This archetype radiates gentleness and has a childlike innocence, even if his life path is complex and demanding. He has cultivated a deep trust that the universe will look after him and that love will conquer all. The Innocent is not designed to bring love into the world in any specific way, but rather to love without discrimination. He empowers others with the potential to love life and everything in it equally. This archetype has a deep compassion for all life, but not for any one individual over another.

The Innocent knows that the world can be healed through love and trust, but easily overestimates how capable the collective currently is of loving and trusting. The challenge for this archetype is understanding why other people do the things they do. When he witnesses something he perceives as not loving, he can feel confused. However, he is not here to tell people how to behave differently or how to love. Instead his natural role is to be a role model.

What the Innocent brings to all his relationships is honesty, truthfulness, and sincerity. This sometimes leaves him vulnerable to be taken advantage of by others, but his innocence shouldn't be mistaken for naivete. He is learning discernment and his deep optimism remains untouched. This comes from a true acceptance of the physical form and what it is to be human.

The Innocent will repeatedly and often unexpectedly be tested by life. As he starts to perceive these shocks as spiritual initiations, he grows into a love warrior that is ready to stand up for the human spirit and uniqueness no matter the circumstances. Initially, he may emerge a bit bruised from such initiations. Little by little, he learns to land on his feet and deepen the innocence into wisdom. His triumph and survival enriches his spirit and the spirit of those around him. His aura radiates the love of being.

The initiations of the Innocent include embracing his deepest wounds, no matter how dark or painful they may seem. When he goes to these places and takes others there and accepts the constriction, healing spontaneously happens.

The Innocent is drawn to the excitement and thrill of Thunder (51). The powerful will of the Initiator empowers the universal love of the Innocent. Together, leap into the unknown and are the first in places where no one has arrived before. They also initiate others into doing things they don’t normally do. Their connection is deeply shamanic and can be linked to the Consecration and the Blood. The blood represents the conduit for the sacred wound, through the blood that passes from human to human down the lineage and that contains the codes of healing. Through the myth of Christ the blood represents the absolute acceptance of suffering of all humans from the beginning of time and which is encoded in the human genome.

The Innocent’s sister is the Sensual (46), and her way of perceiving and expressing love is different from his. For her, love is perceived through the body and soul. She is all about sensing and sharing love through physical closeness and exploration. As these two archetypes come together, they show us the power of including the universal love of spirit, and the embodied love of the individuated soul. As humans, we aren’t here to choose either or. As we evolve to higher frequencies of being, we house both soul and spirit in our vessel, and we experience both human and universal love.

The Innocent is one of the portal guardians to the Codon Ring of Humanity. Here we find love and the human capacity to trust in the authority of the heart.