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SoulCollage® Suits

By Anne Marie Bennett

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SoulCollage® Suits

Little Brown Bird- Companion Animals Suit

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Scbird This is the very first Animal Totem card that I made for my SoulCollageĀ® deck.  It goes with my heart chakra energy. And this is the interpretation I did at that time:

Who are you? I am just a simple ordinary bird sitting on my nest of eggs.  I am the one who nurtures and gives birth.  I am the one who creates new life.  I am the one who sets that life free.  I am the one who shelters the young, who teaches them how to fly. I am the one who flies. What do you want from me? I need to spend more time flying and less time here on the nest. Where to you want to fly to? Nowhere in particular.  Just flying. Flying is the whole point. Since creating this card, it has shown up several times in my daily SoulCollageĀ® readings.  Here is some more wisdom gleaned from this card as the months have gone by:

January 2006– What I’m saying to you today is this: there is much inside you waiting to be born, and there is much inside you that is waiting to fly and soar and be free.  Let the lesson now be discerning when to sit on the eggs and when to fly free. There is tension in this, but when there is balance, there is much joy. March 2006– I am the one whose eggs are ready to hatch.  I am the one who is birthing new ideas and projects and books. I am the one who is choosing now to sit on the nest while these ideas and projects and books incubate and ready themselves to hatch.

Leopard- Companion Animals Suit

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Scleopard_2  This is the animal guide I envisioned when meditating on my 2nd chakra.  I found these images not too long after.  I love that there is both a baby and adult leopard on this card.

Who are you? I am the one who is the leopard, the baby leopard and the grownup leopard.  I am the one who is curious and playful.  I am the one who is strong and fearless and also taken care of.  I am the one who has spots and who wanders through the forest.  I am the one who is protected and nurtured and cared for.  I am the one who is wild and who seeks wild things.  I am the one who climbs trees and makes things happen.  I am the one who watches carefully for both happy surprises and predators. What do you have to give me? I give you wild fun and playful energy. I give you sleek feline grace.  I give you the power to know yourself.  I give you green wonder and eyes that see everything. What do you want from me? I want you to be more playful in your sexual expression.  I want you to explore your wild side.  I want you to MOVE your body! You move more gracefully than you think.

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 SoulCollageĀ® 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 SoulCollageĀ® 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.

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