Archetype Cards: An 80-card Deck with instruction booklet

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The Enneagram is an intricate model of the human psyche. While its origins are debated among many scholars, many people believe this system was developed from the teachings of Oscar Ichazo, Claudio Naranjo, and mystic George Gurdjieff.

In fairness, there is an argument to say the magician archetype is the feminine aspect of the Sage’s masculine energy, whereas the Artist is masculine energy and thus is applicable to the mind – the Masculine Principle of alchemy. We created a test that you can take to discover your type. Take our free enneagram test. Psychological Archetypes Your weakness, however, is you think too much rather than acting. All those inspiring moments that spring to mind never manifest in the world if the Sage is not supported by the magician. Though I had always been drawn to the tarot since childhood, I never really understood how it worked or why until I came upon Jung’s work much much later in my life. His writings gave a legitimacy to the practice that I wasn’t able to find elsewhere. I will be the first to admit that I’ve never really believed in tarot as a divination tool - which was the way that tarot was always sold to me. But looking at tarot from a very jungian, symbolic point of view really made sense, and it opened a lot of doors for me in understanding myself.There is also an argument for the father archetype to be more closely related to psychologies Artist archetype because desire guides will and gives it an object to achieve -[Regardie, The Philosophers Stone].

The ability to connect with the innocent can instil this sense of utopia and trust in Self within you. Integrating the Divine Child brings a state of inner peace. Death - the way we react to this card is similar to how we react to the shadow, with fear. It is a universal human shadow - the shadow that follows us from the day that we are born. We all choose not to think about him, but in many senses, understanding that we all die is a transformative moment that shapes how we choose to live.People that were overly protected by their parents can develop this shadow magician mentality – especially if they buy into the fear-mongering pushed by the media and political leaders.

Understanding the contents of your unconscious is critically important for personal development. Unconscious content is essentially everything you don’t know about yourself yet possess the qualities that can make you all that you can be. The Magician - one who is the master of taking charge, to transform inner thoughts to outer manifestations. Like the magicians of today, he is the master of producing change by altering perception.

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As with the explorer, the outlaw recognises when a need for change is required; either in the physical world in within yourself. The energy emerges as the nugget of an idea or a full-blown realisation. The persona is known as the face that we show to the world. It is how we present ourselves to others and how we want to be known and what role we want to play in our society - for example: an artist, a scholar, etc. Jung believed that healthy individuals were able to be quite flexible in the persona that they attach to - in that they understand the multiplicity and varied versions of the self.

As the name implies, the archetype of the explorer is your desire to learn, travel the world and discover yourself. When this aspect of your consciousness is awakened, you are often prompted to go on a voyage of self-discovery in one form or another. Though Carl Jung, one of the founders of analytical psychology, had never directly mentioned the tarot in any of his works, it’s easy to find links between the concepts that he built and the tarot. One of his greatest contributions to the theory of the psyche is was that of the archetypal images and the collective unconscious, which is the foundation from which the tarot draws upon. Just like the many species, genres, breeds, and groups that structure our earthly existence, an archetype is a quality or essence that forms the underlying framework of consensus reality. Like many pieces in the Cosmic puzzle, archetypes are separate and easily definable qualities that compose the Whole. Archetype ExamplesNaivety is also a trait of the shadow innocent archetype. In adults, this can lead you to trust people that want to rip you off – or worse, cause you harm. The Innocent in an adolescent is likely to suffer abuse at school. If, on the other hand, you also have a shadow outlaw endowed with courage, you may try and bring about the change by doing something stupid that has not been thought through. Irrational behaviour is not beyond outlaw energy unless it is coupled with the insight or Apollo and the strategy of Athena.