What Does It Mean to Dream About Jackal?

To dream of a jackal represents behavior that's listening to every single thing necessary to steal when the opportunity arises. Behavior that sees what someone else is doing and thinks of taking it for themselves. Taking what you have without asking. Cunning or deceitful behavior that's jealous of when it gets to take from someone else. Opportunistic scavenging that is greedy, dishonest or vicious, and may attempt to exploit or harm others for their own benefit. Feeling that once it's time someone is going to try to take something from you. A jackal dream could symbolize a need to be cautious of those who may try to exploit or harm you, or to pay attention to your own behavior and ensure that you are acting with integrity and fairness.

Jackal dreams are commonly mixed with Egyptian hieroglyphics symbolism. Jackal-like Gods of Egypt may reflect feelings about an authority figure that notices that once the time is appropriate it's taking something from others without asking.

The jackal close affiliation to the wolf might reflect unconscious masculine aspects that can either be good and bad; or reflecting a person who behaves in an opportunistic way. The jackal was considered a very powerful image relating to the ancient Egyptian god Anubis – a connection with the afterlife and mummification. They are also known in our dreams to keep evil away from us.