298 — This week on Cargo

[Open in browser]( cargo.site [Oc to ber 10 ’23]() A faint but persistent dream of stability in death. A cozy shiver. A cemetery garden in periphery. * * * A visit to a place of purchase. A coefficient of codependence. An endless well of the unwell. * * * A dusky quandary. An imbroglio of palimpsests. * * * “If I was any closer to it, I’d be on the other side of it.” Can the hidden side of the of the hill be seen? Hidden things by definition can’t be seen. * * * Inside the mountain is the mountain’s subconscious. Heteronomous structures affect hermetically sealed personal histories which impossibly try to reconcile with heteronomous structures the friction of which affect hermetically sealed personal histories. * * * Anti-basis. A mirror to mirror reflection. Language: a belief in a mirror image. A mirror is fine for brushing teeth but not for writing. * * * The profound embarrassment of not-knowing. Transcendental defamiliarization of unease. Quantising, one becomes a prisoner of one’s own scale. * * * This noisy trundle of days, like a sneaker in a dryer. Until the cycle ends. *** There were once giant reptiles. Sites in Use [Sidonie Ronfard]( We are fond of saying that beauty is a play with distances. That is, desire is the fount of all activity, not arrival. You couldn’t arrive if you tried — so we must learn to enjoy the means and course of intention — as it seems with photographer [Sidonie Ronfard](). Her output intimates. [Vide Studio]( [Myrthe van der Mark]( [Mark Schlickmann]( Graphic Design [Finlay Milne]( [@fin.milne]( [Yinliang Xu]( [@xuyinliang.ig]( [Claire Malot]( [@clairon.malot]( [Estefanía Larragoity]( [@estefania.larragoity]( [Serena Gramaglia]( [@_sere_gr]( [Osvald Landmark]( [@osvaldlandmark]( Style [Gemma Bedini]( [@gemmabedini]( [GEKAAY]( [Leonard Kuhlins]( [EDRIEN GUILLERMO]( [@edrienguillermo]( [Carola Monteleone]( [@carolamonteleone]( [Dani Coyle]( [@inter_sexy]( Architecture & Design [Yongbaek Lee]( [Nara Park]( [Martin Hofseth]( [@mahofseth]( [PRACTICE]( [@practice.kr]( [Main Studio]( [@maindesign.studio]( [Paul Santiago Studio]( [@sickandtwistedindividual]( Art [Hanna Rochereau]( [@hanna.rochereau]( [Marlee McMahon]( [Aki Onda]( [@akionda_official]( [Natalie Schmidt]( [@natalie.schmidt]( [Trent Wei]( [@trentwei.info]( [INFINITIF]( Photo [Cecilia Chiaramonte]( [@clearmount]( [Kevin Christinat]( [@k_christinat]( [Thomas Valtin]( [@thomasvaltin]( [Nicholas Wilkins]( [@nicholas_wilkins]( [Jacob Cummings]( [@jcup.c]( [UMUT ALTINTAŞ]( [@altintas_umut]( Shops on Cargo [Gaudi Chair]( Sweeterfat]( [$795]( [Trolley Zine]( Lucy Holt]( [SHP 15]( [Publication]([Torpedo]( [NOK 170]( [CONTROLLER BASE-01]( [MISMSIM]( [£280]( [Snake Ring]( Alis Luks]( [CHF 218]( [SIDE FACES]( [Iakovos Kalaitzakis]( [£400]( Goings-On(line) An offering of pieces and projects from around the web [Anonymous, Ted the Caver]( (2001) [Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly]( (1955) [Marble Hornets, Entry #78]( (2013) [Philip Ridley, The Reflecting Skin]( (1990) [J. Lee Thompson, Eye of the Devil]( (1966) 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 Fool](tarot_card)) [63. After Completion]( [49. Revolution (Molting)]( 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.) - Fantasy/speculation and the willingness to make errors is the only path toward “solutions.” (This is different than belief in fantasy.) - Balance and peace is maintained by “unremitting perseverance and caution.” - Indifference born of a cultivated, false sense of security is “the root of all evil.” - Do not gloss over dark omens — take them as the impetus for preparation and foresight. - One’s perspective is transcendentally limited, so one should not try to force a single perspective on the group. - Change is universal; if one can learn to mark the regularity of the changes, one can be in a healthy, albeit necessarily vigilant, place. * * * From “M.S.”: Avoiding being pulled in many directions feels impossible in this age, whether this is personal or local or global. But we know functioning properly, particularly emotionally, is hopeless within such a maelstrom. We want to be of service to ourself and others — but there’s simply too much to service. Is there any guidance here that isn’t merely a bandaid? The laboratory, the atelier and the unpeopled places (the wilds of “nature”) are where satisfaction and usefulness emanate — not courtrooms, or newsrooms, or corporate environs, or platforms of social media, or places of politics. The latter scenes are unavoidable and do some necessary good — but they should not be considered the first or foundational places of satisfaction and usefulness. To feel pleasure (which is necessary) and have the energy to Participate (writ large), you must keep things fairly simple and open — one should strive to find the fertile and positive aspects of multitudinousness. This is why spending time outdoors in peopleless places is so important — you must see beyond your opinion and personal history; places where personal fears are inflamed by general crises are the worst. (Meditation is also a version of a peopleless place.) Also, acknowledging one’s limitations by engaging the imagination is key (The Fool!). This is what is meant by “laboratory” and “atelier” — these are places where creativity and resourcefulness are utilized and optimistically isolated. Reduce social media to business related matters. Social media is akin to a homogenizing demon who wants to eat your soul — it’s IMPOSSIBLE to achieve health, stability and usefulness in those places. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled The Fool. This is a card of wisdom, that is, the binary that it intimates is the fundament of art and science. On the one hand, the fool tragically lives in fantasy, but, simultaneously, it is this type of energy that allows for the ability to make errors and survive them — a survived error is a lesson — this is the only path to actual information. Our first hexagram this week is #63, After Completion. We all strive to reach a place of security. Such a zone requires an equilibrium of parts. Confusingly, equilibrium is a situation where disorder is ready to occur — why(?) because we are apt to let our guard down, enjoying the time of peace/balance. “Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. Symptoms of decay are bound to be the result. Here we have the rule indicating the usual course of history. But this rule is not an inescapable law. Those who understand the position, can avoid its effects by dint of unremitting perseverance and caution.” Yes well, unremitting perseverance and caution. There was one change this week, of which the specific note is: when in a time of relative peacefulness, a small aspect of doubt or rot arises — the intelligent/vigilant person doesn’t allow this occurrence to go unnoticed, but takes it as a “dangerous omen” and applies proper foresight and defense. Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #49, Revolution (Molting). Change is constant (obvi) — the person who is sincere and takes action, understands that this means that a single perspective, such as their own, is different from another’s standpoint. So — such a person “masters these changes... by noting their regularity and marking off the passage of time accordingly. In this way order and clarity appear in the apparently chaotic changes... and they are able to adjust themself in advance to the demands of the different times.” There is also a direct political warning here: “Political revolutions are extremely grave matters. They should be undertaken only under stress of direst necessity, when there is no other way out.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]() [Instagram Â]( [Unsubscribe](