Janitor

In the Language of Mind, a janitor is the aspect of you that maintains and cleans the inner space — the disciplined caretaker of your own state of mind. Read it by form and function: a janitor's form is a person, so it is a part of YOU, never an outer figure; and a janitor's function is to keep a building swept, repaired, and clear of waste. In dreams a building is your state of mind, and waste is the unproductive thoughts the mind must release. So this figure mirrors the quality in you that does the unglamorous, ongoing work of clearing clutter from consciousness — sweeping out worn beliefs, tidying the rooms of awareness so the self can occupy them cleanly. Examine where in your waking life you've taken up (or neglected) that quiet maintenance: where attention has gone dusty, where old thinking has piled up in a corner you keep walking past.

Read the variations. A janitor working diligently means this caretaking discipline is active and you are tending the mind well; an idle, absent, or overwhelmed janitor points to inner upkeep you've let slide, mess accumulating faster than you clear it. As a man, this is a maintenance habit you've consciously chosen and built; appearing as a woman, it's an intuitive, natural tendency to keep yourself clean within. That is one figure, read clean — but the building he tends, the rooms you saw, the waste he was carrying out are each still speaking. Your subconscious narrates your inner condition to you every night in exactly this language; CHITTA is simply where you learn to read the rest of the rooms. Go within, or go without.