"Play!"
"Go outside and play!" I was told as a child. It is my divine connection with nature that brought me the most joy.
"Stay rooted." So I would hug trees. I still do.
"Make Art! Create!" I would make art and that would bring me so much joy. I loved making art and I still do.
"Imagine." I would imagine art communities growing their own vegetables. I still do.
Making art heals me. Creating art is medicinal. Art as medicine. Art as therapy. I wrote so many essays about how art is therapy and that the Art Therapist provides a space for the patient to create art.
The pure act of making art brings so much joy that it is the joy that heals. They say do what you love and the money will follow, well, the healing follows too. I have created art to heal so many things.
Why does that work?
Well, it's because there is an elation process that happens within the body when the non-verbal part of myself becomes recognized. Just like a plant will grow when it is given attention. We actually bring light, attention, to our "non-verbal, dream symbol" communication and become "enlightened."
The unconscious parts of us become conscious through non-verbal communication, which is our dream realm that stores so many of our experiences.
When we communicate with the dream realm through learning the dream language of symbols, then we can give it due attention.
Our dream realms become noticed, calmer, and can calm down the irritability of neurosis.
When I studied Art Therapy, I discovered the work of Otto Rank. It was his theory that everyone is an artist and that neurosis comes from being a blocked creator.
When we learn the language of symbols, the dream language, the collective unconscious mind then can communicate and become unblocked.
Carl Jung has written volumes about this. He and I agree that the dream language is to be listened to, understood, and user to communicate the parts of us that are non-verbal.
We must give attention to plants in order for them to grow. It is the same principle for our dream realm. Otherwise, we neglect our bodies.
Our bodies are non-verbal and we must decipher the signals and language in order to care for them.
Thus, we make the unseen dream realm seen through making art.
Therefore, art is therapy, medicine, and healing. By making art, we communicate with our non-verbal parts of us, that operate unconsciously, therefore we can make them conscious, in hopes, of giving them attention. This leads to healing.
What we neglect, dies. What we give attention to, thrives. So why would we not give attention to our dreams?
@Carl Jung and Otto Rank inspired.
Blue Sapphire, Shani, Saturn
The act of creating art has become the therapy. The Art Therapist provides support to create the bridge between the unconscious and conscious selves. In essence, the art therapist, or art medium, mediator, such as me, would create the space to allow the patient, client to bridge between their Higher Self and self, to allow the non-verbal, can be poetry, and use of words of course, words and letters as symbols, in order to bridge the realms within the client. "Because I, the art mediator, am fluent in the language of dreams, collective unconscious, and symbols, I can help translate the message to the client."
Artist as shaman, like Jackson Pollock spoke about. His message is similar to mine. He studied with Carl Jung and Bill Wilson created step 3 based on Jung's discovery after seeing Pollock, etc.
The Native American culture still honors this phenomenon of dream language and how it speaks in symbols.
Color is a symbol. Animals are symbols. Words are symbols. Numbers are symbols.
As I observe the stars, I have been applying astronomy to my process of creating art, working with, deciphering, translating the language of my dream realm for years and I have figured that the planet Neptune and Saturn have a huge part to play in this. I practice Shamanic Astrology and I communicate with the essence of each planet, the planet's guardian, and the planet's consciousness. This is all non-vocal, verbal telepathic communication within meditative state.
(It is a type of yoga, star yoga. It is the union with the stars.)
Saturn gives the dreams of Neptune form. Mercury is the messenger and Mars is the drive. Venus is the value and quality of the art. While Uranus gives us the insight from the art. The Sun lives the reality created from the art, while Pluto destroys what is no longer needed for the new form to exist.
So with astrology or the knowledge of where the stars are in your chart, or in the sky, can tell you what part of the art making process is needed.
Are you letting go of what no longer is in form since your new art experience is in form? Pluto?
Are you gaining value from your new understanding of your new art form? Venus?
Are you feeling limited and learning the parameters of your new star formation? Saturn?
Are you learning how to live your new view of reality? Sun?
Are you receiving new forms in your mind's eye to create? Mercury?
Are you receiving new higher thought forms and essence to merge with the art for Spiritual Advancement? Neptune?
Are you feeling the drive to create the new form? Mars?
Are you being given insights from your new form? Uranus?
Are you questioning your values and choosing beauty over ugliness? Venus?
So many other phases and questions to ask in the process of creating life.
That is all for now.
In conversation with my artist friend:
"Art as therapy has been my drive ever since. Art is the medicine and can communicate non-verbally what we can not put into words. An entire language exists unknown that we can learn, as the unconscious dream world speaks in symbols. It can become conscious, thus the unseen realm can become seen.
I am feeling good.
Letting go and letting God!
How are you?
Maybe I need to write more about art as therapy."
- Anna
Thank you for the inspiration! This is what I love! Will the money follow?
