But back to your dreams. Are you feeling chased in your dreams or in danger? The Gekko disconnects his tail to escape predators and foxes tails are often sacrificed in order to escape. The tail can symbolise vulnerability and being controlled and captured. Whilst cats use their tail to distract and mesmorise their prey and peacocks make great show of their tail in mating and fending off attack. Are you the predator or the prey?

How you feel in your dream will tell you mountains about the different meanings above. A stressy, anxious dream is very different from a mischievous, rebellious tail or a tail of a predator.

Losing a tail is a common theme in dreams. Tails dropping off beloved pet animals or randomly holding a tail in your hands.

In a dream I analysed for a good friend of mine, she walked downstairs only to find the tail of her cat, George Michael, [awesome name btw] had fallen off on the floor. She felt no emotion, other than to try and fix it back on. [I was taken back to children’s parties and pinning the tail on the donkey when I heard this]. After trying several times she accepted that it was a lost cause to pin his tail back to him. To read more click my mini dream interpretation .

A tail can be pointing to how we communicate. Are we connected to our heart when we communicate with others? Are we in balance?

Tails can also point to a feeling of danger or being pursued. A return to animal instincts. Feeling irritated with those around you. Feeling controlled like the docking of an animal’s tail.

Tails provide 4 legged animals a sense of balance and therefore the loss of a tail could be speaking to an imbalance in health or spiritual connection.

In Greek, the snake eating his tail is called Ouroboros or “tail devourer”. It symbolises creation out of destruction. Life out of death and speaks to endings and new beginnings as the eternal cycle of life continues on. What is ending or beginning in your life? What is in need of renewal.

The loss of a tail may speak to grief or a resistance to letting go. An attachment to people and pets in our life and a fear of their pain or death. This need to control life and a feeling of responsibility for the life of others can all be looked at as medicine to work with.

To dream about tails at the transition points between Winter and Spring and Summer and Autumn would be telling of the snake who sheds his skin/tail. And how we are continually reborn from one phase to the next. Asking us to reflect on what we want to leave behind as we transition from one cycle to the next.

I feel the tail speaks to us humans as “one is all”. We are one with the animals who have tails. In fairy tales, we can look to the mermaid tail to reconnect us with this concept of “oneness”.

And in Astrology, the tail is associated with the South Node and our karmic past. The archetype is seen as the tail of the dragon. What do we hold onto at the base of our spine? What underpins us and how adept are we at eliminating what no longer helps us? Has your natal south node been activated by any transiting planets at the time of your dream?

Growing a tail in a dream could be pointing to feelings of being the odd one out or an outsider, different from the rest…

Tails have many different meanings as varied as the tales in mythology. I hope this exploration of the meanings of tails can help you gain insight into your dreams.

If you would like a dream interpretation I can take a look at what was happening in the sky above at the time of your dream and how this has activated your own astrological natal chart as part of the reading. As well as consulting guidance from the tarot. Pop me an email if you are interested nicky@nickycrowe.com

I hope your dreams give you great insight into your very being and truth x