Rosa Lewis

So it's almost like these kind of totally different modes that we have or ways of being.

and a really common one in our society is that you will have essentially sort of shut down the emotional mode quite a lot and this was true of me as well and learn to feel less because emotions are not welcome and then to compensate you will think more and use your again inflated magician use that more and be extra sort of rational and see through that lens to avoid feeling and then

The shadow work bit is that the lover, the feeling is in shadow.

It's like not accessible to you.

It's not just like a free flow of feeling in your life.

And so you have to basically go back and revisit and sort of unblock that aspect of your being so that that can flow more freely.

It can be more in balance.

You can have more optionality in your range of how you experience the world, how you show up, which bits of your being are accessible.

And those four archetypes as well are good examples of archetypes being a kind of

in this realm that's a bit less concrete and a bit less literal and a bit more sort of energetic, things can get a bit soupy.

And archetypes are kind of like a way to gather a bunch of meaning and say like, oh yeah, the lover archetype, it sort of gives people a sense of what you're talking about.

It's sort of like a packet of meaning and information where it's like, oh yeah, that's like feeling.

That's the bit of me that is embodied and soft and open.

And whereas the magician archetype, it's more sort of mental.

And so archetypes are kind of, yeah, ways of

pointing towards something that can be a bit fuzzy and hard to grasp.

Kind of like a symbol.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Specifically with the shadow work as well.