Soul Collage: Sloth Woman

Posted on | January 6, 2006 | No Comments

A close friend loaned me a book titled Soul Collage, which discusses how to make your own personal reflection divination tool using collage and the framework of four suits: the Committee, Community, the Council, and Companions.

The images in the book are amazing and inspiring — in fact, my dreams over these last two nights have contained many visions of what my own cards might look like.

As I read the chapter on the Committee, which represents different personalities/aspects of one’s self, I spontaneously began listing my own Committee.

My Committee so far:

• Sloth woman
• Forgetful girl
• The Dominator
• The Celebrant
• Silly Balm
• Mother Hen
• Listener
• Little Girl with Big Voice
• She Who Sees
• The Different Child
• Cornered Animal
• Miss Know-It-All
• Healing Lover
• Thinker of Big Ideas
• The Good Student
• Should I or Shouldn’t I?
• The Whirlpool of Despair
• The Locked Coffer
• The Commentator
• Jilted Lover

SLOTH WOMAN — I am One Who drags you down and away from all that you say you want to do. I pull you into mindlessness and time creeps by as you watch with glazed eyes. Like gravity, there is no fighting me. You have to sleep or do nothing right now…whether you want to or not.

This card is definitely a shadow discovered over the last couple of days. And in writing the above, I think I found the gold — rest. Now, the choice is mine to honor this voice at the table and rest before I get wiped out completely, or resist it, throwing it back in shadowland and getting sucked into the black hole of sloth.

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