Linked to feelings of anxiety, spiritual awakenings, confusion, disorientation, and a gloomy future forecast, vertigo is believed to come hand-in-hand with certain aspects of spirituality… but what’s the truth amongst all the bluster?
What are the real vertigo spiritual meanings, and what should you take away from the spiritual sign?
Why don’t we take a closer look and find out?
What is Vertigo?
As well as a popular U2 song (if you’re my age), vertigo is also a medical condition. In fact, if we’re going to get technical about things, vertigo is actually a symptom rather than a medical condition in itself.
What Causes Vertigo?
You would usually suffer from vertigo because of a medical issue, but there are a few other causes, such as certain medications, recreational drug use, and high alcohol consumption.
Medical causes can include:
- Migraines;
- Neck or head injuries;
- BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo);
- Strokes;
- Ménières Disease;
- Labyrinthitis;
- Vestibular Neuritis;
- Brain tumors.
Symptoms of Vertigo
It is important to see the full picture when it comes to trying to interpret the spiritual message of a potential sign.
The symptoms of vertigo are similar in nature to the interpretation – feeling as though you are falling, not being able to get your balance, coming over dizzy and unsteady, or feeling as though you are being yanked or tugged in one direction.
Other vertigo symptoms include:
- Nausea and vomiting;
- Temporary deafness;
- Hearing ringing noises;
- Headaches;
- Feeling warm and/or sweating a lot;
- Unusual eye behavior (jerking movements, etc).
Vertigo and random dizziness in spirituality
Feeling dizzy or experiencing vertigo could be linked to literally feeling dizzy or disorientated in your thoughts or emotions.
Perhaps you’re faced with choices you don’t know how to make or are experiencing scenarios that make your head spin.
Something is making you feel disjointed or out of sync.
Is there a situation in your life that immediately springs to mind? If so, you may have just found what your spiritual sign or message is related to.
Do you feel random pains in your body? Read here the spiritual meaning.
Vertigo and spiritual awakening
Many people around the world believe that signs of vertigo are linked to a spiritual awakening.
Things inside you are getting all shaken up, and that’s making you feel disorientated and confused.
The moment is temporary, of course.
It might last for longer than you’d like, but it can be seen as a good sign. The negative is being shaken out of you, allowing more room for positivity to enter your life.
Your body is sensitive to spiritual and emotional changes, whether you want to accept that or not.
Depression and anxiety cause so many physical symptoms; it would be foolish to believe that negativity and bad energy in your life wouldn’t cause the same.
Shifting all of that energy around is tough work, and it takes dedication and patience.
Things always get worse before they get better. Perhaps the vertigo is the horrible part that comes before your spiritual awakening completes?
Read here the spiritual meaning of sneezing a lot.
9 Spiritual Meanings of Vertigo and Random Dizziness
Although the spiritual meaning of feeling dizzy or experiencing vertigo might seem obvious at first glance, other things will need to be considered before you can get to the real, true meaning of the symbol or sign.
Let me explain…
1) Something is a Little… Off?
Being off-balance in a vertigo sense could be symbolic of being off-balance in other areas, such as in your spiritual or emotional life, your health, personal relationships, and more.
Life is all about balance. We must all find balance – between work and social lives, love and friend relationships, bad and good eating, etc.
Without balance, things feel weird, off, like they’re not quite right.
In turn, the feeling can grow, as can the weirdness itself.
2) A Gloomy Forecast
Although vertigo can be seen as a bad omen, linked to a gloomy forecast ahead, it can also be taken as somewhat of a positive sign, too.
If you consider it a warning of what’s to come, you can better prepare yourself for it.
This might mean scheduling more time for:
- Meditation;
- Praying;
- Communicating with your higher power;
- Charging up crystals so they offer you maximum protection;
- Or whatever else you do to encourage protection and security.
Read the meaning of feeling a tingling sensation through your body.
3) Dizzying Dreams
If you have dreams of feeling dizzy, it could be the case that you’re experiencing confusion over someone or something.
Is there an important decision you need to make, but you’re not sure how to make it? Stuck between two people, homes, jobs, lovers, travel choices…?
Take a step back.
If your best friend was in your decision right now, what advice would you give to them? Remove yourself from the situation.
See it from an outsider’s perspective. It’s not easy but try to use your meditation techniques to really focus on the choices you have or the decisions you need to make.
4) Are You Repressing Trauma?
Sigmund Freud believed that vertigo and feeling dizzy was directly linked to the mind, particularly feelings of anxiety and trauma.
It’s a lot easier for most people to repress or suppress trauma than to deal with it head-on.
Unfortunately, if you want to become more in-tune with your spiritual self and the universe, you’re going to need to deal with the trauma you’re trying so hard to bury.
Healing always comes before progression and growth. You must get out the bad to let in the good, after all. It’s a scary process, but it will be well worth it at the end.
All that trauma and negative energy will be weighing you down and holding you back.
Maybe it’s about time you finally tried to let go of it?
5) You’re Lacking in Trust
Trust is something that seems to take a lifetime to build but only a millisecond to destroy – and the fact that you’re experiencing or dreaming of feelings dizzy or vertigo could suggest that you’re losing trust in something or someone. Or… perhaps the trust is already lost?
Don’t ignore your gut instinct. Sometimes, you will be wrong.
But there will always be time when that niggling gut instinct will be right.
If it feels like you can’t trust someone, maybe you actually can’t?
6) Suffering with Anxiety?
If you’re suffering with a particularly crippling bout of anxiety, I know exactly how you feel.
You might not be able to see the condition, but it has the ability to completely ruin a day, and stop you from being able to leave the house or do things you’d usually love doing.
Having a dream about suffering from vertigo could be a little message from the universe.
That message is plain and simple: the universe sees you, it sees your struggle, and it’s urging you to just keep the faith and plough on through.
Eventually, those bouts of anxiety pass, don’t they?
Spend a little time refocusing yourself and getting back in tune with your spiritual side.
Maybe then you’ll find the peace you’ve been looking for.
7) Spiritual Distress
Feeling dizzy or disorientated in real life could be linked to feeling dizzy or disorientated in your spiritual self, too.
Are you losing hope? Lacking faith? Struggling to find the positivity in the world?
You’re definitely not the only one.
It’s a harsh world out there, and it wouldn’t be a great surprise if the majority of people on it are feeling some sort of spiritual or emotional distress.
Find the time to find yourself again.
Your spiritual self is still inside you; you just need to encourage it come back out again.
What helps you to do that? Try different things. New things. You don’t know what will work if you never try anything new.
8) Do You Feel Defensive?
When an opossum feels threatened or under attack, it will collapse and play dead, even going as far as to give off a rank smell.
The aim is to make a predator believe the animal is dead and decomposing – and unsuitable for consumption.
Fainting, feeling dizzy, and other symptoms linked to vertigo could be your spiritual self’s way of warning you that it’s time to put up your defenses to protect against an oncoming threat.
Danger might be heading your way, but thanks to the signs that the universe (or elsewhere) is sending you, you’ll be fully prepared for it.
It’s time to get those protective talismans out.
9) Are You Lacking in Confidence?
Dreaming of having vertigo is sometimes linked to feeling not-very-confident about something, or someone.
It’s not always related to self-confidence – the way you feel about the way you look, etc.
- Perhaps you’re not feeling confident about how well you’ll do in a new work position, or in a new relationship?
- Maybe there’s a new friend in your life, and you’re not sure whether you can trust them?
Something in your life is making you feel not-happy.
It’s time for you to pay attention, and then put it right.
Before you leave, read the meaning of hearing your name called while sleeping.
Should I be concerned spiritually?
If you feel spiritually concerned, pay attention to the feeling.
You might now know what is ‘wrong’ right now, but with a little care, patience, and understanding, you will get to the interpretation of those spiritual symbols and signs, and then figure out a path to normalcy again.
And, by normalcy, I mean NOT feeling spiritually concerned.
Final Words
You need to understand how you feel about the ‘thing’ before you can start interpreting the spiritual message.
If the message is meant for you, and you alone, it will speak to you in a way that it can’t speak to others.
It will feel relevant for some reason, or important to you in some way. From that point, you can go on to link the symbol with the message or messages.
Madelyn Sergel is known for her YouTube channel where she shows individual tarot card meanings, and also offers tutorials and information on tarot layouts. She is the latest contributor to Angelic Balance.