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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
July 4, 2007
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WHAT'S AHEAD FOR YOU in the next six months?
EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2007
To hear my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
between now and January 1, 2008, go here:
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"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2007"
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What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and
divine inspiration?
Where are you likely to find most success?
How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
Tune in.
The horoscopes cost $6 apiece. Discounts are available for multiple
purchases.
You can also listen to your short-term forecast for the coming week by
clicking on "This week (July 3, 2007)."
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"Whoever loves the earth and its glory, and forgets the 'dark realm,' or
confuses the two (which is mostly what happens), has spirit for his
enemy; and whoever flees from the earth and falls into the 'eternal arms'
has life for an enemy."
- C. G. Jung, *Symbols of Transformation*
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http://FreeWillAstrology.com
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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 http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
To read news and features from the book, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2uhvjl
Here's an excerpt from my book
"PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings"
PRONOIA'S VILLAINS
According to Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Judas was actually a
more exalted hero than Jesus. He unselfishly volunteered to perform the
all-important villain's role in the resurrection saga, knowing he'd be reviled
forever. It was a dirty job that only a supremely egoless saint could have
done. Jesus suffered, true, but enjoyed glory and adoration as a result.
Let's apply this way of thinking to the task of understanding the role
that seemingly bad people play in pronoia.
Interesting narratives play an essential role in the universal conspiracy to
give us exactly what we need. All of us crave drama. We love to be
beguiled by twists of fate that unfold the stories of our lives in
unpredictable ways. Just as Judas played a key role in advancing the tale
of Christ's quest, villains and con men and clowns may be crucial to the
entertainment value of our personal journeys.
Try this: Imagine the people you fear and dislike as pivotal characters
in a fascinating and ultimately redemptive plot that will take years or even
lifetimes for the Divine Wow to elaborate.
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There is another reason to love our enemies: They force us to become
smarter. The riddles they thrust in front of us sharpen our wits and sculpt
our souls.
Try this: Act as if your adversaries are great teachers. Thank them for
how crucial they've been in your education.
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Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down
and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast.
Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It
needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn't ready to be born after
five months of gestation, the new world we're creating has to ripen in its
own time. The recalcitrant reactionaries who resist the inevitable birth are
simply making sure that the far-seeing revolutionaries don't conjure the
future too suddenly. They serve the greater good.
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To read other news and features from my book, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/lhwx2
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AMAZON
http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
POWELLS
http://tinyurl.com/3dsx6q
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
BEAUTY IS A FUNDAMENTAL NEED
*Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality*
by J. Ruth Gendler
http://tinyurl.com/2x8ef3
NATURAL ALTRUISM
If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural
"Neuroscientists at the US National Institutes of Health, had been
scanning the brains of volunteers as they were asked to think about a
scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it
for themselves. The results showed that when the volunteers placed the
interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive
part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex.
Altruism, the experiment suggested, is not a superior moral faculty that
suppresses basic selfish urges but rather is basic to the brain, hard-wired
and pleasurable."
http://tinyurl.com/364edq
http://tinyurl.com/yut6bt (Gaia Media News)
GOOD NEWS
"Because people got out on the streets, and marched and spoke up 7, 6,
5 years ago, 20 million children are going to school in Africa that weren't
before." -Bono
(Note: I endorse this because I like it. It's not an advertisement, and I get
no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning July 5
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The bad news: Charlie and Sharon Reed, a
couple in Dallas, had their old VW convertible stolen. The good news: By
the time police recovered the car three months later, the thieves had
given it a new paint job, and had fixed its cracked windshield and dented
bumpers. Let's make this your metaphor of the week, Aries. I predict that
you, too, will be reunited with something you lost, and it will be in better
shape than it was before you were separated.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming week, I doubt you'll misplace
your keys or forget to set your alarm clock or spill soup on your shirt.
While shopping, you'll be intuitive about picking the checkout line that
moves fastest. If you take a plane somewhere, your luggage will show up
promptly in the baggage claim area. In other words, Taurus, the little
things in life will go well for you, reducing your wasted time and
inconvenience to near zero. May I suggest that you respond to this grace
period not by cramming in more busy work, but by giving yourself regular
opportunities to enjoy the luxury of taking deep breaths and gazing at the
big picture?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may think that the lights you see in the
night sky are single stars, but most of them are not. They are binary
systems, with two stars orbiting around a common gravitational center.
Our lonely sun, with no companion sun, is a rarity. Unless, that is, we've
been overlooking clues that our sun does in fact has a twin. Although the
jury is still out, circumstantial evidence is mounting that our system is
binary, and that somewhere out there way beyond Pluto is a brown dwarf
star carrying on a secret relationship with our sun. If it exists, it's
relatively cool and small for a star, and difficult to see, which would
explain why we haven't actually detected it yet. Now I'm suggesting that
something similar may be true about your life, Gemini: that you have long
had a shadowy link with a counterpart whose destiny is intimately
interwoven with yours. If you're ever destined to forge a more conscious
connection with each other, it will be in the second half of 2007. And the
initial breakthrough would occur soon.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A reader named Michael McCarthy wrote to
say he plans to start a new religion, the "First Church of the Rude
Awakening." It will be based on the principle that having a pleasant life
cannot serve as a motivation to seek enlightenment and salvation.
McCarthy believes that no one ever bolts up out of bed one morning and
says, "I'm so happy, I think I'll go meditate and pray and make myself into
a better person for as long as it takes, so I can find God and say
THANKS." Even if his theory is true (which I doubt), you Cancerians will be
an exception to it in the coming weeks. I bet you'll have a series of
epiphanies precisely because you're in an excellent mood, leading you to
embark on a groundbreaking new phase of spiritual exploration.
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
MID-YEAR PREVIEW of YOUR DESTINY for the REST of 2007
What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2007? How can you
exert your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out the best in
you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of
destiny?
If you'd like a high-octane boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest
for beauty and truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in to my
meditations on your long-term outlook.
Go here:
http://tinyurl.com/ooga5
Log in and click on the link "Long Term Forecast for Second Half of
2007."
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A unique variety of freedom will be yours to enjoy
in the coming week. You'll be free to be aimless and clueless; you'll be
under no pressure to be focused and smart. You'll be free to be quiet and
meek; you won't have to be brave and articulate. You'll be free of wanting
to be needed and understood; you won't be plagued by the longing for
someone to love you and see you for exactly who you are. You'll be free
to be anarchistic and apathetic; you won't have to believe in or care
about anything. And finally, Leo, you'll be free to *not* be yourself. You
will have so much freedom that you'll even be free of freedom!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When Adam sampled the apple from the tree
of knowledge, he was expelled from Paradise. After Prometheus stole fire
from his fellow gods and gave it to humans, he was punished by being
chained to a rock and getting his liver chewed on for years by an eagle.
You, on the other hand, won't have to suffer for the nervy coup I hope
you'll pull off in the coming weeks. So don't look over your shoulder as
you do your daring deed. Throw yourself into it with unconditional love
and fervor.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): British astronomer Martin Rees was told about
a colleague who felt so puny and insignificant in comparison to the stars
that he committed suicide. Rees responded with dismay, rejecting the
perspective that had led a fellow astronomer to take his own life. "We are
more important than the stars," he said. "I don't have a despairing
attitude because what makes things important is not how big they are,
but how complex and intricate they are, and human beings are more
complicated and intricate than stars." While this is always good to keep in
mind, Libra, it's especially apropos now. You're in a potent and radiant
phase of your yearly cycle -- a time when you have a mandate to show
why you're more important than the stars.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Before I suggest to you what your next
assignment should be, read this passage from poet Adrienne Rich.
"Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from
biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as
something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the
memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language
-- this will become not merely unspoken, but unspeakable." What I hope
you will do in the coming week, Scorpio, is rescue from obscurity any
important thing that is on the verge of becoming unspeakable. Be a
retriever of that-which-is-about-to-disappear. Be a rememberer of that-
which-is-close-to-being forgotten.
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ooga5
What hidden factors will be massaging your destiny during the next six
months? Could you use some hints about how to prepare for the
adventures awaiting you during the rest of 2007?
To listen to my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
during the next six months, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/ooga5
Log in and click on the link "Long Term Forecast for Second Half of
2007."
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your power spots is in a valley
where a melted glacier has made a new river. Another is in a place where
a forest fire has cleared room for the opportunistic purple blooms of the
fireweed. A third hot spot is a once-dismal school that has been
refurbished so that it no longer resembles a prison. I urge you to spend
quality time in transformed places like these, Sagittarius. Doing so will put
you in the right mood to get the most out of current cosmic rhythms.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It's Unity Week. You have rich
opportunities to negotiate truces, whip up collaborations, and knit
together seemingly irreconcilable elements. Maybe it has previously
seemed insane for you to try mixing oil and water, apples and oranges, or
Israelis and Palestinians, but it makes sense now. You'll tend to attract
good fortune whenever you conspire to turn matches made in hell into
heavenly blends. Here's a motto to inspire your work, from the rebellious
unification expert Gandhi: "Happiness is when what you think, what you
say, and what you do are in harmony."
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Nature artist Andy Goldsworthy is a skilled
rock balancer. With infinite patience, he arranges stacks of them in
seemingly impossible arrangements. Though he has a highly developed
sensitivity to the heft and shape of his raw materials, his work still
requires him to persist through frustration. While building one particularly
intricate structure, he said, "The moment it collapses is disappointing. But
since it has collapsed four times I'm beginning to understand the stones
better." From what I can determine, Aquarius, you're at a stage in your
own labor of love that's equivalent to Goldsworthy's third collapse. Keep
at it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are a few of the fine developments I
expect you will have enjoyed by the end of July: growing pains that feel
pretty damn good; the dissolution of wishy-washy wishes that had been
keeping you distracted from your burning desires; a vivid vision of what
you want to be when you grow up; living proof that you're not just an
armchair adventurer; the friendliest lust ever; a new plaything; and insight
into why fanaticism can be very useful in moderation.
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HOMEWORK: Compose a sincere prayer in which you ask God or Goddess
for something you're not "supposed" to. Tell me about by going to
http://FreeWillAstrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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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
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Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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Ro's website is at
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She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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