All hail the unpromising figures

of the fox and the hero in fairytales, THE GREEN KNIGHT, and Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius

Foxes have three tricks for threat. Holes, doubles, and blocks, or so it goes in the old tales of the red animal with a dying woman stuck in its throat.

In anticipation of entrapment, a fox will build her den with secret holes¹, multiple exit routes, instinct for future survival molded by form of life. If pursued by hounds, folklore has it that a fox wil…