Peacock

The peacock unfolds hundreds of eyes in its tail — an ancient image of full seeing. Hindu tradition places the peacock as Kartikeya’s mount and associates it with immortality. Early Christian iconography treated the peacock as a symbol of the resurrection, its flesh believed incorruptible. Jungian analysis reads peacock-dreams as the integrated Self displayed — a fullness no longer hidden. The dream-peacock’s display is sometimes recognition earned, sometimes ego inflated; the dream knows the difference by the feeling tone. Notice whether others see the peacock too, or only you.