Archetypes –

Once we fully understand the nature of what we call “archetypes” we can immediately understand how powerful they are. An archetype is what we call an original universal pattern or model from which things of the same kind are copied or fashioned – a kind of prototype. They are inherent unconscious patterns that form a whole series of correspondences as feelings, thoughts, emotion, images, etc. Archetypes are vibratory frequencies as qualities that are universally present in individual psyches. Qualities that form human characteristics that lends themselves to telling certain types of stories.
Anytime we talk about vibrations or vibratory frequencies, these can be thought of or equated to qualities. Qualities form our basic personality, which serves to form our identity out of which “like” behavior is a natural by-product. We say that it is impossible for people to act/behave outside of their identity. This is because all action requires a concept, pattern or strategy in order to be acted out. Our identity is our self-concept, our sense of ourselves that is shaped as a correspondence to our personality. Our personality is formed by our soul, which is a cluster of archetypes that exist as vibratory frequencies that are a form of harmonic composure. Our character forms our identity that naturally acts out a whole pattern that is comprised of a series of fractal patterns as an expression of the qualities it embodies.
Archetypes shape the tendencies that govern and ultimately determine behavior in terms of types and themes that are played out in a story-line or living drama. The Zodiac, in its original form, was laid out as constellations that identified archetypes that governed periods of time as determined by the constellations as heavenly bodies (as above, so below). The twelve months of a year serves as a mini-model of the great cycle represented in the Mayan calendar that tracks ages with distinct personalities. Not only does the processional equinox for the change of seasons fall on the 21st of each month, but so does the transition from one star-sign to another. Each month represents one sign, and a whole cycle is 12 signs. The archetype that governs each sign creates tendencies of a certain nature within the individual as lived out under certain conditions, circumstances and as they exist in relationship to others.
So archetypes that govern the grand cycles of time indicate the unconscious patterns that will not only influence people but will also form larger themes as community and culture that will be acted out within that time frame also. We are born into certain times and locations because the greater pattern serves perfectly to produce the smaller patterns of the same nature or likeness. Individual Karma is being served through family karma, which is being served through community, being served through cultural . . . being served through planetary . . . and even universally.
This is why we say you are doing exactly what you are meant to do – that your life is the perfect enactment that is first allowing you to recognize your inner experience, identify repeated patterns, and make new decisions that will reestablish the natural balance, producing inner harmony with your external experience. Any area of your life in which you are experiencing inner turmoil, is showing you an area of karmic significance in which you have the ability to make new decisions, or intentionally interject qualities that serve to alter the vibration and bring it into complimentary expression. Archetypes, like all living forces, exist in polarity of opposites. If an archetypal quality is being expressed negatively, the way to heal it is to intentionally express the positive aspects, which will shift the vibration from and extreme back into mediation. Anytime we go to extremes, we create an imbalance. All healing is correcting an imbalance and restoring harmony to the organic living system.
By way of the holographic effect, we know that the way to heal a group or community is done the same way we heal ourselves. The micro-cosm, is a correspondence to the macro-cosm. We heal the world, the same way we heal ourselves. By discovering the secrets to self-healing . . . . we simultaneously discover the secretes to global healing. We never have to look outside ourselves for answers. Everything we need . . . is within us waiting to be discovered and tapped on. Our own mind body system is a symbolic correspondence to the Universe. The part contains the whole, and the whole is comprised of the part. Archetypes are Universal patterns that create the channel for personal expression of a universal them as unique and endlessly varied. The Tarot, a Divinatory Art, offers a rich education in the symbolic nature of archetypes as a full system of correspondences that lay our both positive and negative expressions of the same qualities. In this lies the most profound secrets to self-development, healing and restoring your soul back to a natural state of equilibrium and Harmony.

Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt., RMT
www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com