Shadow or Light?
Find Out Which Archetype Is Quietly Running Your Life

What You'll Explore Inside

In this Playbook and resource page, you’ll explore the 8 core archetypes that shape your inner world—split between Shadow and Light energies:

• What is Shadow and Light Energy?
  
  And you’ll meet the 4 powerful archetype pairs that quietly shape your business, body, relationships, and creativity:

• 🔥 The Prostitute ↔ Lover Dance

• 💨 The Saboteur ↔ Magician Dance

• 🌊 The Child ↔ Sovereign Dance

• 🌍 The Victim ↔ Warrior Dance

Each pair reveals a survival strategy you’ve outgrown—and the deeper power that’s been waiting for you underneath.

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Shadow and Light Energies

There are 8 energies within you and within the collective human consciousness.
Taniya separates them into Shadows and Light:

• 4 energies called Shadows

• 4 energies called Light

A Shadow is everything you suppress, deny, or bury. These can be thoughts, feelings, or memories from your past — or even from what is happening right now.

Shadow energy is your brain’s way of protecting you, helping you survive.

The simplest way to understand Shadow is to see it as Energy Fuelled by Fear.

It comes from the prehistoric part of your brain that reacts to danger.

What is a Shadow energy?

What is a Light energy?

Light energy is your natural state — who you were before cultural conditioning shaped you.

It is what you truly want.
It is who you really are.

When you are in Light energy:
You are awake and conscious.
You have clarity.
Things feel easy, even effortless.

It is the natural human way of being — the way many leaders live, and the quality others find so inspiring.

Light energy allows you to lead yourself. And until you lead yourself, you cannot fully guide, heal, or hold space for others.

The Prostitute ↔ Lover Dance

The Prostitute isn’t about selling your body.
It’s about selling your soul.

This shadow emerges when you learn that belonging and acceptance come at the cost of your authentic expression. Somewhere in your past, your truth was met with rejection, ridicule, or even punishment.
Your psyche adapted.
It decided: it’s safer to hide, safer to please, safer to give them what they want.

How the Prostitute appears

• You filter what you say to please others.

• You feel “not good enough” without outside validation.

• You worry too much about what people think.

• You abandon your values to fit in or survive.

• You return to what is familiar, even if it hurts.

The Prostitute whispers:
“If they knew the real you, they would reject you.
Be what they want. Say what they want to hear.”

This energy doesn’t just live in individuals — it runs through families, communities, organisations, and the collective human field.

You feel it in your body as frantic energy,
in your work as people-pleasing,
in your relationships as silence or compromise.

Often, without realising, she runs the show.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Where do you sell out in your career?

• Where do you sell out in relationships?

• How does it affect your body and health?

• Are you people-pleasing out of fear?

• Are you constantly worried you are enough?

The Prostitute Shadow

Opposite the Prostitute stands the Lover — the Light energy.

The Lover is the fire inside you — the passion, purpose, and mission that burn steady and bright.
Where the Prostitute feels like a flickering candle, the Lover is a flame that cannot be put out.

How the Lover appears

• You speak your truth, even when your voice shakes.

• You pursue what matters, even if others don’t understand.

• You care deeply and aren’t afraid to show it.

• You commit to what you value, no matter the obstacles.

• You feel energized — not drained — by expressing yourself.

The Lover declares:
“This is who I am. This is what I value. This is what I stand for.”

This love is unstoppable — love for yourself, for humanity, for the natural world, for God/Source.
It is soul-driven love. Purpose-fuelled love.
The kind of love that turns effort into devotion.

When you step into the Lover, you know in your bones that you are more than enough.
Life becomes easier.
Your mission becomes clearer.
And what once felt like labour becomes a labour of love.

The Lover Light Archetype

The journey is not about rejecting others —
it’s about honouring yourself first,
then connecting from that place of truth.

And if you are a high achiever, this dance matters even more.

Because what burns you up also burns you out.

The same fire that depletes you can, when aligned with purpose, ignite your mission and bring you back to life.

The Prostitute ↔ Lover Dance

The Saboteur ↔ Magician Dance

The Saboteur isn’t out there.
It’s the one inside of you.

The one that sounds like a friend.
The one that sounds so reasonable.
So logical.
So responsible.
The one that makes so much sense — and still keeps you stuck.

This shadow often appears when you’ve learned that the only way to stay safe is to stay in control.
Your psyche decided:

“If I plan enough, wait long enough, think it through enough —
I can avoid the risk of getting it wrong.”

This energy lives in your unconscious.
It also runs through the collective human field.

How the Saboteur shows up

• In business: you overthink, freeze before action, delay decisions until it’s “perfect.”

• In love: you hold back, stay in your head, withhold what you really want to say.

• In your body: you feel flat, frozen, as if time itself has stopped.

• In your mind: you forget what you were about to say, you analyze until nothing feels safe enough to share.

The Saboteur whispers:
“Wait until you’re ready.
Get it perfect first.
Don’t risk being wrong.
Play it safe.”

This shadow runs the show more often than we realize —
keeping you “responsible,” keeping you “logical” —
but also keeping you small.

Questions to ask yourself

• Where does your mind freeze right before you speak your truth?

• Where does cynicism feel safer than hope?

• Where are you waiting for the perfect moment?

The Saboteur Shadow

Opposite the Saboteur stands the Magician — the Light energy.

Not the one on stage.
The one inside of you.

The one who trusts your intuition.
The one who plays.
The one who laughs, risks, lets go.
The one who collapses time — who knows when to act and when to wait.
The one who is willing to look like a fool and grow anyway.

The Magician is the air inside of you.
Light, quick, present.

How the Magician appears

• You act even without knowing the outcome.

• You trust God, trust yourself, trust the timing.

• You pursue excellence, not perfection.

• You release the need to control every detail.

• You feel spacious, playful, fully alive.

The Magician declares:
“I trust.
I act.
I play.
I risk being seen — and that is how I soar.”

When you step into the Magician, time feels different.
Moments stretch.
Flow opens.
Life feels lighter, freer, almost timeless.

The Magician Light Archetype

The journey isn’t about killing the Saboteur.
It’s about letting the Magician lead.

From freezing → to flying.
From perfection → to play.
From overthinking → to trusting.

When the Magician leads, the Saboteur softens.
Logic becomes a guide, not a jailer.
Faith and intuition open the door.
And life feels less like waiting — more like soaring.

The Saboteur ↔ Magician Dance

The Child ↔ Sovereign Dance

The Child isn’t innocence.
It’s avoidance.

Not your younger self.
Not your inner child.
Not the magical child.

This shadow is the part of you that avoids responsibility and copies others instead of leading.
It emerges when you weren’t allowed to develop a healthy sense of identity.
Your psyche decided:
“It’s safer to follow than to lead.
Safer to hide than to risk the wrong choice.”

How The Child shows up:

• You avoid taking responsibility for mistakes.

• You hide behind others instead of using your own voice.

• You copy others rather than creating your own expression.

• You float from one idea or relationship to another without completion.

• You feel entitled but resist doing the work.

• You struggle to make decisions, fearing the wrong choice.

The Child whispers:
"I don't want to lead.
What if I make the wrong decision?
Someone else should handle this."

This energy doesn't just live in individuals — it exists in the Collective Human Consciousness.

You feel it in your body as a floaty, uncertain state,
in your work as following instead of leading,
in your relationships as avoiding hard choices.
Often, it runs the show without you seeing it.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Where are you avoiding accountability?

• Where are you copying others instead of leading?

• Where are you floating instead of flowing?

• Do you know who you are, or do you feel like an imposter?

The Child Shadow

Opposite the Child stands the Sovereign — the Light energy.

Not the royal kind.
Just you — using your agency.
The CEO of your life, not just your business.
The adult inside of you.
The water that flows.

How the Sovereign appears:

• You take responsibility for your actions

• You make decisions confidently and clearly

• You see the long-term vision while others focus on the short-term

• You lead with flow rather than force

• You speak with authority and others listen

• You command authority with grace, elegantly
  

The Sovereign declares:
"I am the CEO of my life.
I command authority with presence, not force."

When you step into the Sovereign, float becomes flow.
Flow becomes vision.
Identity becomes clear — not rigid, but alive and flowing.

You know who you are vis-à-vis God, yourself, the whole of humanity, animals, plants, the environment.
You feel your backbone.
You have presence.
You lead with grace, not ego.

Everything begins to flow.

The Sovereign Light Archetype

The journey is about turning floaty energy into water that flows — that becomes vision, that shapes a new, secure identity.

The Child teaches you about floating.
The Sovereign shows you how to flow.

Together, they create the dance of conscious leadership —
where you know exactly who you are and where the dance is taking you.

The Child↔Sovereign Dance

The Victim ↔ Warrior Dance

The Victim isn’t just the “poor me” voice.

It’s the rescuer.
The overgiver.
The helper.
The healer.
The one who never asks for help.
The martyr.

It’s also the one who persecutes you —
pushing you harder than you’d ever push another soul.
You wouldn’t treat your worst enemy this way,
yet you treat yourself like this every day.

This energy lives in your unconscious.
It also runs through the collective human field.

You feel it as heaviness in your body.
As if you’re always climbing uphill,
fighting against something you can’t name.

How the Victim shows up

• In business: you carry everything alone, wear exhaustion like a badge of honor, refuse to ask for help.

• In love: you give endlessly, then resent silently when no one gives back.

• In your body: you fight yourself — tension, pain, and stress build until you collapse.

The Victim whispers:

“Don’t ask for help — they’ll let you down.
Keep going, even if it breaks you.
It’s your fault anyway.
Just try harder.”

This shadow convinces you that suffering is noble,
that doing it all alone makes you the hero.
But really, it keeps you in the drama triangle —
rescuing, persecuting, blaming, and burning out.

Questions to ask yourself

• Where am I rescuing instead of letting others carry their share?

• Where am I lashing out — at others or at myself?

• Where am I afraid to ask for help because last time I got burned?

• Where am I taking responsibility that doesn’t belong to me?

The Victim Shadow

The Warrior isn’t the knight in shining armor.
It’s you — fighting for yourself,
for justice,
for truth.

Not from ego.
From grounded strength.

The Warrior is the earth inside you:
solid, steady, expansive.

How the Warrior appears

• You fight for yourself with the same ferocity you fight for others.

• You stand your ground and say, “Enough.”

• You claim your space and build boundaries that hold.

• You connect to your own power and to the earth beneath your feet.

The Warrior declares:

“I claim my ground.
I fight for what matters.
I protect my energy and build my sanctuary.”

When you step into the Warrior, the uphill struggle shifts.
The fight turns from against yourself to for yourself.
You learn to ask for help, receive support, and release the shame you’ve been carrying —
whether it was dumped on you or you dumped it on yourself.

The Warrior Light Archetype

This journey is not about shaming the Victim.
It’s about transforming struggle into strength.

From rescuing → to letting others stand on their own.
From self-blame → to balanced responsibility.
From carrying everything → to sharing the load.

When the Warrior leads, the Victim no longer has to suffer in silence.
You learn to fight wisely —
for yourself, not against yourself.
And life starts to feel lighter, steadier, rooted.

The Victim ↔ Warrior Dance

Shadow Alchemy Playbook gives you the map.
Don’t forget to download your copy—it’s your first step toward clarity, flow, and conscious leadership.

The Born to FLOW Workshop is where we bring it to life.

Join me for a live, 6-hour immersion in Central London on Saturday, 15 November, where we’ll explore how these archetypes show up in your body, relationships, and leadership—and practice somatic, energetic, and spiritual tools to shift from Shadow to Light when it matters most.

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This is where you stop managing your patterns—and start transforming them.

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