Janet


About Janet

Janet is the artist and creator behind the Self-Love Oracle. Painting and drawing since childhood and holding a B.A. in Journalism, she's worked in historical tourism, education, and publishing; and just completed her Master of Counseling. After her experiences with motherhood, divorce, new age and the supernatural, she believes in healing through self-exploration and creative expression.

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