Dictionary of Symbols (1995)

ability to react
absolute
absolute and powerful
accidents
accounted for
accumulator
acetum
acid
acid sign
active
active intellect
Age of Gemini
Age of Pisces
Age of Taurus
agents accepted
air
airplane
airplane is badly damaged
alchemy
alcohol
alkaline salt
all is well
all that in one way or another exists
all that is receptive in humankind
all that lacks existence
almighty father
almost clear sky
alternating current
alum
amalgam
amendment to the main text
American hobo signs
ammonia
ammonium salt
ammonium salts
Amor
anarchism
Anchor cross
anchored cross
anger
angled cross
ankh
anti-aircraft gun
antimony
anti-nuclear emblem
Anu
apprehension
approximately equal to
approximately the same as
Aquarius
Arabic League
archangel Gabriel
archer
Aries
arrow cross
arsenic
art of alchemy
Art of Warfare
artistic creativity
ash
ass
assimilating
Astarte
asteroid Ceres
asteroid Juno
asteroid Vesta
atom
aum
aurochs
authority
autumn equinox
average light intensity
Babylon
bad luck
bad move
balance control
band frequency filter
baptized
base
basic elements
basic elements of Western ideography $6
bass control
battery
battle
battle against tuberculosis
be careful, angry dogs and/or violent people here
because of
beginning
beginning of the last phase of the moon
beginning of the last phase of the moon
behind
benevolence
Bern convention
big farmhouse
birch
bjarkan
black hand
blessing
blood banner
blood revenge group
blown up
boat
Bode’s law
boil
borax
born
bottle
boundary
cadence sign
celestial spheres
Celtic cross
cement
centaur
center of gravity
centers of gravitation
certain types of high, thin clouds
changes to
chapel
check
checkmate
chemistry
cher
chevron
chor
Christian teaching
Chronos
chrysocolla
church
cinis
circle
cirlce segment
city
city of Jerusalem
clay
cleave
clockwise rotation
close in
closest male relatives
clubs
coagulare
coagulate
coagulation
coating of ice
coatings of ice
combustion
coming back
communication links
competition
complementary
complete oscillation
compound word
compressor
conference
coniferous trees
coniunctio
connected
conscience
consecration cross
consequently
control for reducing the middle range copper
copper alloys
Coptic Church
Coptic cross
copyright
coquere
count
counterclockwise rotation
country
courage
court of law
cremated
crescendo
crescent
croix de Lorraine
cross
cross fitchee
cross of Christ
cross of endlessness
cross of Golgatha
cross of Lorraine
cross of Palestine
cross of Peter
cross of Philip
cross of St. Andrew
cross of St. Anthony
Cross of St. John
cross of the archangels
cross of the Evangelists
cross of the Holy Cross
cross of the patriarch
cross of the pope
cross of the robbers
cross of the Russian Orthodox Church
crossbreed
crossed cross
crucible
crutch cross
Crux commissa
crux dissimulata
Crux Gammata
Crux gemmata
crystal
crystallization processes crystallus
crystallus
cumulus clouds
cuneiform writing
Cupid
current
curses
cusp
damp mist
danger
danger – angry dog
dangerradiation from laser emitters
danger of landslide
dangerous
dangerous neighborhood
dangerous power
dangerous radioactivity
Danish flag, Dannebrogen
dead
death
deceased
deceased male
decoctation
decrease in volume
defeated ego
defecated
defecation
defense
degree of waterproofness
demarcating
demodulator
denial
derived from
destillare
destiny
Devil
dew
die Blutfahne
died in battle
difference between
different from in magnitude
differs from
digerere
digestio
diminuendo
Dionysus
direct current
directed movement
direction
direction of movement
disordered intellect
display
dissolvant
dissolve
distance
distance from or to
distill
distillary tube
distillation
distillation flask
distilled oil
distilled vinegar
distilling
divide
dividing
divine power
division
done
don’t knock here
don’t take this road
dot
double cross
double exposure
double quintile
drink
drop
drug intoxication
drying
drying of laundry
dual implication
earth
earth contact
earth element
earth wire
earthed connection
earthly life
Eastern Hemisphere
Eastern star
ectasy
effect
Egypt
Egyptian cross
Egyptian hieroglyphs
eighth house
eight-pointed star
eikon
Eiserne Front
either
eject control
electric melting oven
electric power stations
electrical inlet
electricity
electrum
element earth
element of air
element of earth
element of fire
element of water
eleventh house
elixir
emotional life
emperor
end
energy
English hobo signs
enneagram
equals
equivalence
Erhardt Brigade
ermine
Eros
escapism
Esoteric alchemy
essence
essence of a substance
essence of being
eternity
etheric oil
eullirere
Eurasia
evangelization of the world
evaporare
evaporate
evaporatio
evaporation
Evening star
evil person
exclamation mark
exiled Cubans
expansion in all directions
exponential
exponentialization
external memory
extreme heat
extrovert
eye of fire
faculty of reason
family life
farm
fasces
fast forward
fast forward winding
Father
favorable opportunity
female
fermata
field
fields
fifth element
fifth house
fifth of the Olympic spirits
fighting
fire fighting equipment
fire-water
first
first day of the Winter half year
first house
first phase of the moon
first point
first quarter
fish
five
five continents of the world
five pillars of Islam
five-pointed star
fixate
fixation
fixed star
flash of summer lightning
flashlight photography
flask
fleur de lis
flow
focus
focused
follows logically from
food is sometimes given here
fool’s gold
footangle
footprints of Buddha
forbidden
fort
fortress
forts and fortresses
Fortuna, the Part of Fortune
fortune
four elements
four evangelists
four points of the compass
four winds
four-spoked wheel
fourth house
four-year period
French lily
frequency
frost
frosty mist
fruit trees
fulcrum
fuse
fylfot
gn game is over Gamma cross gammadion Ge geba Gemini gentleness get up to gif gift gilt given parts of a whole glass globe glyfein Gnosticism goal god god of fertility and harvest god of law and order god of sexual love god of time god of vegetation god of victory goddess of war, sex and fertility gold gold plus heat golden (Aries) fleece golden chain of Homer golden fleece of the ram golden metal alloy golden number gold-foil gold-leaf Golgata cross good annual crop good haystack for the night good move good year’s crop grand master of the Teutonic Crusaders’ Order gravel great danger greater benefic greater than Greek cross Greek Orthodox Church Greek-Russian cross ground ground flooded ground frozen hard and dry ground partly covered by snow grounded group has or desires a peaceful relation group is in conflict gupetto higith
hII hikenkreuz
haIf parallels
haIf quintile
haIf-sextile
hand of Fatima
harmless
harvest
has died
have not understood
head
heart sign
heart, red
heat
heavy snowstorms
height above sea level
heptagram
heraldic dagger
here it is
here lives a dangerous dog
here lives a man with a bad temper
here people are afraid of tramps
here people tell you to go to hell
here they’ll rough you up
here you are given a place to sleep for the night
here you can get whatever you want
here you will find food, work and/or money
here you will get a day’s work
Hermes
hexagram
hieroglyph
hieros
high degree of waterproofness
high driving snow
high pressure
high rank
high spiritual dignity
high voltage electric current
higher reason
highest divinity
highest god
highest power
highest priest
highest teacher
hindrance to be overcome
hnefatafl
hobo signs
holiday
holiness
Holy Ghost
Holy Spirit
Holy Trinity
homecoming
honey
hope
hopiness
horse
horse dung
hour
human being
humming sound
hurricane
hybrid
hydrochloric acid
ice
ice needles
icon
idea of a movement
idealism
identical with
identity exists
ideographic system of writing
image finding
Imperial Fascists
in station
inaugural cross
inauguration cross
Inc gun
incinerare
inconjunct
increase
increase in pressure
independent movement
independent movements
indication of relogiosity
infinitely great
infinity
information
inlet for antenna
instinct
intelligence
intended for direct current
intense heat
interchangeable with
intimate relation
intuition
invalids live here – show sympathy
invocation cross
invocation of magic
iron
iron front
iron sulphate
is a part of
is not the same as
is the same as
Ischtar
Islamic faith
Jason
Jericho
Jerusalem
Jerusalem cross
Jesus Christ
Jeune Nation
Jewish kingdom
Jupiter
kaen
Kan cross
kaun
keep away – no use knocking
keep away, no point in knocking
Key of Solomon, The
key of the Nile
khamsa
king
kingdom
kingdom of death
kingdom of Jerusalem
Kronos
ladder of transmigration
lament
land
lapis philosophorum
large-scale power industries
last quarter
last quarter of the moon
last quarters
Latin cross
ldy
lead
lead foil
lead sulphate
lead, white
leniency
Leo
less than
lesser benefic
liaison
magnesium
magnificent number
make love
male sex
Maltese cross
man
man dies
manji
map of the world
marcasite
marital love
married
Mars
masculine
materia secunda
materia tertia
material wealth
matter
may it be useful
Maya
meaning of a sign
measurement
mechanic is needed
meekness
meeting place
melt
melting furnace
melting pot
mem
men
mercury
mercury chloride
merged
merging with God
metal
metallum
meteorite iron
mezzo-staccato
Michaelmas
microphone
migration
migrations
military expression
military power
mine tunnel
mineral kingdom
mineralia
misfortune
mist
mix
mixture
Mjolner
modem
moderate turbulence
modulator
money
month
monument
moon
moon as a new moon
moon elixir
moon god
moon god Nannan
moon god Sin
moon’s north node
moon’s south node
moose
Morning star
mortal danger
mother
mother and child
mother earth
mouth
Mouvement populaire francais
moveable property
movement
mutable
mystical planet
mystical star
mythology
naudh
need fuel and oil
negation
negative pole
Neptune
new life
new or waning moon
new or waning moon together with a planet
next highest suit
night
night’s shelter here
nine gifts of the spirit
nine-pointed star
Nineveh
ninth house
Nirvana
nkyin nyin
no bottom reached with sounding
no parking
non-iconic
Nordiska Rikspartiet
normal distribution curve
north
north of the Equator
North pole
northern
not both
not identical with
not similar to
note
nothing
nuclear charge
nuclear physics
nuclear power
nuclear power plant
nuclear reactor
nuclear research
obsolete word
ocean current
ocean currents
ocean travels
octagram of creation
Odin’s staff
off
offline data storage
offline memory storage
oil
old world
oleum empyreumaticum
Olympic Games
omega
on
on and off control
on/off switch for the radio function
once cultivated but now wild growing plant
one
oneness
onion
online storage of data
only one
open vessel
opening up
openings
opposite of P is true
opposition
or
orb
orbit of the sun
order in which the sons were born
Order of the Knights of the Teutonic Crusade
Order of the Temple Knights
organization of the universe
oss
outgoing migrations
output to screen
outstanding
owner is in
owner not home
paddle
pain
parallel with
parentheses
parties
partly overcast
partner
parz
passive
passive intellect
path
paths
patience
patriarchal cross
pause
pawnshops
pebbles
pentacle
pentagram
perennial plants
perfection
personality
phases of the moon
Philosopher’s stone
Pisces
place
place is not safe
place symbol
planet earth
platinum
play
plug and socket
plus
Pluto
point of intersection
pointed cross
poisonous
police station
policeman lives here
policeman’s badge
Polish Resistance Movement
pope’s cross
Portuguese cross
positive
positive aspect
positive charge
positive ions
potash
potassium carbonate
potential movement
potential power
power
power off
power on
power or right to inflict capital punishment
power stations
power supply
powerful
precious metal
precipitate
precipitation
prepared for destruction
present yourselves as former army soldiers
press together
printing error
proceed in this direction
process of rotting
processes of rotting
progress
projection of self toward new horizons
protection against trolls and evil
proton
Psi
purification
pushbutton
pustule
putrefaction
putreficatio
putty
quadruplicities
quadruplicity
quality
quantity
quicklime
quincunx
quinta essentia
quintessence
quintile
ra
radar station
radiation
radiation of light
radio beacon
rage
rain
rainbow
raise
ram, the sign of Aries
rapids
ready
realgar
receptive
receptive aspect of man
recipient that is not transparent
Red Crescent
relation of direction and ordering
relation or correspondence
release of energy
religious fanaticism
repeat
resistor
respect
result of
result of crossbreeding
return
reverberating furnace
reverse
reversed grupetto
reversible reaction
rheostat
ring around the moon
ring cross
rising pressure
river
road obstruction
robbers’ cross
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic cross
Roman holy cross
Rossback Free Corps
rotation
ruin
ruler of time
rune of death
rune of victory
Russian cross
Russian Orthodox Church’s cross
sacrificial animal
safe against splash
Sagittarius
saintliness
sal alcalinus
sal ammoniacus
sal sedativum
sal sedativus
salt alkali
salt water
sand
sandstorm
Saturn
sauvastika
Schutzstaffeln
Scorpio
sea
seal of the world
second house
second son
secret tribunals
self
self-denial
semi-square
separate from
separateness
separatist movement
seriousness
seskiquadrature
seventh house
severe turbulence
sextile
sextile aspect
sexual love
shards of ice
shield of David
shoal
short duration
short-range weapon against tanks
shut up
sidereal zodiac
sight worth seeing
sign of Sagittarius
signal company
signalling
signals
Sigrune
silver
similarity in one dimension
sin
single-phase current
sixth house
skruppel
skull
sky
sleep
sleeping place
small
smile
smile sign
snow
snowstorm
sociability
soda
sodium
solar halo
soldering alloy used with gold
Solomon’s seal
Solomon’s shield
solution
solutlo
solvere
something incredible or unusual
something that is left out
somewhat overcast
son
soot
soprano clef
sorrow
soul
south
space between should be lessened
sphere
spin drying
spiral
spirit
spirit of life
spirit of togetherness
spirit of Venus
spiritual power or energy that holy persons emanate
spiritus
splitting
spring
square
squeeze section
SS
St. Andrew’s cross
St. George’s cross
St. Hans’ cross
St. Peter’s cross
St. Peter’s game
staff of a god
staff of Adad
staff of Apollo
staff of Jupiter
staff of Neptune
staff of Poseidon
staff of the Devil
staff of Zeus
staircase
stamen
standing still
star
star of Ischtar
star of Venus
state of transcendental consciousness
stay here
steady snowfall
steam
steel
stereo sound
stone
Stone Age
stone bottom at the water’s edge
stone of wisdom
stones
storage in the internal memory
straight line
stream
streaming or flowing water
street
strength
strong fire
stupa
Sturmabteilungen
subconscious
sublimate
sublimation
submerged wreck
success
suitable reading distance
sulphur
sulphuric acid
sum
summer
sun
sun cross
sun god
sun god Shamash
sun rune
sun symbol
Sunday
sunlight
sunrise
sun’s center
sun’s mass
sun’s son
sunshine
supplement is enclosed
support group
swastika
Swedish hobo signs
switched off
switched on
symbol
symbol for eternity
symbol for the Ottoman-Turkish Empire
symbol has been found
symbol of Constantinople
symbol of orientation
symbol of power
symbolon
system
taboo words
Tac
take this road, it’s better
take-off will be attempted
takes and checks
talc
tartar
tartaric acid salt
tartrate
Tau cross
Taurus,
T-cross
television station
Tellus
temperance
ten
tenth house
test
tetraskele
tetraskelion
there are friends here
there are more tramps on this road
therefore
they demand hard work here
third house
third son
thread
threat
threatening skies
three units
three-foil cross
three-leg
three-phased alternating current
throw down a signalling lantern
thunder
thunder and lightning
unscrew
ur
uranium
Uranus
urine
uruz
vagina
varies as
varying degrees of cloudiness
Vehmgerichte
Venus
Venus as the Morning or Evening star
Venus god
very poisonous
vessel
Vesta’s altar
victory
victory rune
vigorous heating
village
vinegar
violence
virgin dances
Virgo
visibility
visibility is worsened by fog or dust
vitriol
volume control
vulva
wan
waning moon
war
warm
warm or hot water
warmth
watch out for a dog!
water
water catchment area
water clan
water mill
water of consciousness
water of intuition
water reservoir
water vapor
water-bearer
waterfall
waterproof
waves
wax
way
ways
weak aspects
weak wind
wealth
weather gods
weeds
well
were born
Western triple cross
wheel cross
whirlpool
white arsenic
white frost
white lead
whole universe
whole wave
wife
wild growing plants
wind furnace
winds of varying strengths winter
woman
women
work
work and you’ll be given food
world evangelization
wrath
writer’s lawful right to his or her own writings
wrong
Wuotan’s cross
xomsa
year
yew tree
yew-tree rune
yin
yin-yang
yleaster
yoke and arrows
ypsilon cross
zero class
Zeus
zinc
zinc oxide
Zionist movement
zodiac of fixed stars
zoom

Sources Cited

Liungman, Carl G. Dictionary of Symbols. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.

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