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I am Cat Caracelo, M.A., a SoulCollage® facilitator, depth coach, guidess and artist from Petaluma, California, offering my work individually and in global teaching forums. This column is for all of you who are exploring your creativity and are ready to discover more depth in your SoulCollage® journey.


Exploring Our Inner Waters

The sirens call, the silver sea, the shallows of a clear cool river - mermaids (and mermen) come to us in many ways...some through a powerful image, or the pages of a book, and others on the silver screen. Many times the mer-folk come in a dream to guide our passage from one place to another.

When the mermaid, naiad, selkie, or any goddess of the deep comes as guide, a shapeshifter or a muse, we are called to listen in new ways.

She Who Moves Between Worlds is the expression of transformation. Holding phosphorescent light in her skin she offers ease of movement as she dives deep and crosses into new territory.

Mermaid offers access to flow, choice and redefining purpose in the waters of life.

My first deep relationship with mermaid came early. I was six years old, and a love affair with the pages of National Geographic drew me to the gentle manatee, the great mother mer-shaped goddess of the rivers.

This was auspicious because later in my life, I found the river goddess Melusina who called to me from the depths of her mythic realm. Half woman and half serpent or fish, she was a powerful wisdom keeper. She drew me deeper into the potent power of the divine feminine, although she had been demonized and marginalized like so many other powerful feminine expressions of mermaid.

Where are you dreaming of the sea?

How are you finding your way through tidal rivers, tributaries and watery passages of your own life?

Creative living requires us to tap into our deepest resources, our own inner places that run deep. Anais Nin wrote these powerful words:

I must be a mermaid...
I have no fear of depths
and a great fear
of shallow living.

As we explore our own inner waters we may find that the deeper we are willing to go, the more ease of movement and release is discovered. The depths are often where powerful offerings and treasure will be found.

What is found in the depths has potent meaning. As above, so below. You may wish to travel from the deep seas into the night sky with your mer-wisdom.

Explore the stories, symbols and living metaphors that are embedded in your intuitive creative process as you look for the mermaid, merman, naiad, or selkie-kin within.

The psyche brings treasures up from the depths to the surface, as you create.

Find the images that offer personal, archetypal, universal and collective reflections of that which has deep meaning to you and create with them. They are the ripples of all that are imbedded in the human experience yet these images and cards are all yours.

How are you calling forth the expression of deep diving and expansion?


Cat Caracelo, M.A. is a Depth Coach and SoulCollage® Facilitator since 2007, working with expressive arts and transformative process guiding individuals and groups internationally. Cat is the founder of JourneyPath Institute, home to JourneyCircles™ Process.  Her dynamic Mythos Journey process, found in Quest eCourses and retreats offer transformative process and mythic themes designed to explore one’s own stories, seeking healing and expanding possibility. Please visit Cat’s website to find articles and information about depth coaching, classes, training programs and retreats.
 

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Mermaid and Starlight
Council Suit
Carol
New Hampshire

I am one who is starlight. I am one who drifts effortlessly through all elements. Sorceress of magical healing through the depths of watery realms, space and time illusions. Here is my gift lasting throughout all there is, unseen and seen. I send my sparkling rays of translucent beauty, love, peace-flowing to all the universe in complete harmony from joyous child through wisdom’s crone. Swim in delight.




Inner Mermaid
Committee Suit
Maxine
Massachusetts

I Am the One Who is at home in the sea and its depths. I Am the One Who embodies the many colors and moods of the sea. My music reflects ocean sounds and the ocean's music nestled inside shells. I Am the One Who honors the spiral of life, it's beauty, mysteries and intricacies.




Weighting
Suit Unknown
Bryn
Indiana

I am the one who knows weight, waiting, depth, death. I am Cancer and urchin, threatened and threatening. I am above and below; I move between worlds. My spirit is light.




Out of the Blue
Suit Unknown
Joanna
California

I am one who steps out of my comfort zone. I am one who spreads my wings and soars. I am a precious jewel.




Amoreux
Council Suit
Mylene
France

I am the one who inspires a powerful loving feeling, which animates the divine energy in the body- passion, complicity, spirituality, orgasmic sexuality. I am the one who brings healing and beauty into the heart of the one I love. I am the one who advances, accompanies and carries the loved one. My gift: Let yourself be carried away by the lightness and powerful force of my love.




Mermaid
Council Suit
Karen
Ohio

I am the One rising from the ocean depths, heeding the call of my lunar mistress. My Mermaid body resonates with Sea and Moon’s yin energy, nourishing my emotions, intuition, sensuality, and femininity. Moon whispers to me to look within, to peek inside my secret treasure chest and release hidden talents and gifts into the world. I who am usually so elusive and private reveal myself by the dazzling light of the Moon.




Water Lover
Committee
Michele
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I am one who delights in water. Comfortable as an otter or a mermaid, the seas, lakes and rivers are my sacred playgrounds.




Come On In
Committee Suit
Laura
California

I am the one who goes with the flow, who lives in the present. I am the one who calls to you, “Come on in! The water’s fine. You have taken care of others long enough. Cast aside your weighty cares. Let the water soothe, cleanse and renew you.”




Sacred Marriage
Committee Suit
Kas
Pennsylvania

I am the one who travels upwards through the depths to find true love. I can travel swiftly or float as I choose to ascend through the deep as the waters clear. I am greeted by two doves as messengers from The One With No Name which has been calling for me to hear, to trust. I set my course and am guided towards my light.

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