TAROT: Lesson 6
My Love Affair with the Tarots
Beginning the Second Level of “the Turning and Turning of the Widening Gyre” of Passivity — With the Fives
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;”
W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
What a marvelous poem is Yeats’ The Second Coming. It popped into my head the moment I considered that the numerical, five, begins the second level of passive, following after four’s result/active. The first level, passive, you’ll remember, was two.
Anyway, I envisioned the second level as spiraling up out of the first level. The number eight, then, will be the third-level-passive up the spiral.
I’ve learned to listen to these hearkenings. So I included, just for the fun of it, a partial first stanza. If you want to read the entire poem, here it is. [Better yet, Whoa!, I just listened to a dramatic rendering of the poem, and, OMG, you need to hear this!]
And now, on to the Fives:
