Liberating the Citizen Trickster in You by Caroline Casey

Calling all those dedicated to contributing your considerable gifts to the world… at this Time of Dire Beauty.

We offer you an invitation to joyfully participate in the wild ride unfurling before us, by freeing yourself from outdated habits and cultivating the skills of Trickster ingenuity: metaphoric agility, trustworthy intuition and jauntiness in the face of danger.

If you’ve found yourself perplexed, dismayed, or downright afraid about the road ahead, wondering how you can engage our coming trials in a way that contributes to healing and liberation… you’re not alone!

Indeed, there’s a vast number of spiritual folks, healers, progressives, artists, and cultural-edge-surfers who are looking at our collective quandary and seeking ways to transform what’s blocking a better future ahead. Yet, this can be daunting and overwhelming.

The antidote to this overwhelm is levity, according to visionary activist Caroline Casey, where we’re lifted up by laughter and magic, giving us the strength, nimbleness, and playfulness needed for the road ahead.

These are qualities of what Caroline calls the “Citizen Trickster” — a new twist on an ancient archetype.

Citizen Trickster is the redeemer, the liberator, the keeper of democracy who’s been living within us, awaiting our call. Citizen Trickster comes alive when we’re dedicated to liberating ourselves by liberating the world.

Scheherazade, for example, is the great Trickster Liberator from One Thousand and One Nights. Her name means “City Redeemer.” And her sister’s name, Dunyazade, means “World Redeemer.” Through their power of story, they liberate not only the women and the land, but even the tyrant in the tale who has hardened his heart.

The Trickster connects us with Nature’s evolutionary genius. It quickens within us as we enter the state of wonder, willingness and openness to dance, in the choreography of creation.

As we do, we each become agents of liberation and blessing. We learn to recruit the ingenuity of the bad to serve the good. We navigate the Underworld with pluckiness and courage. We become ever more effective Players on the Team of Creation.

Making Medicine From Poison

“Against all odds” are actually the odds that Trickster likes best — so now is the perfect time to call forth this archetype within each of us.

We each carry a unique and necessary Medicine for our times, which Trickster helps us access. The Trickster shows us, for example, how to reframe trauma into “my dangerous beautiful assignment,” thereby transforming what appears to be poison into a personal healing tonic.

Yet, for the Citizen Trickster inside us to succeed, we need a supportive team to help alert us to serendipitous synchronicities and inspire us in enhanced dreaming together. We need to be part of a pack while supporting each person’s autonomy.

During the 7-step adventure of Liberating the Citizen Trickster in You , you’ll have a global community to support you in becoming your most authentic Self.

We’ll focus on what we want to unlock in the quest for betterment — “tossing keys to the beautiful and rowdy prisoners” (as Hafiz encourages) — by learning to dance with Shadow, turn demons into allies, and brew medicine from poison.

We’ll draw inspiration from folklore, fairy tales, myth, nature and actual reality.

You’ll discover how to transform your anger into desire. Anger gets you aroused, but you can’t stop there, or you’ll be trapped by what Caroline refers to as the linguistic worship of prison. The Trickster uses anger as a guide to the desire that liberates circumstance.

You’ll cultivate an ever-expanding repertoire of beneficial responses which allow you to become allied with Nature’s ingenuity and love against all odds.

This is achieved by shape shifting your reality through the practice of advancing your linguistic, metaphoric and storytelling agility.

You’ll learn to perceive metaphors as the incarnational garb through which power enters the world. When you change your metaphors, you change your story — and literally change the world.

By freeing yourself from outdated thought patterns and animating a more liberated and dynamic YOU… you’ll open to more magic, wisdom and intuition.

Activating the Citizen Trickster in you is ultimately about freedom from the Reality Police and the rut of old certainties. As you free yourself, the world naturally follows.

Magnetizing Magic

A recent study at Cambridge University showed that luck increases when we run on the fuel of curiosity and generosity.

By moving our emotional default setting from fear to “Woof-Woof-Wanna-Play?!” we become irresistibly magnetic to equally playful dance partners of all kinds: romantic partners, accomplices and allies for vitalizing our lives and communities.

Magic is simply a willingness to collaborate with everything… and in forging an alliance with something, we become more like it. To protect water, for instance, we become like water; to protect wolves, we become like wolves.

And by cultivating wonder, we invite in the electric spark of revelation.

Trickster is one of the greatest teachers of the spiritual path AND the path of social influence. With Trickster backing you up, you can defuse conflicts, levitate into laughter and navigate challenging situations with verbal aikido.

Tapping into the creativejoie de vivre of Trickster also makes you a better speaker and a more compelling leader.

So in the name of personal and collective liberation, we invite you to a truly unique online adventure with Caroline Casey, which will deepen your journey, open your mind, and transform you into an effective — albeit unpredictable — agent of evolution.

Caroline will take you into the heart of Trickster as a path and a practice, and invite you to compost self-sabotage into nutrients for a more creative life. She’ll guide you to become more surprising, even to yourself (and your dog!).

And as you’re liberated, you’ll help liberate others. There’s no prison for the unexpected!

The Importance of a Fool-y Liberated Teacher

Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, veteran activist or curious animist, you’ll delight in the ways Caroline illumines the path to your true Self and a more liberated world.

Caroline’s been at the forefront of new-paradigm spirituality and in the trenches of Washington, D.C. politics since she was a wee little girl. She’s deeply informed by astrological wizardry and social-change-savvy.

Her mind weaves a remarkable number of threads per minute into a new tapestry of possibility, all helping you to create a more beautiful life.

Over the course of seven councils, you can expect a wild romp as Caroline shows you how you can animate your Trickster skill set and fill your magic backpack with “reverent unpredictability” through language, metaphor and action.

With Trickster as your ally, you free up the evolutionary life force within you. You dance through the dueling dualisms to find the coherent WHOLE at the heart of any moment. Together, we’ll practice the art of spiraling, so as to not be snookered into polarity.

The truth is that you do not need more “powers,” but to use those already available to you in your magic backpack — qualities you’ve always had but may not have known — until now!