My sole desire

What is the meaning of this sixth tapestry? The other five tapestries correspond to the five senses, but there is no sixth sense!

Many people say that the Lady is rejecting the wealth of the sensesp ortrayed in the previous tapestries, that she is rededicating her life to spirituality and to God (her 'sole desire'). What a depressing interpretation this is!

I think that the Lady looks enlightened, not sad. She has experienced the worldthrough her five senses, and has learnt from her experiences, and and she has found her self and her will. The tapestry depicts her own will, not her only desire. A will is more solid than a desire; a will is the presence of something inside you, but a desire an absence.

In this picture the Lady has surrounded herself with everyone and everything: her maid, her possesions, her tent, her pet, the lion and the unicorn. Hardly renouncing it all! Perhaps she is giving her treasures to her maid because,now that she knows her will, her enjoyment of her senses is no longer tied to posessions.