- Missy Tripp Ronquillo
- May 24
- 3 min read
Updated: 46 minutes ago
She sees all. She is your Wisdom. Her name is Lenore.
She didn’t ask to be painted. She arrived.
She didn’t whisper. She didn’t wait.She just stood there in the studio—barefoot, still, already knowing.
Lenore.
Not the soft, weeping Lenore from the poem. Not the broken-hearted ghost drifting in and out of some tortured man’s memory. She’s what came after.
After grief became power. After death learned how to speak. After love stopped waiting for permission to return.
This is The Soothsayer.
She sees all.
She is your Wisdom.
She is the truth you feel in your bones.
You know that feeling when the room goes quiet for no reason? When the air thickens and you know something is about to land?
That’s her. She’s not a fortune teller. She’s not here to tell you what you want. She’s here to tell you what’s real.
The kind of real that makes your skin buzz. The kind of real that makes you blink back tears because something ancient inside you just got seen.
She speaks in stillness. She speaks in knowing. She speaks in you.
Because that’s the thing—
She’s not outside you.
She’s the part you buried. The clarity you weren’t ready for.
Until now.
I painted her and she painted me back.
She came with symbols.Marks etched on her skin that weren’t decoration—they were language.
These were not flourishes. These were maps. Stories. Codes. A spirit history written in silence and fire.
I didn’t make them up. I remembered them. Each stroke felt like something waking up in my blood.
I kept thinking of the raven. Of Poe. Of that relentless poem where he’s haunted by the one he lost.
But what if he didn’t lose her?
What if she became the raven?
What if Lenore wasn’t gone at all—just transformed?
She is the Watcher. The Witness. The One Who Returned.
What if the raven is her second sight? What if she rides the wind through his grief, watching him unravel, not to torment him—but to reflect him?
What if Lenore and the raven are the same—swinging through each other’s eyes,seeing what the other can’t, until he finally understands: She didn’t leave.
She evolved.
She became wisdom.
She became oracle.
Not every spirit guide is sweet.
Some are sharp.Some crack you open.Some stand in front of you and say: Enough.
The Soothsayer is one of those.
She is the long-lost love who came back different. She is the one who remembers you before you forgot yourself.She is not gentle—but she is sacred. She is not cruel—but she will not lie to you.
When she enters the room, the game changes. You don’t get to play small anymore.You don’t get to pretend you don’t know.
Because you already know.
She’s just the one who calls it out.
She is the ancient fire behind your eyes.
Her markings are your memory.Her silence is your signal.Her stare is your reckoning.
She is the spirit guide that doesn’t arrive with feathers and light. She arrives with bone, mirror, and storm.
She is the edge. The threshold.The exact moment you stop pretending.
She is not lost. She is not gone. She is right here.
The Soothsayer.
She sees all.
She is your Wisdom.
Her name is Lenore.
Closing Reflection
Lenore, The Soothsayer, is a guide for those standing at the edge. She doesn’t lead with kindness. She leads with clarity.
She is the echo of love that still sees you. Not to comfort your fear, but to clear your vision.
When she arrives, know this:
You’re ready.
And she already knows.
The Spirit Guide Collection: Volume One is now available exclusively through New Elements Gallery in Wilmington, NC.
Each guide is a portal — a meeting place between spirit and self, between ancient wisdom and present moment knowing. I’m deeply honored to have this first collection find its home in such a soulful space.
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Thank you for walking this path with me.
This is just the beginning.
🕯️ With vision, shadow, and truth,
XOXO, Missy
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