Archetype Cards: An 80-card Deck with instruction booklet

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You may identify with this archetype if you are interested in a path of spiritual development that is aligned to the mystery schools or study of the laws of the universe. Religion/Myth: David (in the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish champion who slew the much larger Goliath); Hakuim (a pre-Islamic deity of southern Arabia who administers justice and oversees arbitration). Identifying with a goddess figure as a major archetype in your chart requires that you review life-long associations with the image and personality associated with it. The positive aspect of this archetype is its underlying vulnerability and its power to open wide a heart that is capable of deep love. The signature of artists is not in what they do but in how intense their motivation is to manifest the extraordinary.

Fiction: King of the Gypsies by Peter Maas; The Godfather by Mario Puzo (shadow); The Once and Future King by T. Even when used positively, the word can imply an unreal, bland, or cosseted character, like the teenage daughter nicknamed Princess on the TV series Father Knows Best. The Damsel in Distress may be the oldest female archetype in all of popular literature and the movies.

Detectives combine great powers of observation with highly evolved intuition to deduce the solutions to crimes. Today this archetype holds a dominant position in the social mind as an icon of both male and female power, from the Superheroes of comic books, such as Superman and Wonder Woman, to television and countless movies and popular novels. Just as modern biblical scholars suggest that the demons that Jesus cast out may have been forms of psychological illness, so we can see our own inner demons as arising from forces that we feel are beyond our control. Choosing the Wounded Child suggests that you credit the painful and abusive experiences of your childhood with having a substantial influence on your adult life. In general, the messages communicated through a Clown’s humor are deeply serious and often critical of the hypocrisy in an individual or in some area of society.

The shadow aspect of the Guide is visible in many modern televangelists and gurus of various traditions who are more interested in financial gain and controlling their followers than in imparting genuine spiritual insight. The shadow aspect of athletics, however, may manifest as a misuse of one’s strength against any sort of person or opponent in the world, even outside the field of professional athletics, such as a professional boxer who starts a bar fight; a false sense of invulnerability, like Achilles’ and Samson’s; dirty play; or colluding with gamblers (See Bully). Archetypes are the ancient patterns of behaviour that are embedded in what Carl Jung described as the "collective unconscious". This archetype and its related manifestations respond to a need to balance the scales of justice, sometimes by employing aggressive techniques.While entertaining the king with outrageous behavior, the Fool is actually communicating messages that the king trusts. The Wounded Child archetype holds the memories of the abuse, neglect, and other traumas that we have endured during childhood. So thoroughly do we maintain this ancient template that Solomon’s characteristic balancing is now the standard by which we measure all judges.