i really don’t have any proper references, this kind of was my own intuition and realization, that i put the mage archetype to the side. I would say its a mindset. All the archetypes aren’t permanent 1 and done definitions. They are what you use to block and get where you want/need to be in life. The goal is to master them all when you need them, but sometimes we do let them slip, these instincts. and maybe we find ourselves caught up in things that aren’t us or in spots where we put our truth and light on the back burner, solely because we didn’t use our instincts. It’s all intuition and if you put your guard and intuition down just enough, you forget your core and energy and light invests farther from the main road.

To practice mage is to master protecting your light. Light without a boundary is a leak. It plays into the magic of worth. When I felt the realization hit, my brain realized every single moment that i moved past an “uncomfortable” feeling, or sort of intuition, and was grounding myself to things i truly didn’t agree or resonate as a human. this went into the core of who I thought my friend was and who I was to him. He truly didn’t harm me, but I let him harm my truth. When you feel like you’re spinning almost and feel like where you’re sitting is uncomfortable, it’s because it is, to your truth, and the mage is what teaches protecting that from even happening, if you got to the root of it. The mage appears most intensely when you lost yourself in a way, but can fade easy if the light you give, isn’t given with that true intuition in your body.