Dreamways

The following is an excerpt from James Hillman's book DREAM ANIMALS co-authored by painter Margot McLean:

"Often I begin a workshop on animal images with the snake.  The snake works like a charm, freeing people of their insidious notions of snake symbolism, and therefore of animal symbolism in general.  The questions I ask sound like this:  "How do you understand a snake image?" "What does a snake mean?"  "What's your interpretation?"  I have assembled and condensed the replies: