Category: Karen Sealey's Pure and Blessed Way…

Discarded Oracle

And so I come to the final card in the D.O. Yesterday, I looked at the image and took in the shadows of the Norns looking over the newborn baby… I thought about how this card was a very obvious extension of ‘What’s In A Web…’ The image where the 3 Norns stand looking at […]

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Shelved

This penultimate unveiling of D.O. images, is of the card that was last to be drawn… Or should that be draaaaaaaaaawn… It came at a much later date and at a point a good while after I had resigned myself to accepting this whole thing as an abandoned project. Typically, if I have something to […]

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Ship Out of Harbour

Moving through the D. O. I’m down to, every croupier’s favourite words, “The last 3”. This card has always jarred me… The D. O. is in my eyes, artistically speaking, a pick ‘n’ mix of misfits that somehow seem to rub along and happily live together… Except for this one. Somehow the colours clash… There’s […]

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Memory Swell

Faced with the 22 cards of the D.O. and deciding to start the process of some kind of write up, I wasn’t clear on which order to go. I figured, so what? It’s a divination tool so just pull… that worked well up to a point then at some point, the cards seemed to naturally […]

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Transport

This morning I wake up with this image in my mind alongside memories of last night’s minibus ride and it makes me smile a lot… Let’s talk about the image first, I’ll ramble about the ride later… So! Yggdrasil… The Norse version of the tree of life… The way into the 9 Worlds. This version […]

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Ouroboros Unbound

You know those days when you begin to wonder if you’re in some kind of hidden camera comedy/reality show? Well this morning was one of those days… I’d already decided yesterday that today I would write about Ouroboros Unbound, an image that was fastest and easiest to flow into life… I melted wax onto iron […]

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Rooster Crows

I just realised I lied. In my last post, I said that the Kites were the only animals that I met in the D. O. Looking through the remaing 7 cards, I find 2 more beasties. One to come maybe tomorrow and the other to speak today – The Cockrel. The day he arrived was […]

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Gate Keeper

Yesterday, I realised that I was 2/3 of the way through the roll call of the D. O. images and I thought that maybe it might be a good time to bring out the first card of the project. I pulled out the fine fellow you see above and placed him face up on the […]

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Carpe Memento Mori

I previously mentioned the shelved image that stepped aside to let the Architect’s Hand slide into being… Working titles of dancers? Death dancers? (Though now officially named as per this blog post title). As I pulled this image out for the day, I smiled as I thought that it was number 13 to be written […]

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