Coyote is a cunning shapeshifter who can adapt to any
habitat. While the habitats of most predators are diminishing, Coyote’s
territory is expanding. Call upon Coyote for these shapeshifting qualities, but
beware, for Coyote is a magician, trickster, and heyoka. The heyoka or sacred
clown uses satire, folly and misadventure to awaken people to innovative and
better ways of doing things. The mischievous heyoka behaves in ways that are
contrary to conventional norms in order to violate peoples’ expectations. In
such paradoxical states, people can assimilate new information quickly, without
filtering.
Coyote’s lesson is to stop acting out of habit. You must be
willing to plow old habits into the soil in order to cultivate new patterns
that enhance your natural growth. Innovative change will revitalize your life
and precipitate renewed growth and creativity.
Sometimes we unwittingly cut off the voice of our inner
truth, or sense of what is correct; relying instead on old, soul-killing
patterns of judgment, control, and distrust. Inner truth reflects, like a
mirror, the higher, universal truth that exists in every situation. Yet even
when our point of view is at its most positional, narrow and self-righteous,
higher truth, often in the guise of the trickster, is there to open the way
back to balance and wholeness. Click here to listen to the Coyote chant.