SoulCollage

The Lovers


It's about time I write about this thing that has been a life preserver: SoulCollage. From the creator, Seena B. Frost:

SoulCollage is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an
incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help
you with life's questions.

Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around, fitting them together in a surprising new way and gluing them down on a card. Cards containing the images you select --- or the images that select you --- come straight through your Soul, bypassing the mind. This is a multi-leveled, creative process which anyone can do.

All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, and images you can cut out from magazines, greeting cards, personal photos, postcards, catalogues, and calendars. It is wonderful to have other people with whom to share the process. The cards are fun to take to a friend's house, to work with in therapy or support groups, or to keep on your coffee table.

There are many wonderful things about SoulCollage. One, it is creative, and has created an opportunity for me to let my inner artist out of the basement and squint in the sunlight and fresh air. Two, it is therapeutic, and the cards become tools for emotional plumbing.



Yemaya: Goddess of the Ocean
I am the One who comes from and returns to the Ocean.
I am the One offering my gifts freely.
I am the One who helps scour the sharp edges.

I have been just about obsessed with the making of the cards, as opposed to the reading of and working with the cards. I feel a sense of urgency about making them, like these cards are the alphabet for my soul to spell out and express itself in these pictures.

Another neat thing is that you don't need your own cards; you can project your soul's interpretations onto other people's cards just as well. The SoulCollage process includes speaking for the images within the card, or the entire card itself, by repeatedly completing the sentence "I am the One who..."

Be sure to get a reading of your own here.

And while I'm at it, I simply must give a shout-out to the SoulCollage facilitator who has introduced me to this wonderful process. Suzie Wolfer. She'll give a half-day workshop through the community college about once a season, and various other workshops and groups to bring this process to people. She is passionate about SoulCollage and very kind. Check out her handout materials! Awesome.