Archetypal Systems

Six traditions keep circling the same figures.

147 mappings across 20 clusters — every one carrying its citations, dissent, and confidence tier.

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  • Six archetype systems arranged in a resonance constellation:
  • Jungian
  • Enneagram
  • KWML
  • Myers-Briggs
  • Hero's Journey
  • Tarot
Shared Currents
Pearson & Marr
12 types

Jungian

Twelve Heroic Archetypes

Universal motivations clustered across Ego, Soul, and Self - the Pearson-Marr taxonomy rooted in Jung's collective unconscious.

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Riso-Hudson
9 types

Enneagram

Nine Personality Types

Nine interconnected types organized around core fears, desires, and paths of integration.

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Moore & Gillette
8 types

KWML

Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Four primal energy patterns - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover - each with its boy form, fullness, and two shadow poles.

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Myers & Briggs
16 types

Myers-Briggs

Sixteen Cognitive Patterns

Sixteen types built from four dichotomies of perception and judgment - a map of cognitive preference rendered as geometric glyphs.

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Campbell & Vogler
8 types

Hero's Journey

Archetypes of the Monomyth

Twelve stages and eight recurring masks - Hero, Mentor, Herald, Threshold Guardian, Shapeshifter, Shadow, Trickster, Ally - the circular geometry of Campbell and Vogler's monomyth.

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Major Arcana
22 types

Tarot

The Major Arcana

Twenty-two symbolic figures tracing the Fool's journey through initiation, trial, and transcendence - archetypes rendered as images.

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holding the center for others

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cutting through to what needs doing

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Mirror · 11 choices · ~1 min

This or that. Eleven times.

A forced-choice sorter that draws a cross-system snapshot of what you’re navigating right now. No sign-in, nothing stored — a mirror to try on, not a verdict to carry.

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Atlas · Resonance Map

See where the systems rhyme

Jung’s Warrior. The Enneagram Eight. KWML’s King. The Emperor in tarot. Four traditions pointing at one recurring figure — and that’s one of twenty clusters on the Atlas. Every tie sourced to its author or flagged as inference.

Come here when you’ve read one system and want to know what the others would call the same pattern — or when you want to see where practitioners genuinely disagree.

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