Becoming a mentor as a parent is probably the biggest role we didn’t realize we would need to do.

I used to get asked to mentor people new to computers at work all the time, even when they were just typewriters with a fancy screen.

When you are put in a mentoring role, how can intuitive guidance help you?

Becoming a Mentor – it’s a responsibility we find ourselves in

This podcast is about becoming a Mentor.  There are many times when we are called to become mentors, even when it’s not our specific calling and we are not sure how to go about it.

To be honest, this podcast came about because I wasn’t really sure what I was going to talk about!

I asked my Spirit Guides for some help, and they immediately directed me to Caroline Myss’s beautiful Archetype Deck and told me to select 6 cards.

Channeling information with an Oracle card deck

I channeled this student-mentor archetype cycle with Caroline Myss’s beautiful Archetype Cards.

These cards contain powerful channeled archetypes.

Think of archetypes as a collection of thoughts from our collective mind that create an ideal way of being, even a role model.

Archetypes can also be negative or shadowy since we have shadows too.

In this case, though, I am working with the positive aspects of each archetype in the cycle.

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This is the information that came through this month from my Guides and from Caroline Myss’s cards.

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This podcast is all about the journey

What I discovered, on pulling the 6 cards that I was given, is that becoming a Mentor is a cycle. 

How do we become a Mentor in the first place?

Most of us begin as students. Sometimes, in school or college, a teacher directs us to mentor others.

Sometimes mentoring someone (even if we didn’t really want to) can lead us to magical places on the journey where we didn’t realize we could even go.

For me, mentoring people on Wang typewriters when I worked for the children’s Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 television ultimately led me into a teaching and training career.

At the time, I just read the manual because I wanted to make sure I could save my typed work!

So in that cycle, the ‘teacher’ was new technology.

The 6-step Archetype Cycle using Caroline Myss’ cards

In this 6-step Archetype Cycle, the cards that were chosen by my Guides were: –

• Student-to-Mentor Cycle (Mentor Card)





• Beginning the Magical Journey (The Ascent Card)





• Loving the Self and Other (Lover Card)





• Becoming a Parent or Nurturer (Mother Card)





• The Scribe is Born (Scribe Card)





• The Poet is Manifested (Poet Card)





• The Mentor Begins Again (Back to the Mentor Card).

When we are ready, the Teacher Appears

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The channeled information that came through from this card is that a Mentor is a Student in disguise. 

Wisdom is received and embodied.

The Student learns and applies the knowledge.

The Eternal Student is born.

As goes that saying,

when the Student is ready, the Teacher appears.

Anon

I’ve had the benefit of many different and unusual teachers on the journey so far.  When we work with a Teacher or Mentor, it’s very important to let them take us under their wing.

A good Mentor relationship is synchronistic and empathic, with a give-and-take of information so that both people can grow in the relationship.

Two classic archetypes showing this quality of relationship are demonstrated in the famous movie The Karate Kid.

As the Eternal Student, you now move on to The Ascent

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Taking away the information you have received, you begin to move onwards and upwards to achieve a goal.

Perhaps you will move into a new life stage, or even create something.  Anything you learn or embody, in order to take things further, there needs to be some kind of personal growth.

Joseph Campbell’s magical journey ensues, where the mountain is never the same mountain on your return, and the river is never the same either.

On the way, you may grow through personal acts of heroism, or meet with other people who show you the same.

Remember, on any spiritual journey, you may also encounter monsters! These can simply be roadblocks that are intended to help you to grow.

The Lover Card – the next step to becoming a Mentor

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The Light Attributes of this card are passion and devotion.  Unbridled appreciation of someone or something–we may have experienced that.

However, sometimes love can turn into obsession, or be self-destructive.  Perhaps many of us have experienced that, too.

In the cycle of the student becoming the mentor, the journey of loving another is really about discovering Self-Love.

As we learn to love ourselves, we have to naturally go through the experience of having both an open and closed heart in order to know the difference.

The understanding is that we are all one, essentially, in the Universe, we are all