The Ouroboros - the snake that eats its own tail - is a Jungian archetype that denotes the initial, pre-conscious state of mind. (Plato describes it as the first living creature on earth - c. Timaeus. The creature having no eyes or ears or any senses, because there is only him in the world and nothing else.) Upon waking one morning, I had the image of an Ouroboros, breaking its circle, letting go of eating his own tail and uncoiling like a cat stretching out of sleep. At first I believed its symbolism to mean that I have (my mind has) unraveled from all the years of unproductive, circular, solipsistic futility, and have at last (re)gained full consciousness (Jungian 'individuation'). But I believe it is a process I will repeat time and again, especially when I start something new.