The Girl Who Reaches Out in Wonder - Committee

[pegkerr]

The Girl Who Reaches Out in Wonder Committee I am the One who reaches out to explore the world. I see beauty and embrace it with joy. I see love and touch it with the awe of a young girl. My senses are open to wonder. I see harmony and magic in the simple and ordinary.

This card is sort of a meta-card captures a feeling I have felt welling up in me about Soulcollaging itself. I have been feeling so desperate for so long because the fiction writing stopped, and as readers of this journal know, this was acutely painful for me. When I found I could Soulcollage, one of my primary first reactions was profound relief, that I hadn't totally lost my creativity. I don't know why it was so important to me, but it was. As I started putting cards together, I realized I was using the same process I'd used when writing short stories, and the realization was very exciting, and tinged with awe. See? Here is art. Here is beauty. I tried to capture that feeling in making this card, to acknowledge that there is still that part of me that sees and recognizes beauty and wonder. I was so tremendously relieved to discover that it wasn't gone forever, as I had feared.

I made a very deliberate decision to use only girls. I had a number of pictures of little boys doing creative things, and some of them were very good, but for some reason this card seemed to need to be a female card, not just a card about the creative child. Perhaps because I associate femininity with creativity--I still feel that being a mother (i.e., creating a baby inside myself) is one of the most remarkable creative things I've ever done. And I am, of course, the mother of daughters only. Perhaps that is related, too.

Comments

[cesario.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy it when you post these cards. In fact, I'd really like to give this soulcollaging thing a go myself, but it's going to be a couple of weeks before I can afford to buy the book. I read the stuff on the website but I didn't get clear on all of it---can you tell me what the committee suit is and what the other suits are? This may be the last day I have off for months and I'd like to do some work now.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Going back over some older entries and realizing I hadn't answered this--have you had a chance to get the book and/or get started? DId I ever answer this question on a different entry?

In case I didn't: there are four suits, and one card that stands alone:

The Committee suit: cards that honor aspects within yourself, as if they are all sitting at a committee table. For me, they include the mother, the creative one, the karate student, and this one, the Girl Who Reaches Out in Wonder

The Community suit: cards the honor people who have affected you, whether living or dead (or even imaginary). Your parents, other family members, favorite authors, teachers, mentors, etc.

The Companion suit: animals that correspond to each of your seven energy chakras..

The Council suit: Archetypes. The Fool, the Sage, the Lovers, Death. Some of these correspond to the tarot deck, but you may create others. The Ravens of Unresting Thought is one of my Council cards, as is the Mirror Erised.

You can create your own suits if you like; I may be creating one for fairy tales.

The card that stands by itself is the Source card, the One from which everything springs. You may recognize it as God, or the Universe--however you understand it.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

I haven't got my hands on the materials yet, no, but your reply coincides with the beginning of my vacation, so I can put this information to excellent use. Thank you very much!