What does it mean to dream about orbit?
An orbit often stands for a fixed circling, a relationship or routine that keeps you bound on the same path around something.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the steady circling as an attachment the dreamer cannot leave, a pull that holds them in place. An orbit can stand for a person or habit one keeps returning to. What you circle is the clue.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the orbit as a relationship of forces held in balance, the self bound to a centre it cannot escape. It can mark a life organised around one fixed point. The question is whether the balance serves you.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties an orbit to waking feelings of routine, of circling a person or problem without landing. It often follows a stretch that felt repetitive. The fixed path mirrors that sense of going round.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The circling of sun, moon, and stars was read as the great clockwork of the heavens, an order set turning by the gods. It marked the rhythm by which time was kept. It stood for the unending round of the world.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).