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Is Coyote Running Wild in Your Life?
So what does this mean to you when you find coyote
running wild in your life? Find the source from whence it came. What
does he want? Why did he bring you another problem to solve? Maybe
it's time to identify what your R.E.A.L problem is: Are you being
set up by a friend or foe,? Making a bad business deal? Letting a
freeloader live off of you? Being a caretaker to someone that is
incarcerated or too lazy to work? Why are you staying in an abusive
relationship? Why are you tolerating an unfaithful lover? Whatever
the motive, you can be sure that others will use every means at
their disposal to get what they want from you. Maybe it is time to
use logic when solving a problem. If Coyote is emanating from
within, take a moment and step outside of yourself. Take a good look
at everything that surrounds you. This will help you make a decision
to your benefit. Why stay trapped in a situation when you have the
power within to break free? Every experience in life whether bad or
good, makes us wise or stupid, keeps us strong or weak, all the
while telling us we deserve a good life, hopefully with a great
sense of humor. When dealing with coyote remember he is the master
of self-sabotage. Don't be surprised if you become the butt of your
own joke
Coyote's medicine can become a definite attribute.
Another of his abilities is to always regroup and endure life's
tribulations. His cunning and trickery can help you remove yourself
from an undesired situation. This same cunning and trickery can also
bring about a favorable means to a desired goal. But one cannot use
this cunning and trickery without the proper amount of audacity.
When all else fails, escape! Learn from your mistakes, and don't
overlook the obvious. Coyote may lose many battles, but he is never
beaten. He is merely a force of wild primal power, acting on every
whim, using many guises and roles but always remaining the master of
hope. This pompous character teaches us to develop a sense of humor
and to never take ourselves to seriously.
You, just like coyote, fill your life with foolish
acts, maybe not intentionally, but humor is always there. Never be
afraid to laugh at yourself. When something backfires on you, maybe
the foolishness was your end reward.
More often, however, Coyote is portrayed as a
trickster or fool, a carefree wanderer, who traipses from place to
place, as his fancy dictates. He is personable and playful but also
vain and deceitful. He acts on impulse, without concern for anyone's
needs except his own. Other animals respect his power, but do not
really like him. His appetites for food and women are insatiable,
and he satisfies these cravings by cheating or stealing, rather than
by honest means.
We soon learn that unless we are careful with our
life, we can easily become confused. In the end, Coyote can act
stupid or foolish but it is he who makes himself the victim of his
own deeds. Surprisingly, however, the result of his foolishness and
foiled plots is often a benefit to humankind. And no matter how
often coyote is maimed or mortally wounded, he manages to return to
life again---the ultimate survivor
From escapade to escapade, Coyote teaches us many
lessons about life and about ourselves. One of his greatest values
as a teacher is his humanness. There is something of coyote in all
of us. We read a coyote tale and we recognize ourselves, our friends
and our enemies. Through coyote's adventures we can examine our
parallel experiences with a sense of detachment, and get through the
lesson without the pain and our emotions that often cripples us.
Coyote says, "Don't take life too seriously. Learn
to laugh at your mistakes. Proceed through life without a care in
the world, yet somehow get the job done. Enjoy your life, and at the
same time learn to apply the lesson that is needed."'
As we know, many of Coyote's plans result in
catastrophe but he always comes back to life, and what seems like
disaster has its unexpected rewards. We can survive from our
misfortunes if we look for the hidden rewards in those painful
experiences. Coyotes as well as human beings, will often take short
cuts to reach their goal. Many of us and our coworkers do the same
and most times it makes the problems worse. They overstep our
boundaries, turn our lives into chaos, then move on to their next
victim, leaving us the task of returning chaos back into order. Take
this opportunity to study your habits and develop more effective
ways of dealing with the coyote people you have allowed to come into
your life.
As my gambling father once told me, "Sissy, learn
to see deep into coyote's adventures. This will teach you to respect
all life forces and to find the balance between yourself, Mother
Earth, her children and Father Sky. For me I love the old Coyote,
and you know this joker is wild. I want you to reach for the sky if
you want it, but it's up to you to paint the damn thing blue."
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