The power of Shawnodese (Coyote) is trust and growth. Summer is the season of Shawnodese. It is a time of rapid growth, maturing, and testing. The animal totem of Shawnodese is Coyote with the medicine of Trickster. Some believe that the South Winds animal totem is Mouse with the medicine of Scrutiny. The totem colors are green for growth and healing and yellow for intelligence and natural wisdom.
The element associated with Shawnodese of the Native American Medicine Wheel is water . The mineral 
Like the power of Waboose, the power of Shawnodese is paradoxical in nature. Shawnodese brings the time of rapid growth. A time when every being has to reach out for fulfillment quickly with no time to question the path laid down for it by the Great Spirit.
The South is where we go to seek our visions. We ask the Creator to point us in the direction that we should go. Many times after the Creator has made this direction known to us, we have to follow it so rapidly that we must learn to trust our Creator and not question our path. Shawnodese gives us the gifts of energy, adaptability, maturity, playfulness, and humor to aid us on this new path.
For many humans this time of Shawnodese is more of self-assurance and of acceptance. The time of the South Wind is when everything in our world truly seems possible, when the search for love is definitely one of our guiding forces and when we are particularly capable of giving and receiving love in many meanings of the word. The time of Shawnodese is a time of learning about relationships.
The paradox of Shawnodese is that while all this outward and energetic activity is taking place and while we are learning to trust life and follow our own life path; the old trickster starts to play. Coyote is prepared to do whatever he needs to do in order to make us grow inwardly as well.
The coyote means many things to Native American peoples. To some he is trickster in the most powerful sense. He is the sacred clown who urges life to keep crating itself. To others he is a form of the Creator. Some consider coyote merely a clown, a fool, one who tricks himself more than he tricks others.
The animal itself also has many meanings to people. To some, coyote is a nuisance, a thief, and a scoundrel. To others he is a symbol of freedom and mystery. How fitting a totem he is for paradoxical Shawnodese.
The favorite trick of the coyote is one very appropriate to this place on the Medicine Wheel. He makes you fall in love and most often with a person very different from you and from how you thought you wanted your mate to be. Attraction is the glue that draws people to these walking and talking human lessons of life. Love will be the cement that binds them together as long as they are willing to learn from each other.
The South Wind under the guidance of Shawnodese is a good time to explore love and relationships. Explore the world around you and learn who you are and how that compares with who you feel you should be. It is a time to take the first strong steps toward your own maturity.
When you are under the influence of Shawnodese you must be careful not to burn yourself out trying to do everything. You must be careful to use some common sense in your relationships. You must learn how to protect yourself, for this is one of the lessons necessary to grow into a mature human being. You must learn that there is a both a time to be open and a time to contain your energy and your feelings within yourself.
Shawnodese is the place of the heart, the place of the emotions. It is here that we come when we need healing of the heart, when we need to learn how to love, when we need to learn to let go of all that is not love; hate, fear, envy, jealousy, rage and anger.
The South Wind is the place to come if you are having problems with a relationship or if you are looking for a relationship. The Shawnodese (the stone of the trickster) will help you to understand why it is that you are drawn to a person and what you can do to help the relationship grow. You will learn about charm, nurturance, trust, gullibility, humor, and manipulation. Shawnodese will teach you about sexuality and sensuality and how they differ and how they are the same. Shawnodese is the power of love. The power of the open heart working in conjunction with the discriminating mind. The power of Shawnodese is the power of growth.
~Mitakuye Oyasin~ We are all related
There is so much to learn here, but this has answered several questions for me. The childlike “why” has been hovering just beyond reach and those dates certainly settled it for me. Thank you, now I can see more clearly in the present and can let go of the past 🙂
.-= Holley´s last blog ..A Christmas Message =-.