foretells that planned matters will find it difficult to bear fruit; one's labors will come to naught, and short-term hopes for wealth or plans will not satisfy one's wishes.
- Dreaming of laziness and slackness while harvesting, missing the yield: Foretells personal negligence and a scattered effort, leading to missed opportunities and wealth that should have been grasped easily slipping away.
Core Symbolic Meaning
Harvesting crops symbolizes the reaping of sown effort, the materialization of financial fortune, the fruition of fame and achievement, and the landing of blessed reward. A bountiful granary, full yields safely stored, and harvesting together with others are auspicious, indicating flourishing wealth, the realization of fame and success, and family prosperity. Withered crops, fruitless harvesting, and laziness causing missed harvests are inauspicious, indicating futile efforts, lost opportunities, and failure in planned endeavors. Planting in spring and reaping in autumn follows the natural course; when past cultivation is thorough, the present is naturally blessed with the fortune of a full harvest.
Ancient Text Classics
《周公解梦》 The Duke of Zhou's Dream Interpretation:
梦收割庄稼主收成，谷满仓盈福运兴；结伴同收人缘旺，颗粒归仓家业盛；禾苗枯槁无收获，偷懒错失福难登。
Interpretation: Dreaming of harvesting crops means that past labors come to fruition and reap yield. Grain filling the granary to overflowing signifies increasing wealth and auspicious fortune. Harvesting work together with fellow villagers causes one's network and fortunes to gradually thrive. Grains fully stored back into the granary cause one's family business or career to gradually become great and prosperous. Crops dry, withered, and yielding no harvest foretell that things planned in one's heart will find achievement difficult. Being lazy and neglectful at harvest time makes the blessings and opportunities that should have been seized hard to attain.
《梦林玄解》 Mystical Dream Forest Elucidations:
收割者，功成果就、劳有所得之兆也；谷丰仓满，则财禄双收、名利俱荣；苗枯收空，则劳心徒劳、事愿难成；惜收勤获者，守福聚财之君子也。
Interpretation: Harvesting crops is an omen of accomplishment and achievement, of one's wishes materializing, of one's labors receiving reward. Grains abundant and granaries full means fortune in wealth and official salary are both obtained; fame and career both gain honor. Sprouts withered and the harvest empty means one's mind is labored but the effort is in vain; one's wishes are hard to achieve. Those who cherish the harvest and gather it diligently are virtuous persons who can preserve fortune and accumulate wealth.
Auspicious and Inauspicious Portents
- Auspicious Omen (吉占): Dreaming of an abundant harvest filling the granary, grains safely stored, or harvesting together with mutual aid. This primarily indicates flourishing financial fortune, and the attainment of fame and success. Very auspicious.
- Neutral Omen (平占): Dreaming of an ordinary harvest, with moderate yield that is neither too little nor too much. It indicates stable gains, without major fluctuations of great wealth or loss.
- Inauspicious Omen (凶占): Dreaming of withered, shriveled crops, an empty harvest, or laziness causing a lost yield. This primarily indicates futile efforts and lost opportunities. Inauspicious.
Common Questions
Q: What is the omen of dreaming of harvesting full granaries of crops?A: An auspicious sign. It signifies that all past toil and hardship materializes, financial fortune increases significantly, career yields a rich harvest, and brings dual rewards of fame and wealth.
Q: What does it represent to dream of everyone harvesting crops together?A: Good social connections, many noble helpers. There will be people to share successes with you, aiding and supporting your development. Both career and life can thrive through collective effort.
Q: What should be noted if dreaming that crops are ripe but not harvested?A: There seem to be opportunities, chances before your eyes, but they are hard to grasp, easily leading to fruitless labor. In actions, one must proactively seize them, and should not be negligent or procrastinate.
Q: Is dreaming of harvesting crops generally auspicious or inauspicious?A: It depends on the specific scene. Auspicious signs include: Dreaming of an abundant harvest filling the granary, grains safely stored, or harvesting together with mutual aid. This primarily indicates flourishing financial fortune, and the attainment of fame and success. Very auspicious. Inauspicious signs include: Dreaming of withered, shriveled crops, an empty harvest, or laziness causing a lost yield. This primarily indicates futile efforts and lost opportunities. Inauspicious. Neutral scenes are read as: Dreaming of an ordinary harvest, with moderate yield that is neither too little nor too much. It indicates stable gains, without major fluctuations of great wealth or loss.
Q: Which harvesting crops dream scenes should be read as inauspicious?A: Dreaming of withered, shriveled crops, an empty harvest, or laziness causing a lost yield. This primarily indicates futile efforts and lost opportunities. Inauspicious. These scenes should be read through the entry's stated judgment, not from the title alone.