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April 16 ’24
Our piano teacher left in a rush; she was late to pick up her son — it seems his need had temporarily fallen outside of her focus. Her departure was so sudden that she hadn’t had time, or even the thought, to shut off the metronome we were using.
Feeling a bit adrift from the instant freedom, the idea of continuing scales along with the transcendentally regimented knocking was completely unappealing. Instead, we simply put our head on our forearm — which was already resting on the overhang of the open keyboard cover. Our face, right above the keys — feeling like we were inside a giant, empty clock.
We lightly pressed a single key. For us, the effect of the tapering off of a singly struck piano key has always had a weird effect. We suppose it has something to do with the specific interaction of the wire and felt hammers — the initial strike is rich, but with an almost too intense upward curve, followed by a diminishment — a too-quick narrowing to nothing. Duuuoooiing.
Occasionally, we would try and alight a theme (a sequence of keys) — but the purposelessness of the situation wanted no anthem — we kept on returning to singly struck notes. All the while counterpoised (never in rhythm with) the knick-knock, knick-knock, knick-knock, knick-knock, economy of the metronome. Duuuoooiing! Knick-knock! Knick-knock! Duuuoooiing! Knick! Duuuoooiing! Knock!
Eventually it all became rather disorienting, so we shut the piano lid, switched off the metronome and made our way to the kitchen.
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The purity of focus (of sight, of thought) is impure as it relates to everything else. The friction of this failure to unite the world in a personal unity (casual or formal) is perfect desire.
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- pal·imp·sest/ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ noun
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
More than anything else the word palimpsest comes to mind when viewing the work of Estonian graphic designer Shubham Aggarwal. It is a beautiful notion — that is, the impure surface of all endeavors and the making way for new things.
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34. The Power of the Great
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- Secure a lost mooring and return to earth.
- At the highest stage of development all ornament is discarded, exposing the simple fitness of form.
- Greatness and justice must be indissolubly united.
- Even when your powers are at their height you must wait for the right time to use them.
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From “D.G.”: What is the next step, towards healing?
* * *
A mooring lost — now a need for simplicity. Do not allow for any distractions for pain. Significant pain/loss changes one forever — this has to be accepted. There’s no going back.
A new opportunity will arise which will demand your dignity and energy — though it CANNOT be rushed.
Still you can never be cocky about your past despair. Healing is not mere forgetting but pain recontextualized through a commitment to virtuousness.
Pain is an opportunity.
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This week we pulled the Ten of Pentacles (reversed). “Tens” in tarot indicate the sort of apotheosis of the meaning of a particular suit. The suit of Pentacles points to areas of security, practical utility, and purposefulness. So, when regularly oriented (upright) the Ten of Pentacles indicates modes like making big, straight-forward pushes utilizing common sense and doing so through very practical perseverance. When reversed as it is here, either because of fantasy or a certain looseness, an essential mooring has been lost. Return to earth.
Our first hexagram this week is #22, Grace. Valuing beauty is fundamental in all endeavors, but thinking beauty to be the main or only thing to consider, can lead to catastrophe — a beautiful surface can mislead, if other depth examinations aren’t appraised. “…at the highest stage of development all ornament is discarded… perfect grace consists not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of its form.” The “beauty of form — is necessary in any union if it is to be well ordered and pleasing rather than disordered and chaotic” however “it is not the essential or fundamental thing; it is only the ornament and therefore to be used sparingly…” It is of cumulative importance for actions and objects to be “well ordered” and “pleasing” in appearance, but these are ultimately surface attributes and cannot speak to actualities that are unseen and casual (think of the beauty of the night sky vs. the information delivered by the Hubble telescope).
There were three changes this week, of which the specific notes are: a beard is not the face and “at the highest stage of development all ornament is discarded... form no longer conceals content but brings out its value to the full... perfect grace consists not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of its form...”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #34, The Power of the Great. This hexagram details a moment where one’s “movement and strength” is coalescing. It seems like this would be a time to let momentum simply take its course, however, there are tight warnings here: “The hexagram points to a time when inner worth mounts with great force and comes to power. But its strength has already passed beyond the median line, hence there is danger that one may rely entirely on one’s own power and forget to ask what is right. There is danger too that, being intent on movement, we may not wait for the right time… For that is truly great power which does not degenerate into mere force but remains inwardly united with the fundamental principles of right and of justice. When we understand this point — namely, that greatness and justice must be indissolubly united — we understand the true meaning of all that happens in heaven and on earth.”
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March 26 ’24
An architect is walking down a residential urban block towards a river. Her husband, whom she loved, died the previous month — as well, she has a nagging stomach ache and her sister (who is a bit intense) is coming to town that evening. Among many scattered emotional thoughts, she is trying to foreground the practicality of preparing the guest room and making plans for dinner. She errantly and lightly notices a poorly conceived revivalist tendency among the newer buildings of the block.
A homicide detective is walking down the same block five minutes later. He has just finished a conversation in which new information has come to light, the effect of which has been the upending of all of his previous assumptions about an already frustrating investigation. During the conversation he had spilled coffee on his shirt, which he is now trying to dilute with a water-soaked paper napkin. The shirt was a present from his daughter. Thinking of her, he involuntarily and lightly presumes this to be a neighborhood where she might like to live.
The thoughts/experience of the two individuals walking down the quasi residential urban block (and that of staring into the inscrutably repetitive waters) couldn’t be more different. This scenario of disparity is present in the distance and difference in any comparison of thought between any two people — including the difference of experience for each reader of this or any text. At what point in the comparison of individuals can it be said that experience is relatively the same? That point would have to be fairly general. For us this pushes quite a few notions — particularly the need for highly speculative and imaginative art and the need for perpetually ready, dignified compromise/understanding of how any individual arrived at a given place.
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5. Waiting (Nourishment)
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- Perhaps there’s a failure of love as relates to Life broadly speaking? (If you don’t love something deeply about life, you can’t thrive.)
- Avoid “forced gaiety” and “simulated enjoyment.”
- “Times change, and with them their demands.”
- Learn to adjust yourself in advance of different times and scenarios.
- If the time is not ripe for action or change, use that time to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more.
- Waiting need not be impotence.
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From “K.S”: I’ve gone through many series of upheaval recently, though I see that my grief hinges upon perspective. I couldn’t afford my apartment anymore so I moved back home: I see an opportunity to save, and connect with my incredible mother, yet I feel failure and lack of choice. I'm proud of the efforts I’ve been making in a new career, but they've as of yet been fruitless. I ended things with a long-term love interest: I see dodging a bullet with an emotionally unavailable musician, and I feel crushed, etc etc.
I’d love a fresh take that might transmogrify my intellectualising of these changes/losses into deeper, embodied recognition. I'm just looking for a talisman. I feel empty and down lately.
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A river’s shoring ripples
Repeat a floating foam cup’s unintentional retreat.
Failing at landfall it proceeds sideways.
These lines are from a poem we wrote a long while ago. The metaphor came from reality; we saw a bit of tiny trash not able to get ashore when standing on the bank of a brackish river — to us it mimicked how we were feeling: quite pathetic, deeply sad, gross with self loathing, and transcendentally ineffectual. At that time we had moved back home after college — not really by choice, there were a lot of proverbial psychological chickens coming home to roost and a lot of “failure” generally — we are not saying that this is your situation, but while considering your question under the oracle’s influence, the lines, and personal era they are connected to, resurfaced and feel relevant.
Looking back now, we just want to lovingly smack ourselves, and the little bit of debris, onto the sand with a big splash! But of course that is not how anything works — there is never any going back, and there is no hindsight from the future in any present moment (often just fatigue).
But know opportunities will occur.
This is what the oracle is saying to you: everything is always changing (somewhat cyclically) if you pay attention you can prepare and get ahead of unfavorable conditions. Getting ahead of unfavorable conditions is Opportunity. Revolution (big changes) are always arriving — being able to recognize advantageous ones is of the utmost importance. So in fallow times you must prepare. How do you prepare? With the nutrients of inner truth. What is inner truth 🙄? The most light giving thing that you are attracted to. What do you love? You are disorganized emotionally and structurally — which is 100% ok. Give yourself a break — but then watch closely for your repeated misfires, you will eventually be able to get ahead of them. When the personal revolution comes you will be ready.
Our “failures” are really just the neurotic, shadowed end of our talents.
As well, if you don’t seriously and continually connect-with/pursue an aspect that you love deeply, how can you expect to thrive?
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Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Two of Pentacles (reversed). Lack of organization. “Forced gaiety.” “Simulated enjoyment.” Perhaps a failure of love as relates to Life broadly speaking?
Our first hexagram this week is #49, Revolution (Molting). In various ways the I Ching expresses the notion that everything happens in its own time and is always changing — that is, in a very literal/real way Change and Timing are the earth’s fundamental attributes. “Times change, and with them their demands. Thus the seasons change in the course of the year. In the world cycle also there are spring and autumn in the life of peoples and nations, and these call for social transformations… in the course of the year a combat takes place between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, eventuating in the revolution of the seasons. Humans master these changes in nature by noting their regularity and marking off the passage of time accordingly. In this way order and clarity appear in the apparently chaotic changes of the seasons, and one is able to adjust themself in advance to the demands of the different times.”
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: revolution is necessary — one’s inner attitude to meet the revolution is of utmost importance and if a revolution’s impetus is not from inner truth the results will not be strong or good.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #5, Waiting (Nourishment). Here the relation of patience and anticipation. Since much of life cannot be forced or willed — we have to wait to see what happens. But waiting need not be impotence — it can (and should) be preparation. If you can’t take your boat out for a journey, clean it! Get it ready! “Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to success. This leads to the perseverance that brings good fortune.” When “one is faced with a danger that has to be overcome… weakness and impatience can do nothing.” “We should not worry and seek to shape the future by interfering in things before the time is ripe. We should quietly fortify the body with food and drink and the mind with gladness and good cheer. Fate comes when it will, and thus we are ready.”
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March 19 ’24
A faint jingling.
A jester with a white-ish grey skull face is walking aimlessly in a field. The bell tipped points of his mottled, gold satin cap bounce with each step. He looks mildly befuddled beneath the churning, brown, post-suburban, William Turner-esque sky.
He holds a bong in one hand and a scepter-like, half-eaten, Slim Jim in the other. The bong is a yellow transparent tube with a white-ish grey, skull-faced jester shaped water chamber, at the bottom. The upper half of a baggy deep purple track suit drapes his stooped shoulders; on his right chest is a patch that reads “Sicko.” His giant stained jeans are inside out; the dirty, once white pockets exposed.
He doesn’t appear to have eyelids, just featureless, black dots floating amidst yellow, red veined orbs.
Out of a mouth dominated by a severe underbite he’s muttering some sort of mantra. It sounds like “Sticky icky, ATM bitch. Sticky icky, ATM bitch. Sticky icky, ATM bitch.” It drones out of him continuously.
His gait and shoulders subtly dance in tune with the syllables.
On his feet are fuzzy slides which look to be made of actual animal fur, little dingy squirrel or rat pelts.
Attached to the back of each slide drags a wallet on a chain — one of red sparkled leather the other, green. As each wallet drags through the short dead grass they create small eddies that swirl into moaning baleful faces, then disperse.
From somewhere above a kind of angelic voice is heard: “Your total is $6.66 please pull up to the first window.” The jester with the white-ish grey skull face looks up and then behind him, his bells jingle confusedly. Not finding the source of the communication he shakes his head and lightly shrugs with ingrained frustration.
He mutters a short, tight “fuck you bitches” to no one (that can be seen), spits a dark green glob into the vapory dead grass, and shuffle bounces on his way — continuing his mantra.
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64. Before Completion
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- Be careful that generosity doesn’t turn into overindulgence or munificence.
- In order to handle external forces properly, we must above all arrive at the correct standpoint ourselves.
- In times before a process is coming to an end, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.
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From “R.S”: Could I be given some wisdom… some counsel on this confrontation I’m to be involved in — confronting someone that is the source of much discomfort for a group. But it’s one of those people that no one has expressed this to because they are, at times, a terrifying and a manipulative bully. Also, you never know you’ve been manipulated, except retrospectively. And my nature is so understanding of the bully… There’s a reason for this shield of defense… But it needs to stop. Is it my place to confront? Or is it my place to shhhh… Or is there some weird 3rd thing.
I am experiencing excitement for the expansion and growth to engage with it, but simultaneously fear I’m having a fantasy that my POV will be well received by the conflicting parties lol.
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It is likely that you are the Queen of Pentacles — one who both meditates and shares. That is, one who benevolently participates — genuinely wanting solid outcomes. In short, you are intelligent and responsible. But caution: all strong intentions and superlative talents are only half of a very, very sharp two-sided sword; thus you must be vigilant and conscientious the whole way through, otherwise you will cut disastrously as you withdraw.
The advice is very clear: the situation with the bully can be corrected — so you should confront them. But there are specifics. You must be kind hearted the whole way through — it will not be easy — you have to be mature and thorough — almost like forever (meaning it will be a significant change for you as well as the oppressor).
The most important time will not be the confrontation itself, but the preparation and just after. First you will need to reconcile your own issues (and standpoints) whilst trying to deeply understand how this aggressor ended up this way (there was a note about mother issues...). After, your gentle, intelligent, commitment (thoroughness) will be the thing that carries the change through to completion.
Preparation, follow-through and personal transformation. Preparation, follow-through and personal transformation. Preparation, follow-through and personal transformation... ... ...
There were some specific notions in the “lines” section of the first hexagram. We’re including them as they may bring more detail regarding your endeavor:
“This shows the situation of someone too weak to take measures against decay that has its roots in the past and is just beginning to manifest itself. It is allowed to run its course. If this continues, humiliation will result.”
“This refers to mistakes that as a result of weakness have brought about decay—hence the symbol, what has been spoiled by the mother. In setting things right in such a case, a certain gentle consideration is called for. In order not to wound, one should not attempt to proceed too drastically.”
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This week we pulled the Queen of Pentacles. The personage intimated here is mindful, thoughtful and generous with the fruits of their findings. A person whose power and sensitivity is matched by strong practicality (a lovely combination to be sure). However, people such as this must be on guard — as their articulate generosity can turn into overindulgence or munificence (anyone who gives more than they have, is a thief.)
Our first hexagram this week is #18, Work On What Has Been Spoiled
(Decay). Something has gone off but it can thus should be righted: “What has been spoiled through a person’s fault can be made good again through a person’s work. It is not immutable fate.” The advice as to how this improvement is to be accomplished follows: “We must first know the causes of corruption before we can do away with them... Then we must see to it that the new way is safely entered upon, so that a relapse may be avoided; therefore we must pay attention to the time after the start. Decisiveness and energy must take the place of inertia and indifference that have led to decay, in order that the ending may be followed by a new beginning.” The cause of the decay (the negative situation) is called out as “inertia and indifference” and one must fight these states with “decisiveness” and “energy.”
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: the addressing of a personal weakness is going to be necessary for making any improvements/change as well gentleness will also be required when dealing with others (as regards said changes).
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #64, Before Completion. The hexagram relates a kind of transcendental process for properly concluding a desired change. “If we wish to achieve an effect, we must first investigate the nature of the forces in question and ascertain their proper place. If we can bring these forces to bear in the right place, they will have the desired effect and completion will be achieved. But in order to handle external forces properly, we must above all arrive at the correct standpoint ourselves, for only from this vantage can we work correctly… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.” “The conditions are difficult. The task is great and full of responsibility… it is nothing less than that of leading the world out of confusion back to order… deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.”
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March 12 ’24
Pain, pleasure, knowledge, desire.
A pin of Pan.
A pure lure.
The ire of an owl on the edge of a ledge.
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4. Youthful Folly
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- When abundance, or a nutritive advantage, arises, don’t waste it in worry, make good use of it.
- The pupil always seeks the teacher, never the other way around.
- Make this the mantra of your method: without haste and without rest.
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From “M.S”: The I Ching often talks about the necessity of religious devotion as part of a healthy life. The text was written over 2000 years ago — (the following obviously cannot be overstated) much in the way of industry and science has developed since then (also the rise of dogmatic, political monotheisms). We find no truck with contemporary religion, and, though we find much beauty in the sciences (as well as obvious, unarguable utility) they simply can’t address the primary mystery of the situation. (As well feeding the momentum of every scientific endeavor is a usually unarticulated belief that it is worthwhile to do so.)
If we had to deliver a compact definition of our spiritual (🙄) tendency (maybe mystical is better) it would be, engaging the inscrutable mystery that flows through and surrounds all things with awe and a transcendental curiosity (whether quark, quasar or quail). What is a way to formalize this into a practice whilst resisting dogmatism and silly idolatries (as far away from crosses and crystals as possible).
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If you are truly curious about a “practice” you will have to go to places, or meet people, that have “answers” about such things — they could be far or they could be within. Similarly, if you want to see great distances (both inner and outer), you must extract yourself from the weeds. If you don’t do these things your question about a practice isn’t serious.
A practice must be undertaken without haste and without rest.
The results will not be cozy.
You must be humble and conscientious.
A practice is not for everyone.
A practice is not always about answers but often proper distractions are far more important.
The universe lies at all human’s feet.
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Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Nine of Cups. Abundance! Replenishment! Contentment! Victory! An advantageous card to be sure.
Our first hexagram this week is #46, Pushing Upward. We sincerely hope the following does not arrive as repetitive — we know we’ve said as much before — but this hexagram contains our most prized quotation/wisdom of the I Ching: “adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.” If we could we’d etch this into stone and display it on a large building. To be clear “without haste and without rest” is an aspiration, not something we believe as easy to do — but we know of no better insight.
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: if things are going well do not mar them with unprofitable worries and make sure persistent efforts are continually conscientious, and not done with a bullish sort of energy (if so, deep fatigue and malcontentedness will result).
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #4, Youthful Folly. Haha! Here now, by chance (🙄), is another prized notion from the I Ching — the pupil always seeks the teacher, never the other way around. We have experienced, in both roles (pupil and teacher), quite a few times, the disorder that results from getting this golden ratio wrong. The results can be fairly catastrophic, lasting years. In a very serious way this notion contains the essence of the I Ching’s first (arguably most important) two hexagrams, The Creative and The Receptive. It is like this: if the inexperienced tries to teach it can only be by lying/deception (for there is no actual knowledge) — if the educated tries to make a disciple out of one that is not actually interested, confusion, frustration and enduring enmity will result — patience for the right scenario is needed in life. Some further specifics: “A teacher’s answer to the question of a pupil ought to be clear and definite like that expected from an oracle; thereupon it ought to be accepted as a key for resolution of doubts and a basis for decision. If mistrustful or unintelligent questioning is kept up, it serves only to annoy the teacher. They do well to ignore it in silence, just as the oracle gives one answer only and refuses to be tempted by questions implying doubt... Given addition a perseverance that never slackens until the points are mastered one by one, real success is sure to follow. Thus the hexagram counsels the teacher as well as the pupil.”
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March 5 ’24
I return to the lake I like at night
to see the lights and black hills doubled.
But there is only equivocation here,
like it is with bathroom mirrors.
A bird is heard in the dark.
Day birds’ songs have symmetry with the sun.
Night birds have none.
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12. Standstill [Stagnation]
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- A sword can work for you or it can be the end of you.
- Relinquishment to the mystical unknown is necessary.
- Only by rising above party interests can something decisive be achieved.
- Those who have the courage to forego what is near, win what is afar.
- If the public sphere is overwhelmingly selfish and chaotic, a retreat to work on oneself and “art” is necessary — to prepare for eventual dignified (well reasoned) action.
- All is nature (keyboards, owls, emotions, cousins, mothers, mountain mists, comments, bullets... all of it).
* * *
From “E.M.”: I’m in a new job, a new relationship, a new year, and facing a new government. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, but I can’t quite determine if it’s nervousness or anxiety. How should I approach these changes? Should I explore new paths and challenges, or should I try to stay calm and go with the flow?
* * *
The self, that is, the world inside the individual is a place significantly less subject to indeterminism and variables than the world outside. To be clear, we are not saying that our inner environments (the environments in our heads) are totally possible to determine/understand or are not subject to confusing change — we are simply trying to help with clarity: if a priority (order of importance) is to be established between trying to affect the outside world or oneself, it would be very unwise to focus on what is infinitely indeterministic first (the outside world, the all else) before taking in hand the much smaller interior environment.
As well, long term, healthful commitment to making positive personal/inward changes will likely bring you to a place where you will feel more connected to the world. How so?! The serious observance of interior drives (fears, loves, etc.) will be revealed as a kind of microcosm of the outer world — you will be more apt to see transcendental causality and transcendental economy rather than mere chaos. You might even be inclined to see all as nature (keyboards, owls, emotions, cousins, mothers, mountain mists, comments, bullets... all of it).
* * *
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Knight of Swords. This is a card of momentum, pointed energy. The energy/momentum is powerful, clean and blameless — but this doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. Take time to understand the significant powers in your life, what are they ultimately aimed at — who are they serving (fear? love?). A great warrior can be good for you or it could be the end of you.
Our first hexagram this week is #59, Dispersion (Dissolution). Within a person and within a society there is a simultaneity of different almost incommensurate aspects — if there is no overarching, dignified object/goal each of the differing aspects will become self-interested and fracturous. For anything good to happen and to break up narcissism a belief in, or relinquishment to, a mystical unknown is necessary. For us humans, at the heart of all our queries, whether of the body or of the mind or of geology or what have you is a mystery. Engage this mystery.
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: to dissolve narcissism venerate that which supports/sustains you and “when we are working at a task that affects the general welfare, we must leave all private friendships out of account. Only by rising above party interests can we achieve something decisive. Those who have the courage thus to forego what is near wins what is afar. But in order to comprehend this standpoint, one must have a wide view of the interrelationships of life, such as only unusual people attain.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #12, Standstill (Stagnation). Some times are profitable and blossoming — whilst other times seem to be dominated by cheap profiteering profits who win only by guile (whether consciously or unconsciously). In selfish times such as these, those that are genuinely trying for modesty and self-respect are best to go into seclusion — not to hide but to prepare themselves for the right moment to act. “When, owing to the influence of inferior people, mutual mistrust prevails in public life, fruitful activity is rendered impossible, because the fundaments are wrong. Therefore the superior person knows what they must do under such circumstances; they do not allow themself to be tempted by dazzling offers to take part in public activities. This would only expose them to danger, since they cannot assent to the meanness of the others. They therefore hide their worth and withdraw into seclusion.”
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February 27 ’24
Super Quiz #666
Question #1
a. nonexistence
b. particle existence (like ingredients before baking)
c. stray seeds, stray fertilizers
d. wandering souls/spirits
e. drifting life forces
f. bodiless, but something
Question #2
a. intentional constructions
b. chance constructions
c. serendipitous constructions
d. calamitous constructions
Question #3
a. a kind of cohesion
b. a kind of reconstitution
c. a kind of arrival
d. a kind of monstrosity
e. a nonsensical mysterious living unity
f. all of the above
Question #4
a. alongside a larger purpose
b. at the center of a specific purpose
c. just moving/agitated matter
Question #5
a. directional/linear
b. all in one spot, simultaneous
c. one thing
d. many things
Question #6
a. willful affect
b. illusory agency
Question #7
a. possibility
b. no possibilities
c. doesn’t matter
Question #8
a. it can be said
b. it is unsayable
c. saying is a kind of genesis outside intention
Extra credit: boundless “not knowing” as primary sigil
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A glyph: a singular stoppage at the terminus of a vanishing point of meaning/intention. Of course, all reduction is a pretend/artificial essence, as all mediums, all carriers of signification, are impure and proxy, whether singular (a letter) or multiple (like a sentence). But it seems that they are best utilized in diverse concert, as it is here with designer Sapir Ziv’s graphic dynamism.
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59. Dispersion [Dissolution]
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- Persevere with dignity and you will succeed.
- Be careful not to use inherent powers in anger or vengeance — catastrophe will result.
- Without discipline nothing can be accomplished, but discipline not arrived at by force, but by an awakening of enthusiasm.
- Sincerely engage the mystical aspect of your existence.
- Crumble your fearful, self centered mask.
* * *
From “M.S.”: We believe that transparency, vulnerability and an inquisitive spirit are at the heart of healthy, progressive and strengthening behavior — but one exists in The Market and various Societies which are places that primarily employ immediate/phony confidence to make “gains” — how is one to navigate such a war of opposites and keep the wolves away from the door and work on longer term satisfaction/health (mental and physical)?
* * *
You must persevere. This is a constant return from the oracle — especially as regards your type of question (that is, how to deal with difficult people or scenarios that pull you away from your dearest, most dignified goals).
Religion may be ridiculous dogma and generally hypocritical, but respecting, engaging and devoting oneself significantly to a spiritual/mystical/beyond-comprehension aspect of existence is absolutely necessary.
Be very careful of using a personal strength for anything but a noble end. Using a power to vanquish others is foolishness of the deepest magnitude.
A passionate goal should yield a kind of natural discipline — amplify or engage this energy whenever possible.
* * *
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Seven of Pentacles. The suit of pentacles (also known as coins) deals with aspects like money matters, practical wealth and security. The image displays a personage leaning on a spade or hoe looking at a shrub — seven pentacles are depicted as fruits. The person seems to be admiring the results of their labor. The implication: one’s work will bear fruit, as long as they persevere.
Our first hexagram this week is #7, The Army. The rallying of forces is necessary to enact significant change but is also dangerous, as the momentum and result of misused violence/intensity can be catastrophic (deeper enmity of the counterforce, damage to life/resources, and/or general confusion). As well, “without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong person who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm.”
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: a required battle should never be allowed to devolve into chaos and divide earnings appropriately and justly not by blind, lazy equality.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #59, Dispersion (Dissolution). The name of this hexagram is a bit misleading, as it is actually about bringing people together; the “dispersion” here is referring to the act of breaking apart (dispersing) the selfish tendencies in humans. Often we are isolated by our recalcitrance and clenching fearfulness — the I Ching states that it is only through group connectivity to metaphysical (or spiritual) concerns that this self-absorption can be positively shattered. Stimulate to union. “Here the subject is the dispersing and dissolving of divisive egotism.” “Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate humans. Therefore hearts must be seized by a devout emotion.” “But only a person who is free of all selfish ulterior considerations, and who perseveres in justice and steadfastness, is capable of so dissolving the hardness of egotism.” “When a person’s vital energy is dammed up within them… gentleness serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.”
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February 20 ’24
(allᵃˡˡ)
A chrome chicken is polishing its chrome egg.
The killer’s call is coming from inside the house.
A peninsula is becoming an island.
A hunter is blocking a jaguar on its path.
A hidden monkey is grooming and watching.
A manhole and pothole are chatting.
In tall grass, an orange oil drum sits calmly in the rain.
The pilot light is faltering.
* * *
Word and thought are mirrored mercury blobs.
A chrome chicken is polishing its chrome egg.
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7. The Army
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- Your work will bear fruit, as long as you persevere.
- Persevere without haste and without rest.
- Do not weaken favorable conditions by thinking too much about unfavorable ones.
- Only you know what you are scared of. Only you know what you love. These are your guides.
- Without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force — but rather by an awakening of enthusiasm.
* * *
From “C.W.”: It’s going to sound very plain, but what is some advice for making a creative life sustainable financially?
* * *
The answer is as “plain” as your question. Be super honest with yourself regarding your strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully what you are good at, creatively, brings you the most satisfaction — as this is where momentum occurs — passion plus talent. If you can persevere this way, your situation will likely be more than simply “sustainable.” As well there is a specific admonishment here — not to get caught up in doom-ish worst case scenarios; maximize positive angles and energies.
* * *
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Seven of Pentacles. The suit of pentacles (also known as coins) deals with aspects like money matters, practical wealth and security. The image displays a personage leaning on a spade or hoe looking at a shrub — seven pentacles are depicted as fruits. The person seems to be admiring the results of their labor. The implication: one’s work will bear fruit, as long as they persevere.
Our first hexagram this week is #46, Pushing Upward. This hexagram might have our favorite aphorism of the entire I Ching: “Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward . Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.” We shorten it simply to: no haste and no rest.
There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: though it is likely that a time without blockage is temporary it is wise not to think too much about potential blockages — rather try to maximize the good fortune.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #7, The Army. “Without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires… an awakening of enthusiasm.” To truly rally all of one’s forces together to make tangible gains, all must be focused on what one actually loves. One should only advance strongly under the guidance of a dearly held personal principal — not by transcendentally unstable motivators like crowd dynamics. Only you know what you are scared of. Only you know what you love. These are your guides.
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February 13 ’24
A single thing doubled. Identical? No. One is left and one is right. One after. One before. Themselves a group. Themselves alone. A base conundrum of Heraclitean proportion.
We assume that most would say that it’s much further on, in a sequence of repetition, that a situation becomes rightly complex. For us we only need a sequence of two (repeated elements) to feel the rough, presuppositional limitation and basic, confounding insolubility of perception, generally.
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4. Youthful Folly
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- The answer which you are seeking will not be direct.
- Successful bold/aggressive action requires discipline of execution and nobleness of heart.
- You must have the right teacher, the right relation to the teacher, and skip no steps.
* * *
From “M.S.”: Because it’s difficult to live otherwise, we are inclined to eschew any thoughts that randomness always dominates one’s future. That is, in order to remain ignorant and functional in the present, a vague pollyanna buoyancy always seems necessary. But is it? Is this peripherally willed, imitation naiveté (regarding general arbitrariness) the larvae of depression? Is it best to live in constant awareness of life’s great and small horrors? Or is it best to cultivate a mild utopian Pangloss-ian outlook (that this is actually the best of all possible worlds — or the like)? Or maybe such a binary is juvenile and merely a post social web illusion.
* * *
This is obviously a fundamental and long standing question and has likely been present in every culture as long as humans have been in this iteration.
Though we have tangible physical form we are quite insubstantial under the hard scrutiny of questions like yours. Where is mind? What are emotions? One could pontificate about the existence of spirit/soul on one end — or could “explain life away” into quarks, leptons and that sort of stuff.
There simply is no answer as to how to behave because there’s no way to substantiate what we are. Buuut... There are intimations here. Do not stalk answers — if any insight is to come it will be indirect. One’s attitude should strive to be humble and noble. Look earnestly and sincerely to those that came before; we are all preceded by better minds in worse times — Thomas More and Kong Qiu (Confucius) come to mind. What did they do? Let the words, poetry and ideas of beautiful intelligent precedents wash over you like rain over a plain — watch and feel what happens...
* * *
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Moon. The light of the moon is the sun’s light, but reflected. The answer which you are seeking will not be direct. It will issue from the peripheries, from shadowed recesses. Information will be true and strong but it won’t be straightforward — the wind will have shifted but you won’t realize it, until of course you do.
Our first hexagram this week is #7, The Army. Here we have an exposition of a military force — how it is hidden within the populace during peaceful times and how it requires a strong personage to properly rouse and organize it during a time of conflict. Connected to this is a warning against undisciplined action — that, since war brings death and destruction it should only be resorted to as a last effort. From an individual perspective, we interpret this as caution before taking fervent action. If you are attempting/considering an aggressive undertaking (like a major life change, maybe in your industry or something to do with personal health) make sure the part of you that is leading the charge is your noblest/humblest self. It is unwise to make any major moves if they are motivated by anything like narcissistic fears, or deep-seated, insecure competitiveness.
There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: Order and a just cause are needed for successful, bold action.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #4, Youthful Folly. Youth learns in error and thus is blameless. But how greenhorns learn is of utmost importance (there are a lot of shitty adults after all) — they must have the right teacher, the right relation to the teacher, and they can skip no steps. This is that adage: the student seeks the teacher, not the other way around (“the teacher must wait to be sought out instead of offering themself. Only thus can the instruction take place at the right time and in the right way”). As well, “a spring succeeds in flowing on and escapes stagnation by filling up all the hollow places in its path. In the same way character is developed by thoroughness that skips nothing but, like water, gradually and steadily fills up all gaps and so flows onward.”
Also brings to mind “the wise know many things, but the fool embraces the unknown” (from In Praise of Folly).
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February 06 ’24
Is anything independent?
No, only multi-layered, immeasurably-macro/immeasurably-micro, whirling, intertwining causality.
Then, because of this transcendentally, indeterminant, interminable, ubiquitous causation — the infinite individual aspects must all be innocent — they themselves having nothing to do with their own occurring?
It would seem so, yes.
And since all human thoughts are of these wildly specific micro-aspects (out of the meta-infinite/micro-infinite fields), then all conceptions must be false? Though, innocently false?
Likely quite right.
And of course these blameless errors innocently cause infinite other innocent sub-errors?
Yes.
These words here are false then?
Yes, and these ones too.
As well, since our specificity locks us in our own scale, what we conceive of as immensity and cosmically grand may very well be entirely informal, casual even?
It is thoroughly possible.
Anything is possible then?
Yes, but of course not how you’re thinking it.
In any case, what about being hopeful, mystically hopeful, and without belief.
Sure, innocent and in error.
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The refinement of these hues, and their graphic containment, can be found throughout much of the beautiful work by Australian-based designer Ruiying Zeng’s site and work.
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These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
- An effort is reaching its goal.
- Foreground the creative above all else.
- Cast out all that is inferior and degrading.
* * *
From “M.S.”: What to do if you are subtle in an unsubtle world? (This is not a self-compliment, but a true dilemma.)
* * *
If ever there was a good reading, this is it.
The efforts of your creativity are on their way towards reaching their intention. You need do nothing else but stay with your impulse to create.
As well, the world is not entirely unsubtle. Those fine of filter and delicate of deployment may neither be dominant nor in any sort of majority, but your peers are out there. It is for yourself and them that you must toil.
Also of note, you have quite a powerful combination here in the numbers of “1” and “8” — the first intimating the solar and the life-giving, the second intimating infinity and a harmonious accord between the macro and micro.
Forgive the possible triteness, but stay the course!
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This week we pulled the Eight of Wands. The image is of eight flying sticks; they are downward facing, indicating they’re somewhere in the second half of their journey. An effort is reaching its goal.
Our first and only hexagram this week is #1, The Creative. The appearance of this hexagram should be met with excitement. It is perhaps the ultimate statement of the I Ching. “These unbroken lines stand for the primal power, which is light-giving, active, strong, and of the spirit.” “Sublime.” “Success.” “Furthering.” “Perseverance.” “With this image as a model, the sage learns how best to develop themself so that their influence may endure. They must make themself strong in every way, by consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading. Thus they attain that tirelessness which depends upon consciously limiting the fields of their activity.”