FOX

(see Animals)

Shrewdness, especially in the way you handle other people. In its den, the fox symbolizes a wise retreat into safety.

Transformation or clever adaptation. In Eastern lands and among Native Americans, this creature is considered a shape-shifter.

Foxes live in borderlands and usually come out at dawn or dusk. This activity provides the symbolism of being in between stages, places, or worlds.

Camouflage and blending in. How exposed are you right now?

Using charm to get what’s desired. Foxes play with their prey using elaborate or funny gestures to distract the animal while they move in closer.

Having been defeated by trickery (e.g., being “outfoxed”).

In relationships, this speaks of monogamous territoriality. Take care that you are not holding on so tightly here that you actually push the one you love away.

Symbol: Like many other red-coated animals, the fox is a symbol of deception.

Vision: Seeing a fox (or several): you are suspicious of your friends.

A running fox: be careful, somebody wants to trick you.

A tame fox: pay attention, a false friend wants to do you in. Catching a fox: you are going to uncover a secret plot. Participating in a fox hunt: you are outmaneuvering a woman. Or is it the other way around?

Depth Psychology: In men’s dreams, the fox is usually a symbol of sexual cravings, intelligence, cunning, and instinctive behavior, but it is also deceitful. Does someone have it in for you?

A fox in a dream represents a lethal enemy, a perfidious person, a liar, a poet, someone who defraud people, a schemer and a trickster. Somehow, a fox in a dream is also interpreted generally as a fortuneteller, a dangerous state inspector, a physician or a good business manager. Killing a fox in a dream means taking advantage of a noble woman.

A fox in a dream also means ingratiating oneself before a noble man or a noble woman.

If one sees a fox toadying him and seeking his protection in a dream, it represents his fear of spirits, jinns or human beings.

If one sees himself battling a foxffi a dream, it means that his wife has committed adultery. Capturing a piece offox skin or his hair in a dream means victory and strength, or it may be interpreted as receiving an inheritance.

A fox in one’s dream also represents profits, new clothing, one’s wife or marriage.

(Also see Fur)