Welcome to the boring week.
Sunday evening closes a big season, and Monday is ordinary again. The question for this week is what you carry into it.
A closed book and a dance
For three weeks the old calendar ran one big holiday after another. Most of us never marked a single one, and we felt them anyway. More tears. More tiredness. A few things suddenly clear.
The tradition ends the season with a picture I love. One long book, read a little each week for a whole year, is finished and started again on the same day. Then people dance with it held shut.
A year of work ends with a dance.
Coming down
Expect the week to go up and down. Great on Sunday, flat by the middle of the week, sad by Thursday for no reason you can name.
Coming down from something big feels like this, even if you never noticed you were up there. What to do with that dip is in the full week.
One normal thing
The practice is small and it starts on Monday, with something you already do every week. The seven days, and the one sentence to say out loud, are in the community.
Saturday, October 10
The first ordinary Saturday after the season, and the new moon on the same day. An old saying ties how you spend it to how your year goes.
That evening, at 8 p.m. New York time, I am holding the Reset. One hour to close this month and step into the next one.
The method is built on the lunar calendar and on years of studying Sefer Yetzirah. I do not teach the tradition. I use its calendar as an instrument, and I translate it into the language a modern woman actually lives in.