Lizard

The lizard is primordial awareness — older than mammals, closer to the sun. Australian Aboriginal traditions give lizards roles in the Dreaming, the creation time that is also always now. Greek tradition treated lizards as solar creatures, sleeping and waking with the sun. Jungian analysis reads lizard-dreams as a slowing of perception to something more ancient — the dreamer’s awareness becoming cold-blooded in the best sense: patient, tuned to warmth. The lizard’s regenerating tail is classically a symbol of the capacity to lose and regrow.