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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.

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.

Juggling Bear

Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul

Mermaid Grismere
The Cross
A Christian Mandala
Genie Motif
Magician Archetype
Mermaid Grismere

Circus Motif
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

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

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.


Poetry Art







Mermaid
Grismere




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.
Guidance Cards Support and Guide

Mermaid Grismere
Genie Motif
Magician Archetype

Juggling Bear
Circus Motif
The Psyche

Queen Ann, Spirit
Between Worlds
Spirit / Soul

The Cross
Heaven and Earth
A Christian Mandala

Paths & Portals
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.

A Poem About
Wings and Reflection.
Butterfly

Love and a Chipped Cup.
For You

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

So many Anns we know.
Archetypes & Divine Journey
Spirit Ann

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.

Community Circle
Common Ground
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DIGITAL PAINTINGS
PHOTOSHOP PAINT PROGRAM
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Books
Short Stories
Articles

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