Core term · James Hillman

The Acorn

The idea that each life arrives carrying an image of what it is meant to become.

Areas of life
Vocationpurposecharacter

Why it matters

Offers a way to read the odd insistences of a life as calling rather than accident.

How to handle it

Look at what you kept returning to as a child.

Who shaped this idea

The thinker behind it

From concept to practice

Turn The Acorn into a question you can answer.

Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.