
by Gary 'Z' McGee
September 25, 2025
from
Self-InflictedPhilosophy Website

Fox Spirit Full Moon
by Whimmy
"What the lion
cannot manage to do,
the fox can."
German Proverb
Nine-Tailed Fox Medicine draws from East Asian
shamanic and
spiritual traditions, where the fox spirit (huli jing in Chinese,
kitsune in Japanese, kumiho in Korean) symbolizes,
profound
transformation, rebirth, and dual energies of light and shadow...
This "medicine" represents the power accumulated over a lifetime (or
lifetimes) - each tail signifying a cycle of death and
resurrection - empowering the individual with cunning wisdom,
adaptability, and spiritual vitality.
It's the energy of the
survivor who outfoxes chaos and weaves through illusion while using
deep insight to navigate realms unseen.
Let's break it down…
1.) You possess a charismatic
allure
"To romanticize the world
is to make us aware
of the magic, mystery
and wonder
of the world;
it is to educate the senses
to see the
ordinary as extraordinary,
the familiar as strange,
the mundane as
sacred,
the finite as infinite."
Novalis
You are a mythmaker, a dream-weaver, a showstopper.
You are a
burning flame.
Your nine tails are a consummate fire for an
otherwise beaconless world.
They represent sharpened mettle, fierce
rebirth, pressurized pain, coupstick courage, death-stropped life,
ego annihilation, dogma humiliation, Dionysian antifragility, and
Promethean audacity.
And not necessarily in that order...
But, nine-tail wielder beware, such a fire is also a beacon for
moths and those who do not know how to be Fire.
So be prepared to
burn away their dross.
Be prepared to turn their precious structures
into ashes.
Be prepared to melt their golden idols into molten
puddles of "try again."
And most of all, be prepared for their ire.
For they will cling to it all even as the ashes slip through their
fingers.
Let the hesitant balk. You are fire. Your wisdom burns.
So be it...
2.) You cultivate a cutting
insight
"It
is the duty of the human understanding
to
understand that there are things
which it
cannot understand."
Søren Kierkegaard
The growth of your nine tails has taught you the crucial difference
between written and unwritten laws.
You see how people devote
themselves to the written and forsake the unwritten at the detriment
of the world. But between the two, and despite the masses, you
thrive.
You've developed a penchant for impermanence, an instinct for
transience, and a phenomenology for ephemerality. You skip through
hell. You flip the bird in heaven. You outwit the devil and bluff
God.
You see how human understanding is a bulwark, a stopgap, a strawman.
And so you crash through the ramparts, you unstop the contrivance,
you scare the scarecrow. You do so to highlight the unwritten law
and mock the written.
Such insight cuts like a sword through flimsy
parochialism.
3.) You are cunningly adaptable
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend;
they shall never be broken."
Saint Francis de Sales
Each of your nine tails signifies a transformation, an annihilation,
a coming apart and coming back together again.
Your heart has been
shattered on the unforgiving ground of the abyss so many times that
it has become one with Akhilandeshvari (the Never Not Broken
Goddess).
It has been pieced back together again so many times on
the summit that it resides in the chest of the Phoenix.
Your malleability is your genius, your locus, your compass. It
points in all directions, and none.
And so,
you're able to reorient
your orientation.
You diverge from the social milieux.
You outfox
the orthodox.
You are always one step ahead of the curve, playing
Chess while everyone else is playing Checkers, playing the Infinite
Game while everyone else is caught up in the drama of petty finite
games.
You realize that the real secret to becoming adaptable to paradox
and maintaining the tension between opposites is keeping
You leave room for rebirth.
4.) You've gone through multiple
cycles of rebirth
"Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the
wrong direction.
Practice resurrection."
Wendell Berry
You have endured multiple "Dark Nights of the Soul," emerging
stronger each time, growing new tails - transforming hardship into
profound personal evolution and resilience.
Each tail represents a stage of
Ego Death. The growth of each new "tail" signifies the death of an old god.
Finitude had to be
sacrificed to infinity to truly embrace the interconnectedness of
all things.
Sometimes,
you had to trick yourself into evolution.
You
had to become a spark in the dark, and sometimes even a blot of
darkness in the blinding light.
You had to ask yourself belief-wrecking questions.
You had to
interrogate your soul.
You had to force your head over the abyss.
You had to trick your shadow into guiding you into your own Hero's
Journey.
Your each tail represents the profound realization that you
are God playing peek a boo with itself.
You are the world at play...
5.) You are a creative shapeshifter
"I
am sometimes a fox
and
sometimes a lion."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Other than the butterfly, no other creature symbolizes shapeshifting
better than the nine-tailed fox.
With the ability to shapeshift into
anything, there is no reason to assume it cannot shapeshift into a
caterpillar, cocoon, or butterfly.
Embodying nine-tail fox energy, you are daring enough to don
wolf-masks, whale-masks, crow-masks, even god-masks.
Indeed...
You
carry the medicine to subsume God itself.
Infinity is inside you,
burning robustly through the effigies of your nine tails.
Ultimately, you realize that everything in life is Metaphor.
From shapeshifting comes worldmaking.
Life becomes art, and art becomes
life.
Forget genes.
Forget memes.
You carry mythemes and astonish
the world.
As Ruth Brown said,
"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
6.) You embody a playful duality
"Irony and humor
belong to the sphere of infinite resignation;
their
flexibility is due to the fact
that the individual is
incommensurable
with actuality."
Kierkegaard
You balance,
light and shadow, finitude and infinity, life and death
with mischievous joy.
Wise yet whimsical, benevolent yet bold, you
honor the fox's trickster essence that outfoxes even fate itself.
You exist between realms - human, spirit, and divine
- never fully bound
by the material world's rules.
You use irony and humor to navigate
life's absurdities, accepting their incommensurability with societal
norms while wielding wit to transcend limitations.
Your legendary
cunning is a sharp, detached perspective that sees through
illusions.
You employ irony not as cynicism but as a tool to
outmaneuver rigid realities.
You are a being of paradox, neither fully of this world nor entirely
separate from it.
Your incommensurability with actuality manifests
in your ability to straddle human and other worldly realms.
You use
irony and humor to reconcile your inner complexity with a world that
often misunderstands your enigmatic and mythological depth.
7.) You harbor visionary wisdom
"Our firmest convictions
are apt to be the most suspect;
they mark
our limitations and our bounds.
Life is a petty thing
unless it is
moved by the indomitable urge
to extend its boundaries."
Jose
Ortega y Gasset
You seek out rabbit holes, but so as not to get pigeonholed (stuck),
you ascend through wormholes.
Your fox spirit elevates you above
one-dimensionality.
Multidimensionally, you soar.
Your ascension is best summed up by the concept of 'going
Meta'. You
can reimagining imagination. You see the big picture. Through your
third-eye illumination and visionary insight, you can connect dots
that most people aren't even aware of.
By going Meta, you transcend ego and embrace soul.
You're launched
into a big-picture perspective, shot out of the box of outdated
thinking and into a realm of higher consciousness where your
outdated lizard brain is countered by updated logic, reasoning, and
imagination.
You've gained the sacred vision of "Over Eyes" (similar to the
Astronaut Overview Effect), where limited societal delusions and
cultural conditioning give way to empowered interconnectedness and
sacred interdependence.
Outfoxing fixedness, you've made a sacred space for the numinous.
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