The Inner Compass
Thirty questions across six inner axes. About ten minutes. At the end, your archetype — the one that actually maps to who you are.
A friend texts: "I'm going through something. Don't really want to talk about it." What do you do?
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What the Inner Compass measures
Six axes form the hexagon. Each names a different layer of how you move through the world — and each pairs with its diagonal opposite, so the shape of your compass tells you something the individual scores can't.
1. Shadow Clarity
How clearly you see the gap between who you say you are and how you actually behave — and whether you can hold that gap without flinching.
2. Emotional Resilience
How you metabolise pain, stress, and disruption — passage through, not bypass, and not performance.
3. Relational Warmth
Your capacity for empathy, generosity, and attunement to other people's inner weather — without losing track of where they end and you begin.
4. Sovereignty
Self-ownership. Holding your ground without explaining yourself out of it, and without needing other people's approval to know where you stand.
5. Spiritual Attunement
Your orientation toward intuition, synchronicity, and the unseen — the layer of knowing that doesn't always translate into language.
6. Authentic Voice
Your capacity to speak your inner truth aloud — including the parts that don't land neatly, and the version of you that doesn't perform.
The twelve archetypes
Your dominant axis pairs with its diagonal partner to produce one of twelve archetypes. The illustrations are originals, in the register of a Penguin Classics deluxe cover — one card per archetype, each with a unique three-colour palette and tarot pairing.
The Truth-Teller
Sees the gap, names the gap, lives in the gap.
Tarot · The Magician
The Mapmaker
Maps the interior; rarely shares the map.
Tarot · The Hermit
The Anchor
Weathers everything without performing the calm.
Tarot · Strength
The Patient One
Bends, absorbs, outlasts. Refuses last.
Tarot · The Hanged Man
The Caregiver
Care moves through you in both directions at once.
Tarot · The Empress
The Friend
Plain love, durable, unromantic about itself.
Tarot · The Sun
The Grounded
No that doesn't need a sentence after it.
Tarot · Justice
The Guarded
Holds the line. The line costs the body.
Tarot · The Emperor
The Bridge
The unseen and the people in your life are the same field.
Tarot · The High Priestess
The Hermit
Clearer alone than in any room.
Tarot · The Moon
The Honest
Says the awkward true thing. Has paid for it.
Tarot · Temperance
The Outspoken
Speaks readily. Inner map still being drawn.
Tarot · The Fool
Frequently asked questions
How is the Inner Compass different from MBTI or 16Personalities?
Type tests sort you into one of sixteen boxes. The Inner Compass scores you on six continuous axes — Shadow Clarity, Emotional Resilience, Relational Warmth, Sovereignty, Spiritual Attunement, and Authentic Voice — and maps the combination to one of twelve archetypes. The result is granular by design: two people with the same archetype don't have the same hexagon. The shape is yours.
Is this scientifically valid?
It's a self-reflection framework, not a clinical assessment, and we're careful about that distinction. The axis structure draws on Big Five research, attachment theory, and Jungian shadow work, with reverse-scored items in each axis to reduce response bias. We don't claim diagnosis and we don't position the test as therapy — it's a structured way to see your own patterns more clearly.
Will I have to provide my email to see my result?
No. The free result — your archetype card, your hexagon, and your per-axis scores — is delivered without any sign-up. Email capture only appears as an optional "save your result" prompt after the reveal, and you can skip it. The experience isn't gated.
How long does the quiz take?
About ten minutes. Thirty questions in total — five per axis — with a single halfway pause. The questions are written to surface patterns most personality tests miss, so the pacing is closer to honest reflection than rapid clicking.
What's in the paid report and is it worth $19.99?
The full report is sixteen pages: per-axis deep dives, a shadow map of your bottom-two axes, a six-card tarot spread keyed to your archetype, compatibility with the other eleven types, journaling prompts, and a three-stage growth path. It's written to read like a coaching workbook, not a printout. If you don't find one section that names something you've been carrying for years, we refund you within thirty days, no questions asked.
Can I take this if I'm not particularly spiritual?
Yes. The framework is psychology-grounded — shadow, regulation, sovereignty, voice — with an optional spiritual layer (a tarot card per axis, language about attunement). If the spiritual register is the part you're cautious about, the underlying model still works without it. The free result is mostly secular; the paid report names the spiritual layer as optional and treats it as one frame among several.
Will my results be saved if I want to come back to them?
Yes. Provide an email and you'll get a link to your result page plus a short post-quiz reflection sequence over the following two weeks (you can unsubscribe at any point). If you'd rather not share an email, results stay tied to your session for the duration of your visit.
Is the Inner Compass a replacement for therapy?
No — it's a preparation. The most common piece of user feedback we hear is "I brought it to my next session." If your patterns sit close to active trauma, abuse, or mental health crises, the right next step is a clinician, and the paid report names that explicitly in its closing pages.
Other quizzes worth a look
If the Inner Compass is the wide-angle map, these are the closer crops. Each one runs in a few minutes and feeds back into the compass when you take it.
Feminine Archetype Quiz
Which face of the feminine are you currently inhabiting?
Codependency Quiz
Where do you end and other people begin? Close-crop on sovereignty and warmth.
Attachment Style Quiz
How you reach toward closeness — and what your nervous system does with it.
Aura Quiz
The colour of the field around you, and what it says about how you move.
The Inner Compass is a self-reflection framework. It is not a clinical assessment, a diagnosis, or a substitute for professional support.
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