Inner Surprises Blog

SoulCollage Inspiration

By Anne Marie Bennett

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Elaine- Community Suit

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Scelaine This is my dear friend Elaine, who I met when trying to put together a Joy Group (via Suzanne Falter-Barns). The Joy Group fizzled, but our friendship did not!  If you’re going to the KaleidoSoul SoulCollage® Summer Retreat in August, you will meet her there! Who are you? I am the one who loves nature.  I am the one who needs to be outside in nature or a part of my soul is missing.  I am the one who has a big wide heart, who knows how to love, who loves with passion and awareness.  I am the one who loves to have fun, to play, to take risks.  I am the one who is striving for balance, who is ready to spread my wings and soar.  I am the one with the passion of fire, and the soothing healing qualities of water.  I am the one who is blossoming and soaring on my new inner and outer journeys.  I am the one with big, beautiful dreams.

What do you have to give me? I give you a boundless, loving friendship, as wide as my smile.  I give you a hand to hold and a companion for your own journey.  I give you guidance and light and a reflection back to you of your own beautiful self.

What do you want from me? I want you to be my friend, to walk beside me on the journey, to help me up when I fall.  And I will do the same for you.

Patience- Committee Card

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Scpatience_1 When I first made this SoulCollage® card, it was just the image of the woman looking out to sea.  I just loved how she was sitting there.  After I did the initial interpretation of the card (see below), I realized that she represented a part of me that is patient and calm while waiting, so I added the nautilus shell and blue spiral symbol in the bottom right corner to give it an added feeling of patience, calm, and grace.

Who are you? I am the one with nowhere to go and nothing to do. I am full of patience and abiding grace. I like to sit in silence and peace and let the world go on around me. I am not in a hurry. The world goes on and time goes on, and I am content to let it be. There is a stillness inside of me which passes all understanding, and when I access that, all else becomes unimportant.  I am waiting, waiting, and wanting for something to come to me over the horizon and into my view.  I am waiting, but with poise and calm and grace, and an inner knowing that it will come to me in its own time and way.  I wait for it without agitation.

What do you have to give me? I give you patience- calm, abiding patience… waiting that is without frustration or agitation or anxiety. What do you want from me? I want you to follow my example.  Ask for this gift of patience, for it is truly a gift.  Notice the presence of patience and impatience in your life… ask for patience whenever impatience has too strong of a voice. Additional bits of wisdom offered by this card when it has showed up in daily readings: 2/13/06- What I say to you today is this: make a card to honor your Impatient Voice, for that is a voice which is controlling you lately.  Listen carefully to what IT is telling you. Impatience is getting in the way of getting your body back to its natural weight.  I, Patience, can help you, once you remove Impatience from his throne of power in your daily life. 3/21/06-  I am the one who sits by the salt water, absorbing its healing essence with my stillness and an open body. I am the one who is healed by the water.  I am the one who allows myself to be healed, who wants to be healed, who is eager to be healed by the water.

4/12/06- I am the one who cherishes the waiting, who knows that this is the journey as well.  You can learn so much in the times of patient waiting. You are doing the work… now be still once the work is done… be still and allow the good things to come to you.

Allison- Community Suit

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Scallison I made this card to honor my niece Allison (now 30 years old!) who is getting married this weekend! Who are you? I am the one who has been on a long journey.  I am the one who hugs the world to me, who loves cats, the Goddess, and all things mystical.  I am the one who finds joy in life, who has the wings to fly.  I am the one with my toes in the water, who is a goddess, who has been looked after every step of the way.  I am the one full of sweet green growth.

What do you have to give me? I give you my hugs and my smiles.  I give you a sense of fun and adventure.  I give you the feeling of flight and transformation in that flight. What do you want from me? I want you to stay in touch with family and friends.  I want you to know that life is for living and laughing and loving and doing what makes you happy.

Jumping For Joy- Committee Suit

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Scjumpjoy I made this card about four months ago, and yesterday it showed up in my daily reading, so I spent a little time interpreting it (see below).  Oh, I do so LOVE this card!!!  I actually left it on my altar in plain view instead of putting it back in my deck, so I can see it whenever I go past and be reminded of this delicious lovely energy that IS inside of me.

And then a very synchronistic thing happened.  I went to the Y and spent my time on the treadmill, and this time the only treadmills left were in the hall space overlooking the huge gymnastics room.  I noticed there were lots of toddlers and preschool children in there with their moms, but didn’t pay much attention. I read for a while on the treadmill, then one time when I looked up to turn a page, I noticed a little girl in a pink tutu, light skinned and fair haired, and she was bouncing up and down joyfully, gleefully, on the dark blue gym mats.  Then she was running, running, as fast as her little legs would carry her, all the way down the mat, and leaping into a wide bed of foam blocks.  Over and over she did this, my little girl in the pink tutu!  I went back to reading and when I looked up again,there were TWO little girls in pink, jumping for joy in the freedom they’d found in running, leaping, flying, jumping.  When I got my stuff together to leave, there were THREE fair-haired little girls in pink jumping for joy in that gymnastics room, and I smiled to myself all the way home.

Who are you? I am the one who leaps for joy.  I am the one who is jumping for joy.  I am the one who loves frilly girly dresses and the color pink and pretty flowers and going to my dance classes. I am the one who loves getting up in the morning, and going to school, and just everything.  I am the one who takes pleasure in moving my body.  I am the one who is pleased with my own wondrous, special, unique self. What do you have to give me? I give you joy- joy in who you are, joy in life’s everyday gifts, joy in what you’ve been given, joy in your own unique self. What do you want from me? I want you to express your joy a little more each day.  I want you to remember my energy, and consciously tune into it every morning.  I want you to stand up a few times during the day and jump for joy, the way you bounce up and down in the water when you get into the pool!

Divine Child- Council Suit

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Scdivinechild This is one of the first cards I made and it showed up today in my Daily Reading.  Especially pertinent to me right now because I am focusing a lot of emotional and spiritual energy on helping myself remain Present (more conscious) in each moment.  I believe that this archetype (and Julianna is a Spirit Guide for me as well) supplies me with the energy to stay Present, among other things. Who are you? I am the one who was the first child created.  I am the essence of your childlikeness.  I am made of stars and wishes and flowers and dreams.  I am the original Child of the Universe.  The universe, and your soul, are my home.  My name is Julianna, and I am with you always.  I am the one who nudges you to play, to stretch, to move, to laugh, to create, to grow, to dream, to simply be.  I am the one who allows myself to be held in the arms of The Great Mother. What do you have to give me? I give you a heart that is full of delight and wonder and noticing in each and every moment.  I give you the ability to forget agendas and schedules and to be in the moment, this moment.  I give you a sacred release from time constraints.  I give you the power and the desire to create, to dream, to play, to laugh, to give freely.  I give you the desire and the ability to let yourself be held and loved fully in the arms of the Divine Mother.

What do you want from me? I want you to be still every day, spend time with yourself in nature every week.  I want you to relax, to let go of worries and your anxieties, and to simply enjoy what your life holds, all that it holds.I want you to stop and smell the flowers.  I want you to experience Joy in its fullest blossoming every moment, every day. How will I remember what you have taught me? When you see the stars at night, you will remember that you too are a child of the universe and you will feel my presence in your heart.  When you hear a child’s laughter you will remember that laughter is my Divine Gift to you.  When you are in a hurry and you see something beautiful or funny, or delightful, you will remember that placein your heart that holds me.