From the Hotel Window
Are These My Archetypes?
I’m at the Sacred Contracts workshop in Chicago (taught by the awesome Carolyn Myss). Tomorrow is Day #3 when we will pick our eight archetypes that form our basic wheel (together with the core four: victim, child, prostitute and saboteur).
This has been a really good class. We’ve been reviewing the structure for the archetypes that form each person’s contract about what they are up to in this world. I hope to finish the next two classes (May and September) and go on to become certified to use the archetypes with coaching clients.
So, for now, we are learning about our own wheels in the real-time. The twelve archetypes form this basic wheel of advisors who interact to form the sacred contract. I know, sounds all very woo-woo, but it’s amazingly not. We’ve watched the Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life, with commentary by one of the workshop teachers to help us see the symbology and archetypes in Dorothy and George as they make their Hero’s Journeys. These observations are so rich and helping me to see life on a higer level, as well as how I interact in the world.
These eight are the ones I came up with out of the 70 or so in the deck. If you know me, would you agree?
I love to find processes and solutions (engineer) and cannot survive even a day without creating art (artist). I am nurturing to my children and in general in the world (mother) and always striving to see the long view (visionary). I always want to know how things work and what the underlying story is (detective) and find myself always relating my experience of life thorugh stories (storyteller). I find my way through risky situations – like my whole life! – through intuition (gambler) and I work to make things succeed financially (midas).
I’ll let you know how I did after we go through this more formally tomorrow.
Hotel Decor
It’s still too cold to go out for any photos in Chicago, plus our class went from 8 am to 10:30 pm. We saw Wizard of Oz which was dissected for us into archetypes and mystical lessons.
A movie that has terrified me since childhood was delightful tonight, seeing examples of the survival archetypes (child, victim, prostitute and saboteur) and it was nicely moderated by one of the workshop instructors.
I’m learning a lot!
Chilleeeee Art
I’ve just arrived in Chicago and there is a beautiful blanket of snow covering everything that we saw as we landed at O’Hare.
The outside temperature is about 18F, so I’m snuggled into the hotel room. I didn’t get too chilled between the airport and here, so I am comfy, but not willing to venture outside for some photos either.
The art here is two photos of art that hangs in my hotel room. It’s not bad for hotel art. I’ve photographed, collaged and captioned it using Picasa, my favorite Google app.
Not Sure About WordPress
It was easy enough to just import a year’s worth of blogging over from Blogger.com to WordPress. But now that I’m over there, I’m not sure how I feel about WordPress. I was initially interested because the theme offering at Blogger is so limited. The themes at WordPress are so sleek and stylish, but they are really limited in terms of color and font choices, which is something I really liked about Blogger. Also, while there are added statistics for seeing how many people visit your blog, and new/different widgets that don’t mean anything to me, there are no links for You Tube and Picasa Web Albums (duh).
WordPress is not a Google app, so of course, the things that are Google-based, like Picasa, would not be supported. Still, it’s a bit of a bitch to use for creating an entry and adding graphics, and the fact that I can’t change the color/size/styling of any fonts is a serious drawback.
Oh – I can change these things, but WordPress relies on the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and I so know how to create those – not!
Guess I’m coming back to Blogger….