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Theme: Transpersonal Cards
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Greetings, and welcome to Soul Songs, the official KaleidoSoul Newsletter, focusing on SoulCollage® ideas, resources and cards. Our intention is to fill each issue (and your life) with inspiration, soul-solace and delight.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to any friends, colleagues, or family members who will enjoy it.
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Hi! I'm Anne Marie, the creator of KaleidoSoul.com, and a SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts and worldwide online. |
There are three cards that represent the ONE that holds the MANY other Neters (parts, energies) in one’s deck. They are:
Source– This card represents the Source from which everything comes. Depending on your background and preference, you might call this card: God, Spirit, Source, The One, the Universe, or anything you choose. It is more of an energy than an actual representation of a physical being. You can see some examples of Source cards on this page and also here. See my Source card in the right side column here.
SoulEssence- This card represents that spark of Source that exists in each of us. You can see some examples of SoulEssence cards on this page and also here. See my SoulEssence card in the right side column here.
Witness– This card represents the energy of the Divine/Source that allows us to become more aware and conscious of all of our many parts/Neters. You can see some examples of Witness cards on this page. My witness card is shown above.
SPECIAL NOTE:- The Transpersonal cards in your deck are NOT a suit. They are NOT drawn from when you do a reading. It’s a good idea to keep these three cards a little bit apart from your deck. Let them hold the space that is your deck of many Neters!
Also important- they do NOT speak with I Am the One Who… as the other Neters in your deck do.
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Anne Marie Bennett is a SoulCollage® Facilitator / Trainer, published author, website goddess, and two-time cancer survivor who was mentored directly by Seena Frost. In 2005, she fell in love with SoulCollage® and was inspired to use her professional experience along with web technology as a means to serve the world by putting SoulCollage® "out there" in a really big way with KaleidoSoul. Anne Marie lives in eastern Massachusetts with her middle-aged husband, one adolescent feline, and a treasury of birds, squirrels and chipmunks who keep them hopping. Her books about SoulCollage® are available here.
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I’m Linda Woolfson, MA, PhD, SoulCollage® Trainer & Facilitator, Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, writer, translator and creativity catalyst. As a practitioner of SoulCollage® and as a Facilitator, I love bearing witness to how personal and unique our relationship with the Trans-personal cards can become. |
Paradoxically Personal:
Evolving a Relationship
with your Transpersonal cards
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In some of his best-loved and most evocative lines, Rumi writes:
Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language,
even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
Rumi’s “field,” stretching out beyond everything familiar, beyond all our ways of navigating through life, beyond our drive to communicate or to interpret our experiences, resonates with a numinous fullness. When Seena Frost created SoulCollage®, she did so in exquisite awareness of this “field.”
The three Transpersonal cards are a mysterious paradox at the heart of SoulCollage®. Formless and silent, they are in a way impossible to write about or to describe. Yet Seena’s pages about the Transpersonal cards in her book, SoulCollage® Evolving, are among the most powerfully magical in the whole book, illustrating clearly that she was a poet, a poet so drawn to spirituality that as a young woman she chose to study Divinity at Harvard. Seena’s simple yet evocative writing about the Transpersonal cards shows how immersed she had been in the sacred before she ever became the birthmother of SoulCollage®.
In almost every way, the Transpersonal cards are different from all others. Seena’s words about SoulEssence hold also for Source and Witness – it is “not a Neter at all, as it has no form.” (p8). In contrast to our other cards, which speak, interact, get their fingers into the dough of life and have a shadow, the Transpersonal cards allude to something “out beyond” what can be imaged, spoken of or expressed. As symbols, they “point to” a territory Seena calls “this infinite reservoir of the possible” (p 12).
Like Rumi’s field where “the world is too full to talk about,” the Transpersonal cards invite us into silence, into what Seena calls “a movement into a place of vastness, wordlessness, and peace.” (p 15) This doorway opening into silence calls us also into the world of ritual. Laying out our Transpersonal cards each time we begin a card reading creates a silent fullness within which the reading can be held. Taking a few moments to lay out your Transpersonal cards can quiet and clear the mind, while supporting your Neters to come forth with full authenticity:
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Lay-out for Spring 2023 SoulCollage® reading
Being vast in their silent resonance, your Transpersonal cards may take time to come to you. Years ago now, I trained as a Facilitator quite early in my SoulCollage® journey. As I was preparing to fly to California, I started to worry about not having yet made any Transpersonal cards. Surely I couldn’t go without “at least a Source card?” I therefore made, under self-imposed pressure, a Source card which I replaced later. Among the most intuitively based cards in our deck, these cards are not amenable to pressure or control! By contrast, as a Facilitator I have borne witness to more than one person creating what turns out to be a Transpersonal card in their very first workshop.
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To the left - Back of Transpersonal cards - Linda Woolfson
Once you’ve created your Transpersonal cards, enjoy finding your own way to honor their presence. You may opt to back them in a way that both acknowledges their specialness and makes it easy to distinguish them from the rest of your deck. I spent what seemed at the time an absurd amount on just one sheet of hand-made Japanese paper to back my Transpersonal cards. I have never regretted the investment.
Our Transpersonal cards both anchor and amplify our card-readings, imbuing our SoulCollage® life with a resonance both intimate and connected to infinity. Yet this doesn’t mean that once you’ve made them, they’re necessarily there forever. On the contrary. If you wish, your connection with your Transpersonal cards can become a vibrant part of your spiritual evolution, a “field” which frees you to explore the flow of your own changing nature. Remember that Seena initially created just one Transpersonal card - Source- which grew over time into three cards as her awareness of Source modulated in parallel with developing SoulCollage®. Similarly, your relationship with your Transpersonal cards can change to reflect your ongoing evolution as a spiritual being.
I wish you a vibrant and unique relationship to the Transpersonal cards in your deck.
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Linda Woolfson, MA, PhD is a SoulCollage® Facilitator and Trainer, Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, writer, translator and creativity catalyst. She leads a dual-based life between the United Kingdom and Portugal, running SoulCollage® and creativity workshops, SoulCollage® Trainings, and retreats in both countries. She trained with Seena Frost as a SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2010 and has been a SoulCollage® Trainer since 2014. She loves delving into the depths of SoulCollage® and introducing others to our empowering process. To find out more about Linda’s workshops, SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainings and retreats visit her website.
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Here are some of our readers' cards on the theme of Transpersonal cards. |
Source
Cat
North Carolina
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Source
Anne Marie
Massachusetts
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SoulEssence
Cat
North Carolina
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SoulEssence
Anne Marie
Massachusetts
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Witness
Sheree
North Carolina
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Witness
Jennifer
Rhode Island
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Please feel free to submit one of your cards for a future issue by sending a reply email to this newsletter.
Future themes include:
July: Celebrations
August: Open Call (send us anything!)
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Noteworthy resources for anyone interested in SoulCollage®
KaleidoSoul - Spinning the fragments of your world into wholeness and beauty through SoulCollage®.
Membership- Worldwide connections with SoulCollagers, plus 24/7 inspiration and ideas for card making and working with your cards!
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September 24-28, 2023
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Experience the pleasure of coming into a creative community as we explore and embrace joy in the journey. Feel the energy of renewal, expand your soul stories, experience creative curiosity and sacred play in the verdant landscape, where we celebrate the shifting energies of the Autumn Equinox. Gather with kindred women for an immersive and expanded experience. Explore creative play, expressive arts with SoulCollage® and more. Work with archetypal presence and elemental energies that will enliven your life and spark possibilities. Visit this page for lots more info now.
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NEW MEXICO
SoulCollage® and Soul Journaling Retreat
Taos, New Mexico
November 30 – December 4, 2023
Facilitator: Kat Kirby, Deborah Milosevich
Join us at the iconic Mabel Dodge Luhan House for five days of creative exploration and enjoyment. In the mornings and afternoons, we’ll spend time in the spacious, light-filled studio creating a journal about you, making SoulCollage® cards, and journaling with words and images that describe what makes you the unique person that you are. Deborah and Kat will encourage and inspire you through a variety of prompts, poems, and personal stories to set the stage for your own creative expression. Evenings can be spent wandering into town, reading, creating in the studio, or relaxing by the fireplace.
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Just look for whatever SoulCollage® topic you are interested in,
and read to your heart's content!
SoulCollage® is a trademarked process created by Seena B. Frost.
For more information about Seena and the origins of SoulCollage®,
SoulCollage® cards are made either from one's own art or from images found in materials which have been bought by or given to the SoulCollage® card maker. These collaged cards are used only for the cardmaker's own inner exploration. SoulCollage® cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied (except as a back-up for the cardmakers own use) as is stated in the "Principles of SoulCollage®."
Where SoulCollage® cards are available to be seen by others, it is for the purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage® process or of sharing the cardmakers' inner process in the context of community. SoulCollage® is grateful to the artists and photographers who make this deep awakening process possible and in all ways SoulCollage® seeks to be respectful of their rights.
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All articles in SOUL SONGS are copyrighted 2023,
by Anne Marie Bennett, Cat Caracelo, Linda Woolfson,
Michaela Daystar, or Michele Manos.
Articles may be reprinted by permission only.
Image of singing birds Copyright: Kudryashka from Deposit Photos.
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