Reading inner stories where myth, psychology, and symbol meet.
Shii Izumi is a Japanese writer who explores the borderlands of symbol, myth, and psychology. For many years, they have been searching for ways to read the “meaning” that lies within the inner world, working privately through research and creative practice.
Over time, several projects took shape: the Greek-mythology–based symbolic system Theogonia Oracle, the reflective dream-interpretation project Dream Translation, and the observation-based human-understanding tool Understanding Others Test.
These works form an ongoing body of exploration that weaves together creative writing, psychology, and mythic thinking, approaching human beings as living narratives shaped by symbols.
Shii Izumi is a Japanese writer and symbolic interpreter whose work is grounded in symbol, myth, and psychology. Their focus lies in reading the meanings and narrative structures that dwell within the inner world, combining mythic imagination with psychological perspectives.
Their main fields of work include the Greek-mythology–based symbolic system Theogonia Oracle, the reflective dream-interpretation project Dream Translation, and the observation-based human-understanding tool Understanding Others Test.
Through these projects, Shii Izumi continues to work across both creative and analytical modes, centering on symbolic approaches to understanding each person’s unique inner story.
A long-term project that describes the symbolic meanings found in dreams, psychology, and mythic imagery. Each entry explores the inner themes and emotional movements expressed by symbolic forms, written in a quiet and reflective tone.
This lexicon serves as a foundational reference for all of Shii Izumi’s work, organizing the “language of symbols” that appears across dreams, mythic motifs, and inner experience.
A symbolic system that reinterprets the gods of Greek mythology as a set of 24 oracle cards designed to illuminate a person’s inner themes.
The cards organize Olympian and primordial deities into “light” and “shadow” aspects, blending mythic structure with psychological insight. Beyond its divinatory function, it serves as a symbolic framework for self-reflection and understanding others.
A reflective dream–interpretation service that translates the symbols, emotions, and landscapes of a dream into quiet, poetic prose. Instead of giving fixed or literal explanations, it explores what the dream may be expressing through its symbolic language.
Drawing on mythic symbolism and Jungian depth psychology, the translation illuminates the psychological themes and inner movements that the dream is trying to communicate.
An observation-based personality analysis tool designed to organize relationship dynamics through a Big Five trait model. It focuses on behavioral tendencies rather than self-reported impressions.
A collection of essays reflecting on myth, symbol, and the structures that shape lived experience. Rather than offering explanations or conclusions, these texts remain with what resists resolution—loss, distance, and meanings that do not settle.
This book articulates the underlying perspective that informs Shii Izumi’s work across mythology, dream interpretation, and symbolic analysis.
An English translation of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite that deliberately refrains from explanation or interpretation, allowing the text to remain open.
At times, a faint echo of ancient myth brushes quietly against the human heart.
That slight tremor opens the door to an inner story.
At the center of Shii Izumi’s creative and interpretive work is the idea that personal inner experience often takes on a mythic structure. Feelings such as anxiety, desire, intuition, and conflict can resonate with the forms of old myths and allegories.
This perspective is closely connected to an interest in Jungian views of symbol and in the archetypal structures found in myth. Izumi consistently uses an approach that reads “inner stories” through symbols, whether they appear in dreams, relationships, or turning points in life.
Theogonia Oracle is designed as a symbolic system that reorganizes the qualities of Greek deities into light and shadow aspects, offering one way to understand personal themes through a mythic framework. In Dream Translation, the psychological implications concealed in dream images are rendered into quiet, poetic prose in order to grasp the meanings that lie behind them.
The Understanding Others Test analyzes how differences in traits can create friction or misunderstanding, organizing them from an observational and structural point of view. Together, these diverse projects share a common core: reading the stories that live within people through the language of symbol.