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THE
WOOD PERSONALITY
The
Archetypes of the Warrior, Champion and Hero
Wood
is the archetype of the Warrior. Here we choose a position based
on our own truth, and make a firm stand for our choice. We take
and hold positions and defend them to ourselves and to others. Wood
enjoys competing, being challenged, and proving its point. Wood
loves to be right.
Wood is where, as a culture, we are struggling. The emotion of Wood
is anger. The purpose of anger is to say, “you need a boundary
here to get where you’re going”. If our structures have
a leak, or can’t hold water, or are out of integrity, we cannot
build up the necessary pressure to achieve our goal. Anger also
comes up when we are diverted from our goal. Wood likes to travel
in a straight line, picking up speed, and sliding into the home
plate of our desire amid cheers and standing ovations from the audience.
Wood likes to be recognized and admired for its boldness, its single-minded
focus and its skill at maneuvering obstacles while keeping its eye
firmly on the goal. Anger arises when we get distracted or forced
to attend to something other than what we are focused on. Anger
says, I need a clearer boundary here or the water is going to leak
away. Anger is a natural reaction to being asked to change direction;
it is not something to be avoided. Anger is the power behind our
actions. Mature anger is never angry
- it is instead firm, consistent and powerful.
Wood governs choice. Here, we take all we have learned from our
culture about how life works, combined it with our experiences and
fantasies, and then choose where and how we will achieve our desired
goal. If our belief structures have limited our fantasies; if we
only fantasize what we think we can achieve rather than bold new
visions, then our Warrior cannot fully commit to the choices being
made, and anger will simmer below the surface in all things. Wood
breaks through from the victim reality taught by the tribe to the
dream of being a creator.
The
Champion in us yearns to set things right. When we give him a voice
to speak out against unfairness; against inequality; against preferential
treatment, then our Champion's strength increases and we move closer
to an honorable world worth investing ourselves into with passion.
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