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Enter the Process of Individuation

Awaken Arts guides your journey through symbolic art,
poetry, and archetypes.

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Enter the Process of Individuation

Awaken Arts guides your journey through symbolic art,
poetry, and archetypes.

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Enter the Process of Individuation

Awaken Arts guides your journey through symbolic art,
poetry, and archetypes.

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My poetry has become a digital art.  I am passionate about my work with symbols and archetypes, and the mysteries that surround the unconscious. Having art images as containers for enlightenments along my own Awakening Path, the language becomes apparent.  I've done this work for many years, with websites that included Images and Archetypes, Centering Arts, and AwakenArts.

About AwakenArts

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About AwakenArts

Transformative Language Artist | Art Journaling | Masters in Counseling Psychology

I have found that there is an intelligence in Art which becomes apparent through the creation process. A transformative journey surrounds with a certain chaos as part of the process -- Oz and Wonderland are metaphors for the discovery experience.  Carl Jung referred to Individuation as such a process. involving autonomous images-- dream images and "fantasy images" found in many art forms.  The process is universal, happenstance, an urge to Wholeness, Healing, and Wellness.  

--- Susan Shepler

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The Five Portals

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The Mirror

The Thread

The Fire

The Guide

The Exile

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The poetry art and digital art images guide the awakening journey.  Carl Jung had a name for the unconscious part of image-making, he called it the Process of Individuation. It's a path that leads the unconscious to awareness through images, a language of symbols, as experienced in dreams and art.

About AwakenArts

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Guidance Cards

The Guidance Cards are grounded in the image-making process of unconscious awakening, Carl Jung's Process of Individuation.  As symbols and archetypes of the process, they hold keys to awakening through universal scripts and themes.



The Guidance Cards support the awakening path through the language of symbols and archetypes.

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Juggling Bear

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Queen Ann, Spirit

Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul

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Mermaid Grismere

The Cross
A Christian Mandala

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Magician Archetype

Mermaid Grismere

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The Psyche

Soul Journey

My work with images aligns with Carl Jung's concept of the Process of Individuation-- a path inward unfolding through symbols and archetypes.



The process is illusive and unpredictable, so my art has become an explorative, insightful journey into the process and the art of individuation.  Crafting poems into mages resulted in a series of archetypal images and symbols, the kind you find in dreams.
This has led me into deeper study, exploring paths of higher awareness, art, dreams, and symbolic language.



A note about the process, it matters, even when a certain wellness is a grace within, it's automatically inherent in who you are.  It's paradoxical to be so wholly connected, a divine being, but compromised by unseen and unremembered layers of life.  Over time, this produces obstructions and a dull awareness of life within.  There is grace--
A process, orchestrated for you, enters into your life to return you to Self, to awaken.  

Poetry and arts

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The Hidden Language in Poetry Art

Images belonging to this journey flow with awareness. Embodying Spirit, Ann brings Spirit close. Through the poem, we discover that Spirit is present, and only partly here, pulling us toward the Kingdom of Heaven.

Visitors share that Awaken Arts has helped them reconnect with their inner self, find meaning in personal symbols, and experience .

What Our Clients Are Saying

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"Dreaming and imagination have one special quality in common:  their power to convert the invisible forms of the unconscious into images that are perceptible to the conscious mind."

- Carl Jung

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Archetypes can only express themselves through symbols, since the archetypes are deeply buried in the collective unconscious, unknown and unknowable to the individual

- Calvin Hall & Vernon Nordby

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"It baffles many people at first to hear that the imagination is an organ of coherent communication, that it employs a highly refined, complex language of symbols to express the contents of the unconscious."

- Robert A. Johnson

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Ideally, we achieve balance and wellness through the Individuation process by forming an integrated center of our personality, having reconciled many shadow tendencies and projections.

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Poetry Art

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Mermaid 
Grismere

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Guidance Cards

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The Guidance Cards are grounded in the image-making process of unconscious awakening, Carl Jung's Process of Individuation.  As symbols and archetypes of the process, they hold keys to awakening through universal scripts and themes.

The Guidance Cards support the
awakening path through the language of symbols and archetypes.

Guidance Cards Support and Guide

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Mermaid Grismere
Genie Motif
Magician Archetype

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Juggling Bear
Circus Motif
The Psyche

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Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul

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The Cross
Heaven and Earth
A Christian Mandala

White Flowers

Paths & Portals

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Enter the Portals

Step Into the Journey

Step into Your Journey

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The Portals are journeys and experiences--
A combination of creativity, insight, perspectives and symbol awareness. 

The Mirror

The Thread

The Exile

The Fire

The Guide

Paths and Portals 
A journey inward through five immersive pathways.

Guidance Cards & The Portal Journeys

Look for Guidance Cards on the journeys, and experience their mythopoetic language.  The cards are not intended to predict or over function on the always awakening spiritual path. Instead, they can help us to experience the way we internalize symbols, and how we unconsciously engage with their energies, just by seeing them, their familiar shapes, their wisdom, and their whispers.

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A Poem About
Wings and Reflection.

Butterfly

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Love and a Chipped Cup.

For You

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There is love and connection in the body's energy centers.

Thread

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So many Anns we know.

Archetypes & Divine Journey

Spirit Ann

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A Guidance Card

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Reflections

MIRROR PORTAL
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The Divided Self

The Divided Self invites you to notice the fractures appearing on a reflective journey.
They're not flaws, they're clues. Each fragment has something to teach about who we've been, who we are, and who we are becoming.

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Community Circle

Common Ground

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PHOTOSHOP PAINT PROGRAM

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Short Stories

Articles

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