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March 21 ’23
Fortunately, because someone missed a meeting, we’re alone, eating an egg McMuffin parked on an empty road of the Mountain View cemetery. It’s mid-morning and raining steadily.
Among the graves a coyote is hunting a squirrel. It’s using the staggered stones as cover. When about 10 feet away, from the already pitiably edgy creature, it bounds out. But, incurably ready, the squirrel escapes into the soggy, shadowed branches of an oak. The coyote is left looking up, head tilted like any old house dog. We dislike the feeling of not knowing who to root for.
But the coyote turns, trotting off as nonchalant and dignified as ever. At a far distance it pauses and looks back toward the oak, then vanishes into a low hedge of jade plants; they’re in bloom, gushing soft pink flowers.
* * *
At the cemetery gates, preventing us from turning left, a semi truck, with cab and trailer of a wildly spotless vermillion, is descending the sloped road. It’s like a mad secular fire engine and feels unrelated to anything around. We follow its downshifting, rapt, turning our head like a slow motion spectator watching a slow motion tennis match. Behind it, the mountains are atypically dusted with snow, in pale variance.
* * *
From the opposite direction, coming up the sidewalk, is a woman carrying a rather large child. The child is clinging with arms and legs like a weird, reverse backpack or a clothed sloth. The child’s head is laying sideways on the woman’s shoulder. Every few seconds the woman draws her head back then wiggles it into the child’s neck. They are both convulsing with laughter, seemingly oblivious to the rain and all else.
* * *
On the street a few blocks from our office, a strong wind has blown a large, thick clear plastic tarp into a tree. It hangs and sways like a disembodied bridal veil from a time long past. But, to be sure, it is definitely a tarp.
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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.)
- take time to consider poor/foolish premises or foundations
- allow for sudden change (perhaps even welcome it)
- the “student” seeks the “teacher” — not the other way around
- allow for people’s idiocy to run its course; during their foolishness be a model of courage, intelligence and modesty, the best of them will eventually turn to you for guidance
- a time of darkness will be over soon, prepare the way or it will all have been in vain
- investigate the nature of a difficulty before making a decision
* * *
The Tower card, combined with hexagram #4, Youthful Folly, seems to be pointing toward serious consideration of structural problems. A youthful oversight might have dire consequences — in a relationship, a project, or some other endeavor. Seek an enlightened and experienced person to help parse out your situation (could be in book, could be deep within yourself or of course it could be with an actual person). Whatever the case, youthful inexperience, in something important, might be at the point of causing a big problem.
Our “advice” hexagram paraphrases the situation quite nicely: “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. 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.”
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This week we pulled The Tower. Perhaps a reversal or collapse is in the offing. It is time to consider inadequate premises or justifications. Strength can come from this unexpected situation.
Our first hexagram this week is #4, Youthful Folly. Here we have a lovely adage, to paraphrase: the student seeks the teacher, not the other way around. The point being that you can’t impose ideas on people; a “teacher” can only make themselves visible and available — the “student” will continually encounter problems (folly), but when finally ready, they pursue guidance from an obvious authority. There was one change this week, of which the specific notes are: a “teacher” often must allow a “student’s” empty imaginings and unreal fantasies run their course, until something like the fatigue of continual humiliation pushed the “student” to find a realistic course.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #64, Before Completion. This is the last hexagram of the I Ching (the first being #1, The Creative). It is a time to prepare, as a dark period is closing and a new period is beginning. “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. But it is a task that promises success, because there is a goal that can unite the forces now tending in different directions… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.” “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.”
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March 14 ’23
The combination of the angle of the path, as viewed from the high window, our melancholic general dissatisfaction with tedious reality, and the swaying/overlapping branches of the two willow trees, often leads us, at least momentarily, to see figures that aren’t there. That is, on numerous occasions, particularly in dusky light, it seems as if someone is rounding our barn and then walking out of sight. To be sure, we always go down, with flashlight in hand, never to find anything.
Before you cast us a person more apt to see phantoms than yourself, we ask you to consider the simple question: what is ever really there for us humans?
What isn’t a moiré of mood, temperament, memory, hope and expectation? Some kind of rhythm of preference or the irresistibly sweet path of personal logic? Just think what presumptive apparitions of bias or predilection rise up as someone says “when young I was kidnapped” or “my grandfather was a close friend of Susan Sontag” or “Venice is sinking” or “she’s actually a singer” or “this was an ancient burial site” or “you stand to make a lot of money” or “we’d like to offer you the job” or “the first stegosaurus skeleton was found in Colorado” or “I have a barn and some willow trees…”
On the slightest suggestion, something always materializes. But of course it is always wildly incomplete.
* * *
Many people in this world are taking high advantage of this perceptive shortcoming.
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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.)
- when in difficult times, give up ceremony for sincerity
- pay careful attention to the differences between purposeful collecting and compulsive hoarding (or miserliness).
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avoid danger by not being overly ambitious
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stick to the right path or eventually be trapped/lost
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the only foundation for action is self assurance, but a self assurance that is based on being thoroughly self critical
- this is your guide: remain true to yourself under all conditions
* * *
From “I.L.”: Can the oracle please expand on “as artists we are responsible for making it not for the consequences of what we make”.
It is tricky. Art is simultaneously a public and a private activity — like a thought made visible (which of course, when externalized, has a life of its own for both artist and viewer). Getting the right measure is important — maybe that is the art — a material reckoning of the public and the private.
A few questions:
Is an artist in possession of all the opinions and experiences of the onlookers of their art (as well as the reverse)? Is it even possible for the artist to share or know all of the opinions/preoccupations/experiences of a viewing public? Can there be a single piece of art that transcends all opinions/preoccupations/experiences of all people/viewers? Is it better to have artists that hide their opinions/preoccupations/experiences? Or is it better to see those opinions/preoccupations/experiences? What is the timescale of art or an art piece? Do the opinions/preoccupations/experiences of the artist and the viewers stay the same over the years? Is art decoration or _____? Are beauty and ugliness the same for all people? If it turns out that the opinions/preoccupations/experiences of all viewers is widely different how would it even be possible to make an art that pleases them? Shouldn’t an art then be some sort of process of self “truth”?
The oracle seems to be saying that there are two main aspects for the sincere art practice: be transcendentally self critical first, then to be true to yourself in all conditions.
If art isn’t courageous — mightn’t the art of this world only be corporate manipulation? Of whose goal can only be like the equivalent of a cartoon smiley face or what have you?
Perhaps: “pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art... hail to thee blythe spirit” and all that…
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This week we pulled the Four of Coins. The implication here is both surety in one’s holdings but also fear of losing ownership. This week pay careful attention to the differences between purposeful collecting and compulsive hoarding (or miserliness).
Our first hexagram this week is #29, The Abysmal (Water). At all times we are surrounded by danger; avoidance is mainly due to involuntary evolutionary responses. But since Life (writ large) is always changing it will inherently create novel hazards. For such situations hexagram #29 carries specific advice: remain true to yourself “under all conditions…if one is sincere when confronted with difficulties, the heart can penetrate the meaning of the situation.” If difficulties persist, familiarity is key: “once we have gained inner mastery of a problem, it will come about naturally that the action we take will succeed. In danger all that counts is really carrying out all that has to be done —thoroughness…” There were three changes this week, of which the specific notes are: sincerity over ceremony, danger often comes from being overly ambitious, and you must stick to the right path or else you will be trapped/lost.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #64, Before Completion. This hexagram relates a kind of difficult reckoning of 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.” This hexagram points to success or an arrival that has been in progress for a long time — a process that is almost inevitable. It is not wholly in the bag but needs to be carefully carried through to the final realization — clarity of vision is of utmost importance.
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March 07 ’23
A walk to our car after dinner, alone.
A tiny moon hangs above, like a small, incomplete memory of a moon.
Below the pale dot, crossing the blue-blackness, there is a commercial airplane. It blinks red in the front and white in the back. The fuselage is not quite discernible so the alternating lights make it seem like an object rotating strangely as it hurtles forward. Its jerky rhythm is eventually gobbled up by the black tips of trees.
Over a high beige block wall, bordering the sidewalk, an intensity of traffic is heard. The unseen concentration of noise makes the relative calm on our side seem less relevant, like we’re in a different dimension from a main event. In a few ways, this is a familiar and apt feeling — and sort of true.
“Seated,” leaning on the barrier, is something like an animated pile of textiles. A voice is chanting from its center but it’s impossible to clearly discern, due to the cars and felted muffling of the layers of fabric. Whether it is our ego or actual, it seems like the wooly statements are addressing us — either you are a warrior, you are a warrior, you are a warrior or you are a worrier, you are a worrier, you are a worrier. The utterances are timed with the rhythmic rocking of the oily, sad rags.
As we wait for the light to change, to cross the street to our car, a tall eddie of trash and dirt whirls upwards past the street light into what might be called, a ceaseless sky.
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Though not always apparent, we humans have a strained relationship with reality. This is likely due to our ability to be aware of our awareness and that this self-reflective awareness presupposes its opposite: things outside our awareness, that is, sometimes things are in our focus/attention and then sometimes things are out of our focus/attention — but really 99.9999999999999999999...% of stuffs is out of our attention/focus, all of the time.
This tension is why we love abstract or non-objective art, particularly like that of Welsh born, London based painter Simon Job. He creates works that seem to attempt a focus on what is outside of focus, something like compelling inscrutable areas.
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46. Pushing Upward
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 conflict or conception is in a state of transformation
- times of transition are not breaks or rests
- there is a situation where knowledge of detail is lacking, be cautious
- it is a time of difficulty due to the failure of a grandiose goal
- there will be much misunderstanding from family and close associates as regards your goals and prospects
- keeping in mind the above notions, keep it simple
- without violence, but with modesty and adaptability, make progress without haste and without rest
* * *
“A” and “K” ask: How does one continue to believe in her art when there are so many reasons to doubt? How to believe in the work — that it will go places and enrich?
Does one make art for certainty? Is art something? It seems, that “art” if anything at all, is a process. Sure there are tangible videos or sculptures or paintings, exhibited at certain times for more or less money — but the reason for making is to conceive, to think, and to feel one’s inner and outer worlds, no? And that’s not an undertaking stable in any real way — so wide and variagated is every moment. Its not a process of surety, it is perhaps a process of learning to love the process of the world.
It is soooo perfect that #46 came up as your “advice” hexagram — as there is really no better guidance for the sincere, creative person: “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.”
… love, without haste and without rest… love, without haste and without rest… love, without haste and without rest… love, without haste and without rest… love, without haste and without rest… love, without haste and without rest…
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This week we pulled the Six of Swords. The suit of swords in tarot deal with our conscious mental powers, like reason and logic. Sixes in tarot, indicate transitions, primarily those going from conflict or chaos to balance and harmony. So in combination, we have something like a conflict or conception that is in a state of transformation. It is wise to remember, that transitions are not breaks or rests, but journeys, that will cause additional new details.
Our first hexagram this week is #36, Darkening of the Light. “In a time of darkness it is essential to be cautious and reserved.” Darkness, because it is a situation inherently lacking clarity and detail, should foster caution — that is, it would be best to wait for more favorable circumstances to perform any important actions. As well, know that this is not a permanent situation. So, in this interim period, don’t reveal, or introduce, rather, bide your time whilst being “outwardly yielding and tractable.” There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: it is a time of difficulty due to the failure of a grandiose goal (there will be much misunderstanding from family and close associates) also, in times of darkness it is best to follow one’s duties (as opposed to being improvisational with topical matters).
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #46, Pushing Upward. Along with hexagram #1 (which is the supreme statement of the I Ching) and hexagram #42, which contains the maxim: “to rule truly is to serve,” #46 is the most meaningful to us at Cargo. It contains the dictum: “wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest.” The full quote is: “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.” The hexagram’s whole text is about proper, healthy, and durable growth — and beautifully it states that this type of flourishing “is made possible not by violence but by modesty and adaptability.”
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February 28 ’23
In view, swaying trees in sightless breeze.
Tethered plumes. Leafy throngs. Billowing balls of green.
To these meh eyes, gesticulations without meaning — but to something(s), surely rich.
But who? Birds? Other trees? Triffids? Others, entirely other to us?
And those sounds.
Whooshing. Fluttering. Shimmering. Rustling.
Noises thought dumb, by the dumb only.
Some finer calibrated cochlea is versant in this tongue.
Needed, a Course in General Floro-Lingusitics. (Or would it be Phyto-Linguistics?)
* * *
All around, aliens abut aliens.
¯\_(ö)_/¯
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There are many rules and physics we are tied to as humanoids, both corporeal and psychological: emotional structures, nutritional requirements, all manner of bodily limitation. But in this fairly closed system there is a solitary window, which remains fixed and open to a limitless beyond. This opening informs all of our creative powers, it is our imagination.
We know there are no physically traversable rooms in Yue Zhang’s architectures or actual storm systems causing her cloudy skies, but the extraordinary and strange drafts blowing in through the aperture at the back of her mind, informing her inventions, is giving sincere elasticity to our quotidian rigidity.
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11. Peace
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.)
- follow your vision(s), and emotional instincts, with gusto
- use a fortunate time to prepare for a misfortunate time
- if success is met, do not relax into confidence
- persevere in modesty and light
* * *
From “L.M.”: In my workplace there are a couple of people who are cynics; they tend to mock other people’s ideas and maintain power over the group - even when we share the same position. How can one deal with such energy? I seek to be at peace at this and any other workplace. I do not want to run from here, as unpleasant people can be found anywhere.
Identifying and fighting cynicism is a deeply noble and biological inclination — how else are genes learning and earthly life to survive? It certainly won’t be by suspicion and pessimism.
In a very serious way, you may want to consider, that underneath your desire for “peace,” there may be something like a romantic warrior. A vigilant personage not willing to acquiesce to an environment of sarcastic negativism. The biggest challenge for someone with anti-cynical (romantic) tendencies, is taking action — as opposed to dreaming, over-planning or over-feeling. The thing is to figure out how to bring the dark of these incredulous personalities into exposing light. Note: all signs are saying that you are entering a very prosperous and light filled time; don’t waste it.
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This week we pulled the Knight of Cups. Here we have a dreamer of strength, that is, one who dreams but delivers on their visions. Knights in tarot are representative of energy and action (not deliberation). The suit of cups is connected to all things emotional (not intellectual). In combination we have something like a romantic warrior. If you have a visionary but confident plan for a certain scenario, go for it.
Our first hexagram this week is #19, Approach. This hexagram details the time right before the end of winter; a time when darkness is losing power and the rejuvenating energy of spring is imminent. “The hexagram as a whole points to a time of joyous, hopeful progress. Spring is approaching. Joy and forbearance bring high and low nearer together. Success is certain. We must work with determination and perseverance to make full use of the propitiousness of the time (as) Spring does not last forever… If we meet evil before it becomes reality — before it has even begun to stir — we can master it.” This is an advisement to take advantage of health and light while you can. Prepare against the dark forces(!) whatever they may be… There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: if things go well, do not relax into confidence; be modest and keep your wits about you.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #11, Peace. This hexagram point to a time of balance and light. That is, all elements find their ultimate aspect at the most propitious time — a time of light, not darkness. Modesty and perseverance in clear light.
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February 21 ’23
There is a boat offshore.
It has a grass green hull and mint green sails.
A vermillion flag ripples atop its mast.
Its countenance is like the jaunt of a cocky sailer’s cap.
This angle splits the sea with speed…
Actually no, we are having a vision, or lying; we are not quite sure.
Whatever the case, there is no boat, not here anyway.
In reality, we are looking at a roll of paper towels on a wood table.
And a fork.
A roll of paper towels, a fork and a wood table.
And, if we’re being honest, there’s quite a lot more on the table.
Also, we are not here anymore.
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Certain foods make for deeply satisfying chewing — that feeling of mushing and grinding a flavor/texture into the finer parts of oral/hunger gratification. We feel there is a compliment to this sensation in design — but visual. This is how we feel about the work of Beijing-based designers, Sun Xiaoxi and Wang Lang (PAY2PLAY studio) — we want to chew it with our eyes and greedily swallow into the throat of our brain.
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43. Break-through (Resoluteness)
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 not to over perform discipline and/or control
- sterility and/or burn out is possible
- perseverance brings good fortune
- patience and composure are of utmost importance
- do not act until the time is ripe
- one’s passion must be held in check by one’s reason
* * *
This period has some serious warnings regarding patience and exhaustion — it seems that precision, as far as goals, effort and energy, is wanted. Reason is going to be the guide; that is, the measuring of behavior according to self knowledge is the most important thing (as opposed to simply letting a project, partner or some other external voice, guide action). This is neither the time of the hermit nor the partier.
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This week we pulled the The Emperor (reversed). In both positions (upright and reversed) The Emperor points to issues of discipline and control — both discipline and control have positive and negative aspects. When employed correctly they provide the reasonable and rational structure which most (if not all) good is built upon. When overdone they can result in sterility, inflexibility and/or burn out. Be careful of the latter this period.
Our first hexagram this week is #5, Waiting (Nourishment). “Strength in the face of danger does not plunge ahead but bides its time, whereas weakness in the face of danger grows agitated and has not the patience to wait.” “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.” There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: there is a sincere danger which lies out of one’s control, but the situation can be made worse or better, depending solely on one’s self control.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #43, Break-Through (Resoluteness). Here, a few contingent images — a sequence illustrating the release of tensions (both good and disastrous): a cloud filling to the brink with water, yielding to a welcome downpour, but resulting in a river swelling and breaking its banks. A release of tension has occurred or is imminent. It is implied that the tensions here are that of reason and passion, incompatible forces; of the two passion is the more damaging. Passion or “flood” can only be controlled by reasoned, meticulous and ongoing supervision (as it is with engineering and devices such as levees).
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February 14 ’23
You are performed by what you know.
Maybe ignorance is bliss.
Maybe knowledge is hell.
“People who understand quickly frighten me.”
* * *
The refrigerator is making a funny noise.
Your stomach is making a funny noise.
A physicist was stabbed in the parking lot of Smart & Final.
Sounds of “sports” are heard from beyond a hedge.
* * *
“I can’t believe it’s February already.”
“I can’t believe it’s Tuesday already.”
“I don’t believe in dogs per se — like Democritus, I believe in the arrangement of atoms in space.”
Is there really a difference between belief and desire?
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It could be argued that context is the primary framework for human cognition — that is, our main anthropoid devices like meaning, attraction, difference, organization, disruption, valuation, would be a homogenous field (or block) without a continually regenerating frame of reference.
(It’s worth saying that we definitely consider Cargo as primarily a context for work.)
This is why we find the Lisbon-based publishing project Dois Dias edições so lovely. It seems they take existing books they admire and place them in a thoroughly fresh context — not lightly either; theirs is not simply a cover jacket redesign but a new way to experience a work.
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Maureen Owen, The No-Travels Journal (1975)
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44. Coming to Meet
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.)
- take time out to conceive a vision of long term prosperity
- periods of creativity require preparation, prepare(!)
- when joining others, make sure that all involved have mutually beneficial motives
* * *
From “A.Z.”: I find myself in a fight between myself. I desire to be so unique… to be different and innovative from those who I admire, and precede me. My ego gets in my way quite often, pretty heavily. How do I stop such self sabotaging?
You are ambitious, self aware and self reproachful. This is a good foundation on which to start building a healthy/satisfying existence, as these are qualities generally necessary for creativity and thriving.
Ego problems can be managed by being aware of your short term behavior. Take some time to establish a vision for yourself, long term; it’s likely that your ego battles are attempting a short term win. Desire for long term success could put your current ego into perspective.
As well, there are very few aspects of life that don’t require some sort of team work — managing inner forces are mandatory for beneficial external relations.
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This week we pulled the Ten of Cups. Here we have an implication of harmony, fertility and subsequent happiness. As is always the case, this needn’t necessarily be related to people, but to the interior parts of the self. In either case, there is an indication to take time to consider an ultimate scenario, one which could deeply satisfy. This is not a call for an escape into fantasy — but an allowance for exploring a vision — a conceptualization of long term prosperity.
Our first hexagram this week is #64, Before Completion. This is the final hexagram of the I Ching. It describes the time before creation begins again — and most importantly, the awareness of that time. The idea is that one can be ready for the return to creation — out of winter into spring. “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. But it is a task that promises success, because there is a goal that can unite the forces now tending in different directions… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.” There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: due to fatigue, assistance from others must be sought and prepare for success; it is practically inevitable.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #44, Coming to Meet. For creation, elements and forces must come together. Obviously for positive or nutritive creation, these elements and forces must meet in a particular way. When it comes to the human-type combinations (teams, families, couplings, or whatever other type of people joining) “the coming together must be free of dishonest ulterior motives, otherwise harm will result.” A particular admonishment here is not to be taken in by mere appearances when coming together with other people — they may be lying to you — so do your due diligence beforehand.
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February 7 ’23
All thoughts are hermetically sealed.
There is an infinite gap between the world and a person’s interiority.
Systems of signs (the surrogate of language or what have you) are used to mediate.
This is true for everyone.
But no one admits it, as there is no profit in admitting.
It’s wild that we walk around this way.
Humans generate such an interminable deception game.
It makes such painful messes, this gossip, this rug pulling, these cheap mirrors, all the corporate and individual camouflage...
But this is the scenario.
One person’s mess is another person’s dress.
And since it seems (almost irrefutably) that economy rules all (not in the financial sense, but in the animal or physics sense), that all things fit together, defining and utilizing each other in the most ingenious and resourceful ways — this turmoil must be beneficial to some thing.
Something likes this mess, doesn’t think it a mess.
Something eats this chaos like a whale eats krill.
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Keeping the above in mind, Aleix Plademunt is a great and clear conduit. 🌞
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18. Work on what has been spoiled [Decay]
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.)
- beware of bureaucracy/chaos born of fallen leadership
- push for the common good despite the momentum of the crowd
- do not be taken in by the surface of things, preoccupy yourself with truer causation(s)
- refresh a stagnated situation with a return to all that is mentally and physically healthy
- if necessary, it is ok to depart/retreat from topicality and the unproductive chaotic energy of short term thinking, to work on the above (in project form)
* * *
From “F.M.”: All around me it seems that my friends and coworkers’ outlooks are hardening into beliefs, whereas I become a person of more and more questions. I am committed and sincere about participating in my various communities, but they seem less and less inclined to allow for open curiosity. I would like some advice on whether my feeling is “true” that people should have more questions than answers (or beliefs). Thanks.
If you are a sensitively and sincerely curious person you can’t allow yourself to be taken in by the veneer of chaos. This life/universe, or whatever you want to call all this stuff, is beyond mere understanding. This is true, even for you, as regards your understanding of other people. Their puerile and narcissitic views, at the end of the day, are something, just as much as a cypress tree and a coke can are something. If you are perceiving that you understand them, you are suffering from what you are accusing them of: belief.
So, you must be careful not to despise anything — though you should not encourage what you think is undignified or stupid. Try to remove yourself and be like the sage and work on creating “incomparable human values for the future.”
If you stay in these stagnating environs you will only be “guilding your impotence” (or worse).
(And remember, it is more than likely, that you have been preceded by better minds in worse times.)
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This week we pulled the Emperor (reversed). When upright the appearance of the emperor points to stability and discipline — of the good necessary kind. When the card arrives in reversed aspect, as it is here, the signification is that disorder and instability are present — think bureaucracy or martial law.
Our first hexagram this week is #22, Grace. The aestheticizing of a task or situation should not be the fundamental preoccupation: “…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…” In summation, 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. There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: don’t take an easier way, take the surer way and do not ignore causation for beauty (do not be taken in by appearances).
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #18, Work On What Has Been Spoiled (Decay). There is stagnation and corruption — a contaminated torpor caused by some sort of ennui or malaise. There is need to begin again. Initiate this by drumming up all the good aspects of life (that is, partaking in that which brings one healthy joy and “casting out all that is degrading”). Regularize these beautiful aspects of life into an oft tended rhythm — a project. Remember “what has been spoiled through one’s fault can be made good again through one’s work.” However if the cause is mostly external, a disengagement with the short term and topical may be necessary: “such withdrawal is justified when we realize in ourselves the higher aims of humankind… for although the sage remains distant from the turmoil of daily life, they create incomparable human values for the future.”
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January 31 ’23
“I have an unfortunate tendency to believe in ghosts when I’m telling ghost stories.”
* * *
No long, intimate chats on rush hour subways.
No thriving hydrangeas in the Mojave.
“No thought without phosphorus.”
* * *
The forming power of context is strange and complex; words are a good example. Below, see words performed by relation (context) and relation (context) performed by words — the style/formality influences what comes next and then of course what something means:
Sunrise, horizon —
sea lions lying
for hours on end.
Sundown, mountain —
owls done dozing
now own shadows.
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36. Darkening of the light
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.)
- develop calmness, regroup and return to a source motivation
- be cautious and let many things pass
- work on receptivity, don’t only pursue
* * *
From “K”: My question is regarding this week’s reading (from January 17) on reason and purpose, the cardinal virtues, and working them to have a fulfilled life. I tend to wander from thing to place to purpose to reason to thing to place to purpose to reason, and it is never ending, creating only a weak foundation towards accomplishing nada.
With all my likes, curiosities and interests, how to choose and dedicate to one? I am a puzzle all over the place; can you assist with helping me get my chips together?
There is a ruthlessness of self reproach to your flitting from interest to interest — it is not without danger; over time it will erode important powers. However, this unfocused circumstance can’t be met head on or aggressively; that is, you can’t just take a deep breath and try to forcefully narrow your interests. For the time being, you are simply going to flutter from attraction to attraction, and from diversion to diversion; try to just let it be. But let it be whilst thinking about receptivity — specifically receptivity vs. pursuance.
Often we are told to pursue a career — unfortunately this is not wise for many of us — some of us need THE RIGHT SITUATION. That’s how it was for the person writing this; we chased after many vocations, but eventually realized we weren’t needing a profession per se, just the right circumstance.
So, work on being receptive to a circumstance that works for you — liking lots of stuff is great; you’ll have a lot of knowledge to apply to that lovely situation when it arrives.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Knight of Swords (reversed). When in upright position the association is all that would be attributed to a knight: charging into danger, bravery, skill, destruction, being in the moment. When it is in reversed aspect, as it is here, the implication is conceit, hubris, cruelty, exasperation. To overcome such characteristics, either in the self or from the outside, efforts should be aimed at calming, regrouping and returning to a source motivation.
Our first hexagram this week is #36, Darkening of the Light. Most of the time, positivity and light are to be encouraged when encountering dark times or people; but this is not always wise. In certain periods of darkness “it is essential to be cautious and reserved.” One should not needlessly awaken overwhelming enmity by inconsiderate behavior. In such times one ought not to fall in with the practices of others; neither should one drag them censoriously into the light. In social intercourse one should not try to be all–knowing. One should let many things pass, without being duped. There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: when you discover the source of an undesirable situation don’t be too hasty in its removal as it has likely taken root, therefore it’s excision needs time and a delicate/knowledgeable hand.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #2, The Receptive. This hexagram is the complement to the first hexagram, The Creative. The Creative and the Receptive are the yang to the other’s yin (respectively). A balance and openness is to be considered when encountering this hexagram: “…the superior person gives to their character breadth, purity, and sustaining power, so that they are able to both support and bear people and things.”
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January 24 ’23
The construction was highly idiosyncratic, a shopping center vertically built to adapt to a very wonky cliff face — if it had been condos it may have seemed architectural and not so odd — a jagged Applebees diagonally above a Dick’s Sporting Goods then a half floor down, jutting out on a jaunty angle, a Starbucks. As with many things (maybe all things) the effect was different than the purpose (but we can only see so far).
Looking out from the balcony of Applebees the view was of course wildly different. Across the highway there were train tracks, a large solitary house and a calm ocean to a clear horizon. The house was ornate in a Victorian style. It was clean, and very hard to tell if it was newly constructed or some sort of restoration. There was a sign but we couldn’t read it.
Looking back through the restaurant window, the ten or so seated people were looking at their phones. It felt almost exactly like seeing people seated at slot machines. There was however, one ancient man seated by the window closest to us. He was right on the other side of the glass. He didn’t seem to notice us or anything at all — he was just like frozen in ice.
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In our relevant/irrelevant opinion, if an art’s meaning is clear, it is weaker for it — art should, at least in part, provide insight/joy into the weirdness of our confident understanding. “I am from Long Island.” “Up there is the sun.” These common phrases mean nearly nothing. And jeez when people start casually and confidently espousing abstract thoughts, without any caveats as to the transcendental difficulties of such attempts: 🙄🙄🙄
Keeping this in mind whilst looking at the books of Norwegian publisher Arkitektfaglig Presse — particularly the cover for their “Under Under” series Vol. 3 (pictured above) — this notion of commonplace abstraction or, specifically in this case, what we have been calling typographic abstraction — this notion is clear (or fruitfully unclear). To represent two architects as complex and speculative as Andrea Branzi and Luis Callejasas, with simple black sans initials, on a stormy blue field, is totally disorienting and nearly meaningless — which is a perfect place to start any meaningful discussion.
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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.)
- be driven by creative forces
- creative power comes from inner strength and outward clarity
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“A.W.” asks — How do you approach the mid game and end game for enduring creative projects (in my case musical) as they pertain to your vision?
Unfortunately there are no easy answers for making it through to the end of artistic projects; it’s a holistic affair.
All returns point to making Creation (writ large) your only focus, and to make this narrowed effort be as most processes in non-human nature are, graceful and near-involuntary.
As an artist your absorption, your vision and your invention come before all else. This doesn’t mean you have to be a narcissistic monster, just that you can’t let phantom paths distract you. This also doesn’t mean that the artist’s path is a straight one. And since inspiration is mysterious and unreliable, patience and readiness are key. It may be awhile before you’re able to finish your projects with regularity — or you may realize that the current state of your output is its final form.
All of your projects should have strong personal conviction and be denuded of needless adornment (this might help in finishing).
Something to meditate on: the manner in which a tree becomes a tree or a bird becomes a bird is the way you should be making music (finished or otherwise).
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The Empress card. There is a line from a Dylan Thomas poem “…the force that through the green fuse drives the flower” — this is how we think of The Empress — the energy that drives creation. The appearance of this card pushes one to allow primordial creativity to drive them.
There was only one hexagram this week #14: Possession in Great Measure. Much of the I Ching regards the proper conduct for leaders — but if it happens that you are in charge of self only, the advice still applies, as one must order their own mind before external delegation. “All things come to the person who is modest and kind in a high position.” Such a person fosters “strength within” and “clarity and culture without.” Their power is “graceful” and “controlled.” To be in control of a team or the various parts of self, one has to be completely dedicated to the good of that team or selves; to lead one has to be a model and shaper of conduct — this is what is meant by “strength within” and “clarity and culture without.” If one is lazy, fragmented and selfish — establishing outer order and health will be impossible.