Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Oracle of Delphia-Premonition
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
The Oracle of Delphi card represents seeing more than you see and knowing more than you know. This is the card of premonition and second sight. Messages received on the winds and felt through the waters. Truth seen in dreams. Any knowledge that we get from
unconventional means, especially ways of understanding and knowing that modern society tells us can’t possibly be real.
In ancient Greece at a cave shrine in Delphi, there were a sect of Priestesses known as the Pythia, or great Oracles, who would preside over a chasm in the rock where an otherworldly python was said to have died. Breathing in the steam that arose from the cave’s natural vents, the Priestesses would recite prophecy.
When Caelum learned of the Oracle at Delphi, she had an inkling that their unusual job was not unrelated to her unusual dreams. The Oracle’s very existence seemed to hint that Caelum might be remembering a way of knowing that had never been taught to her, but which was in her bones nonetheless.
This card is your call to learn more about how your inner voice talks to you. Do you get chills when something significant is about to happen? Do little symbols that pop up in everyday life have a way of guiding you toward what you need? Do you have dreams that occur soon after, but you always shake them off and tell yourself it must be a coincidence?
The Oracles of Delphi are the great ancestors of your inner knowing. Perhaps they have some wisdom which is now yours for the remembering.
–Swoon