Symbol: The tail is a phallic symbol.
Vision: Seeing a curly tail: you love to tease other people and play practical jokes. Seeing an animal with a long tail: many difficulties lie ahead; everything is dragging out. Holding an animal by the tail: you are “putting the cart before the horse”! Watching an animal wag its tail: happiness is ahead.
Depth Psychology: The tail is usually a sign of sexual needs, instincts, and urges, but also of vigor, and vitality.
See Also: the chapter on“Colors in Dreams—Black.”
[1]If in the dream you grow a tail it represents your animal nature. The fact the tail is on your back can also mean rejection of part of your sexual dimension.
If you cut off an animal’s tail, the dream predicts you will not receive care and affection.
If you grow a tail, your dream could allude to a bad action that you have done, such that the subconscious perceives you as a demonic being. It could also be interpreted as a phallic symbol or be a masculine sexual allusion. (See Also: PHALLUS)
[2]Tails in the animal kingdom have a number of functions, from expressiveness to movement and balance. Since our most consistent relationship with this body part is through domesticated pets, it is the tail’s ability to express anxiety and joy that is most likely the meaning of a tail in a dream.
If you have a tail in a dream, it relates to both a return to primitive instincts as well as the transparency that comes when you can’t hide your true feelings.
[3]A tail can refer to excitement, as in a dog that wags its tale, or the opposite, as when a tail is dragged between one’s legs. There are numerous idioms involving this word, and dreams in which a tail is featured can be alluding to the meaning of any one of them: “turn tail,” “on someone else’s coattails,” a “tail wagging the dog,” or the “tail end” of something.
[4]To dream of seeing only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated where pleasures seemed assured.
To cut off the tail of an animal, denotes that you will suffer misfortune by your own carelessness.
To dream that you have the tail of a beast grown on you, denotes that your evil ways will cause you untold distress, and strange events will cause you perplexity.
[5]1- To dream of a tail can signify sonic residue from the past, something we still carry with us. It can also indicate sexual excitement, or possibly, by association, the penis.
2- The tail is necessary to the animal for balance, and thus in dreams can be recognised as a means of adjustment in difficult circumstances.
3- The completion of a spiritual action.
[6]To see the tail of an animal is unfortuneate in many ways, chief of which is that through carelessness you may bring about disaster on your own head. Having grown the tail of an animal on your own person denotes the evil intent you have toward another which will be your downfall unless you change.
[7]To see only the tail of an animal in your dream signifies annoyances and complications in situations you expected to be pleasurable.
If you dream that you have grown the tail of an animal, your manipulative ways will catch up with you, giving you much distress.
[8]Gives gender-specific: In a man’s dream the tail can indicate sexual excitement, or possibly, by association, the penis.
For a woman it will initially suggest her own basic energy, and perhaps later on her way of linking with her own latent powers.
[9]Dreams of a tail signify that you are following the leader, allowing someone else to guide you, influence you, or take precedence over your needs. Consider what kind of tail this is as well as the feeling tone of this dream.
[10]Material aspects: To dream of a tail can signify some residue from the past, something we still carry with us. Just as our tailbone (coccyx) can be vulnerable to injury, so we also can be affected by the past.
[11]If you dream of having a tail it can symbolize immature behavior.
A tail can also symbolize being last or unimportant, Deut. 28:13. Having a tail is also symbolic of a false teacher, Isa. 9:15
[12]Psychological / emotional perspective: The tail is necessary to the animal for balance, and thus in dreams can be recognized as a means of adjustment in difficult circumstances.
[13]The tails of domestic animals indicate domestic happiness; wild animal tails suggest profit after adversity; and fish tails signify successful speculation.
[14]Bringing up the rear, on the tail end; following, but not confidently or enthusiastically. Your past; experiences that are behind you.
See Also: Back.
[15]1. A good omen for most things.
2. Something great is in the offing.
3. Slang for sex.
4. Wordplay for “story,” possibly an excuse.
[16]1. Rank;
2. Last in the line;
3. Importance;
4. Always the least,
5. Afterward Rev. Job 40:17; Is. 9:15; Duet. 28:13,44.
[17]As the tail can be raised and lowered, can refer to sexual excitement; the penis; what we are carrying with us from the past.
[18]The tail symbolizes the completion of a spiritual action, the finishing touches. It brings our involvement to an end.
[19]Figurative of the least important or respected; see “last”
[20]Always a sexual symbol, but also symbol of the Devil.
[21]lucky numbers: 02-08-09-19-40-47
burned, a: wil suffer adversities in remedying your past misjudgments.
curly: the joke is on you.
cutting your: wil be guilty of foolish actions; guard your tongue.
having a: wil have to apologize for the actions of one of your relations.
lady’s dress, of a: wil soon have plenty of money.
long, of a horse: wil receive assistance from friends.
separated from the: wil be abandoned by friends.
pulling an animal’s tail: are asking to be kicked.
red, a: wil have good business dealings.
restraining an animal by the: you’re in danger of being kicked.
tame animal, of a: wil marry an unstable person.
very long, a: the cart gets heavier as projects drag on.
wagging, a: wil have long-lasting comforts in life.
wild animals, of: wil meet intel igent people.
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