As we have 28 cards in our WILD VOICES set, we have decided to dedicate each of the 28 days of our campaign to one of these cards.
As you travel through Africa, your heartland, the wild voices of the African Animals become your guides …
The sun sets over southern Africa. On the cusp of night, in the shift from light to dark, the Black Backed Jackal slinks out into the deepening shadows.
BLACK BACKED JACKAL
Key word: WAKE UP!
Most packs of cards have a Joker, and you've pulled him out of the Wild Voices pack today!
Our southern African Black Backed Jackal takes on the energy of the trickster; clever, artful and wily he is the WISE FOOL, the Zen master with his tricky koans, the one who uses unconventional ways to get our attention, who shocks us and wakes us up; enables us to know ourselves in another way,
the paradigm shifter. Are you ready for the discomfort Pilgrim?!
Element: Jackal embraces all the qualities of all 4 elements
EARTH AIR FIRE WATER
Jackal expresses both the MALE and FEMALE quality of THE TRANSFORMER
[excerpts from JACKAL’S message in the book
Wild Voices: Messages from the Soul of Africa by Anne Keating]
We find ourselves attracted to Jackal when we are in a state of transition, and working in the dark. When we are crossing over old boundaries (transition) we must become as sharp as Jackal, our senses alive as we feel our way into our new world. Meaningful coincidences occur and we are sensitive to these synchronicities whenever we are going through times of personal growth; transition is a time of steep growth.
Sometimes the Wise Fool’s approach is to defuse a situation, often with some way-out humour. This shocks us, and shock pulls the plug out! We laugh! This kind of laughter brings a release from rigid perceptions and buried emotions.
We can use Jackal’s ironical humour to shock and show the crowd that the Emperor is not wearing any clothes! Use it on people who are pompous and take themselves too seriously. It also gives us the guts to speak out where we see injustice, enabling us to ask the difficult questions.
And when it is you who feels the crack of the Wise Fool’s whip, it takes spiritual maturity, and the wisdom of your own Jackal, to bring you to the place where you can appreciate his teachings.
Jackal is a resilient Animal, a trait that keeps his clan’s numbers up. Resilience is the capacity to get up and try again, to rise above. We become resilient when we have learnt that although failure is possible, we can carry on anyway, because, even if we were to fail we know we have the innate capacity to cope with that failure – the resilience to rise above our disappointment – we will not collapse. We go back to the drawing board. This is a powerful place to live from.
In a partnership, if just one partner has this remarkable spirit, the partnership is likely to be successful.
[The Black-backed Jackal (or Silver-backed Jackal), Canis mesomelas (Afrikaans - Rooijakkals) is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as Least Concern due to its widespread range and adaptability, although it is still persecuted as a livestock predator.]
As you travel through Africa, your heartland, the wild voices of the African Animals become your guides …
The sun sets over southern Africa. On the cusp of night, in the shift from light to dark, the Black Backed Jackal slinks out into the deepening shadows.
BLACK BACKED JACKAL
Key word: WAKE UP!
Most packs of cards have a Joker, and you've pulled him out of the Wild Voices pack today!
Our southern African Black Backed Jackal takes on the energy of the trickster; clever, artful and wily he is the WISE FOOL, the Zen master with his tricky koans, the one who uses unconventional ways to get our attention, who shocks us and wakes us up; enables us to know ourselves in another way,
the paradigm shifter. Are you ready for the discomfort Pilgrim?!
Element: Jackal embraces all the qualities of all 4 elements
EARTH AIR FIRE WATER
Jackal expresses both the MALE and FEMALE quality of THE TRANSFORMER
[excerpts from JACKAL’S message in the book
Wild Voices: Messages from the Soul of Africa by Anne Keating]
We find ourselves attracted to Jackal when we are in a state of transition, and working in the dark. When we are crossing over old boundaries (transition) we must become as sharp as Jackal, our senses alive as we feel our way into our new world. Meaningful coincidences occur and we are sensitive to these synchronicities whenever we are going through times of personal growth; transition is a time of steep growth.
Sometimes the Wise Fool’s approach is to defuse a situation, often with some way-out humour. This shocks us, and shock pulls the plug out! We laugh! This kind of laughter brings a release from rigid perceptions and buried emotions.
We can use Jackal’s ironical humour to shock and show the crowd that the Emperor is not wearing any clothes! Use it on people who are pompous and take themselves too seriously. It also gives us the guts to speak out where we see injustice, enabling us to ask the difficult questions.
And when it is you who feels the crack of the Wise Fool’s whip, it takes spiritual maturity, and the wisdom of your own Jackal, to bring you to the place where you can appreciate his teachings.
Jackal is a resilient Animal, a trait that keeps his clan’s numbers up. Resilience is the capacity to get up and try again, to rise above. We become resilient when we have learnt that although failure is possible, we can carry on anyway, because, even if we were to fail we know we have the innate capacity to cope with that failure – the resilience to rise above our disappointment – we will not collapse. We go back to the drawing board. This is a powerful place to live from.
In a partnership, if just one partner has this remarkable spirit, the partnership is likely to be successful.
[The Black-backed Jackal (or Silver-backed Jackal), Canis mesomelas (Afrikaans - Rooijakkals) is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as Least Concern due to its widespread range and adaptability, although it is still persecuted as a livestock predator.]
A woman I was working with recounts her ‘journeying process’ with Jackal:
"He led me into a fantastically surreal orchard grove where every time I reached out for the luscious fruit, it would disappear. I called out to Jackal to ask what was going on only to see his black tail disappearing deeper into the forest. What was happening? And in that moment it dawned on me that in my real life I was chasing a dream that would come to nought. I decided right there to end the love relationship I had recently entered into and had thought would last forever."
Yes, Jackal left her stranded but she was able to work out the meaning this experience was conveying to her.
Comment by Mama ka Grace: I loved working on the artwork for Jackal! All three levels of the psyche crept in; the subconscious as the shadow, the higher conscious as the reflection and the physical as the conscious mind.
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