THE ARCHIVE: The Peacemaker (6) Interpretation
THE PEACEMAKER (6) ARCHETYPE
DISCRIMINATION – CONFLICT RESOLUTION – BALANCE
Internal Motivator:
An urge to attain a state of peace and balance
Positive Attributes:
Can sense and resolve conflict
Creates healthy boundaries
Achilles Heel:
Caution with intimacy
Nervousness over being open to others
Description:
The Peacemaker cultivates internal equanimity, emotional awareness, and responsibility to bring balance into life. She can dissolve barriers to peace and knows precisely when it’s time to act and speak transparently from her heart.
The Peacemaker naturally brings emotional maturity to every situation, knowing that many things in life are emotionally driven and not rational. People feel her wisdom, strength, and vulnerability and therefore open up to her— her presence has the power to shift the energy and move everyone present into calmness and harmony.
The Peacemaker can sense conflict in others before it even arises. She clearly sees her own and others’ weaknesses without judging. This enables her to temper her own actions and words to disperse the conflict. Standing as a set of scales, balancing high emotions in one hand and clear resolution in the other, she finds solutions by meeting people halfway, seeking a win-win and settling each situation creatively with a sense of justice.
The Peacemaker knows that for growth, there has to be a certain amount of friction. She radiates a powerful energy that can break into people’s energy fields, creating friction when she steps into their aura. This creates electromagnetics, which are emotional and energetic not seductive. As the gatekeeper of the flood of emotions through the solar plexus she resolves the imbalance, thus resonance is reached, the energy opens, and intimacy can be established.
Physically, conflict resolution regulates the pH in our bodies, representing the fine balance between acid and alkaline that impacts our wellbeing. In intimate relationships, the Peacemaker creates and maintains the boundary between what is outside and what is inside the body. She determines who to be intimate with, when, and the bonding roles that will be played out.
The Peacemaker has built a beautiful relationship with the Playmate (59). The Playmate was ready for an intimate connection from the moment they met, and he had to wait patiently until the Peacemaker was ready to invite him into all areas of her life.
The Peacemaker flourishes through her relationship with the Playmate, and her transparency and ability to constantly balance opposite makes her a wonderful partner. With a brave heart, she encourages a balance of yin and yang, of receiving and giving, listening and expressing.
The Peacemaker previously learned a lot from her intense, and many times unbalanced, relationship with the Storm (36). In the past, they were lovers and had a rollercoaster relationship with strong attraction, huge differences, and many highs and lows.
Together they learned to acknowledge and embrace emotional turbulence with compassion. They even had to accept that pleasure and pain always come together. They gathered wisdom from their emotional and sexual connection that included intensity, newness, crises, and rebirth.
As part of their relating, the Peacemaker and The Storm had to start parenting their inner child and allowing the emotional pain instead of projecting it outwards. When they eventually healed inwardly their relationship naturally dissolved. Even if their intimate relationship didn’t last forever, they had the courage to jump into the experience and live it fully. That is how they turned their emotional shadows into emotional maturity.
The Peacemaker has learned to discriminate emotionally and sexually and doesn’t jump into any relationship prematurely. She knows that if she doesn’t wait, she won’t be able to completely trust the relationship and consequently it will fall apart. She has to discern and evaluate before union can happen and she communicates clearly when she is open or closed to intimacy. When it is right for her, she drops all her defenses, lets down any guard, and opens her heart completely.