Trickster god
Through their astonishment you climb to heights unfathomable. You’ll carry mythemes and astonish the world. From your shapeshifting comes world making. Might as well have fun with delusion.Įverything in life is metaphor, and you’re here to prove it. Might as well enjoy donning and discarding masks. The self is masks all the way down perceiving delusions all the way up? So be it. You prove that the paradox of self is more a house of mirrors than a stable foundation, more a precarious perch than firm ground.īut, and here’s the rub, you own it. You blur the line between self and other. The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.” ~ Carl Jung 3.) You are a shapeshifter and master of disguises: Indeed, you distort the line between Art and artifice with uncompromising glee. You deceive to crush out complacency.īut your deception is love-laced, flaneur-fleeced, bricoleur-backed, fortified with High Art. You deceive to stir the pot, to push the envelope, to stretch the comfort zone, to think outside the box, to shatter rigid paradigms that keep people stuck in willful ignorance. You deceive to awaken, to rattle, to create commotion in still waters and blow hot smoke through black and white prison bars. For you bring the magic elixir back to the tribe as a gift of hard-earned love gleaned through amoral acts of lofty deception.
Your trickster tactics are actually an act of love. You are a trickster in love with tricking life into divulging its secrets. No idea is off limits, no belief is safe, no faith is sacred to the terrible cut of your sword. You are so absolutely uncertain of all things that Doubt has become a sword you use to cut through the false certitude of others. There’s a snarl in your smile and laughter in your glare. You are valiantly vague and unequivocally equivocal. And especially-especially when it comes to the art of living life well.Īs such, you are methodical in your lack of method. Better to keep things strange and inconsistent rather than regular and consistent. Better to keep things loud and loose rather than quiet and fixed. The first sign that you are on the path is your ability to “lift the shame covers” and allow self-expression (art) to rule over silence.įor you, silence is the enemy. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.” In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde describes the trickster’s ability to uncover secrets as “apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.” ~ Tony Schwartz 6.) You are a sacred and lewd bricoleur:.5.) You are a messenger and imitator of the gods:.3.) You are a shapeshifter and master of disguises:.2.) You are a deceptive sharper sharpening a dull world:.This article, covers the following topics :