When working with a card I’ve made intuitively, I sometimes find it helpful to write a Detailed Description of the card first, as if I were describing it to a friend who cannot see it. It’s a very powerful journey of discovery because it makes me notice things that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
When doing a detailed description, be sure to use directional words like in front of, behind, over, beside, under, near, upper left, lower right, back…etc.
I wrote a whole page and a half detailed description of this card in my journal, then I found it much easier to ease my way into saying “Who are you?” and allowing both of the voices on this card to respond.
After doing some of that journaling (I am the one who…)…. I went back over everything I wrote and circled any words or phrases that jumped out at me, then wrote them in a list. I played around with the list for a while and came up with this, which in literary terms is called a Found Poem, but which I call A New Way of Looking At a SoulCollage Card!
I can honestly say that I don’t think I could have gotten to this lovely place of understanding this card without having done the detailed description first. Go ahead and try this with one of your own cards!
She sleeps below the surface
cradled by the earthy green moss.
A seed pod protects her
as she grows,
unaware of the changes occurring
in the deep dark stillness.
She grows her roots downward
anchoring to the earth.
She becomes the roots
reaching upwards towards the light.
She IS the seed.
She IS the roots.
She IS the stillness, the dark, the growth.
There is nothing to do.
The growth manifests
without her direction.
And the young girl is lifted up.
She flies without falling.She is poised, balanced, happy, moving.
She soars
because she contains the deep power
of the rooted one
beneath her.
