Archetypal Identity WorkArchetypal Identity Work™ (AIW) is a narrative-somatic framework for psychotherapy and personal growth.
It combines narrative therapy, depth psychology, and archetypal astrology to help clients explore and integrate the multiple selves within their psyche.
Using the natal chart as a symbolic map, clients identify the archetypes that represent their core vitality (Sun), emotional regulation (Moon), and orientation to the world (Ascendant).
These become entry points for exploring attachment patterns, self-concepts, and embodied narratives.
Each session weaves together:
Narrative re-authoring: rewriting life stories through symbolic language.
Archetypal dialogue: giving voice to inner figures to foster integration.
Somatic practice: grounding insight through breath, movement, and sensory awareness.
Future-Self embodiment: cultivating the “avatar” of the authentic self—the version of you already living your truth.
Clinical Benefits:
Enhances self-coherence and emotional regulation.
Reduces shame by reframing traits as archetypal patterns rather than flaws.
Supports individuation and self-leadership.
Encourages spiritual development without bypassing psychological process.
AIW views the human being as a living story—a pattern of meaning continually expressing itself through body, psyche, and cosmos.
The therapist’s role is not to interpret or diagnose but to witness, translate, and mirror the client’s evolving myth so they can live it with awareness.
The Sun — The Center of Coherence
The Sun is your organizing principle, the gravitational core of consciousness.
It’s not a fixed identity but the process of becoming yourself—how awareness radiates through choice and purpose. In psychological terms, it corresponds to the executive network: the system that coordinates attention, intention, and creative will.
When the Sun is balanced, you feel directed rather than driven—clarity without rigidity.
When it’s shadowed, you might chase validation or lose yourself in performance.
Therapeutic invitation: “What would it mean to live as if my choices were sunlight—clear, generous, and self-sustaining?”
The Moon — The Keeper of Memory and Belonging
The Moon holds your inner weather system—the rhythm of emotion, memory, and attachment that regulates safety.
It is the body’s intuitive intelligence, the pulse of home. In nervous-system terms, it reflects limbic tone and autonomic regulation: how you return to center after expansion or stress.
When the Moon is attuned, you can feel without drowning. When it’s dysregulated, you may cling, numb, or over-protect. Therapeutic invitation: “How does my body know when it’s safe to soften?”
The Ascendant — The Interface of Experience
The Ascendant is your sensory operating system, the way consciousness meets the world.
It shapes first impressions, but more deeply, it describes how perception organizes itself—your instinctive orientation to life.
In somatic language, the Ascendant is posture in motion: the embodied style through which you navigate reality. It’s how you translate internal states into action, and how the world translates itself back to you.
When integrated, it feels like fluency—you move through life with responsiveness and grace.
When distorted, you might over-adapt or perform for equilibrium.
Therapeutic invitation: “How do I meet the moment without leaving myself?”
Together:
Sun is why you act.
Moon is how you feel.
Ascendant is the way you move through it.
They form a living trinity of consciousness: Purpose, Presence, and Participation.
Embodied Archetypes: Identity in Motion
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What if your birth chart could move?
What if the planets weren’t distant symbols, but living forces you could feel in your spine, breath, and heartbeat?
Embodied Archetypes is a twelve-session mentorship that translates astrology and mythology into movement.
Each planet becomes a teacher inside your own nervous system — the Sun as will, the Moon as safety, Venus as grace, Mars as courage, and so on — until the whole chart becomes choreography.
No dance experience required; your body is the instrument.
How it Works
Each 75-minute private session blends conversation, movement, and reflection.
We explore one planetary archetype at a time through:
guided somatic work drawn from ballet and modern movement principles;
mindfulness and breathwork for nervous-system regulation;
mythic and astrological dialogue that connects the body to story.
You’ll learn to feel the difference between expansion and containment, love and will, circle and line — and how those rhythms shape your life.
The Journey
Twelve archetypal sessions trace a full orbit:
Sun – coherence & will
Moon – safety & emotion
Mercury – expression & communication
Venus – harmony & connection
Mars – boundaries & action
Jupiter – expansion & play
Saturn – structure & integrity
Uranus – change & awakening
Neptune – imagination & empathy
Pluto – transformation & power
Chiron – healing & integration
Circle + Line – the witness; presence embodied
Between sessions you’ll receive micro-rituals and journaling prompts to help the learning settle into daily life.
You’ll Leave With
a personalized somatic-astrological map of your chart;
a physical language for balancing will and love, structure and freedom;
a felt sense of presence that endures beyond the studio.
For dancers, teachers, healers, and seekers ready to meet the sky through their own body.