Brynja Magnusson is a half Icelandic artist and author in the realms of shamanism and archetypal systems. She publishes art-centered teachings of ancient and modern systems in illustrated guidebooks, synthesizing the I Ching, animal totem divination, Human Design, the Gene Keys, Yin Mysticism, Tarot, recovery work, and astrology. Brynja seeks to use symbolic-rich art as the vehicle that draws attention towards scientific and spiritual union in ceremony.  Her artwork centers around shamanic practice, often depicting shamans, healers, and medicine women enacting ritual, initiation, and ceremony. She promotes the middle path between visual and written, spiritual and substantiated, and ceremonial and clinical.

​Brynja began using art to transcribe shamanic study during a three-year live-in apprenticeship with Shaman in Basque Country in her early twenties. After this apprenticeship she began publishing illustrated reference books and card decks for others also seeking to learn these information-heavy systems. She uses art as the anchor to share spiritual studies via visual guidebooks and artworks.​​

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And our universe is made of symbol, and it speaks symbol. We listen through symbol, and we can speak back to it with symbol.​​​​​​

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