Most collage processes involve the combination of words and images.Ā However, Seena Frost, the founder of SoulCollage Inc., strongly recommended that we include only images in most of our cards.
Why is this?
Well, if we put words on our cards, when we draw one in a reading, our left brain will immediately go to those words to find the meaning of the card or the answer to our question. We can’t help it; we are conditioned from a very early age to believe that words contain the answers.
On the other hand, if we only put images on our cards, this allows us to access the right side, the more intuitive side, of our brain.Ā In this case, we are able to go directly to an image and speak from it instead of about it. For me, this is the most powerful part of the SoulCollageĀ® process.
When beginning to work with a card (or Neter energy), we usually ask it “Who are you?” in order to
begin a relationship with it. It responds with “I am the one who…” or “I am one who…” or “I am…”Ā and always in the first person, from its own voice and point of view. This is much easier to do with an image than with a word!
Of course, as with all things SoulCollageĀ®, this is not an absolute rule.Ā I have words on a few of my own cards, but I try to leave them off as much as possible. Some SoulCollagers I know have created a separate suit in their decks just for words.
I’ve included a few of my SoulCollageĀ® cards here that don’t have words. If you haven’t done a lot of dialoguing with a card/image, try it and see. Choose the card on this page that seems to be more alive for you than the others. Ask it “Who are you?” or “Why have you come to me today?” or “Why are you here?” and then sit back and listen. You might write down the answers you hear in your journal or you might simply savor this inner conversation in your imagination.
