The problem with individual experience is, well, it’s individual.
Social media certainly seems unable to manage this problem: it’s easier to just provide a tribal gloss on things (“eat steak, lift weights, buy crypto”).
So what’s my solution? How will I provide individual value?
STORY is the answer. By observing what a fictional character does, we can understand the richness of our inner world.
We can inhabit a character for the duration of the story, even if we don’t share their external condition. The character might be female, while we are male. They might be upper class, while we are not. Etc. etc.
What matters is how we invest in them and understand the sequence of their experiences. We witness a work in progress: their soul tending to an inner experience, like a goldsmith refining his gold.
We might not be facing the same exact problem as them, but by observing their movement inside the river of time, we can draw parallels to our life.
Yes, this requires an individual effort on your part. But this is how we can work with “energy” and keep it from becoming a vague assertion or feeling.
This is how we become goldsmiths of the soul in our own right.
Many will try to look at energy head on and say “I know exactly what is happening here 100%.” This is the role of the demagogue, the propagandist and the cultist.
Isn’t it better, then, to observe the lives of others and compare our experience side by side—much like the open-minded reader of a novel?
That’s what an astrological chart is, after all: a picture of the entire world in an instant, like a single episode in a long-running serial.
Conveying this on Twitter can be quite the challenge. Many people are unable to detach from their inner noise long enough to see the cosmic patterns written so elegantly on the world stage.
People live like existential ping pong balls, bouncing from one emotion to the next.
I sympathize with this. Our dopamine-drenched world is at least partly to blame.
But since we all cannot run to a remote cabin to solve this problem of inner noise, I again reassert my solution: we should read reality like a book and learn the energetic principles behind it.
We need spiritual literacy.
With knowledge of the universal principles operating at any given moment, we can articulate what we are feeling and thus live as individuals.
Here is where we will break down the Zeitville episodes, which are simply astrological charts dramatized as fictional tales. You see, astro charts are static things like books but when you read them, you witness characters passing through time.
All I am doing is taking astrology to its logical extension: story.
Welcome. Let’s become keen readers of the ever-changing world stage.
New World Dawning: Aquarius Full Moon
One of the first things you likely noticed about this Full Moon story is that what could’ve been an intimate getaway ended up becoming a group endeavor.
Casey and Nemo might’ve gone off to the mountains by themselves, but instead they’re accompanied by her entire friend group.
A better friend group than the snobby bunch that waited around to be entertained back at the June 24th Full Moon (find the story on my pinned tweet).
This new group provides: key material resources (food, shelter, fuel) as well as important immaterial resources for Nemo’s self-discovery phase.
Undoubtedly a lot of you are experiencing seismic shifts in your friend group or just your general “network” (which can include a mix of online acquaintances, work colleagues, extended family, local buddies, and so on).
A patchwork quilt of associations has taken over the role once occupied by the church-school-home-job pipeline in the West. This pipeline distributed meaning in our lives: a guy in California and a guy in New Hampshire could conceivably find enough in common.
We now find ourselves looking around for any cohesive reality.
People are picking up lifestyles, beliefs and/or social media habits in hopes of creating a new identity via tribal belonging. Now someone as immediate as our next door neighbor can seem from another galaxy. They might evangelize to us about Bitcoin or some superfood diet.
2020 left a giant sucking sound in the Public Square, and a sense of belonging is scarce—people will do almost anything for it.
Despite these tribal longings, our summer has shown us where we are a tribe of one. We see where others really aren’t on the same page as us.
That’s a good thing, despite any near-term divisiveness or disappointment. Each one of us now weaves meaning on the loom of our hearts.
So many people saw 2020 take away a global Big Tent culture and thought to themselves: “Well, I’ll just replicate that Big Tent with my little cliques and habits…the world will be whole again, there will be no alarms and no surprises...”
And then disagreement came knocking at the door of utopia!
Thankfully, some disagreement can be productive for us now. For instance, Nemo gets his feathers ruffled when one of the boho artists snatches up his camera. His identity is suddenly in question. He’s not treated as a de facto king just because he has some artistic signifier in his hands.
The boho rebels don’t say, “Oh, cool camera, you must be an artist type.” They demand he use it.
They want to see a craftsman committed to forging his own identity. They want to see a life not a lifestyle.
By provoking dissent and protest in Nemo, the boho friend awakens Nemo’s individual creative spirit. Casey has been trying to coax that out of him all summer—and in seeing it awaken, she has given him a second chance at romance.
Guarantee, if you’re having dating problems now, it’s because the two of you are looking to excavate each other’s individual nature. Too often, the person who we are hides buried beneath a pose, a mask, a sociological lifestyle.
True devotion to our heart requires intense practice. There is simply no fuel leftover for keeping up false appearances.
And so we see Nemo going off to take pictures as those around him engage in their yoga practice, their dance practice, their primitive skills practice, etc.—whatever reminds them of their unique purpose in this life.
The Purpose of Practice
Nemo lacks a way to frame his devotion, though. The yogis have bhakti; the musicians have the Blues; and so on.
What is repetitive action in the absence of a compelling tradition or lineage? Is it a habit? A flex?
This spiritualization of practice is going to be key over the next month and a half or so. We’re moving into a deep ALCHEMICAL phase, through which the poetic boldness of our summer awakening undergoes an editorial process.
We are honing our individuality, finding the finest, most critical features (and flaws) that distinguish us. This labor is good. It prevents vanity and promotes humility.
True, this may create a heightened sense of irritability and nitpicking in people—or even an obsessive drive to hone their craft.
There may be “purity” competitions as we find the thread between our new radical individuality (the child) and the traditions of yore (the sage).
Bringing tradition into the 21st century will be the greatest sweat equity you can imagine—so a little pride is warranted, true.
Some may think it impossible to balance change with tradition. They could succumb to a techno-dystopian worldview.
They might ask: If the world of our elders can’t be replicated, if we have to act in the absence of “traditional tradition,” then is our life meaningless?
You see how easy it’d be to stop refining your summer gold before you even started.
But as Casey tells Nemo: “Maybe tradition is about practicing a craft, not connecting yourself to the past for comfort."
The purpose of practice is not to fetishize our ancestors but to uplift them through innovation.
We have two things at our disposal now:
1. Plenty of raw material to work with. This summer has given us lots of new experiences, loves, personal styles. You are not hard up for gold. It’s time to refine our bold new identities.
2. Faith. None of us knows exactly how this time in history will be written about. Sometimes it even seems like historians are a bygone species. But we feel in our guts that we won’t stand for the old shit anymore. We have faith that this is a time of great purpose. So let me tell you: change has always made it into the history books.
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