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August 13 ’24
Mutabilis, Sunday Afternoon
An avocado hitting the floor with a skin on skin thud.
A glass shoe surprised by moonlight.
A range of mountains looming like an unused gym membership.
A mosquito alighting on a ripe peach.
A sidewalk weed singing: “Nature!”
Bright words on a bridge.
A curtain in a window cinched like the waist of a dress.
“A solitary figure in quiet scene of contemplation.”
Dim roses amidst a rapid dusk; a “lavish widow” nearby.
An electrical outlet painted perfectly in a deeply saturated maroon.
Cypress trees poking the sky like the underbite of a werewolf.
An unremarkable fountain, remarkable for its persistence despite unremarkableness.
From behind a garden bench, a small sign peaks, displaying a single word “Mutabilis”.
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An offering of pieces and projects
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from around the web
Marianne Moore, The Mind is an Enchanting Thing (1944)
Max Ophüls, Lola Montes (1955)
Gary Hume at Matthew Marks Gallery (2009)
Olivier Theyskens, Spring/ Summer (1999)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Galerie Chantal Crousel (2024)
Oracle
Each week we consult both the Tarot and the I Ching.
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.)
- Yes, times are turbulent — but the future is always unknown.
- In turbulent times make a serious effort to clearly see your own good and bad qualities/tendencies.
- In turbulent times try to define goals for yourself, or risk being swept away.
- You are important — particularly to yourself.
- Try not to let yourself be (wholly) defined by others.
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From “M.G.”: Throughout time, regarding actions and decisions, the oracle’s counsel generally alternates between taking the necessary time before acting, and not delaying actions/decisions and moving forward. As I understand it, the oracle advises exercising judgment over the situation.
However, in turbulent times, when external situations are numerous, complex, and mostly distressing (and one feels overwhelmed), how can we find the beacon that allows us to exercise better judgment over the situation?
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Confusion! Fracture! Yes, a difficult time. But as has been said: It’s a shame to waste a good crisis — encountering adversity can be a great clarifier.
First, you can not change the momentum(s) of a turbulent world — you can participate in all sorts of change (being an intelligent element for critical mass is important, obviously) — but to be effective outwardly you should have some self knowledge and a (somewhat) clear goal (or goals) — your nature and your goals are the most important things to bring into the light.
By nature we mean your most constant characteristics — this includes both the constructive, less productive and even destructive aspects of your personality. Similarly to the massive, above mentioned world momentums — there is not much you can do to change the deep, primordial momentums within yourself but you can be deeply aware of them, and hopefully, learn to work with them. Examples of self knowledge: “I am quick to glean the psychological aspects of a situation.” “I don’t like the amorphous beginnings of a project, rather I like to be underway in a project.” “I am a show off.” “I have a long fuse.” “Because of the horrible, drawn out death of my father, I have a tendency to over-worry about dark dissolutions.” “I hate working in an office.”
By goals we mean your desires generally and/or specifically. “I want to create more.” “I want to be happy.” “I want to work freelance.” “I want a partner.” “I no longer want a partner.” “I want to access my talents.” “I want to love myself.” “I want to know if I can even have a goal.” As the lovely and sincere Terence McKenna said: “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s.”
How turbulent are the times? What is going to happen? These are questions for the ages. It seems the best move is to try to know (and work with) your chief qualities (good and bad) and to try to figure out some goals to work toward (which could be as basic as figuring out a goal amidst chaos).
You are going to die and there were giant lizards roaming this floating spherical island, so we are not claiming that a certain type of behavior guarantees anything — but what else is there to do but try?
Ultimately, you are your beacon.
(And if you take care of it and strengthen it realistically, you might even be a beacon for others — by asking your question so sincerely, we think so.)
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Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Knight of Wands (reversed). When upright the card points to a change of location, like a journey. When reversed, as it is here, the movement is more sudden and carries feelings of fracture and unplanned for cessation.
Our first and only hexagram this week is #57, Sun, The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind). To affect something one has to penetrate the surface, otherwise there’s no real effect. “Penetration produces gradual and inconspicuous effects. It should be effected not by an act of violation but by influence that never lapses. Results of this kind are less striking to the eye than those won by surprise attack, but they are more enduring and more complete. If one would produce such effects, one must have a clearly defined goal, for only when the penetrating influence works always in the same direction can the object be attained.”