The Storyteller Archetype: What’s a Storyteller?

 We make sense of our life and our sufferings through stories. Our pain stems from our disconnection from those stories… disconnection from our core self, from the Divine, from our true life meaning & purpose. Stories bridge the gap between the life we experience, sense, and feel on one hand and the spoken words on the other. Storyteller puts into words what we cannot express and sometimes cannot fathom or accept. It helps us understand ourselves and others and connect with ourselves and others and more importantly connect with our creator and our life meaning.  The storyteller weaves wisdom into the fabric of our daily existence. And as we weave our stories, we choose the images we want to emphasize, the lessons we want highlight, the voices we want amplify, and the big picture we would like paint.

The storyteller reaches out to a basic instinct woven into the fabric of our nature since the beginning of existence and until the end of time. Some stories are ageless and timeless, they speak to our souls and touch our hearts, they connect us, and assist us as we strive on our path reassuring us that we are not alone in our striving, in our joy, and in our sufferings.

Storytellers are the keeper of wisdom, the guardians of tradition, the shapers of worldview, the meaning-makers. They help us weave our own stories - the stories that shape our lives and transmute our hearts and souls from the heaviness and darkness of the copper and lead to the light and luminosity of gold. 

The Artist Archetype: Who is an Artist?

 “God is beautiful and He loves beauty.” Artists can’t help but experience and create beauty everywhere around them. They are enchanted by the Divine signs of love and splendor in everything and everyone. Artists are creative people. They are passionate about expressing this creativity in various areas of live. They are intuitive and enjoy -or wrestle with- a wild imagination. They have an intense desire to convey what they experience beyond the five senses. They are thus contemplative and reflective. 

Artists always add a beautifying touch to their environment: home, kitchen, work, neighborhood… They might not know how to paint or even how to draw a stick figure. There are hundreds of ways art expresses itself in their lives: carefully crafting their words in day-to-day interactions, noticing the birds chirping on their window still, the pause they take when they see a dandelion popping out of the sidewalk crack, the music they listen to, the strand of parsley they add on the dish before serving it, the yellow scarf they choose to complement their outfit, the patterned pillow they throw on the dull sofa to bring it to life…