Hermetic Dogs

In June of this month I will be attending Wolf Intensive Weekend at WolfPark. This is a very important trip for me, something I have been eagerly awaiting for awhile. I’ve always wanted to visit WolfPark, and I’m strongly considering adopting one of their coyotes there as an offering to Coyote. To me, the coyote has always been a very alchemical animal, the ‘Hermes of the West’, and ‘God’s dog’. It is also my primary totem, one that has been with me for my entire life and has helped shaped much of what made me who I am today. The way I work with Coyote and coyote-energy is my own amalgam entirely, though I do enjoy the aboriginal stories of Coyote and how he’s honored, depending on the tradition. My two coyote pelts, ‘Maya’ (a western coyote) and ‘Nigredo’ (an eastern coyote) are very important to me in connecting with these energies. An example of just how transformative the coyote can be is how it seems to endure despite overwhelming human assault, and how it has transformed itself as it moved farther east across the U.S. This to me is something that was always inspiring.

This is a mostly random post that I could elaborate on, but a brewing migraine is preventing me from doing so currently. Joy.