Milk
Milk. (Innate nature, instinct, lawful gain) In dreams, milk signifies one’s natural disposition, instinct, and easy, permissible earnings, while sour or curdled milk points to illicit wealth. If a man or woman sees milk present in their breast, it reflects saving and accumulating wealth. When a man dreams of milk flowing from his breast, it denotes affluence, prosperity, and the opening of new opportunities from many directions. A woman’s milk in a dream indicates recovery from sickness. If a woman who does not have milk in reality sees herself with milk in her breast, it means she will nurse a newborn. If she sees herself breastfeeding a baby, a man, or another woman, it implies restriction or hardship in the livelihood of both the one who suckles and the one who feeds. Hiring a wet nurse in a dream means raising a child to resemble his father or to adopt the father’s character. Drawing milk from a woman’s breast also symbolizes prosperity and profit. Drinking a horse’s milk signifies receiving affection from someone in authority and benefiting from that bond, while mare’s milk points to meeting a ruler. In general, milk from cows, goats, or sheep represents lawful earnings. Milking in a dream suggests cleverness and shrewdness, or it may indicate prosperity. Milking an Arabian she-camel signifies working in an Arab land, while milking a Bactrian camel points to work in another foreign country. If blood flows instead of milk from a camel’s udder, it signals deviation from God’s path or oppression, and if poison flows instead, it means unlawful gain. For merchants or traders, milking an animal indicates profits. Suckling from a pregnant she-camel one, two, or three times represents firmness in faith, performing obligatory prayers, giving charity, and gaining knowledge and wisdom. Milking a camel and drinking its milk also signifies marriage to a virtuous and chaste woman, or, for a married man, the birth of a blessed son. If a poor person sees himself milking a cow and drinking its milk, it means he will earn enough to meet his basic needs. Drinking sheep’s or goat’s milk denotes profit, happiness, ease, and joy. Lioness milk symbolizes wealth, victory over an enemy, or just resistance to a ruler. Eagle’s milk means power and triumph, while tiger’s milk reflects openly declaring enmity. Drinking jackal’s or wolf’s milk points to fines, intense fear, losses, weak resolve, or ruling people while deceiving them. Swine’s milk signifies a change in condition and mentality; a small amount may indicate lawful income, while much of it suggests forbidden wealth. Drinking bitch’s milk implies weakness of intellect, senility, money gained from an unjust person, or assuming leadership over a community. The milk of any wild beast indicates doubt in one’s religion, and zebra’s milk points to illness. Deer or gazelle milk represents modest earnings. Milk from animals or birds that normally do not produce milk means fulfillment of wishes. The milk of predators or stinging creatures symbolizes reconciliation with an enemy, while snake’s milk means doing what pleases God, rejoicing, or escaping a calamity. Fox’s milk indicates a temporary illness followed by borrowing a small sum, or recovery from sickness. Donkey’s milk signifies illness, while the milk of a she-ass means profit. Eating milk suggests sickness, life’s trials, or generosity. Milk spilled on the ground represents corruption, tyranny, and bloodshed proportional to what is spilled. Sheep’s milk means honest income, cow’s milk signifies wealth, mule’s milk points to hardship, fear, and distress, and sable’s milk denotes illness or fright. Pouring milk away or wasting it indicates loss of money, or it may point to long life, pregnancy, knowledge, or a scandal exposing private matters. Sour milk signifies anguish. Rabbit’s milk and horse’s milk mean having a good reputation or giving a righteous name to a newborn. Human milk represents a trust that must not be misused or given to anyone except its rightful owner. The milk of an unknown animal symbolizes strength and vitality for the sick, freedom for a prisoner, or unlawful seizure of property through coercion or extortion. (Also see Breast-feeding, Colostrum, Dairyman, Milking)