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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 6, 2013
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION
Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal freedom fighter
who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You're a
fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs
claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright.
Try to remember. You're a vortex of fluidic light that has temporarily
taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true
origins. And why did you do that? Because it was the best way to forge
the identity that would make you such an elemental force in our 14-
billion-year campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth.
I'm not speaking metaphorically here. You are a mutant deity in disguise --
not a Buddha or a Christ exactly, but of the same lineage and conjured
from the same fire. You have been around since the beginning of time and
will be here after the end. Every day and in every way, you're getting
better at playing the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed
up together before the Big Bang bloomed.
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Lately, I must admit, our work has seemed almost comically impossible.
Many of us have given in to the temptation to believe that everything is
upside-down and inside-out. Ignorance and inertia, partially camouflaged
as time-honored morality, seem to surround us. Pessimism is enshrined as
a hallmark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as
perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Stories about treachery and
degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people who think of
themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly
truths are readily believed.
So no, at this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-billion-year-
old master game, it's not easy to carry out our mission. We've got to be
both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life. We've got to
cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we resist the temptation to swallow
thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively
packaged by those messiahs among us who bravely volunteered to play
the role of know-it-all deceivers.
We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we overthrow
the sour, puckered mass hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as
"reality."
Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-mindedly
dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love even as we keep our
imaginations wild and hungry and free. We have to be both disciplined and
rowdy.
What can we do to help each other in this work?
TO READ THE REST OF "LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION," GO HERE:
http://bit.ly/4Zh0Qr
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Dear Readers,
In late December and early January, I wrote a series of long-term, big-
picture horoscopes for you. Now I've gathered them together in one
place. Go here to read them:
http://bit.ly/BigLife2013
In addition to these, I created EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES that go
even further in exploring your destiny in 2013. Each report in the three-
part series is 7-9 minutes long. Unlike the written freebies, the three-part
audio reports cost money. Sign in and access them here:
http://tinyurl.com/BigPicture2013
A new audio forecast for this week is also available at the same place.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
THE SOUL IS HERE FOR ITS OWN JOY
"For thousands of years, humans have had a profound need to create and
enjoy objects that have no practical function, but have been created
purely to delight, to entrance, or to inspire awe or reverence."
http://tinyurl.com/bjvsvyz
WHAT'S THIS WORLD COMING TO? EVEN BIG PHARMA CAN SUMMON
COMPASSION?
The pharma company Merck developed a drug called Ivermectin to treat
river blindness. They donate it to 3rd world countries that can't afford it,
and sell it to farmers to treat worms in their animals. It has helped save
millions of lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin
HAVE YOU GOTTEN YOUR MINIMUM DAILY REQUIREMENT OF BEAUTY?
Dark Hedges, Northern Ireland
http://tinyurl.com/apm96md
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 7
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan
sneaked into Poland's National Museum with a painting he had done
himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It
hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. "I
decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a
place like this," he said. "I want to benefit from them in the here and
now." This is the kind of aggressive self-expression I'd like to see you
summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don't wait for the world to come
and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. P.S. The English
translation of Sobiepan's Polish last name means "his own master." What
can you do to be more of your own master?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before any system can leap to a higher level
of organization, says poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo
dissolution. "Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making
room for the new," she declares. Guess what time it is for the system we
all know and love as YOU, Pisces? That's right: It's a perfect moment to
undo, dismantle, and disperse . . . as well as to unscramble, disentangle,
and disencumber. Be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating
the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. "To change from
one reality to another," writes Wooldridge, "a thing first must turn into
nothing." (Her book is *Poemcrazy.*)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "What we need is more people who specialize
in the impossible," said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable
future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I'm not saying
that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a
massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected beauty. But if you
want to, you can play those roles for the next few weeks. How many
exotic explorations and unlikely discoveries can you cram into your life
between now and March 1? How many unimaginable transformations can
you imagine?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): North America's most powerful and iconic
waterfall is Niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the U.S. and
Canada. In 1969, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed to shut
down the American side of this elemental surge for a few months. They
performed their monumental magic by building a dam made with 27,800
tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the
stony foundation that lies beneath the water. I'm thinking that you
Tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the
coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the
surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): *National Geographic* reports that dung
beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with
the stars. Scientists in South Africa found that the bugs use the Milky
Way Galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung
to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky
serves as a navigational aid. I nominate the dung beetle to be your power
animal in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you, too, to
align your movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher
power. (Read about the research here:
http://tinyurl.com/GalacticBeetles.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should go right ahead and compare
oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian. Honey and butter, too:
It's fine to compare and contrast them. Science and religion. Bulldogs and
Siamese cats. Dew and thunderclaps. Your assignment is to create
connections that no one else would be able to make . . . to seek out
seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners . . . to dream
up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas. Your soul needs
the delight and challenge of unexpected blending.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The collection called *Grimm's Fairy Tales*
includes the story "The Devil and His Grandmother." In one scene, the
devil's grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson's head. Or at
least that's what the English translations say. But the authors wrote in
German, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact
plucking lice from the devil's hair. Your job in the coming week, Leo, is to
ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that. Be vigilant for subtle
censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. You
need the raw feed that comes straight from the source.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her book *Jung and Tarot,* Sallie Nichols
notes that the sixteenth card in most Tarot decks portrays lightning as a
hostile force: "jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry
teeth." But there's one deck, the Marseilles Tarot, that suggests a kinder,
gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the
heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and
clean rather than burn. I suspect you'll be visited by a metaphorical
version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo. Prepare to
be tickled and cleaned!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Years ago, "bastard" was a derisive term for a
child born to unmarried parents. It reflected the conventional moral code,
which regarded a "birth out of wedlock" as scandalous. But I think we can
safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. According to
recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the U.S. are to unmarried
mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain
forbidden forever. What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed
at one time may evolve into what's normal. I bring this up, Libra, because
it's an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that's
no longer necessary or meaningful.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): While trekking up Mount Katahdin in Maine,
naturalist Henry David Thoreau had a "mountain-top experience" that
moved him to observe, "I stand in awe of my body." You're due for a
similar splash of illumination, Scorpio. The time is right for you to arrive at
a reverent new appreciation for the prodigious feats that your physical
organism endlessly performs for you. What could you do to encourage
such a breakthrough? How can you elevate your love for the flesh and
blood that houses your divine spark?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How do you like your caviar? Do you
prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of
strong, fishy taste? If it's the first option, beluga caviar is your best
option. If the second, sevruga should be your favorite. What? You say you
never eat caviar? Well, even if you don't, you should regard the choice
between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. You
can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both.
Which will it be? Set your intention.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Dear Astrology Guy: I have been reading
your horoscopes since I was 19. For a while, I liked them. They were fun
riddles that made me think. But now I've soured on them. I'm sick and
tired of you asking me to transform myself. You just keep pushing and
pushing, never satisfied, always saying it's time to improve myself or get
smarter or fix one of my bad habits. It's too much! I can't take it any
more! Sometimes I just want to be idle and lazy. Your horoscopes piss me
off! - Crabby Capricorn." Dear Crabby: I've got some good news. In the
coming week, you are completely excused from having to change
anything about yourself or your life. Stay exactly the same! Be frozen in
time. Resist the urge to tinker. Take a vacation from life's relentless
command to evolve.
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Homework: If you'd like to join the Flaming Jewel Church of Living Outside
of Time, simply smash a clock or watch with a hammer on February 9 at
exactly 12:20 p.m.
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