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(Repost) Twenty-eighth Minor Spirit of October: Spirits of the Suburbs
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Twenty-eighth Minor Spirit of October
Spirits of the Suburbs
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
So, let’s talk about town spirit versus country spirit. I mean, they’re basically the same, it’s really about how they travel.
Spirits tend to move in straight lines. Or rather, they tend to move along the tracks laid out for them, going from one place to another. In the wilderness or country, that means they tend to pool in clearings and vales- usually around some object that’s spiritually interesting or just stands out.
In cities, it’s easy for spirits to travel place to place. All the natural boundaries like creeks tend to be covered up, so spirits tend to tumble along the straight lines of streets, and congregate in quiet dead end alleys and parks. Ever wonder why you feel nervous walking in those dark places late at night, when everything’s quiet? Well actually, that has nothing to do with spirits. But anyway.
There’s a third area: suburbs. You’ve probably felt nervous in them, and that has everything to do with spirits. Modern suburbs with those odd curving streets, blind cul-de-sacs, and entire neighborhoods connected to main thoroughfares by single streets? They turn the whole area into a liminal space, where there is no journey place to place. The patterns baffle spirits even more than humans; they get trapped in endless loops, raging, furious.
That’s why so many of these neighborhoods get bad attitudes. Not the people, the neighborhoods themselves. Though that probably helps explain why those places tend to be so neurotic. But that’s not the thing that bugs me the most.
Those patterns? They have to have been done deliberately. Somebody knew what the hell they were doing when they designed these suburbs to look attractive, while being spiritually toxic. And they passed the knowledge along. I really don’t want to meet those people.
Because those spirits? Those furious, baffled, toxic spirits?
I’m pretty sure someone’s harvesting them.
Spirits of the Suburbs
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
So, let’s talk about town spirit versus country spirit. I mean, they’re basically the same, it’s really about how they travel.
Spirits tend to move in straight lines. Or rather, they tend to move along the tracks laid out for them, going from one place to another. In the wilderness or country, that means they tend to pool in clearings and vales- usually around some object that’s spiritually interesting or just stands out.
In cities, it’s easy for spirits to travel place to place. All the natural boundaries like creeks tend to be covered up, so spirits tend to tumble along the straight lines of streets, and congregate in quiet dead end alleys and parks. Ever wonder why you feel nervous walking in those dark places late at night, when everything’s quiet? Well actually, that has nothing to do with spirits. But anyway.
There’s a third area: suburbs. You’ve probably felt nervous in them, and that has everything to do with spirits. Modern suburbs with those odd curving streets, blind cul-de-sacs, and entire neighborhoods connected to main thoroughfares by single streets? They turn the whole area into a liminal space, where there is no journey place to place. The patterns baffle spirits even more than humans; they get trapped in endless loops, raging, furious.
That’s why so many of these neighborhoods get bad attitudes. Not the people, the neighborhoods themselves. Though that probably helps explain why those places tend to be so neurotic. But that’s not the thing that bugs me the most.
Those patterns? They have to have been done deliberately. Somebody knew what the hell they were doing when they designed these suburbs to look attractive, while being spiritually toxic. And they passed the knowledge along. I really don’t want to meet those people.
Because those spirits? Those furious, baffled, toxic spirits?
I’m pretty sure someone’s harvesting them.