3rd Sovereign, Communion/Chaos – Q4 – QUADRIVIUM

A Quadrivium is a medieval university curriculum involving the “mathematical arts” of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

It also stands for, “the place where four roads meet.” 

F-o(u)r us(e) at CLN, we want to draw your attention to the crossroads; imagine you have just taken the step that has brought you to a Quadrivium, if you feel more comfortable with one less choice it could be a trivium (a place where three roads meet); however, You Are Standing At A Crossroads. You can turn around and retread the path already taken, getting to know it even more intimately than you do now, or you can travel upon a path untaken and find yourself anew at the end of the journey…Robert Frost says in The Road Not Taken:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.