SoulCollage® Level Up (a.k.a. Eating the Meal in New Ways)
At the beginning of each year, we each lay out all our cards in a Mandala formation and experience what it’s like to sit with all the many parts of ourselves - it’s such a powerful exercise, we really recommend it.
Level Up (verb)
When a player of a videogame has earned enough experience points to acquire a new level in a skill or skills. Often is accompanied by the ability to weild new weaponry, access new places, or begin new assignments. - Urban Dictionary
Level Up (verb)
- Progress to the next level.
"you can collect runes and use them as you level up to increase the power of your weapons"
- Advance one's character to the next level of development.
"build your army, level up your hero, purchase equipment, and challenge your friends to massive battles” - Oxford Dictionary
We love SoulCollage® because we’ve been benefitting from this process for years.
We’ve made cards, built our decks, done readings, learned to teach it to others, created an e-course and guided meditations, led workshops and just generally we’ve been ALL IN on this process.
At the end of 2019 we realized we were at a new frontier. We recognized that we both have created a lot of cards (at last count over 150 each). We were familiar with the usual spreads used for readings. We started to feel as if we had completed level one of the SoulCollage® game and we both had a sense that we could actually take this game to the next level.
So that’s what this blog is; a record of the deeper, more experimental inner work that SoulCollage® encourages us to take on. As Mariabruna Sirabella, our SoulCollage® teacher, famously says, “making cards and never reading them is like making a meal and never eating it.” This blog is us taking that one step farther. We’ve been “eating the meal”, but now it’s time to get gourmet and become real foodies.
Our hypothesis is that our cards are ready to teach us new methods of interacting with them and this blog would be a fun way to discover if that is true.
And we don’t really know what’s going to happen, it’s like playing a game where there are more and more worlds or levels, but you don’t get to see the next one until you really get there.
The hope is that by recording our next-level SoulCollage® adventures, we’ll be able to take the process to really rad places and we’ll all be able to harvest so much more every time we work with our cards in any way.
We want to invite you along on this journey and to experiment with us - the more the merrier! Be sure and leave comments so we know you are out there playing along with us, and “leveling up” too.
So here’s goes, we are really going to “eat the meal”… in new ways…
Bon appetite!
xoxo
Jessica & Somsara