As my friend the radio personality Caroline Casey always says: “Better a trickster than a martyr be.” What’s the difference between a martyr and a trickster, you ask? Here’s a quick primer. Martyr energy is dark, solemn, macho, hierarchical, fundamentalist, austere, unforgiving, and profoundly rigid. Trickster energy is light, sly, transgender, transgressive, animist, seditious, primal, and endlessly shape-shifting.
