Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Broken Egg-An Offering
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
This card is a reminder that every moment is an offering. Every word and action, even the thoughts that we dwell upon fertilize the ground for what grows next.
A broken egg was the kinda thing that the grown-ups in the Grey House might scoop up outta the dirt and bring to the Well of Toads to brew their potions of forgetting.
But anything brought to the Well of Toads is wasted, because theirs is a place only intended to let you bypass the lessons you really oughtta be getting. Things used in the service of dark oblivion are not things used wisely. Theirs was an offering wasted. But a broken egg is rich and juicy and full of life-sustaining nutrients. Even a dropped egg can be composted to feed the soil for tomorrow’s garden. There’s a big difference between what is wasted, and what is given
as an offering.
Letting go of the small stuff so that we might achieve a bigger dream, investing time in the future even when it’s hard, giving to something you believe in with no expectation of a reward, taking care of our thoughts, actions, and deeds, all of these are forms of offering.
So what do you hope to see grow? What would you give to help it happen? Starting simple and right where we are, how’s your present state of mind? Would you say that what you’re dwelling upon right now is an offering to that growth?
–Swoon