The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the universe, without which there could be no freedom. In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. Understanding this keeps us humble, able to admit that we cannot know or control or define everything.

Starhawk (b. 1951) American writer, activist, feminist theologian [b. Miriam Simos]

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)