The King and Queen of all quizzes!
What do you get when you merge Japanese psychology, the Rorschach inkblot test, a sprinkle of Jungian psychology, and the Tarot all together? Well … you’ll find out! (But I can guarantee that it’s probably one of the weirdest tests you’ll ever take.)
What is the Subconscious Mind?
Your subconscious mind can be compared to an inner basement in which all of the material not currently inhabiting your conscious awareness is stored.
Every memory, skill, experience, feeling, thought, and forgotten or subliminal piece of information is housed in your subconscious mind. It is this powerful part of your brain that carries out actions on autopilot, delivers intuitive and instinctual information, and predetermines how you will act in any given situation.
Your subconscious mind is also where unresolved or suppressed feelings, desires, and ideas dwell, and is therefore where your shadow (or the rejected parts of yourself) can lurk. For this reason, shadow work is one of the most powerful ways of exploring your subconscious mind and freeing it of any weight it may be carrying.
You can see our popular and highly rated Shadow Work Journal for a deep guided way to explore this hidden part of you.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind for most people is a total mystery. Yet science has proven that a large percentage of our feelings, thoughts, and major life decisions are based on the impulses arising from this strange realm.
Your subconscious mind influences everything from the partner you choose, to the jobs you take on, personas you adopt, addictions you develop, and aspirations you have in life. The craziest thing is that often we aren’t even aware of the impact that our subconscious mind has on us.
As I pointed out above, there is also another darker side to the subconscious mind: it is the place where we often hide or suppress the emotions that we don’t want to face. Mind you, not everything buried in the subconscious mind is negative – there can be brilliantly creative and joyful elements within it as well – but some of what the subconscious contains can feel quite strange or confronting.
In this test, you’re presented with the possibility to learn either positive or negative qualities about yourself, and receiving either is neither right nor wrong, it just is.
Subconscious Mind Test
After receiving your answer in this test, please reflect on any reactions you might have. Do you feel shocked, angry or defensive? If so, consider that these reactions might be defense mechanisms.
Defense mechanisms are like inner walls that immediately go up whenever we touch on an inconvenient (or painful) truth. Again, you can check out our Shadow Work Journal or even our Shadow & Light membership for more ongoing guidance.
Also, don’t take the answer you receive as a certainty. See it instead as a possibility. As with any quiz, accuracy can’t be 100% guaranteed (but we’ve tried our best!).
So have fun with this subconscious mind test, and don’t forget to share your results (if you’re so inclined)!
Oh yes:
P.S. Why is the Tarot included in this test? Most people have false assumptions about the tarot. The dominant belief is that the tarot is some kind of hocus-pocus fortune telling gimmick. This is far from the truth. Yes, the tarot can be used by modern bejeweled “gypsy fortune tellers” to make grandiose predictions. But most genuine tarot readers in this day and age believe that no path is set in stone. We are in charge of our destiny. The Tarot is a powerful psychological tool that reveals your unconscious desires, needs, thoughts, gifts, and aspirations. In short, the Tarot is a powerful tool for exploring your unconscious mind. The deck used in this test is one that I personally use and recommend called The Smith-Waite Tarot Centennial Edition Deck.
We’ve also created questions inspired from the book ‘Kokology’ created by University professors Isamu Saito and Tadahiko Nagao.
On to the test!
What did you get?
Share your results below!
I don’t know. I always don’t feel like myself and struggle to love others. My mum always tell me that I’m loving others. But the question is I don’t know. I hate it. I long for a relationship but my family’s too stuck up with eastern ideas. I mean, I’m know how to love and want one. But I can’t. And I’m confused why I got love. I mean, I can’t love others and would want to try one and I know that I love my family but I cant feel it. I just want to know about what does love feel like but I can’t. I don’t know, sure, I luv my family a lot, but I want to have a relationship.
It’s hard to say
I got love.
It is true I am creating a routine that don’t give me real time for myself.I think the why is that I still think that I don’t deserve happiness and love,it is a small amount,but I feel it in me and I am doing shadow embodiment,it is helping.I will also try to make more time for myself.
Luna and Sol,you are amazing and your work is very helpful.
I got hope yet I feel hopeless a lot. I feel incredibly lost and abandoned by everyone right now. I am hanging on by a thread….
Contempt. I never thought of contempt. Through the eyes of contempt it does hold alot of fear. Thanks. I can see strains of this attitude with my transactions of others. Then I usually hide.
I got “Isolation”
The results from this test were 100% and it really made me cry b/c it was so true! I have a hard past and grew up w/o a father. I’m 35, married to a high functioning alcoholic, and suffer severe anxiety and codependency. Your test results description was inspiring. Thank you very much!
Desire
Subconsciously, you are a sensual and deeply feeling soul who enjoys living life to the fullest. However, across the course of your life, someone or something has caused you to suppress your healthy expression of pleasure-seeking, which has resulted in psychological imbalance.
You are a person who either tends to over-indulge or under-indulge – there are no grey areas. You tend to jump to extremes and either binge … or become austere and highly self-controlled. As such, you are prone to various forms of addiction and sexual impotency or overactivity.
Not everything buried in the subconscious is dark or negative. Desire is an example of a neutral force that can enhance life or cause it to self-destruct.
Do you tend to gouge yourself on food, shopping, television, sex, and other life pleasures? Or perhaps you are the opposite: restrained, frugal, placid, controlled, and self-possessed? Both of these extremes require you to consciously work with the energy of desire to discover what is underneath.
You might like to ask yourself, why do I binge or, alternatively, prevent myself from fully enjoying something? What am I trying to avoid within myself? You might also like to explore the beliefs you’ve been taught about desire from a young age, and how they impact you now.
Once you learn how to mindfully enjoy the pleasures of life – without going overboard or completely abstaining altogether – you will experience much more authentic joy and peace.
Sounds about right.
Love
“Deep down, you are a kind and gentle soul who craves love. You have a strong subconscious need to give love to others and receive love. Although you may sometimes appear strong, stoic or self-sufficient on the outside, that is only hiding your deeply compassionate heart and desire to unite others”♡
Spot on xx
Thank you so much,
Mel