The Arrival / First Breath is a ceramic talisman that captures the instant of emergence—the soul’s first cry into matter. This sigil tile pulses with threshold energy: the rupture of silence, the flash of incarnation, the terrifying beauty of being born into form.

Built from layers of terracotta, the piece centers an all-seeing eye encircled by triangles and a lightning bolt of awakening and conscious being.

This tile is ideal for altar spaces, liminal rituals, or moments of new beginnings: births, transformations, or personal initiations. It anchors the presence of arrival, reminding the bearer that each beginning is sacred, and each breath a miracle.

The Arrival / First Breath tile is accompanied by a hand-lettered vellum scroll with a poetic invocation:

The Arrival / First Breath

You crossed the threshold.
You fought for the inhale.
You are the sound of becoming.

This Eye was the first to open—
before language,
before name,
before knowing.

It bears witness to that sacred spark—
the moment breath entered clay.

There is no going back.

You are here.
You are alive.
And the world must now make space for you.

What’s a sigil? Read about it here in my blog.

The tiles are 5.5” x 5.5” and fired with colored engobe and finished with alcohol ink.

To hang them: there is a “shingle” cut in the back of the tile to hang on a drywall screw or nail.