Grave
Graves read, unexpectedly, as a good omen of wealth and of ancestral care. A well-tended grave was said to bring a happy occasion to the family, and visiting one reads as a season of looking back at your roots. Preparing a new grave means closing one chapter and settling into place. A collapsed or neglected grave, by contrast, signals something you have not tended — time to see to family matters you have postponed.
Graves bring ancestors and roots to mind. Traditional reading did not treat them as ill-omened; it saw them as places where ancestral favour reaches you, and much of the old interpretation reads them as omens of wealth and standing. The state of the grave decides the meaning.
Readings by Situation
Seeing a well-kept grave
A good sign of a settled household and help arriving. Tradition read a tidy ancestral site as a time of thick, protective favour. It is also read as receiving help from an elder.
Bowing at a grave or visiting to tend it
A call to look at your roots. Tradition read grave-visiting dreams as a sign that things go well if you attend to what is fundamental. Sometimes it points to family matters you have put off.
Seeing a collapsed or damaged grave
It is a place gone to ruin because no one tends it. Tradition read a damaged ancestral site as a time to go and check, but this scene more often points at a promise or a greeting you have long put off than at a person.
Taking something away from a grave
A good omen of unexpected wealth or something handed down. Old readings treated what comes out of a grave as hidden fortune. Do not pin high hopes on it, though; recognition and trust is the fairer reading.
Grave dreams do not forecast death. Tradition treated them as auspicious places standing for ancestors and roots. Soon after a bereavement, though, read it as part of grieving, and if the weight lasts, talk to someone qualified.