This card came to me several years ago when I was exploring old, outdated beliefs with my lovely therapist, Fran.  I’ve been aware of this particularly powerful and needy voice all of my life.  I believe I inherited it from my mother, this part of me who can’t enjoy life because she is WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP.

The more inner work I do, the more I realize that this voice gets in the way of my living a full and joyful life.  I notice that, after making it and journaling with it (see below), it has much less power to ruin my day(s).

Who are you? I am the one who is afraid to enjoy all the sweetness and lush fullness of life.  I am the one who is certain that something bad is going to happen any minute to destroy my beautiful life.  I am the one who keeps looking out of the corner of my eye for the next disastrous thing to happen.

I am the one who doesn’t trust that life is good.  I am the one who is always worried about the future.  I am the one who can’t/doesn’t/won’t enjoy the abundance that is right in front of me because it all might be taken away from me at any moment.  I am the one who is nervous and anxious all the time, too tense to enjoy life, too focused on what might happen in the future, to enjoy the gorgeousness of this present moment right now.

What do you have to give me? My voice gives you a signal that you are too focused on the future.  My voice, my fear- is a signal to you that you need to breathe yourself back into the present moment.

What do you want from me? I want you to hold me in your arms and tell me that you will always take care of me, no matter what happens.  I want you to reassure me that you will care for and be here for me, always, no matter what.  I want you to tell me (over and over again) that even though bad things happen, there is still a bright side of the road and that you will help me to get there, no matter what happens to me.  I want you to remind me (over and over and over again) to stay in the present moment, and to focus on what IS, RIGHT NOW, instead of focusing on what MIGHT happen in the future.

What about you? Do you have any old beliefs or outdated  thought patterns that you could give voice to with a card?  Go ahead, be brave and make one!  Listen to its wisdom.

Please share your cards and discoveries over at our KaleidoSoul Yahoo Group!

Choose a quotation that you really love.  Ponder if for a while.  Take it with you into a special meditation time, repeating it as a mantra.  Savor its meaning.  Dream with it.

Then seek out images to create a card to honor this quote, to keep its meaning present in your Deck at all times.  It might take a while to find the right images, so be patient!

You might choose to put the actual words of the quote on the card itself… or you might not.  We generally do not put words on our cards; we allow the images to speak without the layover of rational thought that the written language brings.  But this isn’t a hard and fast “law.”  It’s your deck… you decide!

Another variation on this theme: see if you already have any cards in your deck that give image to a favorite quote. Maybe one of those “mystery cards” that you’re clueless about is waiting to speak to you through a favorite quotation.

Please share your cards and discoveries over at our KaleidoSoul Yahoo Group.

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I made this card many years ago, completely intuitively.  At first all that was on the card was the open window background, and the woman on the bottom right (if you click on the image, it will get bigger so you can see more detail if you want).  Then I found the man in the turban and just KNEW he belonged on this card too. And guess what?  He did!

When I did the journaling below, I finally understood what part of me this card represented!

Who are you? I am the one with a surprising secret to tell you.  I am the one who winks at you and teases you and shares jokes with you.  I am the one who steps blithely in through your open windows and enters your life with a light step and a sense of humor.  I am the one who can laugh at myself, even though I am bound in chains and black leather.  I am the one who loves to laugh and who brings acres of fresh air into a room with my laughter.

What do you have to give me? I give you open windows, fresh air, laughter, secrets, the scent of fresh flowers.  I give you the ability to laugh at that which is funny, and to find the lighter side of everything.  I give you the ability to laugh at yourself.  I give you the ability to not take yourself so seriously.

What do you want from me? I want you to seek out that which is funny, light, and laughter-inducing.  I want you to laugh at yourself when you need to.  I want you to remember not to take life so seriously all the time.  I want you to open up the windows of your soul and let the fresh air come in with the laughter.

Seena Frost, who created the process of SoulCollage, was always telling us to be proactive about including humor in our decks.  Take a look at your own deck this week.  Any humorous cards/images therein?  Start seeking out images that tickle YOUR funnybone, and make some new cards!

And as always, please share your cards and discoveries over at our KaleidoSoul Yahoo Group!

This week your challenge is to add at least one card to the Community Suit of your SoulCollage^® Deck.

A good start is to make a short list of some people or animals in your personal Community that you would like to honor with a card.

Our Community cards include:

• family
• friends
• teachers
• pets
• those who have passed on
• artists, authors, musicians, poets
• sports figures
• politicians and religious figures

Remember, you don’t need to have met someone in order to include them in your Deck.

Then go through magazines or your own pile of saved images while holding the names of these Community members in your heart.  See which images call to you, and rip them out!  It is best to do this with more than one person/animal in mind, and be open at the same time to other images that you might want to use for future cards for other suits.

Seena Frost, foundress of SoulCollage, said that the Community Suit is often overlooked, but also the most powerful of the suits.  Take a look through your deck and see if its richness can be deepened by adding some cards that contain the voices of the people and animals who love and support you.

Please share your cards and discoveries over at our KaleidoSoul Yahoo Group!

From a very young age I have been drawn to dolphins but I never thought much about it until 2004.  My mother died that year, and the week before her stroke, I was reading Madeleine L’Engle’s A Ring of Endless Light.  I found myself totally captured by the intuitive nature of the dolphin.  Also, there were many messages for me in that book about communicating with other beings in ways beyond words.  This is how I came to allow Dolphin to choose me for my 6th Chakra, the intuitive third eye, located at the center of the forehead.

Who are you? I am the one who is the prince (and princess!) of the seas.  I am the one who smiles, who laughs, who Knows.  I am the one who rides the waves in pleasure and delight.  I am the one who loves to play, who can “talk” to humans, who knows what others are feeling just by listening to their thoughts.  I am the one who knows that communication exists on many, many levels.

What do you have to give me? I give you freedom from time constraints, freedom from past and future, freedom to remember this present moment.

What do you want from me? I want you to slow down, to take the time to play a little each day, to remember your outer “tribe” of playmates and to let go of all inner and outer judgements and to give yourself permission to play often.

After several years of living with my first Dolphin card, I took Seena’s advice and created a Dolphin card with no human energies on it.  So this is the Animal Companions cards that lives in my deck now.

Do you have an Animal Companion card that you would like to share with our SoulCollage community? Please do so over at our KaleidoSoul Yahoo Group!