Rosśa Crean
In Lessons from the Liminal Space, Rosśa Crean provides a mindful perspective to those who are searching for clarity through the difficult transitions in life. It presents the perspectives of self-allowance, resting, and remaining open to processing the inevitable discomforts that arise from the changes we face throughout life.
An award-winning artist and composer, Crean uses their synesthesia to create internationally-exhibited abstract paintings that reflect their own healing journey through trauma and abuse that lead them to their life path as a trauma specialist, life coach, and healer. These abstracts, together with the lessons that Crean has learned through years of work with their own clients, allow users to reflect on these lessons through the expansive visual worlds that they have presented in this oracle deck.
While the messages of the cards are stated clearly, Crean encourages users to let themselves further explore the visual work presented, to let parts of the psyche come forward and speak to us. Crean says, “It is in these liminal spaces where we can ignite the process of what whole integration means, to amalgamate our Shadow and public persona in order to understand and manage our impulses and behavioral responses.” That purpose alone is what makes this a great supplementary tool for any person’s Shadow Work.
This kit contains a 46-card oracle deck and 60-page guidebook packed with rituals and other workings to help you connect with these cards.
ISBN: 978-1-959883-43-2
Dimensions:
Cards: 2.75” x 4.75” | Box: 5.25” x 3.75” x 1.4” | Guidebook: 3.5” x 5”
Page Count: 60 | Card Count: 46 | Publication Date: 08/06/2024
Multimedia artist Rosśa Crean (they/them) is an empath, psychic intuitive, Reiki Master Teacher, healer, and certified trauma-informed specialist and life coach. In their artistic work, Rosśa specializes in what they call “liminal abstract” works and “surreal realism.” Crean has chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia where the brain translates sound into colors, and consider their chromesthesia to be a tool that puts them in a liminal space between mind and body. Through their design company [ROH-shuh], Rosśa’s work has been part of art installations and exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Crean has done development work with MoMA, and has been a resident artist at the International Museum of Surgical Science, Illinois State University, and Loyola University Museum of Art.
As a person with synesthesia, Crean occasionally creates musical and visual projects that focus on their own neurological responses between sound, color, and emotional states. It has most recently been featured as a composition tool in their American Prize winning opera, the adaptation of Arthur Machen’s "The Great God Pan.” Their one-act opera “The Times Are Nightfall,” a queer sequel to “Don Giovanni,” premiered at Opera America in July 2018. Their most recent commission, “The Priestess of Morphine,” a monodrama in song cycle style, was commissioned and premiered by the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago in June 2019, and was released as a recording with Navona/Naxos Records in 2021.
Besides their work in Tarot and Reiki, Rosśa also help others through acting as a scrying oracle through dark goddess craft. “People fear the shadow sides of nature,” Crean says, “but it is the shadow that cannot exist without the light. I hope to help advise and guide others to become their most authentic selves through embracing both sides.”
A staunch advocate for queer and gender equality, Rosśa founded the “Rosśa Crean Presents” performance series in Chicago, Illinois, which showcases emerging BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ composers and performers. For moreinformation on Rosśa and their work, please go to www.rossacrean.com.