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JUNG 12 ARCHETYPES

Twelve Masks

Your inner script, played in turn by twelve archetypes

Jung held that twelve archetypes live under everyone.
Twenty-four questions to see which masks you wear most.

"Why do I turn into a completely different person around certain people?"

Want to know who your primary and secondary add up to?

The free result tells you which archetype leads. The Deep Analysis takes your full spread across all twelve plus the primary-secondary pairing and reads it: how those two tint each other, where they sit on the two axes, what the concentration or the diagonal pull costs you, and what the archetypes at the bottom say about where your effort went.

About 5,000 words in eight sections. Generated right after payment, sent to your inbox and saved to your library. This one needs no birth date and no birth time, only the answers you just gave.

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Where this comes from, and what it cannot do

The idea of an archetype comes from Jung (1969): certain figures recur across myth and dream everywhere, as shared human material. The arrangement into twelve, used both for understanding yourself and for brands, comes from Pearson (1991) and from Mark and Pearson (2001).

One thing here is unusually useful for reading your result: Mark and Pearson set the twelve along two axes, one running independence to belonging and the other stability to mastery. Where your top few cluster in one quadrant, your drive is concentrated and the cost of that concentration is worth naming. Where they sit diagonally opposite, that pull is the most useful thing this result can show you.

Jung, C. G. (1969). The archetypes and the collective unconscious (2nd ed., R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 9, Part 1. Princeton University Press.
Pearson, C. S. (1991). Awakening the heroes within: Twelve archetypes to help us find ourselves and transform our world. HarperSanFrancisco.
Mark, M., & Pearson, C. S. (2001). The hero and the outlaw: Building extraordinary brands through the power of archetypes. McGraw-Hill.

Limits: these items were written by Hour Light and are not the original instrument from any of the works above, and they have been through no reliability or validity testing. An archetype describes the story you identify with and where your drive comes from. It predicts no ability, no achievement and no outcome with other people.