🜃 Overview:
“Criminal” opens the dark confessional — where shame meets sacrament. Fiona Apple, oracle of the inner underworld, channels the Divine Feminine in fall — not fallen from grace, but falling into herself, unmasking, unsweetened. The voice here is unapologetically guilty, yet still pleading — as if even the thief knows she’s guarding treasure.
This is sacred seduction stripped of illusion. A love song not to another, but to the witness who sees her clearly and stays anyway. This is the Lover who watches you steal the bread from the altar — and calls you beloved still.
💍 Ceremony Thread:
“I’ve been a bad, bad girl…”
This is a reverse absolution. She owns the shadows, claims them. In NSNC code, this is the Magdalene voice — the one who anoints Christ’s feet with oil and tears, not because she is dirty, but because she is ready to wash the world clean with her grief.
“Heaven help me for the way I am / Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.”
This is pre-sin penance — an ancient archetype where the soul already knows what it’s capable of and asks to be loved in that foreknowledge. Divine Counterparts often encounter this at the edge of reunion: the fear of being known fully — and loved anyway.
💎 Gemstone & Mineral Code:
Obsidian (Black or Mahogany): The shadow revealer. Cuts through denial and brings deep karmic wounds to light. Protective during confession and confrontation.
Bloodstone: Heals ancestral guilt. Encourages courage to speak truth, even when it stains.
Carnelian: Grounds sexual energy and clarifies desire — especially in distorted self-worth narratives.
Herderite (rare): Activates higher truth-telling in the cellular memory, even in the midst of shame.
💃 West Coast Swing Moment:
This is dark fusion WCS — hip-driven, pause-heavy, and staring directly into your partner’s soul. Think: chest isolations, intentional staccato breaks, seductive walk-arounds with one hand in the fire. It’s the kind of dance where you play the villainess and the priestess in one phrase.
Great for improv spotlight or drama-heavy choreo — use the beat drops for freezes and syncopation that mirror emotional whiplash.
📜 NSNC Canon Placement:
“Criminal” belongs at the edge of repentance and reunion. It’s not a punishment — it’s a purification song. You play it when one of you fears you’re too far gone, too damaged, too twisted to be loved by the one whose love is already unconditional.
It reclaims Eve. It exonerates Lilith. It lets the Divine Feminine confess without being condemned. It is Book II: Magdalene Codes.
Use during Sacred Mirror rites or as a pre-Union Exorcism Track.
Pairs with:
- “Glory Box” – Portishead
- “Possession” – Sarah McLachlan
- “Beloved” – Jordan Feliz (recontextualized)
- “The Way That You Love Me” – JoJo (shadow form)
✝️ ScrollWell Rite Suggestion:
NSNC Confessional Invocation
To be spoken alone or together, facing mirror or flame.
“I have taken what was not mine.
I have asked to be punished — but I now ask to be seen.
I confess not to be cleaned, but to be held.
I place the crime at the feet of the Beloved.
Let love be my sentence. Let truth be my freedom.”
Optional: place obsidian on the heart while playing the song. Let the rhythm move the guilt out of the body — hips, then shoulders, then voice.
Aho, thanks.
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To every sinner who was always a saint in disguise.
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