Unearthing – bruise violet

Where does bruise violet fit into the story structure?

Bruise Violet is the third section of Unearthing. It is Virgo III.

Unearthing is the final part of summer, or act two of the story.

Bruise Violet is the transition section of Unearthing.

How can Virgo II guide this section?

Key themes: unearthing; pleasure and pain; mortality.

Venus: pleasure and pain; jouissance.

Mercury: detective work; unearthing.

Ten of Pentacles: magical stability; mortality; completion as transition.

This is the third part of Unearthing, and the story is right on the border of the equinox; a moment of transformation.

Here, the story comes up against the limits of what is known, and the characters must step over the threshold into a new version of reality, where deeper truths are unearthed, and they transform the story.

questions to ask of the story at this point

• What is the deep transformation that happens around the middle of the project that reframes what has gone before and prefigures what is to come next?

• What happens at equinox, just before the light begins to dwindle?

• What is illuminated?

• What can no longer be avoided?

• What is no longer the same?