Janet

About Janet

Janet is the artist and creator behind the Self-Love Oracle. Painting and drawing since childhood, she holds a B.A. in Journalism and a Master's degree in Counselling specialising in therapy with children, teens, and trauma (all ages). She has worked in historical tourism, education, and publishing; She believes a life full of curiosity, spiritual exploration, and radical self-acceptance helps in her private counselling practice at Gifted Minds.

The shadow cannot hide in an astrology chart. If we possess awareness and self-acceptance and remember that nobody is perfect, we’re better positioned to do shadow work.

Astrology & Shadow Work

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Shadow work is a term in healing and Psychology that relates to working with the parts of ourselves […]

Sexuality & the Shadow

My mother made it clear it was a curse to be born female. If I showed a differing opinion, she had life experience aplenty with which to beat me down.

Life After “Dead Inside” Part 3

I said I dated edgelord types. I was also one. (An Edgelady? Edgemiss? Edgewench? Edgefrau?) I didn't set out to be offensive, but I'd read so widely and critically that I stuck out for being darkly cynical and unapologetically atheist.

Life After “Dead Inside” Part 2

Life After Dead Inside

I don’t recognise this person, though her features are familiar. I have memories of the thoughts she had. She didn’t think herself ugly, but she also thought herself hideous.

Life after “Dead Inside”

Mixed Media10 inches square Worked off a couple of stock photographs to compose the pencil drawing for this […]

Snake Medicine

It’s been like an extended drug trip, or time in our own padded cell. Lockdown forced us inside. […]

Lessons in Lockdown

Mixed Media 8 x 11 inches May 2020 I was always a little obsessed with Circe and the […]

Circe

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In collectivist and conservative cultures, individuation might as well be called “selfish, selfish selfishness that will lead to […]

Conformity is not Cohesion

Unicorn, lady, dream catcher

Watercolours, markers, colour pencil 11 x 16 inches November 2019 Commissioned as cover art for a New Age […]

Dream Catcher

Watercolours, ink, color pencils, markers 11 by 16 inches November 2019 In late 2019, there were a few […]

Ties That Bind

Many of these are in the Self-Love Oracle. More recent, with marbling and mixed media: Older: My channeling […]

The Angel Gallery

Received during the New Virgo Moon, 2019: All relationships provide opportunities for healing. We heal ourselves by creating […]

A Meditation on Relationships

Preface I haven’t found, online, many women (or mothers) writing on their Ayahuasca experiences. Here’s mine. It will […]

Mothers, Monsters and Music

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More than one conversation that I had in the past week was about wearing masks. For some of […]

The Masks We Wear

Mixed media on paper, 10 x 15 inchesWatercolours, markers, pencils, gold pigmentJanuary 2019 Black Moon Lilith is a […]

Lilith

A painting about how creative people (writers and artists) often work blind, sometimes not knowing how the final […]

The Channel

Guan Yin and Green Tara are in the Self-Love Oracle, as is Psyche (and Eros).

Goddesses

Daughter happened by what feels like divine accident: In the same week of her 9th birthday, my daughter […]

Daughter

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Watercolours and Mixed Media 11 by 14 inches September 2018 This is one of the first pieces […]

Sacred Geometry

Watercolours, markers and colour pencils on 100% hotpressed cotton, 9 by 12 inches. Reversible composition. (I’ve hung this […]

Gemini