Positive Trickster

Warily, intuitively, shrewdly sensing the path just up ahead. Coyotes are famous as tricksters, and adaptation right now might require that you be a positive trickster. Use your intuition to find a way around the walls that block you. Sniff out situations and people before they get too close. Sense what’s going to happen before it exits the gate of change.

This card indicates a propitious time for positive trickster energy. The Babylon Matrix is designed so that if you seek to make progress, or even to maintain your position, you keep coming up to walls blocking your path. Use positive trickster energy — imagination, creativity, cleverness, adaptability, serendipity, guile, humor, and inspired improvisation to see around corners and wile your way around walls. If you significantly compromise your ethics while doing so, you are into negative trickster territory.

“A master first reveals himself in his ability to hold back.” — Goethe Rope-a-dope, the strategy that Muhammed Ali used to beat George Foreman in “The Rumble in the Jungle,” is a classic Warrior strategy that can be applied to many situations. George Foreman, who was younger, bigger and stronger than Ali, and was the reigning heavyweight champion, was the heavy favorite to win their 1974 championship fight. Foreman was such a powerful puncher that, according to Norman Mailer, when he hit the heavy bag it looked like he was going to break it in half. Foreman had demolished the only two men who had ever beaten Ali, Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, both of whom lasted only two rounds. Foreman was such a powerful fighter that he was able to make a comeback after a decade-long retirement, and became the oldest man, at age forty-five, to ever become world heavyweight champion. Ali was considered by many to be over-the-hill, and some sports commentators worried aloud that he might actually be killed in the ring by Foreman. Ali’s strategy was all about energy. It was about conserving his energy until just the right moment, while allowing his adversary to waste [...]

This card indicates a propitious time for positive trickster energy. The Babylon Matrix is designed so that if you seek to make progress, or even to maintain your position, you will continually encounter walls that block your path. Use positive trickster energy — imagination, creativity, cleverness, adaptability, serendipity, guile, humor, and inspired improvisation to see around corners and wile your way around walls. If you significantly compromise your ethics while doing so, you are into negative trickster territory.