Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Cauldron-Transmutation
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
This is the card of transmutation. The cauldron is the belly that holds within its depths a capacity for great change. What was locked tight loosens its grip within the cauldron’s boiling foment, while previously static elements activate one another in new ways.
The Sibylant Sisters took an old dye bath from the Klank shed and stirred up a magic potion using all kinda things that gave them strength. And sure enough, their potion had the potency to take on the toxic Toad Well and dissipate the dark forces that were suffocating the Grey House.
The cauldron is a container to gather your power. A space of darkness within which potency germinates. Womb-like and full of potential, the cauldron suggests that something new is brewing in your life.
In the cauldron’s heat, grief becomes growth. An invasive weed may be alchemized into a life-saving medicine. Nothing goes into the cauldron that does not come out changed.
What will you release into its dark belly to be transmuted? Bring your burdens and what ails you, but bring your dreams and your allies too. Let the pressure and the heat undo what was. Let it crack open the seed of what is to become.
–Swoon