Beans
Bean, Baked beans, Magic beans
Beans are humble and hard-working: cheap to buy, slow to cook and filling enough to stretch a meal for a crowd. A dream of them is often about modest resources that go further than they look, and the satisfaction of making do well. They also grow fast, climbing any support they can find, so beans can match plans that shoot up once they get going. Then there's Jack, who traded the family cow for a handful of magic beans and ended up climbing to a giant's castle. His story turns beans into a picture of risky trades and unlikely rewards. And spilling the beans, of course, means letting a secret out.
Dream variations
- Being given magic beansYou're being offered a deal that sounds too good, or too strange, to be true. Find out more before you trade away anything you need.
- Climbing a beanstalkAn opportunity is growing fast and you're tempted to follow it all the way up. Go, but know your way back down.
- A big pot of beansYou're settling in for something that can't be hurried. Keep the heat low and steady, and let time do the work.
- Spilling beans everywhereYou're itching to tell news that isn't ready, or isn't yours. Decide now what you'll keep to yourself.
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