A river in a dream typically represents the flow of your life and the direction it's currently taking, whether you feel like you're moving with it or fighting the current. Calm, steady water can reflect a sense of ease with where things are headed, while rapids or a river in flood often name a pace that feels harder to control.
Planets in fixed signs show the matter durable; in bicorporeal signs, doubtful; in movable, convertible to good or evil. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)