The Expansive Archetypes & How They Can Help You to Grow

How can we be of service?

The expansive archetypes help us expand and evolve collectively, and they are a part of the occasional archetypes.

To contribute to the expansion of this universe, it helps each one of us to learn how to step into these archetypes occasionally.

However, if we feel like we always have to be the liberator, the guide, the innovator, or any of these, than we might have to take a step back and relax, to not burn out.

And if we feel like there’s no one to take our space – then we might have to relax even more and allow for others to fill the space in their own ways, or we can help them get there.

Because we all need to feel needed and important, yet, we also need to rest and learn how to not do more or less than our part.

The Expansive Archetypes

The occasional archetypes can be empowering or disempowering, depending on how they are used. They each come with a light and a shadow side, though some of them are more obviously negative than others.

After looking at the source archetypes, and magical helpers, who help us navigate this earthly realm gracefully and after investigating our relationships and occupations, and possible issues with judgement when it comes to these roles, the occasional archetypes help us remember to balance our lives – to explore and to rest, to contribute, and make space for others. 

Once we do this, we can all be healthy and thrive and relax knowing that we’re all working together, each doing their part, and we will begin to see that no one has to take on more or less than they can handle.

So, let’s start (or continue) to base our lives on trust and love.

Using Oracle Cards is a great way to explore our subconscious, and to get guidance on where we are and what our best options are in the moment when we draw a card. Drawing cards daily, can also help us to get to know ourselves a lot better and to come into alignment with our soul, and our true selves, as we begin to recognize our subconscious patterns.

Working with these Archetypes in particular, can help us to realize why we may be stuck in certain ways, because of what we believe to be true about ourselves or others, and as a next step, it can help us to direct and design our lives more consciously and gracefully.

Inviting one or more of the Archetype posters into your home can support you while you work on certain aspects of yourself, either by reminding you to strengthen and align with the qualities they represent or by reminding you to embrace and heal them so you can eventually overcome them, and the things that have been limiting you so far.

You have the power to create your world according to your own ideas, needs and wishes – with these descriptions of the different archetypes I share my thoughts about how I think we can live together peacefully, joyfully and lovingly, in the new golden age, or heaven on earth and how each of us can be fulfilled, loved and truly happy. 🧚‍♀️

All you have to do is find out if this resonates with you and get your poster, or book a discovery call with me, to start stepping into your full power and potential - for more joy, love, success and happiness.

Dreamer Archetype

I love the dreamer. Do you ever wonder: “What if…?”

In our dreams, we can travel through time and space and find answers to our questions. And we need to dream to be able to go beyond what we see and experience.

Dreaming, however, is hard, when you are in survival mode. Dreaming is hard, when you are stressed and overwhelmed.

So we have to make sure that we create lives for ourselves that give us the space and the peace of mind to dream.

Equally, however, we can’t just dream about the things we wish for, we also have to open up to try them in reality, because that is what we came to earth for, to learn how to materialize our ideas & dreams into a material reality.

So dream big and then also take action.

Innovator Archetype

The innovator sees a problem and fixes it. In the Wheel of Colours we often see this in the colours pink and rose.

Pink helps to do things in our unique ways, and rose helps to see things in a new way. Wherever we have these colours, we like to innovate and don’t like doing things in the ways people are used to doing them.

And innovation is wonderful and often needed. It can, however, also be exhausting if we constantly feel the need to find new ways of doing things, and to question and reinvent everything – for ourselves and others.

And other people might just like to get things done, the way they are used to.

So we have to learn to find the right balance here between changing what needs to change and with helping each other adjust to the changes, and learning how to do or see things differently.

Liberator Archetype

The liberator isn’t just in it for themselves.

They might not even notice how much they are suffering, but they see that other people are, and they want to help them out and liberate them, and this is what makes them so incredibly powerful and strong.

The liberator is a trailblazer and by fighting for the greatest good of all, immense powers can become available that can make the impossible possible, as the liberator leads the way forward for the collective into more freedom.

Which is fantastic and so needed – yet, you can only forget about yourself and your own physical needs for so long. Eventually, you might have to rest and recover and allow for others to take the lead as well, because the new freedom also has to be processed and lived.

Just like animals, who have been in captivity for too long, might not be able to survive in the wild right away, we also need time to learn to adjust and integrate our new-found freedom – and time and space and to allow ourselves to enjoy it.

Guide Archetype

The guide has figured something out:

The best way to market something, or a new way to facilitate healing, or an art technique, and they are here to show others how to do it as well, or how they can reach the same or similar goals that the guide has already reached.

And it’s wonderful to help others, to share what we know, and to guide other people through terrain we’ve already explored. For a while.

Then we also need to learn new things again, to keep ourselves happy and to keep on growing and expanding.

If we’re called to guide others through what we learn then, as well – all good, as long as we don’t circle around the same place and topic forever.

Here, too, you can always check in if your decisions are based on love or fear. Are you afraid that people wouldn’t want to explore a different topic with you as well? Do you still love what you are doing? Or is it just what feels safe?

Alchemist Archetype

Now, alchemy is a funny thing, transforming one thing into something else.

It can be incredibly useful, but we can’t do it all the time because it takes a lot of energy to alchemize something.

The engineer, artist, storyteller and many more of the archetypes we looked at when looking at the occupational archetypes, can also be alchemists at times – and that’s great – just remember that it’s important to transform AND to take the time to use, enjoy and integrate what has been changed and alchemized.

And alchemy is not just about transforming material things. We can also alchemize our trauma and our pain into beautiful ways to connect, and to share new insights and to help each other.

Mother earth is also always happy to help us alchemize painful memories and harmful emotions. Just let your feet touch the ground and feel all the heaviness leave your body through your feet, give them to her, and imagine her alchemizing them into beautiful trees, plants and flowers. And then thank her for taking such good care of you and all of us.

Adventurer Archetype

Adventures are great.

It’s so important to dare to go beyond what we know and to trust ourselves enough to think that we will be able to handle any surprise that might come up in our adventure time.

But it’s also important to not be on a constant hunt for adventure and thrills, as a way to escape from other things, and to also take responsibility for the whole and do what’s necessary to be a trustworthy community member.

It’s great to feel free and to go out and explore, but it helps to check our intentions here: do we like the adventure – or do we use it to distract ourselves from responsibility or looking at our problems?

It’s good to go out and explore AND to come back, reflect, integrate and share what we’ve learned on our adventures with others, and to ground ourselves in this world, before we go out to explore some more.

Shapeshifter Archetype

A shapeshifter in the spiritual sense is someone who, in trance or meditation, can shift into other beings.

It can also be an empath, who feels the emotions of others deeply to understand them or an actor/actress who takes on different forms in the physical to let them come alive to others – again, enjoy it when you do, but don’t do it to escape yourself.

Humanity often feels divided into those who don’t feel for others at all, and just do what is good for them and those who feel others too much, and have a hard time feeling themselves. 

But what both of these have in common, that they are not in balance and therefore not at their best.

It’s helpful to imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes, as long as after that you come back and do what you think is the best option for all and that includes yourself.

Shift shapes, discover yourself and learn, and then come back and integrate your experiences to become yourself fully.

Hero_ine Archetype

We each are the hero_ine of our life stories, and we will all always be that no matter what we do or don’t do – when it comes to being a hero_ine for others, though, it shouldn’t be a full-time job.

If we strive to be the hero_ine in every story, we probably need to see what we can win from stepping back sometimes, so others can take the spotlight as well and to not develop an addiction to being the centre of attention or the hero_ine.

I learned that are hero is someone who has the strength for two, and that is very sweet because it means that we are ready to help others succeed as well.

Right now, as we are going through this shift in consciousness, those who are (becoming) aware, might have to put on their hero_ine costume and help others, while we still have to overcome an unhealed world – eventually though, we won’t be challenged so much, as we share the responsibility more and more.

Warrior Archetype

The warrior needs an enemy and cannot exist without one.

So, again, it’s important to not make this an identity, as that would require for us to keep the enemy alive as well.

Being a warrior in an unhealed world, and to fight for what’s right, even if those who don’t have our and their best interest in mind, try to protect their ways, is necessary. 

And it’s noble to fight for our rights, to fight for our spaces, to fight to reveal all the beauty of our human nature and to create space for all of us to exist peacefully.

But eventually, we want to celebrate our freedom and enjoy it, and so it’s important to not just battle the other, but to invite them in and to help them remember that we were never separate, and not to keep them an enemy just so we can remain in our role as a warrior.

Amateur Archetype

I love the term amateur, as it means lover of things. The amateur does things out of love – not for profit, not to get ahead, not win, but because they truly enjoy what they are doing.

The amateur is often seen as the opposite of someone who is a professional, but I kind of love the idea of being a professional amateur because it allows you to consciously, lovingly choose what you do and to stay in the moment with it.

But, you might be able to guess, what I’m about to say – balance is key here, too.

It’s great to love things and be passionate about them, as long as that doesn’t lead us to neglect other areas of our lives or to just do the things we love – unless of course we learn to love EVERYTHING unconditionally and always. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Because we can love our breakfast and brushing our teeth, as much as doing our taxes and having sex, or talking to a bee. All it takes is the decision to do it.

In which of these roles do you recognize yourself? And are you willing to try on the ones you’re not so familiar with yet?

When do you see yourself as an amateur, a hero_ine or an alchemist?

Because we are here to explore and expand, and these archetypes can help us to grow beyond the way we’ve been seeing ourselves so far.

In which area of our lives could you be a good guide? Do you need to go on more adventures? Or help all of us to free ourselves from limitations?

The more each of us steps into their full power, the happier we all become, because it’s our nature to grow and expand and the only reason why we don’t do it more is because we are afraid – even though there’s nothing to be afraid of, and you’ll only begin to see that when you consciously choose love and expansion again, and again.

It’s really awesome that you are here – and surely not a coincidence.

If you like to dive deeper into getting to know your true self, consider ordering your unique Wheel of Colours, so you can remember the colours of your life and start integrating them, to gain more personal freedom, happiness and, if you like, even enlightenment.

Or join the CREATRIX School to continue working with these archetypes.
We work with the expansive archetypes in the Community Chapter.

More Resources

You can see the full Archetype Oracle Deck here.
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