Words

Words are related to the 3rd archetype - Gemini, the 3rd house, and Mercury. This archetype attends to its immediate experience - the here and now. As the flow of experience passes through the lenses of time and imagination, this archetype can "capture" an aspect of that flow - creating a model that represents a facet of the flow. It is an abstraction, a distillation, a pattern that represents the immediate experience. The model is stored in the psyche as a memory, as a pre- or sub- verbal engram. The archetype then creates a further abstraction of the experience - a word, a name that represents and links to the memory.

The 3rd archetype, then, represents experience. It does this at various levels of abstraction and integration. The archetype also links these representations - level-to-level, as well as to other representations on the same level. We can call this linking function communication. The 3rd archetype "wires up" the mind - creating inter-connections, communication channels between the various patterns and functions of the psyche.

Beyond this internal linking, the archetype also links to, communicates with other individual psyches as well as to the collective psyche that we are all a part of. Words, built on a deeper basis of gesture and musical awareness, serve as a primary medium of communication amongst human beings.

Words point towards a memory of an experience. That memory was shaped, as was the original experience, by the pattern of archetypes focusing on that place and time. Our primary patterns of experience, of psychic functioning are the archetypes. Representations and links to them are stored at each level of abstraction. Each experiential memory is linked to the archetypes prominent in the original experience, as well as to words closely associated with those archetypes. Since each word that we use is associated with multiple memories and experiences, it has multiple archetypal tones. Some words, however, are particularly strongly linked with one or just a few of the 12 archetypes. This fact is the basis for this "Words" section of the site. By thinking about the meaning and associations of a word, we can link to its archetypal source. Then, when you hear someone use this word, or find yourself using the word, you can more mentally and consciously link to the archetypes being expressed.

This is what I do in a reading. I listen to the words that you speak, link to the archetypes that they express, and find those archetypes in your chart. I show you the symbols in your chart, and I help you to become more aware of and connected to the archetypes that both shape your individual identity as well as connect you to the collective. We use this personalized archetypal language to talk about your experience, to understand your experience, to transform your experience.