SoulCollage - Hushing the Archetypes

Yesterday evening, my archetypes and I had that little family meeting I was looking forward to. I gathered us all out on the patio, lit a vanilla candle and put it in a hurricane vase ... and then explained my new SoulCollage journey and my need for some quiet from the 'archetype gallery'! Everything went well, except for my martyr of course, who droned, "Oh sure, all that work excavating me, naming me, dusting me off, and now I'm going back on the shelf." I told her what I always tell her, now, "Thank you for sharing that opinion," and then I moved on.

I decided to do a cleansing page, which began as a piece of mat board that I just covered in layer after layer of white paint. And then the white began to speak to me, pretty specifically. By the time I was done, I realized I had inadvertently created my Source Card, even though that wasn't on our to-do assignments yet.
The Universal source, for me, is water, which is 'beneath' me rather than overhead (skyward). I believe in the gesture of letting down the bucket into the well, the well of the Universe, the source. For this SoulCollage journey, the bucket is depicted on the right side as the 'outline' bucket (yes, it's a vase but I don't have a bucket punch!) ... it's not filled yet, at all -- that's because there is still, always, more to take in, sift, taste, pass through the sensory faculties, the experience filters. The full vase, just to the left, is where I am keeping the archetype family knowledge, so that they feel they're available for council if I should want to ask. The arm, reaching in, was the finishing and much needed touch -- to represent me, reaching in, reaching for, willing to be part of the process.