Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Caelum-Cycle Breaker
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Caelum’s card represents a cosmic awakening. The breaking of harmful cycles through the restoration of our innate connection with that bigger thing that we all spring up from. The one that is us while it makes us – that always holds us and never does let us go because the truth is, there really ain’t nowhere to go.
Caelum had a desperate need to understand and believe the Wee Witch Katarina, even as Katarina spiraled into dangerous delusions. What Caelum found in the process was a mortal imperative to awaken her own magic in order that she might survive her ordeal.
The odds stacked against Caelum were greater than she could overcome without some sort of infusion of the impossible into the narrow crevice of the possible. Caelum found her way back to that bigger thing via the doorway of forgiveness. Through it, she was reunited with her innate mystical power, which gave her the
supercharge she needed to break the cycle
she was caught in.
The power she found lay in forgiving others while not tolerating their harm, and, accepting the gifts that imperfect people gave her, while laying aside what she could no longer live with.
Caelum’s card is an invitation to find those doorways that lead you to your own cycle breaking super powers by putting you in touch with that bigger thing, in any way you understand it. These forces are inside all of us, and yours are calling you.
–Swoon