Using SoulCollage® to Heal Your Relationship with Money


60 minute SoulCollage® tele-class
with SoulCollage® Facilitator
Minette Riordan in California.

Saturday, February 6 2016
4 pm Eastern
 

My name is Catherine Anderson and I'm a SoulCollage® Facilitator and Trainer from Charlotte, NC. I am delighted to be adding my voice to Soul Songs and hope that my words inspire you to look more deeply into your deck of SoulCollage® cards.


Crossing the Threshold

A threshold is a place of the spirit, uniting the mundane with the mysterious, and the commonplace with the awesome. ~ Maria Harris

My SoulCollage® cards often act as keys to opening doors to feelings that have been locked away for a long time. Sometimes it takes time to find the right key to unlock the door, and sometimes I'm too nervous to even put the key in the lock, but I always know I'm safe with SoulCollage®. The images never tell me more than I am ready to hear, but know how to encourage me to my learning edge, to the threshold of a new discovery, and to a new way of seeing.

Symbolically, doorways are portals into other worlds, invitations into new places, and openings to fresh views. Doors symbolize transition and change, rebirth and new beginnings. Doors themselves can signify protection - a place of safety and refuge. A locked door can also represent imprisonment and lack of freedom. At different times of life, doors can represent different things to us.

I've always been drawn to photographing doors in my travels around the world. So it was only natural that doorways would start finding their way on to my SoulCollage® cards, and into my visual journals. I particularly like adding open doors to my cards as they remind me that I have choices about whether to open or close the doors in my life. On my cards I do this by cutting the door image open and collaging in the space between the doorway.

When I'm working with a part of myself that I might not be ready to fully expose, or a part that is undergoing transformation and prefers to do that in the darkness, I often choose to place them behind doors. I can place guardians at the doorway as protectors, and then when I am ready to open the doors wide and let the light in, I can glue the doors open or even cut them off my card.

In essence our SoulCollage® cards can be both doorways and keys to more deeply getting to know the longings of our soul. Often what lies behind the door is unknown, but having the courage to open up to new possibilities allows us to grow.

Consider what you need to open to this year. Do you need to open to your courage or your trust? Do you need to open the door to your heart? When you are faced with a closed door, what choice will you make? Will you let the closed door stop you or will you keep knocking until it opens?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes confirms what SoulCollagers know about using our cards together with relevant questions when she says: Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation ... Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

See your SoulCollage® cards as doorways to your soul, and remember that they hold important information for you. To unlock their wisdom, all you have to do is regularly make time to sit with your cards and ask them the questions that will open the door.



Catherine Anderson is author of The Creative Photographer, Journaling the Labyrinth Path Doorways and Openings and is a SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainer.  Catherine leads creative photography workshops in Italy, France and South Africa. Find out more at www.creativepilgrimage.com
 

 

Feeding the Babies
Committee Suit
Carrie
Wisconsin

I am the one who is reminding you that new projects are like babies. They must be fed and tended to and kept safe until they are ready to be fledged. Use your connection to nature to nurture your dreams until they are grown and strong enough to cross the threshold and fly into the world.




Mind's Doorway
Committee Suit
Denise
Texas

I am the one who travels the very limits of space through my imagination. I am the one who travels into the future and into the past. I am the one who opens to possibilities only I can imagine for myself. I am the one who uses my intelligence to connect across the world to places that I may never see for myself.




Through the Portal
Suit Unknown
Gail
Massachusetts

I am the one who seeks to pass through the portal, not knowing what I will find on the other side. I see that the doorway I once thought was stationary and stable, has actually shifted and is changing. What I once thought was, is no more, and so I realign my soul, shift my direction, and strive to accept what is. I step into the flow of change. Remember that everything that exists is part the flow. The tide is in a constant state of ebb and flow, changing, as are you. Remember.




On the Threshold of Freedom
Council Suit
Carol
New Hampshire

I am the one about to step into the dawn of my freedom. I am the one who has reclaimed herself - I am open to the big YES. There is no more need to be hiding from myself or the world. The memory of all that bound me drifts away...and I let it go. I stand on the threshold of my dreams, preparing to walk on water. I claim my whole self. I claim freedom. I claim YES.




Door Mouse
Committee Suit
Avis
Canada

I am the one who stands in the doorway, who has a story to tell, a story you need to hear. I am the one who speaks softly and cowers sometimes in the dark and yet I follow the breadcrumbs and find myself outside in a field of possibilities! I am the one who knows how to find the trail, even when you don't see the door. I am the one who knows how to follow her nose!




Guardian of the Depths
Council suit
Do Mi
Oregon

I am the one who guards the door. I am mystery. I am she who cannot be known here on the surface. The soft cloud, changing continuously as it moves, floats through. Through the door are the depths where light shines. You may come through with the deepest of breaths. I am the guardian of the Humming Ground. I want you to breathe, breathe, breathe.

There are even more "Door Cards" from SoulCollagers
on this page.

In this highly recommended book, author Joyce Rupp brings new life to the ageless spiritual image of the door, weaving insights from East and West with the wisdom of contemporary spiritual writers, poets, and novelists in a practical format that is just right for contemporary readers. Each essay offers a thematic reflection, a guided meditation, an original prayer, and a thoughtful question. Click on the image above for more info.




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