Your Bucket List of Spiritual Agreements 

Your true, authentic Self is at the centre of your soul, around which your 12 personal archetypes are grouped. A spiritual agreement is one you, as your Self can accept (or decline) to enlighten your Self and to strengthen your character, as you face and overcome the challenges and behaviours contain within each of your archetypes.

Your 12 personal archetypes describe the contents of your personal history. Identifying your personal archetypes is based on your lifelong challenges and repetitive behaviours, those that contribute to the weaknesses and strengths of your character. 

If you think of an archetype as a spiritual agreement that you—as your authentic Self—have made with your Soul and the life force we all share—aka our one divine spirit—then you can shift your mindset from victim to hero. 

Blame is a way to discharge pain or discomfort.  

Stories about heroes are scattered throughout history, fairy tales, myths and legends, movies and games. Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, found a common theme running through every archetype. He identified both the Hero and the stages of the quest, or the journey that the Hero follows, in many of the tales and myths from around the world. It’s an ancient classic, a familiar theme, and a useful map for transforming our Inner Victim into a Hero. 

This means we can use the framework of the Hero’s Journey to face any one of our spiritual agreements, that is, to overcome the challenges associated with our personal archetypes, and to enlighten our Self and our way forward. 

Broadly, the map of Hero’s Journey consists of: 

• A call to adventure, one you agree to or not. 
• Meeting the mentor, by identifying the archetype. 
• Crossing the threshold of your inner world and into the unknown, after agreeing to accept your archetypal challenges. 
• Slaying your inner demons and dragons by overcoming the challenges and temptations contained within the archetype. 
• Death and rebirth as you face and overcome your greatest fear contained within the archetype. 
• Transformation, as you update the old you to the latest, and more enlightened version. 
• Returning from the inner world to share what you’ve learned with others. 

We can use the Hero’s framework to find more meaning and purpose, and to learn and grow with each archetype, one by one: 12 archetypes, 12 adventures, each one at different stages to the other.

Being conscious of your personal archetypes can build your intuitive skills by connecting you to your inner wisdom and the unlimited source of humanity’s collective wisdom. Archetypes teach you to read patterns. They teach you to read and predict human behaviour and the ever changing conditions of your internal, and our external world. 

Archetypes are alive in your psyche whether you’re conscious of them or not. Archetypes are everywhere. Your personal archetypes represent your 12 greatest adventures of life, and what you’re meant to learn from each one. Think of your personal archetypes as your divine attendant spirits. Each archetype is a specialist mentor who will guide you on your way through your bucket list of spiritual agreements.