The Fool is unmoored, always, a disaster or a boon ready to drop off a cliff, a cloud, into our destiny when least expected!) (Again, the fool! Oh, Moira, she is everywhere. There at the end, she did indeed vacillate in her doubt and ignorance, after what she’d deemed so much fruitful action-alas, what foolishness.
So, then, what of her early ignorance and most difficult death? Her third death presaged more than reincarnation it spelled a rebirth of her very identity-it was a fiery crucible. Wrapping up HOX2 with a look back at Moira’s Third Life
Take it or leave it, this is just another way of reading-and that’s never a bad thing. But there’s something to be said for looking at her second life as a yearning after answers her fourth and fifth lives as the quest for a great man by a woman yet to come into her own (inevitable errors of youth?) her sixth-although almost entirely unknown-as a deeply intimate millennial pairing (literally sharing their lifeblood) through great tribulation her seventh as warlike, her wrath ultimately self-defeating her eighth as aligned with (classic Silver Age) lawful evil and/or might her ninth a kind of corruption of her humanity in extremis, but also a kind of recovery, ultimately a chance at ultimate success, her final destiny. However, Moira’s first life certainly seems more that of the happy fool than the powerful magus. It certainly wouldn’t unlock any secrets finding sensible correspondences would likely merely make the story more meaningful to the reader- which is all any storyteller wants! (After all, one of Emma’s all-but-forgotten students-sure to return per the Resurrection Protocols-had the apt name of Tarot!)īut while these various ancient and medieval symbols resonate with one another, at least visually, they’re not necessarily equivalent and if we’re still looking at the Tarot: the thirteenth card is Death, the nineteenth is the Sun, and the twenty-first is the World-or Kosmos.Īnd while mileage may vary for readers here, it could be worth considering connections between the Tarot and Moira’s lives. Perhaps there will be characters in the Dawn of X who seek to order their world in like manner. In other words, Hickman is using ancient symbolism-ideas of order the modern world no longer takes seriously-to design his narrative patterns, which we’ve already seen in POX 1 with the Magician, the Tower, and the Devil. But researching just a bit more, one discovers: theta once symbolized death it was derived from the Phoenician letter teth-which looks just like the Ancient Egyptian symbol for the soul, having a numerical value of nine and Hellenized Egyptians might have taken the Greek letter to represent the world, the sun, the cosmos, or all three-bringing to mind the celestial spheres, that pristine cosmology long since shattered by modernity.Įven so, in the Roman numeration of the Tarot’s Major Arcana, card X-the Wheel of Fortune -represents destiny (moira) and is usually depicted with a sword-bearing Sphinx figure and a dog-headed humanoid (which might recall Apocalypse’s First Horsemen ). Looking back again at Moira X’s opening epigraph of POX1, it was indexed as “M_X_theta.” I didn’t think initially to look into the symbolic meanings of the Greek symbol for the number nine-perhaps assuming that since we’re in Moira’s tenth life, the letter’s numerical value wouldn’t signify much. Thus, a prefatory note: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune Support CBH on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading!
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