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id: sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
title: "Dark Side of the Moon"
primary_class: worlds
primary_domain: civilization-ecology
secondary_domains: [origin-lineage, technology-infrastructure]
material_modes: [established-science, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Dark Side of the Moon

> **the dark side of the moon wayfinder.** Seen closely, Dark Side of the Moon is about the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together under conditions of shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.

## Origin

The starting point for Dark Side of the Moon is a bounded empirical record, read alongside geography, exploration, memory-place, and speculative worldbuilding. Later symbolic use is registered as a separate editorial layer. Because the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action, provenance work must follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

## What It Is

Seen closely, Dark Side of the Moon is about the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together under conditions of shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together. In the Oracle it is classified as Worlds & Places, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

The cultural life of Dark Side of the Moon follows the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together across institutions and communities. Each reuse changes what the symbol permits people to notice or ignore. At collective scale, the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together gathers identities around belonging, exclusion, migration, and shared place; this matters because a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** established-science
- **Evidence state:** well-established
- **Summary:** Dark Side of the Moon has a well-established literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nasa-moon

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** established-science, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Dark Side of the Moon; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nasa-moon

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Dark Side of the Moon as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Seen closely, Dark Side of the Moon is about the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together under conditions of shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- **Archetype:** the dark side of the moon wayfinder
- **Gift:** turn the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together into a question that can be shared, tested, and revised.
- **Shadow:** turning a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center into inevitability instead of a condition open to response.
- **Guidance:** Make the hidden rule inside Dark Side of the Moon explicit through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. Add a reviewer, appeal, pause, or exit wherever power currently has none. Use this guidance where the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action; keep visible that a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.
- **Healing / integration:** Write four accounts of Dark Side of the Moon: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together changes category. Review the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk, remembering that the card sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Question:** Who gains agency through the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together, who carries risk, and who can revise the arrangement? Answer by testing how the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action against shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Dark Side of the Moon reveals how attention behaves around a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center. The psychological work is to regain choice without dismissing what feels consequential. A grounded check for the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together is to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales, especially where the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.

### Social

the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together becomes institutional when repeated through norms, records, rituals, platforms, or procedures. Dark Side of the Moon makes that passage visible. In shared life, the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together gathers identities around belonging, exclusion, migration, and shared place. Test that specific the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together pattern by asking people to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

### Spiritual

The contemplative work in Dark Side of the Moon is to distinguish revelation, interpretation, inheritance, and desire through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk, allowing each an honest place. In symbolic practice, the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together acts as sanctuary, exile, underworld, promised land, or threshold; keep in view that a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

### Technological

Dark Side of the Moon may be valuable as a design fiction even when unavailable as engineering. Its role then is to expose values, assumptions, and second-order effects. When the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together becomes a capability, it depends on infrastructure for access, survival, sensing, and maintenance. Verify the implementation of the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together by asking participants to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

### Political

Dark Side of the Moon can mobilize solidarity or scapegoating. The difference lies in evidence, target, method, accountability, and whether opponents remain human. When the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together becomes governance, it makes borders, jurisdiction, ownership, and environmental burden visible. Make authority over the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together answerable by requiring decision-makers to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Take the generative path: preserve the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together as a source of possibility while refusing to make it absolute. The capacity within the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together is strongest when collective continuity includes ecology, access, and those previously treated as external costs, even as the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Shadow state:** The card’s hazard is enclosure: every new detail may be recruited to protect the same conclusion. Name what could genuinely change the reading. To keep the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together from escalating, follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales, because the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Threshold state:** When Dark Side of the Moon surfaces, an image, system, or claim may be concentrating too much meaning. Widen the frame before acting. Operationally, the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action; the reader should follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.
- **Practical move:** Write four accounts of Dark Side of the Moon: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together changes category. Review the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk, remembering that the card sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.

## Game and Story Function

- setting
- route-node
- resource-environment

**Story seed:** Someone uses Dark Side of the Moon to explain a private wound, while an institution uses it to justify public control. One source can disrupt both stories. The world of the story must show how the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action and why a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-worlds-company-town--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-worlds-corporate-colony--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon--sfoc-worlds-deep-underground-military-base
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-seed-vault--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-earthseed--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-many-worlds--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon

## Visual Direction

Dark Side of the Moon visualized as the unseen or unmeasured, the side motif, and the near other world acting together: a navigable horizon, gateway, or terrain mark with clear depth and no scenic illustration clutter. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: nasa-moon, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Dark Side of the Moon? Which communities use Dark Side of the Moon differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Dark Side of the Moon?
