Trickster Gods

In many cultures there are trickster gods, one who's sole aim is to poke fun and to make laugh and more often than not, at the person's own expense.

The trickster gods are, in Native American cultures, an essential part of spiritual awakening. Laughter opens us up from the rigid preconceptions of how life should be lived, or how we ARE.

The trickster is essential to birth, and creation. It frees ourselves from the past and allows laughter to inform us of our follies, our foibles, and constraints. In that moment we are free from our hard held points of view that diminish our power to create.

Remember create comes from nothing,to view something from a completely new side and see the birth of an idea in that moment. Most ideas, when viewed in this vantage point, are shoved aside as 'silly, inconsequential, or frivolous'.

But each idea needs the breath of life poured into it or it will remain stillborn and put on the shelf; a sad place to be put.

So, remember there are trickster gods, some of them sound remarkably like your family and friends telling you to settle down and stop dreaming. But have courage, like this picture of this cat and the 20 dogs. Laugh at yourself, laugh with others, (note I did not say laugh at others?)

Allow laughter to open you up to the new you.