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Caroline Casey
Our Coyote Council of Cultural Influence Starts
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Free yourself from outdated stories and become a more joyful agent of change by opening to mythological magic, unpredictable wisdom and your trustworthy intuition.
Calling all pragmatic mystics and public dreamers!
It is time for an evolution of our culture and our consciousness; the old stories are leading us into a death spiral. How do we reverse course and co-create a life spiral that is positive, uplifting, and even fun?
Trickster Magic is the antidote we need to the heaviness all around us.
Trickster is that which arrives in dangerous times as an enlightening agent, brightening our spirits, liberating our communities, and dazzling the darkness.
Trickster is a keeper-protector of democracy, the part of us and Nature, stirring without and within, that loves “against all odds.”
We witness it in the adaptable ingenuity of seeds that sprout after cataclysm, and rivers that metabolize poison.
The energy of Trickster aligns with the forces of nature to create change in nature’s way, first by authentically embodying our truth, then calling it forth playfully in those around us.
Trickster can also help us shape-shift reality by cultivating linguistic, metaphoric and storytelling agility.
As we do, we learn to shift our metaphors, which changes our story... and literally changes our world.
Rewrite the Source Code for Your Life and
Our World
That’s why the only news that Trickster trusts is Mythic News, which overcomes the “distraction media” to rewrite our cultural source codes.
To be an agent of such news, we need to restore our mythological literacy, which allows us to see the mythic themes operating in the news and discover the deeper forces at work.
The path of personal transformation requires that you clear away the cobwebbed beliefs and assumptions that fill your brain and open to something more magical: thoughts that generate spontaneity, play and delight.
This not only lifts your spirits, it lifts our culture... and makes for more meaningful relationships.
You become more magnetic to allies and more catalytic for your community.
Your creative joie de vivre makes you a better speaker and a more compelling leader.
When you let go of your “harumphitude,” you emerge as a more delightful human that others want to play with.
Your degree of inner freedom is thus essential for giving your greatest gifts to the world and expressing your authentic Self.
That’s where the medicine of the Trickster comes in handy.
Activating the Trickster in your life is all about freedom from the Reality Police and the rut of old certainties.
Trickster blesses you with a new capacity to create word magic and new storylines, and use playful unpredictability to bridge divides.
Magic is simply a willingness to collaborate with everything; so you move your emotional default-setting of “status quo” to “Woof-Woof-Wanna-Play?!”
Cultivating Your New Superpower
As you cultivate the Trickster energy in you with ever-more-gusto, you cultivate a new superpower, which infuses your life with meaning and dazzle.
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 transform situations with verbal aikido.
So in the name of your freedom and our world’s, we invite you to a truly unique online mystery school with Caroline Casey that will deepen your spiritual journey and transform you into a wildly unpredictable (and more effective) agent of evolution, one filled with more joy.
As you’re liberated, you help liberate others. There is no prison for the unexpected!
Since you undoubtedly yearn for a saner society, cultivating your Trickster powers will help turn you into the cultural change agent you were meant to be. It’s enchanting AND practical to lead the way forward with unexpected surprises; they dissolve defenses and polarities and allow us to meet in the heart.
Each session in the Mystery School will delineate the Mythic themes operating in the news so that you can become a more effective player on the team of creation.
2016 is proving to be a particularly tempestuous and important year politically and socially. You’ll have the opportunity to navigate this tricky year in a Renaissance Council of fellow pragmatic mystics, dedicated to becoming agents of the Trickster Redeemer.
Together, we’ll dedicate ourselves to liberating democracy and dreaming the desirable world into being.
This is a time to journey with a community of allies, each magnetizing, cultivating, animating and contributing their considerable gifts in a way that replenishes us all.
In our journey, we shall distill from all Mystery Schools, Myths, Fairy Tales, detective novels, poetry, bio-mimicry that which is most beautiful and practical for us now. We will be teasing all esoterica into pragmatic application.
We invite all who wish to cultivate their unique gifts and be influential at this time of dire beauty to join us.
The Blessing of a Fool-y Liberated Teacher
Whether you’re a seeker on the spiritual path, a veteran activist or a curious evolutionary, you’ll delight in the ways that Caroline Casey will illuminate the path to your true Self and a more liberated world.
She’s been at the forefront of new-paradigm spirituality and in the trenches of Washington, DC 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 your eight months in the cauldron of trickster magic and astrological influence with her, Caroline will show you how you can animate your Trickster skill set and fill your magic backpack with “reverent unpredictability,” which in language, metaphor and action liberates everyone.
When you ally with Trickster, you free up the evolutionary life force within you.
Each month we will conduct an experiment (without hubris) to influence a desirable outcome in the world. And each week we will convene to delineate the guiding patterns and to honor and animate our personal navigational guidance, teased into intimate pertinence...
Participants will be invited each week to bring before the Council a personal or collective conundrum for imaginative Trickster ingenious resolution. In this way, the personal and political will unite.
As we journey through our eight months, we will pass from Aries to Sagittarius astrologically. We will use this greater archetypal pattern to inform our curriculum as we cultivate the living intelligence, both within and without, that each planet represents.
During the Trickster Training Mystery School, you will:
- Cultivate the qualities of heroism to birth the Trickster Redeemer in your heart.
- Discover your animal allies through shamanic techniques whereby to broker desirable inter-species collaborative cahooting.
- Conjure your Money Animal so that you can have sufficient funding to play your role in destiny.
- Dedicate yourself to acts of beauty to invite power into the world.
- Receive practices to expand the playfulness of your mind so your words dance off your tongue.
- Find language that liberates your soul from old habits and opens you to a zestier experience of life.
- See how to become a more effective changemaker in our world by metabolizing the poisons of life and the world with a light heart.
- Cultivate irresistible eloquence
- Notice the mythic forces in play, making you a more savvy agent of influence.
- Journey through the underworld with jaunty aplomb to restore human affairs in accord with the Harmony of Nature.
- Understand myths as Big Forces with which you can co-operate.
- Discover the liberating power of words.
- Become a more effective and delightful storyteller.
Greater Connection Through Live
Streaming Video
As a special addition to this course, Caroline will be live streaming video of her teaching sessions the last class of each month, so that you can have an even more powerful connection and transmission. This live video connection will be easy to use and will greatly increase your learning and transformation.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Months
Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
In this 7-month program, Caroline will guide you through the fundamental insights, skills and capacities that you’ll need to access the Trickster for liberation and apply these qualities in cultural change.
Caroline will guide each participant to their own unique contribution. As she likes to say, “mountain lion leads, but seeks no followers!”
Each weekly, LIVE session will build upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to animate your life and our world with Trickster magic.
The course is organized to carry us through the major astrological influences of the year. Caroline will present eight modules which will unfold organically. Each module will cover multiple weeks and Caroline will move on in an emergent way to the next module when the information and exploration has been completed.
Important Note! Caroline has a wildly free-flowing style of teaching that follows a less linear logic and that often leaps between related ideas, myths, and cultural contexts. In her inimitable way, she embodies the Trickster in how she speaks which delights most people and sometimes derails others who prefer a more linear mode of teaching. So be prepared for an adventure in consciousness and language that is less structured than a typical curriculum if you choose to join!
Module 1: Mars (Sun in Aries) Council
(Begins April 13)
We begin our adventure as Mars is stationing in eclectic Sagittarius. You are invited into the realm of animating, surprising, positive, political intrigue of Democratic Animism — the Path of Liberating Desire and Fierce Compassion.
Mars represents our relationship to animals and we will begin to assemble our inspiring team of wise allies — animals, humans, ancestors and plants. Caroline will share the Jataka Mala Tales of the Buddha’s past lives as animals and the Pancha Tantra, the oldest frame story in the world of guidance from animals.
We will adjust the energetic fuel on which we each run individually so we may transform societal fuel into that which is good for all life. Each of us will inaugurate this journey by answering the query, “What do I desire?” (An answer kept private until realized.)
In this first Council, we’ll:
- Cultivate the qualities of heroism to birth the Trickster Redeemer in our hearts.
- Tend to desire, eros, feistiness, heat, courage, dynamism, passion and kinship with life.
- Discover our animal allies through shamanic techniques whereby to broker desirable inter-species collaborative cahooting.
- Define leadership through exploring leadership models derived from nature and syncretizing our own unique form of leadership, allied with powers greater than our own.
- Honor the Trickster dynamic in Animism and Buddhism.
- Conjure our Money Animal so that we all can have sufficient funding to play our role in destiny.
- Mend our broken treaties.
Module 2: Venus (Sun in Taurus) Council
(Begins April 20)
The Sun is now in Taurus — the incarnational realm of Venus. This time is dedicate ourselves to acts of Beauty to invite power into the world. We join together to partner with Nature to make the world more beautiful. When the worst aspects of our species are being dredged to the surface of the body politic — like hives — ‘tis our task to invite the best. We’ll reawaken our eroticism and magnetize lovers (new or old).
Scheherazade said, “The world is run by those who do not know how to make love — and that’s why we’re screwed.”
In this Council, we’ll:
- Restore the art of courtship through studying nature.
- Explore Pragmatic Mysticism.
- Honor the Buddha’s Full Moon-Earth Day.
- Develop the art of magnetizing.
- Delight in the art of altars.
- Restore sacredness to money.
Module 3: Mercury (Sun in Gemini) Council
(Begins May 25)
The incarnation of Mercury in Gemini invokes that our words be in accord with our dedicated desire. Language grants us access to the realm it describes. If you can speak of it, you can journey there! Astrology is one of the great guiding languages of antiquity and is now being called to its highest purpose. It is a language that describes our interior psyche and its connection to the collective. We live in a conversational creation — everything speaks to us by its song, its color, its rhythm.
In this module, Skookum becomes our motto, which means “connected to the spirits and completely competent for the task at hand.” By approaching the world with informed reverent curiosity, we rejoin the choreography of creation.
In this Council, we’ll:
- Consult with the Delphic Oracle: “Are my plans in accord with the divine? And if not, how shall I bring them into accord?”
- Explore the communicative arts of Call and Response and Chorusing.
- Cultivate irresistible eloquence.
- Become Skookum.
Module 4: Moon (Sun in Cancer) Council
(Begins June 22)
The incarnation of the Moon in Cancer is the return of Big Momma, in her Trickster garb as fierce protector of life and the Keeper/Protector of Democracy. Caroline will invite Permaculture guest experts to share the art of cultivating our literal and metaphoric gardens, as living metaphor. We’ll explore our plant allies, adaptogens, entheogens and the history of human-plant collaboration.
In this Council, we’ll:
- Journey backwards in time to heal the ancestors and thus the present.
- Recognize the power of memory to create the future.
- Explore our family, ancestors and history for clues as to our contribution.
- Break family spells and take new vows.
- Join with Big Momma to metabolize grief into beauty.
Module 5: Sun in Leo Council
(Begins July 27)
Every tree, plant and flower grows and flourishes by the grace and bounty of the sun .
– John Tyndall, 19th Century Scientist
Ally with the energetic, animating life force of all life — the sun. Hail to the Sun God! He is a Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!
When the sun is in Leo it is the confluence of all allies. In this module, we’ll study the solar myths and art, pyramids, altars on mountains, fertility symbols and the myriad depictions of the sun associated with snakes, lions, reindeer, goats, etc. We’ll also learn to cultivate solar power within and without and receive wisdom from Caroline’s guests from the solar power realm.
In this Council, we’ll:
- Participate in midwifing the emerging mythos of conscious kinship.
- Turn our clenched fists into the Buddhist mudra of reassurance — the outstretched open hand found on statues of the Buddha.
- Explore Joseph Campbell’s inquiry: “What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this earth as of one harmonious being?”
- Collage our own solar mandala, as a source of strength.
Module 6: Mercury (Sun in Virgo) Council
(Begins August 24)
The incarnation of Mercury in Virgo exposes the Magician Hermes/Hermia. In Hermetic Alchemy, alchemists were interested in coagulating or fixing the elusive Mercury spirit. ”Fixation of the volatile” is the alchemical term for the focusing of attention which would grant us the capacity to understand the language of birds and other creatures. Among other things, in this module we’ll explore P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins books as realms where liberating esoterica has been smuggled back into culture through children’s literature.
In this Council, we’ll:
- Realize the universe as telepathic.
- Engage in exercises whereby to increase telepathy.
- Cultivate the augury arts of Applied Divination.
Module 7: Venus (Sun in Libra) Council
(Begins September 28)
To love disharmony back into harmony creates a greater harmony than existed before.
– Michael Gruber, Author
Magic is simply a willingness to cooperate with everything! The artist is the keeper of collective soul. Venus in Libra reveals the art of balance, how to let the pain flow through you — not into you. We welcome the disruption that liberates old circuits into larger vastness. One definition of our assignment is to discern the pattern of evolutionary intelligence that proffers the liveliest possibilities available at any moment and partner with them.
In this Council, we’ll:
- Discover what works now in the realm of personal relationships.
- Study manners in Nature.
- Ally with etiquette.
- Liberate Democracy.
Module 8: Mars with Pluto as Tour Guide Council (Sun in Scorpio)
(Begins October 26)
In our finale, the time for sane reverence to assume a new cultural narrative is here. We’ll metabolize our adversaries into allies by inviting in the Unifying Story. We are electing Flora Fauna into office! We’ll lead the charge in resolving universal conflict. In this module, we’ll mobilize our relations with our dangerous allies! We’ll discover how to transform detective stories into strategic guides. Sex magic dedicated to spiraling positive energetics into group human mind will be our guide. Let’s make sure we have much for which to be grateful. Our intention is to leave you feeling “ready for action (ready for danger) — with glee!
In this concluding Council, we’ll:
- Journey through the underworld with jaunty aplomb.
- Turn adversaries into allies.
- Metabolize poison.
- Polish our storytelling skills to be effective voices for what we love.
- Actualize the art of directing cultural attention through the ancient craft of public speaking.
- Complete by magnetizing, cultivating, animating and spiraling forth into the memosphere the most irresistible, all inclusive guiding meta-narrative.
We are all augurs inaugurating Earth’s Dream!
The Trickster Training Mystery School
Bonus Collection
In addition to Caroline’s transformative 7-month virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement what you’ll learn in the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
During the course, Caroline will add more pertinent shows from her radio show archives, and host some of her favorite guests on our calls, who have a crucial piece of the puzzle to contribute to reverent renaissance.
Trickster Medicine
Caroline’s Sold Out National Bioneers Conference Presentation with Dr. Andrew Weil
Unavailable — until now! Reuniting Medicine and Magic, in this spirited 90 minute cavort with her long-time buddy, Andy Weil, you’ll oh and ah with the audience, in this presentation that has been called "dangerous in a good way."
Andrew Weil, MD is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind and spirit. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health and the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology. Dr. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Dr. Weil’s books have been sold. His newest book, Fast Food, Good Food, was released in 2015.
Vernal Equinox
Audio and Video of Caroline’s Just Now Presentations
Woo-Hoo-Electing Flora-Fauna (our candidate, we are inaugurating Flora Fauna — no matter what). This audio and video event was recently recorded at Commonweal in Bolinas, California on March 20th and Open Secret Cultural Center on San Rafael on March 22nd. An astro*mytho*politico guide for the year of 2016 beginning at this Vernal Equinox. The qualities we most want to cultivate whereby to be increasingly skillful players on the Team of Creation at this Time of Dire Beauty.
Woofy Women
Audio Collection from The Visionary Activist Radio
Show Archives
Guests include Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Diane Wilson, Ellen LaConte (author of Life Rules ), the late, great ally Margo Adler, Mary Waldner (creator of the best gluten-free crackers in the world, Mary’s Gone Crackers, and the power of women entrepreneurs. Her business all began with a quip on the radio show). Nora Jamieson (ally of all animals), Diana Beresford-Krueger (Celtic Druid Scientist dedicated to global forests), Deborah Felmeth (guiding us to intimacy with Syria), permaculture genie Penny Livingston, and Idle No More activist Faith Spotted Eagle (and more).
What Graduates of Way of the Trickster
Are Saying...
The best decision I’ve made in a long time toward source and sustenance, kinship and kindom. Caroline Casey’s "woof woof, wanna play" goes far beyond play into the meat, connecting dots of past to present, bringing life back into the purpose of ritual, myth, astrology, and the oh, so human experience. And it’s only the beginning, because she shares tools and processes to carry forward and outward.
– Earleen, Billings, MT
I recommend this course to those I know because it has helped me be more comfortable with who I am. I am more confident as I share my political activism with the groups I am involved with as well as just sharing the Trickster Magic with others. I really loved the idea of Con Man vs. Trickster. Con Man imprisons while Trickster liberates. That’s what I want to be a stand for... Liberation of myself and others so we can protect and care for Mother Earth and all her children.
– Susan Hovey Cohen, Piermont, NY
If you are into astrology and love the idea of applying what you learn to personal and collective revolution, this class is for you! Tons of insights to work with during the class and beyond; lots of tactics for being an irreverent, effective agent of liberation. It was inspiring in the breakout groups to learn how each participant was applying what they had learned — in their work, home life, politics. Equally important, Casey points out instances of cultural appropriation (encouraging class to distinguish between cons vs liberating language / action) — and this distinction is a crucial part of any truly inclusive and long-lasting liberation work. This class will inspire you to Be the positive Change you wish to See in the World.
– Emily, Maine
This course reinforced my inclination to see things happening in the world in a positive light. Also the transformative understandings that come through reading the events in life through a metaphoric lense of my own choosing.This course really and truly sang to my heart. I thank Caroline and all course members every day for their existence.This is the best course I have ever taken. Blessings.
– Joan, North Andover, MA
This course helped me a lot in developing self-confidence by not taking the drama and challenges I face in my life too seriously. Instead, I learned to develop my creativity and imagination to handle the drama and challenges in a constructive and positive way. This saves me (and the others involved) from getting into pain. I am very grateful to Caroline Casey for teaching this "Way".
– Michel Saint-Sulpice, Santa Barbara, CA
I learned new tools to work with in my own transformation, how to shift things and a whole new language. I also used some of the powerful words, like "until now" in a workshop I facilitated while in the course and people commented on how that created possibility for them which was my intent. I also used other tools Caroline presented and feel that even without knowing much at all about this topic, I benefited by having new eyes and know as I continue to practice what I learned the benefits will continue to grow. I like that it has practical applications to self and society with solutions and methods to change limited ways of being, and deep connections to all of life demonstrating reverence and awe.
– Kathy, San Diego, CA
The course pulls together thought provoking information about art, literature, history, mythology and the natural world that can be applied to anyone today. It’s eye-opening, magical and lots of fun as well. Thank you all!
– Maggie, Baltimore, MD
Trickster Medicine course has begun an opening process for me. I have gone from being tongue tied to being more playful with linguistics. Now I am obsessed with creating blessings, and ritual. Love, love, love... Woof woof.
– Karen Warwick, Rhode Island
In a wise and delightful way, Caroline helps you see the myriad possibilities available to us to effect social and personal change with love, respect and playful magic. She provides much-needed hope and humor.
– Anne, Minneapolis, MN
Caroline Casey is one of the most amazing and authentic teachers I have ever experienced. Sparks of enlightenment go off like popcorn popping when she gets rolling! I love her energy.
– Barbara J. Semple, USA
Join the Global Community
The Trickster Training Mystery School not only offers some of the most liberating online teachings available, it also gives you a thriving global community of support.
Join your fellow students and practitioners from around the world in the live interactive conference calls or in our online community to support and learn from each other as you open your mind and expand your paradigm of reality.
This international community is also at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This movement is guided by open hearts and principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
31 90-Minute Class Sessions with
Caroline Casey
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with visionary activist astrologer, writer, speaker and Trickster Caroline Casey — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session guides you to learn the specific skills and abilities to awaken the Trickster within you. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
31 Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way, you’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere — on your iPod, in your car and at your convenience.
Video Recordings of Selected Class Sessions
Once a month, Caroline will be streamed live via video. After the class, the video will be available for you to download or stream in high-quality format. This will increase your connection to the work and to Caroline, and you can watch anytime you desire — on your phone or on your computer.
31 PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios and videos, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
31 30-Minute Interactive Group
Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Online Community group allows you to connect with each other to find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for
Each Lesson
After each lesson, you will then have the option to do related exercises, practice new tools and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your learning after each class. Here, you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students and get access to additional resources to take your learning experience to an even deeper level.
The Trickster Training Mystery School Bonus Collection
- Trickster Medicine
Caroline’s Sold Out National Bioneers Conference Presentation with Dr. Andrew Weil
- Vernal Equinox
Audio and Video of Caroline’s Just Now Presentations
- Woofy Women
Audio Collection from The Visionary Activist Radio Show Archives
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join
The Trickster Training Mystery School
Virtual Training
We feel honored that Caroline Casey has chosen to partner with The Shift Network on this exclusive, LIVE online training. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a contemporary spiritual teacher and whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves — and our world.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Caroline’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — at your own pace!
If you are serious about transforming your relationship to the world in new and powerful ways, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
More Praise for Caroline Casey...
Caroline Casey says, “IT’S BETTER TO BE A TRICKSTER THAN A MARTYR.” I recently did a radio interview on KPFA out of San Francisco with a woman named Caroline Casey which was pretty much the most fun interview I’ve ever done — a sort of astral-cosmic freewheeling romp through big ideas. It was definitely the only interview I’ve ever done where I was writing down what SHE was saying as we spoke.
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Author
You are so cool.
– Marianne Williamson, Spiritual Teacher
What a fantabulous menu of guiding delight, portending rowdy unravelling and purposeful reconfiguration!!! Bless you for bringing these unique and timely gifts to our woe filled world, resurrecting deep aspirations to soar, transforming darkness into opportunities for new perception, all fueled by love — for this precious consciousness, when it sees clearly it is exquisite.
– Diane T.
I am re-listening to our conversation. I feel like a weaver meeting a master Navajo weaver. Deep fun and learning! The threads you pull together of (gold and moss and ideas) and the patterns you create have given me a tapestry of great beauty, a cloak of protection and a vision of what is possible. Even more amazing, I feel personally seen and honored by your words and insights. It is a rare and precious experience, to be truly seen.
– Renée S.
I am still taking in the beautiful fullness of the reading you did for me... by the lights of the grand fire dance in the heavens right now. Thank you so much for the depths of your diving on my behalf. I appreciate your lovely and precise way with the world and your heart-full commitment to a sane, reverent life with a wonderful life for all children. I share your words with many and these describe the pillars of my life since forever. With grateful awe of the circle spiraling and your gift of astro-insight,
– Deborah Z.
About Caroline Casey
Caroline W. Casey is the host-creator, weaver of context for The Visionary Activist Show on Pacifica Radio Network. Her guests are leading contributors to a culture of reverent ingenuity, all teased into pertinence, and has been called “one of the best radio shows in America.” Critique and solution.
She has studied and practiced in many Mystery Schools, Quaballah, Gurdjieff, Zen Buddhism, Zen Swordsmanship, acquired a BA from Brown University in Myth, Fairy Tales and World Religions, studied Grail Legend with late great mythologist Joseph Campbell and cahooted with late Jungian Trickster James Hillman — and more. What was academic to them, we can now embody.
Her unique art of astro* mythological* political* guiding* meta-storytelling is presented in myriad multimedia venues. Primary astrological consultant for Time-Life Books’ 1989 book Cosmic Connections, she has offered mythological-astrological news analysis on ABC’s Nightline, CNN’s Crossfire, in People Magazine and many other media outlets. She has written astrological-political essays for Washingtonian Magazine as well as an astrological-political column for George magazine. Her audio book, Visionary Activist Astrology is published by Sounds True. She is the author of Making the Gods Work for You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche.
Caroline offers Trickster Training Council weekly teleclass as well as councils at a wide variety of conferences all over America as well as in South Africa (presenting at the Parliament of World Religions), Bali, Sweden, UK, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Caribbean, British Columbia. A rousing and frequent keynote speaker, offering the Mythic News at the Bioneers Conference (for over a decade), Green Festivals, New Living Expo, etc. and with the great poet-ally Robert Bly for over 11 years at his Great Mother Conference. Caroline invites us to imagine, conjure and implement a more lovingly ingenious world.
She continues her studies of magic, mythology, literature and social activism all over the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference; and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers; and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
I have never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon to participate. I haven’t seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
– Claudia F., Medford, MA
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is April 27, 2016. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we'll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we'd love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there is something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we'll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
