The Archive: Interpretation of the Philosopher (4)
The Philosopher
UNDERSTANDING – RESOLUTION – RELATIONSHIP
Internal Motivator:
Need to Understand
Positive Attributes:
Provides solutions
Has an inexhaustible mind
Provides deeper understanding of things
Achilles Heel:
Relies more on the left than the right brain
Has a mind that doesn’t want to rest
Avoids chaos
WHO IS THIS ARCHETYPE?
The Philosopher loves to play, research, and serve this world with his understanding. Through seeing all sides of any mental construct, this archetype can sweep aside the possibility of intolerance and use his gifts to create new roles or systems to bring positive change into the world.
The Philosopher comes up with answers to the questions the Detective (63) raises. He loves testing out and verifying concepts and patterns. Even when he gets to an answer, the inquiry continues. The solutions he comes up with are often merely possibilities that can be proven over time.
The Philosopher has learnt to not take his mind too seriously. He is not overly fixated about the worth of solutions. Happiness and peacefulness never come through answers. It comes only when we are so tired of answers, we just decide to live the questions fully.
Much like the Inventor (24), the Philosopher has gone beyond the mind’s limitations by understanding existence through the totality of who he is, including his body, emotions, and senses. True understanding is of the whole being and lies outside of the domain of the brain.
The Philosopher finds the most important answers in his own heart. This is also what connects him to the mystery school and initiation of the Seven Sacred Seals, where the Siddhi of Forgiveness codes for the Fifth Seal. The 5th Seal heals the 5th line Core Wound of Guilt.
The 5th line filters the wound through the theme of power. It creates complexity and doesn’t allow people to have peaceful relationships. People with this Core Wound feel an enormous pressure from others to be a certain way. Whether they compromise their own truth to be someone they are not, or whether they react by being the opposite, they end up feeling like victims. This creates dynamics of resentment and power struggles, where the 5th line manipulates others through guilt, often without even realizing it.
The Philosopher knows that all humans are driven by unconscious core wound patterns, and that we can’t work out our relationships at a mental level. He role models how to leave room for vulnerability, forgiveness and letting go. As we learn to forgive others, we are really forgiving aspects of our greater self. When we stop holding onto guilt and resentments there is suddenly room for love and joy. In the old IChing we call this archetype the Youthful Folly.
Together with the Water Goddess (29), the Playmate (59), and the Alpha (7), the Philosopher is here to change the way people relate to each other, bringing in more devotion, intimacy, transparency, guidance, understanding and forgiveness into all relationships.
The Philosopher has an intimate relationship with the more emotional Revolutionary (49). They have both worked through the lower frequencies of intolerance, reaction, codependency, and doubt of self and other so that they can stand sovereign in their own core stability and trust the relationship fully. Through their union, we see a beautiful example of the coming rebirth of relationships into a higher frequency.