The Athena archetype will help you devise strategies for many areas of your life, including professional, financial, and emotional. It can be used by both men and women and is highly recommended for executives and administrators. You will also notice better emotional control due to the rationality that this archetype brings. It awakens change, leadership spirit, and willpower.
Intelligence and wisdom will be enhanced. If you want to become a more studious person, this archetype can help you in this matter. You will find it easier to learn what you are studying. People who want to develop their mental and intellectual side can benefit from using this archetype. Teachers and students are the ones who usually use this archetype.
You will gain more courage; the Goddess Athena participated in several battles, including against other Gods. You will feel more confident and less afraid to take risks.
Below are the advantages and disadvantages of using this archetype through the benefits of the light side, which represents the good qualities, and the shadow side, which brings us the bad qualities that come with it, so that we can know them to overcome or balance them with another archetype.
Light Side:
- Helps develop strategy and sagacity.
- Autonomy, bravery, courage, fearlessness, independence, and boldness.
- Ease in learning, solving problems, and teaching. Development of intelligence.
- Ability to position oneself well in different environments.
- Diplomacy, elegance, mastery of reason over emotion. You will have better control over your thoughts.
Shadow Side:
- Arrogance: You are now wiser and more strategic, and this can give the impression of arrogance if you don’t know how to control this shadow side well. You may also become the type of person who knows everything and always believes they are right.
- Coldness: You may also become a more cold and calculating person due to intensified rationality. You may even become too independent, but not in a positive way, rather with a sense of self-sufficiency, feeling like you don’t need anyone else.
- Competitiveness: You may become a competitive person, always seeking new projects and challenges to overcome.
- Loss of femininity: Athena was the daughter of Zeus and was born from her father’s head, so masculine energy is quite present in this archetype.
- Love life: This archetype can interfere with relationships, so be sure to watch this issue closely and balance it with other archetypes that are stronger in this area, such as the flamingo, for example.
How to Activate the Athena Archetype:
To activate the Athena archetype, choose images of the Goddess alone, it can be a statue of her, or people dressed as the Goddess Athena, or any other that pleases you. Prefer an image that resonates with you and pleases you. You will find several pictures of her with an owl. Note that such photos will activate both archetypes, so get to know the owl archetype well.
It is recommended that you visualize this image several times a day, so you should place it in places that you have frequent access to during your day, such as your phone’s background or wallpaper on your computer. You can also meditate using subliminal audio for a few minutes of your day while thinking about the Goddess.