Atlas
The Cross-System Resonance Map
Four Lenses · One Atlas
74 archetypes · 502 resonances · six traditions
Pre-initiation to integration. Archetypes as a maturation flow.
Nine figures six traditions keep drawing
What Survives Translation
The Sovereign
Order, Authority, Centering
The Warrior
Purposeful Action, Discipline, Courage
The Sage-Magician
Truth-Seeking and Transformation
The Lover
Connection, Passion, Embodied Feeling
The Innocent
Pre-Initiation and Earned
The Explorer
Freedom, Autonomy, Self-Discovery
The Rebel
Disruption, Revolution, Outrageous Honesty
The Caregiver
Nurturance, Protection, Generosity
The Jester
Play, Lightness, Sacred Irreverence
The Creator
Imagination, Vision, Enduring Form
The Everyman
Belonging, Solidarity, Ordinariness
The Antagonists
Archetypes Whose Primary Function is Opposition
The Shapeshifter
Ambiguity, Transformation, Anima/Animus
The Threshold Guardian
Tests, Gatekeeping, Rule-Enforcement
The Herald
The Call, Disruption of Homeostasis
Death & Rebirth
Necessary Ending, Transformation
Integration & Wholeness
The Completed Self
The Teacher
Transmission, Doctrine, Inherited Wisdom
The Boy-Hero
Proving, Striving, Pre-Initiation Ambition
The Liminal Passage
The Between-Place Where Form Dissolves
Switch lenses to see the same 87 archetypes regroup along a different structural claim — developmental arc, affective seat, or relational stance. Each cluster carries its own totem. Hover a tile to isolate its members in the map above; click to step into the cluster.
Legend
How to read the atlas
The four lenses
Developmental ArcStage
Pre-initiation to integration. Archetypes as a maturation flow.
Affect WheelFeeling
Gut, heart, head, eros — the four seats of felt motivation.
Relational TriadStance
Horney's toward / against / away postures toward the world.
Resonance WebNetwork
The raw cross-tradition constellation, every tie at once.
Vocabulary
Stage
- Pre-initiation
- Striving
- Liminal
- Integrating
- Integrated
Affect
- Gut · Anger
- Heart · Shame
- Head · Fear
- Eros · Desire
Stance
- Toward
- Against
- Away
Confidence tiers
- CanonicalAuthor-cited within the system's published primary literature.
- SupportedCredentialed secondary scholarship (Nichols, Pollack, Vogler-on-Campbell, etc.).
- Moderate evidenceDefensible by structural similarity + hermeneutic convergence, but not author-endorsed.
- Editorial interpretationSite-original inference.
- ContestedMapping is actively disputed in the scholarship.
Cluster totems
Each cluster carries a small SVG motif — shape is unique to the cluster, color derives from its primary affect. Totems appear on cluster tiles and inside the map, so a shape you learn here stays consistent wherever that cluster shows up.
The Exemplars →
467 across six traditions
The exemplars the six traditions read. A cross-system view of who gets tagged where — and what surviving translation looks like in practice. Sorted by the number of traditions that claim them, with the most-read exemplars kept on top.
Structural Compass
Two axes, every archetype
Two-Axis Compass
The Pearson Compass
Every archetype placed on two axes: stability / risk, and belonging / independence. Positions come from Mission 8's feature vectors.
- Jungian
- Enneagram
- KWML
- Myers-Briggs
- Hero's Journey
- Tarot
Two of Mission 8's numeric feature dimensions - the belonging / independence axis and the stability / risk axis - plotted for every archetype in the atlas. Clusters in the same quadrant tend to share a posture toward world and risk.
Confidence Distribution
Author-cited within the system's published primary literature. — Credentialed secondary scholarship (Nichols, Pollack, Vogler-on-Campbell, etc.). — Defensible by structural similarity + hermeneutic convergence, but not author-endorsed. — Site-original inference. — Mapping is actively disputed in the scholarship.