The soulcollage process developed by Seena Frost is described in detail in her beautiful book, SoulCollage Evolving, which I highly recommend. Our group came up with several brief descriptions of the soulcollage process as we have experienced it:

* a quick and easy, right brained, creative process for accessing inner wisdom available to anyone who can cut and glue images and let them speak

* an artful way to de-stress

* a way of creating a jigsaw puzzle of your soul

* dreaming on the outside 

* making collaged cards that tell the story of you through found images.

 In this post I want to relate an experience I had with a soulcollage card and the insight the  words of  a fellow participant, Amy Schaich, triggered. Before making this card I had been struggling for several months with a mild anxiety and the recurring thought that I might be near death. There were no grounds for this fear other than the fact that I was nearing age 70. I had no known health issues.  On my card, against a background of outer space with one predominant partial planet, I glued a nude female figure with the seven energy centers marked on her body, a sea turtle, and an encrusted circle of sea matter with the eye of a fish in its center. I chose the female figure with the energy centers and the sea turtle because the sea turtle had appeared to me the night before during a guided meditation as an animal associated with my 5th energy center, the throat chakra. My throat had, in fact, been clogged for some months from constant sinus drainage and has been troublesome.

When I completed the soulcollage card, the female figure’s arms were a short distance from her body – at her sides –  palms open, and since I was finished, I tucked the card into a transparent sleeve for protection. When I turned the card over, I discovered that in the process of being inserted into the sleeve, the female figure’s right arm had somehow come unglued and was now folded across her throat chakra, the 5th energy center. All the other energy centers were clearly displayed.

When told about this experience and shown the card, Amy commented,  ” You can’t glue it all down.”  I realized that that was what I try to do with much of my life. I keep trying to glue things down, get them figured out once and for all. Interestingly enough, all the images in this soulcollage card are floating free. None are attached to anything else. They all float free and except for the female figure, they are all either round or rounded.

The guidance I later received from three of my other soulcollage cards, selected at random, sight unseen,  to help me concerning the fear that rises up in me when I sense  I’m being called to surrender my illusion of control and radically open myself to the flow of life follows:

* From the soulcollage card representing the Eternal Feminine: “I’d like you to know that nothing is permanent, yet you are held by an invisible force.”

* From the soulcollage card representing the One Who Takes the Long View, ” I’d like you to know that it’s ok not to know.”

* From the soulcollage card representing the One Whose Mind Is Open, ” I want you to know you can fly.”

From my experience with making this  soulcollage card and from the guidance I received both from the 3 other soulcollage cards and from Amy,  I was given an opportunity to experience what it is like to open myself to the flow of life and to give up the illusion of control.  I was given just what I needed and I was not afraid.