Lizard sat lolling in the shadow of a big rock, shading himself from the desert sun. Snake crawled by, looking for some shadow to coil up in and rest. Snake watched Lizard for awhile as Lizard's eyeballs went side to side behind his enormous closed lids. Snake hissed to get Lizard's attention. Slowly Lizard's dreaming eyes opened and he saw Snake.
"Snake! You scared me! What do you want?" Lizard cried.
Snake spit his answer from his forked tongue. "Lizard, you are always getting the best shadow spots in the heat of the day. This is the only big rock for miles. Why don't you share your shade with me?"
Lizard thought for a moment, then agreed. "Snake, you can share my shade spot, but you have to go to the other side of the rock and you must promise not to interrupt me."
Snake was getting annoyed. He hissed, "How could I bother you Lizard? All you are doing is sleeping."
Lizard smiled knowingly. "Oh Snake, you are such a silly serpent. I'm not sleeping. I'm dreaming."
Snake wanted to know what the difference was, so Lizard explained. "Dreaming is going into the future, Snake. I go to where future lives. You see, that is why I know you won't eat me today. I dreamed you and I know you're full of mouse."
Snake was taken aback. "Why Lizard, you're exactly right. I wondered why you said you would share your rock."
Lizard laughed to himself. "Snake," he said, "you are looking for shade and I am looking for shadow. Shadow is where the dreams live."
Lizard medicine is the shadow side of reality where your dreams are reviewed before you decide to manifest them physically. Lizard could have created getting eaten by Snake if he had so desired.
Lizard is the medicine of dreamers. Whether dreamers smoke you or dream you, dreamers can always help you see the shadow. This shadow can be your fears, your hopes, or the very thing you are resisting, but it is always following you around like an obedient dog.
TOP TEN THINGS HUMANS CAN LEARN FROM LIZARDS
10. Change your skin color, not your clothes. No more laundry!
9. Grocery stores unnecessary if you have long tongues that move really fast
8. Aging not a problem if you're born wrinkly
7. Looking for an effective weight loss diet? Try three squares a day of gnats & fly larvae
6. Lay in the sun all day. Never need sunscreen!
5. Ability to camouflage oneself helpful when goofing off at work
4. Stop exterminating insects. Start eating them!
3. Tired of mortgage payments & property taxes? Try living under a rock
2. Lay eggs. Save on maternity clothes!
1. Tails are easily detachable. Try that with your butt!
If I had to choose one lucky number, it would have to be the number 9. Why? Because 9 is the most magic of all the numbers. Yea, Schoolhouse Rock claims that 3 is the magic number, but 9 is 3 squared. 9 times any number equals a sequence of digits that when added together (and added again if necessary to make a single digit) make 9. 9 is born of itself. Take for instance, my birth year: 1971
It was only natural that my company, fictitious or not, have something to do with Lizards and the Number Nine. It is only natural that my first tattoo will have something to do with Lizards and the Number Nine. These concepts are as close to my soul as anything else about me.
