Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 19, 2014
FreeWillAstrology.com
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My book
PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
Below is an excerpt, which you can also listen to here.
bit.ly/YourProphecy
Here's how it starts: Your imagination is the single most important
asset you possess. It's your power to create mental pictures of
things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being.
It's the magic wand you use to shape your future.
And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless
predictions every day. Your imagination is the source, tirelessly
churning out images of what you will be doing later.
The featured prophecy of the moment may be as simple as a psychic
impression of yourself eating a fudge brownie at lunch or as monumental
as a daydream of some year building your dream home by a lake
or sea.
Your imagination is a treasure when it spins out scenarios that
are aligned with your deepest desires. In fact, it's an indispensable
tool in creating the life you want; it's what you use to form
images of the conditions you'd like to inhabit and the objects
you hope to wield. Nothing manifests on this planet unless it
first exists as a mental picture.
But for most of us, the imagination is as much a curse as a blessing.
We're often just as likely to use it to conjure up premonitions
that are at odds with our conscious values. That's the result
of having absorbed toxic programming from the media and from our
parents at an early age and from other influential people in our
past.
Fearful fantasies regularly pop up into our awareness, many disguising
themselves as rational thoughts and genuine intuitions. Those
fearful fantasies may hijack our psychic energy, directing it
to exhaust itself in dead-end meditations . . . .
Read or hear the rest: bit.ly/YourProphecy
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Here's a letter sent to the Beauty and Truth Lab by a pronoiac
researcher named Risa Kline:
DEAR BEAUTY AND TRUTH LAB: The chemo treatments burned out all
the math skills in my brain, which were already pretty meager.
On the other hand, they awakened my ability to feel perfectly
at ease while in the midst of paradoxical situations that everyone
else finds maddening and uncomfortable. The chemo also made me
ridiculously tolerant of people's contradictions, sometimes even
their hypocrisies, and freed me to enjoy life as an entertaining
movie with lots of interesting plot twists rather than as a pitched
battle between everything I like and everything I don't like.
I guess I could say that my cancer helped turn me into a pronoiac!
- The Chaos Artist Formerly Known as Risa Kline
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There is no God. God is dead. God is a drug for people who aren't
very smart. God is an illusion sold to dupes by money-hungry religions.
God is a right-wing conspiracy. God is an infantile fantasy favored
by superstitious cowards who can't face life's existential meaninglessness.
JUST KIDDING! The truth is, anyone who says he knows what God
is or isn't, doesn't really know.
Now read Adolfo Quezada's prayer, then confess what you don't
know about God. "God of the Wild, you are different from
what I expected. I cannot predict you. You are too free to be
captured for the sake of my understanding. I can't find you in
the sentimentalism of religion. You are everywhere I least expect
to find you. You are not the force that saves me from the pain
of living; you are the force that brings me life even in the midst
of pain."
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Possible names for the cult we could start:
Born-Again Pagan Church of Amazed Anarchists
The Ism-Free Sect of the Love Butter Congregation
Flaming Jewel Temple of Living Outside of Time
The Tempestuous Temple of Sacred Uproar and Rowdy Blessings
First Church of the Last Chance
Magic Order of Educated Rapture
The Polyester Pagoda of the Palpitating Pulpit
Any others?
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Alert, relaxed listening is the radical act at the heart of our
pronoiac practice.
Curiosity is our primal state of awareness.
Wise innocence is a trick we aspire to master.
Open-hearted skepticism is the light in our eyes.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 20
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,"
writes Louise Gluck in her poem "The Wild Iris." I think
that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. There's
a part of you that is returning from oblivion -- making its way
home from the abyss -- and it will be hungry to express itself
when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This
dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say.
But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while
wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to
articulate its raw truths.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness," said
American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your
motto in the coming weeks. It's an excellent time to liberate
yourself from memories that still cause you pain -- to garner
major healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best
ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and
hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply
its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate
half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish
climate minister also announced his nation's intention to phase
out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would
love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term thinking
to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent
time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020
and 2025. It's also a perfect moment to outline a master plan
for the next ten years, and commit to it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career.
He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times
in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws:
The Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award
for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that
film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money
he made doing it. "I have never seen the film," he said,
"but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen
the house that it built, and it is terrific." In accordance
with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage
in a comparable trade-off during the coming months.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Someone on Reddit.com posed the question, "What have you
always been curious to try?" In reply, many people said they
wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they
had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating
chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifting; doing
a stand-up comedy routine; hang-gliding and deep-sea diving; exploring
the Darknet and the Deep Web; spontaneously taking a trip to a
foreign country; turning away from modern society and joining
a Buddhist monastery. What would your answer be, Aries? The coming
weeks will be an excellent time to explore what you have always
been curious to try. The risks will be lower than usual, and the
results more likely to be interesting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan
Doyle never once had his character Sherlock Holmes utter the statement
"Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Humphrey
Bogart never actually said "Play it again, Sam" in the
film Casablanca. Star Trek's Captain Kirk never used
the exact phrase "Beam me up, Scotty." Furthermore I,
Rob Brezsny, have never before issued the following prophecy:
"Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring
to bring you Tauruses intriguing pleasures that will educate the
naive part of your soul" -- until now, that is. At this juncture
in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely
saying just that.
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LOVE YOUR LIFE
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life,
or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages
must show." So begins Charles Dickens' novel "David
Copperfield." So let me ask you: Are you becoming the hero
of your own life? Are you figuring out the secrets of how to create
your destiny -- and not just waiting around for destiny to happen
to you?
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Here are some thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: "The
feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those
that are absurd -- the longing for impossible things; nostalgia
for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret
over not being someone else." Can you relate, Gemini? Have
you felt those feelings? Here's the good news: In the coming weeks,
you will be more free of them than you have been in a long time.
What will instead predominate for you are yearnings for very possible
things and contentment with what's actually available to you.
(Pessoa's words are from The Book of Disquiet, translated
by Alfred Mac Adam.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is learn
how to take care of yourself better. What? You say you're too
busy for that? You have too many appointments and obligations?
I disagree. In my astrological opinion, there's one task that
must trump all others, and that is get smarter about how you eat,
sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself, and connect with people.
I can assure you that there's a lot you don't know about what
you really need and the best ways to get what you really need.
But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, demanding, and
glorious art.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great
acrobats. They are the "Cirque du Soleil" performers
of the animal kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also
have sex. While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend
into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies
of their reproductive organs, thereby forming a "mating pinwheel."
I don't expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in
your own amorous escapades, Leo. But if you're adventurous, you
could very well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while
flying.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian animator
who has won numerous awards. His Tale of Tales was once
voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn't finished
any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working
on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to
the max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes' worth of
The Overcoat, which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol.
But I predict that he will complete this labor of love in the
next eight months -- just as many of you other Virgos will finally
wrap up tasks you have been working on for a long time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
"Every saint has a bee in his halo," said philosopher
Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive
streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona.
Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express your darker
feelings more forthrightly. You don't have to be mean and insensitive.
In fact, it's best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure
you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I
bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir
up through your acts of courageous honesty.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Many people use the terms "cement" and "concrete"
interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery
stuff that's composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate,
and other ingredients. It's just one of the raw materials that
is used to make concrete -- usually no more than 15 percent of
the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and
water. Let's regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in
mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can
last as long as concrete, make sure you don't get overly preoccupied
with the "cement" at the expense of the other 85 percent
of the stuff you will need.
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