The Monk, Hero, and Shapeshifter

Remember when I mentioned that person on SF who was giving "archetype" readings?

Well, I kind of asked for one.

It was tempting. And the timing seemed perfect. I had heard such good things, and I wondered what would come up.

Long story short, I was very impressed, and a bit taken aback. Here's what she came up with:


I was an fine arts student when I was your age! You don't have the obnoxious inhibitions I had, so I am happy that you are enjoying expressing your artistic talent.

You already know that you have the Artist archetype, which is a gifted archetype. Yours resides in your 10th House of Career and Highest Potential. Wherever life takes you, you will be very creative in your expression of your potential.

The newly awakened Monk archetype in your 6th House of Work and Labor is pushing you to dig deeper into the mysteries of life and spirit, and to seek peace and quiet. It is time for you to make a practice of daily meditation. You will keep getting this message everywhere you turn until you do! Stop judging your meditations because they are about disciplining your mind to focus, and that's it. The wonderful benefits of meditation will come with daily practice, and they will subtly sneak up on you. Sure, you may have some transcendent moments while you are meditating, but the real benefits come with the spiritual healings your guides give you during your meditations as a reward for your daily practice. You are very demanding upon yourself to master anything you attempt, but meditation will not satisfy this ego's need because it is a PRACTICE and a DISCIPLINE. If you do it everyday, even if you do it "badly," you will be victorious in keeping your Monk archetype in Light Attribute, and feeling at peace with your life. Please require yourself to meditate a minimum of 24 minutes each day, (using a muffled timer if you need to stay on schedule). Straight or stoned, do it anyway. You do your best work when you are in a state of waking meditation, so do your daily practice and someday you will always be in meditation, and always calm and peaceful. (Has the daily practice thing been stressed enough yet?)

Anyway, your Monk archetype joins your very diligent Hero archetype in this, your House of Work. Heroes set lofty goals and challenges for themselves and champion noble causes. They are wonderful role models to other people because of their great achievements. All of the ascended masters bear the Hero archetype, and you were born with it so we know you're a go-getter. Keep up the good work!

You do need to work on something to get out of your own way: your Wounded Child archetype in your 8th House of Shared Resources is in Shadow Attribute because you were screwed over at home in so many ways. You can be a whiny baby when things aren't fair because your roommates aren't pulling their weight financially or doing their chores. It is very painful for you because it's more of the same that you grew up with. You have to forgive everyone that has been so unfair to you. Not for them....for you. Better roommates are coming in the future if you do your forgiveness work. You need to vent your negative feelings, but not directly to these individuals because you might hurt them (and you don't want to hurt anyone, if you can help it). You know how to work with rituals, so fully express your pain and frustrations towards the offending individuals in a ritual to satisfy the feelings stuffed in your astral field. Write them nasty letters, but never mail them. Burn them. Scream at them in your imagination if you have to, (you know, out loud somewhere where other people can't hear you), and this will satisfy your need to release those feelings. When you are spent, forgive them and let them go. Once this is done you will find that you can express your displeasure with your lazy or incompetent roommates in a mature and practical way that will get some results. Otherwise, you just get chided for being a grump, and nothing changes. I know, it's a lot to do, and you are very busy. If it takes all year, get it done.

You can look forward to a most remarkable archetype awakening in your late twenties: the Shapeshifter!! You lucky dog! With this gifted archetype, you will be able to traverse various dimensions, astral travel, do remote viewing, initiate telepathic conversations, read the Akashic Records, lucid dream, and change and disguise your astral form when you astral travel or lucid dream. That is so cool! You are going to have so much fun with it! It will awaken in your 11th House of Groups and Friends, so you will be hanging out with other Shapeshifters, sharing adventures and stories. What a blast!

I hope this reading was beneficial and seemed accurate to you. You have some wild adventures ahead. 

I think this is tremendously cool. I don't know how she does it, but she even answered questions I had about myself. It's all so perfect, even if "archetypes" do tend to box people a bit. As you can imagine, I'm quite excited about that Shapeshifter archetype. All the things she listed are things I desperately want to be able to do. To me, that's a sign that things will be going my way in the future. 

I told her I had to laugh at the Monk type and the whole meditation spiel. Over and over I receive the impulses and signs to meditate, but I always feel too drained, or my mind is always active. Then again, it's as she says: meditation is simply disciplining the mind to focus. I do that when I draw.

Hero was something I kind of expected, seeing how I'm so determined to change the world. And Wounded Child.. ahaha. Perfect.

Man, I'm kind of psyched now. No wonder people were raving about this lovely lady. This reading actually has me excited about myself and my future. Sweet!

In other news, my brother leaves on Sunday, which has got me somewhat relieved. I hate to say it, but as I've mentioned before: my brother reawakens all the things that make me feel distant from my so-called family. I swear, the more days that pass, the less I feel like I'm related to them. 

Thanks to my wonderful sense of time management, and some lucky breaks, I only have one thing to focus on this weekend: that panel for Italian Renaissance. It won't even take that much work... I think the biggest challenge will be designing that damned quatrefoil shape. I have no idea how I'm going to do that. 

I was supposed to be having a sushi lunch with my brother today, but he and my parents decided to go this German restaurant for dinner instead. I was kind of hurt when I heard about it, to be honest. That's fine, though. If anything, I'll probably be playing GW2 with a new friend I made. 

Will save the other bits for later posts.