Up: [[Symbols]] Creaed: 2022-05-28 I love spirals and use them a lot in my art making. They’ve become an identifiable mark for me. I need to practice drawing them so that the spirals are evenly spaced, without going to the extent of doing them geometrically. Spirals are really prevalent in the Celtic tradition although we don’t know why. Perhaps because they are a natural rhythm, a pattern found in nature. Perhaps because of their psychological meaning, which is why I like them. It’s the idea that although you go around in circles, it’s not really a circle. Each time you make the loop you’re a bit deeper, a bit closer to centre. Jung describes it this way, making me think that the spiral image is a great symbol of [[Individuation]] > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *CW12*, 325. > We can hardly escape the feeling that the [[Unconscious]] process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct. A spiral is **always** about growth. > [!Orbit] [[C. G. Jung]] in *Dream Analysis, Parts II & III*, 1929 > The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same. It is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth. A spiral flows. > [!Orbit] [[Anne Lamott]] in *Dusk Night Dawn: On revival and courage* > A spiral is the ultimate statement of the harmonious. It does not grow in fits, starts, and back steps, but rather, in a flow. (p. 86) A spiral lets you look at the same thing from different perspectives. In this, it would be a good symbol for [[12 - Hanged Man]] in Tarot. > [!orbit] Linda Leonard > I have discovered in the course of my journey that *life and psychic growth move in cycling spiral rings of descent and ascent.* Every new growth in myself has been preceded by a descent of the seed into the dark ground.