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ACTIVATOR: Activators are here to pick up the slack htat others
leave behind. They get the job done and done right. They’re
troubleshooters, and they’re gratified by accomplishing the task in
front of them, no matter how large or small it is. Activators have
to be careful not to spread themselves too thin.

AESTHETIC PURSUITS: A person with an aesthetic theme is driven by
an innate need to create some form of artistic beauty – music, drama,
writing, sculpture, painting, choreography, crafts, etc. That drive
can lead to fame and privilege, which is enjoyable if the secondary
theme is compatible, but tragic if the secondary theme is conflict.
Judy Garland, Vincent van Gogh, and Marilyn Monroe are examples of a
primary “aesthetic pursuit” theme in unresolved conflict with a
secondary theme.

ANALYZER: Analyzers need to scrutinize the intricate details of how
and why everything works. They’re brilliantly invaluable in
scientific and other technical areas. Their fear of missing or
overlooking something can make it difficult for them to relax, trust
their instincts, and step back far enough to see the bigger picture.

BANNER CARRIER: On the front lines of battles against what they
perceive as injustices, banner carriers will picket, demonstrate, and
lobby, whatever it takes to fight their idea of “the good fight.”
The challenge for the banner carrier is to learn that they can make
their point more effectively with tact and moderation than with
divisive fanaticism. The 1960’s were rich with such banner carriers
as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and other well-intentioned radical
anti-war activists.

BUILDER: Builders are the “wind beneath the wings” of society, the
often invisible but essential cogs that keep the wheels of
accomplishment turning. Builders aren’t those who march across a
stage to accept a trophy; they’re those who played a major part in
paving the road to that stage. They can feel unappreciated for not
getting the credit they rightfully deserve, but they need to remember
that the rewards for taking on and gracefully mastering the builder
theme lie in the accelerated advancement of the spirit on its path
toward perfection, which is far more valuable than any trophy could
ever be.

CATALYST: As the word suggests, catalysts are the movers and
shakers, those who make things happen and mobilize inactivity into
action. They’re energetic, enthusiastic, and seem to expel
particularly in stressful circumstances. They feel empty and
depressed without a goal to tackle and conquer.

CAUSE FIGHTER: If there’s not a social issue to champion, the cause
fighter will create one. They’re the generals who command the banner
carriers – vocal, active, and passionate about their own and others’
safety. At their most undisciplined, cause fighters run the risk of
vying for a bigger spotlight on themselves than on the cause they’re
promoting.

CONTROLLER: The most successful of the controllers are those who
are brilliant at taking charge of every task at hand through wise,
discreet, supportive supervising and delegating. The least
successful are those who feel compelled to dictate and judge every
detail of the lives of those around them. Ironically, the biggest
challenge for the controller is self-control.

EMOTIONALITY: People born with an emotionality theme have an
extraordinary capacity to deeply feel the highest of highs, the
lowest of lows, and every shade of emotion in between. Their
sensitivity is both a gift and a burden, and they need to recognize
that balance in their lives is unusually important.

EXPERIENCER: Experiencers insist on trying any pursuit or lifestyle
that happens to catch their eye. They’ll move seemingly seamlessly
from managing a retail store, to joining an archeological dig in Peru
to trying their hand at street performing to attending blacksmith
school, not out of aimlessness but because of a need to live life as
an active, varied series of participation events. Excessive sel-
indulgence to the point of irresponsibility is the biggest hurdle for
the experiencer.

FALLIBILITY: The theme of fallibility is usually undertaken by
those who were born physically, mentally, or emotionally challenged.
It’s an extraordinary spirit who chooses fallibility as a theme, and
at those times when they find that coice discouraging, they need to
remember what an inspiring example they’re setting for the rest of us
as they face triumph over their special hurdles.

FOLLOWER: Followers are, in their way, as essential to society as
leaders, since without them there would be no leaders. Offering
strong, reliable support can be a follower’s greatest and most
generous contribution on this earth. What the follwer has to keep in
mind at all times, though, is the importance of carefully selecting
whom and what to follow.

HARMONY: Peace, calm, and balance aren’t just the top priorities of
people with a harmony theme, they’re the ONLY priorities, and they’ll
go to any extremes to maintain those priorities. On the plus side,
they’re wonderfully cooperative and can have a quieting effect in
chaotic situations. On the minus side, they can find it very
difficult to accept and adjust ato the inevitable bumps, bruises, and
stress life has to offer.

HEALER: Healers are often but not necessarily drawn to the physical
or mental healing professions. Their chosen theme of healing can
express itself in a varietty of forms, all of them involving the
easing of pain and the improving of a life’s well-being. It is
imperative that healers learn to protect themselves from empathizing
too closely with those they’re trying to heal, and to pace themselves
carefully to avoid an overload of the stressful problems their theme
has drawn them to.

HUMANITARIAN: Humanitarian, by definition, are born to extend
themselves toward humankind. Instead of addressing life’s wrongs and
inequities through sit-ins and protests, humanitarians step past the
protestors to directly feed the hungry, house the homeless, bandage
the world’s ills head-on. They face a twofold challenge: knowing
there’s an infinite amount of work to be done, but also knowing when
and how to stop and rest and keep themselves from burning out.

INFALLIBILITY: This theme is exemplified by the people who are
seemingly born with everything – looks, talent, intelligence,
privilege, wit, grace, etc. Believe it or not, theirs can be an
unusually difficult theme. Their problems are rarely taken
seriously. They are often resented for their advantages and can
easily feel secretly unworthy from not having had to earn their
privileged place in society. It’s not unusual for them to be
uniquely drawn to such excesses as obesity, promiscuity, and
substance abuse, almost as if they’re trying to balance the scales by
creating difficulties they weren’t born with. Because many things
have come easily to them, they can feel emotionally inept in
situations that challenge their character.

INTELLECTUALITY: The best expression of this ultimate thirst-for-
knowledge theme is the person who studies throughout his life and
continuously uses her wealth of education to inform, improve,
nourish, and expand life on earth. The worst expression of this
theme is the many versions of the “professional student” whose sole
purpose is the self-directed goal of knowledge for its own sake,
hoarded instead of shared, which is of no use to anyone but the one
who possesses it.

IRRITANT: For such a difficult theme, it’s amazing how many people
seem to have chosen it, don’t you think? Irritants are the constant,
deliberate pessimists, the fault finders, those who are never at a
loss for something to complain about. They’re very helpful in
teaching us patience, tolerance, and a refusal to engage in
negativity, while the irritant struggles to overcome the very
negativity their chosen theme demanded they embrace.

JUSTICE: People with a justice theme are in an active, lifelong
pursuit of fairness and equality. Some of our greatest presidents
and activists such as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King are
exquisite examples of the justice theme at its finest. Sadly, at its
worst, when misguided and without truth at its center, this passion
for righting a wrong can result in riots, anarchy, and vigilantism.

LAWFULNESS: Law enforcement and the practice ad teaching of law are
among the professional expressions of the lawfulness theme, which
revolves around a concern with safeguarding the line between legality
and illegality. Elevated, those with this theme are devoted public
servants who fiercelly help to maintain order and balance in this
world. If corrupted, and abusive of their power, they’re an insult
to the theme they chose.

LEADER: Oddly, people with a leader theme might be very gifted at
their ability to lead, but they’re almost never innovative, instead
choosing to become leaders in already established areas – for
example, lawyers who gravitate to highly publicized cases and thrive
in the resulting spotlight, instead of devoting their expertise to
making significant improvements in the justice system. Their best
efforts at perfecting this theme would be to change their priority
from their own success to expressing their leadership trough
exploring new, more socially relevant frontiers.

LONER: Loners can often be socially active and visible, but they
tend to choose careers and lifestyles that will allow them to be
isolated. They’re content alone and usually enjoy their own company,
and they often struggle to overcome feeling drained and irritated
when other people spend too much time in their space.

LOSER: The loser theme is essentially the fallibility theme with
out the physical, mental, or emotional challenges. Those with a
loser theme have many advantages and good qualities, but because
they’re determined to feel sorry for themselves they insist on
disregarding them. They seek attention through being martyrs, and if
there’s no melodrama in their lives, they’ll create it. Like
irritants, they can inspire us to be more positive and to dislike
their behaviour without judging them as people.

MANIPULATOR: The manipulator theme is a powerful one and not
necessarily negative. Manipulators approach their lives and the
people in them like a one-sided chess game, able to control them to
their advantage and often with remarkable talent. When this theme is
devoted to the highest, God-centered good, the manipulator can have
an enormously positiive impact on society. When the theme is abused,
manipulators are too self-absorbed to concern themselves with
anyone’s well-being but their own, at everyone else’s expense.

PASSIVITY: Passive people are sometimes perceived as weak, when
they’re more accurately described as uncommonly sensitive to
emotional disruption. They have opinions but express them most
effectively in a nonconfrontational forum, and when they take a stand
on issues they are strictly nonviolent. It is difficult for those
with a passive theme to cope with extremes, but a little tension can
be a valuable tool for spurring them into their form of action.

PATIENCE: This is one of the more challenging themes, since ptience
takes constant effort in a world in which impatience is almost
considered an admirable coping skill. The choice of the patience
theme indicates an eagerness to move more quickly on the spirit’s
journey toward perfection than someone who’s chosen a less difficult
theme – in other words, patience, in a way, indicates a spiritual
impatience. Along with their ongoing battle against snapping at
stress, those with a patience theme frequently fight the guilt of
occasional lapses in efforts toward their goal and of the anger they
feel their theme demands they suppress. Recognizing how hard their
choice of themes really is can help them be more foregiving of
themselves.

PAWN: Pawns are essential in the advancement of the universal
spirit, since their role is to be used as the fuse that ignites
something of great magnitude, either positive or negatiive, to
emerge. People who choose the theme of the pawn, important in their
way as they are, have to be vigilant in aligning themselves with only
the worthiest, most loving causes.

PEACEMAKER: Unlike the themes of passivity and harmony, the
peacemaker theme is typically accompanied by a surprising amount of
aggression – peacemakers can be downright pushy in their zeal to stop
war and violence. Their allegiance to peace is far greater than
their allegiance to any group or country, and they’re not opposed to
achieving a bit of celebrity in their noble, highly visible cause.

PERFORMANCE: People who choose a performance theme might pursue
careers in the entertainment field, but they’re just as likely to be
content with being the local life of the party, office, or
classroom. They’re nourished by the spotlight, however large or
small it might be. Too often they form their opinions of themselves
exclusively through the eyes of others, which tehy need to bombat by
reserving some of their considerable energy for introspection and
learning to provide their own spiritual and emotional nourishment.

PERSECUTION: Another unusually difficult theme, the persecuted are
not only constantly braced for the worst possibility, but they’re
convinced they’ve somehow been singled out for special bad luck and
negative attention. Happiness is frightening for them, because
thy’re sure they’ll have to pay too high a price for it or that it
can be snatched away from them at any moment. Overcoming the
persecution theme takes enormous strength, but the reward for
overcoming it is remarkable spiritual advancement.

PERSECUTOR: Persecutors are typically aggressive, self-justifying
sociopaths who will abuse and even kill without guilt or remorse and
without the mitigating factor of mental or emotional illness.
Obviously, it’s almost impossible to understand the purpose of this
theme in the span of a single lifetime; but they can inadvertently
test, challenge, and inspire progress in our laws, our judicial
systems, our forensics techniques, our moral boundaries, our social
consciousness, and the unity of humankind.

POVERTY: The challenge of the poverty theme is apparent, prevalent
in third world countries but almost more difficult in the midst of
affluence, where the privilege can look mocking and unfairly
imbalanced by comparison. Even the advantaged can exhibit a poverty
theme, perpetually feeling that no matter how much they might have,
it’s not enough. Endurance, hope and a perspective on the universal
irrelevance of material possessions can provide brilliant spiritual
growth for those who choose the theme of poverty.

PSYCHIC: You’d think theis would be my primary theme, but no, that’s
humanitarianism – psychic ability is not the great “who I am” in my
life. People who choose a psychic theme often choose strict
childhood environments at the same time, where their ability to sense
things far beyond “normal” sense perceptions is met with severe
disapproval. The life journey of the psychic theme is to learn to
accept the ability not as a burden but as a gift and to put it to its
highest, most unselfish, most spiritual use.

REJECTION: The rejection theme is another extraordinarily difficult
one, usually taking root with alientation or abandonment in early
childhood and proceeding with those same patterns right on through
school, adulthood, and relationshiops. Hard as it is, the challenge
is here to recognize rejection not as a burden beyond your control,
but as a theme chosen specifically to learn that when the spirit is
whole and self-reliant for its identity, it can no longer be held
hostage by the acceptance or rejection of others.

RESCUER: If you aren’t a rescuer, you’ve undoubtedly seen one in
action – someone who gravitates toward victims, wanting to help and
save them, even if the victim has obviously created their own crisis
and/or doesn’t particularly want to be saved. Rescuers are typically
at their strongest in the presence of the weakest or most helpless,
and they’re highly empathetic. The rescuer can end up being
victimized if they don’t maintain a safe emotional distance from
those they’re trying to rescue.

RESPONSIBILITY: Those who’ve chosen a responsibility theme embrace
it not as an obligation but as a form of emotional nourishment. They
find joy in active, hands-on accomplishment and feel guilt if they’re
aware of something that needs to be done and let it go unattended.
Their challenge is to become unselfish enough to remember that often
the people around them need the nourishment of assuming
responsibility too, and want to share in the process of accomplishing
something.

SPIRITUALITY: People whose theme is spirituality will spend a
lifetime imn a fervent search for their own spiritual center, if not
as a profession, then certainly as a constant personal drive. The
more they search, the more new territory they discover to look into.
At its highest potential, the spirituality theme creates boundless
inspiration, compassion, far-sightedness and tolerance. At its
lowest, it can manifest itself in narrow-mindedness, judgmentalism,
and the dangerous isolation of fanaticism.

SURVIVAL: Yes, to a degree, as long as the survival instinct is
alive and well, we’d all seem to have a survival theme. But to those
who’ve actively chosen a survival theme, life is a relentless,
ongoing struggle, something to be endured despite the fact that the
odds are stacked against them. They usually excel in crisis
situations, but they have trouble distinguishing between a true
crisis and their grim view of common everyday challenges. They
should all be given, and take to heart, a bumper sticker
reading, “Lighten up!”

TEMPERANCE: The temperance theme is typically accomanied by an
addiction to deal with and overcome. Even if the actual addiction
never manifests itself, people who choose this theme have to fight a
constant sense of vulnerability to potential addicition, whether it’s
to a substance, sex, a lifestyle, or another person. They also have
to avoid the opposite extreme of becomming fanatically or
psychotically repelled by the object of what they perceive to be a
potential addiction. The key to the progress of the temperance theme
across the board, is moderation.

TOLERANCE: You name it, the person with a tolerance theme feels
compelled to find a way to tolerate even the untolerable. Obviously,
this can become a pretty untenable burden, to the point where they’ll
eventually focus all their energy into one area they feel they can
universally tolerate most easily, while becoming either narrow-minded
or oblivious to everything else around them. Their growth can be
accomplished by recognizing that the theme can cause an unrealistic
and indiscriminate view of the world and learn that being magnanimous
is worthwhile only when its target is worthy.

VICTIM: These by definition are life’s sacrificial lams, and their
purpose among us is to throw a spotlight on injustice and inspire us
to take action and make changes for the better. Abused and murdered
children, targets of hate crimes, and those who’ve been wrongly
convicted of violent felonies and then subsequently proven innocent
are among those whose victim theme is devoted to the interest of the
highest good.

VICTIMIZER: The victimizer is here to collect and achieve absolute
control over as many victims as possible, for the purpose of being
surrounded at all times by visible proof of their own power. The
will and feelings of their victims are meaningless unless they’re in
perfect agreement with those of the victimizer, and the only
compassion they’re capable of is toward their own hypersensitive,
insatiable ego. On a small scale, they’re the controlling lover or
spouse, the stalker, the pathologically overzealous parent, etc. On
a larger scale, they’re Jim Jones of the People’s Temple, “Bo”
and “Peep” orchestrating the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide, David Koresh
of the Branch Davidians – anyone who demands such slavish devotion
that even children, who are given no options, are sacrificed not in
the name of god, but in the name of the victimizer.

WARRIOR: Warriors are our fearless risk takers, our soldiers, our
pioneers and astronauts and firefighters and coutnless other unsung
heroes with the courage to step up to a physical, moral, and/or
spiritual challenge from the mundane landscape of every day life; to
the front lines of wars against crime, drugs, natural disasters, and
homicidal tyrants; to the vast unconquered worlds in space. Without
direction, the warrior’s aggression can be destructive. But when
focused, especially with a secondary humanitarian theme, those with a
warrior theme can make historic contributions of global significance.

WINNER: The winner theme differs from the infallibility theme in
that winners have an active, pervasive compulsion to achieve and
triumph. They’re perpetual optimists, always believing that the next
business deal, the next relationship, the next roll of the dice at
the crap table, the next lottery ticket or sweepstakes entry, the
next job, or even the next marriage or child will be the one they’ve
been waiting for, that will make all the difference. In its finest
form, the winner’s unfailing optimism and ability to pick themselves
up from every failure and move on with confidence is inspiring and
exhilarating. Without frequent reality checks, though, teh winner
can squander their money, their security, and their lives with too
many impetuous, undisciplined, and uninformed decisions.

Again, identifying our primary and secondary life themes can clarify
the paths we have chosen. Just knowing we chose them, in stead of
having them randomly inflicted on us, can be of enormous comfort.
Because our life themes are choices we made on The Other Side berfore
we embarked on this incarnation, based not only on what we want to
work on, but also on what we’ve experienced in past lives, we cannot
change our life themes. But we can strive to perfect them at their
most positive and overcome them at their most negative or destructive.

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I hope that this has been informative… at the least, thought
provoking – or some semblence of interesting. Thank you for your
patience getting through it.

Love,
Mythic