Hare | Awaken Your Inner Trickster
Hare knows you might be feeling small now—and a bit powerless. Her message for you is that you’re mighty in number—and you have some tricks up your sleeve.
Hare, makes her way through field and forest, moving swiftly under the glow of the full moon, casts fleeting shadows as she vanishes into the landscape. Silently eluding those who would do her harm. Showing the skills that earn her reputation as shapeshifter. Trickster. Magician.
Hare doesn’t have a deadly bite. She can’t out-muscle. She can’t intimidate. Yet Hare is uniquely designed to survive in her world. And she's ready to share what she's learned.
What she has is speed. And agility. She leaps over and squeezes under. She’ll catch your eye and then disappear faster than half a blink—which frustrates any gardener. Just ask Mr. McGregor about that pesky Peter who forever steals his carrots. Ask B’rer Fox, who is outwitted at every turn by that crafty prankster, B’rer Rabbit. Or ask Elmer Fudd, that persistent big game hunter, who’s constantly tormented by that “wascawwy wabbit,” Bugs Bunny.
All of them bigger, stronger, and better armed than that trickster, Hare. But Hare has other tricks up her sleeve and rabbits to pull out of a hat.
Her real superpower comes from having eyes on the side of her head—like all prey animals. Hare sees all around her, without moving her head. While you, poor human, only see what’s in front of you. In case you’ve never noticed, you have a blind spot a mile wide. Now, Hare does have a tiny blind spot directly in front of her—but she makes up for that by being able to see trouble coming from a mile away. And she’s here to help.
But first, some history. Stories of the magic of the trickster Hare go way back to the earliest stories told—as companions of goddesses and witches who escape by taking on her shape to confound their enemies. Hare can even slip between realms.
In many cultures, Hare is associated with the moon. After all, they are both shapeshifters. In China, and in East Asia, the Hare is believed to live on the moon. Like the moon, with the bright side we see, and the dark side that is hidden from us here on our planet, the Hare has her own dark and light sides. The essential skill of the Hare is to see what we cannot—our blind spot. The key thing you must learn to discern is what she wants to do with that knowledge.
The dark trickster is the disruptor, the sower of chaos, manipulating our blindspots—our biases and our prejudices—to gain power. The counter-balance to that is the trickster on the other end of the spectrum—the artist, the comedian, the actor, the musician—the best of whom also see into our blind spots, but who disrupt to awaken.
This is why the dark trickster always wants to gain control over the artist. The artist must be willing to be like the Hare. Or the Fool card in the Tarot. Willing to be the fool, to risk, to take the leap. To shapeshift. This is the power of the artist.
This is what Hare spirit comes to share with you.
Pay attention to the ones who want to control you. They don’t want you to see where you are blind. Because that’s their way in. You’ll know who they are by the way they distract you. The way they make you angry. The way they awaken your demons—jealousy, greed, cruelty. A desire for revenge. Call on the Hare who awakens the artist in you. Your inner comedian. Make someone laugh. Grab a crayon. A paintbrush. Or a pencil. Make a mess or a masterpiece. Write a poem. Break out in song. Dance ‘til you drop. Be, in a word, more human.
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