If only I had the ability to go back in time and take pictures of my dorm room door. They became art pieces; however the possibility of the sociological value for archiving that part of history is lost. I started doing "soul collages" long before they were a "thing" (now they offer classes on how to cut pictures filled with purpose and meaning out of magazines and paste them to paper... damn ... there went a million-dollar idea).
My door was the result of long, wonderfully blissful, quiet nights of pasting individual words and images as a window (or door) to my soul for anyone who wandered by my room. It began when I had to leave a note for a friend, so I pulled off a piece of a magazine and used a marker over the images; somehow incorporating the design into the message. She thought it was an art project though and was greatly moved that I included her in the process. It was a fabulous idea, and it caught on. Many doors were covered by the end of that semester.

I was lucky, in that I didn't have to share my first-year dorm room with a room-mate. I was also attending college in the third coldest place in the country (Gunnison, Colorado) so we did tend to stay indoors during the Winter Months. Western State College ended up being Wasted State for me, and it's a great regret, but we'll get into that during the #30DayBloggingChallenge at some point.

The process of Vision Boarding/Soul Collaging was something I have turned to when there wasn't much room in my life for "art". There is always cardboard for magazines, glue, and scissors though. Even my children were witnesses to my odd habit of sitting in a waiting room somewhere and tearing the more interesting images from the piles of ancient magazines cluttering lobby spaces. To my defense, I used the older ones. Vandalism isn't a forte of mine.

→My Latest Vision Board←

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"When Isis Met Frigg (Beloved)"

This was created in February of 2019 when I went to a small gathering of my "siSTARS" at Leaping Lamb Farm in Oregon, USA. We gather each February in honor of St. Brigid, or as it were, just Brigid, the Great Goddess of the Dawn, or fire. She brings us all the goodness of Spring before Ostara. (I did mention that I'm something of a pagan in previous postings if you're new to me).

I was reaching into my own personal well of strength, asking the Great Big Is And Ever Was for the opportunity to spend my 55th Birthday in the Mother Land (Denmark). It was great fortune that someone brought a Nat Geo featuring Nordic Female Deities to our gathering. It allowed me to find the inspiration to create "When Isis Met Frigg". (I know that some of my siSTARS were motivated by my furious cutting and pasting too!)
As it turned out, COVID and other more personal elements in our lives, including the closing of our gallery prevented travel anywhere. I'm revisiting my "well of strength" again as a result of this contest; so I'm collecting my life and re-envisioning where my inner explorer is heading. Nearly two years have passed, it's time to pull out the magazines and find another path through the maze of images and words that speak to me.

My daughter and I sitting on the couch in Amsterdam, looking out the window

I'll share some of the meaning behind a couple of the images shown in my #VisionBoard:
• The Heron in the lower left side is a representation of my daughter. On our first trip to Denmark, we brought her along with one of her friends from school. My daughter and I stayed up for an entire night while we were in Amsterdam and in the morning mist a heron landed on one of the boats in the canal just outside our window as we sipped our coffee. It was a profound experience. The image is there to remind me that I have a Great Goddess as my mother. She and I have also had mystical moments. It reminds me to be grateful.
• The "cross" or crucifix riding inside the sun (son) above the scarab is also a reminder of eternal life, and the struggles we face as veterans of psychic wars. There are connections that can be "cross" referenced in all religions. It also reminds me that the Great Goddess is not partial to any of her children, and the Son of God is Hers too. I don't have to be a closet Christian simply because I honor all religious deities. It's there to invoke courage.

Honestly, in retrospect, I suspect that Vision Boards are a tool to find the courage not just the desire to Collect Our Lives.

Go, collect your life. Share it with us here at #HIVE. We're interested, not just for the Crypto Currency exchange, but the Current-See! Well. At least I am!
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#art https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cosmictriage/IetrAWAB-line.png https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cosmictriage/3VVVWEhj-tink20sig.gif https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cosmictriage/IetrAWAB-line.png Here's a sticky situation for you, I don't have 5 Friends on HIVE that I can tag for this endeavor, so I'm going to tag 5 people that could become friends, because @Denmarkguy is an innocent bystander. When you see yourself reflected here @inalittlewhile ─ @brittandjosie and @buttonn, there's no compulsion to join in creating a Vision/Soul Collage Board, but it couldn't hurt, could it? There's no rule or condition that your piece of art must be done on cardboard either. As @jaynie said in her original VISION BOARD CONTEST post there are no limits!

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