Light and Shadow Attributes
Addict

Light Attribute
Helps you recognize and confront addictive behavior.

Shadow Attributes
Compromises integrity and honesty. Allows an addictive pattern to have authority over your inner spirit.

 

Advocate

Light Attribute
Inspires you to put compassion into action.

Shadow Attribute
Embracing negative causes or committing to causes for personal gain.

 

 

Alchemist

Light Attribute
Transformation of base motives and goals into golden wisdom.

Shadow Attribute
Misuse of the power and knowledge that come through spiritual practice.

Angel

Light Attribute
Helping those in need with no expectation of return.

Shadow Attribute
Acting innocent or angelic to mislead others. Falsely claiming to be in touch with angelic guidance.

 

Artist

Light Attributes
Expressing a dimension of life that is just beyond the five senses. Inspiring others to see life symbolically.

Shadow Attributes
Using talent as an excuse to mistreat others. Posing as the Starving Artist to elicit pity.

Athlete

Light Attributes
Dedication to transcending physical limits, including handicaps. Development of personal willpower and strength of spirit.

Shadow Attributes
Misuse of athletic ability for selfish ends. False sense of invulnerability and entitlement.

Avenger

Light Attributes
Desire to balance the scales of justice. Righteousness on behalf of society of oneself.

Shadow Attribute
Resorting to violence in the name of a cause.

Beggar

Light Attributes
Confronts empowerment at the level of physical survival. Awakens the spiritual authority of humility, compassion, and self-esteem.

Shadow Attributes
Dependence on others to the exclusion of effort.

Bully

Light Attributes
Highlights you r tendency intimidate others. Helps you confront the inner fears that bully you.

Shadow Attribute
Conceals deep fears behind verbal or physical abuse.

Child

Variations include Divine, Eternal Boy/Girl, Magical/Innocent, Nature, Orphan, and Wounded, many of which are present to some degree in every psyche
One aspect is usually dominant
Choose carefully, because you can have only one Child archetype in your support team.

Child: Divine

Light Attributes
Innocence, purity, and redemption. Suggests a special connection with the Divine.

Shadow Attribute
An inability to defend oneself against negative forces.

Child: Eternal

Light Attributes
Determination to remain young in body, mind, and spirit. Ability to see things with fresh eyes.

Shadow Attributes
Inability to grow up and be responsible. Extreme dependency on others for physical security.

Child: Magical

Light Attributes
Seeing the potential for sacred beauty in all things. The belief that everything is possible

Shadow Attributes
Pessimism, depression, and disbelief in miracles. Believing that energy and action are not required for growth.

Child: Nature

Light Attributes
Friendships with animals. Communication with nature spirits.

Shadow Attribute
Tendency to abuse animals, people, and the environment.

Child: Orphan

Light Attributes
Independence based on learning to go it alone. Conquering fear of surviving.

Shadow Attributes
Feelings of abandonment that stifle maturation. Seeking inappropriate surrogate families.

Child: Wounded

Light Attributes
Awakens compassion and desire to serve other Wounded Children. Opens the learning path of forgiveness.

Shadow Attributes
Blames all dysfunctional relationships on childhood wounds. Resists moving on through forgiveness.

Clown

Light Attributes
Fearlessly revealing emotion. Helping people laugh at absurdity and hypocrisy.

Shadow Attributes
Using humor to wound rather than liberate. Denial of your emotional truth.

Companion

Light Attributes
Loyalty, tenacity, and unselfishness

Shadow Attributes
Betrayal by misusing confidences. Loss of personal identity

Damsel/Princess

Light Attributes
Understanding the nature of healthy romance. Inspires you to rely on yourself.

Shadow Attributes
Waiting for a Knight to provide for you. Seduction by romantic illusion.

Detective

Light Attributes
Great powers of observation and intuition.
Desire to seek out the truth.

Shadow Attributes
Voyeurism. Falsifying information.

Destroyer

Light Attributes
Releasing what is potentially destructive. Preparing for new life.

Shadow Attributes
Intoxication with destructive power. Destroying other‘s dreams or potential.

Dilettante

Light Attributes
Delights in the arts without having to be a professional. Alerts you to the danger of becoming superficial in your pursuits.

Shadow Attributes
Pretension to much deeper knowledge than you actually possess.

Don Juan

Light Attribute
Spotlights your positive seductive qualities.

Shadow Attribute
Using the power of romantic attraction for private agendas.

Engineer

Light Attributes
Ability to give creative energy a practical expression. Talent for designing resolutions to common dilemmas.

Shadow Attribute
Reliance on mechanistic solutions without regard for emotional consequences.

Exorcist

Light Attribute
Freeing yourself and others of destructive impulses.

Shadow Attribute
Fear of facing your own demons.

Father

Light Attributes
Talent for creating and supporting life.
Positive guiding light within a tribal unit.

Shadow Attributes
Dictatorial control. Abuse of authority.

Femme Fatale

Light Attributes
Highlights the erotic energy of the feminine.
Opens your heart when your dependency is rejected.

Shadow Attributes
Inappropriate use of sensuality. Attachment to money and power.

Fool

Light Attributes
Fearlessly revealing emotion. Helping people laugh at absurdity and hypocrisy.

Shadow Attributes
Using humor to wound rather than liberate. Denial of your emotional truth.

Gambler

Light Attribute
Willingness to follow intuition, even when others doubt you.

Shadow Attribute
Relying on luck rather than hard work

God

Light Attributes
Benevolence and compassion. Recognizing the eternal force within yourself and others.

Shadow Attributes
Despotism and cruelty. Using power to control people.

Goddess

Light Attribute
The feminine expressed through wisdom. Nature, life force, and sensuality.

Shadow Attribute
Exploitation of the female nature and form.

Gossip

Light Attributes
Awakens consideration for the feelings of others. Honoring trust.

Shadow Attributes
Thrives on the power of passing on private or secret information. Betraying confidences.

Guide

Light Attribute
Represents the nature of the Divine in life and in yourself.

Shadow Attribute
Places financial gain and control over imparting spiritual insight.

Healer

Light Attributes
Passion to serve others by repairing the body, mind, and spirit. Ability to help transform pain into healing.

Shadow Attributes
Taking advantage of those who need help. Failing to care for oneself.

Hedonist

Light Attributes
Inspires creative energy to embrace the good things in life. Celebrates the beauty in yourself.

Shadow Attributes
Pursues pleasure to the detriment of health. Indulges at the expense of others.

Hermit

Light Attributes
Seeks solitude to focus intently on inner life. Serves personal creativity.

Shadow Attributes
Withdraws from society out of fear or negative judgments of others. Refusing to help those in need.

Hero/Heroine

Light Attribute
Passion for a journey of personal empowerment

Shadow Attribute
Escapism and a false sense of heroism.

Judge

Light Attributes
Balancing justice and compassion. Managing the fair distribution of power.

Shadow Attributes
Offering only destructive criticism. Misusing business, legal, or criminal authority

King

Light Attributes
Enlightened, benevolent leadership. Benefiting those in your charge.

Shadow Attributes
Excessive feelings of entitlement. Leadership without restraint.

Knight

Light Attributes
Loyalty, romance, and chivalry. A love of honor.

Shadow Attributes
Allegiance to a destructive ruler or principle. Romantic delusions.

Liberator

Light Attributes
Freeing yourself and others from outmoded beliefs. Releasing negative thought patterns.

Shadow Attributes
Imposing your own tyranny over those you claim to liberate. Ignoring legitimate constraints.

Lover

Light Attributes
Great passion and devotion. Unbridled appreciation of someone or something.

Shadow Attributes
Obsessive passion that harms others. Self-destructive devotion.

Martyr

Light Attribute
Learning the transcendent nature of service to oneself or a cause.

Shadow Attribute
Addiction to self-pity.

Mediator

Light Attributes
Gift for negotiating fairness and strategy in personal and professional life. Respect for both sides of an argument.

Shadow Attribute
Negotiating with an ulterior motive or hidden agenda, either personally or professionally.

Mentor

Light Attribute
Passing on wisdom and refining a student’s character

Shadow Attributes
Inability to allow the student to move on to the role of Master. Imparting false instructions.

Messiah

Light Attribute
Serving humanity with humility.

Shadow Attribute
Exaggerated belief that you are the only means through which a cause can succeed.

Midas/Miser

Light Attributes
Entrepreneurial or creative ability to turn anything to gold. Delight in sharing life’s riches.

Shadow Attributes
Hording money and emotions. Obsessive fear of losing your wealth.

Monk/Nun

Light Attribute
Selfless devotion and single-minded dedication to Spirit.

Shadow Attributes
Negative judgment of the physical world. Excess piety.

Mother

Light Attributes
Nurturance, patience, unconditional love. Joy in giving birth to life.

Shadow Attributes
Smother or abandoning children. Instilling guilt in children for becoming independent.

Mystic

Light Attribute
Revels in intimate union with the Divine.

Shadow Attribute
Delusional rapport with the Divine.

Networker

Light Attributes
Enhances unity through the sharing of information. Engenders social awareness and empathy.

Shadow Attributes
Conveys information only for personal gain. Spreads fear and false hood.

Pioneer

Light Attribute
Passion for doing and creating what has not been done before.

Shadow Attribute
Compulsive need to keep moving on.

Poet

Light Attribute
Expresses soul insights in symbolic language.

Shadow Attribute
Turns a lyric side to negative or destructive effect.

Prince

Light Attribute
Romantic charm and potential for power.

Shadow Attribute
Using power for self-aggrandizement.

Priest

Light Attributes
Facilitates spiritual commitments. Serves as a channel of spiritual energy.

Shadow Attributes
Violates the trust of your spiritual community. Seduced by your own spiritual role.

Prostitute

Light Attribute
Accentuates the challenge of surviving without negotiating the power of your spirit.

Shadow Attribute
Places material considerations and security above self-empowerment.

Queen

Light Attribute
Radiates the regal feminine. Uses her benevolent authority to protect others.

Shadow Attributes
Becomes arrogant when authority is challenged. Controlling and demanding.

Rebel

Light Attributes
Challenges authority to effect social change. Rejects spiritual systems that do not serve inner needs.

Shadow Attributes
Rejects legitimate authority out of anger. Rebels out of peer pressure or fashion.

Rescuer

Light Attributes
Provides strength and support to others in crisis. Acts out of love with no expectation of reward.

Shadow Attributes
Assumes that the rescued will reciprocate. Keeps the rescued one needy.

Saboteur

Light Attribute
Highlights your fear of self-empowerment and the changes it would bring to your life.

Shadow Attribute
Induces self-destructive behavior or the desire to undermine others.

Samaritan

Light Attribute
Refines your capacity to help those you would prefer to ignore.

Shadow Attribute
Exacting appreciation and recognition for the help you offer.

Scribe

Light Attribute
Preserving knowledge and information.

Shadow Attribute
Alter facts or plagiarizing others’ work.

Seeker

Light Attribute
Thirst for wisdom and truth wherever they are.

Shadow Attribute
Inability to commit to a path once found.

Servant

Light Attribute
Delight in serving others with a free and loving heart.

Shadow Attribute
Using the lack of money as and excuse not to move forward with life.

Shape Shifter

Light Attribute
Skill at navigating through different levels of consciousness. Ability to se the potential in everything.

Shadow Attribute
Projecting any image that serves your personal agenda in the moment.

Slave

Light Attribute
Surrendering you power of choice to the Divine with complete trust.

Shadow Attribute
Giving your willpower to an external authority out of fear of making your own choices.

Storyteller

Light Attribute
Ability to experience and express life through stories and symbols.

Shadow Attribute
Making up tales that harm others.

Student

Light Attributes
Humility and devotion to knowledge. Openness to lifelong learning.

Shadow Attributes
Arrogance in the pursuit of destructive knowledge. Unwillingness to translate knowledge into action.

Teacher

Light Attribute
Ability to communicate knowledge, experience, skill, or wisdom.

Shadow Attributes
Manipulating or abusing students. Teaching negative traits and destructive skills.

Thief

Light Attribute
Sheds light on the potential wealth within you that can never be stolen.

Shadow Attribute
Stealing money, creative ideas, affection, or other powers you think you lack.

Trickster

Light Attribute
Transcending convention, stuffiness, and predictable behavior.

Shadow Attribute
Manipulating others through duplicity.

Vampire

Light Attribute
Makes you aware that someone or something is draining your life force.

Shadow Attributes
Depleting others for your psychic survival. Chronic complaining and co-dependency.

Victim

Light Attribute
Prevents you from letting yourself be victimized, or victimizing others.

Shadow Attributes
Playing the Victim for positive feedback in the form of pity. Inability to maintain personal boundaries.

Virgin

Light Attribute
Maintaining symbolic purity of heart and spirit.

Shadow Attribute
Fear of intimate union.

Visionary

Light Attributes
Capacity to envision what is not yet conceivable to others. Willingness to proclaim a vision without regard for personal gain.

Shadow Attributes
Selling insights to the highest bidder. Compromising your vision to make it more acceptable.

Warrior

Light Attributes
Strength, skill, discipline, and toughness of will. Heroism, stoicism, and self-sacrifice in conquering the ego.

Shadow Attributes
Trading ethical principles for victory at any cost. Indifference to the suffering inflicted on others.



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