Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
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Excerpted from PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
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LET'S EXPOSE THE OBVIOUS MIRACLES, Part 1
Thousands of things go right for you every single day, beginning
the moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand,
you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though
you've been unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases
that's just right for your body's needs, as it was before you
fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered
by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions
of years to perfect. The interesting gift of these vivid hues
is made possible by an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the
sun, which continually detonates nuclear reactions in order to
convert its own body into light and heat and energy for your personal
use.
You can't live without the sun's inexhaustible flood of unconditional
love. Every move you make depends on it. Luckily, it never fails
you.
Did you know that your personal star is located at the precise
distance from you to be of consummate service? If it were any
closer, you'd fry, and if it were any farther away, you'd freeze.
Is that just a happy accident? Or is it a sign of favor -- a big,
broad hint, from a cosmic intelligence that adores you?
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Of the many things that have gone right for you during your time
on Earth, the most crucial was your birth. As you crossed over
the threshold, trading the warm dark sanctuary for the bright
noisy enigma, you didn't die! It was a difficult act of high magic
that involved many people who worked very hard in your behalf.
The skills they provided in helping you navigate your rite of
passage were in turn made possible by previous generations of
threshold-tenders who bequeathed their expertise.
Months before that initiation, a more secret miracle bloomed:
Your life began as a single cell, spawned by the explosive fusion
of two highly specialized bundles of chromosomes. How could that
tiny package of raw material have possibly grown a brain and liver
and heart and stomach over a period of a few months? What inscrutable
genius guided and oversaw the emergence of your fully formed infant
body, that virtuoso creation, from the slimmest of clues?
"Something unknown is doing we don't know what," said
astrophysicist Arthur Eddington about the universe. And we are
the beneficiaries.
P.S. You have continued to grow since your birth, with millions
of new cells continually blooming to replace the old ones that
are always dying. At this moment, you're host to about 50 trillion
cells, and each of them is really a sentient being in its own
right. They all act together as a community, implementing the
monumental collaboration you call your body.
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A Complete Guide to the Soul
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EVALUATE THE ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 18
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Your old self is the fuel you will use to burn your old self
to the ground. This bonfire will liberate your new self, which
has been trapped in a gnarly snarl deep inside your old self.
It's only at first that you'll feel freaked out by the flames.
Very quickly a sense of relief and release will predominate. Then,
as the new you makes its way to freedom, escaping its cramped
quarters and flexing its vital force, you will be blessed with
a foreshadowing of your future. The intoxication that follows
will bring you clarity and peace of mind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
"Do we love Heaven more than God?" asks poet Paula
Cisewski in her book Ghost Fargo. I think that's the
kind of cryptic question you Capricorns would benefit from mulling
over in the coming weeks. Your mind needs to get its customary
categories shaken up and rearranged . . . needs its habitual grooves
broken up and diverted . . . needs its easy certainties flushed
and abandoned. Can you think of any other queries that will help
you accomplish this noble work? Let me offer a few to get you
started: 1. Do we love love itself more than we love the people
we say we love? 2. Do we fear failure so much that we interfere
with our cultivation of success? 3. Do we obsess on our longing
to such a degree that we miss opportunities to satisfy our longing?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
The Sanskrit word buddhi refers to the part of us that
adores the truth. It's good at distinguishing between what's real
and what's false, and is passionately attracted to liberation.
Although it may go into long periods of dormancy in some of us,
buddhi never falls asleep completely. It's always ready
to jump into action if we call on it. According to my reading
of the astrological omens, Aquarius, the buddhi aspect
of your psyche will be extra special big strong and bright in
the coming week. In my opinion, that's better than winning the
lottery.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
I like how snowboarder Graham Watanabe described his experiences
at last February's Winter Olympics. He wasn't content with making
a generic comment like "It was awesome!" or "No
words could describe how great it was!" Instead he got florid
and specific: "Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn
and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it
into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That's what
it feels like." As you break through your previous limits
in the coming weeks, Pisces, I'd love to hear you summon some
bursts of articulate jubilation akin to Watanbe's.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"You don't want to be the best of the best," said Grateful
Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. "You just want to be the only
one who does what you do." That's always good advice, but
it will be especially apt for you during the next few weeks. You're
entering a phase when competing with other people will get you
nowhere fast. What will get you somewhere fast is nurturing your
unique talents and proclivities. Do you know exactly what they
are? If you're even a little fuzzy, make it your quest to get
very clear.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
What is the "soul," anyway? Is it a ghostly blob of
magic stuff within us that keeps us connected to the world of
dreams and the divine realms? Is it an amorphous metaphor for
the secret source of our spiritual power? Is it a myth that people
entertain because they desperately want to believe there's more
to them than just their physical bodies? Here's what I think:
The soul is a perspective that pushes us to go deeper and see
further and live wilder. It's what drives our imagination to flesh
out our raw experience, transforming that chaotic stuff into rich
storylines that animate our love of life. With the gently propulsive
force of the soul, we probe beyond the surface level of things,
working to find the hidden meaning and truer feeling. I'm bringing
this up, Taurus, because it is Celebrate the Soul Week for you.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
"Nothing changes until it's changed
in everyone's memories," said poet Alice Notley. I urge you
to keep that in mind as you move forward, Gemini. In recent weeks,
you have helped untie a knot that once seemed impossibly tangled,
and you deserve kudos for that. But your job isn't done yet. Your
next task is to work on loosening the snarls and smoothing the
kinks that still linger in the imaginations of everyone involved.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
In the 1925 silent film The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin
plays a prospector during the Alaska Gold Rush. After a series
of adventures, he finds himself stuck in a remote cabin on Thanksgiving
Day with a ruffian named Big Jim. They're out of food, so Charlie
gets resourceful, boiling his right shoe in a big pot and serving
it up steaming hot. What the audience doesn't know is that the
movie prop is made of sweet licorice, not leather. So while it
may seem that dinner is a hardship, the actors actually had no
trouble polishing off their meal. I see a similar scenario in
your near future, Cancerian: something like eating a "shoe"
that's made of candy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Lots of toddlers in Indonesia smoke cigarettes, not just the
chain-smoking two-year-old in the famous Youtube video (tinyurl.com/SmokerKid).
But don't you dare let your inner child get started on a similar
habit any time soon, Leo. Make sure that sweet young thing is
exposed to only the very best influences; feed him or her only
the healthiest food, air, water, sounds, sights, images, and stories.
The innocent, curious, wide-eyed part of you is entering a phase
when rapid growth is going to happen, one way or another. It's
your job to guarantee that the growth goes in the right direction.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
"We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another;
unevenly," wrote Anais Nin. "We are mature in one realm,
childish in another." In you, Virgo, the discrepancies have
been especially apparent lately. For example, your brainy insightfulness
has been on a hot streak, while your gut wisdom has not. But I
suspect this situation to shift in the coming weeks. My reading
of the astrological omens suggests that your emotional intelligence
is set to thrive. It will be fine if you concentrate on that phenomenon
with all your heart, even if it means investing a little less
energy in being an analytical whiz.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote is constantly
chasing after the Road Runner, a long-legged bird that prefers
running to flying. Presumably, Coyote would eat the Road Runner
if he ever caught him, but he never does; the bird's too fast
and smart. In one recurring motif, the Road Runner dashes into
the entrance of a cave that's cut into a wall of sheer rock. When
Coyote tries to follow him, he smashes into the rock, and it's
revealed that the cave entrance is just a very realistic painting.
I suspect that you're going to have the Road Runner's power in
the coming week: an ability to find and use doors that are inaccessible
to other people.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
I recently discovered a blues-gospel artist named Famous L.
Renfro, who is also known as "The Flying Sweet Angel of Joy."
His soaring, gritty music had a medicinal effect. It seemed to
say to me, "You have the power to change your life in the
exact way you want to change your life." Your assignment,
Scorpio, is to find a new source of music or art or literature
or film that has a similar effect on you: a flying sweet angel
of joy that inspires you to do what has been hard for you to do.
According to my reading of the astrological omens, such an influence
is within your reach right now.
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HOMEWORK:
Which actor or actress would be the best choice to play you in
a film about your life? Go to Realastrology.com
and click "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely matches my own. In
our many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had
a major influence on each other's work.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained
intuition, emotional warmth, and
a high
degree of technical proficiency
in horoscope interpretation; she
is skilled
at exploring the mysteries of your
life's purpose and nurturing your
connection with your own inner
wisdom.
Ro is based in California, but
can do phone consultations and
otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic
boundaries.
Ro's website is at YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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