A psychic archetype represents a core energy expression that we believe defines our psychological and spiritual journey, in this, past and future lives. While we may engage in different forms of life practice, such as being a soldier or a doctor, we are one specific archetype, which could be the Warrior or the Healer.
This article explores the psychic archetype of the Father.
One archetype, many guises
History is full of warrior priests and soldier healers (medics). Teachers can be athletes and athletes can be teachers. We can wear many guises over the course of our lives, but we usually operate from a single psychic archetype.
Sometimes necessity and circumstances can force us into a guise that is far removed from our spiritual purpose, it will seem. If we look closely enough at our actions under any circumstance, we will be able to see the consistent psychic imprint of our representation.
I have a varied work history including construction, website design/management, teaching (college English), and now spiritual consulting. With each iteration of my work opportunities, I repeatedly found myself in the same role… as a spiritual and emotional advisor to those around me.
The father
I’ve had my fair share of experiences with women and men in parental roles, especially after I became a parent in 2005. In our current time, more and more women represent or have the role of the archetype of the Father, and more and more men are too. choosing or finding themselves embracing Mother energy instead of Father energy. A Father archetype person truly and deeply loves taking care of his spouse or child/children as the main purpose of his existence.
Fathers exist outside the family construct and, like all archetypes, can be found in any profession. Their ability to lead, produce, and teach applies to work, friendships, and families. When we need any kind of practical security and support, fathers provide the energy, knowledge and action to help us.
Each archetype travels through lifetimes gaining experience within and beyond its ideal representation to enjoy and understand the full range of human experience, while learning lessons related to completing his or her work and/or the fact that he or she is prevented from completing his or her work. Lessons flow both ways, but they don’t have to.
The ideal society (utopian vision)
It is really not difficult to imagine an ideal society in which everyone discovers his or her psychic or spiritual archetype and is given a way to express that archetype through work and interactions with the other archetypes in the world. Creating such a world would require a wholesale and comprehensive acceptance of the balance between science and spirituality, between creativity and necessity, and between compassion and integrity.
Reality is an ebb and flow of balance, imbalance and rebalancing, and that is where all learning for the spiritual soul that inhabits a human or animal body teaches lessons not found in utopian visions or in the spirit realm. We choose to be here; and psychic or spiritual archetypes indicate that we choose a singular type of role so that we can experience true mastery.
Are you a father?
Each archetype has definable and distinguishable properties.
Attracted to practical needs
We all want to be supported and know that we will get what we practically need (shelter and food) through our “Fathers,” the person who does the work to provide for our material needs. The Father is the guide for how to go into the world and be successful. Fathers teach us how to use the necessary practical skills to survive and succeed in society.
Fathers ‘move’ towards responsibility; they do not avoid it or fear it. They are drawn to others and invite others to learn from their successes and failures so they can find their own path to success. Fathers serve as role models for what needs to be done to “make it in the world.” Mothers are there to help us understand our feelings, while fathers are there to help us know how to earn what we need to pay our own bills one day.
Drawn to teaching
Fathers represent our first “success in society” teachers, both in terms of what our society wants from us and in terms of how much we are worthy of doing what interests us or needs to be done to support society. The Father moves through the world and is “activated” because they must contribute to society in order to provide for their family. As a society or community, we want fathers to ‘show us the way’ to success.
Protect and prioritize the family
Fathers, like all archetypes, work to master their craft, which sets them apart from other archetypes who may perform the same practices, but not from the same place of soul and spirit. A surgeon can be a father, who sees illness or injury as something that needs to be healed and is valued in such a way that it gives him the opportunity to care for himself and his family at a very high level.
The best fathers master educational knowledge: they study the needs of the world as a way to teach the children, encourage the children, and help the children find their calling and purpose. Fathers are ‘protective’ people, who want to help the soul in the transition from childhood to adulthood.
The “need to teach practical skills” part of the Father is the defining quality that sets him or her apart from other archetypes who fill the same roles. The motivations are different and unique to each archetype, even more so than the practices. All archetypes can learn how to care for and raise children, but their motivations will be different.
The Father is motivated to connect with the needs associated with life transitions in childhood: learning to walk and talk, caring for your belongings, and developing roles that make you a helpful member of society. Fathers understand the important timing and quality of properly teaching a child practical life lessons to help the child participate in the world in a healthy and productive way, both for the child’s sake and for the sake of the child. world.
Its leaders
The outcomes are important to the Father archetype; they work best when solving practical problems. They know that they are the most important teacher in situations where responsibility increases as part of life development. In their highest manifestation they can be understood as the providers of all societies.
The Fathers show others what is needed and how to act as they seek to address and understand their practical needs and role as producers in society. This path through the world is fundamental in helping them understand their place in the scheme of the community of archetypes.
