The Archetype Assessment
A free assessment of the four archetypes — King, Warrior, Magician, Lover — showing you which are running clean, which are running distorted, and which have gone quiet.
The pattern
And you are good at nearly everything else.
You run a business, or a crew, or a household. People rely on you and you do not drop things. And then there is this one area, and you have been failing at it for years — and somewhere along the way you concluded that the competence is the performance and this is the real you.
It isn't.
Being reliable in three domains and stuck in a fourth is not a character defect. It is a pattern. It has a shape. And a pattern you can name is a pattern you can move.
The misdiagnosis
There are two ways an archetype fails. From the outside they are indistinguishable — and they need opposite fixes.
Failure mode one
The trait is fully present — and aimed away from your own life. You are disciplined: about work, about everyone else's emergencies, about proving something to someone who stopped keeping score years ago.
The engine is redlining on the wrong road. You look driven. You feel hollow. The tell isn't that you're tired — plenty of men are tired. The tell is that rest makes you anxious.
What it needsA limit and a redirect. More pressure is fuel on a fire.
Failure mode two
The trait is absent. You keep every promise you make to other people and none you make to yourself. The part of you that acts on your own behalf went quiet a long time ago.
Nothing dramatic happened. That is the whole problem with dormancy — no event, no pain, nothing to point at. Just a slow flattening most men file under getting older.
What it needsActivation and evidence. You cannot read your way out of a missing thing.
Two men fail the same program for opposite reasons. Both get told to try harder. One of them was already trying too hard.
What you walk away with
Not a score. A description of a known configuration — so you can stop explaining it to yourself as a character flaw.
Distorted and dormant need opposite interventions. Knowing which one you're in is the difference between twelve weeks of progress and twelve weeks of grinding.
"I need to get my act together" is not actionable. "The part of me that decides and holds the line has gone quiet" is.
Four archetypes, three states each — so you know what to work on first. That is the question no generic program answers for you.
Where this comes from
The four-archetype framework comes from Jungian depth psychology — Carl Jung's work on the shadow, developed into the King / Warrior / Magician / Lover structure by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette in 1990, and extended by Robert A. Johnson, Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and Jean Shinoda Bolen.
The distinction the assessment turns on is Moore and Gillette's: every archetype fails in two opposite directions — the inflated, active pole and the deflated, passive one. That is what separates the man who is running hot from the man who has gone quiet, and it is the distinction almost every modern program collapses into one word.
The scoring is deliberately within-person. Your three percentages sum to 100 inside each archetype and describe the balance in you. It does not rank you against other men, because that comparison would not mean anything.
Before you start
Most men are right about one archetype and wrong about the other three. The one you can see is rarely the one costing you the most.
About two minutes. Twelve statements. It tells you which archetype is leading and which way it's failing; a longer version is waiting at the end if you want the full breakdown. Answer fast — your first read is more accurate than your considered one.
No. You'll enter your name and email so the results can be sent and followed up on, and then the full profile appears on screen. Nothing is held back.
There are no bad results. Every configuration describes where your energy currently sits, and every one of them has a next step. The only expensive outcome is not knowing.
Before you buy another program that tells you to try harder.