Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Hawk Wings-Intrusive Thoughts
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Sometimes there are parts of our minds that desperately need our attention, while the rest of it works double time to keep us “safe” from any kinda uncomfortable or disturbing awareness. A fierce
battle may ensue. The mind turns in on itself, becoming plagued by rumination, cyclical thinking, and intrusive thoughts.
The Wee Witch Katarina’s psyche was at war with itself in just this way. Flickering hawk wings appeared and reappeared, crowding in at the edges of her vision in an attempt to communicate to her about a buried trauma, but Katarina interpreted these visions as a coming danger. Time Hawk Wings collapsed, her past became present, and she herself became dangerous.
This card asks how you might make friends with the more confusing
messages that come to you from inside your own psyche. Irrational impulses, catastrophizing, anxieties that wake us up before the alarm even goes off. We instinctively wanna push them away, but they are often messengers of some split-off need attempting however awkwardly to express itself.
We don’t gotta heed their commands, but neither can we run from them. We might say, come on in strange fella, sit yourself down. We might ask them to unwind, and see if they’ve got anything more to say. They may even be the brave bearer of your own need for wholeness emerging out of a divided inner landscape.
–Swoon