What do you want?
By Lian Brook-Tyler
Yesterday, I listened to five precious souls share their journey of discovering their soul purpose and becoming their medicine (a conversation that we'll share on the podcast soon).
There was a question I asked each of them which was something like “What called you to that journey?”
Differently said: What did you want?
Their answers were varied…
* There was something more, something deeper that I knew I could be bringing to my clients, something more for them to see, something more for *me* to see!
* I needed to experience a level of depth and also safety - and I couldn’t see it being modelled out there in the coaching industry.
* I wasn’t satisfied and didn’t feel free in the work I was doing.
* I wanted to move beyond the ways I’d learned to survive, and instead explore the depths of myself.
* I wasn’t confident to take my clients to the depths because I knew I needed to go there first.
* A deep feeling that I needed to explore beyond where the people around me wanted or could go.
* I had an idea that was burning through, and although things were already happening externally, I wanted a better sense of what I would uniquely bring to it.
Though the reasons given varied, there was a clear repetition of the themes of depth, self-gnosis, exploration, service, and freedom.
Not money, success, status, or security (not that they might not also want or have those things but they weren’t what drew them onto this path).
That didn’t surprise me because I know by now that people like them are here for a life of liberating themselves to explore the depths of their souls and the mystery, where few in this culture dare or even are called to go, and to bring back the treasure they find to share with others.
I see folk like these through an archetypal lens, they are old souls who are here to live out their own unique myth of the medicine found in their sacred wound through the embodiment of the magical or spiritual archetypes such as Oracle, Shaman, Mystic, Priest, Priestess, Healer, and Sage (regardless of whether that’s their actual role or job title, which could be something like founder, coach, therapist, teacher, or leadership trainer).
Making that conscious means that everything changes, as Caroline Myss said…
“If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here.”
For these people (and for the countless others we’ve guided along this mythical journey), knowing themselves archetypally means that they have a lens on their own soul’s purpose and also a lens on the people they are here to serve.
And the clues were there in what they wanted… The longing for depth, self-gnosis, exploration, service, and freedom that drew them to that journey in the first place.
So… what do you want? And what does that tell you about you?
All my love ♥️
Lian
Art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti "Proserpine" (1874) Persephone eating the pomegranate
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