Dreaming of flying in Santería: meaning
Flying in Santería is read as movement of your orí, or as the presence of an energy to do with air and height.
Within this tradition
Flying touches the head and direction. Where you fly to and whether it is effortless weigh more in the reading than the flying itself.
Effortless flight is generally read as flowing aché: your direction is free, and nothing holds you back. Flight that is heavy or will not lift points instead to something weighing, or someone pulling at you.
Wind and height are connected within the tradition to Oyá, who stands for change and at the gate of death. A dream of stormy air is therefore not dismissed as minor, but neither is it read as an omen. It is an indication that something is in motion.
As always: which energy is actually at play is established through divination, not inferred from the image.
In the patakí the vulture plays a special role. According to a well-known story Olofi, the creator, stopped the rain because people forgot him, and the earth grew dry. Ochún turned herself into a vulture and flew high to heaven to plead for the people. The journey scorched her feathers, but Olofi listened and let it rain again. Since then the vulture counts as Ochún's messenger. A dream in which you fly high to ask something for others can be read in that light as devotion that asks for sacrifice.
Common variations
Flying effortlessly
Read as flowing aché: your direction is free.
Not being able to take off
Points to something weighing on you, or a relationship pulling at you.
Flying in a storm or strong wind
Connected with Oyá and with change that is already under way.
Flying high for someone else
Devotion and intercession, like Ochún as a vulture in the patakí.
A bird flying with you
A message, or support on the way.
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Is flying a favourable sign?
Often, yes, but the tradition looks at direction and ease, and treats the image as a signal rather than an outcome.
What is the story of Ochún as a vulture?
A patakí in which Ochún flies to heaven as a vulture to beg Olofi to return the rain, at the cost of her feathers.
What do I do after such a dream?
Within the tradition the usual step is to discuss the dream with your padrino or madrina, who can look at it through divination. Dreamkin prescribes no rituals.