Some more soulcollaging cards

Here are some older cards:

( The Sybaritic Bather )

( The Romantic )

( The Active Woman )

These cards were the first three that I made, and what strikes me the most looking at them now is how really simple they are. It's interesting to contrast them with a later, more complex card like this one, which layers the elements more elaborately. The Active Woman card in particular looks really simple to me: just cut out squares of little images and line them up edge to edge like tiles. If I were doing this card now, I would definitely intertwine the figures more.

The Sun and the Tree of Life

A couple more cards, just one image each (I still feel like that's sorta cheating, but these are very important cards to my deck, and they are perfect just as is). These are pictures taken by David Dyer-Bennet and used with permission.

( The Sun )

( The Tree of Life )

I have written extensively in this journal over the years about the May Day parade and Tree of Life ceremony which is put on here in Minneapolis every year the first Sunday in May by the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. See all my entries tagged may day. Every year, the Sun comes over the water of Powderhorn Park to magically awaken the Tree of Life, and the whole community (several tens of thousands people) cheer and clap to greet the Tree and her promise of the renewal of the spring. Because I suffer from seasonal affective disorder, this yearly ritual has become extremely powerful for me. To me, the Sun and the Tree are magical symbols of hope. The Sun card, along with the Expecto Patronum card, is also a card against the Dementors (I take daily walks outside in the sunlight in the autumn and winter to keep my depression at bay). (See my account from this year), and a video of the ceremony here, which was taken the same year that these pictures of the Tree and Sun were taken.