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Everyday Material Aspects: You’re looking at the flow of your energy, your life path, or the passage of time. Crossing a river means you’re intentionally entering a new phase, facing emotional issues to do it. Watching a river from its banks means you need to be more involved in creating your life.

Psychological / Emotional Perspective:
You’re focusing on your emotional processes, and whether they are peaceful and progressing slowly, or flooded and in turmoil, with rapids and snagged debris, complex emotional issues. Being in a boat or swimming in a river means you’re immediately involved in an emotional process. How much you steer or guide yourself shows how proactive you are in your life. The condition of the water — clear, muddy, turbulent, stagnant — shows the state of your emotions.

Spiritual Meaning:
Flowing with the river represents peace or surrender to a higher power. You are linking yourself to, and moving toward, a greater source of inspiration and wisdom. Trying to go upstream means you’re out of harmony with your purpose.