Rabbit

The rabbit is trickster-as-prey — vulnerable, clever, reproductively abundant. Chinese tradition gives us the moon-rabbit who pounds the elixir of immortality; Aztec mythology the rabbit-god Centzon Totochtin. Celtic lore treats the hare as a messenger of the goddess — to cross a hare’s path is to receive attention from a feminine power. Jungian analysis reads rabbit-dreams as shifts toward fertility of imagination, or as the psyche’s quick-witted response to being pursued. A rabbit bounding away from you in a dream often suggests an intuition you are losing by pausing to analyze; a rabbit who pauses and looks back, an idea waiting for you to catch up.