Loucylle Golden Thread Collage

Golden Thread: Loucylle Louise B. Gales | Divined April 2026

Cards: Eight of Knives, Seven of Baskets, Two of Knives (Black Tarot); Goddess of the East, Fickle (Elemental Alchemist Oracle); Hummingbird (Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Oracle); The Drowned King (Wild Unknown Alchemy Oracle); The Unseen, The Desert (Wild Unknown Archetypes Oracle); Waters (Grandma's Baby Black Gold Too); Clover (Grandma's Baby Black Gold).

The piece moves between two worlds. The upper left is a torn red textured surface, bold and raw. The rest of the composition opens into deep teal and blue. Large typographic text moves through the entire piece as a structural element, the words O, god, the, waters, see, you forming a phrase that runs through the full visual field. Psalm 77:16 is printed in white in the upper right corner. A full moon sits in the upper center with a hummingbird flying near it. A red rosary hangs on the left side of the piece, its cross visible. A vintage black and white photograph of a group of Black women and girls in white clothing sits together in a wooden boat on water at the center upper. Three figures in white cloth stand gathered with hands joined in the center left. Two young Black girls in white head wraps face each other in the lower right. Playing cards, a six of diamonds and a queen of hearts, appear at the center. Five elemental text blocks are placed across the piece, each beginning Remember that you are, followed by Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Spirit, with sub-words beneath each one.

The reading relayed that the cage that feels fixed is actually self-made, and that you have the keys. The cards asked for choosing one’s highest self, for grounding in the earth and the body, and for letting the Drowned King do its necessary work of dissolving what has been mistaken for identity. The Ancestors and the Spirit world are not distant but present, active, and reaching. Water (or lack of) runs through this reading from beginning to end, and the collage answers by placing everything inside it, surrounded by women in white, held by the words of Psalm 77:16, reminded of every element one already is.