Tag: A Vision

In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and go home. Not coincidentally, this is also where we move from the material Yeats put into the 1925 version to some of the new material he added…

The last six posts in this sequence have set out all but one of the twenty-eight phases of the Great Wheel, the grand mandala of Yeats’s system. The remaining phase is Phase 1, the beginning and end of the cycle. Now of course in a circle every point is at once the beginning and end,…

With this post we have left behind the halfway mark on our journey around the Great Wheel of the lunar phases, the primary symbol of Yeats’s symbolic system. The soul making this journey—your soul, dear reader, and mine, and everyone else’s, in the cosmology of A Vision—has completed the long journey from a purely collective…

With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode we followed the arc of the evolving soul around the second quarter of the wheel, from the bitter conflict and unavoidable failure of the 8th phase to…

With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode we followed the soul through the latter part of the first quarter, ending with the shattering experience of the 8th Phase. There the soul must wrench itself…

The Great Wheel of the symbolic phases of the Moon, as noted already, is the central mandala of Yeats’s Vision. Two months ago, in the last installment of this (usually monthly) book club, we examined phases 2, 3, and 4 of the Wheel, the phases in which the soul makes the first fumbling efforts to…

The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as best they can will have realized this already, but the part of the text we’re about to contend with might as well be designed to rub the noses…