Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both. Often, the bending and breaking of rules takes the form of tricks or thievery. Tricksters violate principles of social and natural order, playfully disrupting normal life and then re-establishing it on a new basis. The trickster crosses and often breaks both physical and societal rules. Lewis Hyde describes the trickster as a 'boundary-crosser'. Tricksters are archetypal characters who appear in the myths of many different cultures. It can 'pester' us unmercifully but always has a gift for us, a missing quality, an attitude needed to cope, or self-realization. Like the trickster of old, the shadow represents a quality that isn't accepted into the awareness. The more civilized we become, the more we will blame a 'shadow' for our misfortunes. When you allow yourself to be abused, playing the victim, and remain stagnant in your life, the trickster aspect of you is in control.Ī primitive cosmic being of divine-animal nature, on the one hand superior to man because of his superhuman qualities, and on the other hand inferior to him because of his unreason and unconsciousness. When you abuse someone, that is the trickster in you, showing itself.

The trickster 'stirs the pot' and creates the drama, to that end. Our soul spirals its consciousness into a physical body to experience different roles and emotions. You can beat the trickster if you ignore that which he brings as challenges. In order to win the game you must create balance. Our reality is created by electromagnetic energy fields, the poles of North and South, positive and negative energy. We live in a dual reality, opposite polarities, yin /yang, male/female, good/ evil, God/Devil or Trickster. In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.

Trickster characters