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From Warrior to Magician:
An exercise in discovering your archetypal patterns
by Celeste Allegrea Adams
Copyright © 2001, Celeste Allegrea Adams
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By asking yourself a number of simple questions, you can begin to understand which archetype(s) play the most significant role in your life. You can see how different the response would be between the warrior, martyr, orphan, or the magician. I’ve limited it to these main archetypes, though the responses could be expanded to include any number of archetypes).
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1) Do you feel as if you are constantly fighting a current that wants to take you in a direction that you don’t want to go, or do you find that there is a kind of effortlessness in moving towards your desired goals?
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oThe warrior celebrates the challenge of a struggle and finds satisfaction in achieving his goal against all odds.
oThe martyr resents the constant problems that must be overcome. There is so much working against him that he cannot achieve his goal.
oThe orphan is afraid and uncertain and needs help in trying to achieve her goal. She might not realize that the greater challenge is that she can’t seem to settle on a particular goal, since she doesn’t have a well-developed sense of who she is.
oThe magician’s finds opportunities at every turn. By removing obstacles created by fear and insecurity, the magician sometimes feels as if everything he touches turns to gold and experiences life as a flow.
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2) Do you find that you spend more time worrying about the future and struggling with the past than you do with embracing the perfection of the moment?
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oThe warrior believes that his energetic efforts in the present will create the future that he wants.
oThe martyr believes that the future will be no better than the past or present, and nothing that he can do will change the outcome. It is his fate.
oThe orphan focuses on the imperfections of the moment and has no certainty about future possibilities, because of disappointments in the past.
oA magician trusts in the purpose and meaning of the moment and operates with faith allowing the perfect workings of the universe to manifest.
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| 3) Do you live in a state of chronic dissatisfaction about the quality of your life, or do you focus on the small blessings that surround you? |
oThe warrior works towards improving his life by taking continuous action in the world.
oThe martyr feels that her own needs have been overlooked by others and rarely focuses on personal blessings.
oThe orphan feels deprived and believes that the world has treated him unfairly, through no fault of his own.
oThe magician feels gratitude and is eager to celebrate even the smallest blessing.
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4) What is your response to September 11th?
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oSome warriors want to protect and defend the US and joins in on the military campaigns. Others, who operate with a different kind of warrior energy, get arrested for anti-war demonstrations and spend a night in jail.
oThe martyr is obsessed with the prospects of having to endure the horrors of WWIII.
oThe orphan has a hard time functioning and leans on those around her for comfort during this frightening time.
oThe magician believes that the tragedies that occurred can lead to greater blessings and spends her energy transmuting muck to gold through the power of prayer, intention, visualization, and love.
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5) Do you ask for what you need?
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oThe warrior does not ask for help but celebrates her independence and prefers to rely on her own abilities to get what she needs.
oThe martyr doesn’t ask because there would be no point. Since no one has ever offered help in the past there is no reason to believe that anyone would offer help in the future.
oThe orphan doesn’t always understand what she needs. She may ask for what she needs in a form that is too specific and as a result she feels that she never gets what she really wants. What she receives is never enough and so she is always in need
oThe magician fully expects to receive what she needs and is open to all opportunities that come her way. She clearly asks for what she wants and puts it out to the universe in broad terms, so that she is rarely disappointed.
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6) If you are faced a major illness, how do you react?
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oThe warrior does not complain about the loss but forges ahead, determined to overcome his misfortune.
oThe martyr asks over and over "Why me?" Deep down, she knows that she always secretly expected that this sort of thing would happen and the physical pain actually gives some relief to her intense emotional suffering. She wonders what misfortune will follow this one.
oThe orphan believes that his life will never be the same and feels hopeless and victimized.
oThe magician knows how to turn around misfortune, so that it becomes an opportunity. The magician believes that the loss of eyesight, for instance, can lead to the development of other senses, extra-sensory perception and greater inner wisdom. When people ask, "Why did this have to happen to you?" he responds, "Why not me?" He transmutes that which can be changed, and accepts that which he cannot change.
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7) Do you feel worthy of having a beautiful, abundant life?
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oThe warrior works hard and deals with continuous challenges, in order to make life the way he would like it to be. His sincere efforts allow him to feel worthy.
oThe martyr does not feel that anything will work out for him.
oThe orphan believes he can have an abundant life only if he is given the right conditions.
oThe magician feels worthy of having a life that is beautiful and abundant and celebrates the life that he has. The possibilities and opportunities are infinite.
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8) The recession is causing many people to lose jobs, what will you do if you lose yours?
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oThe warrior prepares for the challenge and energizes himself to pursue every possible lead to find a new job.
oThe martyr expected that he would be one of the first to lose his job and is distressed at the prospect of needing to exert enormous efforts to get another one.
oThe orphan is frozen in fear and struggles with depression and despair.
oThe magician sees the loss of a job as an opportunity to use all the resources she has been endowed with to find another job—one that will be even better than the last. She focuses on what she can create, rather than what has been lost. She knows the importance of relaxing into the flow, when things become difficult, and utilizes the gifts that she has been granted—intuition, intelligence, imagination to create new opportunities.
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Copyright © 2001, Celeste Allegrea Adams
All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated in any form whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations referenced in critical articles
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