343 — This week on Cargo

[Open in browser]( cargo.site [N o v 08 ’24]() [Ian Hamilton Finlay,]( lithograph, 1988 Aphids and bees are busying around inside of some large, white, conical flowers. The extreme lightness of the single petal funnels make the insect activity look very stark. The slumpy low plants dot the sandy, relatively forgotten field, haphazardly. The few trees (maybe four) are also disorderly and spread out. They have blobby and twisted silhouettes, with leaves atypically close to the ground — likely from having to endure a few decades of near-lethal cuttings. Nevertheless these giant leafy mounds appear to be thriving. * * * To the left is a tall wall, on the other side of which churns an endless, booming river of cars and trucks. In this section, the highway bridges over an actual river; which runs in a deep, wide, concrete channel. The water is green with algae and strewn aimlessly with trash. The traffic is not visible. It is an intersection with a feeling of immense power, but unattended, or not typically signified. At first, the sound of the cars and trucks, reverberating in the massive concrete channel, is deafening (and wholly defining) but eventually, because it is so consistent, it is surprisingly easy to lose awareness of. We are inclined to say that this is because we domesticate or tame or normalize the sound — but it feels more complicated than that. Maybe it is more appropriate to say that we are surviving the sound — and don’t quite understand what is happening there. * * * Sometimes in this place (or in places similar) we feel like an involuntary tuning fork for an overwhelming, beautiful, slightly sinister ambiguity. Sites in Use [Ana Viktoria Dzinic]() It is certainly not always the case (exceptions like Marc Chaimowicz and Assume Vivid Astro Focus come to mind) but cleanliness is often an extremely important context for an art proposition. We assume that that this is because art, and the dialogue(s) they produce, are almost always an abrupt shift from our continual, regular experience — concentrations of content are not served well by being immediately contextualized by (or surrounded by) further concentrations of content (obviously unless overstimulation is the thing). The well tempered typographic and architectural (both physical and digital) chill/precision that surrounds artist [Ana Viktoria Dzinic]() work is a situation of sincere admiration/aspiration. 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To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site tarot_card) [Temperance](tarot_card)) [20. Contemplation (View)]( [17. Following]( 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.) - Restraint comes from a transcendental awareness of parameters. - If you are an ideal of conduct, or you know someone to be an ideal of conduct, to be truly ideal the person and conduct must be visible — as to be an example. - It is important to see the interconnectedness that makes up any given moment — but only if that includes the necessary warts and darkness. - To lead is to serve. - One must always adapt, to a significant degree — and not wear themselves out with “mistaken resistance.” * * * From “M.S.”: Memory and expectation (“D”esire) breed both blind satiation and disturbing surprise — what is an effective practice to get our often faulty ratios of memory and expectation to breed more consistent, healthy outcomes? * * * One must try to not live in a dream. Of course, as has been said by many, life is indistinguishable from a dream. (Not just speaking semantically here.) In this case one must understand that everyone’s situation is causally arrived at — interconnected. To have “healthy outcomes” you have to struggle to see the interwoven/inter-defining aspects of “healthy outcomes” — with tenacity, love, courage, and constant self reproach/reflection. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the Temperance card. Restraint vibrates somewhere between control and acceptance. With both cases it is a kind of knowledge. If it is sought, it is to be an awareness of parameters. Our first hexagram this week is 20, Contemplation (View). “A slight variation of tonal stress gives the Chinese name for this hexagram a double meaning. It means both contemplating and being seen, in the sense of being an example. These ideas are suggested by the fact that the hexagram can be understood as picturing a type of tower characteristic of ancient China… A tower of this kind commanded a wide view of the country; at the same time, when situated on a mountain, it became a landmark that could be seen for miles around.” So it suggested, that if you have a broad, encompassing outlook make sure it is seen by many people, as an ideal of conduct. There were three changes this week of which the specific notes are: the superlative person, at all times, tries to see the interconnected forces that make up their world — as well, they struggle to cleanse the information of mere personal validation. Our second hexagram or how best to meet the changes is #17, Following. Herein some meditations on leadership: “If a person is to rule they must first learn to serve.” “If a person tries to obtain a following by force or cunning, by conspiracy or by creating factions, they invariably arouse resistance.” “Obtaining a following through adaptation to the demands of the time is a great and significant idea.” “No situation can become favorable until one is able to adapt to it and does not wear themself out with mistaken resistance.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]()[Instagram Â]([Unsubscribe](