Opposites are one of the most useful concepts Spirit has given
us. Think about the heyoka, the sacred clown who wears his clothes inside out
and says all the things everyone else is afraid to say aloud. The heyoka makes
us listen to ideas we may not want to acknowledge, because in order to
understand what he really means we have to listen between the lines.
In the past 24 hours, Heyoka has come to me twice. My friend Fox
is playing a game about signs this month, in which everything that happens is
considered to be a sign or an omen. I am usually not fond of games and there
are events happening all around me that make game playing problematic --
but since this is such a striking one, I will play it today.
What is Heyoka trying to tell me, by showing up in a book and in
a television program? It is only his appearance that has come, there have been
no spoken communications. So, it must be the concept of contrarianism that
Heyoka is bringing to my attention.
Is he saying that I am not enough of a contrarian? That I am too
much of a contrarian? Or he may be simply reminding me that life doesn’t always
go smoothly when Mercury is retrograde as it is now. He may be reminding me to
cut other people some slack during this time. Or to cut myself some slack.
Heyoka is forcing me to ponder, and I am not in the mood to slow
down to ponder anything right now. I’d hoped to be able to float (or at least
dog paddle) through the backwards flowing river of Mercury this month. Alas.
Life is tossing me irreverently into white-water rapids. I am
trying to remember that Lewis Carroll wrote the best line about Heyoka that has
ever been conceived: “Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were
so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t.” (Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
And that is the point of Heyoka medicine: whatever you think you
know is going on, isn’t.
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