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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 24, 2010
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Describe the everyday miracles you take for granted, the uncanny powers
you possess, the small joys that occur so routinely you forget how much
they mean to you, and the steady flow of benefits bestowed on you by
people you know and don't know. What works for you?_What makes you
feel at home in the world?
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Excerpted from *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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LET'S EXPOSE THE OBVIOUS MIRACLES, Part 2
You can drink a glass of water. You can spread butter on a slice of toast.
You can wash your hair and prune your plants and draw infinity signs on a
piece of paper. Your hands work wonderfully well! Their intricate force and
sustained grace are amply supported by your heart, which circulates your
blood all the way out to replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in
your fingers and palms and wrists.
After your blood has delivered its blessings, it finds its way back to your
heart to be refreshed. This masterful mystery repeats itself over and over
again without you ever having to think about it.
Contemplate the unfathomable prowess of your digestive system.
Countless chemical reactions have to unfold with alacrity in order for it to
work as well as it does. The gastric juice has to be composed of just the
right mix of pepsin, rennin, mucus, and hydrochloric acid. The bile and
pancreatic juice must arrive at the right spot and at the right time. The
enterocytes in your small intestine always have to remember anew how to
carry out their uptake of ions, lipids, and peptides. How can they possibly
be so good at knowing exactly what to do and when to do it?
The circulation of blood and the conversion of food into fuel are just two
of many alchemical feats that the secret intelligence within you takes care
of. Thousands of other exchanges and transformations and syntheses are
ceaselessly working their wizardry inside your body without your
conscious participation.
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You may sometimes take for granted the luxuriant variety of unique and
subtle aromas that come to you, but the truth is that you love your sense
of smell. You're also thrilled about your power to hear sounds, and taste
flavors, and touch textures. A few of these impressions repel or offend
you -- although even those are often interesting -- but the vast majority
ground you and gratify you.
Maybe you rarely celebrate the fact that you can think, but according to
my inside sources, the flash of mercurial codes through your brain is
among the universe's most dazzling accomplishments. Try to imagine the
colossal divine plan or the implausible series of fabulous accidents that
had to coalesce in order for you to be able to generate thoughts --
soaring, luminescent, liberating thoughts or shriveled, rusty, burrowing
thoughts ... thoughts that can invent or destroy, corrupt or redeem, bless
or curse.
Your capacity to experience emotions and passions and longings is one of
your most precious endowments. You may not exult in the waves of anger
or jealousy that sometimes ripple through you, but you're glad you have
the power to feel them. Your yearning for an impossible dream may feel
shattering, but you relish being able to accommodate that much intensity
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TO READ THE REST OF THIS PIECE, go here: http://bit.ly/ObviousMiracle2
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READ PART 1 OF THE SERIES "Let's Expose the Obvious Miracles" here:
http://bit.ly/ObviousMiracle1
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
WHAT'S MORE TABOO THAN OPTIMISM?
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"Recommend aggressively happy music. The kind of music that punches
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GET YOUR DAILY MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF BEAUTY
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Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 25
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's Experiment with Your Self-Image
Week -- a time when it would be invigorating to shift and play with your
identity. During this reinvention phase, you might find you can change
yourself on the inside simply by rearranging yourself on the outside. So
have fun wearing clothes you've never donned before. Entertain yourself
with a new hairstyle. Speak in foreign accents or use words you don't
usually utter. Amuse yourself with a variety of novel approaches to
walking, laughing, gesticulating, and moving your face. Think of your
persona as a work of art that you love to tinker with.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "It's not that some people have willpower
and some don't," said physician James Gordon. "It's that some people are
ready to change and others are not." That's why you may soon appear to
the casual observer, Capricorn, as someone who's able to call on
enormous reserves of willpower. According to my reading of the
astrological omens, you are now more amenable to change than you've
been in a long time. In fact, I suspect that in the coming weeks you'll be
willing and even eager to initiate transformations that seem heroic to
people who are addicted to the status quo.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): All belief systems, ideologies, philosophies,
and religions are mostly wrong, even though many of them have chunks
of useful information that contribute to the common good. Said another
way, absolutely no one has the whole truth, but pretty much everyone
has a part of the truth. Now it so happens, Aquarius, that your little
fraction of ultimate wisdom is currently clearer and stronger than usual.
That makes you especially valuable to your gang, family, or tribe. It
doesn't mean you should be the supreme arbiter of correct thinking
forever, but it does suggest that right now you should exert extra
leadership with forceful grace.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Think back over the course of your life and
identify any worthy ambitions that got irretrievably blocked or frustrated
or squandered. Once you've named those lost chances, do a ritual in
which you completely let go of them. As much as possible, give up all
regrets. Flush the sadness. Forgive anyone who interfered. Wipe the slate
clean. Only by doing this can you open the way to an opportunity that's
lurking just outside your awareness. And what exactly is that
opportunity? Even if I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking
about. Your ability to find it requires you to do the preliminary work of
purging your remorse for missed opportunities.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Should you rely on hard facts or soft feelings?
Would it be advisable to trust your tried-and-true medicine or else a
potion brewed from the tongue of a snake, the feather of a crow, and a
mandrake root? Can you get better results by mingling with staunch allies
or with rebel upstarts who have a knack for shaking things up? Only you
can decide on these matters, Aries. My opinion? You'll probably generate
more interesting developments by going with the feelings, the mandrake
root, and the upstarts.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "We cannot have any unmixed emotions," said
poet William Butler Yeats. "There is always something in our enemy that
we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike." I hope that's
OK with you, Taurus. In fact I hope you regard that as a peculiar blessing -
- as one of the half-maddening, half-inspiring perks of life on earth. The
fact is, as I see it, that you are in the thick of the Season of Mixed
Emotions. The more graciously you accept that -- the more you invite it
to hone your soul's intelligence -- the better able you'll be to capitalize on
the rich and fertile contradictions that are headed your way.
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WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES ARE LIKE?
To get an idea of how my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES might make
you feel, tune in to my podcast, "Fear Versus Intuition."
It's here: http://bit.ly/FearVersusIntuition
"Fear Versus Intuition" is a meditation about the difference between your
fearful fantasies and your authentic, accurate intuitions.
My approach there has a close resemblance to the style of my weekly
EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES. Go here to access them:
http://RealAstrology.com
The weekly forecasts are also available by phone:
1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Louisiana porn star Stormy Daniels considered
running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010, although she eventually dropped
out because it was too expensive. I admired one of her campaign
strategies: She went on a "listening tour," traveling around her state to
hear what potential constituents might want to tell her. I encourage you
to embark on your own listening tour in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will
be prime time for you to find out about everything you don't even realize
you need to know. Adopt a mode of maximum receptivity as you ask a lot
of questions. Wipe your mind clean of assumptions so you can get all of
the benefits possible from being innocent and curious.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I love astrology. It excites my imagination and
helps ensures that my relationship with the world is never too literal or
prosaic. It anchors me in the paradoxical insight that although many
things are out of my control, I have huge amounts of free will. My study
of the mysterious meanings of planetary omens provides guidance, keeps
me humble, and is a constant reminder that poetry provides an
understanding of reality that's as useful as science. On the other hand,
astrology sometimes feels oppressive. I don't like any system, even one
as interesting as astrology, to come between me and the raw truth about
reality. I aspire to see the actual person who's in front of me, not be
interpreting everything she does through the lens of her horoscope. Now I
urge you to do what I've just done, Cancerian: Express your appreciation
for something in your life that provides beauty and power, even as you
also critique its downsides.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Bees pollinate apples. Butterflies perform the
same service for lilies and moths do it for tobacco. Horse chestnut
requires the help of hummingbirds to pollinate, wild ginger needs flies, and
oak trees depend on the wind. The world's largest flower, the rafflesia,
can be pollinated by elephants' eyebrows as the beasts use their trunks
to search for nectar. My point is that in the natural world, fertilization is
species-specific. Bees don't pollinate lilies and butterflies don't pollinate
horse chestnut. A similar principle holds true for you, Leo. Can you name
the influences that fertilize you? Now's a good time to get very clear
about that, and then seek out a more focused connection with those
influences.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Native Americans took care of the land better
than the white people who appropriated it, but they were by no means
masters of sustainability. Recent research reveals they had a sizable
carbon footprint, pumping lots of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
as they cleared and burned forests. (More info at
tinyurl.com/NativeCarbon.) Taking a cue from that little shock, I'm
encouraging you to see if there are aspects of your personal past that
should be reinterpreted. The astrological omens suggest that you'd be
wise to revise some of the stories you tell about what happened to you
way back when.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): British engineer John Reid wants to translate
dolphins' speech into human language. For years, he has been working on
the Cymascope, a machine that will help him analyze the basic patterns of
dolphin grammar and vocabulary. I encourage you to be inspired by his
efforts, Libra. It is now an excellent time for you to devote your ingenuity
to improving the way you communicate with alien species like black
sheep, fallen angels, feral mavericks, your mother-in-law, odd ducks, co-
workers who resemble raccoons and bears, and zombies who don't share
your political views.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An African proverb says, "If you want to go
fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." I think that sums up
the choice you have before you. There is something to be said for going
fast; it may be that you can get as far as you need to go by starting
immediately and speeding along by yourself. On the other hand, the
distance you have to cover may be beyond your ability to estimate in the
early days. If you think that's the case, you might want to opt for the
slower-paced power of a joint operation.
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HOMEWORK: Is it possible there's something you really need but you don't
know what it is? What might it be? Write Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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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
http://YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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