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"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a
good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
--Shunryu Suzuki, *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind*
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June 14, 2006
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controversial for some readers. It contains graphic scenes of peace, love,
joy, passion, reverence, splendor, and understanding.
You will not find any references to harsh, buzzing fluorescent lights in a
cheap hotel room where an Arab American heroin dealer plots to get
revenge against the teachers at his old high school by releasing sarin gas
into the teachers' lounge.
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14th-century Tartars' war strategy of catapulting plague-ridden corpses
into an enemy's citadel.
Completely absent from these pages are any stories about a psychotic
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to help him elude the CIA, which wants to arrest him for the treasonous
sale of his company's nanotech weapons technology to the Chinese.
You should therefore proceed with caution if you are a jaded hipster who
is suspicious of feeling healthy and happy. Ask yourself: "Am I ready to
stop equating cynicism with insight? Do I dare take the risk that exposing
myself to uplifting entertainment might dull my intelligence?"
If you doubt your ability to handle relaxing breakthroughs, you should
stop reading the Free Will Astrology Newsletter.
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BOOK
*Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation
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ORGANIZATION
The Institute of Noetic Sciences
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MUSIC
*Hymns for the Exiled* by Anaïs Mitchell
SEEDS
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"Working for the preservation of botanical diversity and the preservation
of vanishing knowledge of the uses of plants"
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and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning June 15
Copyright 2006 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will have valid reasons for unleashing
vigorous critiques in the coming week. For best results, however, I
suggest that you dress them up in fine language. Your complaints will be
more likely to have a cathartic effect if you make them witty and even a
bit florid. To get in the right mood, spend some time with the Random
Shakespeare Insult Generator at http://snipurl.com/q1kk. Here are a few,
all lifted from the work of The Bard. (1) "Thou jarring motley-minded
pignut!" (2) "Thou cockered beef-witted measle!" (3) "Thou unmuzzled
dismal-dreaming scut!"
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Before you can do something you must first
be something," wrote Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. That's advice we
can all profit from. Most of us have been guilty of trying to skips steps in
reaching our goals, hoping to pull off feats we have not yet developed
sufficient strength of character to master. For example, there's no way I
could have been a good writer at age 19, since I had so little life
experience to draw on, hadn't learned how to cultivate my
perceptiveness, and didn't have the discipline to sit down and write every
day. In the coming week, Taurus, think about whether there's a dream
you cherish but have not yet earned the right to achieve. Then decide
what you'll have to do to become more worthy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every year the National Grocers Association
stages its own version of the Oscars. Among the honors it bestows is an
award for Best Bagger. It goes to the person who displays the most élan
while efficiently and speedily filling grocery bags with buyers' purchases.
The social status accorded the winner may pale in comparison to, say,
Hollywood's best film actress or baseball's most valuable player, but
personally I'm just as impressed with it. In fact, I think everyone in the
world should be the recipient of a prize that commemorates the one thing
they do better than anyone else. It happens to be an excellent time for
you to go after the unique trophy you deserve, Gemini. If no organization
gives it to you, make it or buy it yourself.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): During a solar eclipse, members of some
indigenous tribes in South America used to shoot burning arrows toward
the heavens in the belief that they would scare away the demon that was
devouring the sun. I recommend that you try this, if only in your
imagination. No, there won't be an actual eclipse happening in the literal
sky in the coming week. But something like that has been going on in your
psyche. It's time to fight back with burning arrows.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to conventional measures of success,
filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is a successful man. His movie *The Sixth
Sense* is one of the top 25 money-makers in history, and three of his
other films have grossed more than $200 million apiece worldwide. And
yet he places a supreme value on reverie. "My life is about finding time to
dream," he has said. I urge you to make that your motto, Leo. The
progress of your most practical ambitions later in 2006 will depend on
whether or not you spend the next few weeks tapping into information
that's available through fantasies, meditations, dreams, and other altered
states.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "The chief danger in life is that you may take
too many precautions," wrote pioneer psychologist Alfred Adler. If you
have inflicted that danger on yourself too often in the past, Virgo, the
coming weeks will be an excellent time to make amends. According to my
analysis of the astrological omens, a series of really smart risks is lining up
to greet you. May you approach them with just the right blend of daring
and discernment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ancient Greeks called apricot juice the nectar
of the gods. For centuries, Europeans regarded apricots as aphrodisiacs
and symbols of fertility. According to old English folk tales, to dream of
apricots portends good fortune. In the 21st century, however, demand
for the fruit is waning. Since 1994, production has diminished by almost
50 percent in California, which grows most of America's crop. Is there one
of your skills or products whose situation resembles the apricot's, Libra?
Some fine offering you were born to provide but that the culture seems
to be losing its need for? If so, meditate on whether it's time to revise
your relationship with it--perhaps by reinventing or repackaging it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most modern religions propose that we need
intermediaries--priests, priestesses, rabbis, imams, monks--to get
connected to the divine source. In contrast, many ancient Gnostics
believed that every person could be in charge of creating his or her own
link to spirit. Indeed, anyone might contribute fresh insights and
revelations to the body of ever-evolving spiritual truths. The equivalent
today would be if the Bible were regarded as an unfinished text to which
every Christian or Jew could add new content. This is a perfect
astrological moment for you to try out this perspective, Scorpio: the do-
it-yourself approach to creating your own religion. You now have the
power to be your own priest, priestess, rabbi, imam, or monk.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "If you give a person feedback you
focus them for a day," says entrepreneur George Reavis. "If you teach
them how to *ask* for feedback you focus them for a lifetime." I mention
this, Sagittarius, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for
you to act on his advice. You have the potential to become skilled at
consistently getting the exact feedback you need--the kind of
constructive, respectful critique that serves as an inspiring kick in the
butt.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his biography *Tallulah!: The Life and
Times of a Leading Lady,* Joel Lobenthal describes actress Tallulah
Bankhead (1902-1968) as a reckless hedonist given to exhibitionism and
affairs with hundreds of lovers. He also hints that there was a karmic
payback for her excesses. It came in the form of a lengthy hysterectomy
that was a last-ditch attempt to save her from the ravages of an
advanced case of gonorrhea, reducing her frame to a mere seventy
pounds. Bankhead didn't see it as karmic payback, however. Afterwards
she told her doctor, "Don't think this has taught me a lesson!" Your own
imminent comeuppance won't be even a tiny fraction of what Bankhead's
was, Capricorn. But I hope that after it has been offered, you will
thankfully say, "This has taught me a valuable lesson!"
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The group Reporters Without Borders
evaluates how well the world's nations respect freedom of the press.
Finland, Iceland, and the Netherlands are the top three, while North Korea,
Cuba, and Burma are at the bottom. Canada is ranked tenth. The U.S. is
137th (of a total 167) in terms of the press freedom that it fosters
outside of its own borders, although it's 44th in its own territory. In this
spirit and in response to current astrological omens, I inventoried the
freedom of expression you have carved out for yourself, Aquarius. I also
appraised your skill at creating an environment in which other people feel
free to express themselves to you. You're doing great in the first
category--number one in the zodiac!--but you could use some work in the
second. Now is a perfect time to work harder to extend to others the
spaciousness you enjoy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my analysis of the astrological
omens, pleasures that appeal to the adult in you may not rouse anywhere
near the excitement they usually do in the coming weeks. The best use of
your time might be to leap into your second childhood. You'd probably be
wise to do things like making mud pies, rolling sideways down a grassy hill,
getting your face painted, feeding a farm animal, going on a scavenger
hunt, climbing trees, and creating a papier-maché monster mask.
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HOMEWORK:
What part of yourself are you most scared of? Is it time to give that part
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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
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But I can recommend a colleague whose astro-aesthetics closely match
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Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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