The Archetypal Layer
The same 4×5 grid that measures personality also maps a mythic landscape of archetypal figures, lands, and journeys.
Some people think in numbers. Others think in story. The Icosa model speaks both languages. Its mythic layer translates every structural position — every capacity state, every domain condition — into a geography of characters and landscapes. A person who is "Focus Under in the Mental Domain" is also the Wanderer in the Mist: lost, unable to see, searching for clarity. The measurement is the same. The recognition is different.
This is not metaphor for decoration. Archetype and measurement coexist because personality is both number and narrative. The mythic layer adds no information that the structural model doesn't contain. What it adds is a second entry point — a way in for people who experience their lives as journeys, not coordinates. Every figure, land, and path maps exactly to the geometry underneath.
Figures
Four archetypal characters — one per capacity — embody the ways you open, focus, bond, and move through the world.
Lands
Five mythic territories map the domains of body, heart, mind, relationship, and spirit — each with its own landscape of depletion, center, and excess.
Harmonies
Twenty homelands where a centered figure meets a centered land. Each harmony names a quality of life that only emerges at one intersection.
Paths
Eighteen named journeys from off-center toward home — figure transformations and land restorations that make every position navigable.
Practice
How to use the mythic layer for self-reflection, journaling, and therapeutic conversation. Story as a working tool, not decoration.
Discover your own mythic landscape — the figures you inhabit, the lands you stand in, and the paths that lead toward home.
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