Coyote Spirit Animal
Coyote Symbolism
The coyote often symbolizes the trickster or joker. However, its symbolism is associated with a deep magic of life and creation. It can be considered as having the following meanings:
- Jokester
- Adaptability
- Reveal the truth behind illusion and chaos
- Playfulness
- Paradoxical nature, personality difficult to categorize
- Beware of the dark side of things and play on your resources
The wisdom delivered by the coyote spirit animal is rarely direct. The way of the coyote is to teach through ways that do not appear straightforward. It may also use subterfuge or trickery to reach its goal or deliver its message.
Don’t be fooled by the coyote’s way: In any circumstances you encounter, no matter how pleasant or clear they appear to be, there’s a hidden wisdom for you to reap. Be aware of the round about ways of the coyote totem and its teachings.
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Coyote spirit and not taking things seriously
If the coyote spirit animal crosses your way, you may be encouraged to not take things too seriously. Perhaps you need to lighten up or change your perspective about an issue or matter that has been on your mind for a while.
Call on the spirit of the coyote to support you in refreshing your perspective and lighten the weight of circumstances. Even if the coyote is often presented in many stories as a trickster and a spirit animal bringing complication to whoever crosses his path, it is a good reminder to keep things simple and open up to possibilities.
Coyote totem and teachings with a sense of humor
It’s sometimes hard to grasp the wisdom of the coyote without experiencing some unsettling or disruptive feelings. Here, serious pieces of wisdom and playfulness often go hand in hand and appearances may be deceiving. The wisdom of the coyote may appear through a joke or what shows as trickery.
There’s often wisdom in making fun of serious matters and letting go of certainties. Call on the coyote to reinvigorate an appreciation of life’s wisdom through diversity and richness. This animal totem provides his teaching with a good sense of humor.
The Coyote, the magic in life, and the unexpected
The coyote totem is symbolic of the magic in life and creation. In some traditional stories, it is associated with the dark side of witchcraft and is considered as a bad omen. The flipside of these negative associations is the spirit of resourcefulness and ability to survive.
When the coyote spirit animal shows up in your life, it might lead you to experience the unexpected more fully. Surprises await you. Pay attention, you may also find piece of wisdom in the most unexpected places. By affinity with the power of adaptability of the coyote, you may be called to be flexible and adjust to a situation that you did not anticipate.
Dreaming About Coyotes
Dreams are our subconscious minds communicating to us using the language of symbols. In Native American tales the coyote is a creator, teacher, and a keeper of magic. The coyote often represents a magical power or trickster god. Coyote can appear when you are being initiated into your next level of spiritual growth. The coyote is also sometimes considered a symbol of weakness, deception, hypocrisy. Coyote can also be a reminder not to be too serious and to keep your sense of humor.
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So one day i was flagging and a pack of coyotes were running around and they get as close as 30 to 40 feet. So im standing there and i look at the one I felt was leader and it looks back. We star at each other a few minutes and then it does something that looking like a bow and they turn around and run back into the woods. But as i stood there i thought i was going to be their lunch.
I have no dreams about coyotes because i never really thought about coyotes at all.. i’ve never seen one because i am in new zealand and i dont know if they exist here! believe it or not.. im a class clown and i always make sure im noting over doing it on ther humour. I ACT LIKE WOLFS AND COYOTES ALL THE TIME!! IDK I DONT MEAN TO IT JUST HAPPENS! once i was looking at the moon and thought i heared a coyote howl, hmm….. maybe thats why im adicted to coyote related animals…
So I’m 1/2 Cherokee. My Mom who just passed away a year and 1/2 ago was Cherokee. I had two road trips (7 hours round trip) coming up and the night before each trip, I asked for a safe trip to and from. So the day of the 1st trip we are about an hour from home when a huge Coyote runs across the road in front of us and then stands there and looks at us as we drive by. He was so big at first I thought he was a German Sheppard.
OK fast-forward 11 days. We are going in a different direction but are about an hour out and a big Coyote runs across the road and waits for us to drive by and looks at us…..Is he my travel guide/protector? I told my brother and we figure it could be the same Coyote. The Coyotes in this area are small. My Brother asked if I was sure it was a Coyote and not a Wolf. I pretty sure he was a Coyote. So what do you make of this?
I live in country, on beef farm, coyotes are always running up and down my driveway. That’s why I keep my dogs in big pens rather than let them run at large like a lot of my neighbors do. We have tracked the coyote tracks and determined a family of them live in old quarry area on the property. We don’t bother them, in 15 years they have never bothered me, never got close enough to one except thru binoculars. Today as we were pulling out of our 1/4 mile long driveway to turn on main road,a coyote appeared out of nowhere and was running beside my side of the truck about 10 foot away. I was fascinated, he looked right at my face, ran beside moving truck for a good 2 minutes before he jumped in a ditch headed back towards my house. I can’t get this out of my head. Been stressing a lot, 2 days prior I was told I have liver cancer for the second time, things are not good. Refuse to believe coyote was random thing.
I am sorry you had to go through this. Livers suck. You may blame me if you would like, dear. But honestly… I would not wish this upon anyone, even as a guide. I was trying to tell you, “it’s okay”. And also… I was trying to tell you, “I have your buns”. And also… Its okay!!!! When you see a coyote before an unfortunate event, don’t blame me. I am here to say…. YOU CAN DO IT!!!! Call on me.
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-Coyote <3
It’s funny that I got the coyote. I always have dreams with coyotes in it.
I went hiking and I was far away from any people by myself. I saw a coyote come out from the distance and it came towards me and stopped and stared at me for awhile. I stopped my hiking as well and stared back at it. It was reddish in color and for some reason my fear subsided after we stared at each other for awhile. Then it sort of jogged slowly through the high grass in the opposite direction, stopping ever so often to look around.
I wonder if coyote is my spirit animal? I saw him on a far away trail that I didn’t plan on going, but my gut told me to go there. Then my gut told me to turn around and that is when I cam across coyote in the green hill. This happened yesterday so I am excited.
YASSSSSS!!!
I think someones trying TO SELL ME SOMETHING!!!
All my life I’ve always been able to remember my dreams until recently when I had a dream with a coyote in it. The dream was real dark but I knew where we were. It was my great grandma’s house, she died when I was like five and now her daughter (my grandma) lives there, but I don’t know why I would dream about the place I’ve dreamed of it a couple of times but really found no importance. Anyway in the dream it was real black out, I think I saw the moon a little while before the coyote but no stars. I was standing at the top of the road and across the road was a dark shadow like outline of the coyote standing between two houses. I couldn’t make out the houses but I know Ive seen them before. I didn’t see the coyote until it took a step or two into view. It was unlike anything coyote I have ever seen but it was defiantly a coyote. It was taller and had a build that was slightly bigger than that of a normal coyote. Its fur was a darker tan then usual and it had black tips to the ends of most strands. Its eyes are what got me the most though. The second I looked into the piercing yellow eyes of the creature I was stuck in a trance. I could feel myself lying peacefully on my bed as I was stuck in the trance like state, it was as if I wasn’t even in a dream. Then all of the sudden my head started pounding, my heart beat quickened, my body started trembling, my hair stood on end, and I felt like I was being watched but not by the coyote. I tried to wake up but I couldn’t I was still in my trance and it seemed like the coyote was urging me on. Finally I was able to fight the urge and jolted awake in a cold sweat. As soon as I woke all the symptoms stopped except for the feeling of being watched. i Brushed it off at first cause I was like “it’s just a dream” and then a few days after the dream I stumbled upon a spirit animal test online so I took it out of boredom and when I got the results it was a coyote. I was like “ok that’s weird” and decided to go take another one and same results. I didn’t want to think nothing of it because believe it or not I’ve had a lot of strange dreams and some of them have actually seemed to happen a week after I dreamt them. So I brushed it off again until I realized I hadn’t remembered a dream since that night and if I had even a fragment of a dream it was all dark with maybe a quick flash of something right before I woke up.
Every website I’ve looked at doesn’t tell you what it means if the coyote stares you in the eye in your dreams. Can anyone shed some light on this or at least give an opinion before i go crazy. Please!
The coyote archetype represents intuition, especially introverted intuition. In Jungian psychology, certain personality types rely on their intuition more than others (see Myers Briggs Type Indicator). Understood psychologically, intuition is not an otherworldly power but the means of detecting patterns in the environment and formulating a more complete picture of the things going on around you. Because intuition is largely unconscious, it will appear as insight “out of the blue.” Metaphorically, your “coyote” companion is sniffing around, pawing at details, and finally pouncing on new ideas when they appear. Because your intuition is instinctive it also works in a compensatory fashion toward your ego, the conscious mind. Rest assured, if your ego ever gets away from you, that “coyote” will set you up to fail, not to harm you really but to bring you back down to earth. This experience may or may not be humiliating, which is why you need to not take yourself so seriously. This is in accord with the archetype: coyote teaches wisdom through folly. Your dream may be literally interpreted as someone watching you, but more likely it has a double meaning. Perhaps you need to observe yourself more carefully so you don’t trip up. Your coyote seemed awfully intent on breaking your trance. If you’re fixated on something, let it go. Take everything in stride. Good luck!
Thank you for this wonderful explanation. It really helped. Coyote showed up in my back yard this morning and this after yesterday was filled with a number of challenges about beliefs and my own tenacity in keeping them alive and well. (not necessarily a good thing!) Your words are good.
You indeed saw coyote. Don’t worry, he’s cool. I have had dreams too where they actually happen, they are extremely random, and they are going to get stronger!!! You are fine. You are safe! I used to think i was not too. You are special as well. Your going on a journey my friend… Start calling on coyote. Believe and you will be alright, have faith. I wish i could see you, because i know you have been through ALOT. Don’t listen to anyone when they call you crazy. Your not. Believe in yourself. I wish i could hug you right now. Seriously. Coyote will help. :D this is literally the first time i have come into contact with another coyote person. I am sooooo glad. You are FINE!!! Do not use the word crazy!!! Unless its funny! I was here once too. You are in for the most wonderful thing in your life. You will be soooo happy!!! Peace sista!!!
I have a deep answer to princes question as well as the terrible advise tee-j gave me as to my coyote dream. Im sure you meant well though. I will show you prince my dream experience. Look at the dream i needed awnswering to. That is my first coyote dream. The coyote you described looked like him. Trust me, there are plenty more fourns. To my dream, i will tell you my past. In my past… I was bullied for being coyote. I was hurt. I wanted to die. I took myself toooooooooioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo seriously. It was like i lived in my head. (I still do but its more POSITIVE.) listen to me. Do not stay in your head. Try life. Go places. Do not be ashamed for being coyote. Now… My school mascot was the ravens. I used to think my guide was raven and that dream was from raven. Now i know better. As i trusted the ravens in the dream, they threw me deep in the sea… And i called on coyote for help. Coyote caught them in the net. That means… The ravens were the teens that bullied me. He caught them in the net. They thought they were mighty ravens… But they were just dead fishes. I lended them my finger with trust. I thought i was one of them. Turns out i was coyote. Now… Here is your assignment… Find your symbolism. Hopefully this will stop all the other coyotes from going in circles too. For all of you… You are coyote. Be happy to be coyote. You are unique. You kick bootaytay. And you make me live for tomorrow. You are the reason i get up in the morning. Because you are not alone. And i know you do not know me… But i love you long time.
Love you long time,
Maddie (aka spirit fire)
It could be a challenge- are you afraid of coyotes or dogs? Coyote may be challenging you to overcome your fears. Learn what is in his eyes- is there wisdom, respect, or perhaps suspicion?
BINGO!!! RIGHT ON THE DOT YO! Never seen something so tru in my lyfe. Is me on every level. Imma jokster all the way 2 the core homie
I had a baby coyote adopt me once. He found me 15 years ago at Tablerock in MO. I heard crying and walked back up the Corps riprap to see if somebody was hurt. What I found was a little fur ball that ran from me, then followed me when I went back to fishing. He followed me the rest of the day despite my repeated attempts to lose him. On leaving, I left a pile of cheetos and walked back to my jeep. But he hopped to when my engine fired and I saw him go out of sight in front of my car as I was wheeling back to the road. After stopping 3 times to get out and carry him back to the forest, I got out and instead of walking in front of my car he was right below my door looking up at me. I picked him up in my lap and lost all my freedom on the ride home.
He was black for many years, just last year he started to turn reddish. He would emulate me, by balancing his butt on the couch cushion front legs out, looking over at me until he lost his balance. He would climb chain link fences. It took me a while to figure out how he scaled the wooden fence (by shimmying up a telephone pole). I even came home several times to my 3rd floor apartment to find he jumped off the balcony to run River Legacy park all day. He was ornery alright, but always entertained.
We once ran into a bobcat on a 120 ft walking bridge. Bob sat (when I squeezed his collar) as the bobcat walked up from the mesquite at the edge of the bridge 20 ft away, dropped the cub from it’s mouth and leaned over to sniff then exchange licks with him before picking its cub back up and walking the other way. I was in shock being the bridge was only 8ft wide and this bobcat was as tall as Bob (he was about 55lbs then). I wish I could find the bicyclists that came up on the three of us and started taking pictures. Bob also introduced me to a wild deer once, a little button buck while walking out at Eagle Mtn Lake. it came up and nuzzled Bob, I was able to scratch his head and neck before he took off. I don’t know why but he had a way with wild animals.
You were an amazing friend Bobby and you will always be remembered by those who knew you. I may have lost my other half, my connection and my ability to see the truth behind it all last week, but you will always be with me. In memories at the very least. Bobby may your spirit run wild. My little coyote. I love you.
Love your story, Phil!
Nice…Absolutely Correct