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June 29, 2005
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How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
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Now here's an excerpt from
PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
Welcome to the PRONOIA NEWS NETWORK. Here's the news.
* The crime rate just keeps declining year after year. Human life
expectancy is an amazing 78 years and still climbing. Levels of literacy
and education and political freedom and wealth are steadily growing all
over the world. Death rates from cancer are declining. Child abduction by
strangers has dropped precipitously. In 60 years, there hasn't been a
lower birth rate among teenage girls than there is now.
* The world's largest freshwater system, the Great Lakes, is dramatically
purifying itself of the pollutants that human beings dumped into it. The
number of America's black elected officials has sextupled since 1970.
Rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious
strife worldwide. The world's largest private bank, Citigroup, has agreed
to stop financing projects that damage sensitive ecosystems. The giant
timber company, Congolaise Industrielle des Bois, voluntarily agreed to
stop cutting down trees in a virgin rain forest in the Congo.
* The miracle of your breathing transpires about 10 million times a year,
even though you never have to think about it. Every second the sun
generously transforms four million tons of itself into energy and bestows
it on us free of charge. Diamonds rain from the sky on Uranus and
Neptune. With every dawn, when first light penetrates the sea, many
seahorse colonies perform a dance to the sun. The World Health
Organization reports that over 100 million acts of sexual intercourse,
involving more than 200 million partners, take place on the earth every
24 hours.
* Most HMO executives now believe prayer and meditation can expedite
the healing process. Vast supplies of frozen natural gas lie beneath the
oceans, harboring more potential energy than all the world's oil reserves,
and could be mined with the right technology. Each of the 50 trillion cells
in your body can be considered a sentient being in its own right, and they
all act together as a community, performing an ongoing act of prodigious
collaboration.
* For 1,109 more items of good news, read the book "PRONOIA Is the
Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You
with Blessings."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning June 30
Copyright 2005 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A reader wrote the following letter to Parade
magazine columnist Marilyn vos Savant: "When you're asleep and
dreaming about performing calorie-burning activities such as running,
jumping, and flying, do you burn more calories in reality as opposed to
when you're dreaming about doing something low-impact?" If you wrote
me an inquiry like that, Aries, I'd say this: "Yes, definitely. In fact, what
you do in your dreams this week will have at least as much impact on
your waking life as anything you do in your waking life. Keep a pen and
notebook by your bed so you can keep track of late-breaking
developments."
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is the one of the shortest horoscopes I
have ever written for you. That's because there is just one simple
message, which you should take to heart in a hundred ways. Are you
ready? Trust yourself as you have never trusted yourself before. Trust
your perceptions, your feelings, and your body. Trust your bratty whims,
your weird longings, and your momentary lapses. Trust your urge to
merge, your itch to bitch, and your yearning to learn. Trust your ability to
know exactly how to trust.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini actress Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on
her belly. It reads "Quod me nutruit me destruit," which is Latin for "What
feeds me destroys me." I'm not sure I understand all of its implications,
but here's what I think are the two main messages: (1) If you grow too
comfortable from soaking up nourishing experiences, you'll blunt your lust
for the kind of adventures that make you feel fully alive. (2) If you
become addicted to what you enjoy, what you enjoy will mess you up.
What do you think? In my dream last night, Jolie told me it's the perfect
astrological moment for her fellow Geminis to meditate on the meaning of
her tattoo.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): It's the season of high adventure. You have a
sacred duty to flee your safety zones, wander out to the wild frontiers,
and flirt with possibilities you've never entertained. To get you started,
here are a few suggested activities: Fly in a hot-air balloon over
Tanzania's Serengeti National Park; run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain;
go on a two-week meditation retreat in Pondicherry, India; read Thomas
Mann's *The Magic Mountain;* give laughing lessons to a cat; make love
on a mountaintop; speak the words you've been wanting to say for years.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Say goodbye to the ghost. It has hung around far
too long. In the early days, its teachings were useful, but now your
relationship is fueled mostly by habit. Besides, there's no value in
continuing to pore over all the scenarios about what might have been. In
order to banish this ghost, Leo, you don't need to be cruel or angry.
Simply inform it that its work is finished, and you've both got to move on.
For best results, perform a ritual that formally severs your tie. You could
tie a string between two objects, one that represents you and one that
symbolizes the ghost, then use scissors to cut the connection.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I'm about to tell you is always important
to keep in mind, but it's especially crucial right now. *If you think you're
too small and insignificant to have a major impact, you've never spent the
night in bed with a mosquito.* Let me put it a different way Virgo: In
order for you to set in motion all the invigorating, far-reaching changes
you now have the potential to initiate, you must believe you are as
impossible to fight off as a mosquito in the dark.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Boanthropy is a type of insanity in which a
person believes he or she is an ox. Fortunately, you won't suffer from
that in the coming week. But there is a possibility you will contract a case
of hawkanthropy, in which you imagine you're a huckster who must hawk
your personality, talents, and products like a Hollywood publicist on meth.
My hope is that the warning you're now reading will steer you away from
this pathological condition. I assure you that it makes no sense for you to
try too hard as you sell yourself. Let your work speak for itself, and don't
interrupt.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Introducing Adrienne Rich at a poetry reading
in San Francisco in 2004, Frances Phillips turned to her and said, "Thank
you for your lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind." It was a fitting
tribute to a poet who for 50 years has stirred up good trouble with her
rowdy yet disciplined work. By the end of this week, Scorpio, I would like
to feel justified in saying the same thing to you: "Thank you for your
lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind." Now get out there and pull off
the most healing mischief you can imagine.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I was watching MTV's reality game show
"Next." The camera recorded the adventures of a hot blonde as she went
on a succession of brief dates with five strangers. The moment any of the
suitors bothered or bored her, she barked "Next!", banishing the loser and
ushering in a fresh supplicant. In the first part of the show, she rejected
three guys, paving the way for the fourth: an affable, goofy Sagittarius.
"I've heard Sagittarians are workaholics," she told him just minutes into
the date. "You've been misinformed," he replied with a chuckle, and went
on to tell her that he had no job, really liked doing nothing in particular all
day long, and enjoyed walking around naked whenever possible. I bring
this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I hope you'll make a liar out of
him in the coming weeks. Please work with as much intensity as you can
possibly summon. (P.S. However, it would be fine for you to follow his
example for a while in August.)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you have an unconscious belief that
the forces of evil are loud, vigorous, and strong, while good is quiet,
gentle, and passive? If so, you'll soon get vivid evidence that will
contradict your theory. Are you secretly suspicious of joy because you
think it's inevitably rooted in wishful thinking and a willful ignorance about
the true nature of reality? If so, your suspicions are about to be exposed
as unfounded. Do you fear that when you're in the presence of love and
beauty you tend to become softheaded, whereas you're likely to feel
smart and powerful when sneering at the ugliness around you? Get ready
to see an alternative possibility.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A golden eagle with a seven-foot wingspan
shot down out of the overcast sky and dived at my friend Maura's pet
cockatoo, which was perched on the branch of an oak not 30 feet from
her back door. Five of us watched with alarm from the outdoor table
where we were sipping tea. We began howling, hoping to scare the giant
predator away, and I ran to grab a baseball bat that Maura's son had left
lying near the tree. And then the unexpected happened. The eagle did not
attack the cockatoo, but settled down peacefully beside it. Nor did the
cockatoo flee. The two sat there together like old friends for maybe ten
minutes before the bigger bird flew away. In the coming week, Aquarius, I
predict that you will experience a metaphorical version of this event.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your meditation for the week comes from
Friedrich Nietzsche. "The individual has always had to struggle to keep
from being overwhelmed by the tribe," he wrote. "If you try it, you will
often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay
for the privilege of owning yourself." This is an ideal time for you to put
this prescription into action, Pisces, because during the current grace
period you have the power to own more of yourself than ever before--and
without getting lonely or scared.
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HOMEWORK:
It's a shame so many of us try to motivate ourselves through abusive
self-criticism. Are you guilty of this sin? How so, and what will you do to
change? Testify by going to http://www.freewillastrology.com and
clicking on "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing charts these days. In addition to writing my weekly column
and expanded audio horoscopes, I'm also working on a CD and promoting
my new book.
But I can recommend a colleague whose astro-aesthetics closely match
my own. She's RO LOUGHRAN.
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. In addition to over 20 years of
astrological experience, Ro is also a licensed psychotherapist, allowing her
to integrate psychological insight with the cosmological perspective that
astrology offers.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic boundaries.
Ro's website is at
http://www.astrology-psychotherapy.com/
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
Namaste,
Rob
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