[split] Wanderers, Adepts, and how do they relate to the Archetypes?

[Ohr Ein Sof]

Does anyone have an Archetype that speaks to them more than any other? I loved studying The Hierophant and The Wheel of Fortune. Anyone else?

The Star/Hope/Faith archetype is my jam. Firstly, is it just really pretty to look at. Secondly, I like the ever-pouring cups that spill into the pools, as they remind me of the concept of intelligent infinity funneling into our energy systems to meet the upward spiraling prana, enlivening and inspiring us wherever we may be situated. I find this concept very magical - how the full, incomprehensible majesty of an ever-expanding infinite cosmic-mind is able to be funneled into an individuated portion of consciousness, to be focused to such a degree that in the darkness, work may be done with our tiny candle (71.7). So I see that being reflected in the magical pitchers that do not stop pouring. I also like the imagery of beautiful growth for STO polarization, as I do see faith as that power which can co-create in harmony with the Logos.

It’s also the archetype that Ra states to be the most closely linked with the "dissociation" that the adept experiences out of necessity, as was covered in the OP.

80.13 Questioner: Then is this, from the point of view or with respect to the fifteenth archetype, somewhat of an excursion into the Matrix of the Spirit in this process? Does that make any sense?

Ra: I am Ra. The excursion of which you speak and the process of disassociation is most usually linked with that archetype you call Hope which we would prefer to call Faith. This archetype is the Catalyst of the Spirit and, because of the illuminations of the Potentiator of the Spirit, will begin to cause these changes in the adept’s viewpoint.

I’m not totally sure why the above may be the case, but I would guess that it is through faith that we come to see/sense/live-as-though all is One. Perhaps when we reach the awareness of our true natures through Catalyst of the Spirit, we come to better understand the true natures of others, thus the “illusory husks” fall away from the viewpoint. Or perhaps it is because when we live faithful lives, guided by our north star, we out of necessity live according to universal truth - that all is Creator.

An adept is one who is conscious of the archetypes and uses them for their personal and spiritual evolution.

I do wonder to what extent an adept could consciously penetrate the archetypes without having any prior knowledge of them.

I've often wondered about this final statement that you have made. I believe the Archetypes are within each of us, the understanding is already there but one must look upon the images in a meditative state to access the information. Though at first the work may be slightly distorted, as one studies and meditates upon the images the information becomes clearer and clearer. I have also wondered if one were to study in previous lifetimes, if that accumulated wisdom is also a part of the soul stream?
I love The Hierophant because this is the inner voice of wisdom that guides and teaches. This Archetype connects the higher to lower (Vav=hook) allowing teachings to flow from the higher planes to the Material. Also what is learned and ascertained here is ascertained there. In the BOTA deck The Hierophant has three levels to his crown and the lowest level symbolizes the Material plane, just as on The Wheel of Fortune; Key 10; the outer ring containing the letters suggests the manifestation of the WORD or Logos and therefore stand for the Material world or the world of the spoken word. And the higher levels of the Hierophant's crown symbolize the Formative, Creative and the Archetypal (just as in Key 10 and the inner most ring going outward). These worlds are connected to the very being of each individual soul as it is part of Creation and this to me speaks why when one is able to center oneself in meditation and practice that he can learn the Archetypes without ever having previous knowledge OR reconnect to what he has learned from previous lifetimes. I hope I made sense.