Rooster

The rooster announces the return of the sun. Chinese tradition includes the rooster among the zodiac and associates it with five virtues including vigilance and punctuality. Biblical tradition gives the rooster a more sober role as the bird whose crow marks Peter’s denial. Jungian analysis reads rooster-dreams as announcements: something in the dreamer’s life is about to become unignorable. Notice whether the rooster wakes you (the dream urging consciousness) or sings at a distance (an awareness still forming).