Recently I was given guidance by spirit through divination cards to let-go of the Servant archetype, the one that was firmly nestled into my psyche and start embracing the Vampire archetype.
If you’re not familiar with how important it is to identify which archetypes you’re working with, aka are controlling your life, you might want to drop this article and go do a little research. You can start with psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and follow through with Gallery of Archetypes by Caroline Myss.
Knowing what archetypes you’re currently playing with to create your reality, the ones ruling your motives and actions, is like doing the meta-analysis on how you’re using your life force. It enables us to crawl up the dimensions within self to reach the divine puppet master behind the scene—our soul. It assists us in moving beyond our own illusions to cultivate compassion for all parts of self we’d rather deny at all costs.
From this vantage point we have a better understanding of which parts of ourselves make up our lower dimensional aspects. The parts that might be working to our own disadvantage and the disadvantage of others.
Embracing the Vampire Archetype might sound awful for those that feel like they’ve been the victim of an energy vampire before because our immediate thoughts move towards the shadow aspects of this archetype and it usually wasn’t a good experience. Let’s make no mistake, it can be downright deadly but this is precisely the moment we should begin to embrace our own inner vampire.
The shadow side of this archetype is most depicted in traditional Vampire movies. If you’ve wrestled with someone carrying this vibration in your life before you’re aware that it’s LIFE FORCE draining and down right threatening. It’s the type of energy that sinks its psychic hooks into your essence in order to feed off your vitality, your creativity and connection to spirit.
Just the thought makes me queasy. The stomach area is highly sensitive to a Vampire because it’s the most sensitive area in our bodies detecting the quality of energy exchanged with other people. It’s the place within our bodies that houses the code to our personal boundaries. If you’ve taken enough time to developed your psychic abilities you can find the source of vampiric energy cords or third party attachments fairly easy.
Vampires are highly co-dependant emotionally but they could be co-dependant financially, mentally, sexually or even just physically clingy. We all carry Vampiric energy to a certain extent and becoming aware of the ways in which we are using our vampiric qualities is the key to developing healthy relationships.
If we’re overly dependant on others in any of the above mentioned categories we’re taking more than our share of their energy. If you’re someone who vamps on a regular basis from the people around you, you might notice that the only ones sticking around are the full-on givers. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the empath and narcissist dynamic because the terms are too cliched for me right now but you could look at it from that lens to give you a better idea.
The thing about vampires are that the more they take the less likely they are to be aware of it. Vampire energy is stemmed in the desire to nourish Self without the capacity or know how to do so. The more vampiric shadow energy you vibrate out, the more likely you are to feel that others are taking from you and a vicious cycle of victim/perpetrator begins within your consciousness.
The more aware you are of the ways in which you vamp off of those around you, the more likely you are to be fair in your exchanges. Within intimate partnerships it gives you the ability to see the other’s needs more clearly and allows you to begin assuming your share of responsibility for the emotions generated from the energy exchanges produced from the relationship.
Our main goal here on earth is to become sovereign. Connecting to the energy of spirit fuels us forward collectively healing. This is where the saying, “Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.” Kahlil Gibran, comes from. If everyone is drinking from the same cup then how are we suppose to continuously fill each other’s cup? It’s logically impossible.
We must always be self-sustaining enough, to have a good amount to share with others. If we don’t know how to fill our own cups properly due to not being shown how to self-regulate one aspect or another during childhood then we continuously look to others to complete those aspects for us.
If we didn’t receive a sufficient amount of love and acceptance for example, we are more likely to seek acceptance from our peers which can lead to all sorts of weird energetic connection. On the flip side, we’re also more likely to be over-critically of others and with the world if the light-side of our inner vampire archetype is underdeveloped. Think tenth dimensional Drako aspect assuming control over your battle-ship; untethered vampire dynamics abound.
Often healer type people will allow energy vampires to over-extend their stay because as conscious individuals they are more likely to see what the other person is trying to do, which is to heal an underdeveloped aspect of themselves through a similar aspect developed in a healthy way within the other. The overabundant quality in the other appears like a shinny beckon of light yelling, “over here, I have what you need, just come and get it”.
The worst dynamic is two emotionally co-dependent people, or two financially co-dependant people. They just reinforce the lack in each other and with no source energy to share and generate from, they deplete each other quite chaotically and often detrimentally to those around them.
So whether you consider yourself to be a giver or a taker, embracing your inner Vampire draws to the surface the light qualities of the Vampire archetype which are keys to a successful career, relationship, personal health and all around life.
This work should especially be done for those that feel like they are being vamped off of. It allows them to nurture and attend to their shadow aspects. The ones subconsciously making them vamp off others to meet their unmet needs. All of which attract the perceived and real vampires in their life.
The light qualities of the healthy Vampire archetype are impeccable inner and outer boundaries. Embracing our inner vampire allows us to identify and respond to unhealthy energy exchanges immediately before they get out of hand. Once they get out of hand, the more likely we are to start vamping off of others to compensate for our lack of energy. It’s up to you to cut the energy being syphoned from a co-dependant as soon as possible to continue being a responsible co-creator. This is why people often report that when an empath hangs around a narcissist for too long they become one as well.
Another light quality of the Vampire archetype is cosmic (immortal) heart energy. The ability to share love very openly and freely without shadow aspects creeping in that have unwritten subconscious motives attached.
We are less likely to engage in transactional relationships where one person is meeting the unmet needs of another and more likely to engage in responsible conscious relationships. Relationships where we are loving from a place of self-love. Where we can offer guidance to the other when they are lacking, from a non-attached state.
When we take the reins of our inner puppet master, we take ownership of our inner dimensions and are less likely to be controlled by an external puppet masters who seeks to control what they can’t control within themselves.
The most common form of vamping that I personally witness is the vamping of creative energy, which is a very pure form of sexual energy. As we continue to ascend and become increasingly aware of our interconnected nature, we’re also becoming more aware of how interconnected our thought forms are and exactly how easily we’re influenced by the thought creations of others.
Evolution is the representation of each of us engaging in a healthy dance with Spirit first. Maintaining proper routine to keep an open stream to source energy provides us with fresh inspiration to be shared in new and innovative ways with others.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t connect to each other telepathically and build off each other’s ideas or even spend the majority of our time together or read up on the concepts and ideas our forefathers generated to produce something greater but it’s essential we do so in a holistic and balanced way, which requires source connection at the root of our energetic wellspring.
Our greatest source of energy comes from nature, period. We’re all unique beings that have come here to share our unique medicine. This comes from embracing the ascension process and moving into new spaces of consciousness bringing with us the co-creations we’ve gathered without.
If we lean on others to climb up our own inner ladder too much, we get pulled outwardly too often and fall trap to the negative aspects of Vampiric exchanges. We also miss the joy of synchronicity— the voice of spirit— our map to other universes.
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Thank you for these amazing insights, I’ve been trying to find reading online that expresses the nuances within this archetype and your writing really hit the mark. Best wishes, Abi