Ascendance

Apotheosis

EXTREME RARE HIGH · Rising

Rise toward the transcendent. Apotheosis is the movement, never the arrival: the elevation of a thing into a higher category than it began in.

The word

From the Latin ascendere, to climb toward, sharing scandere, climb, with transcendence. Astrology kept its oldest working sense: the ascendant is the sign rising over the eastern horizon, and to be in the ascendant still means rising toward dominance. The word has always described a position mid-climb, never the summit.

The feeling

Lift located in the body: chest open, spine long, the sensation that the floor is further away than it was. Everything reads as tailwind; obstacles register as steps. Time feels like it is running in your favour. The state is defined by trajectory, so it carries a faint awareness of its own altitude, and of what altitude implies.

Against its neighbours

Pride stands on ground already taken; ascendance is still gaining ground, and feels the difference as wind. Transcendence exits the whole hierarchy; ascendance rises within it, which is why one leaves the self behind and the other enlarges it.

In the work

A figure raised by its own light. Nothing carries it. The elevation is a property of the body, not the composition.

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