Reply To: Dream interpretation of a white stag and the phases of the moon

[Aletheia]

@Rickus
omg what an intense dream o.o
I like your interpretation, dreams are of course subjective in nature so the symbols within them can mean different things to different people. But at face-value, knowing what I know about Jung's dream analysis, that dream sums up the whole narrative of individuation itself.

I saw some dark landscape, and then I saw blue water in front of it. I saw the reflection of a white stag in the water before seeing the white stag itself.

In general bodies of water in dreams and visions represent the unconscious. The white stag is a symbol of the Self archetype, so the fact that you saw the stag reflected in the water seems significant. This would symbolize that the Self is still a subconscious aspect of your psyche, and the interaction you have with it once you recognize its 'physical' form on the land would indicate the process you need to go through in order to make it conscious.

Now the white stag had white antlers, and yellow lightning came from both ends of the antlers and met in the middle. In the middle of the lightning I saw the moon. Then encircling the one moon, I saw the various phases of the moon surrounding this one moon.

The moon is also a very distinct symbol, usually of the Feminine but also of the Shadow/dark aspects of ourself. Lightning in this context seems to indicate power, or the locus of libido in the psyche. The fact that the lightning focused around the moon would say that your pending process involves the feminine (esp. the dark feminine) aspect of yourself (the Anima). I don't think this should be conflated with Fi, but the way you may interpret femininity, the emotional and creative is likely related to your Fi.

As I came closer to this deer, it suddenly regurgitated another moon into my hand. As I took the moon and pulled it towards myself, I absorbed it and the various phases of the moon encircled my head.

This part really blew me away! It seems to be a very direct symbol of your integrating your feminine aspect (Anima). The cycles of the moon also have a lot of symbolic significance, especially as the causality of natural processes and of death and rebirth (as the moon darkens and evolves back to full every cycle). That the moon cycles transferred to you from the stag could show that a necessary process is happening for you unconsciously, and through integrating the feminine aspect you could make that process conscious.

I ended up aging rapidly, growing extremely old until I was a skeleton. However it seems that I reincarnated and became a baby and that is where my vision ended.

Rebirth seems to be a strong theme in your dream. This seems to indicate that by integrating the feminine/shadow aspect of yourself, you become born as a new self. It could also represent renewal of life-force, energy and potential. Like the story of the phoenix, in order to rise again the old self must be destroyed (or disassembled to some extent). It seems to me that your psyche is saying loud and clear that you are verging on this rebirth process, but that you must make the sacrifice of 'dying' before you can be 'born again'.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful dream ?