Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
MARCH 12, 2008
FreeWillAstrology.com
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"The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the
present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you
feel love for all humanity."
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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My book
PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
is available for sale at
tinyurl.com/qaj62
I want to call your attention to one of the few X-rated pieces
in the book. It's called "THE ORGASMIC ROOTS OF PRONOIA."
If I quoted from it here in the newsletter, however, it would
no doubt trigger all the spam filters that lie between me and
you, preventing the text from reaching you.
Instead, I will give you a place to read it online:
tinyurl.com/2dzos2
You can also read the first two pages of the piece at google
books, where you can view the illustration on the title page:
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PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION! This material has graphic references
to love, lust, tenderness, bliss, and rapture.
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You can buy the book here:
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
ARCHIVES OF THESE PRONOIAC RESOURCES
pronoiaresources.wordpress.com
A pronoia researcher named Darin Wilson has created a website
that is archiving all the pronoaic resources I've been calling
your attention to in this newsletter for the past few years. The
posts are categorized and tagged, and there's built-in search.
He's still in the process of gathering all the information, but
he has made good headway.
RISING UP LESSONS
"The Rise of the Phoenix: An Evolving Global Humanity"
by Bruce Lipton
tinyurl.com/2pyfnl
WE'RE JUST AT THE BEGINNING
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
tinyurl.com/2vraqn
"We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively
and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally,
to be undergoing fusion . . . Or perhaps we are only at the beginning
of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as
a species still ahead of us. Maybe the thoughts we generate today
and flick around from mind to mind are the primitive precursors
of more complicated, polymerized structures that will come later,
analogous to the prokaryotic cells that drifted through shallow
pools in the early days of biological evolution. Later, when the
time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits,
and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought,
huge interliving coral shoals of thought . . . The mechanism is
there [in the human brain], and there is no doubt that it is already
capable of functioning."
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal
nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 13
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
A century before the New Age movement began, French playwright
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was conversing with the dead. I want to
tell you what the spirit of Galileo told him at a séance,
because it's the perfect message for you to hear right now: "You
know what I would do if I were in your place? I'd drink from the
milk basin of the Milky Way; I'd swallow comets; I'd lunch on
dawn; I'd dine on day and I'd sup on night; I'd invite myself,
splendid table-companion that I am, to the banquet of all the
glories, and I'd salute God as my host! I'd work up a magnificent
hunger, an enormous thirst, and I'd race through the drunken spaces
between the spheres singing the fearsome drinking song of eternity."
(Source: Conversations with Eternity, translated by John
Chambers.)
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
He "cleans up well" is prison lingo. It refers to a
convict who, upon leaving jail, is able to overhaul his appearance
and demeanor so thoroughly that no one can tell he has served
time. I believe that in the coming weeks you will have access
to another version of this skill. You will so completely erase
the traces of your own personal version of "incarceration"
that everyone will assume that you've always been a free bird.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
In an effort to create safer streets, some European towns are
getting rid of traffic signs and stoplights. The theory is that
if drivers have no visible aides to guide them, they will slow
down and be more considerate. "What we want is for people
to be confused," says an official of the German town of Bohmte.
"When they're confused, they'll be more alert and drive more
carefully." In this spirit, and in accordance with your astrological
omens, I suggest that you spend a week exploring the virtues of
living without any rules. Instead, rely on your intuition about
what's most righteous and authentic to do in every situation.
Proceed on a case-by-case basis, without invoking general principles
or overarching theories.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Before you attempt a quantum leap of faith over the yawning abyss,
please remove your 500 pounds of defense mechanisms first. Your
success in soaring the whole distance will require you to be free
of emotional baggage. As long as you fulfill this simple prerequisite,
I'm in favor of you risking the transition. It's about time you
summoned more zeal to follow the path with heart, even if that
path resumes on the other side of the great divide.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
There's a place in Venezuela where lightning storms rage 10 hours
a night, 150 days of the year. It's where the Catatumbo River
flows into Lake Maracaibo. Humans put their lives at risk to be
near this persistent storm. The upside of the phenomenon is that
it generates a significant portion of our planet's ozone, and
produces so much light that it helps ships navigate up to 250
miles away. If you encounter anything with a metaphorical resemblance
to the Catatumbo lightning in the coming days, I suggest you enjoy
it from a distance. That way, it'll provide you with all of its
benefits and none of its dangers.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
A psychotherapist friend told me that most of his clients' problems
fit into one of three categories: ordinary but interesting; bizarre
and interesting; bizarre but dull. What's your style, Leo? Even
if you're normally the "ordinary but interesting" type,
I suspect that you've entered, at least temporarily, the ranks
of the "bizarre but interesting" crowd. There's a big
potential perk to this development. It may supply you with a steady
flow of colorful melodrama, allowing you to win friends and influence
people as you regale them with tales of your strangely entertaining
life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Having friendly arguments will be an excellent strategy for generating
clarity in the coming days. Since everyone has a piece of the
truth but no one has more than a piece of the truth, the whole
story will have to be assembled from a variety of fragments. I
foresee you and your cohorts banging your partial truths together,
fighting and collaborating in an untidy quest to transcend each
of your own narrow perspectives. Your mantra is William Blake's
assertion that "without contraries there is no progression."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
George W. Bush is the most unpopular U.S. president in history.
His 19 percent approval rating in February was even worse than
that of the king of disgrace, Richard Nixon. A growing consensus
among historians also suggests that Bush is the worst president
ever. The debacle of the Iraq invasion is the chief factor in
that appraisal, but there's so much more. To name a few: the plunging
value of the dollar, the stupendous national debt, the rapid degeneration
of the environment, the catastrophic loss of civil liberties,
and the abuse of human rights. And yet Bush has done one wonderful
deed that has been unsung: He has poured billions of dollars of
aid into Africa, more than any previous president. In accordance
with your current astrological omens, Libra, I challenge you to
do what I just did: Look for redemption in an influence that has
created a mess or broken your heart.
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AUDIO HOROSCOPES
In addition to the horoscopes that you're reading here, I create
more in-depth audio horoscopes for your inspiration. Find out
more at RealAstrology.com.
The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888
or 1-900-950-7700.
"You told me the truth when no one else in my life would."
- Darren H., Minneapolis
"Your wake-up calls keep me from getting stale."
- Arris T., Aspen, CO
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
A heterosexual man who is seeking a partner often doesn't want
a woman to be complete unto herself; he hopes she'll feel inadequate
and lost without him. Similarly, many hetero women demand that
their men be absolutely dependent on them. Those of the gay persuasion
aren't necessarily any different; quite a few also prefer their
consorts to be unable to thrive alone. But there are also plenty
of people who want their intimate relationships to be an alliance
of strong, equal, independent partners. Where do you stand on
this issue, Scorpio? It's an ideal time for you to cultivate a
longing for a bond in which you are complete unto yourself and
your partner is complete unto himself or herself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Hello, I am Vimala Blavatsky, the Winter Witch. Rob Brezsny asked
me to make a guest appearance in your horoscope. Since spring
is imminent, I'll soon be retiring from my public work and will
begin the research, meditations, and prayers that will prepare
for the new round of therapeutic magic I'll offer next winter.
But I'm still available for a while longer to help you finish
any work you've been doing in the following areas: building solid
psychological foundations, taking total responsibility for your
fate, pruning away extraneous wishes and dead-end dreams, and
getting down to the core of every issue. How have you been progressing
on those tasks? If you need a boost, send out a telepathic request
for me to appear in your dreams. I'll be there.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
The editors of the Our Dumb Century claim there are
40,000 jokes crammed into the book's 256 pages. It took 12 people
two years to come up with this humor onslaught, they say, or four
and a half jokes per person per day. I advise you to triple that
output in the coming week, Capricorn. Even if you don't normally
think of yourself as a comedian, the astrological omens suggest
that you will be funnier than you've ever been. That's fortunate,
because in order to get the most out of the upcoming opportunities,
you should unleash a flood of wit and hilarity.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
"The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a
difficult violin passage," writes Thomas Powers, quoted in
the book Sunbeams. "After it had been in rehearsal
for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said
he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult,
no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that.
What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'"
Keep this story close to your heart in the coming week, Aquarius.
It will give you the proper perspective as you, too, go about
the work of doing the best you can at a task that is virtually
impossible to perfect.
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HOMEWORK:
As an experiment, imagine you have two guardian angels. What
are their names? What do you want them to do for you? Testify
by going to FreeWillAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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