Category Archives: trickster
The Timely Tricksters
We’ve written several posts about the trickster archetype and how it appears over and over in synchronicity. Now in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, we’ve encountered a pair of tricksters who prepared for what was coming. … Continue reading
The Trickster and the Oil Rig
The trickster is a classic Jungian archetype, embodied in characters like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings. A trickster synchronicity usually reveals itself with a twisted humor or a wry irony that makes you feel like you’re the brunt of … Continue reading
Can I Materialize The Boss?
In an article called, Synchronicity: How We Relate to this Mystical Law, Caroline Myss asks, “Can a person influence acts of synchronicity; that is, are some people more likely to experience synchronistic events, and if so, why?” I’ve wondered that … Continue reading
The Foxes: A Play on Words
Aleksandar Malecic of Serbia has commented frequently on our blog, offering his insights. In this story, which he emailed us, a couple of foxes are the stars!+++I don’t know whether this event counts as synchronicity, but here it is: A … Continue reading
Loki – Shape shifter, trickster
Loki, by Manarama The other day someone asked the meaning Caleuche, the name of the ghost ship we’d written about. A short time later, d page responded with a succinct answer–it was a word from an Indian language that meant … Continue reading
Two in the Woods
This synchronicity is another one that involves names – as well as some other peculiarities. It occurred in the 1950s and the original source is Mysteries of the Unexplained, which has one of the best best collections of classic synchronicities. … Continue reading
Thugad thall a chrom thruaill sloightear
No, we didn’t hit the wrong keys for that title, it’s Gaelic, and we’ll get to the meaning and the astonishing synchroncity related to that line. You may recall that we wrote earlier about a synchronicity related to time travel … Continue reading
The Trickster in Sweden
Sometimes, idle surfing around the Internet turns up some really odd synchronicities.This one from Sweden, involving a weight watchers clinic, has the trickster’s fingerprints all over it. Apparently, while 20 clients of a weight watchers clinic in Växjö, in … Continue reading
Telepathy and Synchronicity
In a post back in June, Jung and the Sympathy for All Things, we wrote about telepathy as a facet of synchronicity. Essentially, telepathy is mind to mind communication, but often happens when two or more people come up … Continue reading
The Serial Trickster
Archetypes – the trickster, the wise old man or woman, the hero, the child – are as ancient as the planet. They bubble into the conscious mind from the collective unconscious, a repository of images common to all people. They’re … Continue reading