Declaration of Self: How to Create Your Personal Manifesto
I recently completed a 5-day self-directed, self-clarity exercise.
Each day, I took one of the following self-assessments designed to reveal insights about my personality and natural talents:
Natal chart
Typefinder
Enneagram
Life Values Inventory
StrengthsFinder
On the 6th day, I did a final self-clarity exercise where I perused the Ultimate list of Archetypes and selected the top 3 archetypes that fit me best.
On the 7th day… I rested. :)
Mainly because at the end of all of that self assessing, I was swimming in self-information.
And… I’m not that strong of a swimmer.
So - I set out to create something that would let me assemble all of this self-information into a statement I could actually USE to keep myself focused and afloat in times of uncertainty, difficulty or great change.
The result: My Declaration of Self.
It’s like my personal manifesto or mission statement - a declaration to myself and to the world of WHO I AM and WHY I’M HERE.
Here’s how I crafted it.
How I Created My Personal Manifesto, aka, MY Declaration of Self
Based on what I know of each of the self-assessments and what they were designed to tell me about myself - for instance, the Enneagram tells me about my ego and how I face challenges; the ascendant sign in my natal chart tells me what role others usually see me as playing - I drafted the template below.
Each self-assessment provided a result that was very similar to an archetype or that could be translated into an archetype.
WHAT IS AN ARCHETYPE?
I like to think of an archetype as a symbol or a character. Archetypes represent known patterns of behavior, a set of personal characteristics that can be summed up in a single word.
Watch MY IGTV VIDEO on ‘Defining Yourself with Archetypes’ for more on how I define and use archetypes.
By translating my assessment results into corresponding archetypes, I was able to come up with a list of words that could be plugged into my templated statement, mad-libs style.
Finding the Archetypes for my natal chart signs and houses
To get the zodiac sign archetypes for my Sun, Ascendant, North Node, South Node and Moon signs, I relied on Kathryn Hocking’s 12 Archetypes of the Zodiac. You can find it here: https://kathrynhocking.com/the-12-archetypes-of-the-zodiac/
To get the house meanings for my North and South Nodes, I used the Zodiac House meanings from Labyrinthos. You can find them here: https://labyrinthos.co/blogs/astrology-horoscope-zodiac-signs/tagged/houses
The final outcome was my personal Declaration of Self:
