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July 25 ’23
Like a tire iron found around an archeological mound
or
a bowl of borscht poured on a harpsichord.
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A spherical island.
A relative void.
A flesh container.
Etc., etc..
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A deep yearning
for primordial reconciliation.
Desire, that is, generally speaking.
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Now: rational computation meeting irrational desires.
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And yet, still, pervasive belief in transcendental signifiers.
Transcendental egos, sure/yes, but transcendental signifiers?
Really, so many versions in a moment of a single eye,
how does this not give one (all) pause,
if not some sort of broad desire for
tender maintenance
rather than transcendental, intemperate self-assurance?
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Looking at photographer Hendrik Schneider’s materials got us thinking of Mark Fisher’s Gothic Materialism 🖤: “The cyberneticization of fiction begins when fiction begins to affect, rather than simply reflect, the Real. This feedback circuit means the end of fiction as mirror, the end of realism in its mimetic mode... What happens, to fiction — and to the “world” (or worlds) with which it forms a rhizome — when the relation between the Real and its simulations is cybernetically reconfigured? ... Hypernaturalism.”
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Oracle
Each week we consult both the Tarot and the I Ching.
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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.)
- reconstitute a freeze-dried-berry-of-a-heart with the waters of wonder (not with the isolated mud of a personal standpoint)
- use gentleness to dissolve a blockage
- break up divisive egotism
- pursue (or encourage) an emotional encounter with the universe/(N)ature (experience awe)
- barriers must be dismantled/set-aside for great achievements to occur
- to work toward recovery, a focus on larger ideas is necessary
- watch out for deterioration caused by a marriage of gentle indifference + rigid inertia
- “What has been spoiled through a person’s fault can be made good again through a person’s work.”
- replace inertia and indifference with decisiveness and energy
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From “M.N.”: I have a raw and simple question for the Oracle: “Recently my son tried to commit suicide. How can I help him?” I hope it’s not too rough, but sadly it’s the ugly truth. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for the vulnerability and intimacy of your query.
(On a personal note, and with zero sanctimony, due to early unintegrated traumas, we have struggled with suicidal tendencies most of our life. As well, one of our closest friends took their own life when very young. It is confusing, dark and difficult for all those it touches. We take your question seriously, that is, we are trying our hardest to let the response speak through us to you. 🤝)
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Perhaps there is a fixation on an event from someone’s childhood, yours? Your son’s? Has this caused a state of arrested development somewhere? Or is there an over identification with, or nostalgia for, childhood innocence? Whatever the case, it seems a reckoning with something in early childhood is necessary for one of you. The absence of this could be a cause of separation, inwardness and isolation. Reversing this should be a gentle but genuine process.
The sentiment: “gentle indifference” and “rigid inertia” have combined to catalyze “decay” — really jumped out at us. Seems an age old parent to child issue. (This could be personal though.)
What role has ego/narcissism had in your relationship to your son? Ego/narcissism is present in all people, but if one is to dissolve narcissism/inwardness in another, one must try to be free of ulterior motives themself. Developing such selflessness is obviously a tall order — but this might be your Task (writ large).
Sharing a common high goal, one that arouses a “strong tide of emotion” is being intimated. The message seems to be, working on a big project that vaults something beyond the human, something that awakens “a consciousness of the common origin of all creatures” (not necessarily a church, not anything political, not something that has any strong corporate or topical connections — beyond all that). This is to promote union not isolation.
It seems a long term, possibly harrowing, process, but fundamental (son and father). It is advised then, not to “recoil from work and danger.” As well, there must be effort to maintain decisiveness and energy throughout.
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Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Six of Cups (reversed). In upright position the card should bring to mind the past as related to childhood — kind of like a not-too-negative nostalgia for innocence. When it’s reversed, as it is here, the meaning is twofold, a danger of arrested development and that true change, based on the recognition of this arrested development is possible. Also, the present will come to pass.
And though the following quote from A.R. Waite (co-creator of the common Rider/Waite tarot) refers to the card in the upright position, keeping in mind the nature of your question, it seemed necessary to include: “…the children are disporting (frolicking) in an unfamiliar precinct.” (This relates to the image of the card.)
Our first hexagram this week is #59, Dispersion (Dissolution). “When a person’s vital energy is dammed up within them… gentleness serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.” “Here the subject is the dispersing and dissolving of divisive egotism.” “In the autumn and winter, water begins to freeze into ice. When the warm breezes of spring come, the rigidity is dissolved, and the elements that have been dispersed in ice floes are reunited.” “Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate people. Therefore the hearts of people must be seized by a devout emotion… must be shaken by awe in face of eternity.” The point here is the dissolving of barriers, of rigidity. But a dissolution that reconstitutes the individual — like joining, melding. That is, to break apart a biased clinging, so as to let in a kind of humble, but deep, appreciation of the cosmos of self as well as the outer cosmos. This likely will require a visit to a personage or place or scenario of true greatness (visiting a holy person, climbing a mountain, helping to build something of civic/healthful significance, etc.).
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: a great achievement requires the setting aside of personal desires (specifically those which serve as a barrier to others) and “In times of general dispersion and separation, a great idea provides a focal point for the organization of recovery.”
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). It seems that “gentle indifference” and “rigid inertia” have combined to catalyze “decay” (gentle indifference/rigid inertia = the role of “parent” perhaps?). The hexagram especially notes that the name of the hexagram is not “what has been spoiled” but “work on what has been spoiled” — work can and should be done. “What has been spoiled through a person’s fault can be made good again through a person’s work. It is not immutable fate.” “We must first know the causes of corruption before we can do away with them; hence it is necessary to be cautious during the time before the start. 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.”