Rebeccah is in charge of Succurro’s food and nourishment endeavors. There is always a theme around which activity revolves — this year, we are looking at Spiritual Hunger and the ritual act of Feeding Trickster. Read below for context of this years feasts, bread, and pizza nights.

Food Offering: Feeding Trickster

The food projects at Succurro this year are the next iteration of an on-going attending to the creative impulse within. This takes the form of baking bread, firing pizza, and co-creating festive seasonal meals, honoring the seen and unseen beings and forces present within our ecosystem.

This next iteration of ever-evolving and growing intimacy with creative fire seeks to address gnawing, ravenous hunger — a kind of inner, subtle hunger that we sense is eating us alive.

This project seeks to cultivate a relationship with Trickster, who is always hungry, looking for his next meal. Trickster — an embodiment of the ongoing forces of change and transformation. When we relate with Trickster, when we feed him — we come into better relationship with the ongoing forces of change — life itself unfolding.

The oven will be a crucible. A crucible where a fire is stoked in order to make food that might nourish and satiate; and a forge where the fire within is stoked, fed and nourished.

Trickster

In Trickster traditions around the world, the Trickster archetype is hungry — always looking for his next meal. Trickster’s job is to shake and break up stagnant energy — wherever and whenever a system gets too comfortable, too entrenched, rigid, inflexible. His appetite drives social and cultural change. Trickster also teaches us about protocol — he often makes the first mistakes, and from those mistakes, we learn the right way of doing things. Trickster has no sides, no allegiances — Trickster will jump sides as he sees fit, playing his role in interrupting stagnant patterns, introducing chaos so that new energy flows.

When we are in relationship with Trickster — when we feed him, as a relative — it becomes more possible to work with this inherent chaos more proactively. That chaos is then in relation — and we understand that breaking up stagnant energy and rigidity is a part of life, and we participate with the ongoing process of change and transformation that Trickster embodies.

When we ignore Trickster — when we do not feed him (and who among us still remembers how to feed him?) — chaos begins to leak in at the seams in ever more unpredictable and destructive ways. The more we repress that hunger, that appetite, that chaos, that inherent change, the more unpredictable and destructive that chaos and hunger becomes. Change will happen anyway — whether we are ready or not. I wonder — what is possible if we begin to cooperate with the ongoing processes of change, if we begin to relate with Trickster, if we begin to address his hunger — if we begin to address our own hunger?

Trickster plays another profound role: when we feed him, he is able to trick and deflect the even more destructive devouring forces, the hungrier mouths, the unquenchable bellies that roam the universe. Trickster is able to keep those extremely ferocious devouring forces at bay — if we are in relationship with him, if we feed him — if we feed and relate to that part of ourselves.