When i hear about archetypes in EA I’m pointed towards the house sign planet aspect
In examples I often read about the sign planet and house but I haven’t seen a thread where the aspect is synthesized into this archetype in a simple understandable way (for me!)
Examples are great. Like if you are looking for the archetype of the soul you would look to Pluto Scorpio 8, but then how does the aspect add to the character of the archetype?
My recommendation would be to look up all the info you can about aspects, phases, evolutionary gates that you can, really study it and integrate the archetypal processes and development from 0 degrees to 360 degrees.
And then study it from the perspective of each sign at the 0 degree point, for example Aries at 0 degrees, the natural archetype would have Cancer at 90 degrees, Libra at 180 degrees then Capricorn at 270 degrees. Then repeat for Taurus at 0 degrees, which would have Leo at 90 degrees, Scorpio at 180 degrees, etc. But also do ALL the aspects, sextiles, trines, quintiles, semi-squares, sesquiquadrates, inconjuncts etc.
Not only will this help you to synthesis the aspects/phase with the signs and houses, but it will also further flesh out your understanding of the sign/house archetypes. No sign or house’s archetypal meaning exists or functions in a vacuum, they are interrelated, a precedent and consequence of the previous and following signs, as well as their inter-aspects with the other signs.