POLL — when my new book Nontoxic Masculinity: A Celebration of Good Men launches on Aug 1, I get to add a teaser chapter to the listing. The book is a collection of stories about men (real & myth) who represent the 12 archetypes of masculinity and what we can learn from them. My question to you is: which chapter should I post as a teaser?

1. The Warrior

2. The Magician

3. The King

4. The Lover

5. The Joker

6. The Hero

7. The Caregiver

8. The Sage

9. The Explorer

10. The Innocent

11. The Rebel

12. The Creator

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So far on TikTok it’s a race between the Hero, the Joker, and the Creator…

Torn between (8) and (11)🤔.

oh, I love this!

Rebel, Magician for me

i second Magician --never heard of this one

it's the third (number 2) trump in the tarot after the priestess, after the fool

oh, it's 1 lol. priestess is 2

oh , i didn't realize this was from tarot. ive had pics turned off for a while. i thought it was just a list of personality types from psychology

yeah, i'm not sure about the selection of the trumps being used, because there is 22 of them in total but some of them are indeed clearly abstract and not representative of a personality. like The Fool (trump 0) which everyone is, or will be, if they step on the path.

the 22 trumps represent phases in a spiritual journey, primarily, and there is even a whole story that gypsy fortunetellers memorize, that i had one dude recite to me, took about half an hour, pretty impressive, and then he talked through the meaning of every minor arcana after that.

lol. everyone's a fool in love?

ahah. did you learn anything from your fortuneteller

the only thing that really stuck was the ace of swords, aka "ace of spades", which is the only form of intellect that is not a highway to hell. in the Osho Tarot this is represented as the state of meditation or zazen or whatever words there is for that, unfiltered awareness. all of the rest of the swords suit are tragedy stories.

The one, that inspires you most ☺️

🥰 that’s probably the Hero

Then go for it 😊

The Explorer

The Joker and The Creator 👌

The Rebel 😀

Interesting! I vote chapter 1 🙂

i'm an 8 so i'm biased

Roll a couple dice. Choose your chapter.

This obvioualy rules out #1, but we believe in taking chances.

2

2 or 12 are my choices

I don’t care…whatever you want baby.

13 The Anima

Seriously... that might intrigue readers as an opening

You need some more chapters

The Hunter

The Priest

The Leader

The Pedophile

The Rapist

The Murderer

I was going to say the caregiver but looks too "Jesus"ey 🤭

The entire book is pretty Jesus-y honestly. I’m a preachers kid. Gotta write what I know. But I do make a hilarious joke in the caregiver chapter during the Jesus bit. 😆

The Magician

The Rebel .... there's one (or more) in each of us guys. 😉