Carl Jung’s archetypes onto each Human Design Authority
I enjoy reading about Carl Jung’s archetypes, and mixing that with Human Design makes me feel kinda sparkly inside like something just clicks in my soul.
Emotional Authority
Archetype: The Lover / The Alchemist
The Emotional Authority holds the depth of the Lover — deeply sensitive, attuned to the emotional undercurrents of life. But when rushed, they become the shadow Lover: reactive, chaotic, consumed by highs and lows.
When they wait, they become the Alchemist — one who transforms emotional experience into gold. Their clarity is born through patience, through feeling the full wave and letting it settle before acting. They teach others that emotions are not weaknesses — they’re data. When you wait, you make soul-aligned decisions that have depth, resonance, and heart.
Sacral Authority
Archetype: The Warrior / The Creator
The Sacral Authority channels the life force. It’s primal. Pure instinct. This is the archetype of the Warrior — decisive, powerful, guided by a strong inner “yes” or “no.” But the shadow Warrior becomes enslaved to obligation, saying “yes” out of duty, burning out.
When in alignment, they become the Creator — fueled by joy, lit up from the inside, building only what’s truly meant for them. They remind the world that the sacred path is lit by desire, not pressure. Their truth is instant, and when they follow it, they radiate energy that uplifts everyone.
Splenic Authority
Archetype: The Mystic / The Oracle
This is the archetype of deep instinctual wisdom. The Mystic doesn’t need proof — they just know. The Splenic Authority receives quiet, momentary hits of truth. The shadow shows up when they don't trust it — when fear drowns out their intuition.
Aligned, they are the Oracle — perceiving what others can’t. They move with quiet confidence, responding to unseen signals. They guide through presence and precision, and their power lies in trusting the moment. They teach that safety isn't in overthinking — it's in listening deeply to your body.
Ego Authority
Archetype: The Sovereign / The Rebel
The Ego Authority is about willpower, personal desire, and conviction. In shadow, this archetype becomes the Pleaser — acting from others’ expectations, abandoning their own wants to maintain connection.
But when in alignment, they embody the Sovereign: bold, unapologetic, self-led. Or the Rebel — breaking systems that suppress individual truth. Their authority isn’t selfish — it’s clean, direct, and powerful. They show the world how important it is to want what you want — and to act on it without guilt.
Self-Projected Authority
Archetype: The Bard / The Philosopher
This archetype speaks to truth through voice. In its shadow, it becomes the Lost One — echoing others’ opinions, unsure of what’s theirs.
Aligned, it becomes the Bard — speaking truth that cuts through illusion. Their voice doesn’t just reveal their path; it transforms others too. Speaking out loud isn't a tactic — it’s a spiritual practice. Their journey is learning to trust what emerges when they’re given space to speak freely. They remind us that clarity is not always found in silence, but in the sound of your own soul speaking.
Mental Projector Authority
Archetype: The Sage / The Mirror
Mental Projectors don’t have inner clarity — they are built to reflect their environment. In the shadow, they become the Chameleon — shapeshifting to please, trapped in noise, disconnected from self.
But when aligned, they are the Sage — offering wisdom shaped by clarity and observation. Or the Mirror — deeply aware of how environment shapes identity. They make wise choices only when they’re surrounded by people who see them. Their process isn't solo — it's relational, reflective, sacred. They teach the necessity of external dialogue to access internal truth.
Environment Authority (Reflector)
Archetype: The Moon Child / The Observer
Reflectors are the barometers of the collective. In shadow, they are the Disoriented One — rushing, pressured, lost in the identities of others.
But aligned, they are the Moon Child — cyclical, cosmic, deeply wise. Or the Observer — calmly watching, waiting, moving with the rhythm of life. They are here to show what’s possible when we honor time, space, and energy. Their authority isn’t about logic — it’s about resonance. They wait, not because they’re slow, but because their truth is moon-timed. They teach us how to trust the unfolding.
I recently finished playing Senua’s Saga, and something fundamentally important revealed itself to me through the game. A pattern that relates to our reality when it comes to using fear as a tool for control. But before I get into it, I want to first say that playing Hellblade was a delicious narrative treat. I didn’t expect a short game to hit so hard with the story of Senua and her journey of dealing with psychosis, overcoming fear, and, most importantly, transformation.
In the first game, Senua undergoes a life-altering transformation after surviving the trials of Helheim and coming face-to-face with Hela. Just to explain it again, Hela represents death and life as one being, not separate. We have a horrible habit of separating based on the concept of duality or the binary, but it's about the balance of one not existing without the other; she embodies both.
I did make a video discussing Senua becoming the embodiment of Hela through the acceptance of life and death—mortality. And I saw the ending of the first game as a death of the old and the renewal of a new being.
In Senua’s Saga, I got to witness how she was able to integrate that into the world and how she was able to help the surrounding people she meets along on her journey… because we are dealing not only with the vicious Draguar and the slavers; we are also dealing with giants.
We learn as the game moves along that the giants were once people. People who suffered greatly. The first giant is a woman, Ingunn, a mother, who couldn’t protect her infant. So, the child died.
That one hit the hardest on my heartstrings because she was suffering from that loss. And the trial to free her from her chains, her pain, was impactful to watch, and the music that went along with it dug even deeper into my heart. I wanted to cry on stream, but I kept it focused as I played that section. The best part of that scene was the music tempo. It was in sync with the bursts of flames that would kill us instantly. It was fantastic to experience. But I did cry after that night, especially when I replay the soundtrack on my walks, when I think about that scene, and let it sink in. Because it reminds me of how difficult it is to reach someone who’s suffering internally. It is like navigating a devastating trail, trying to get closer and closer to them, so you can stand before them. But it is like getting burned and being thrown back some paces.
It takes a certain willpower to push forward to reach that person, and it’s a willingness to accept that the path will be challenging to move through, which is why some do give up at some point.
But to get back on topic, each giant suffers from something devastating and is seeking peace. However, the last giant, we learn the truth of everything. The core of the curse. I’m gonna put it in terms of a curse or the root of the problem. We learned that the giants were brought into being by a selfish king. I’m saying selfish, because he got addicted to his people clinging to him because of their fear. It’s very important to acknowledge how fear and uncertainty drove his people to cling to him, and he became addicted to that attention. And as his people became less clingy and less worried about the outcome of their lives, that’s when he brought the giants into being to generate that fear again within his people, so they would turn to him for the solution.
And his solution was to enslave people and sacrifice them to the giants. When that illusion broke… the illusion of a powerful king… was just a weak old man, clinging to his desire for attention. To be loved. To be feared. To be the one his people turned to. To be someone important, acknowledged, and seen. We see that in the media quite often in certain characters. But we also see that in reality as well.
If you want an example of certain characters of what I mean by this, I’m only going to mention Misty from YellowJackets.
If you haven’t watched that series, I recommend it. It’s one of those shows that opens the eyes to quite a bit of human behavior. But that series is inspired by Lord of the Flies.
Misty is a teenage girl who clung to the attention of being needed and seen after the devastating plane accident. And, as a spoiler, she sabotaged the beacon, destroying any chance of her and the rest of the soccer team being rescued. Therefore, long-story-short, she is the core reason they ended up being trapped in the wilderness for 19 months. That’s a long time to be around the same group from morning to night. Watch the series.
So, the king, Aleifr, generated fear in his people to control them because he wanted to feel important. The tactic of fear was used quite often in history to dehumanize others. When it comes to fear, you need to create an enemy. A villain or a monster for people to focus on. The focus on “who” always changes. And it would all be fiction or lies, because the goal is to control people, not to tell the truth. It functions on misinformation, and it spreads by other means that I don’t want to discuss here.
But just to point this out, Senua could have chosen the same route as her father, because her father did the same thing, instilling fear in others. And it led to him convincing everyone to burn Senua’s mother at the stake. We saw that in the first game, but Senua convinced herself that her mother had taken her own life, when it was quite the opposite; her father had killed her mother.
But in the final scene of the second game, when she imagines herself as like her father, marked in red, looking like a warrior, a leader to be feared. That whole look was to instill fear. Intimidate us, but she chose to release that idea by choosing the path of not being like her father and choosing another path. Show them a new path.
Just to be clear, all the people started to cling to her. She was aware of that. We see that’s what’s happening in the story. The people she was helping were looking towards her, reaching out to her.
All those hands. Because she was seen as someone who could slay deities. The people believed that. They were all following her lead and her commands. That’s when the concept of with great power comes great responsibility. The responsibility is that she has become the leader that the people look towards. To lead by example. Show them a better way. And Senua is not like her father or the self-severing king. All the victims. The people who died on her watch, etched into her. Their death is within her. She carries them with her through her life. And that’s important because it’s most likely going to influence her decisions moving forward. Because it looks like she has become the new leader for the people to follow.
But the important thing to acknowledge about fear and about the importance of overcoming it and not letting it cloud your path through existence is that it can be used as a tool to manipulate you. When you overcome uncertainty, it no longer has control over you. No one will have the ability to control or influence you ever again when you go through the discomfort of overcoming your fears or any insecurity. That delusion breaks and no longer has its hold anymore. Let that sink in.
Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group
SAL
Salt as the Arcane Substance
[234] In this section I shall discuss not only salt but a number of symbolisms that are closely connected with it, such as the bitterness of the sea, sea-water and its baptismal quality, which in turn relates it to the Red Sea. I have included the latter in the scope of my observations but not the symbol of the sea as…
Most of us think that we are good people. We haven’t harmed anyone. We’re not that bad. So, what kind of sins do we have to confess? In fact, sometimes we can’t even think of any. Yet 1 John 1.8-10 (KJV) reads:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. If we say that we have
not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word
is not in us.
——-
Original Sin
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that human beings inherit a sin nature at birth, with some Protestant theologians even arguing for total depravity, namely, that we’re in such a state of rebellion against God that we’re not even able to follow him, by ourselves, without his effectual grace. Other Christian theologians, such as Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c. 215 AD), totally dismissed the thought of original sin by giving it a more allegorical interpretation.
Unlike Christianity, both Judaism and Islam hold a more positive view of human nature. They assert that human beings have an equal capacity for both good and evil, and that they don’t inherit another person’s sin at birth. They also claim that although humans might be culturally conditioned to sin by decadent societies, nevertheless they’re not born that way. To back that up, the Jews often quote the Torah (Deut. 24.16), which states:
The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, neither shall the children be put to
death for the fathers: every man shall be
put to death for his own sin.
To drive the point home, they usually cite Ezekiel 18.20:
The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.
But these passages are only referring to actual sins, namely, to behavioral sins that each individual is personally responsible for. These verses, however, are not addressing *collective sin* that resides in human nature.
——-
The Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), the famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, defined the concept we now know as the “collective unconscious.” This phrase refers to the deepest layer of the unconscious mind which, according to Jung, is genetically inherited and is therefore not part of individual history or personal experience. In other words, it’s not part of the personal unconscious.
Jung held that each person retains these innate unconscious impressions of humanity as a collective knowledge of our species. They’re in our genes, so to speak. But, here, also lurk all the dark, animal instincts of man, as well as the archetypes. One such archetype is called the “shadow,” an unconscious aspect of the personality that the conscious self doesn’t recognize or identify with. It represents a large portion of the *dark side* that is completely foreign and unknown to the ego. These collectively-inherited unconscious archetypes are universally present in every human being.
Over the years, many artistic works, like Star Wars, have addressed themselves to the dark side of human nature, from Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon, to horror movies like American Psycho and Hannibal Lecter, to the constant violence that no current Action film seems to be without. Life imitating art would be when we witness the exact same things happening in real life while turning on the 6 o’clock news. We customarily disassociate ourselves from this aspect of human nature. We can never imagine that this state of mind resides within all of us. We always point fingers at someone else. In our eyes, we are saints. We’re like the Pharisee in Luke 18.11:
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with
himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as
other men are, extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as this publican.
But, according to Jesus, we are all a bunch of hypocrites. In Matthew 15.18-19, Jesus implies that the dark side is hidden in the unconscious. It’s not simply a conscious thought, a spoken word, or an action that is the cause of one’s sinful behavior but rather a deep state of being (aka “the heart”) out of which proceeds all manner of evil:
But those things which proceed out of the
mouth come forth from the heart; and they
defile the man. For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies.
That’s why Jeremiah 17.9 declares:
The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
No wonder Paul says that the unregenerate are still carnal (Rom. 8.8):
they that are in the flesh cannot
please God.
As theologian Timothy Keller asserts:
The church is not a museum for pristine
saints, but a hospital ward for broken
sinners.
If one fails to understand Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious,” or the dark side of human nature, one will ultimately misunderstand the Biblical doctrine of original sin.
——-
Why Does Jesus Have to Die for Humanity?
Jesus doesn’t have to suffer greatly and die on a tree simply on account of sins that were committed in the past, or to justify repentant sinners because of their current or future sins. No! Jesus dies to redeem *human nature* from original sin. He dies for humanity’s collective sin (past, present, and future). And he also redeems humanity, in himself, by dying to sin. In other words, Jesus dies to the sinful state of being, if you will, in order to free human nature from the bondage of death and decay. Not only does Jesus justify sinners by dying to sin, but because he is God, he also transforms human nature itself. In the resurrection, Christ’s human nature that rises from the grave is no longer sin-tainted, but glorious!
Otherwise, if everyone sinned voluntarily, and human beings were not tainted by original sin, then there wouldn’t be any reason for God’s Son to die for mankind. In that case, sin would be an individual or personal responsibility, not a collective one. And humanity would not need a savior because there would be neither a collective cause nor a cure for crime, violence, and murder. These people would simply be classified as criminal offenders who, unlike others, consciously “chose” to behave that way.
However, that’s not what Paul says in Romans 5.18–19:
Therefore as by the offence of one [Adam]
judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the
righteousness of one [Christ] the free gift
came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of
one shall many be made righteous.
In fact, Paul declares in 1 Corinthians 15.21-22:
For since by man came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead. For
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all
be made alive.
Conclusion
Because the concept of the unconscious had not yet been discovered in Antiquity or the Dark Ages, the existence of the collective unconscious was not known, let alone addressed by either Judaism or Islam. Their criticism of original sin is quite unsophisticated and is presented exclusively from the point of view of the conscious mind. They neither comprehend the totality of the personality nor do they consider unconscious motivation. Therefore, to deny or ignore the overwhelming influence of the dark side of man (aka sin nature) is equivalent to a naïveté: a lack of experience, sophistication, and wisdom! This lack of skillful treatment is either due to innocence or deep repression.
That’s precisely why many people don’t know what sin is. And, consequently, they keep sinning. They can’t even understand why Jesus has to die for them. They often ask, what’s the big fuss about “original sin”? Read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “The heart of man is exceedingly deceitful.”
What do you think is the meaning behind Robert Louis Stevenson’s book, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”? It presents the duality within man. This work is emphasizing the dark side of human nature that is hidden underneath our socially-acceptable “Dr. Jekyll” persona. But in the unconscious lurks another personality, Mr. Hyde, who represents evil that’s waiting in the wings. The depth of human cruelty is also represented in “Heart of darkness,” by Joseph Conrad. It’s the same idea in Bram Stoker's “Dracula.” All these classic works of art act like mirrors in trying to show us blind spots that we don’t usually see in ourselves and end up projecting onto others. And this darkness that proceeds from man’s collective unconscious is what Christian theologians have coined “original sin.” Louis Berkhof, in his “Systematic Theology,” pt. 2, ch. 4, writes:
actual sin in the life of man is generally
admitted. This does not mean, however,
that people have always had an equally
profound consciousness of sin. We hear a
great deal nowadays about the ‘loss of the
sense of sin.’
Therefore, the psychological and spiritual goal is to give up one's naivete and to expand one's consciousness so as to embrace and integrate all aspects of one’s personality and human nature. That’s what psychoanalysts mean when they say, “making the unconscious conscious.” It is here that rebirth in Christ becomes possible. That’s why wisdom teachers typically say that we need to see existence as it really is. What you need to do, in the words of the Dalai Lama (which represent the title of his book), is to figure out “How to see yourself as you really are.” It is then, and only then, when you will finally realize that sin is not simply an isolated behavior, but rather a state of being——deeply rooted in the “carnal mind” (cf. Rom. 6.6)——that needs to be transformed by the Holy Spirit. And that *existential experience* in and of itself constitutes not only a prelude to “rebirth,” but also the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ!
——-
For more info on this topic, see my essay, “BIBLICAL SIN: NOT AS BEHAVIOR BUT AS ULTIMATE TRANSGRESSION”: https://eli-kittim.tumblr.com/post/184880965717/i-think-the-greek-phrase-%CF%87%CF%89%CF%81%E1%BD%B6%CF%82-%E1%BC%81%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-ie
I think the Greek phrase χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας (i.e. “without sin”) in reference to Jesus in Hebrews 4.15 has been greatly misunderstood. If in thi
