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Archetypes: Illuminating the Path to Self-discovery and Empowerment
How well do you know the characters that star in the theater of your life? We promise you an illuminating journey as we, your hosts, unearth the profound significance of archetypes in our lives. We get under the skin of the roles that archetypes play in molding our perspectives, be it the caregiver, the teacher, the mother, or the child. We tap into the extraordinary Wild Unknown Archetype deck, a key to recognizing and connecting with these powerful archetypes in our lives.
We shift gears in our quest for self-discovery as we explore the healing power of archetypes. Drawing from Jake's expertise, we shed light on how archetypes can be a beacon in understanding our experiences, especially in processing trauma. With the royal family's archetypes under the microscope, we zero in on their bright and dark sides, and their omnipresence in our lives.
We take a detour to delve into the transformative card deck of the Wild Unknown, a tool that can help us identify the 'venom' in our relationships, enabling us to disrupt harmful cycles and springboard positive change.
Before we wrap up, we navigate into the world of tarot cards to discover various archetypes. We highlight the essential need to understand our archetypes and how this knowledge can be an empowering force, giving us the reins of our life. We explore how archetypes allow us to reflect, shift from a victim mentality, and harness their transformative power.
We round off our conversation with the intriguing Wild Unknown Tarot deck, a compass that can guide us deeper into understanding ourselves and our lives. Join us on this empowering quest to understand, heal, and grow with archetypes.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the episode of the beauty of gray. Hello Jake, hey, hello Michelle, hello. So for today's episode we kind of want to talk about archetypes, and I'm going to put this over to Jake because this is a near and dear topic to him. So, jake, tell us all about archetypes, and then Michelle and I will chime in as necessary.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely so. Archetypes for our listeners who maybe are unfamiliar or maybe have heard the phrase and just weren't sure exactly what it means or how it's exactly applicable, archetypes really were really essentially coined a lot by the psychologist Carl Jung. Carl Jung does really amazing work and all really kind of pairing the supernatural to the subconscious and how the conscious mind and symbolism really kind of go hand in hand. So you'll actually see, like people who own, if you own a couple of tarot decks or if you own a couple books on intuition or on psychic symbolism, you will probably see a couple of references to him. So what is an archetype? An archetype essentially is a role or a character that exists in this life. For example, there is the caregiver, the teacher, the mother, the child.
Speaker 1:Those are the four main ones, I think. Good job, Jake.
Speaker 2:I'm kidding.
Speaker 2:So, and what really got me into archetypes early on was when I was reading a lot of tarot books.
Speaker 2:I think it was Tarot 101, I was reading through and you really kind of start to see the hero's journey in the tarot deck and really reflective of these different archetypes and really you could essentially say that all of the major arcana are individual archetypes in and of themselves, meaning that that might be a character trait or that might be a space in our life that we are sitting in, maybe of the high priestess, meaning that you're feeling much more drawn to sit back into your more maybe passive energy, listen to your intuition, maybe take a break from that hustle and bustle to really start cultivating your practice.
Speaker 2:Or perhaps maybe you're feeling a little bit like the devil, where you feel like you've been playing it safe and you need to start making a little bit more rash decisions and kind of go a little bit against the grain. Really, archetypes have positive and negative lights that they can be seen in, but really ultimately, an archetype is really great to identify to number one, see how you're acting and reacting in a situation or in this chapter, and then also to understand the different perspectives that are happening in a situation maybe of your friend, your family, a loved one. Really powerful stuff. But I will shut up and let you two chime in.
Speaker 1:No, I think you bring up a valuable point, like if, like, the archetypes do have like a dark side and a light side to it, and I think if you can identify, maybe the archetype that you're sitting in and having a moment, like you said, you can either react to it, you can be empowered by it, but it brings you like a deeper understanding to maybe why you're feeling the way that you're feeling, and I also like that. For me, archetypes I kind of related to a persona, like I've maybe wearing this mask, or right now I'm going to shift into my mom mode, or tomorrow I'm going to shift into this mode, and I like that. We can always like kind of walk this path. And also I think it's really for self reflection, like, wow, why am I, why am I being triggered by this, why am I upset by this person acting like this? Do you think that that really helps you to empower yourself to kind of really deal with maybe society as a whole? Michelle, what do you think.
Speaker 3:I mean I mean literally, like I totally agree with you because I was literally just thinking of shadow work and things like that, Like how it's like learning different archetypes and diving deep into that and figuring out where you are archetype wise in that moment can really help with where you are on your journey in terms of, like, learning about yourself and shadow work and all that fun stuff and but the thing is is that.
Speaker 1:let me ask you this like there's thousands of archetypes, so how do you guys know what archetype do you use? A deck to use a book Like? What do you guys use as tools to find out what archetypes am I maybe operating with?
Speaker 2:For me. I use the Carolyn Mysorkel deck very frequently, but there are several hundreds of books on archetypes. Essentially, for every role in a story or in a journey, in a production, any role or character that exists is an archetype, right, they all confront, fall under an umbrella maybe the archetype of the villain, maybe the archetype of the, the martyr you know the lots of different squares. So essentially it is just an umbrella term for this certain space, a certain energy of how you kind of are moving in and out of something, or what you can expect to receive out of something.
Speaker 1:Michelle, I know you use a deck. Yes, I use the Wild Unknown.
Speaker 3:What was that? I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:You use an archetype deck that you use with your clients. Can you maybe tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 3:I use the Wild, unknown archetypes deck. They have a tarot deck. They have the archetype deck. They have an animal spirit deck. They have a few other decks out here Get it out. Get it out. Oh, I've got it. It is right here.
Speaker 2:I forgot that they made an archetype deck. Oh my God, you just reminded me.
Speaker 3:Dude, it is one of the most beautiful decks that I have ever used ever. I know the Wild Unknown. Their whole brand is just the way that, like the care that they put into what they put out there is just I love it.
Speaker 2:They had, they absolutely had the tarot community by the neck the year that the Wild Unknown tarot came out. I live.
Speaker 3:It's like oh my God, they did every time they were going to drop a new deck or something, I was like yes, I mean look at this it's a freaking diamond.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at the circles. Sorry, it's a little thing. It's a diamond. It looks like a diamond.
Speaker 3:Yeah, every card is a back of the diamond and then the artwork that's with this is just like. So there's like this one, this is the maiden, and just like, you can inspect these cards for like forever and be like oh, oh, oh, and not realize all the different symbolism that's in there. So, like, definitely like it's the same thing as like a tarot card. You want to inspect that card with those archetypes and really like dive deep into it and then look at the meaning and like they're there, the meanings that they have in the book are just like it's like. If you want to dive deep and really get all the feeling, your archetypes oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So, Michelle, pull us some archetype cards. I was like I knew it was coming.
Speaker 3:All right, let's see.
Speaker 1:It was intuitive today.
Speaker 3:What? Who wants to go first? Jake? Yes, all right, let's see.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's like my friend Penn as she's pulling. Oh, that's so cute.
Speaker 2:My archetype is Lee, which archetype? The dumpster fire.
Speaker 3:So much, oh, all right. That's the second time that that card has come out, so I'm going to take it, all right. So the card that came out for you, jake, is the venom. Oh this is I, this card. I love it, let me. Let me get out the book. Give me a second here, so talk amongst yourselves.
Speaker 1:So, jake, what is another reason why people would want to work with like an archetype and want to dive in more?
Speaker 2:Sure, definitely so. I mean and I can just kind of use examples from client work that I've done A lot of times I come, I will cross pass with people who, particularly women, who are in the archetype of the mother or the caregiver depends on how you want to call it and you know, again, positive and negative to that. The positive is the nurturer, the one that watches out, the one that kind of takes in the kin that you didn't necessarily ask for that. But then the shadow side of that is being the person that's always relied on for dumping emotional baggage onto, or having to be the sole person responsible for making decisions right, and then the other passengers on the ship just kind of relinquish control, just kind of give it to that person.
Speaker 2:So archetypes can be really effective, especially in self therapy or working with a therapist who uses archetypes to really understand where you're coming from, as far as how you experience maybe trauma or hard situations in life, Like maybe for some you know, for example, if you know that you know from deep childhood trauma that the way that you come at intense situations is from the archetype of the martyr, meaning that it's hard to take responsibility, it's hard to be objective, then that really clues you into being like oh, I need to take a step back and I need to really take the time to pay attention to my train of thought and help me spending this narrative in a way that is making that is deflecting responsibility right.
Speaker 1:There's lots of different uses for archetypes, so recently I did an interview of a lady who does you know archetype therapy.
Speaker 1:She's has 20 years of experience and I was talking about the doctors in the doctor's office and she actually meets with a group and she wanted to kind of dive into what their archetypes might present as and she said that they decided their archetypes that might best display arrogance and the shadow would be once from the royalty family king, queen, princess and prince. And the shadow. They can be arrogant and title, fearful, losing power, self centered, and in the light they are generous, merciful, humanitarian and make best entrance of the people. They rule as their first priority and I was like those sounds like my doctors.
Speaker 1:I mean, but it was interesting to kind of I mean even just that little snap snippet, to be like oh well, that makes sense, like it is very interesting. Sorry, go ahead Michelle.
Speaker 3:No, you're fine, so okay. So, jake, you have the venom yes, so I love this.
Speaker 1:I'm particularly bad.
Speaker 3:It's it's. I was reading through it like I've gotten. It's interesting because there's certain cards that come out more often than the other. Zero, and this, oddly enough, comes out more often than you would expect it to. So the key components here the poison, the curse, the toxin.
Speaker 3:Much to our dismay, the venom is always lurking in the shadows. In one form or another, its toxic presence may be found in our relationships, thoughts, speech or environment. Thankfully, the cycle of purification and detoxification comes so naturally that it is built into our every exhale. We breathe out carbon dioxide and the plants return it to us as oxygen. Archetypal venom is rarely remedied as easily, however, and it can come in potent forms and quantities that are deeply damaging to us and to the world. When the venom card appears, there is a harmful substance in our psychic realm that must be identified. Perhaps your words have a sting of poison about them. Perhaps a relationship is slowly draining your reserves. Acknowledgement is the first step to change. Change is the second. The remedy will reveal itself in time and with it, forgiveness Does that resonate with you.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, absolutely, and that exists in several different ways. So the venom for me. I'm kind of interpreting it as almost like the shadow side of the queen of swords, for example, which is definitely a way that I've always kind of combat in stressful situations. So like lately with work, a lot of ships were happening, really feeling overwhelmed and I could find myself slipping into that old archetype of being very pointed and maybe a little bit inflexible to some changes and things. So completely make sense. Yes, completely make sense, and it is something that I'm aware of. So it is something that I have to step back and be like all right, listen up, girl, we gotta calm it down, yeah, Well, the cool thing about this book, the way they structure it.
Speaker 3:Now there's different like, as you look at this, they have different things on the side. Oh wow, they have stuff down here. So like they have so when, like self-realization through suffering, when dark unwillingness to find a solution or forgive, and then they have a song, if you wanna go deeper, a poison tree by William Blake, Interesting.
Speaker 2:I know you wanna go look at the song and go listen to the song. Oh, look at the song right now.
Speaker 3:It's awesome. I love, like I just I love this, this whole book and deck. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm sold. I'm ordering it. You need to.
Speaker 3:It's like it's so I'm selling the book, though it's one of my favorites that I work with. It's fantastic, like the side stuff here. It's when you harm another, you harm yourself. Keep in mind this goes for our earth as well, with cosmic consequences. And then on the other side, the spreading of the venom is like a chain reaction. When we strike others, it is likely we have ourselves been struck. Break the cycle, amen. Yep, I love that stuff. That's so awesome.
Speaker 1:What's the name of the card deck again, and who's it by?
Speaker 3:It is by the Wild Unknown, it's just the archetypes. It comes in this lovely box I do believe Barnes and Noble does have at least they did. The last time I was there they had a few of them. But you can just go right on the Wild Unknown site and regret it, yeah, yeah, and like go straight to them. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, go straight to them. So, but it's definitely like it's worth every penny, and it's by it's. Kim Kranz is the K-R-A-N-S is the one that actually developed all the cards.
Speaker 1:And they're all.
Speaker 3:the cool thing, too, is that all of those, all the decks, the tarot deck, the animal spirit they're all designed to be used together, so I will oftentimes use them together, depending on what I'm doing. But like it's interesting how they all relate to one another. I love it.
Speaker 1:So, as a side note, this is actually 45% off on Amazon for $21.99. Oh nice, regularly $39.99 and it's on sale for $21.99 on.
Speaker 2:Come on sale.
Speaker 1:I love it, get it, get it. I love it, get it, get it. Now Anything, oh. And they have another one, the wild unknown alchemy. Yes, that's 19% off.
Speaker 3:I believe the alchemy deck. I don't know if it's an actual deck. Is it like a?
Speaker 1:It's a deck and guidebook.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh no, my wishlist is growing.
Speaker 3:God, I'm gonna have like this. Is they like I go broke because of these people? That is fine.
Speaker 1:Well, I love their artwork too.
Speaker 3:Like I use their tarot deck. I don't know Like it's like that's my go-to deck. A lot of the times I call it my Getslapped deck.
Speaker 2:Yes, and once you find like a favorite author or like a favorite like publisher, like you, just like, can't break away Like Barbara.
Speaker 3:Moore.
Speaker 2:Exactly and I think that is like my favorite. She can write the fuck out of a guidebook. Oh, excuse me, I literally had to pick up the Wonderland or tarot the other day, even though I've got a very beautiful deck of Alice in Wonderland yeah, it's because it's her deck and I'm like, oh my God, I need this. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think she'll have to. Was it a?
Speaker 2:tarot in Wonderland. It is, yes, it was, it's on the tarot in Wonderland. I literally just bought this. The other day.
Speaker 1:What about that? It's off the one sale on Amazon.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. She did the guidebook for the steampunk tarot and I think she also did the one Florida Shadowscapes tarot too.
Speaker 1:These are really pretty pictures.
Speaker 2:I know I it's very kitschy oh.
Speaker 1:I like that. Okay, Anything else you guys want to add about archetypes working with archetypes, anything like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that we're always observing and always acting in within archetypes, and I think that they can be a really powerful tool for self healing and also kind of understanding situations from an outside perspective. So anybody that's interested in doing self healing work, anybody that's maybe working with a therapist currently, or maybe even like a shaman or a medicine healer, bring up archetypes, ask their opinion or maybe start a dialogue around it. It's beautiful things to journal about. So I definitely recommend for you to do your research and find ones that you resonate with, and don't be afraid to ask yourself tough questions.
Speaker 1:Like am I in the middle of archetype right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what way am I deceiving myself? Right, like.
Speaker 1:I mean sometimes. I think it may even make it easier to ask tough questions, you know, it's, it's it's kind of in black and white, it's like all right, well, this makes sense. You know, instead of somebody saying, oh, why are you acting like this? Where we're going to take it personally and act offensive. You know, if this is like, no, I've done my research and now I can be reflective and really truly dig in and do the work, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:We're like we're like by ourselves.
Speaker 1:We don't like to tell other people. You know what I mean. Like, do we really?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so today I was a bitch and right, but you know, but those things stick with you, Like I don't know about you guys, but when I have interactions that I know that I wasn't my best self, those stick with me and I'm like well, why did I act like that? What role did I play in this? What could I have done differently? You know, and those are times when you know, like you said, get out a journal, journal on it and maybe for me, get an architect deck and just pull a card and see what happens.
Speaker 3:I mean, and that also, even just in that, speaking to that in itself, like that can also go for the opposite end of things. Yeah, for somebody that's like a super people pleaser, that always over thinks everything, they say yeah, and they're like, oh God, I offended somebody and it's like no, you, no, you didn't Like. Like, look reflect back on that, reflect onto that archetype.
Speaker 1:It'd be interesting for people that you know, as you say that I'm thinking about people who are always oh, whoa is me, my poor life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it may help them shift.
Speaker 1:I'm never grateful, yeah, yeah, that'd be very interesting. Anything else, michelle, that you want to add about archetypes or anything like that? No, I mean.
Speaker 3:I think we pretty much. I agree with everything that everybody's been saying. I mean, I do feel like it's very important.
Speaker 1:Wow, we're amazing. We're architectural artists. We really feel that.
Speaker 3:I think it's very important and I think it's something that especially like if you're even just coming from like the witchcraft side of things, if people want to dive a little bit deeper into their psyche and why they do what they do, it's a great guide to have like a deck like this and to just kind of dive into archetypes in general, just because it like heightens what you do, it heightens your abilities and just spiritually in general.
Speaker 1:Well, it really sounds like you can really like tap more into your spiritual kind of self and really like what's going on here.
Speaker 3:Definitely I like that Well, the better like you gotta think about it, the better you understand yourself and the better you understand, like the different parts of you that come out during certain situations. Like you know, if you know that you're apt to where you're very quick to be angry over a silly situation and you also happen to be a witch and you know you're immediately going to go for some sort of baneful something, then you know, like, all right, maybe need to reel that in for a second and not create totally complete chaos.
Speaker 1:So what I'm hearing is don't cross the shell.
Speaker 3:It might be a warning. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:Well, and also, I would never you know. What it makes me think of too is like some people really go heavy into astrology, or maybe you know, oh my goodness, that was that personal. What was that design work that people love? Oh my goodness. Anyway, a play, a play.
Speaker 1:No, it's like the, like they do the. I'm like Design work, but you know what I mean. Like you might not necessarily resonate with. You know astrology or something like that. For this this seems very black and white, like it's kind of. It sounds more logical, like I can. Really anyone you all have to be spiritual or not can dig in and learn about this and really have a more empowered life.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. They're all facets of the human psyche, of the human experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, great. So anything else you guys want to add before we wrap up this wonderful episode.
Speaker 2:Probably not. But oh, my only other thing is that maybe, if anybody doesn't have a deck of archetypes, if you have maybe a tarot deck at home, I would encourage you to even use those. Every single card in there is an archetype in and of itself. Each suit is an archetype in and of itself, so you can really get really deep and roll your sleeves up in that sense too. But yeah, if you feel called to it, look into it. It's some powerful stuff.
Speaker 1:So really jumped on the rabbit holes when I'm hearing yes, it's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:No pun intended to Alcindor land.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you all so much, and we'll talk to you all soon.
Speaker 2:Thanks, bye.
