From MInd-Blowing Synchronicities

The book was  written before the election. But this post about trump as the dark trickster is about to become even more relevant and obvious in his second term.

Personification of the Dark Trickster

The trickster archetype that sneaks up on us in the dark is  a deceiver, liar, cheat, and thief who figures he can get away with something while we’re distracted. He flips the status quo on its head and sometimes does so with a wry twist of irony. When he reveals some dark undercurrent about ourselves and the culture in which we live that we would rather ignore, synchronicity is usually involved.

Donald Trump may be its ultimate trickster among us. He’s admired by some, despised by many. He’s reckless and ruthless. One moment he’s savvy and cunning. The next he’s dumb and dumber rolled into one.

His name may be the simplest example of a synchronicity associated with him. The dictionary meaning of trump means to “outrank or defeat someone of something, often in a highly public way.” Like in a presidential election.   “In the card game bridge, the trump card is the most powerful card in a particular round and defeats all the others — sort of like when your needs or wishes trump someone else’s. Originally trump implied a deceptive form of victory involving cheating, but that sense has been largely lost, though it’s still around in the term trumped up, meaning something that’s been falsely made up.”

During Trump’s four years as president, Twitter – renamed X – was his favorite weapon for retaliation against anyone who slighted him, which was often. He used it to humiliate and berate women, figures in the media, people of color, members of his own party, and anyone else who criticized him. And as he geared up for a second run in 2024, he used his failing Truth Social for the same purpose.

The dark trickster serves what Jung called the Shadow, those unexpressed parts of our personalities. In fact, the dark trickster is a favorite figure in American movies – Joker in the Batman franchise, particularly as played by Heath Ledger in Dark Knight Rising– and may be the paragon of this archetype. Jung saw this kind of trickster as an expression of an “earlier, rudimentary type of consciousness.”

In The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, he wrote: “He is both subhuman and superhuman, a bestial and divine being, whose chief and most alarming characteristic is his unconsciousness…”

His unconsciousness is an intriguing term when applied to Trump. During his presidency he tended to tweet in the early morning hours when his handlers – like chief of staff General Kelly –were asleep. These freewheeling tweets often unraveled the very thing he attempted to implement, like the travel ban on some Muslim-majority countries. On October 18, 2017 the ban on travelers from six countries was supposed to go into effect. But two federal district courts – in Hawaii and Maryland – shot down the ban. Judge Theodore Chuang in the district of Maryland included a detailed history of Trump’s tweets to back up his opinion on the ban. In fact, his tweets had been used twice before by federal judges to block the ban.

In 1938, Carl Jung told an American reporter that Hitler was “the loudspeaker which magnified the inaudible whispers of the German soul.”

It could be that Trump rode to power as the loudspeaker for the inaudible whispers of that faction of the American soul that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by a rapidly changing world. He also might be the personification of the ultimate American Trickster, the archetypal con artist of the 21st century.

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We already are seeing evidence of this in his cabinet picks: Matt Gaetz, for instance, as attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intellgence,  vax denier RFK Jr.as secretary of Health & Human services, oil executive Chris Wright as energy secretary. All are gag worthy.

Buckle up, folks. The next four years are going to wild and  dark.

 

 

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Maureen St Germain: Living Your Best 5D Life



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Maureen J. St. Germain founded the St. Germain Mystery School, the Ascension Institute Mystery School, and Akashic Records International. She is also the creator of more than 30 guided meditation CDs and is the author of 8 books, the latest one being Living Your Best 5D Life, published by Bear & Company. It’s the third in her 5D series and follows Mastering Your 5D Self and Waking Up in 5D. That book was voted bestselling book in 2017 by independent booksellers. Another of her books, Opening the Akashic Records, won Book of the Year from the Coalition of Visionary Resource Awards. Maureen lives near Sedona, Arizona, and offers workshops worldwide.

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A Midweek Message from Sterling, the Medium

This gives me more hope than I’ve felt since election day.

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The Whistleblower

My friend Alexa Blye is a whistleblower. About skilled nursing facilities in California. But what she describes may be true of other such facilities countrywide. She was recently on our podcast. Her whistleblowing began with her friend Helen.

 

After billions of federal Medicare dollars paid to Los Angeles Department of Public Health by the California Department of Public Health, for over 12 years of egregiously misleading, subpar and falsified investigation results, Los Angeles County Public Health Department’s contract is up for renewal next year. Enough is Enough! Do NOT Renew It! PROTECT OUR ELDERS FROM ABUSE AND NEGLECT – and falsified report findings that cover it up. Helen’s wish was that no one else would go through what she went through.

My dear friend Helen, at 100.5 years old, was transferred from her home in independent living, where she had resided for 22 years – the last 10 years as a widow, to the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) in her Life Plan [aka Continuing Care Retirement (CCRC)] Community.

So many things went wrong for Helen that almost overnight, she went from being vibrant, poised, confident, and self-controlled to terror-stricken, anxious, and distraught. She was treated terribly by the staff, as if she was nothing more than an annoying object. She felt humiliated.

She made me promise to take notes and write about her treatment so that no one else would go through the horror that she was experiencing. This blog-story includes the fulfillment of that promise.

Read the rest of Helen’s story here.

And here’s the link for the rest of Alexa’s powerful blog:


 

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Ah, Pluto – & 2025!

 

2025 is going to be a year of major transitions. Perhaps the biggest transition will be from a democracy with challenges to an autocracy under trump that aspires to become the rule of one: a king, a czar, a Putin, Pinochet, Maduro, Castro, Orbán…you know, all the dictators on the planet now.

If you voted for trump, then it’s best if you study the history of autocracies, how they come to be, what their playbook is, and how trump is using it already, before he even assumes office. If he initiates “the biggest deportation in history” it will undoubtedly be a heartbreaking shit show. Think of a Dystopian presence so huge and ugly and cruel that  it defies The Hunger Games, 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale.

This is Pluto doing its thing – first, it destroys everything, then it rebuilds on the ashes. But we, the people who DID NOT vote for trump, scoop up handfuls of those ashes and build something better, stronger, more powerful than authoritarian rule. We do this as a community of rebels, of revolutionaries, who organize at the local levels and become a collective with a positive, upbeat message that speaks to the soul of all people who desire freedom.

Pluto represents death, rebirth, change. It darted in and out of Aquarius since January 2024, but finally enters it for good on Nov 20 and will be there for the next 20 years. Aquarius is the sign of the equalizer, the humanitarian, the visionary, the innovator. Every Aquarian I’ve known has represented these qualities.

Pluto is now transiting somewhere in your birth chart. That’s the place where you will experience the most transformative change in the next two decades.

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Alexa Blye: Behind The Gardens Wall

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Alexa Blye is the author of The Good Sister and Her Flying Monkeys – inspired by a true story about a malignant narcissist. Alexa is also a retired compliance consultant for federally funded programs and a semi-retired mental health professional in private practice in Southern California. Alexa currently lives in a life-plan retirement community. When her 100-year-old friend, Helen, entered the facility nursing home, she stumbled across the underbelly of skilled nursing facilities. She believes everyone should know about it if considering or requiring skilled nursing for yourself or a loved one, no matter what state you live in.

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The Death of Democracy

 

On November 5, democracy died. As with the death of any loved one, you have choices. You can stay in bed and mourn for the rest of your life or you can get up and move on with the rest of your life.

My mourning is done. I won’t be watching any news because seeing the orange man’s face or hearing his voice nauseates me. If he manages to implement even some of the draconian stuff from Project 2025, then perhaps this country’s karma is to live under an autocracy so that democracy can be appreciated.

Unfortunately, those of us us who already appreciate democracy will also be living under this autocracy. So if that’s where you are, then you have some choices to make. If you have friends who voted for trump and his autocracy, can those friendships persist and endure?

Trump has demeaned women, blacks, latinos, LGBQTs, Jews, Muslims, and everyone else who isn’t a white male christian.  He will pass a national abortion ban, says he will deport 12 million immigrants, plans to abolish a number of government agencies, will place tariffs on imported goods – which will raise the price of everything. If he implements even a portion of Project 2025, we won’t recognize this country by the end of his term. And that’s if his term even ends. As he said, “You’ll never have to vote in another election.”

So ask yourself, can you maintain friendships with people who voted for trump? Or is the difference in fundamental values too vast and deep?

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HOPE!

Yes for the first woman president in this country ever! 250 years!

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Narinder Sheena: From Pain To Power

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Narinder Sheena is a Chronic Pain and Mindset Coach. She is a passionate advocate for individuals suffering from chronic pain and offers coaching support to those who feel anxious, frustrated, and fearful about their ongoing pain. Narinder has authored a book called From Pain to Power. It’s about her journey out of chronic pain but mostly about what people can do to heal themselves.

https://www.mapcoach.co.uk/

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To My…

 

Jewish friends, black friends, Latino friends, & female friends: Trump has expressed disdain for all of you. “Hitler did some great things” Yeah? Like what?

Why would you vote for this racist, misogynist orange man whose message is so dark, gloomy and divisive?  Who describes other countries as garbage dumps?

Oh, the economy, you say?  Huh?

The economy under Biden/Harris, according to the Wall Street Journal, is the best ever. Under trump, we lost jobs, we were schooled in injecting bleach to get rid of Covid, and we had trump with a black sharpie drawing the probable path of a hurricane that deviated from what the National Hurricane Center – the experts – had predicted.

The horrors at the border? Yeah? You’ve been there? Witnessed what Fox News describes?

C’mon, ladies! Your daughters and granddaughters are growing up with fewer rights than we had! You want to return to the 50s when a woman had to get a man’s permission to open a bank account? Dad, husband, brother, uncle, some guy.

But, oh, you know, Trump promises to protect all of us to the point where we’ll never have to vote again. He claims he’ll protect all women – whether they like it or not. Meaning what, exactly? More horrors from The Handmaid’s Tale?

Republicans claim to care about the unborn. But the truth is that once you’re born, you’re on your own. No guaranteed health or child care, no guaranteed three meals a day. In fact, you’ve got no guarantees in the Republican world.

Snap out it, people. Trump – and his VP Vance – have their eyes on dictatorship. This is the guy who calls Democrats the Fascists. A bit of projections there, huh?

The Piscean age is over. We’re in the age of Aquarius now, when equality is the norm, when women claim and express their power.

So here’s the inside of trump’s head on Halloween. Or maybe every day of the week.

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