335 — This week on Cargo

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To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site [Queen of Swords (reversed)]( [44. Coming to Meet]( [1. The Creative]( 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 on guard against depression causing misjudgment (whether the depression is abstract, literal and/or chemical). - The best way to ward off unseen danger is not to deceive yourself as to the reality of unforeseen danger, and then, act accordingly. - When a bad/destructive element arrives, waste no time — deal with it immediately. - “Success” comes by “perseverance in what is right... by consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading.” * * * From “L.P.”: Should I take psychedelics? I have never taken any, but have always had the inclination. Of course I have some worry, but a responsible opportunity has come up — so I am asking. * * * Should you take psychedelics(?) — only if you have strong mental health and the right attitude. The right attitude is having a seriously deep desire to eschew self deception (as much as is possible) — and to be earnestly involved in “casting out all that is inferior and degrading” (or at least honestly desiring to do so). By strong mental health it is meant that psychedelics are supremely powerful substances that focus on transcendentally altering one’s perceptions. The alterations are so novel and so severe that it is unlikely that anyone who takes them isn’t permanently changed. Often the changes are positive, as often they convolute and elaborate subsequent thought structures — but in rarer circumstances, if there is serious depression or schizophrenia (latent or extant) the repercussion can be disastrous. This all may sound dramatic — but perhaps this will help, if ignorance is bliss, then awareness is a kind of hell — and perhaps raw, transcendental gnosis best describes the psychedelic experience. Another way; do you want to be the mouse of humanity slowly being digested in the stomach of the viper of geologic/cosmic causality, for eternity? Do you want to be a stone ape frozen on a forgotten lifeless moon, dreaming of a yellow parrot fluttering free in some tropical jungle canopy — only to all of a sudden realize that this is actually some sort of meta-metaphor for the psychology of all focus to periphery relations — but realizing this because you were able to see your personal histories floating in cross-section after being sliced by five hundred iridescent scimitars of doubt — and saying to yourself, with full terrified confusion “I don’t think I will ever be able to put myself back together again.” If you do want this, then proceed with love, caution, bravery and light. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the Queen of Swords (reversed). A serious card, made more so by its reversed aspect. When upright the card points to a sharpness honed by sadness. When reversed as it is here, the aspect is pushed towards the dark end of such a quality — misjudgment due to sorrow/depression. Our first hexagram this week is #44, Coming to Meet. The coming together of powers, elements, and/or people is constant (and necessary). Whether the resultant scenarios are healthy, disastrous, or middling, has to do with the attitude and aspect of the converging elements/parties. But there are no guarantees — a situation can have impossible to see dangers (like deceit). The best way to ward off unseen danger is not to deceive yourself as to the possibility of unforeseen danger, and then, act accordingly. There was one change this week of which the specific note is: when a bad element arrives, waste no time — deal with it immediately. Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #1, The Creative. This is the first hexagram of the I Ching, and the most important. Of course life is an interplay of endlessly varied forces, matter, and scenarios — which can come to the fore at any time to be a dominant and supremely determinant (of which are detailed in all the subsequent hexagrams). However, it is The Creative that is at the heart of the I Ching’s ultimate metaphysical proposition. “When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to them from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon their seeking of happiness and that of others in one way only, that is, by perseverance in what is right... They must make themselves 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.” As well... “each step attained becomes a preparation for the next. Time is no longer a hindrance but the means of making actual what is potential…” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]()[Instagram Â]([Unsubscribe](