AWAKING

1.

The Call

Something awakens.

A dream, a strange memory, a glance, a feeling. The soul begins to stir. Anna senses that her life is more than it appears — that she has been someone else, somewhere else, before. This is the spark, the invisible invitation.

“It felt like something had already begun, long before I could name it.”

2.

The Wandering

Searching without knowing what is lost.

She begins to seek — through books, relationships, signs, symbols, love. She feels drawn to places and people without explanation. The world begins to respond. She is guided by synchronicity, yet still walks in fog.

3.

The Refusal

Fear of the truth.

She doubts. She resists. She fears what her visions might mean. The awakening feels too big, too irrational, too dangerous. She questions her sanity, her body, her past. This is the threshold of either repression or surrender.

4.

The Remembering

Recognition through emotion, love, or loss.

Through deep feeling — often through love, heartbreak, or a mystical encounter — Anna begins to remember. Not with the mind, but with the body. A truth encoded in her soul starts to rise. Symbols return. Past lives, archetypes, shadows emerge.

5.

The Shadow (The Serpent)

Confrontation with the power she denied.

Here comes the turning point. Anna faces Python — the force she feared, the wisdom she once rejected. This is the stage of inner battle: between the false self and the true one, between the fear of her own power and the need to embrace it. She cannot move forward without meeting the serpent within.

6.

The Claiming

Acceptance of the sacred responsibility.

Anna chooses. She no longer waits to be saved, seen, or validated. She reclaims her voice, her gift, her mission — not as something granted, but as something remembered and embodied. She becomes the Oracle, not a vessel.

“I don’t just hear the message. I am the message.”

7.

The Embodiment

Awake in the present. Anchored in truth.

She is no longer searching. She is now living what she once only glimpsed. Her presence becomes prophetic. She speaks with clarity, creates with power, and loves without losing herself. She carries both light and shadow — the sun and the serpent — in one breath.

These stages are not linear.

They spiral. They return.

But once the voice of the soul is heard — it cannot be silenced again.

Symbolic Note: The Shell and the Six Flowers

This entire journey — the Seven Stages of Awakening — can be symbolized through the image of a white scallop shellencircled by six blooming flowers.

The flower depicted is Morning Glory — a plant that opens with the rising sun. In many spiritual traditions, it represents awakening, the fleeting beauty of time, and the opening of the soul. Each of the six flowers signifies one of the transformative stages the soul must pass through: The Call, The Wandering, The Refusal, The Remembering, The Shadow, and The Claiming.

At the center rests the shell — a timeless emblem of the soul’s sanctuary, feminine wisdom, and the hidden temple within. It is where the sacred is stored — the seventh stage of Embodiment, where all previous paths converge into one truth.

Awakening is the shell.

The flowers are the stages.

And only by passing through each one

does the soul uncover the pearl hidden inside.