I’d like to attempt two challenges I’ve missed this time:
I finally got these lovely Archetype Cards to play with, and they’re great for shadow work. Archetypes can show us sides of us that we haven’t even considered before! But I want to tell you a story, how I also came to predict something about my future self!
So… I was thinking that I’d draw 5 cards, and write down my thoughts into my journal. This is the first card that came up:
The deck also came with an instruction booklet, and this is what it says for the Guide archetype:
Guide
(Guru, Sage, Crone, Wise Woman, Spiritual Master, Evangelist, Preacher)
- teacher of religious beliefs and practices, as well as the spiritual principle of seeing the Divine in every aspect of life
- you don’t have to be a professional preacher or guru to have this archetype
- Crone, Wise Woman and Sage represent the ripening of insight and acceptance of what is
- Shadow Guide manifests as televangelists, gurus and priests who place financial gain and sexual gratification over imparting spiritual insight
Look for continuing pattern of guiding others based on your own spiritual insights.
I ended up writing a lot about this particular archetype into my journal, enough to abandon the original idea of a 5 card draw. Some of the most important points that came up
- I love to talk about things that are important to me, and that includes spiritual matters
- I often don’t, because of various ideas I’ve learned, like…
- “I’m not interesting enough”
- “Why should people listen to me?”
- “I don’t want to push my ideas”
- “Differences in opinion create conflicts, and I want to avoid those, so I better keep my opinions to myself”
- “I’m not a public speaker”
- And so on… do any of these really hold water?
I do, and I have talked about my witchy ideas, values and beliefs to people who I know are interested and want to hear. I’ve also started writing more here, and it’s often been something I’ve tried that I want to share or something to that effect. I love helping people, and most of all I love helping people feel better and be more true to themselves.
Now, this is where things get interesting!
I’ve very recently joined a lovely peer support community of people who are or have been struggling with their mental health. Beautiful people who have seen the dark side of life a little too close like I have. All of a sudden… I have a workshop to run on July, with a general theme of “well-being”! That means people are going to come listen to me and do things I’ve prepared for them for three hours. I’m really excited about it! Now doesn’t that sound like the card I drew?
And… just to rub it in my face a little more, a few days later I thought I’d shuffle the deck and draw another card to look at… there was the Guide again.