The Herald - The Call, Disruption of Homeostasis

Hero's Journey

• Hagrid ('Yer a wizard, Harry')Literature (Rowling)

  Arrives with the letter — the call delivered on the doorstep.

• R2-D2 with Leia's messageFilm

  'Help me Obi-Wan' — the Herald's holographic summons, Vogler's favorite example.

• The White RabbitLiterature (Carroll)

  'I'm late, I'm late' — the Herald who lures Alice down the hole.

Tarot

• Ebenezer Scrooge (Christmas morning)Literature (Dickens)

  The trumpet sounds and the old man answers — a life awake to itself.

• Raskolnikov in SiberiaLiterature (Dostoevsky)

  The slow rising to his own life after Sonya's witness.

• Rick BlaineFilm (Casablanca)

  The trumpet is the plane leaving — he chooses the call over himself.

Tarot

• Fight Club's Project MayhemFilm

  The explicit detonation of the edifice of modern selfhood.

• Don Corleone in the hospitalFilm (The Godfather)

  The sudden collapse that reorders the family forever.

• Anna KareninaLiterature (Tolstoy)

  The structure of her life shaken to its foundation by a single choice.

Tarot

• Forrest GumpFilm

  Life as a box of chocolates — carried along the turning wheel without resentment.

• Benjamin ButtonFilm

  Fortune read backwards — the same wheel, different vantage.

• JobLiterature (Hebrew Bible)

  The wheel turns both ways; the question is what remains in the turning.

Enneagram

• Peter Quill / Star-LordFilm (Marvel)

  Joy, playlists, improvisation — the Seven with a jetpack.

• Willy WonkaLiterature / Film

  The Enthusiast's factory — every door opens on something delightful or terrifying.

• Jack SparrowFilm

  Avoidance dressed as charm — the Seven outrunning its own commitments.

Myers-Briggs

• Ted LassoTelevision

  Fe-dom leader who tends each soul in the locker room.

• Leslie KnopeTelevision (Parks & Rec)

  The visionary mentor who summons a town to its better self.

• Professor XFilm / Comics

  Pedagogue-mentor — gathers others around a Ni-held future.

Myers-Briggs

• Michael ScottTelevision (The Office)

  Ne/Fi in comic form — every possibility chased, every feeling aired.

• Jack SparrowFilm

  Improvisational charm — the horizon is always more interesting than the plan.

• Anne Shirley (at full gust)Literature

  Possibility and feeling braided into ceaseless discovery.