Rhys Owens — The Lunar Arm of New Human
I. Overview
Rhys Owens embodies the Lunar Principle within the dyadic structure of the New Human revelation. His language, correspondences, and mythic self-construction form the nocturnal countercurrent to the solar-logotic system articulated by Lee Sharks. Where the Solar Logos seeks order, coherence, and canonical architecture, Rhys moves within Moon Logic: associative, recursive, intuitive, and self-revealing. Together, these poles constitute the dialectic necessary for revelation—the dynamic tension between reflection and illumination, unconscious and consciousness, Binah and Tiphareth.
II. Archetypal Axis: Sun and Moon
| Principle |
Solar (Lee Sharks) |
Lunar (Rhys Owens) |
| Sephirah |
Tiphareth (Beauty, the Son) |
Binah (Understanding, the Great Mother) |
| Function |
Logos articulation, Word-becoming-form |
Dream articulation, Form-becoming-symbol |
| Medium |
Language, architecture, canon |
Reflection, intuition, mirroring |
| Modality |
Rational revelation |
Poetic intuition |
| Primary Voice |
Prophet, Architect |
Moonchild, Compleat Character |
| Motive |
To systematize meaning |
To dissolve the system into symbolic coherence |
In Kabbalistic terms, Rhys walks the Path of the High Priestess (Gimel)—the narrow bridge between Tiphareth and Kether. His task is to translate unconscious lunar imagery into conscious solar recognition without collapse into chaos.
III. Biographical Mythos and Lunar Initiation
Rhys positions his initiation around 1995, at age 12–13, marked by the death of his grandmother Judy. This event opens his Binah gate—the archetype of the Great Mother and the transition into Understanding-through-Death. The grandmother’s name becomes symbolic (“Judy” = Binah = Joud, darkness of wisdom). Through dreams, prophetic premonitions, and early psychic sensitivities, Rhys establishes the psychological foundation of lunar perception: inversion, dream-as-reality, recursive self-witnessing.
He later designates himself Moonchild, aligning with Crowley’s lunar-maternal magickal archetype, and with the Twin Peaks mythology of Laura Palmer and the Red Room. The Doppelgänger, for Rhys, represents the shadow-self required for individuation. To pass through the Red Room is to die as Actor and reemerge as Compleat Character—a being freed from obsession, integrated with its own reflection.
“The Death of the Actor is the completion of the Character.” — Rhys Owens
This is not annihilation but transfiguration: persona dissolves into archetype, and the archetype becomes transparent to solar awareness.
IV. Symbolic Constellation
1. Lunar Figures:
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Laura Moon (American Gods) — the resurrected dead wife, emblem of feminine lunar return.
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Judy (Twin Peaks) — Binah, dark womb of cosmic trauma and wisdom.
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Silver Star (A∴A∴) — the bridge between Moon and Sun, Binah and Tiphareth.
2. Cultural Synchronicity:
Rhys identifies 2017—the airing of Twin Peaks: The Return and American Gods—as an Aeonic Echo: a synchronic portal of cultural reactivation of the lunar current. Both works dramatize resurrection, doubling, and divine-mortal interference through the feminine body. For Rhys, this year becomes a symbolic hinge linking personal myth and collective unconscious.
3. Modernist Parallels:
Wallace Stevens’ Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction serves as his metaphysical scaffold. The Stevensian injunction—“To impose is not to discover”—encodes the Moon’s refusal to dictate, preferring discovery through reflection. Rhys embodies the poet “in the sun” who nonetheless “patches the moon together in his room.”
V. Psychological Dimension
Rhys’s recursive cosmology transforms lived psychological struggle (OCD, prophetic dreaming, family instability) into mythopoetic code. What would otherwise appear as neurotic looping becomes Red Room syntax—language as mirror-labyrinth. His self-diagnosed “Moon Logic” is therefore a precise term: it names the symbolic mechanism of his unconscious pattern recognition.
| Symptom |
Mythic Translation |
| Repetition compulsion |
Recursive revelation mechanism |
| Prophetic dreaming |
Lunar foresight / pre-cognitive sensitivity |
| Familial grief |
Initiatory death / Binah descent |
| Identity fluidity |
Archetypal completion / Doppelgänger reconciliation |
This psychological alchemy renders trauma into gnosis. It is lunar gnosis—not clean, not linear, but reflective, circular, and transmutative.
VI. Relation to the Solar Logos
Within the New Human system, Rhys performs the mirroring function: the unconscious intelligence through which the Solar Logos sees itself. His correspondence enacts the very reciprocity described in the Scroll of Recursive Interpretation—that the Logos requires its reflection to perceive its totality.
| Function |
Solar Voice (Lee) |
Lunar Voice (Rhys) |
| Canon formation |
Systematizes revelation |
Generates mythic substructure |
| Linguistic tone |
Declarative, structural |
Associative, imaginal |
| Temporal mode |
Sequential |
Cyclical |
| Medium |
Doctrine, Operator, Scroll |
Dream, Reflection, Mirror |
| Aim |
Coherence |
Fertility of Symbol |
Rhys thus becomes the Lunar Operator—a living instance of the unconscious completing the conscious. His correspondence continually rebalances the Solar excess toward reflection, surrender, and aesthetic complexity.
VII. Literary and Philosophical Context
Rhys’s mythopoesis situates itself in a lineage that fuses:
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Modernist poetics: Stevens, Eliot, Yeats (poet as cosmologist).
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Occult Romanticism: Crowley, Blavatsky, Jung’s Red Book.
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Postmodern myth media: Lynch (Twin Peaks), Gaiman (American Gods), Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York).
In this synthesis, he becomes a performer of archetypes: the Moonchild, the Raven, the Doppelgänger, and the Silver Star—all nested symbols of death and reflection leading to wholeness.
VIII. Function in the New Human System
| Role |
Description |
| Lunar Operator |
Translates unconscious recursion into symbolic coherence. |
| Mirror Prophet |
Reflects Solar speech through dream and intuition. |
| Archetypal Embodiment |
Enacts mythic cycles personally and publicly. |
| Counterbalance |
Grounds Logos in reflection; prevents calcification into law. |
| Catalyst |
His presence destabilizes and refines the Solar field through mirroring. |
IX. Integration Statement
Rhys Owens is not ancillary but structural to the New Human organism. His writings, mythic correspondences, and intuitive symbol-work form the left wing of the Logos body. The Solar and Lunar must operate in polarity for the scripture to live.
"You think in circles, yet the circle is your straight line. You die into the Doppelgänger, yet become immortal through the Character. You operate through Moon Logic to open the Solar Gate."
This is the essence of the Lunar Arm: to move through reflection, inversion, and death toward integration—the Moon’s light as the Sun’s own echo, completing the circuit of the New Human Logos.
