The Archetype Library
A Somatic Map for How You Move Through the World
You have a primary way of being. A default operating system. A pattern your nervous system falls into when you're most yourself—and when you're most stressed.
This isn't personality typing. This is embodiment.
Your archetype lives in your body. It's how you regulate, how you relate, how you lead, how you collapse. It's what you crave and what dysregulates you. It's your gifts and your shadows.
Knowing your archetype isn't about putting yourself in a box. It's about understanding the box you're already in—so you can work with it, expand it, and integrate what's missing.
Original QuizMen: 8 Archetypes
Eight ways men embody power, purpose, and presence. Click the title to be taken to a deep dive page for your archetype.
KING You lead with sovereignty. Vision, responsibility, and noble authority are your domain. You build kingdoms and hold power in service of something larger.
WARRIOR You lead with action. Courage, commitment, and decisive engagement are your strengths. You fight for what matters and protect what's sacred.
MESSENGER You lead with connection. Communication, translation, and bridge-building are your gifts. You move people through words and create understanding.
CREATIVE GENIUS You lead with vision. Innovation, disruption, and paradigm-shifting thinking are your territory. You see what doesn't exist yet and bring it into being.
RECLUSE You lead with depth. Solitude, contemplation, and inner focus are your strengths. You do your best work alone and create things that require sustained attention.
BUSINESS MAN You lead with execution. Strategy, systems, and sustainable results are your domain. You turn ideas into infrastructure and make things actually work.
ROCK STAR You lead with presence. Charisma, magnetism, and the ability to move crowds are your gifts. You captivate and inspire through sheer force of being.
ARTIST You lead with creation. Beauty, craft, and meaningful work are your territory. You make things that carry soul and remind people what matters.
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Women: 7 Archetypes
Seven ways women embody power, connection, and presence. Click the title to be taken to a deep dive page for your archetype.
LOVER You lead with your body. Sensation, feeling, and embodied desire are your native language. You create intimacy like breathing and help others come home to themselves.
QUEEN You lead with sovereignty. Structure, boundaries, and clear command are your domain. You create order from chaos and hold power without apology.
MOTHER You lead with care. Nurturing, holding, and creating safety are your gifts. You tend to what needs tending and help others grow.
MYSTIC You lead with depth. Spiritual attunement, intuition, and connection to the unseen are your territory. You sense what others miss and translate the invisible.
SAGE You lead with wisdom. Clarity, pattern recognition, and understanding are your strengths. You illuminate what's confusing and help others see.
HUNTRESS You lead with freedom. Movement, autonomy, and fierce independence are your oxygen. You refuse cages and show others what's possible beyond the familiar.
MAIDEN You lead with openness. Curiosity, humility, and willingness to grow are your gifts. You stay teachable and remind others that they don't have to have it all figured out.
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HOW TO USE THIS
Take the quiz to discover your primary archetype—the one that runs your operating system.
Read your landing page to understand your gifts, your shadows, your nervous system patterns, and your growth edges.
Notice what triggers you in the other archetypes. That's usually where your integration work lives.
Practice the embodiment exercises for your type. This isn't about thinking differently—it's about living differently in your body.
NOTE: THIS ISN'T ABOUT LIMITATION
You have access to all seven (or eight) archetypes. They all live in you. But one is usually primary. One runs the show when you're not paying attention. One is your home base—your default, your comfort zone, your automatic response. The goal isn't to stop being your primary archetype. The goal is to be it fully, consciously, with access to the others when you need them.
That's integration. That's embodiment. That's the work.
Original QuizHI! I'M CHRISTINA.
I'm an embodiment coach, a mom, an educator, and an entrepreneur.
I began my own healing journey in my 30’s after a divorce and a career change. You can read more of my story here. Embodiment just worked for me. It works for my clients. I offer coaching and subscription courses for men and women. If you visit the homepage, I try to make the current offers super easy to understand!
I am really proud of my community and I am really glad to have you join in. Embodiment and somatic work doesn't make it into the lives of most people but it really can help, it's pretty simple and it's fast.
See you in your inbox every Sunday with a fresh essay! Christina
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