Everyone needs to chart their own way forward in life. It’s too easy to compare your inner world to other people’s exterior world but there is no comparison. Chasing a dream that doesn’t belong to you is draining. Long-term, it becomes a path to misery.

Your personal archetypes represent the different parts in your inner world. They’re a combination of archetypal parts that are unique to you. If you want to find out if a dream belongs to you, then one way to do it is to consult your personal archetypes. For example, if you want to find out why your manifestation process is not coming to fruition, then you would ask your personal archetypes to explain it to you, and they will be eager to oblige.

Your archetypes are your divine attendant spirits, or your little demons waiting to be transformed. All are grouped around the essence of your soul that is the perfume surrounding your true authentic Self; your Sacred Self. Your archetypes will tell it to you straight. You will get both sides of story. Positive and negative. Upside and downside. Advantages. Disadvantage. Risks. Benefits. You get the idea.

Archetypes are both empowering and disempowering forces. Until we learn how to collaborate with them, our archetypes will remain unconscious forces active in our life. Forces that can lead us astray from the dreams within our soul.

Your personal archetypes are universally recognised patterns that reflect different facets of life experience. You can chart your own way forward from personal development to spiritual growth when you work with, rather than against, your personal archetypes. When you explore, balance and integrate your personal archetypes, you will deepen your insights into not only your own motivations and behaviors, but also those of your family, friends and collogues.

You will learn to read the room.

Your personal archetypes are based on the most consistent patterns in your personal history. There are wounds yes, stored in your history. But there is also wisdom. You can’t afford to throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water. This is your inner wisdom.

Archetypes store humanity’s collective wisdom of the ages, since time began, to date. Your intuition draws on your inner wisdom and humanity’s collective wisdom. This collective wisdom becomes what I call your Archetypal Intelligence. Identify your archetypes and you will throw open the door to your intuition. It’s intuition you can use when logic and reason alone are not up to the task.

I’ve mentioned before that there are no bad archetypes. You might be familiar with the Addict archetype. This archetype will teach you determination, perseverance, self-understanding and awareness, and the ability to transform your life. By having the courage to face your own addictive behaviour, you gain insights into the fragile nature of human vulnerability. One good that comes out of an archetype like the Addict is the nature of sub-archetypes that sprout from it. These sub-archetypes are what I refer to as your Archetypal Wings. From the Addict might stem the Hero, or the Alchemist, or the Guide, or the Wounded Healer. You learn from the Addict archetype to be Self-led, to help your Self, to build empathy and live a compassionate life, to transform yourself, and to grow in your ability to assist others with similar struggles.

When you learn to work with your archetypes, you can chart your own path on this wheel called life. Your archetypes will show you that you can rely on them to guide your way into a future that is aligned with your soul purpose.

If your manifestation process is not working for you, then you would ask your archetypes to outline your true, authentic direction. One that involves invisible acts of power. One that aligns with your soul purpose.

Forget about living your best life. That’s for Instagram, and okay, the survival of the species. So too is your life purpose. Of course, living your life purpose ensures you do more than survive. You thrive, and you give according to what you prefer to do, and you do it your way. Usually for money. So, the nature of your life purpose tends to be transactional, often due to the unconscious blurring of the boundary meant to separate your life purpose from your ideal career. In any case, social media ensures that everyone knows about it.

Ho hum.

The world is a mess. Now is the time to do much better than live your best life. Now is the time to go far beyond living your life purpose. Now is the time to stretch yourself, so you come back to earth and anchor your spirit using your Archetypal Intelligence. So you transcend all of that.

I dare you to be invisible.

I dare you to do the invisible.

I dare you to live your soul purpose.