Personalities of the 4 directions

We are all one. Yet we are not all the same.

Our personalities are distinctly different. They are a combination of characteristics, our True Colors, the personality dimensions that are that special mix of temperaments that make us so very individual.

These combinations of characteristics have been categorized from the time of Hippocrates in 600 BCE and no doubt before times. The majority of our modern personality typing is based on the research and teachings of Carl Jung.

This information is invaluable in its ability to allow us insight into who we are and why we do the things we do, why we go about things in our own individual ways. Embracing the similarities, celebrating the differences.

This ‘discovery’ of modern psychology has been understood and practiced by indigenous cultures since time out of mind. Their understanding is not so complex as to include the thirty two personality types of Carl Jung’s original paradigm and yet it is no less valuable.

We are born in a direction where we start the our  journey through the circle of life, and in the process we quite readily assimilate…embrace…adopt…the personality traits and temperaments, the characteristics of two of the other directions. We are able to call on the strengths of these directions when we need them and sometimes giving into their weaknesses without conscious awareness.

It is the personality type of the fourth direction…that piece of our personal puzzle…that is our challenge, and one that can be life long. To ‘self-actualize’ we must live in harmony with ourselves and those around us. To be in harmony, ‘in balance’, with one’s self…we must be able to honour that part of our personality mix that is the weakest and work to incorporate the characteristics that embody it into our daily lives.

True Colors – Personalities And The Four Directions has been  developed to revive this ancient understanding of human nature and the differences that make us individual. It is a tool that will assist people to better understand themselves and their nature and encourage them to strengthen that direction which shows itself weak in their personal kaleidoscope of life.

Understanding the personality types of the four directions and our own personal mix,  is the first step in working with the Medicine Wheel, to solve our personal puzzles and start on our path to Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Mental wellness, wholeness and balance.

 Medicine Wheel

The original name for Medicine Wheels was Sacred Circles and though they are used primarily in Aboriginal Medicine they are found all over the world. They come in many forms and their purpose and use are culturally specific.

Today Medicine Wheels represent the power of the circle and peaceful connectivity to all beings. Primarily a metaphor for life and an internal mirror reflecting back to us, the Medicine Wheel is many things.

• Circle of Life
• Wheel of the Year
• Map of Life/Self
• Healing tool
• Teaching tool
• Sacred Circle

Allowing us to achieve interconnectedness with all life spirit and restore balance in the aspects of our nature the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual.

The Power of the World always works in circles, and everything
tries to be round….
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like
a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power,
whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same
religion as ours….
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and
always come back again to where they were. The life of a man
is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything
where power moves.

Black Elk