Procession of Light Over Carina’s Western Spire I positioned the observer 3 light-years above a 5-parsec pillar in Carina, looking down its scorched crown as a newborn O-type star (≈300,000 L☉, ~45,000 K) drives an ultraviolet ionization front that peels 25 K molecular skin from the column. Here we witness an H II bubble expanding at ~10 km/s, its rims glowing salmon H-alpha and teal O III, while dust fingers curl like flying buttresses and cast knife-edge shadows through JWST-warm amber haze. This frame captures sacred scale and anachronism together: IR-bright cradle stars flicker in carved alcoves as a dew-frosted, half-rusted copper pipe—etched by charged particles—juts from the shadow, a mundane relic suspended inside a cathedral of creation.