The 12 Common Archetypes

By Carl Golden

The term "archetype" has its origins in ancient Greek. The root words are archein, which means "original or old"; and typos, which means "pattern, model or type". The combined meaning is an "original pattern" of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are derived, copied, modeled, or emulated.

The psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, used the concept of archetype in his theory of the human psyche. He believed that universal, mythic characters—archetypes—reside within the collective unconscious of people the world over. Archetypes represent fundamental human motifs of our experience as we evolved; consequentially, they evoke deep emotions.

Although there are many different archetypes, Jung defined twelve primary types that symbolize basic human motivations. Each type has its own set of values, meanings and personality traits. Also, the twelve types are divided into three sets of four, namely Ego, Soul and Self. The types in each set share a common driving source, for example types within the Ego set are driven to fulfill ego-defined agendas.

Most, if not all, people have several archetypes at play in their personality construct; however, one archetype tends to dominate the personality in general. It can be helpful to know which archetypes are at play in oneself and others, especially loved ones, friends and co-workers, in order to gain personal insight into behaviors and motivations.

The Ego Types

1. The Innocent
Motto: Free to be you and me
Core desire: to get to paradise
Goal: to be happy
Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong
Strategy: to do things right
Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence
Talent: faith and optimism
The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer.

2. The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal
Motto: All men and women are created equal
Core Desire: connecting with others
Goal: to belong
Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd
Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch
Weakness: losing one's own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships
Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretense
The Regular Person is also known as: The good old boy, everyman, the person next door, the realist, the working stiff, the solid citizen, the good neighbor, the silent majority.

3. The Hero
Motto: Where there's a will, there's a way
Core desire: to prove one's worth through courageous acts
Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world
Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a "chicken"
Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible
Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight
Talent: competence and courage
The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, dragon slayer, the winner and the team player.

4. The Caregiver
Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself
Core desire: to protect and care for others
Goal: to help others
Greatest fear: selfishness and ingratitude
Strategy: doing things for others
Weakness: martyrdom and being exploited
Talent: compassion, generosity
The Caregiver is also known as: The saint, altruist, parent, helper, supporter.

The Soul Types

5. The Explorer
Motto: Don't fence me in
Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world
Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life
Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness
Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom
Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit
Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one's soul
The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim.

6. The Rebel
Motto: Rules are made to be broken
Core desire: revenge or revolution
Goal: to overturn what isn't working
Greatest fear: to be powerless or ineffectual
Strategy: disrupt, destroy, or shock
Weakness: crossing over to the dark side, crime
Talent: outrageousness, radical freedom
The Outlaw is also known as: The rebel, revolutionary, wild man, the misfit, or iconoclast.

7. The Lover
Motto: You're the only one
Core desire: intimacy and experience
Goal: being in a relationship with the people, work and surroundings they love
Greatest fear: being alone, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved
Strategy: to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive
Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing own identity
Talent: passion, gratitude, appreciation, and commitment
The Lover is also known as: The partner, friend, intimate, enthusiast, sensualist, spouse, team-builder.

8. The Creator
Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done
Core desire: to create things of enduring value
Goal: to realize a vision
Greatest fear: mediocre vision or execution
Strategy: develop artistic control and skill
Task: to create culture, express own vision
Weakness: perfectionism, bad solutions
Talent: creativity and imagination
The Creator is also known as: The artist, inventor, innovator, musician, writer or dreamer.

The Self Types

9. The Jester
Motto: You only live once
Core desire: to live in the moment with full enjoyment
Goal: to have a great time and lighten up the world
Greatest fear: being bored or boring others
Strategy: play, make jokes, be funny
Weakness: frivolity, wasting time
Talent: joy
The Jester is also known as: The fool, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.

10. The Sage
Motto: The truth will set you free
Core desire: to find the truth.
Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world.
Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance.
Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes.
Weakness: can study details forever and never act.
Talent: wisdom, intelligence.
The Sage is also known as: The expert, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, professional, mentor, teacher, contemplative.

11. The Magician
Motto: I make things happen.
Core desire: understanding the fundamental laws of the universe
Goal: to make dreams come true
Greatest fear: unintended negative consequences
Strategy: develop a vision and live by it
Weakness: becoming manipulative
Talent: finding win-win solutions
The Magician is also known as:The visionary, catalyst, inventor, charismatic leader, shaman, healer, medicine man.

12. The Ruler
Motto: Power isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Core desire: control
Goal: create a prosperous, successful family or community
Strategy: exercise power

http://www.treeoflifecounseling.life/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html

INTROSPECTIVE

Guest Blogger: Tamisha Ford | tamishaford.com + the introvert effect

We live in a hyper-connected world.  Everyone is either plugged in, plugged up, or charged up.  We’re scrolling, typing, Facebook-ing, You-Tubing, Pinterest-ing, tweeting, and posting.  There’s nothing wrong with this hyper-connectivity, but to a more introverted person, it can become draining really fast.

Did you catch Keeping Up with the Kardashians last Sunday night?  I love how Khloe mentioned Kendall is a little more introverted when she was just wanting some one-on-one time with Brody.  That was probably my favorite part of the whole show, because I could identify with her.

People who are more introspective tend to really value deep connections and relationships.  They aren’t into ‘small talk-in’ it or having a whole bunch of relationships just to say they have them.  They find greater value in deepening the ones that are already there.

Here are a few more advantages to living an introspective lifestyle:

  • You are able to give great advice. People probably love coming to you to talk because you’re a great listener. They don’t feel threatened by you and, likely they know you’re a deep thinker – a person of words when you need to be. People are drawn to a person they can tell weighs options and thinks before they act – they will trust you to lead them the right way when they aren’t sure which way to go.

  • You’re not interested in stirring up a bunch of drama. Introspective or introverted people are very “in their heads” a lot of the time. We may be called “quiet”, but to us, our world is incredibly loud. It’s not like the blog photos you see either, where someone is sitting on the window sill, staring out into the distance. Usually, it’s the opposite – when we’re watching TV or reading a book our mind can be thinking of 20 different things. As a result of such a loud mind, most introspective people bring with them very little drama on purpose – there’s nowhere to file the details of someone else in that great of detail – we have too much to think about as it is.

  • You make better decisions. Introspection is an advantage in that; it is a trait that causes pause. Pause to think and weigh options, consequences and advantages to a decision. An introspective lifestyle is one where a person almost always weighs all the possibilities before they act. They tend to be better at establishing self-boundary and honoring their bodies and values more.

  • You are highly creative. A really introspective person takes in a lot of information, visuals, and ideas and then makes and draws connections between them in their mind like some people only wish they could. Many of the great artists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders of our time have been introspective individuals who drew conclusions or created new market space as a result of inward connections of ideas.

https://www.lorensworld.com/lifestyle/guest-bloggers/5-advantages-of-an-introspective-lifestyle/

BRUCE LEE PODCAST

Bruce Lee podcast

‪“Relax. Calm your mind.”‬

‪“Above all, learn the art of detachment.”‬

‪“The principle of gentleness. The art of neutralizing the effect of the opponent’s efforts and also minimizing the expenditure of your own energy.”‬

‪Forget about yourself. And focus on your opponent’s movements. Encounter the situation as it’s unfolding and seeing what the necessary response is. Bc you’re too caught up in your own strategizing. Relax and calm your mind. Get out of your head and focus on what’s happening in front of you. ‬

Calmness without striving. To take it all in without getting triggered. to stand back far enough not so you can only see what’s happening in front of you, but so you can also see yourself to observe yourself. Oh look at me, I’m thinking too much about the situation, or wow I’m really angry. The art of detachment, to zoom out. But this is super hard to do in the moment. ‪Forget about yourself. And focus on your opponent’s movements. Encounter the situation as it’s unfolding and seeing what the necessary response is. Bc you’re too caught up in your own strategizing. Relax and calm your mind. Get out of your head and focus on what’s happening in front of you. ‬

DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED

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ALL THAT IS GOLD

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

GRAPTITUDE

Graptitude and the Clutter-to-Riches Story

Posted by Rick Aster 4/10/10

I coined a new word, “graptitude,” in a dream a few moments ago. It’s the word “gratitude” with the “p” transposed from “grasp” or “grip,” and it refers to the practice of feeling grateful for the objects in your immediate physical surroundings — the things that are close enough that you can touch them or pick them up in your hands.

This is an idea you might have picked up from The Secret or from the mass of movies and writing that surrounded that work, with the talk about an “attitude of gratitude” and the vision boards made up of pictures that represented a person’s future material surroundings. In keeping with the mystical approach of The Secret, though, it made no attempt to name most of the things it talked about. Graptitude was just one of dozens of ideas that would fall under the rubric of Low of Attraction.

And graptitude is one of the simplest demonstrations of Law of Attraction. If you feel good about the physical objects that are around you already, it becomes easier for you to collect the material possessions you really want. This works, as countless rags-to-riches stories attest, even if the physical objects you see when you start out aren’t your own possessions. It works even if the things around you don’t have any worldly value. It works because feeling good about material things makes it easier to own material things, including the things you ideally would like to own.

Well, okay, but what if the story you want to create is not a rags-to-riches story, but a clutter-to-riches story? The situation that most of us face is not that we hardly own anything, but that we own a great many things that we don’t use. Do you really want to feel graptitude when you are surrounded every day by junk that gets in your way? And even if it would help, is it possible to feel good about “all this junk”?

The simple answer to both questions is yes. If you feel good about the junk and clutter that’s in your life, you will replace it faster with the possessions you imagine for yourself. And it is easy to feel good about the worst possessions if you realize that they are not permanent, that they will not simply sit inertly forever, but that they are in motion, like the rest of the universe.

Feeling good about clutter doesn’t lead you to collect more of it — it makes it easier to move it out and replace it with something better. This is easy to see when you recognize how much difference there is between feeling good and clinging. If you feel attached to possessions you don’t use, that’s not a form of love. Just the opposite. It’s fear — fear of what will happen to you if you let go. It’s the “fear of nothing,” the fear of being left without any material possessions at all. In Law of Attraction terms, that is the opposite of what you want. You feel bad and focus your emotions on material deprivation, and that makes it hard to get anything you want. You get what you want faster if feel good about the clutter that currently stands in the way, and this is easier to do if you see the clutter in motion. It’s easy to applaud a bag of junk that’s on its way out to the trash. And when you see the universal process of change in all your stuff — when you know that it is all on its way out eventually — then it is also possible to applaud it as it is now, even if it is not yet being carried out in a bag or a box. That will happen soon enough. In the meantime, every possession you have is evidence of your ability to attract — an ability that, in the bigger picture, includes attracting the big things you are hoping for.

Picture this. A magician promises to pull a deck of cards out of an empty hat. You watch him to see how he will do it. He reaches into the empty hat and pulls out a map of the London Underground and presents the map to you. You unfold it and look at it. It’s the genuine article — you see the words “Tube map” is the corner, and there’s the River Thames running through the middle of everything — but it’s hardly a deck of cards. So how do you respond? Do you respond angrily, saying, “You’re no magician! This isn’t a deck of cards, it’s just a map!” Or do you chuckle at the joke, and hand the map back to the magician so he can turn it into a deck of cards?

Obviously, it makes more sense to play along with the magician. When you say, “This is only a map of the London Underground,” it is a mock protest. You are not actually disappointed. The map might not be what was promised, but it is still proof of the magician’s abilities, and the deck of cards will appear soon enough.

You can see your own clutter in the same way. If it is not exactly what you wanted, it nevertheless serves as a place-holder, a temporary token of your ability to have material things. All that works out fine if you let it. The problem with clutter arises only when you hold on to things too long, after they have outlived their usefulness in your life. You do this not from graptitude, not because you really like and enjoy the things, but out of fear. Set the fear aside and keep things flowing, and you too can have your version of the clutter-to-riches story.

http://fearofnothing.blogspot.com/2010/04/graptitude-and-clutter-to-riches-story.html

MOUTH-BREATHER

Don’t be a Mouth Breather! Especially with Covid droplets going on these days. Additional reasons why it would benefit you and everyone if you breath through your nose.