Sun
The sun stands for honor, authority and the highest energy. Seeing it rise, or swallowing it, is counted among the great good omens and among conception dreams — it was said from old to mean a child of consequence. Sunlight streaming down means what was hidden comes to light and is recognized. The sun behind clouds or setting, by contrast, signals good fortune stepping back for a while: better to wait for the timing than to force it.
The sun opens the day and grows everything under it, which is why it was placed at the highest position in every culture. Of all the things in the sky, the sun is the one nobody can look at straight. It is among the symbols the old dream manuals treated most weightily. Whether the sun was rising or setting decides the reading.
Readings by Situation
Watching the sun rise
The most favourable of dreams. If you are beginning something new it means it takes root, and if you have prepared something long it is a sign that the time for it to show has come.
Swallowing the sun or holding it
The classic conception dream, long said to foretell a person of consequence. Where a birth is not in prospect, it was read as a large achievement or your name becoming known.
The sun shining brightly over everything
It means what was hidden is coming to light and being recognised. Unlike a rising sun this one already hangs high, so read it as an answer about work already under way rather than work to come. Something unfair is cleared up, or a buried achievement finally gets noticed.
The sun going behind cloud, or setting
A sign that good energy withdraws for a while. It was read as better to wait for the time than to force things through. It has not gone; it is covered.
Because the sun counts for so much, expectation grows easily around it. This dream does not guarantee a result, so it suits it better to use it as an occasion to finish what you have underway.