Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Girls in School-Jealousy
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Caelum felt like an alien at school. Surrounded by prim, well-cared-for little children who all seemed to have such an easy time sitting still and paying attention to their lessons, when all Caelum could do was drift off into daydreams and long to be back in the wilds of the woods out back of the Grey House.
She felt a disdain for these kids, but buried underneath that disdain was a sense that they all had something she didn’t. A mother who could take care of them. Brush their hair and tuck them in at night. Someone to help them remember their homework, to make them breakfast and send them off to school in the morning. She didn’t yet know how to identify that part of hating them was actually a form of wishing for the ease of life they all seemed to have.
This card signals you to take a look at the gap between where some aspect of your life is, and where you long for it to be. The complicated tangled-up mess of feelings that arises when we believe we don’t have what others have, and we suspect that it’s stopping us from being who we want to be.
Try to be gentle with those feelings, and maybe even get curious about what it is they want. Caelum appreciated her feral magical life, but in her heart she also longed for a little more care and safety. What might your heart be longing for which is not yet yours?
–Swoon