Sacred Contracts

As I've mentioned previously, I am a huge fan of Caroline Myss. For the past few months I have been working with her most recent book, Entering The Castle, and it has been an incredible experience. But a few weeks ago I took a detour back into her Sacred Contracts program, which I started working with 5 years ago but then put it aside before I had completed it. This too is a phenomenal system.

The focus of Sacred Contracts is on establishing your own personal archetypal wheel, which is based on agreements you made before you were born. According to Caroline, nothing in life is random - including the moment of your birth. This shares a similar philosophy with astrology, and indeed the wheel that Caroline uses as the template for the archetype chart is the same 12 house wheel used in an astrological chart. However, with the archetype wheel, each house is populated by an archetype rather than astrological signs and planets.

According to Caroline, every person has four fundamental archetypes in their chart: The Child, The Victim, The Prostitute, and The Saboteur. To complete the chart, a person must study and evaluate any number of other possible archetypes, based on their own life experience. To help with this, in the book Caroline has outlined descriptions of many archetypes, and these descriptions also appear on her website. She has also created a deck of archetype cards that are useful during the process of selecting your archetypes.

Once you have figured out your 8 archetypes, in addition to the basic 4, you are ready to cast your archetype chart. All of this is explained both in the book and on the website. When you have completed your chart, you are then able to analyze it to gain incredible insights on your life path. I'll be writing more about my experience with this process.