The Remembrance Codes

Beyond the Roles We Play: Awakening the Archetypes Within

• Susan Sutherland

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Every pattern tells a story.
Every story hides a teacher.

In this episode of The Remembrance Codes, we pull back the veil on archetypes - the unseen architects shaping your choices, emotions, and evolution. From the survival patterns we all carry (Child, Victim, Saboteur, Prostitute) to the soul-level roles of Healer, Teacher, Mystic, Warrior, and Rebel, we explore how each can either limit or liberate you - depending on your awareness.

Rather than “fixing” these energies, we meet them as living forces of consciousness - messengers guiding you toward integration and embodiment. You’ll also hear how collective distortions, like the false God archetype, ripple into our families, myths, and institutions.

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep repeating the same stories or why certain people trigger strong reactions, this episode offers a clear map home to your own wholeness.

✨ If you’re ready to stop repeating stories and start partnering with the energies beneath them, this conversation is your invitation to deeper self-remembrance.

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There are patterns older than memory that are moving through you. They shape your choices and your wounds and your desires. They are the unseen architects of your becoming. And when you name them, you set yourself free. Today we are talking about the realm of archetypes. These are the patterns that live underneath every story and every myth and every human experience. They are the ancient patterns that shape humanity and hold mirrors up for our souls. Archetypes are like the soul's fingerprints. They are the energetic patterns that each of us carry. And if you're familiar with systems like human design or the gene keys, this may feel similar. We all hold every archetype to some degree, but certain ones become louder. They are more central to our own story, depending on what our soul came to experience. And just like the gene keys offer a journey from shadow to gift, the archetypes invite us on that same path from distortion into embodiment, from unconscious repetition into conscious expression. Today we are going to explore what archetypes really are and how they show up both in truth and in distortion, and how you can begin to work with them for mirrors for your own evolution. These ancient patterns are like blueprints of consciousness. They show up in the stories we tell, in the roles we play, and even the struggles we repeat. And when we begin to recognize them, not as labels, not as problems to fix, but as living energy, something shifts. We start to see the unseen threads that are weaving through our whole lives, inviting us to express them in truth. You may have noticed that certain themes follow you. The urge to rescue, the tendency to martyr, the desire to be chosen, or the fear of being abandoned. These aren't random. They're expressions of archetypal energies that are asked to be remembered in wholeness. And when you realize the transformation of understanding these patterns within, you will be much more willing to put yourself under the microscope. And until you are willing, you will still be invited to receive the invitation of these archetypes by witnessing others. So archetypes are our universal patterns of human experience. They live in the collective unconscious, or what I like to call the field of remembrance, which is a field near and dear to my heart. Across cultures and across time, the same patterns have appeared, repeating gods and goddesses and saints and villains and mothers and heroes and fools. We've got your teachers and your mystics and your rebel and your jester. And there was not a cast director that sat down to write out the roles that we would play. But these are the patterns that repeated over and over, like a saw moving back and forth over a log until it creates a groove. So these are our groovy cast of characters. These are the ones that got played over and over until we name them. Carl Young calls them primordial images, but to me, they feel more like energetic frequencies. They are vibrations that each of us carry in our own unique expression. Our task, our responsibility, our goal here is not merely to decode archetypal patterns, but to understand and embrace the full spectrum of their identity, calling the casted-out ones, folding them in to the whole in our journey of self-realization. And that's why I find in our line of work, in working with people who are also doing the work, that a lot of times we know we've done the work and we assume we've moved past this. We are like, oh yeah, I saw that, I worked on that, I'm good. But when something is coming back up, is because there's another layer of understanding to be had. And that is not a bad thing. A lot of times we get really defensive because we feel like we have, we've done that, we've moved on. But the invitation is to look deeper and the reward is only ours. Like we get to reap the reward of our ability to not be defensive, but to look more thoroughly at the offerings that are out there. We get to understand ourselves more fully when we don't assume we have already arrived. When we don't assume that we already know everything, but we are willing to say, wait a second, maybe there's something else for me to understand about myself here. Because an archetype isn't good or bad. It simply is. The distortion or the brilliance depends on how consciously we embody it. The healer, for instance, in truth, channels restoration through love. In distortion, this might hit some hard, she sacrifices herself until there's nothing left to give. The teacher, in truth, shares wisdom through experience. In distortion, they preach what they have not lived. Y'all, these are not judgments. They are mirrors. The energy that they hold doesn't disappear. It simply shifts form depending on our awareness. There are countless archetypes: the lover, the mother, the warrior, the mystic, the fool. But many spiritual teachers agree that we carry a set of survival archetypes, and these are the patterns that keep us tethered to the human experience, often rooted in early survival and belonging. They are the child, which represents innocence and dependence and our relationship with trust. The victim showing where we give our power away and where we need to reclaim it. The saboteur, illuminating that inner voice that feels fear when expansion is near and it undermines our growth. And then the prostitute, revealing how we may compromise our integrity for safety or approval. I have shared my walk with this archetype in the Lilith episodes, compromising for comfort. But the prostitute now in truth helps me stand with integrity. Witnessing when a compromise is in collaboration and when it is asking me to sell a part of me that is no longer for sale. These are the ones that every human carries. They are the baseline curriculum for the soul. And if you ever feel called to explore these in depth, I did create a deeper offering in the Keeper's Garden where we walk through each one a bit slower and recognize its shadow and its medicine and its invitation to sovereignty. There are other archetypes that are woven into the soul's eternal resonance, like the song of their soul. And they might repeat over many, many lifetimes. And then there are others that feel a little more like curriculum. The warrior may be chosen to experience courage or discipline or confrontation. But after integration, it may not be chosen again. So you can break down the archetypes very loosely like this. Some are woven into the human being, like the survival archetypes. Some are woven into the soul's song, like healer or teacher or mystic. And some are temporary classrooms like the martyr or the warrior or the rebel. And that soul may walk in and out of that archetype across many lifetimes. The more conscious we become of the archetypes playing through us, the more freedom we have to embody the gifts rather than their distortions. I did a whole episode on archetypes in collapse. Because when you begin witnessing the world in archetypal patterns, you begin to see how collective consciousness patterns our experience. We have energized a very distorted God archetype, one that favors the loyal and punishes others to damnation, one that requires praise and does not want to be questioned. And Donald Trump is playing that role, now requiring loyalty and belittling and turning on anyone that does not sing his praise. And when you see this as an archetype, the invitation is to go within and recognize where we have held God in distortion and not in truth. How have I allowed the punisher to be disguised as a protector? Because he's just a mirror for our own reclamation of this archetype to know it in truth. And when we look at history or even social media today, we can see the dance of truth and distortion everywhere. I won't name any more names because this isn't about judgment, it is about recognition. We can feel when someone is embodying the savior archetype in distortion, rescuing others to avoid their own healing, or the queen archetype in distortion, seeking power and admiration rather than embodying service. Or even the rebel in distortion is fighting for difference rather than freedom. And yet, when those same archetypes are embodied consciously, the savior becomes the guide, the queen becomes the steward, the rebel becomes the revolutionary. It's the same pattern, it is simply expressed at a higher octave of awareness. And that's why when we witness someone's brilliance or their distortion, it's rarely just about them. They are reflecting something in us. And the moment we judge or idolize or even overadmire, the mirror is already at work. It's saying, look here, this energy lives in you too. The ego loves to study archetypes as a way to understand others. But the soul, the soul studies archetypes to understand itself. So when you notice an archetypal energy playing out, maybe in a celebrity or a leader or even a family member, pause before labeling it. Ask instead, what does this reveal about the energy I'm being asked to integrate? Sometimes you'll see your shadow reflected. Sometimes you'll see your potential. And either way, it is an invitation to return to wholeness. I often think of it like this. When the victim in another person triggers me, it is often because there is a part of me that still longs to be rescued. When the queen in another person inspires me, it's because there's a part of me that is remembering my own throne. The mirror never lies. It just speaks in archetypal language. And the more fluent we are, the more we will receive those invitations. And that's the whole reason we want to learn to recognize these archetypal patterns, they give us a language to recognize energies that repeat across myth, across history, and across our own personal lives. We often project onto others first, seeing the victim, the martyr, the flamekeeper out there. That projection is not wrong. It's the opening. It's the mirror turning to us, asking, how is this archetype alive in me? Am I embodying it in its authentic form? Am I playing out its shadow or inversion? What choice is available to me now? When we name the archetype, we gain the space between I am stuck in a pattern and I am in dialogue with this pattern. You step out of the story and you become the witness. And in that space, there is sovereignty. And that is where transformation becomes possible. You might journal this week on these questions. Which archetype feels most alive in me right now? In fact, I would love for you to share that in the comments. Which one is expressing through you loudest right now? How is that archetype expressing through your choices and your words and your relationships? What would the integrated form of this archetype look like in my life? Remember that the goal isn't to eliminate an archetype, it is to bring it into harmony. My prostitute, she stays. She's got my back. She reminds me that we don't settle and that there is no price worthy of my sovereignty. Every pattern here is to serve you and your remembrance. As you move through your week, notice who catches your attention in love or in irritation. That magnetism is a mirror inviting you to see the archetype within yourself. The moment you recognize it, the pattern begins to dissolve back into pure potential. Isn't that worth the effort? That's what the beauty of this work is. We don't have to fix what's unconscious. We simply have to see it. Again, if you feel called to walk deeper with these archetypes, you can find a growing collection in the Keeper's Garden. But for now, just breathe, witness, and remember. Because the patterns that shape you are also the patterns that came to liberate. Until next time, walk gently, observe deeply, and know that every archetype in motion is another way of your soul remembering itself.

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