Cynthia Golden Thread Collage

Golden Thread: Cynthia S. Firnhaber | Divined March 2026

Cards: The Hierophant, Nine of Knives (Black Tarot); Passion (Elemental Alchemist Oracle); Deep Into Creation (Follow Your Heart Oracle); Go After Your Goals (Ancestor Spirit Oracle); Onion (Green Witch Oracle); Hellebore, Spanish Moss (Southern Botanical Oracle); Strawflower (Dirt Gem Oracle).

A road runs through the entire bottom of the piece connecting both sides. On the left, grand grey stone stairs descend toward the road, classical columns and an arched doorway rising behind them, the words KEEP GOING written down the steps growing larger as they descend toward the viewer. Spanish moss drips green from the upper left. A bright orange sun bursts near the arch. A vintage woman colorized in vivid teal dances freely on the road, a teal hula hoop around her, one hand raised. On the right, a hand reaches in and pulls back a deep purple botanical curtain layered with onions and other plants. The act of pulling that curtain open creates a spotlight, a blue triangle of light that falls directly onto a woman kneeling on the road below, her arms reaching upward, holding the bottom of a full moon above her head. Behind her, through the opening the curtain reveals, is a world of blue sky and a field of yellow flowers. A hellebore blooms in the lower right. Small orange strawflowers push up through a crack in the road at the center where the two worlds meet.

The reading relayed that the wisdom carried is real and worth trusting, and that the passion, creativity, and goals surfacing now as retirement approaches are not new impulses but the golden thread reasserting itself. The cards shared shadows alongside the Strawflower's reminder that your endurance, color and glow are also present and true. The road in this piece goes somewhere, and the curtain has already been pulled back open for the journey.