Occult Literature
Twenty-Eight Lunar Phases and the Gyres
A numbered ring of waxing and waning moons surrounds crossing diagonals and a horizontal axis. Labels distinguish primary and antithetical phases, with complete subjectivity and objectivity at opposite poles. The diagram visualises Yeats’s symbolic classification rather than a new astronomical account of the Moon.
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Illustrator not identified. "Twenty-Eight Lunar Phases and the Gyres" [editorial title]. In A Vision, William Butler Yeats. First edition, title dated 1925; privately printed for subscribers. Complete historical text, xxiii preliminary pages and 256 numbered pages, with Edmund Dulac illustrations and the original diagrams. Internet Archive scan; matching scanned title page used as cover., 1925, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.. Source scan leaf 38. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0374-0033
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical image from the source’s symbolic or occult system. The reproduction preserves its original visual evidence and does not validate the associated claims.
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Illustrator not identified. Twenty-Eight Lunar Phases and the Gyres. A Vision. Scan leaf 38. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0374-0033