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Some of you may remember that the story of October was “let go to gain.”
It reached a climax through a Full Moon that spoke to us of presence, decisive action, severing.
In November, we take pieces of this climax and turn it into a new monthly story.
We’re still focused on presence and the present moment, but light is waning now.
That means presence is absence: we stand in the realm where it should be, like a human placeholder.
On one side of this threshold are the shadows of yesterday—on the other is the light of tomorrow.
How can the ego bear to be such a placeholder? It cannot, and in reaching this breaking point, it shatters, releasing the soul towards the light of tomorrow.
Towards—not into. There are still shadows. And really, the shadows and light are One: neither can exist without the other. They co-exist.
We’ve reached the outer limits. No up or down, back or forward. A primal ka-boom.
The Great In-Between.
A place where souls mingle. A liminal world, like a swamp or a forgotten meadow behind the city.
Rationality does not rule here. The unconscious does. And so does deep desire.
Are these deep desires good or bad? Maybe they just “are.”
What November sets us up for is a Close Encounter of the Tantric Kind.
This is beyond guessing at something—it is knowing it down to your bones.
We will see the mud but also the lotus flower that grows up from it. We will see the evolutionary transformation of trash to treasure.
What we are coming to epiphanies about is yesterday—particularly our Bold and Gold Summer, which catalyzed many of us into a state of sovereign individuality.
In some ways, this futuristic self was not street legal yet. It needed to be buffed up—that was September. Then it needed to be test driven—that was October.
And boy, was October the most insane test course. Puddles and potholes and switchbacks. Relationship madness.
You thought you wanted to give up this new self. Or thought that it would never find a future in which it could roam free.
November is handing you a learner’s permit. You’re street legal now but still bound to certain rules (and maybe relationships). The Final Exam is coming December - February.
What are you going to do with this newfound power? Which limit can you cross with this provisional license? Will you push too far—or recognize that some limits are divine because they cannot be crossed?
Where Things Exist
There is the thing. And then there is its existence.
“Apple.” A string of phonetic punctuations. An image in your head. The physical manifestation of an apple on the table before you.
It all exists. But where?
Perhaps in the land where energy congregates. Some plane of existence beyond good and evil.
A place of pulsation or pinpricks of force. A great clearing house of payments and deposits.
November not only helps us understand our summer, but also sets us up to understand December - February.
And December - February are really about cleaning away debt from the past.
But how is this possible? From our hill in November we’re looking forward into a winter window of time where we will be looking back?
What madness is this?
Welcome to the Shadowlands. The primal Ka-Boom.
It makes more sense when you realize that the trash we are taking out during our Winter Final Exam is years and perhaps decades of trash. A tall order.
People might feel overburdened in November. . .and here comes that Summer Boldness again. “I’m gonna pull this trigger, dammit!”
November is truly amazing because it is the pep rally before Game Time, the cram hour. Snort those lines of Adderall. Pound those Red Bulls. Bold and Gold Redux.
Hey, if we’re all going to be taking some hallucinatory final exam, what better study vibe to have than all this liminal energy—the place where masks break, and meaning leaks out.
Terrifying? Exciting? Both?
That’s where Nemo found himself in the latest episode of Zeitville.
Desire Level: 1000
In essence, November is crucial preparation for our Winter Story.
The temptation will be to ace this test by applying cold rationality.
Ha, good luck with that!
You will have to use the tools of desire, which are more intuitive.
Do you trust yourself with these tools? Just one drop of desire propels the night along—and tomorrow you wake in the tangle of a stranger’s sheets.
To eliminate desire with cold rationality is to flunk immediately.
This is a test about desire, so November gets you up close and personal with desires.
Many will want to tie up their desires, control them from afar, watch and observe.
But when you want something badly, this just makes the itch go deeper.
To satisfy that itch, are you willing to cross outer limits—beyond rationality?
Maybe you can even transcend the desire when you just let it exist.
That’s what Nemo faces in this latest episode of Zeitville: he gripped too hard, and fancied himself God for a moment.
Is OriginalSyn his shadow self? And did he just murder someone? Was that proper retaliation in the face of uncertain threat?
And who’s to say that murdered bouncer was a full “person” at all—maybe some other category, like cyborg or “superhuman”? Do the human rules still apply there?
Indeed, our winter test is about how desire can exist alongside rules, morality, structure, integrity, ethics.
We’ll realize that these are somewhat incompatible systems at present. More flexible structures, for instance, can allow for fuller expression of our desires without tipping into the outer limits of society-wide degeneracy.
It’s the repressive structures that distort our desires and lead to monstrous expression.
I told you it was a Final Exam. These are hard questions.
Time to get some practice runs in with our desires. Welcome to November.
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