Fox

The fox is the trickster of many traditions. Japanese folklore gives us the kitsune — a fox-spirit with up to nine tails, able to shapeshift into human form and serve the deity Inari. European fairy tale gives us the cunning fox who outwits the wolf. Jungian analysis treats fox dreams as arrivals of the trickster archetype — the part of the psyche that changes the rules when the rules have stopped serving life. A fox in your dream may be about to outsmart you, or to reveal a cleverness in yourself you have been too responsible to use. Notice whether the fox is solitary, a family of foxes, or a white fox (classically a spirit animal in Japanese tradition).