The Archive: Interpretation of the Daredevil (28)
The Daredevil
PURPOSE – PSYCHE – MYTH
Internal Motivator:
Leaping into things that make him feel alive
“It’s worth the risk“
Positive Attributes:
Lives every minute as if it was the last
Nothing is too scary or too deep
Enormous transformational capacity
Achilles Heel:
Risk-taking can be unsafe
Deep sense of melancholy when he doesn’t have a clear purpose
WHO IS THIS ARCHETYPE?
The Daredevil’s life is an archetypal hero’s journey against overwhelming odds. He won’t allow anyone to stop him from finding and living his purpose. This archetype has learned to embrace struggle and enjoy the challenge. He is always ready to take any risks in order to find meaning in life.
Aware that the current incarnation isn’t forever, he embarks on any endeavor that makes him feel more alive. Living to the fullest requires great courage and total commitment, the Daredevil feels enriched when living life on the edge. He is taking the risk not only to look but to actually leap into the dark. He is ready to feel the obscurity and allow its penetration until there is no separation and no fear.
The Daredevil has a close relationship to the Nourisher (27). She tempers him and makes sure that the body is nurtured and cared for even when he jumps into the abyss to discover more about life and himself. The Daredevil shows the Nourisher that the darkness is fertile. With him, she has learned to let go of some of her need for comfort and stability. While the Daredevil shows her the potential of sexual transmutation in the depth of scorpionic waters, the Nourisher opens the Daredevils heart through her sensuality and venusian earthiness.
The Daredevil also has a close relationship to the Warrior (38) and when they have a joint purpose there is nothing that can stop them. The Warrior has the fuel to fight for a cause and the Daredevil infuses the sense of meaning. Together they instinctively know what is worth fighting for and what is not.
When these two archetypes work as a team with the Intuitive (57), the Black Panther (34), the Natural (10) and the Tranquil (20) the otherwise very individual pursuits of these four archetypes suddenly take on a collective and synergistic quality. As a team, they can face and survive any situation through their joint qualities of awareness, power, intuition, correct behavior, perseverance, and purpose.
Together with the Guardian (32), the Daredevil is the Gatekeeper to the Codon Ring of Illusion. This codon ring contains the codes to break through our deepest fears and even show us that they aren’t real. What if, in the bigger perspective, failure and death don’t exist?
The Daredevil shows us that the doorway to this realization lies in the darkest, deepest corner of the shadow. His nature is courageous, shamanic and transformational. He is very clear —THROUGH is the only way—bypassing doesn’t exist. Confronted by the inner demon, the separate self begins to dissolve into the archetype itself. As Richard Rudd says: Evil is simply everything about life that has not yet been accepted and embraced.
The Daredevil, the Guardian, and the Warrior honor this journey of continuous self-discovery and letting go of the parts of the ego that don’t serve anymore. What dies in the process are the shadows of Purposelessness, Struggle and Fear of Failure.
The Daredevil knows everything within the psyche that humans do not wish to accept, right down to the core fear of non-existence. (In the lower frequency the Daredevil, the Warrior and the Guardian struggle without real purpose to not have to face this deepest fear.) The Daredevil shows us that only as we integrate each of these dark aspects of our inner being can the true light come through.
He requires that we surrender into our own deepest fears, and in dying, we are reborn as who we really are. Through this surrender to the mystery of life, the Daredevil experiences totality. Death is nothing to be afraid of. There is only immortality when we live fully in the now, moment by moment.