It's not long before the rot sets in. This is why spirit is so important. Spirit disrupts the status quo, dispels moods and miasmas, evokes magic and sparkle. Spirit freshens up energy. But this is also the problem with spirit. Spirit can make something of anything – this is what it does, it creates events – but without the wisdom to stand back and assess a situation rationally and dispassionately, it often simply invests unworthy situations with seeming value, situations that would be better abandoned altogether. Spirit is like the icing on the cake – if you put enough on you don't realise the cake itself is stale.