The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- plowing itself symbolizes sexual intercourse.
- a plowed field: a mother.
- an unplowed field, a field not yet plowed: a virgin.
- unable to plow: unable to perform sexually.
- not wanting to plow: not wanting to have sex.
- depressions and furrows in a field after plowing: symbolizes a woman and her fertile nature, not only in appearance, but also in meaning when a new life springs from a seed sown in a furrow; depicts the female sex organs and their reproductive capacities.
- plowing tool: has a phallic essence whether it is a plough, harrow (farming machine), or small hand tools; the plowing function in itself refers to sexual meaning and subsequently to a fertility symbol; the soil as Mother Earth can produce fruit from the seed like a child is born from a woman after impregnation.
- other similar symbols: furrow, harrow (farming machine), ear, field, plowing.
