Anne Marie Bennett is a SoulCollage® Facilitator / Trainer, published author, website goddess, and two-time cancer survivor who was mentored directly by Seena Frost. 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.

April 13, 2023

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In 1624, the English poet and priest John Donne wrote some words which have resonated powerfully ever since, particularly in our own times: 

In reminding us that life is built entirely of relationships and that nothing exists in isolation, John Donne’s words come close to the core of SoulCollage®. Our magical process is all about what unfolds when we create relationships, delve into exploring them, and let our exploring lead us into revealing more relationships.  

Collage is a fabulous medium for enhancing our awareness of the world of relationships we inhabit. We choose apparently random images and bring them into relationship each time we make a SoulCollage® card. This transformation of randomness into relationship happens at every stage and level of the SoulCollage® process, from creating a card, to starting to relate to it by asking it “Who are you?”, to finding a name for the card, to intuiting which suit it belongs in, to drawing the card in a reading, thereby generating more new and surprising relationships with the other cards drawn.  

Each new SoulCollage® card becomes a fresh energy-source, a precious resource for expanding and deepening the intricate Indra’s Net of relationships which our SoulCollage® deck reveals to us through time. I love to branch out and explore in playful ways the mysterious webs of relationship hidden in our cards yet ready to show themselves whenever we activate the alchemy of reading them. 

One of my favorite forms of playful relationship-spotting is a question-free card reading. Rather than drawing cards in relation to a question you’ve crafted, choose 2-4 card at random and ask them to tell you their story. As Terry Tempest Williams says in Pieces of White Shell: 

These ties can take many different forms, as this question-free type of card reading can show you. To try this, lay out your 2-4 randomly-drawn cards without any gap between them, so that they touch each other. This invites the cards to show themselves as a continuum rather than as three separate images. Then simply ask them to tell you the story of how they relate to each other. Listen to what they tell you.

Several rainbows radiate across card 2. We are the bridge-makers, uniting worlds as we appear, fade away and return. We are here to remind you that everything is connected – dynamically connected. Card 3 embodies the rainbows’ observation—everything is hyper-alive here. The ghost of a rainbow shimmers in the flying water between the frolicking bears, while the water-drops in card 1 re-appear as manic-looking stalagmites of water erupting from the stream where the bears are standing: 

In conclusion, the cards told me this: We are happy to have revealed to you the story of the three of us together, the three of us as one. Remember this: you can enjoy yourself in a similar way with any three or four cards in your deck. Romp! Play! Listen to our fables. Let us show you that as jewels on Indra’s Net, we weave a constant, eternal and infinite web of which every image and word is a part.

I hope that the stories you’ll hear from your cards will enrich your relationship with your SoulCollage® deck- and bring you unexpected entertainment too!

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, offering 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 this empowering process. To find out more about Linda’s SoulCollage® offerings, visit her website. 

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