“Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera…”

King Mongkut, from the film, The King and I

President Kennedy’s National Address on Civil Rights – June, 1963

Symbols and Colors

• Background Image: A Royal Robe
• Border Color: Gold
• Crown and The Golden Signet Ring: Kings Set
• Mask: Role Group
• Pharaoh: Exalted Orientation
• Clubs: Action Axis

Implications in the Upright Position or Positive Pole

The crown is the obvious choice for a King. But it is not in the sense of superiority or actual monarchy that mastery over anyone or thing, but ultimately, mastery over the Self. Kings are known as “sovereign rulers” meaning that they answer only to themselves as the first authority. Yet, metaphysically, the
crown also refers to the head, and the energy center of Unconditional Love capable flowing from the chakra.

Card messages in the Illuminated position.

+ Mastery

(Sovereign, Benevolent, Charismatic, Commanding, Composed, Comprehensive, Expert, Stablizer, Inspires loyalty, Magnanimous, Excellence, Perfectionist, Strategist, Majestic, Trouble-shooter)

1. Mastery is the realization that you are the sovereign of your own Soloverse (the combined domain of Essence and Personality which Ego tries to defend). Any act done in alignment with it will vanquish fear, and cause bravery to rise. Take complete charge and go!
2. To engage any situation with dignity and strength is mastery over Ego. Hold the line engage accordingly.
3. Then truest nature of this card asks you to tap into the highest degree of personal competence, integrity, leadership, and magnanimity that you are able to muster.
4. If only everyone were as powerful as a King! Take control of the situation and proclaim a course of action.
5. If only everyone were as powerful as a King, then there would be little doubt or insecurity. Act with dignity and as if you are the master of your own destiny. Model and grant respect.
6. Sticks and stones may break bones but when you are master of your domain, no insult can harm you. Act above the pedestrian and be majestic in your demeanor.
7. Have you declared your right to rule your own life? It is yours, do it! Victory favors the bold.
8. The first sovereign you must honor is not the one in the sky, nor the one in your nation, but the one that lives inside of your own Psyche. This is where your first loyalty should be.
9. Living a life of principled dignity is the ultimate example of self-determination. Principles only change when a clearer and more applicable one is established and demonstrated to be true.
10. Tap into the highest degree of personal competence, integrity, leadership, and magnanimity that you are able to muster.
11. Your domain is bountiful and it is open to those who treat it with due respect. Boundaries indicate, “this is where you and I interact.” Good boundaries means you don’t have to worry about defending your borders.

Quotes Pertaining to this idea:

• “The best executive has the sense to pick the best people to do what needs to be done and the self-restraint to keep from meddling while they do it.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt
• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ~ Helen Keller
• One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.~ Abraham Maslow

Implications of the Reversed Position or Negative Pole

Shadow Position: Tyranny is any force that creates fear by being explosive. Nuclear power can provide a powerful energy source when contained, but as we discovered at 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and most recently Fukushima, once unleashed, nature has been wreaked havoc upon, and everyone affected by the disasters have been subject to the tyranny of forgetfulness. It took industry bribing Kings with
King-sized tributes, to move them to allow these icons of destructive power to operate amongst us; creating new problems more terrible and toxic, than the ones they were to solve.

Card messages in the Shadow position.

– Tyranny

(Arrogant, Controlling, Demanding, Imperious, Extravagant, Haughty, Heartless, Inflexible, Intolerant, Overbearing, Ruthless, Tyrannical)

1. Discontent with who you are or what you have may lead to angry tyrannical behavior. What type of monarch are you: King Midas or King Kong? Or a king sized pain in the ass!
2. Someone’s sovereign rights are being stepped on by a tyrant. That could be someone you are in association with or a cruel driving voice within.
3. What you are doing is destroying your reputation and causing people to wish your ouster.
4. It is amazing how those who lust for power, lavish great praise on the most extravagant and ruthless. If this is the role model being haled as savior, you confuse a maniac for a messiah. 
5. Sinclair Lewis said in It Can’t Happen Here, “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” Frequently, their intrigue spreads from the belief that they are entitled by some higher status to order others about or to use them. Kings employ either Warriors or Servers as minions for this purpose, whereas Sages and Priests may partner with them to exact their own advantage, i.e. The Coattail Effect.
6. If you have to motivate anyone with threats, your kingdom is on shaky grounds. Whoever is yelling, complaining, condemning or threatening to motivate people needs to be confronted and possibly demand their abdication. If not, well, remember what happened to Louis XVI of France?
7. Royal prerogative sounds prestigious and powerful. It is intoxicating. For those who seek such carte blanche permission to lord over others, they are tyrants in the making. Be careful of the rise of those desires in anyone. 

Quotes Pertaining to this idea:

• “The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.” ~Oscar Wilde
• “One man is more concerned worth the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer 
• “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” Edmund Burke
• Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition. ~ Jack Welch

Relevance in the Michael Teachings

The King is an action role who knows how to get things done on a large scale. Adept, or at least, prone to  delegation and directorship, the King Essence is often a perfectionist and sometimes imperious. Created as the aspect to assume the position of greatest dominion atop whatever hierarchy it will find itself in.

Often ambitious at any Soul Age, yet tending to peak with the Young Soul era, the King when in a male body may assume an aggressive posture when grandeur or might has failed to win the day.(Donald Trump or Charlemagne) In a female body, a queen-king might have attributes of self confidence and presence that might be thought of as masculine or at least highly assertive: Madonna, Xena, Katherine Hepburn.

As with the other Archetypes of this Teaching, the King represents the aspects of Sovereignty and Omnipotence (all power) assigned to the TAO as deified qualities. Complete potency of life and over life, the King Role typifies the most exalted honorifics of human power. Interestingly enough, Jesus of Nazareth (Christ was a mystic title attributed to a messiah) who was a King Role in the Michael Teachings. His existence and status was later reframed in Christian theology as the “king of kings.”

Life Metaphor and Implied Motto

Sovereign self determination is everything! Life is a kingdom to be ruled.

Cultural Archetype- Exalted Arcana

Charlemagne

Aristocratic and sublime, the King or Queen is the aspect that holds sovereignty and dominion. The King will demonstrate the highest level of integrity possible to feel the surge of dynamic energy in motion. Inherently interested in strategy, the King may opt for Aggressive action or defer to diplomacy. This King seeks mastery of his own Soloverse.  In either case, when the King looks only for control it can only result in a King forever embroiled in belligerence. Thus is rendered a King with no respect but only fear. someone with an expansive vision that’s able to see the bigger picture. Presenting the highest level of achievement, fluency, essence-control, and mastery over any challenge the King weighs in a the natural leader determined to be at the front of the crowd no matter what means are used to get their. A King who had embodied all of these traits at one time or another and who’s personality was magnetic was President John F. Kennedy.

Examples of this Archetype

1. Famous People: Charlemagne, Diahann Carroll, Sean Connery, Queen Elizabeth I, singer Madonna, Katherine Hepburn, President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Aristotle Onassis, Billy Graham, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump, Alexander the Great, Susan B. Anthony, Bela Bartok, Ambrose Bierce, Cate Blanchett, James Cameron, Jesus Christ, Wesley Clark, James Garner, J. Paul Getty, Thich Nat Hahn, William Randolph Hearst ,Howard Hughes, Tommy Lee Jones, Jerome Kern, Jack Kerouac, Lucy Lawless, John Merrick (Elephant man) , Robert Monroe, John Muir, Christopher Plummer, Patrick Stewart, Sharon Stone
2. Mythical or Cartoon characters: Superman, Wonder Woman, Zeus Xena Warrior Princess,
3. Institutions: United Nations, Monarchy, Executives, Endowments philanthropy
4. Familiar Occupations: CEO, Chief, Icon, Movement leader, military commander, entrepreneur; investor; economist; bank manager; symphony conductor; football coach; or maitre d’
5. Animals: Eagle, Lion, Jaguar, Dragon
6. Inventions or works of art: Pyramids, Skyscrapers, monuments,
7. Cities and Nationalities: Washington DC, Ancient Rome, Babylon, Tenochtitlan: Ancient Mexico City, Atlantis

Statements that identify the King Overleaf Energy

(Not every aspect may be in play.)

1. My natural inclination is to lead or guide, anything I feel is important.
2. I see the world as my realm, and I have a mandate to fully realize my potential.
3. I want to master anything I put my mine to or banish that which annoys me.
4. I demand of excellence in myself and have exacting standards about what I accept from others.
5. My drive for perfection can make me appear competent and intense to others.
6. Focusing my attention is simple for any task that fascinates me.
7. I am told that my perfectionism is hard on myself and others.
8. I expect to eventually take a leadership role in anything that I do.
9. Personal competence is of utmost importance to me.
10. Vulnerability and weakness are two attributes I greatly resist and find difficult in others.
11. I command attention without trying. People typically defer to me as a voice of authority. They seek out my counsel and often become loyal friends and associates, but I only allow a select few into my inner circle.
12. It’s important to respect the dignity of others when resolving conflicts or finding solutions.
13. Helping is fine when asked of me as long as they take my advice. I hate to have my time wasted.
14. As a leader I’m adept at seeing the big picture and this guides me in delegating work to the person with the talent and skills necessary to get the job done right.
15. When angered or frustrated I can become a tyrant; and become intolerant, arrogant, and ruthless.
16. Any task which I engage in must challenge my strategic problem-solving or supervisory qualities.
17. I can see most sides of a situation and I can produce outcomes that serve many people and purposes.
18. People who really see me use descriptions like competent, grounded, masterful, a natural leader, a powerful presence, and someone who is “going somewhere in life.”

The King Set

The King Set comprises these fundamental energies, listed below, and are the design defaults Overleaves embedded in, or native to, the construction of the King Role. Visually displayed under the King column on the Card Color Chart in Section 1, realize that if no other Overleaves were chosen from other categories by a given person of that Role, they would be automatically orienting to these nested
qualities. This is true of any Role’s subordinate Overleaves.

The King Cards, are all Cardinal/Exalted, Action-oriented, and focused on the gaining competence with itself and freedom from doubt. To manage all of his/her domain, they would naturally want to employ Dominance as the Goal. To assert most control clearly and competently, the Attitude of Realist facilitates accurate assessment. Willing to engage both friends and enemy alike, the Mode of Aggression can act promptly, assertively, and directly. But sensing a threat the King can muster its armaments and will act with belligerence. The Higher Moving, or Sexual, Center asserts a wide space that coincides with prowess, offered by the Mars Body Type which signals vitality and robust health.

The Chief Feature of Impatience can make a King into an imperious tyrant; and bears out the King’s sense of entitlement regarding their rights and need to have every opportunity available to them to allay the fear of not missing out. It bears striking resemblance to its accompanying Mode, Aggression, but might only episodically rise to overt anger. Respect for one’s own sense of competence and ability to control situations is what underscores many of the concerns held by both Impatience and Martyrdom: the former compensates by overestimating or overvaluing his capacities, while the latter will tend to diminish both.

When a person has chosen any of the following characteristics, they are taking a piece of King orientation to act with self-determination and exert the confidence of a sovereign. If you choose the King Role – you are being alerted to some level of concern about your personal sovereignty, rights and or capacity to assert or defend them.

From the Archetypes of the Roles to the Archetypal Elements of the Story Process

The TAO has issued the Roles and set players ready to act their parts in the story of life within its Creation. But the next phase is the narrative of the play. The Goals, which actors will seek out, quest for, be challenged by, or have to adapt to, a script with a plot is needed to guide them in their portrayals.
So the invention of The Goal’s becomes the next development of evolutions construction. The next seven Cards 8-14 are the various plot lines each extracted from the Heart of the Role from which they are a set member. And the most logical space to begin is to sort it all out with Discrimination.

by Stephen Cocconi © 2011, Updated 2024

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