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SoulCollage® Suits

By Anne Marie Bennett

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SoulCollage® Suits

I Am the One Who Prays

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scaskhelpThis is a Committee card from my deck. It represents an inner part of me, the part who prays, and who believes in the power of prayer.

Who are you?

I am the one who spent many hours on my knees in church, praying. I am the one who believes that Someone is listening when I pray. I am the one who feels comfort and deep connection to all living things when I pray. I am the one who believes in the power of gratitude and supplication.Ā  I am the one who prays for others, who prays for myself, who prays for the world.

What do you have to give me?

I give you solace.Ā  I give you sustenance. I give you a channel through which you can connect with the Divine energy that connects everyone and every living thing.

What do you want from me?

I want you to honor me by praying consciously every day. I want you to write your prayers sometimes as that seems to focus you more. I want you to remember that Spirit is always listening. I want you to know that even the smallest thing can be taken to Spirit in prayer.

Is there anything else you want to say to me TODAY?

Yes! I sense your distinct sadness over the death of Robin Williams yesterday. I urge you to close your eyes for a moment and offer your sadness up to Spirit. I suggest that you spend some time today praying for his family and for those who were close to him.Ā  This will soothe your heart and ease your sadness.Ā  You have been thinking that there is nothing you can do, but there IS something you can do.Ā  Use my energy to pray.

 

Emotional Boundaries

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I am the one who creates emotional boundaries.
I am the one who creates emotional boundaries.

 

I made this card in 2007, intentionally, to remind myself to create boundaries around myself emotionally.Ā  It took me a while to find just the right images though!

Who are you?

I am the one who can by happy and content and shining even though others around me are sad and miserable.Ā  I am the one who knows that I am separate from those around me.

I am the one who is in touch with the pulse of my own inner life, of my soul, at all times.Ā  I am the one who cares about the misery and sadness of others around me but who knows I don’t have to wear/breathe in/inhale/BECOME their misery and sadness in order to love them.

 

What do you have to give me?

I give you emotional boundaries… the knowing of where others end and you begin.Ā  I give you permissoin to feel JOY and to SHINE in spite of the unhappiness of others around you.

 

What do you want from me?

I want you to know that there is a difference between THEM and YOU.Ā  That you do not have to absorb the pain of others because you are separate from them.Ā  I want you to shine your inner light and to smile/laugh/let yourself FEEL GOOD even when there is sadness and drama around you.

 

Powerful

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I am the one who is powerful.
I am the one who is powerful.

 

I made this card YEARS ago and at the time it was speaking to me about power- good power, centered and balanced strength and power.

As the years have gone by, however, another meaning has come forth from this card.Ā  And believe it or not, I didn’t actually notice the larger hand in the background which is holding up the earth.

This Neter showed up today for me in my Every-Other-Daily-Reading and this is what it said to me:

I am the one who is powerful.Ā  I am the one who gets my strength and power from a place of balance and centeredness.

I am the one who can carry ANYthing because there is a Power greater than me doing the actual carrying.

What I have to say to you today is this- What are you struggling to carry right now? Name it.

Can you be still for a moment and see that Another Hand is already carrying it for you?

Ah!Ā  I love it when my cards ask ME questions in return!

Cosmic Wheel of Fortune

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Cosmic Wheel of Fortune
Cosmic Wheel of Fortune

Who are you?
I am the one who eagerly leans forward and spins the bright, jeweled Cosmic Wheel of Fortune.Ā  I am the one rising out of the jeweled lotus.Ā  I am the one who eagerly awaits the result of the spin.Ā 

I am the one who knows that WHEREVERĀ  the Wheel of Fortune lands, I will receive something bright and valuable.Ā 

My message for you today is this- Spin, play the game of life with wild abandon, pleasure, and an absence of fear.Ā  There is NO WAY you can LOSE at this Cosmic Wheel of Fortune.Ā 

Wherever you land is the perfect gem for you at this time.Ā  Always look for the jewel of each place that you “land.”

 

NOTE FROM ANNE MARIE: I made this card years ago, totally intuitively. It’s been in my deck at least four years, and for the first time, it showed up in one of my Every-Other-Daily readings this week.Ā  I had completely forgotten about it, but what a powerful and timely message I received today!

SUGGESTION: Don’t give up on cards you make that sit in your deck for a loooooong time. They will show up at exactly the right time with exactly the right message, even though you don’t know what it means when you are making the card.

Success from Defeat

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scsuccessI am the one who was measured and laid low by defeat and failure and now I am free and now I am successful and now I am no longer defeated.Ā  I am the one who survived and lived to tell the story of how difficult it was, before, and how easy it is, now.Ā  I am the one who raises my arms in triumph.

I am the one who was supported and guided by the Divine Ones on my journey from “there” to “here.”

My message for you today is this: it’s a journey, it’s always a journey.Ā  And there are still some places in your life where you are feeling defeated.Ā  What are those places, what is that place, where you currently experience defeat?Ā  Use the energy and power of the little girl on this card and find a way to bring yourself from defeat to triumph.

This was a new message for me, from this card- the bit about using the energy of the image of the little girl to bring failure/defeat to success.Ā  So I decided to ask the little girl a bit about herself. And this is what she said:

I am the one who is young and beautiful and dressed in party clothes, clothes of celebration.Ā  I am the one who is watching what takes place.Ā  I am the one whose magic is my innocence.Ā  I am the one whose magic is in my belief that wonderful things can and do happen, and often.

I am the one whose magic wishing dandelion is touching the defeated one’s leg.Ā 

I am the one who transforms the defeat into the triumph with my belief that all is well, that all is possible.

My message for you today is this: believe that your body will get back to its natural weight, and it will.Ā  It may sound naive and innocent, but in my words is wrapped the wisdom of the Universe.