Archetype test

Byronic/Gothic Hero

Fatal flaw, Alienated, Outcast, Has great appeal

Sacrificial Scapegoat

the hero, with whom the welfare of the tribe or nation is identified, must die to atone for the people's sins and restore the land to fruitfulness

The Female Hero AKA Princess Hero

Unhappy with current life and wants to change it

Assertive

Independent

The Sea

The mother of all life

Spiritual mystery and infinity

Death and rebirth

Timelessness and eternity

The unconscious

Rivers

Can suggest mystery of creation

Birth to death to resurrection

Purification and redemption (i.e. baptism)

Fertility and growth

Rising sun

Consciousness (thinking, wisdom, spiritual vision)

Birth, creation, enlightenment

Creative energy

Law in nature

Passage of time and life

Setting sun

Passage of time and life

Death

End of an era

The Departure

An Unusual Birth/Early Childhood

The Call to Adventure

Crossing the Threshold

Initiation

Challenges and Trials

Supernatural Helper or Mentor

The Special Weapon

The Abyss or Temptation

The Transformation

The return

The Return Home

The Mastery of the Two Worlds

The Good Mother

Associated with the life principle

Birth, warmth, nourishment, protection, fertility, growth, abundance

The Sophia Figure or Holy Mother

The princess or beautiful lady-incarnation of inspiration and spiritual fulfillment

Inspired by the Virgin Mary

The Damsel in Distress

Vulnerable and needs to be rescued

Mountain

Place of mystery and power

The center of the universe from which everything could be seen

The place the gods reveal truths

Ascending the mountain suggests a spiritual journey to enlightenment

Garden

Paradise

Innocence

Unspoiled beauty

Desert

Spiritual aridity

Death

Nihilism: the rejection of all moral and religious principles in the belief that life is meaningless

Hopelessness

Tree

Source of life

Force that connects us

Its consistency, growth, proliferation, generative and regenerative processes stands for inexhaustible life, and therefore is equivalent to the symbol of immortality.

3

Light

Spiritual Awareness

Unity

Ex: Holy Trinity

7

The most potent of all symbolic numbers signifying the union of 3 and 4

The completion of a cycle

Perfect order

Circle

Wholeness and unity

Oval

Forces of generation and the mystery of life

Owl

Truth tellers

Eyes and messengers of the gods

Move between the seen and unseen

Offer prophetic vision and insight

Dragon

Positive: good luck, fortune, and wisdom

Negative: bad luck, elemental evil, and heresy

Snake/Serpent

Symbol of energy & pure force

Evil

Corruption

Destruction

Mystery

Unconscious

Wisdom

Black

Chaos

Death

Mystery

The unknown

Primal wisdom

The unconscious

Evil

Melancholy

Red

Blood

Sacrifice

Violent passion

Disorder

Also, brave and courageous

Green

Positive: Sensation, hope, and fertility

Negative: may be associated with death and decay

Blue

Highly positive

Associated with truth and security

Religious feeling

Spiritual purity

The color of the Great Mother or the Holy Mother

White

Positive

Light

Purity

Innocence

Timelessness

Negative

Death

Terror

The supernatural

The Monster

Unnatural, artificial

Threatens the individual or society

Does the villain's bidding but not necessarily evil by choice

The Rebel

Outlaw, misfit

Goal is to break rules and conventions

They get in the hero's way, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally

They have the ability to be a good guy and become an ally to the hero

The Villain

Hero's opponent, source of problems in the plot

Represents things we do not like and would like to eliminate

The Devil Figure

A form of the shadow, evil incarnate

A figure who often offers the hero otherworldly goods, fame, or knowledge, for possession of his soul

The Clown/Trickster

Can be cruel to others or suffer cruelty for us (i.e. is punished and we laugh, or is made the butt of a joke).

The Fool

Distressed by some unconscious lack of power or an inordinate desire for fame, who projects his or her inadequacies against a scapegoat or hero

Wants to be heroic but lacks the makings

Feels misunderstood

Not necessarily evil