Nothing Gold Can Stay

Iux Iunseer. THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Key symbols: the moon, pomegranates, a ring of gold

...Secrets will tell themselves in one way or another, and the keeping of them will cause them to take on a life of their own. If not spoken aloud, they will find other languages to be communicated through: absence, avoidance, action.

The High Priestess stands guard at the threshold of truth, in the liminal space between interior landscapes that cradle traumatic secrets in dense thickets of thorns, and the celestial expanse that has seen everything but has no voice with which to communicate. There is a cost - both in seeking truth, and in refusing it - and those devoted to the Traders are prepared to pay both.

“Never again will I stand still while harm comes to someone I treasure. …Don’t let me.” “As I bear your aether as part of my soul, I will never give your inaction grace.”

A feud, buried with blood.

🌊🌠 Sea and Star, in Friendship

This was an experimental artwork for a lovely commissioner. Thank you!

“Leave. Now. You are unmade. Go!”

An ill-fated heist.

— “the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” ; ferdinand foch

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