The Angel of Incidence
A spirit-spoken poem inspired by an oracle card of the same name as this piece is titled. This card came from a very mysterious yet inspiring oracle deck called the Death Doula Oracle by Seattle-based artist, Theodore Saint. The imagery is very mystifying and the words are powerfully magical.
Cascading lines of serine bliss
A nagging feeling to pull away
From a shadow’s glance, we find these quiet moments ushered in by choice to prioritize one’s art.
Fearful of expectations of what should be, though a wholly unscorned face peers back from beyond the card.
Slatted lines blind and bind from within so to without.
Austere rooms of ambient light bouncing near and far.
Unbothered by the blurring sensation of misunderstanding from the unknown
Blocked by the fibers of becoming no more.
Rapidly unweaving the entanglement of what one “should be.
Deeply committed to the experience of my becoming, I no longer stand shaking bare upon the Earth waiting for a distant platitude to appease my yearning to be seen.
Alternatively choosing to feed on the deep nourishment of expression my soul craves.
Burying each lost piece I uncover in my own personal treasure trove of discovery.
Knowing each is more precious than the last and far brighter than the next.
Be here now in the dark or in the light
For there will always be a shadow along with the shine.
Feel each ember burn as its smoke births, rising higher and higher in the sky.
Even when it does leave us, it’s not really gone completely for it continues on beyond the visible eye to become more on and on.
This doorway to heightened elevations is but the one way out is in.
An eclipsed heart may shy far away from the rays but only for a season or two.
From the internal winter, then will come the time of the angel’s fledge.
To soar beyond the bounded height of this imagination.
Growing inch by inch with painstaking precision the feathers of uplifting person truth.
For so is above as below in you and in me.
One white, one black a pair matched in duality flying with unparalleled strength not despite but because of this unlikely match.
In our contradictions lies the unabashed core of one’s being.
To stand in this dim fog and press forth all the same on an un-illuminated path of courage.
Knowing both must exist to continue the process of becoming.
When the darkness slips under foot and steps falter from place, worry not for the great rays of the angel of incidence come to close behind.
Rebalancing the scales
Tearing down the hardened blocks of perceived failure
Rebuilding the path with light of deepened love.
Encouraging you to start again with renewed eyes of unforeseen vision from before.
A truly wonderful dance of contraction and expansion, yin and yang, light and dark, shadow and beam.
We now walk hand and hand this angel of light and their companion of illusive darkness.
Certain to stumble again for this is the intended flow now known.
One may not exist without the other, this is the grandest design to be in perfect intersection with all that has been and all that will ever be.
Intuitive Writing Exercise
If it resonates with you, I invite you to take a few minutes to draw an oracle card from any deck you feel called to or look at an inspiring piece of art or natural landscape and allow the words to flow from you in response. I would love to read your words that come up from this exercise, if it feels in alignment for you, share in the form below.