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February 28, 2017
Archetypes: HERMIT
First and foremost, you must know that not every introvert has the hermit archetype. According to Susan Cain in her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, one-third to one-half of all people are introverts. If being an introvert meant having the hermit archetype, then one out of every two or three people you know would classify as a hermit.
There are different percentages of introversion depending on which personality test you take. You c...
January 23, 2017
Archetypes: SAGE, CRONE & GUIDE
The sage archetype, crone archetype and guide archetype are variations on the theme ofthe wisdom. They are the wisdom archetype embodied in human form. Wisdom is defined as “the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment.”People carrying a wisdom archetype are sensible, shrewd, and down-to-earth.
Within the wisdom archetypes there is a balance between the left-brain rational capacity and the right-brain in...
December 29, 2016
Archetypes: HEALER and WOUNDED HEALER
The healer archetype is extremely popular these days. It is really astounding how many people feel called to and covet this one pattern of power. The upside is that there are more helpers out there healing humans, animals and the planet – maybe more than ever before. On the other hand, the popularity highlights the gifts, talents and light of the healer archetype while denying the destructive nature.
The light aspect of the healer is theability to channel healing energy f...
December 13, 2016
How to: Winter Solstice Celebrations
The WinterSolstice celebrations happen every year on the 21st or 22nd of December for those of us in the northern hemisphere. If you are in the southern hemisphere, this same date is your Summer Solstice. (Read about creating a summer solstice ceremony.) The Winter Solstice is the day with the leastdaylight of all other days of the year. The sun is at its lowestpoint in the southern sky. The rays of the sun are the faintest and coolest. The earth is tilted in a wa...
November 28, 2016
Archetypes: GODDESS
A galaxyof archetypes onto herself, the goddess archetype is one of the most profound and overwhelming archetypes to know. She is primary among female archetypes, embodying the divine feminine. She is the powerful, pure essence of what it means to be a woman.
In her gifts,the goddess archetyperadiates power and grace. People are drawn toher magnetic presence. She illuminateslike the sun and perplexeslike the night. She is enigmatic and timeless. There i...
November 3, 2016
Spirit Animals: HORSE SYMBOLISM
Horse symbolism, like a band of wild horses, could be explainedin 1,000,000 words yet never bedescribed. We try to capturehorse spirit animal in our imaginations, yet fail. Our kinshipwith horses runs deep in the veins of our ancestry. Shrouded in mystery, subjugation, and liberation no quantificationof the power of horses suffices. We always come up wanting for more.
Rather than findingfrustration when looking atwhat does a horse symbolize, turn this cart around and go back t...
October 10, 2016
Archetypes: MENTOR, TEACHER, STUDENT
Thinkabout what archetypes relateto learning. Typicallythementor, teacher and studentcome to mind first right? Over and over again, people lump these three together. However, these archetypes differbeyond the oversimplifieddistinctionbetweenwho is in charge.
The work of deciphering which archetypes belong to youis so important because it challenges you to get specific about who youare. If you are interested in knowledge and passing it on, could you choose just one of these three archetypes to...
October 4, 2016
How to: Celebrate World Animal Day
By this point our global community has named every day as a national day for someoneor internationalday to celebrate something. There are entire websites dedicated keeping us up with what or who we should be celebrating on any given day. There is caregiver’s day, marine mammal awareness day, international tiger day, and, yes, cotton candy day (It’s December 7th by the way.) How do we choose any, if any, to commemorate?
Well, it all depends on your beliefs and y...
September 8, 2016
Spirit Animals: WATCHFUL PEACOCK
Themyths and legends of countless deitiesare soaked in peacock symbolism and adorned in the peacock’s iridescent tail feathers.Let me start with the short list of gods and goddesses that are associated with peacock meaning: Jesus, the Greek goddess Hera, the Hindu gods Shiva and Indra, the Greek god Argus, and the Hindu Lord Krishna. Not only are all of the friends of peacocks often deities, most of them are also the royalty of the heavens, the supreme of the sublime.In addi...
August 31, 2016
Archetypes: THE LOVER
True to her tendency for fluidity, the lover archetype often mergesinto other archetypes such as the hedonist, the goddesses (especially Aphrodite), the mother, the artist, the caregiver, the fool, and the Don Juan.This makes it difficult to determine if you are under her influence or if you should look elsewhere for insight. The biggest difference between the lover archetype and all other archetypes is her lack of agenda in loving. She seeks love for the sake of love. The...
