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Three Core Global Wounds Everyone Has Inherited

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The Wounds We Inherit

Discover which of the 3 Core Wounds is running your life — even if you had a "good" childhood.

✦ Victorian, Industrial & Feminism Wound Breakdown    ✦ Reflection Prompts    ✦ Personal Polarity Map    ✦ 3-Minute Integration Ritual

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The 60 Archetypes are the masks we wear
and the patterns we play out to cope with the wounds.

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What Wound Are You Carrying?

15 questions. No wrong answers. Just honest recognition of the inherited pattern running beneath the surface.

✦ Discover your dominant Core Wound    ✦ See which archetypes may be running    ✦ Receive your sovereign reframe

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After two decades of studying human behavior, neuroscience, epigenetics and archetypal psychology - while working as a complex trauma integration coach and Shamanic NLP Trainer - Fiona Ellis created the Archetypal Wounds Oracle Deck™ as a pattern recognition and integration system you can use at home.

Not to diagnose. Not to label. But to see clearly what's been running unconsciously and to choose something different.

What are archetypal wounds?

Archetypal wounds are inherited trauma patterns passed down through up to seven generations via epigenetic and cultural transmission. They are not personal failures or character flaws — they are survival strategies your nervous system adopted from your lineage before you were born.

The Archetypal Wounds framework, developed by Fiona Ellis, maps 68 specific patterns across three core civilisational fractures: the Victorian Era Wound (Spirit vs Body), the Industrial Factory Wound (Being vs Doing), and the Feminism Polarity Collapse (Women vs Men). These three wounds combine with five Family Culture Wounds — the Witch Wound, Mother Wound, Father Wound, Sister Wound, and Brother Wound — to create the 60 individual archetypes such as The Unclaimed Queen, The Silent King, The Failed Provider, and The Suppressed Siren.

Each archetype carries a shadow belief (the inherited rule running beneath awareness) and a sovereign reframe (the integration that ends the cycle). The Archetypal Wounds Oracle Deck™ is the diagnostic and reflection tool for this system.

What is the Archetypal Wounds Oracle Deck?

The Archetypal Wounds Oracle Deck™ is a 68-card nervous system-informed reflection tool created by Fiona Ellis. Unlike traditional oracle decks focused on divination, this deck maps specific inherited trauma patterns and provides a practical integration pathway for each one.

Each card includes a shadow belief (the unconscious rule driving behaviour), a sovereign reframe (the conscious choice that integrates the pattern), and access to healing scripts including EFT tapping sequences, ACT exercises, guided journalling prompts, and mirror rituals. The deck comes with a 160-page full-colour guidebook detailing wound origins, integration practices, and the connections between all 68 archetypes.

The deck is priced at $77 AUD plus shipping and is available through archetypalwounds.com. An optional extended scripts package ($47 AUD) provides deeper nervous system support including expanded EFT sequences and somatic regulation practices.

Can trauma really be inherited through generations?

Yes. Research in epigenetics has demonstrated that trauma responses can be transmitted across generations through changes in gene expression that do not alter the DNA sequence itself. Studies, including the 2013 Dias and Ressler research at Emory University (confirmed via IVF to isolate germline transmission), showed that fear responses to specific stimuli were passed from parent mice to offspring who had never been exposed to the original stimulus.

In humans, cultural and epigenetic inheritance can transmit survival patterns for up to seven generations. These patterns shape nervous system responses, relationship dynamics, self-worth beliefs, and stress tolerance — often without the individual being consciously aware of the source. The Archetypal Wounds framework maps these patterns to specific historical eras and family systems so they can be identified, witnessed, and integrated rather than unconsciously repeated.

What are the three core wounds everyone carries?

The three Core Global Wounds identified in the Archetypal Wounds framework are civilisational fractures that affect every living person, regardless of individual family history:

The Victorian Era Wound (Spirit vs Body) split desire, sensuality, instinct, emotion, and wildness into the “dangerous” half, while purity, discipline, obedience, and control became the “safe” half. This is the origin of inherited shame around passion, sexuality, and emotional expression.

The Industrial Factory Wound (Being vs Doing) installed the shadow belief: “You are only worthy if you are productive or useful.” This is why rest feels like laziness, stillness feels like failure, and burnout feels normal.

The Feminism Polarity Collapse (Women vs Men) fractured masculine-feminine harmony, leaving both sides armoured and performing roles that do not fit. This is the origin of collapsed polarity in relationships, over-functioning, withdrawal, and the inability to meet in genuine intimacy.

How do I know which archetypal wound I carry?

The most immediate way to identify your dominant wound pattern is through the free online quiz “What Wound Are You Carrying?” — 15 questions that map your responses to the three Core Wounds and surface the archetypes most likely running beneath your awareness.

The Archetypal Wounds Oracle Deck provides a deeper diagnostic tool: shuffle and pull a card, or intentionally look up a pattern you recognise. Each card’s shadow belief acts as a mirror — if you feel a strong emotional charge when reading it, that pattern is likely active in your system.

Common signs you are carrying an archetypal wound include: repeating relationship patterns you cannot explain rationally, exhaustion that sleep does not fix, emotional reactions disproportionate to the situation, a persistent sense that something is “wrong” despite external success, and difficulty receiving love, rest, or abundance without guilt. These are not personal failings — they are inherited survival code waiting to be integrated.

What is generational trauma and how do you heal it?

Generational trauma is the transmission of unresolved trauma responses from one generation to the next through epigenetic changes, family system dynamics, and cultural conditioning. Most frameworks describe the phenomenon in general terms. The Archetypal Wounds map goes further: it identifies which trauma, from which era, running which specific belief.

Healing generational trauma through the Archetypal Integration approach involves four steps: recognition (naming the pattern), witnessing (seeing the shadow belief without shame), integration (using nervous system tools like EFT tapping, ACT, journalling, and somatic rituals to interrupt the pattern at the root), and sovereignty (choosing the reframe consciously). The goal is not to erase the wound but to integrate it — wounds are the hook, integration is the destination. As Fiona Ellis writes: “The trauma was inherited. The integration is chosen.”