321 — This week on Cargo

[Open in browser]( cargo.site [A pr il 23 ’24]() Printed Matter’s lovely, peerless, perpetually important book fair is here! If you happen to be in New York this week don’t miss this most diverse crossroads of art, design, activism and publishing! Get informed! Get inspired! Printed Matter’s [2024 New York Art Book Fair]() April 25–28, 2024 548 W 22nd St. New York, NY 10011 (As an aside, this is Cargo’s 6th-ish year of supporting the fair — we couldn’t be more proud or more happy about the partnership.) Also to note: Cargo has made a bevy of lovely, sturdy, long handled, tote bags to be given away at the fair. They are free, but first come, first served. See you there! Sites in Use [Francis Irv]( The curator’s hand is evident here. In many galleries it is often the physical space and a kind of branding or level that binds the work. 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(1846) [Martino Gamper at Haus der Kunst München]( (2023) [Erwin Wurm, Memory]( (1994-2000)Peter Fischli & David Weiss at Matthew Marks Gallery]( (1999) [Maison Martin Margiela, Spring/ Summer]( (2008) Oracle Each week we consult both the Tarot and the I Ching. To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site tarot_card) [The Empress (reversed)](tarot_card)) [46. Pushing Upward]( [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.) - Be careful that perseverance doesn’t degrade into empty habit (and risk confused bitterness). - Whatever you are trying to improve, try to do so without haste and without rest. - A new beginning is necessary, try to initiate it by seriously limiting that which is degrading. * * * From “A.P.”: What to do when you feel that you’ve run out of rope? * * * You need to reframe but you need a break first. A break to sufficiently create space around your old ways; to see and define them and to breathe at a distance from them. And then, when sufficient differences can be seen and weighed and valued, all efforts must take the form of a new and dedicated project — there will be no thriving otherwise. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the Empress (reversed). When in upright aspect, the intimation is fertility, health, and primordial productivity — “C ” reativity and “N ” ature writ large. However when the Empress arrives reversed (as it is here) the attention or production or care, is being overdone. As in, loving care has become surveillance or mothering has become smothering. Our first hexagram this week is #46, Pushing Upward. Here, one of the most useful/lovely metaphors/proverbs in the entirety of the I Ching: “Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.” It is not easy but it is a polestar for sure, that is, to improve and work without haste and without rest. There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: the confidence to accomplish comes from experiencing the strength of a few strong steps built on a strongly built foundation. 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). “What has been spoiled through one’s fault can be made good again through one’s work.” The subject is stagnation/decay — the suggestion is that only through pointed effort and a kind of new beginning, can this state be righted. Perhaps this is best initiated by trying to “cast out all that is degrading”. (A tall order these days.) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]() [Instagram Â]( [Unsubscribe](