Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Hawk Man-Predator
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
This card represents the darkest of harms. These are the people or the forces that prey upon vulnerability and devour innocence.
They deceive to take advantage. They consume that which is not theirs to take. They cry crocodile tears to play upon our sympathies, but
they cannot be trusted. The threat the predator poses must be taken seriously. When this card comes up, check in with your instincts. Does this refer to a destructive actor in the outside world? Or does it refer to dangerous elements within the psyche?
When the predator force is loose inside the mind the outcomes can be just as damaging–nay-saying our finest notions, suffocating our dreams, even, at its worst, crushing out our will to live.
For young Katarina and Jeannie, their troubles arrived in the form of person who could not be trusted. Someone who caused them great harm and from whom they were not protected. As the sisters grew older, they found that the predator need not even appear in the outside world anymore, because those destructive forces now ran a rampage from inside their own minds.
Justice, boundaries, and healing the damage left in its wake are all things that become necessary with this kind of harm. This card is a reminder that you have a right to autonomy of body and mind. You have a right to joy and play and the free expression of your truest self. You have a right to peace and to safety. May you restore these things where they have been lost, and may you take pride in the new forms of strength that you uncover.
–Swoon