Personal Narrative: Coyote Steals Fire

The trickster is probably one of my favorite energies. I remember when I was in my last year of my MFT program at JFK, and I was starting interning for my practicum. A month into the semester, I got into a car accident that totaled my car, and I remember getting out of the car and thinking “something isn’t right.” Even with that awareness, I continued on with classes and interning only to wake up one morning sick to my stomach. After I ran to the bathroom, I immediately passed out. I have never done that before nor after. The trickster was shaking me up. The path that I was on was being derailed, and my car was literally being stopped. Because that didn’t stop me, my body was stopping me from moving forward. After reevaluation, I realized that interning and licensing was not the path for me, and when I changed to Masters program, life went back into flow. …show more content…
Coyote’s only self-serving purpose for stealing the fire was the keep warm and satisfy his desire for comfort. However, he still needed to experience the uncomfortable of being captured and imprisoned until he could experience that state of comfort. I associate image of fire with the alchemical properties and the necessity of burning an element down to ashes to make change. The need to destroy what once was in order to make complete transformation. In the Dark Night John of the Cross used the same image of fire when he described the necessity to burn the soul’s impurities down to the very roots in order to prepare it for transformation and union with God.

Lastly, one other portrayal about the trickster I wanted to mention is the trickster character on Supernatural. I do not think it is a coincidence that the trickster in the show is also the Archangel Gabriel. The Gabriel is the messenger of God, similarly to the messenger of the trickster. The messages each the trickster and Gabriel are communicating are ones to take

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