Badger
Turning inside your own skin to bite the thing that has you, venom-resistance, fighting up
- Card
- 21 of 52
- Suit
- Earth
- Station
- power
- Kingdom
- Mammal
- Tradition
- Native American, European
In Nature
The honey badger has a loose, thick hide it can rotate inside — meaning it can twist around inside its own skin to bite an attacker gripping it, and its blood carries partial resistance to cobra venom.
The Medicine
Take the honey badger by the neck and you have not won — it turns inside its own loose skin and bites your face. Its blood shrugs off cobra venom; its whole being is built, chemically and psychologically, to refuse the role of prey. This is your medicine when something has you in its grip: being seized is not the end of the fight. Sometimes it is the exact position from which your particular counter-move becomes possible. Twist. Bite what holds you. You were built for this.
The Number
As card 21, power, the Badger carries turning in your own skin to bite what has you.
Shadow
Picking every fight because you know you can survive it, mistaking survival for a life.
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