by Stephen Cocconi © 2026
Aspects in the Michael Teachings
The Role is the primary archetypal frame-of-reference that a person’s inner world is motivated to express, achieve, or stylize themselves. It is a defined set of Archetypes with multiple characteristics and nuances. They a two dimensional stereotype! In the Michael Teaching, the phrase “Essence in Personality” reflects the fact that the Role was taken at the time of original creation, or “casting from the TAO”, which is the process of ensoulment. Hence, the Role is the continuous, unchanging, characteristic that a Being possess for all of their incarnations.
In the Michael Personality Trait System, the Overleaves; there are seven Roles: Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, Server, Priest, Scholar. No role is singularly a job skill. Not every King is royalty, nor every Warrior a soldier, or all Sages wise, Priests a member of some clergy, Servers neither helpers or slaves, or Artisan’s assumed to be craftspeople. However, some of the more defining traits of those types of people, imperious and grand for the King, and loyal and pushy for a Warrior, for instance, or perhaps a Scholar’s need for order might apply. As the Soul Age and other Soul desires of the individual being (Michael calls us “fragments”) emerge, then a unique formulation of that type will flourish. In the same way that in a garden you may have one species of plant, but its fruit may vary in size, flavor, and appeal.
Of all the Overleaf categories present in this system, the Role is the aspect of Essence that is strongest internal driver. It is not true in all cases that it is the most evident. As mentioned above, Roles are played out in the aspects of cultural archetypes. All societies have representations of the seven Roles. Often, like in India which has a version of these embedded in it’s caste system, certain Roles tend to get a certain veneration (like Kings and Warriors) while others (Scholars and Servers) can be viewed with little favor and possible contempt. These preferences tend to be biased by the Human and Earthly predisposition toward the more masculine qualities of Dominance, Aggression, Power, and control.
Knowing your Role: Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, Server, Priest, Scholar, which means understanding the range of thoughts and drives which pertain to that type can offer a deep validation and understanding for emotional and behavioral patterns and habits towards which you naturally gravitate.
Function in the Michael Motivation Cards™
The Michael Motivation Cards (MMC) seek to present the Roles, as with all the noun or fixed concepts in the OMT, as situational descriptors consistent with the Applied Michael Approach™(AMA) that these ideas can be powerfully useful in framing persons and circumstances in a per-case method. Below, you will notice that in addition to the Role archetype affecting their own Card and character, we can see the influential overlay that the Role has on its’s own SET.
These symbols show the unifying image present upon each Card relating those specific ones to a Role Set.
We be begin with each Card of its own archetype:
These 7 Cards contain all of the subordinate column aspects found on the Overleaves Chart.
The Role Group, as seen below, are noted in the upper right corner with an image of a theatrical mask. In the event that you draw one or more of these cards it should be noted that it could be significant. It might indicate that either of the two Roles are in conflict, or in cahoots, or perhaps in support of the other. Such Card feedback might be even more useful if you happen to associate actual individuals with these Roles if you happen to be inquiring about you and other persons. Yet, if your question is posing some guidance about your point of view, multiple Role appearance might be giving you insight about that Role perspective as it is defined within your own psyche. (See the Inner Sub Personality Spreads relating to each Role.)
