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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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Goings-On(line)
An offering of pieces and projects
from around the web
from around the web
W. H. Auden, The More Loving One (1960)
Rodney Graham, Vexation Island (1997)
Ingo Maurer at Spazio Krizia (2014)
Bernd & Hilla Becher at Paula Cooper Gallery (2024)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Oracle
Each week we consult both the Tarot and the I Ching.
To submit your own question,
send an email to oracle@cargo.site
To submit your own question,
send an email to oracle@cargo.site
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).
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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?
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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).
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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.”