I’m always looking for new and improved ways to do soul work. You know, the kind that feels just DEEP and yummy, and EFFORTLESS. Not easy to find, though. So, when I come across something that fills the criteria, I get very excited.
While noodling around on Facebook, I discovered totally by accident a super cool way to let your soul speak to you in a way that you can really listen. Oh tarot does that too, for sure, but this just feels different somehow. And it involves no thinking at all, so it’s right up my alley.
It is called SoulCollage®. Basically you grab a bunch of magazines, brochures, etc. and flip through them ripping and cutting out images that you like. That’s it. No thinking allowed! I know it’s hard, right? You also need some kind of card type material to use for making your Soul Collage card, I went to our local craft mega store and picked up some gorgeous black card stock that was quite heavy – 110 lb 8×11 and cut those exactly in half. Ideally you want your cards to be the exact same size (mine are 5 x 7) because you want to end up eventually with a DECK that you can do actually READINGS with.
I’m telling you, this is extreme coolness times a million.
Anywho, once you have a bunch of images cut out and your blank card in front of you, you just start selecting images and moving them around on the card and arranging them until you like what you see. Once you are satisfied you then glue it down and this is your very first Soul Card! Here’s mine:
Now, the key here is as you are making the card, you may have no idea what it is trying to tell you. But once it is finished you gaze at it and just let it speak to you. Mine is not really the happy-go-lucky card I was hoping it would be for a first one, but what it is telling me is that I feel like there is a lot of “noise” around me disturbing my contented and happy centre. What I want is peaceful contentment (those two words are even on my vision board from over a year ago!) I want to feel that everyday, but there is just so much noise.
But what is really neat is that the more you work with your cards, the more they will tell you. And, like reading tarot cards, you try not to think too much with your analytical brain.
SoulCollage® also have four “suits” like tarot, but the suits themselves are not anything like the four suits in a tarot deck. For example one suit represents Community, as in the people in your life that you love, admire or respect. Another is Committee, as in your inner voices (oy vey!) good AND bad. There is also a Companions suit which has 7 cards in it, each representing a chakra and its accompanying animal. It is also about the energetic dimensions in ones life. SERIOUSLY love that one. And finally there is the Council Suit, which are the spirit guides and archetypes that guide you in your life everyday past, present and future. Some shamanic themes, which I find also very exciting.
I am just learning about SoulCollage®, but immediately knew I had to share it with you because I think that it could be a great addition to any kind of personal and spiritual work, and you know I am all about growing and all that crap. :0)
You can learn more about SoulCollage® from the official website here, and my go-to website for all things SoulCollage® is the amazing KaleidoSoul. Check her out!
Have a wonderful and awesome-saucy day!
