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22. The Fool
You learn from your experiences and through your learning you experience. These are two sides of the same coin. If you learn from your experiences, you open the doors to new experiences. If you don't learn, chances are the same experiences will continue to come back.
0. I choose
The concept we explore here is your free will. What in life is your own decision and what is not? How do you make decisions and what are they based on? Choice is a constant aspect of your life. We explore this archetype be looking at choices you have made and aspects of your life where you feel others made those choices for you.
5. The Hierophant
From your experience you can learn. The hierophant is the contemplator in you. This is the meditating and reflecting part of you.
5. I learn
You learn from your experiences and through your learning you experience. These are two sides of the same coin. If you learn from your experiences, you open the doors to new experiences. If you don't learn, chances are the same experiences will continue to come back.
4. I experience
What experience do you make of what happens. Your experience of events is your unique perspective. It's what you make of it. There is a lot of information to be explored in your experience that can help you learn about yourself. Seeing that what you observe as different from what you experience is a key to learning how to direct life.
4. The Emperor
Out of your 'harvest' - the result of your creation - you make an experience. How do you perceive it to be. Two people van watch a movie and have a completely different experience. The movie itself is The Empress. Your experience of it is the Emperor in you.
2. I make/create
Once you know what you want, how do you make that happen? There is a magic aspect of life to be explored. Much of what is created in your life is created by your subconscious. Just think of your physical body, your digestion, heart rate and cell production. What is the process of creation and how do you direct it?
2. The High Priesteress
The aspect of you that can access your higher self and subconscious. Your underbelly, intuition, instinct. It's the wisdom inside of you that is past of you that creates. It's been called infinite intelligence and Love. The priestess stands for the one that can look behind the curtain - connect with God.
The 7 Mind Archetypes + 1
1. The Magician
What does the magician do? He points his staff at something demanding it to transform and appear.
1. I want
What gives you joy, excites you? What is your passion? What do you want? How do you know what you want? It's not always an easy question, but somewhere inside you is the answer of what you truly want to be and experience. Let's go find it! We can do mind exploration journeys in guided meditation, make a joy list, play the experience game - just to name a few.
3. I observe
The results of your making and creating appear in your life continuously. From traffic jam to school results to the weather. Some good. Some not so good. Some out of nowhere. Some expected. These are the catalysts, the triggers, the events that you make your experiences from.
3. The Empress
The empress watches at what the seeds have produced: the harvest. It is the part of you that receives the results of your creation. It is whatever it is. The rabbit popping out of the head. What do you receive and observe?
6. The Lovers
Also called The Two Paths because once you have learn something from your experience, there is a new choice to make. Will you stay with your old believe and perspective, or embrace the new?
6. I transform
To learn is the first step towards growth. To let go and embrace the new is required for transformation. You can not be with one foot in the old and the other foot in the new. You need to make the jump to become the new you.
7. I am
Out of transformation you are born. Who are you? Your experiences and everything you have learned form it. It's your self image and world image based on your believes and conclusions. This is the program that runs a large part of your life subconsciously. We explore who you are through the experience you have had and want to have. We also explore your instruments such as love, feelings, emotions, body, thoughts and intuitive intelligence.
7. The Chariot
The horses pulling your chariot are your thoughts, believes, feelings and emotions. It's the program that runs you, your automatic and intentional responses and actions. These reflect your current state of being and that's what runs your life. To change your life, you transform what you have learned from your experience. A new you is born out of that process everytime again. There are two horses because life on earth always has two sides or points of view to every situation - the polarities.
For background information: read this article.
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