Exegesis THE LOVERS (VI) Sentences 4–6
4 Allow the silty water to overflow and become a flood
5 And see the soluble dye invaded by the chaos of dissolution
6 A blurry mutation will grow under your gaze
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4 Allow the silty water to overflow and become a flood
This line marks the deliberate release of the feminine, telluric principle. The silty water — dense, fertile, charged with memory — evokes the Nile and all primordial floods. To allow the overflow is essential: nothing is forced. In The Lovers, union requires trust. The flood is not chaos yet, but abundance, the unconscious accepted without restraint. It is the soul consenting to its own depth.
5 And see the soluble dye invaded by the chaos of dissolution
Here the work enters the phase of solve. Forms begin to lose their boundaries. The pigment dissolves, invaded by indeterminacy. This is not destruction but undoing — the sacred confusion necessary for union. In alchemical terms, this is the melting of fixed identities. Under Arcana VI, choice implies risk: to love is to let the known self be undone.
6 A blurry mutation will grow under your gaze
From dissolution emerges transformation. The mutation is blurry because it is still becoming; it resists definition. The gaze of the artist does not control it but witnesses it. This is the third term born of union — neither fire nor water, neither will nor matter, but a living hybrid. In The Lovers, this is the first appearance of the new being, conceived in intimacy, still fragile, still unnamed.
