What Archetypes Are Calling You?

What Archetypes Are Calling You?
Carol S. Pearson

Scoring Methodology

Based on your answers, the following archetypes in red are those that are calling to you right now. You can use this information to make educated decisions about what the archetype really wants, and whether satisfying it requires you to purchase anything. Often, when we have the genuine experience the archetype craves, we find we do not have to buy so much.

A. 2 Innocent. .

B. 1 Explorer.

C. 3 Sage.

D. 4 Every person.

E. 4 Lover.

F. 5 Jester.

G. 3 Hero.

H. 2 Revolutionary.

I. 8 Magician. You have a strong desire to heal or transform people or situations. Now is the time to develop your power. Explore the art of changing your own consciousness in order to influence others. Be the future you want to see.

J. 7 Caregiver. You are drawn to being altruistic and helping others. Now is the time to identify who of the many needy people you most want to help. Donate some money. Volunteer. Spend time with children or the elderly or someone sick or otherwise in need. Lend a hand.

K. 6 Creator. You have a strong need now to express your creativity and imaginative potential. Find an art form and practice getting good at it. You may not be Picasso, but you do have a vision. Now is the time to encapsulate it in tangible form.

L. 2 Ruler.

This is interesting but not really news to me. Ihave always been a person who enjoys helping others, lots of people come to me for advice not because I am good at telling them what to do but because I am good at helping them figure out whats best for them to do. I guess a mother of 9 should have caregiver archetypal leanings...otherwise I would need a new job huh?And the creator aspect shows itself in my digital designs. I do enjoy it when I am not in a rut. I have been designing for the last couple days. Not really liking what I am doing but trying to push through.

Inspired

Maybe its the season...or the request to join this year's Christmas Around The World blog train which has been renamed Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies. Once again I will participating in this and I was up until 3 am designing last night...and I LOVE what I have come up with. Hope you guys like it as well. Also I will have a coupon in the upcoming holiday DST Insider so be on the look out for that..In keeping with that issue,I am going to try a hybrid project..if it works out well I will post results here & instructions AND a freebie to try it out!

Mercury Retrograde...

I admit i check my horoscope from time to time. I am not fanatical about but when I do I ALWAYS go to Susan Miller's Astrology Zone. She is usually has things that are so exact it is eerie. well this months forecast for me starts out like this,

"After a fairly stressful September, you are looking forward to October, and rightly so. Mercury, your ruler, will still be retrograde for the first three weeks of October. This time you may welcome the slower pace that Mercury retrograde brings. With two eclipses in August and a very difficult full moon in mid-September, you've been dealing with a lot of news and shifting situations." Ok cue the spooky music! Lady get outta my life and head...stressful September was an understatement..

here is another gem..."At work, if you are in the creative department, this month you'll find it easy to come up with ideas but a little harder to execute them properly."
Guess thats why my idea book is full but my upload queue is almost empty...execution seems to beyond my grasp right now....

but now that the retrograde has passed (Oct 20) i should be able to get back in the swing of things....right????

Work in Progress & freebie

thats how I feel. My life has been so hectic...my eldest is graduating this year. She has decided on a college (go Grambling Tigers) but still has ACT to take, she made captain of the cheerleading squad and nominated to Homecoming Court...all of this means her extracurricular load is crazy...practice for this, practice for that, community appearances...whooo...busy busy busy. Here is Pixie in her uniform pic

my youngest son is seeing a new pediatric neurologist because the two previous ones moved out of the area. She is GREAT! i was really unhappy with the last one he had. He was good with my son but I just found him somewhat standoffish. My son will also be seeing a physiatrist...I had never heard of it either...its a rehabilitation doctor. Rehabilitation physicians are nerve, muscle, and bone experts who treat injuries or illnesses that affect how you move. Jorrell's official diagnosis is hemplegic cerebral palsy (resulting from stroke he suffered in utero) which means this doctor will use his expertise to oversee the physical & occupational therapy. Even with him getting it at school & outpatient once a week, we are noticing increased tone or difficulty with him doing the range of motion exercises. It makes me sad to see how he has to use his left arm turn his right arm in supine position.

But he is a real trooper and so sweet! The brace on his arm is to help with finger extension!
Those are just a few of the things that are keeping me busy. i also seem to have lost my mojo...i am working on a set of paper preview templates. A friend asked me to make her some so I obliged. This one supports 8 papers so here is a sample download here.
i am also working on my first tagger kit..I am part of the yahoo group Truly Inspired and next couple weeks, there will be a blog train based on this story SHIMILY (be sure to have your tissues ready). Stay tuned to for more info on that.

I have been busy busy busy....three ct teams (well two officially have started...still waiting on one)...feeling some of my designing mojo coming back the more I scrap...and picture taking...I am so loving my Nikon...(I saw someone had a cool I <3 My Nikon blinkies....I meant to snag it)....Dirt Lovin Kids by DigiDiva (Connie Prince) In other news...I am SO SO SO sad ADSR3 is over...I had a GREAT partner and had a ball. At some point I plan to put all my adsr layouts in one gallery...I got a real scrapping work out doing those challenges. Here is my final layout for challenge
the kit is Sweet Potato Pie by DigiDiva (Connie Prince), alpha by Gina Miller.

I wanted to leave yall with some pre-craziness Michael Jackson R&B but my ftp site is not working so just imagine you here him sing got me working...day and nite...got me working sunshine until midnight!

Almost two weeks

Since I blogged and I been busy, busy, busy. I started back in school on Monday. I also started the The Artist Way book club and I am SO enjoying it. Its a 12 week course in restoring creativity. This is really pre week and getting in to the swing of things.

http://paperartstudio.tripod.com/artistsway/index.html

this is a link to a website that has the whole book broken down by chapters.

I can't seem to finish any of my designs lately so I hope that this will help me find my inner artist/child and nurture her

I have a free template offered at Scrapbookers Playground for my template challenge...its a rectangle for all you non squares.

I loved this post as soon as I read it. With all the drama in digi community, its very easy to get caught up in negativity and lose your mojo...here is a wonderful article (not mine but borrowed) I left original links intact, if someone would like to go and leave comments.

Creativity and the Choke Factor

• Dec. 14th, 2007 at 6:07 AM

rehuxley

Creativity and the Choke Factor

Have you ever been faced with a stressful situation where it is crucial how you perform, only to choke just when you need to be at your best? We all have! An article, by Scientific American journal, studied this experience and found some interesting insights.

The researchers found that negatively stereotyped social groups are some are at the greatest risk of choking under pressure. For example, if women are told that they are not as good as men at math, right before a math test, then they tend to do poorer on that test then if they were not told this statement.

One reason for the may be that the women are having to fight off the negative thoughts as they are trying to also person a complext task like solve math problems. This is what the researchers called increased Cognitive Load. Others studies suggest that a negative stereotype increases feelings of anxiety and stress which affect performance.

As an artist, I feel the pressure of creating a painting when someone asks me to do one or wants to commission a specific image or scene. I can do great art, when I follow my muse and don't worry about the outcome. That is because I am not worrying about whether someone will like it or question myself about my artistic abilities.

There is also the element of our identity. How we "see" ourselves or thing that other see us can affect our perfomances. Another researcher studied how positive stereotypes affect complex activities and found that this actually boosts ability to perform. Why don't positive intrusive thoughts cause people to choke like negative ones? Because positive thoughts don't focus on our feelings of worth as a member of a particular social group. As an artist, positive thoughts about my artistic skills increase my worth in this group of people. If I don't think I am as "good as" other artists, that negative thought will cause me choke my creativity energies.

Should we just pump ourselves up before a difficult task or pay others to tell us nice things about we are? Maybe so. As a psychotherapist, I tell my clients to explore their audiences of appreciation. Who values them? Who will be able to notice their efforts to change and will accept them unconditionally? A lot of emotional sufferers just don't have enough awareness of their audiences of appreciation. Maybe my role as psychotherapist is to be one of those audience members.

Find out who appreciates you and can build up your creative energy with positive encouragements today.

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