The 7 Directions to Self
🌑 BELOW – Purpose
Start in the dark. This is nigredo, the descent, the underworld. Purpose is not “what you do,” but what emerges when everything else falls away.
Archetype: The Initiate, The Soul Contract
Theme: Rooting into your why
P: Purpose
🜃 NORTH – Presence
Once you’ve touched your roots, you stabilize. Presence is the anchor—the body, the now, the truth.
Archetype: The Elder, The Witness
Theme: Stillness and integrity
P: Presence
🜄 WEST – Play
With presence comes emotional safety, and from safety comes curiosity. The West is the realm of dreams, symbols, the Trickster, and the inner child. This is the great rewilding.
Archetype: The Dreamer, The Shadow Dancer
Theme: Emotional release, creative chaos
P: Play
🜂 SOUTH – Pleasure
Pleasure follows play. It is embodiment, sensual reclamation, erotic vitality. This is the spark of albedo—the rising light of truth through the body.
Archetype: The Lover, The Dancer
Theme: Aliveness, expression, desire
P: Pleasure
🜁 EAST – Possibility
Having felt, healed, and returned to your senses, now you can dream again. The mind opens. New vision appears. You see life with beginner’s eyes.
Archetype: The Seer, The Child
Theme: Rebirth, clarity, inspiration
P: Possibility
✨ ABOVE – Power
As vision aligns with divine guidance, Power is reclaimed—not as control, but as resonance with your soul frequency. This is rubedo: union of matter and spirit.
Archetype: The Channel, The Alchemist
Theme: Spiritual authority, clear action
P: Power
❤️ WITHIN (HEART) – Partnership
Finally, integration: inner union, external relational maturity, coherence in all realms. This is the sacred marriage—coniunctio.
Archetype: The Beloved, The Bridge
Theme: Wholeness, reciprocity, love
P: Partnership