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Typical Journey Of The Magician 3

Other Forms Of Planning For The Life Journey As Magician 8

Individuation Of The Magician 14

Final Word 18

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THE MAGICIAN

Though the Magician is invariably one who is curious and constantly

questioning, they are defined by their thirst for k nowledge and smashing
the mold that has been set for them by their parents and peers.

Held up at libraries, much like the Academic, Scribe or Writer Archet ype
who pours over ancient tex ts in the hope they might come across some
transformative treasure or alchemic recipe to bring them closer to God.
The Magician is unstoppable in their desire to grow.

“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R. Tolk ien

Through their childhood and teenage years, much like the Magical Child,
the Magician is forever look ing for the door way to another world; the
bramble bush to the river that leads to a mermaid’s cove, the back of the
wardrobe in the hope for the opening to Narnia… the Magician is unsat-
isfied by his siblings interests and his teacher ’s words. The Magician is
always look ing for the gap; the place where realit y splits open and illu-
sion is turned on its head.

She has a broad imagination and drinks hungrily from many sources; from
the wisdom of her unique or worldly wise teachers, to her access to the
written word. “ Wherever you go becomes a par t of you somehow.” ~ Anita
Desai Once the Magician has finally been released from their shack les of
the home tur f, they are unstoppable. Flowing out into the waters of life,
they don’t k now what hit them and may spend many years simply im-
mersed in the wonder ful colours of travel and experience.

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THE MAGICIAN

The shadow Magician or the inver ted Magician will be too timid to let
themselves flow for ward, instead staying in the librar y and vicariously
dreaming their travels through the words of someone else’s adventure.
But the brave ones; the ones who are serious about transforming their
desires into meat y experiences that will be remembered fondly for life-
times to come will flourish as the back packer, the hitchhiker and the
hermit. They collec t people and memories like candies and in their naive-
t y are like drug addic ts, guzzling experiences like gannets drunk on
hunger fuzz.

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~

Lao Tzu

Slowing down a little, the Magician begins to reflec t. As they move into
their late t wenties they have now obtained enough wisdom to realize
that the expanses of land and sea on this planet, though resplendent and
benevolent (or harsh and transformative), can never entirely satisfy their
thirst and love of adrenalin and k nowledge.

And so the Magician returns to the librar y, figuratively or other wise, they
begin to search within. Yoga and meditation or the per formances and rit-
uals of cer tain cultures may bring them closer to the Divine and the an-
cient wisdom and inner k nowing they so long to indulge in, and so they
become disciplined. They begin to travel in towards the light.

“ The real voyage of discover y consists not in seek ing new landscapes, but
in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

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THE MAGICIAN

To keep up being a Nomadic Wanderer – travel-based or other wise –

takes great courage, for the voice of reason of our peers; the norm of con-
formit y may eventually catch up with the Magician and cause them to
suppress the final chapter of the Archet ype. Children, marriage… all nat-
ural urges as our lives evolve, the Magician either chooses to go against
his nature and settle down, becoming bitter about it, or fly in the face of
rationalit y and continue to soar. Diving fur ther into the unk nown, the
Magician travels through her dark ness. She confronts that which she
most fears and continues through it, adding to a whole new perspec tive
to compliment the one they witnessed in others.

The Magician confronts its self. I n doing this the Magician may become
entangled in following as a Disciple; revering a Guru or thinker (trust-
wor thy or other wise). As they study a par ticular path, they can either
come up shor t against compromise (another way of diver ting the Magi-
cian’s true path), or stay true to their warrior-like nature and not Seek an-
other ’s path but continue to pave their own.

The ‘lost ’ either becomes truly lost in compromise, or trust themselves

and the Universe to let them float on some more as they gradually gather
strength and the fuel of all they have learnt to focus in with intensit y to-
wards their final destination. I n staying unattached to ear thly desires,
they will inevitably be rewarded. Though this doesn’t mean that if they
settle down they are somehow letting down the side of them that revels
in being a Magician Archet ype – no, they need only hold off long enough
to find their true place or tribe and settle successfully in a place where
they might carr y out their best work . They need to build a communit y
that authentically reflec ts their true selves.

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THE MAGICIAN

“ What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they
recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it ’s the
too -huge world vaulting us, and it ’s good-bye. But we lean for ward to the
nex t craz y venture beneath the sk ies.” ~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road Unless
they become a Buddha or disciple elated at the moment of death, having
been the Magician for most of their lives, they now recognize that the
journey never ends, it just transforms or rights itself and continues on.

The people met and shared with, the times of terror and those of pure
bliss, they all unite and become the good times that the Magician had
along the way. Ideologies and ways of being have long since faded away
to be replaced with a well-rounded individual; the Magician becomes the
sum of all their par ts, a regular enc yclopedia of experiences and k nowl-
edge.

The hunger has perhaps transformed into helping others in a charitable

way, but the Magician still stays unattached, letting life flow through her
as a stor y she is writing for herself, a moment-to -moment expression he
is enjoying as it comes. The intensit y of the hunger may have subsided
somewhat, but only as the ego becomes tamed and no longer taken so se-
riously. I n this life or the nex t, the Magician hasn’t ‘discovered’, only real-
ized there isn’t one goal, but many ; a plethora of possibilities and adven-
tures never- ending.

A horizon never to be reached only enjoyed and toasted… a vista to be

soaked up and traveled towards. The Magician is inevitably seek ing, not
experiences or lands as such, but the ‘goal’ of enlightenment… stepping
off the spiral and becoming one with the light. But what ’s the rush? The
journey is what counts, and this is what the Magician will look back on
and find themselves smiling.

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OTHER FORMS OF PLANNING FOR

THE LIFE JOURNEY AS MAGICIAN

In the previous section, we discussed how numerology can be of as-

sistance in preparing for your journey as a magician. There are other
forms of planning you can undertake. One will be a simple matter of
self-knowledge, and Transactional Analysis (TA) is a good way of
doing this. There’s no need to embark on expensive and long drawn
out therapy; we recommend reading these two books to learn every-
thing you need for our purposes:

Games People Play by Eric Berne

I’m Okay, You’re Okay by Thomas Anthony Harris

Mastering TA through those two books will provide some valuable

preparation for your journey. The first will enable you to unravel the
myriad games that people get up to in distorting human relationships,
and help you to find your way through what can sometimes be a twist-
ed and complicated routine. The lessons taught by the second book
are invaluable, because they help provide balanced relationships.

The fundamental theme of the second book is that there are three
possible approaches to other people:
1. I’m not okay, you’re okay
2. I’m okay, you’re not okay
3. I’m okay, you’re okay.

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THE LIFE JOURNEY AS MAGICIAN

According to this theory, everyone is born with the first of those three
orientations. A newborn baby relies on others – in most cases, its par-
ents – for everything: to keep it clean, to keep it fed, to keep it safe.
It is therefore inevitable that the newborn baby feels “not okay” in
itself, and relies on the outside world, usually in the form of its par-
ents, to be okay – that is, to provide it with everything it needs.
In some extreme cases, where the very small child realizes that the
supported relies on is simply not there, then as a matter of pure sur-
vival and self-preservation it moves to the second of the three orien-
tations, but this is the worst of all possible worlds and is at the root of
psychopathy, sociopathy and a number of other deep-seated prob-
lems which are, in essence, mental. People with this orientation can
sometimes learn to deal with it, but can almost never move on from it.

The third orientation, in which a person values its own self but also
places equal value on others, is the one to be sought after because it
is the source of all real mental health. No one will successfully adopt
the Magician archetype and venture on the hero’s life journey who has
not internalized both respect for themselves and equal respect for
others. Reading these two books and putting into practice what they
teach is, therefore, an essential part of preparation for the hero’s life
journey.
The Journey (Magic Show). As will by now be clear, the life journey of
the magician is not a matter (or, at any rate, is not usually a matter)
of picking up a card, going on stage, and starting your trick. The magi-
cian’s journey may be conducted in any of the huge number of forms
and occupations. Nevertheless, it will follow a series of stages which
we described on pages 26 and 27 as 17 stages divided into the follow-
ing three acts:

I. Going on stage
II. Performing
III. Return.

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What this amounts to in practice is a process of change (metamorpho-

sis) which can be seen in the following steps:
• Assessing the situation and finding new ways to approach it;
• Getting rid of what may or may not have worked in the past, but is
not working now;
• Creating new ways of being and new ways of living that are based
on:
- specific ways of regarding and treating people;
- specific values, which are likely to be different from the values held
in the past; and
- doing things differently, very possibly in the Kayzen conception that
change comes from the joint processes of doing things better, and
doing better things.
The new ways of being and ways of living will, in any case, come into
play as the magician’s life develops. Unless life is cut short by some
catastrophe, it will always take the form:

• Childhood

• Adolescents

• Adulthood

• Retirement

• Old age (which may, or may not, include disablement and senility).

• Your aim throughout these stages should be to maximize your per-

sonal fulfilment, while retaining and demonstrating concern for
others. Here are some ways in which this journey can be lived out:

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As a Devotee. We are not talking here only – or even mainly – about

romantic love. The love we have in mind is the love of parent for child
and child for parent, the love for friends, and even the love for pets.
It is a pathway to an understanding of pleasure, excitement, and sat-
isfaction by seeing those emotions in those who are closest to us.

Professional magician. The thing to remember at this point, is that

the magician went on the stage in the first place to find something – a
treasure, an elixir, or another reward – and the Return is where he or
she’s back and earn fame, so the Return is an essential part of the
magician’s journey. If the reward that was the journey’s objective is
not brought back, then the journey will have had no point.

A reward is not necessarily, and, indeed, is not usually, anything as

exotic as the elixir of life. It is more likely to be a better way of doing
things: an improved political setup; a way of organizing an industrial
process or a department in the company that is superior to what was
there before; improved relationships even amounting to friendship be-
tween parties that were previously hostile to each other. Whatever it
is, it is the reason that the journey was undertaken by the hero.

What is also true, though, is that it is not only the organization that
will be changed. It is essential to the Magician archetype that, when
the magician returns, he or she has undergone some form of transfor-
mation and has gained in wisdom, in spirituality, or in some other
way.

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The people and the organizations to whom the magician returns ap-
prehend that things have changed. They understand that the magician
is in some way deepened by the experience, and that this change and
this deepening also affects them.
Magician should be prepared to meet both cynicism and resistance on
their return. Not everyone will be pleased by the change, and displea-
sure will not be restricted to those who had a vested interest in things
remaining as they were. Many people dislike change simply because
it is change, and the magician will incur their displeasure. If the Magi-
cian archetype is your archetype, then you must learn to live with this
disapproval, to ignore it, but not to engage in a destructive form of ar-
gument that can negate the benefits of the change.
“A prophet is always without honor in his own country.”

The magician should experience a level of motivation to use what they

have learned to make a difference. Whether that difference is global,
national, or simply an effect on the magicians’ own family will depend
on the nature of the journey, the nature of the reward, and the magi-
cian’s personal circumstances, by which we mean the work they do
and the life they live.

Aspects of the returning ruler’s change should include:

• A reluctance amounting to refusal to accept being taken care of by
others;
• A similar refusal to lay the blame elsewhere or to make excuses for
failure;
• A determination to make their values clear in a very public way and
publicly to standby the things they believe in.

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I N D I V I D UAT I O N O F T H E M AG I C I A N

“ We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we ap-
prehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect
is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an
understanding of its inadequac y.” - Carl Jung in The Psychology of Indi-
viduation

Carl Jung explains this evolution even more succinctly when he said
that, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.” Just as the Magician learns
to accept his own distasteful emotions, he learns to transmute them.

It is when the shadow aspects of the Magician, or any archetype - the

Hero, the Jester, the Magician, the Ruler, etc. - are brought into con-
sciousness that we achieve individuation. The Magician undergoes a
personal indication process whereby he integrates wisdom, but he or
she may also have had to integrate other shadow selves in the pro-
cess. This is part of the collective journey which we all share.

Just as the wizard Gandalf has to face on elf his own shadows, which
appears in the movie the Lord of the Rings, as a demon - we each
must face our own demons, but in so doing, we realize that they aren’t
much more than black smoke, or a whisper of some emotion we
wouldn’t allow to express itself. Then the demon, the ghost or the
darkness can no longer be, as light evaporates its nature. Gandalf fol-
lows his shadow self - as represented by the Balrog - instead of run-
ning from it, and by doing this, we too can set ourselves free from
negative, subconscious tyranny.

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Gandalf says, “In that despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pur-
sued him, clutching at his heel.” This profound insight is the true terri-
tory of a fully integrated, individuated, and realized Self with the Ma-
gician’s wisdom shining brightly.

By following this type of example, we too can face any ‘demons’ which
pursue us, turning the pursuit upon them, instead of being chased.
We can feel our emotions, allow the wisdom of the Magiian to reign
supreme, and our most seedy and distasteful challenges will become
only faded memories of a great journey to become the Hero and Hero-
ines we truly are.

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Wealth
Given the Magician archetype's unique ability to learn and master dif-
ferent sets of skills in a short span of time, monetizing their abilities
should come with little resistance. With that being said, Magicians are
generally not expected to struggle with finances. Even if they did,
they would definitely be able to figure a way out. However, this is an
archetype that plays into both ends of the spectrum. A Magician who
fails to apply himself or herself , and maximize their unique abilities,
can end up being left lurking behind the food chain.

Health
Magicians achieve anything and everything they set their minds to.
However, if a Magician doesn't concern himself or herself with health,
various physical issues could arise in the long term. It's important for
a Magician to prioritize fitness in order to curb this risk. Magicians are
also known to be aloof from social interactions. In order to maintain a
level-headed emotional state and tend to their inner selves, Magi-
cians must find a way to express their frustrations and their sad-
ness. This should preferably come in the form of confiding in a close
friend or simply being more open about themselves and their lives.

Love
A Magician's love life can be fairly complicated. Their level of faithful-
ness can be said to be unparalleled, and when they love, they love
with everything that they've got. This often puts them in the position
of experiencing the worst heart breaks. A Magician faces no foresee-
able challenges when it comes to finding a partner, especially with
their charismatic appearances. However, maintaining a relationship
can take its toll on a Magician. With all things considered, this arche-
type is known to struggle the most with opening up to their partners.
It's important for Magicians to remind themselves to talk about them-
selves more with their partner instead of constantly listening. This will
go a long way in maintaining a healthy love life.

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FINAL WORD

We have covered what the Magician archetype and its sub-categories

are, how they will most often appear in our friends, co-workers,
lovers, and ourselves. We have outlined how the Magician thinks, be-
haves, and their preferences. We know understand that there are
stages of development within the archetype, and that we mustn’t
expect to achieve full Mage-hood in the blink of an eye - that like most
of the hero and heroine’s journey - there will be trials and tribulations
to overcome, and demons to face in order to reach the highest goal of
the Magician, which is complete enlightenment.
We understand that as the Magician moves form the shadowy places
of our deep unconscious mind, and into the shining light of our con-
scious realization, we will get to enjoy greater levels of wisdom in our
own lives.

We can practice self-reflection, mediation, the development of an ob-

jective mind, and the ability to allow all emotions in order to help fa-
cilitate the actualization of the full Magician archetype. As the saying
goes, we can “know thyself,” and “heal thyself” in order to serve the
world.
We now know that while the Magician can tend to be knowledgeable
about many things, and an expert whose advice we seek, this is only
a temporary mirror which reflects the inner wisdom which we must one
day display.

As we seek the perspectives of others, we should do more than just

collect experiences and books, but discover true wisdom by trusting
our own guts. Our intuition is a valuable tool for obtaining true
wisdom.

We can also learn from those around us to avoid making the same
mistakes. A Magician uses his own personal experience, as well as
the experiences of others, and is in fact, the most natural archetype
for practicing this skill of objectivity.

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FINAL WORD

We don’t have to be a Merlin, a Yoda, or a Dr. Strange to experience

the wisdom of the Magician, but there are ample examples in litera-
ture, movies, and the arts which can inspire us, along with just notic-
ing the Magician wisdom of people around us.

As Socrates once said, “True knowledge exists in knowing that you

know nothing.” We can stay humble and ever-curious to become the
realized Magician we were meant to be. With a little practice, that
small kernel of genius in us all can blossom into a great tree of knowl-
edge. Even Plato, Jung, and Campbell would be proud.

Is that the end? No, it is not! Finishing the quest and finding the
reward is the point at which the Magician is empowered to set out on
a new quest. This is the pattern of the Magician’s life, and it does not
end. In fact, for you right now, a Magician, it has merely just begun.

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