Raven Medicine
Shamanic Spirit Animal Art - Paintings of Power
Original Watercolour Painting by Roberta Orpwood
Medicine of Raven:
Raven walks the seam of the worlds.
Not fully of the earth, not wholly of the sky, but of the place between. The veil you imagine as distant is feather thin. Raven knows this. Raven keeps this.
Ancient one of the dark womb, watcher at the gate, bearer of the first light. It is told that Raven entered the great blackness and returned carrying the sun in its beak, breaking open the sealed box of night so that sight could awaken in human eyes. This is Raven medicine. To enter the dark without fear. To trust the fertile void. To bring back what has been hidden.
Raven does not come to soothe. Raven comes to shift the pattern. To loosen the fixed story. To whisper that the world you see is only one layer of a deeper weave. When Raven calls, the threshold is near. The ancestors lean closer. The unseen stirs.
Stand still. Listen.
What doorway are you being asked to cross?
Roberta Orpwood
A London-based Shamanic Practitioner and internationally-published Oracle Illustrator known for her visionary watercolours, spiritual seership, and devotion to act of making sacred art.
Her paintings act as gateways for healing, awakening the spirit through colour, ceremony, and mythic symbolism. Rooted in Shamanic living and spiritual devotion, her artwork bridges the visible and invisible worlds, offering sacred mirrors of transformation and remembrance.
Roberta’s work has been published by Hay House, Blue Angel Publishing, and Quarto, and can be found in widely loved titles such as The Tree of Life Oracle, The Crystal Power Tarot, and The Ultimate Guide to Chakras.