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Spiritual Meaning:
You are inquisitive, sniffing out answers and new experiences. You are clever, resourceful, and instinctive. White rats mean protection from beneficent forces.

Psychological / Emotional Perspective:
You feel apprehensive, worried, disgusted, or repulsed. Something is gnawing at you, undermining your peace of mind or confidence. You’re experiencing frightening instincts, urges, or distasteful parts of yourself. Someone is using sex for material gain, or is deserting ship when difficulties arise.

Everyday Material Aspects:
You are worried about contamination, germs, filth, physical sickness or disease; you’re feeling ratty and rundown. You “smell a rat,” or discover people acting in underhanded, stealthy, thieving, or sabotaging ways. Someone has “ratted” on you, betrayed, or lied about you. You need to stop, rest, and get out of the “rat race.” You are an adaptable survivor, though perhaps without morals.

Rat – the rat signifies a tainted or devious part of our personality or a situation we are in. It can also represent something that is repulsive in some way. We may also be experiencing disloyalty from a friend or colleague.  Also consult the entry for Vermin in this section.