Animal symbolism
Opossum
What the tradition holds
Read as strategy over confrontation: playing dead, waiting, and leaving when it is safe.
Where that reading came from
Playing dead in an opossum is an involuntary shock response, not a decision, which is worth knowing before treating it as a lesson in strategy.
They are nocturnal and slow. Noticing one usually means you were out at an unusual hour, which may be the real event.
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