Soul Types: How to Recognize the Ones That Shape Your Personality
- Meli Guidance EN
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Updated: 8 hours ago
Even before you incarnated, your soul made very specific choices. It selected several soul types — energetic archetypes that shape your personality, natural tendencies, strengths, and recurring life challenges.
These soul types are part of your soul plan. They function as an inner compass, guiding your life missions, fueling your deepest desires, and helping you navigate unresolved past-life memories that may still be active today.
If you’ve ever wondered why certain paths call to you instinctively, why you deeply recognize yourself in specific archetypes, or why similar experiences keep repeating in your life, understanding your soul types can bring surprisingly clear answers.
Soul Types and the Soul Plan
When a soul prepares for an incarnation, it does not start from zero.Early in its evolutionary journey, it creates a soul plan — a blueprint that continues to evolve across lifetimes.
This soul plan includes:
soul types
life missions
talents
life lessons
karma to balance, and more
According to the teachings of Ainslie MacLeod, a soul typically chooses six to eight soul types, with one dominant soul type guiding the current incarnation.This dominant type deeply influences how you think, relate, love, and move through the world.
A Simple Way to Recognize Your Soul Types
There is a very accessible way to begin identifying your soul types, even if you are new to spiritual concepts. Take a moment to write down three to five people who deeply inspire you.They may be artists, thinkers, leaders, spiritual teachers, creators, or activists. Do not overthink it — let the names arise naturally.
What you admire in these individuals is rarely random.Their energy often reflects your own dominant soul types and sometimes even secondary soul archetypes that subtly shape your incarnation.
The 10 Soul Types channeled by Ainslie MacLeod
Ainslie MacLeod is a respected spiritual teacher, author, and psychic medium specializing in soul evolution, past lives, and soul planning.He is the author of The Instruction and The Old Soul’s Guidebook.
Through decades of observation and intuitive insight, he identified 10 core soul types that souls choose prior to incarnation. These soul types are not fixed roles, but energetic archetypes influencing personality, motivation, talents, and how a soul experiences life on Earth.
Most souls carry six to eight soul types, with one primary type acting as the energetic foundation of the lifetime.
How Each Soul Type Can Manifest
When you observe what deeply moves or inspires you in others, certain soul archetypes naturally reveal themselves.
✨ Spiritualist Soul Type
Drawn to meaning, spirituality, and higher consciousness
Seeks truth beyond the material world
Attracted to meditation, awakening, and inner transformation
Values alignment, authenticity, and inner clarity
This soul type is oriented toward depth, light, and the evolution of consciousness.
🎨 Creator Soul Type
Strong creative or artistic sensitivity
Expresses emotion, intuition, and the invisible
Creates through art, writing, music, voice, or imagery
Often feels different or deeply sensitive
The Creator transforms emotion and intuition into form.
🎭 Performer Soul Type
Naturally creates emotional connection
Enjoys expression, communication, or performance
Brings joy, humor, and lightness
Has a magnetic, uplifting presence
This soul type elevates others through joy and human connection.
🏹 Hunter Soul Type
Needs action, movement, and challenge
Drawn to adventure and physical experience
Instinctive, courageous, and direct
Struggles with confinement or routine
The Hunter learns through experience and self-mastery.
👑 Leader Soul Type
Naturally steps into leadership roles
Organizes, structures, and unites people
Holds responsibility and long-term vision
Others instinctively follow their guidance
The Leader inspires collective direction.
📚 Educator / Teacher Soul Type
Deep desire to teach remember, and explain
Makes complex ideas understandable
Loves sharing knowledge and insight
Feels fulfilled by others’ growth
This soul type raises awareness through knowledge.
🧠 Thinker Soul Type
Seeks understanding and mental clarity
Analytical, reflective, and curious
Interested in philosophy, science, or research
Observes before acting
The Thinker uncovers hidden patterns of reality.
🤍 Helper Soul Type
Naturally supportive and compassionate
Deep empathy and service-oriented
Helps without being asked
May forget personal boundaries
The Helper embodies quiet compassion.
🌿 Healer Soul Type
Highly sensitive emotionally and energetically
Soothes, supports, and restores balance
Drawn to healing and caregiving roles
Feels others’ pain deeply
The Healer restores harmony.
🔥 Transformer Soul Type
Connected to collective change and justice
Driven to evolve systems and beliefs
Powerful, catalytic energy
Sometimes confrontational
The Transformer initiates collective shifts in consciousness.
Want to Discover Your Soul Types?
If this topic resonates, Episode 7 of the Mystique & Practical podcast explores soul types in depth, including how they interact with the soul plan and evolve across incarnations.
Would rather a psychic channel your Soul Types?
For a personalized exploration of your soul types, soul age, life missions and talents, a Soul Plan Akashic Reading offers clear, aligned insight into your current life path.
Meli Guidance is a certified advanced Akashic records practitioner, a past-life psychic and a channelling coach. She is also trained in oracle cards and tarot readings. Her specialty is helping people grow by reconnecting them with their soul’s purpose and life missions. She believes that by remembering our past lives and seeing what our life plan is for our current incarnation, we can achieve our future self’s highest potential. In addition to channelling spirit guides for people from all over the world in English and French, she offers online courses and coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to develop their ability to communicate with the invisible world.
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