Desire to step away Recluse (Hermit) may actually stands for desire to withdraw from life and people. Perhaps this is due to frustration and resentment, bitterness which you can not allow to overwhelm you, otherwise later you will regret about that.

Support and advise Some wants to withdraw in order to find themselves – this may be a good decision. The recluse appears as a teacher and a counselor, often with a long white beard (he reminds an old depiction of Father of God). In the old dream books there are several interpretations:

• To see a hermit – this symbol warns against treacherous and hypocrisy, somebody wants to make harm for you. Also sometimes you have to reckon with your own failures.
• To be a hermit – signifies that the dreamer desires for more sociability.
• Hermit in a circle of other people – the feeling of not being understood by others and therefore isolated.
• Indian dream books interpret hermitage (the dwelling of a hermit) often as a reminder to love more your neighbor.
• To be in a hermitage – To see yourself with spouse in the hermitage, points to relations which leaves too little space for exterior impulses and has become monotonous.

Psychological Meanings:

Feels loneliness This symbol of recluse/hermit and our soul want to show how lonely we feel in the life, in fact, even although we might be very sociable and cheerful in the company. It is the loneliness that comes from within, possibly because of searching for persons who understand you completely and take you in such a way as you are.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Warning if hermitage – The sign that you have to take care of your loved ones if you do not want to loose them;
• Improve your relation if live with a spouse such life – You are living bored life with your spouse or loved one, and you need a revival of the relationship;
• Pretenders around you if see a hermit – Means that you’re not a practical person, you will have to deal with hypocrites;
• Sadness if see one recluse – This dream announces sadness and loneliness caused by unfaithful friends, you need a wise counsel;
• Unpleasant news if encounter with torn or tattered clothing -This dream announces a bad news;
• Unproductive job if be yourself a hermit – in the dream your are a hermit with torn clothes, shows that you will undertake a fruitless work;
• Prolonged separation if see a hermit in your own apartment – In the dream hermit is in your own apartment and you do not know him/her, this symbol signifies that you will have a long separation with family;
• Unselfish if be at home of a hermit – This dream signifies that you will be selfless to others.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Warning if see recluse – In the dream you see a recluse, this is a warning that you have to beware of dangerous society;
• To be more friendly if be a recluse – The dream shows that your soul feels lonely, you have to be more sociable.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Difficult time if see recluse or hermit – This dream that you will have to get through hard times;
• Calm life if be yourself – You are a hermit, this announces that you will have a comfortable life in prospect.

* Please, see meaning of wasteland, guru.

Help others In the dream to be a beggar indicates a sense of failure and a lack of self-esteem. If you meet a beggar in the dream, this means that through this encounter the unconscious wants to show you that there are some people around you who are less fortunate than yourself, you have to help them.

Warning A dream symbol of a beggar can be as a wise counselor which will help with advice. Do not waste your property because one day you may be rich and another poor. Old dream books explains the dream of beggar as a sign of good luck and money growth.

Psychological Meanings:

Inadequacy and constraint Sometimes this symbol of beggar stands as an expression for your own sense of inadequacy and social isolation. Feelings, impulses and thoughts that are “starved” in your real life, so they are personified in dreams as a beggar. Often the beggar may describe an unpleasant memory of a person or an event that we would prefer to get rid of it and to remove it from our memory. Also the unconscious reminds us that we have to live more simple in our real life.

Spiritual Meanings:

A beggar is the same as a hermit and means a spiritual claimant or intercessor.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Bad future if see a beggar – In a dream you see a beggar then this dreams has a meaning of a sorrowful future because of your irresponsibility and improper actions;
• Losses if see an old, rickety beggar – This dream stands as sign of poor planning. This means that if you are not rich, you will lose a large portion of your estate and these unpleasant events will damage your reputation;
• Worries if meet a beggar on the street – When you meet a beggar on the street then this means coming trouble in your life;
• Fortune if be a beggar – In the dream you are a beggar, so this dream is very positive which announces you success in the lottery;
• Isolation fro surrounding if be a beggar and hide – In the dream you are hiding because you are a beggar, then this is a sign of social isolation and fear of your own weaknesses;
• Unexpected event if a beggar comes into the house – The beggar comes to your own house in your dream, then this dream denotes a surprise that will arrive soon in your family;
• Success if a kid is a beggar –  A little kid is a beggar in your dream then this dream is a sign that you will have success in all your undertakings; Also you will reveal yourself from an unpleasant situation;
• Present if a beggar woman – When you dream a beggar woman then you will receive a gift.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Lucky days if be a beggar – Do not hesitate because nice and wonderful days are coming back to you

Arabian (Islamic)

• Troubles if see a beggar – This dream marks that you will have worries and some losses;
• Surprise if meet a beggar – In the dream you meet a beggar so he is bringing you an unexpected  surprise;
• Controversy if beggar at home – In the dream a beggar came into your house, then you will have discord, anger in your family;
• Happy life if give something to beggar – You give something to the beggar in your dream, this dream indicates that your hard work will be rewarded for a good life and happy family;
• Success if you are a beggar – You are a beggar in the dream, then this signifies multiplication of possessions and success in a particular project.

* Please, see meaning of beg.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Need of changes if see aurochs – The aurochs in the dream announces that you have to make changes in your life for yourself because you may never meet your love.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Loneliness if see aurochs – You are dreaming that you see the aurochs then you will be lonely.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Hermit if dream of aurochs – The aurochs is a sign of solitary if you dream it.

Ability to become wiser and higher personality The Ascetic as a dream symbol may represent the wisdom of the unconscious, to which we should listen more. In the dream to touch an ascetic or holy man, so this means that you admire higher and wiser personality. Perhaps the ascetic in a dream appears as the desire to search for simplicity and to improve and to develop yourself mentally and spiritually through asceticism.

Conflict between yourself and rules When in the dream the ascetic appears then this shows that the dreamer is in conflict with his natural instincts. Perhaps the dreamer avoids sexual or other contacts, because he is afraid or feels the need for restrictions. Sometimes he also warns that the dreamer has to narrow his own needs by strict moral codes and rules.

Psychological Meanings:

Desire for purity On the psychological level, the dreamer may search for purity inside himself or in others. Or maybe he is afraid of the purity that has been living inside and now appears to clean the soul and personality.

Spiritual Meanings:

Development of personality Asceticism in the dream may stand as an attempt to find the spirituality in life and to promote the development of the will.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Success in life if see the ascetic – In the dream to meet or to see the ascetic, then this means development of your own fascinating ideas, good and wise friends which will help any time.

* Please, see meaning of hermit.