Organizing
Your SoulCollage
Inner Work

This page is only for SoulCollage® artists with a loud and happy Organizer voice inside of you! I have one, and you will know if you have one too.

If your idea of being organized consists of stuffing everything in a junk drawer, then this page is not for you! But since I’m a Neatnik from birth, I’m going to share some ideas for organizing all of the work that you do with your SoulCollage cards.

This includes your I am the one who exercises, your card interpretations , any readings that you do, and any other writings or art work that comes forth as a result of working with your SoulCollag®e cards.

Please keep in mind that these are only suggestions, and that, as in all things SoulCollage, there is no right way.

If you hear your Organizer voice gently nudging you to try to make some order out of the chaos that is the writing and art you’ve done with your cards, then read on. And feel free to try several different ways before finding the one that is just right for you. You might try one way and find that it’s just not “your style.” That’s perfectly okay. Just start another system and see if you like it better.

Also, we’d love to hear your suggestions for organizing! Please fill out the short form at the end of this page and share your SoulCollage organization methods with us. If possible, we will add them to this page (giving you full credit, of course!) and/or share them in the FREE SoulCollage® Newsletter.

Three-Ring Binders

I found two 1” binders at WalMart. They were quite inexpensive, and even have the words Serenity and Balance on them! I filled the binders with loose-leaf notebook paper, and a few dividers, each one for one of the suits in my deck. There’s no reason why you can’t store them all in one binder…. It’s just that I couldn’t find a larger binder that I liked as much as I liked these two smaller ones!

As I work with a card, I write the I am the one who exercise on a sheet of the notebook paper. By the time I’m done I usually have a pretty good idea which suit it belongs to, and I then put it the page in the correct section of the notebook.

I go to Staples every few weeks and make reduced-size color copies of a few of my cards, whichever ones I’m working with at the time. (I reduce the size by 50% so that it doesn’t take up too much room on the notebook paper). This spreads out the cost of the copies, and allows me to move through the process slowly.

As time goes on, I add notes and insights to the appropriate pages as cards show up in readings. I make sure to put the date on every entry. It’s very interesting to read back over entries. It’s also a powerful part of the process for me to draw a card in a reading and then look back and see what insights that card gave me the last time I worked with it. The layers of meaning build and strengthen the energy and significance of each card in my life.

I like the 3 ring binders because I know that I can always keep adding pages as time goes on.

This is a great way to add art work, poetry, stories, dialogs, and any other writing or art that is inspired by a particular card.

Journals

You can do all of your SoulCollage interpretations and writings in your regular journals, and simply use a different color pen (or font if you’re using a word processor) for them. This makes it easy to go back and find what you’re looking for.

You could also use sticky notes to mark pages that are about your cards. Write the name of the particular card on the sticky note before attaching it to the page. The next time that card comes up in a reading, or the next time you have a question about it, you will know exactly where to look in your journal.

You can follow the same system with an art journal.

Computers

Some people keep all of their information about their SoulCollage cards on the computer. You can make up a page with all of the I am the one who… questions on it, leaving space at the top for a scanned image of a card. Then simply type in the answers to all of the questions as you are working with the card. Be sure to use SAVE AS when saving, so that you keep the original blank one to continue to use as a template.

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