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Answers that reach for understanding and truth, and trust knowing over impulse.
Rooted in Jung's 'Wise Old Man' (the mana personality); the tidier 'Sage' label is from the later popular twelve-archetype scheme.
How we know → Rationalist · Where meaning comes from → Discovered
Answers that prove themselves through courage, effort, and rising to a hard challenge.
A core Jungian archetype (elaborated by Joseph Campbell as the hero's journey).
Free will → Libertarian (free will) · What people are like underneath → Malleable · How change should happen → Reform
Answers drawn to experience, discovery, and authenticity beyond the settled and familiar.
From the popular twelve-archetype scheme (Mark & Pearson), Jung-inspired but not Jung's own.
How we know → Intuition-led · The individual and the group → Individualist · Where meaning comes from → Created
Answers that question the given order and are ready to overturn what isn't working.
The 'Outlaw/Rebel' of the popular scheme; resonates with Jung's Shadow — the disowned energy that breaks rules.
How power should be arranged → Egalitarian · How change should happen → Rupture
Answers that seek order, responsibility, and a stable structure others can rely on.
From the popular twelve-archetype scheme; the 'King' has deep mythic and Jungian roots.
How power should be arranged → Hierarchical · How change should happen → Preservation · The individual and the group → Communitarian
Answers organised around protecting, nurturing, and taking responsibility for others.
Resonates with Jung's Great Mother, a core archetype; the 'Caregiver' label is from the later popular scheme.
What makes an action right → Virtue-based · The individual and the group → Communitarian
Answers that make meaning by building, imagining, and bringing something new into being.
From the popular twelve-archetype scheme; kin to Jung's generative, creative impulse.
Where meaning comes from → Created · How we know → Intuition-led
Answers that trust in goodness, harmony, and meaning that can be received rather than fought for.
The 'Innocent' of the popular scheme; resonates with Jung's Child archetype (wholeness and new beginnings).
Where meaning comes from → Received · What people are like underneath → Constrained
Answers that puncture pretension, hold paradox lightly, and refuse to take fixed certainties too seriously.
A core Jungian archetype (the Trickster); overlaps with the popular scheme's 'Jester.'
How we know → Intuition-led · How power should be arranged → Egalitarian
Answers that find meaning in connection, beauty, and union with others.
From the popular scheme; resonates with the Jungian Eros and the Anima/Animus (the relational, connecting principle).
Where meaning comes from → Received · The individual and the group → Communitarian
Answers drawn to transformation, hidden patterns, and turning insight into change.
From the popular scheme; kin to Jung's 'mana personality' and the transformative unconscious.
How we know → Intuition-led · How change should happen → Rupture
Answers grounded in belonging, solidarity, and the dignity of ordinary shared life.
The 'Everyman/Orphan' of the popular scheme, Jung-inspired but not Jung's own.
How power should be arranged → Egalitarian · The individual and the group → Communitarian