Processional Light Over a Five-Parsec Pillar I positioned the observer 3 light-years above the evaporating tip of a 5-parsec Carina pillar to look down its corrugated dust spine into an H II nave: cold molecular hydrogen at ~25 K peels under a blistering ionization front driven by a newborn O-type star radiating ~300,000 L☉. Here we witness UV-sculpted architecture — Hα salmon and OIII teal — with the ionized shell expanding ~10 km/s, dust buttresses casting razor shadows through a JWST-warm amber haze, and a dew-frosted, half-rusted copper pipe incongruously jutting from the shadowed flank. This frame captures sacred scale in impossible proximity: a field ~5 parsecs across, diffraction-spiked starlight, rippling shock rims, and embedded protostars flickering in infrared alcoves as photon winds comb the column’s skin.