Wolf

The wolf is wildness that has not lost its intelligence. Norse myth gives us Fenrir, the great wolf bound until the end of the world; many Indigenous North American traditions treat wolves as kin and teachers — cooperative hunters, devoted parents. Jungian analysis reads wolf-dreams as meetings with the untamed self — not the shadow in its malevolent form, but the life-force in its most self-directed mode. A wolf who approaches you in a dream is offering partnership with that wildness; a wolf pursuing you, an aspect of it you have been running from. Notice whether the wolf is alone or in a pack.