Goat Dream Meaning

Depth Psychology: The female goat is a symbol of patience, modesty, amiability, and the ability to resolve challenging situations without difficulty.

The goat—as the sacrificial lamb—is also a sign of the sacrifices you have made in your life. Which description—modesty or martyrdom—fits your present situation?

See Billy Goat.

Similarly, if a goat appears in a man’s dream, it attests to the amount of importance he ascribes to his virility and, in context with the rest of the dream, should be interpreted in this way. It can also suggest the ability to ‘climb’ and survive difficulties, personally or socially. Occasionally it is connected with natural drives which, if they become repressed, are associated with the devil.

If the goat is attacking, this may indicate somebody butting into your life or some form of conflict.

This animal has a negative esoteric interpretation in either case. Thus, owning a goat is announcement of discomfort; milking it indicates family illness; slitting its throat, misery. The only exceptions to this negative aspect are represented by the white goat, which promises luck, and by owning a large herd, an indicator of wealth.

See Capricorn.

If a billy goat butts you, beware that enemies do not get possession of your secrets or business plans.

For a woman to dream of riding a billy goat, denotes that she will be held in disrepute because of her coarse and ill-bred conduct.

If a woman dreams that she drinks goat’s milk, she will marry for money and will not be disappointed.

See Also: Animals

Agility or the ability to “climb” or make progress.

Acceptance.

Lack of pickiness or discretion in what you allow into your life or your personal space.

Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.

Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See Animal

A mountain goat may come to lead you on a narrow rock path or precipice, demonstrating your power and ability to make a difficult transition or life passage. Mountain goat brings the attribute of surefootedness.

To be riding a goat is to be trying to come to terms with our relationship with the dark side of our nature.

The goat may also represent the devil or satan, as seen in old woodcut images.

It is also the symbol for the astrological sign of capricorn.

A fat goat in a dream represents entertaining girls, or it could mean orphans.

If one brings a goat into his house in a dream, it means that he is inviting poverty into his life.

(Also see Billy goat, Bullfight)

If you were chased, frightened, or butted by a goat, the message pertains specifically to gambling— don’t!

This symbol is also associated with sexual vitality (“lecherous old goat”), especially when depicted as a satyr, such as the god Pan in pagan mythology.

2. Ability to absorb great indignities.

3. Stupid and gullible.

4. No compas­sion (from steinbeck’s reference in east of eden: “she had eyes like a goat, flat, no depth, devoid of human compassion”).

To be milking a goat means several small setbacks but final triumph.

The goat is a symbol of male potency.