Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Katarina-Delusion
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
It’s with our minds that we perceive the present, and remember the past, and yet sometimes our minds aren’t rightly up to that task.
This was very true for The Wee Witch Katarina. Katarina had suffered experiences which defied her ability to remain within reality, which overwhelmed her capacity to see and feel, and eventually to remember them. And yet, trouble was, those experiences very much wanted to be remembered. Through some strange faculty of the mind, when memory came knocking, what appeared at her door instead was a hallucination of present danger. A strange and terrifying story that laid itself down like a broken bridge over which her memory of the past tried to cross.
Delusions can take hold in the collective psyche almost as readily as the isolated mind.
Katarina’s card is a reminder that understanding what’s true ain’t always as simple as it seems. The stories we tell ourselves
may be distorted and full of errors. Even perception itself isn’t infallible.
This card says: Find the things that ground you, the people that never steer you wrong, the wisdom teachings that bring you home to yourself. Move slowly, give yourself lots of patience, and take even the most insistent chatter of your own mind with a grain of salt.
–Swoon