Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 15, 2017
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YOUR IMAGINATION
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. It's your
power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that
you want to bring into being. It's the magic wand you use to shape your
future.
And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless
predictions every day. Your imagination is the source, tirelessly churning
out images of what you will be doing later.
The featured prophecy of the moment may be as simple as a psychic
impression of yourself eating a fudge brownie at lunch or as monumental
as a daydream of some year building your dream home by a lake or sea.
Your imagination is a treasure when it spins out scenarios that are aligned
with your deepest desires. In fact, it's an indispensable tool in creating
the life you want; it's what you use to form images of the conditions
you'd like to inhabit and the objects you hope to wield. Nothing manifests
on this planet unless it first exists as a mental picture.
But for most of us, the imagination is as much a curse as a blessing.
We're often just as likely to use it to conjure up premonitions that are at
odds with our conscious values. That's the result of having absorbed toxic
programming from the media and from our parents at an early age and
from other influential people in our past.
Fearful fantasies regularly pop up into our awareness, many disguising
themselves as rational thoughts and genuine intuitions. Those fearful
fantasies may hijack our psychic energy, directing it to exhaust itself in
dead-end meditations . . . .
Read or hear the rest: http://bit.ly/YourProphecy
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TINY CHANGES
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur," said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It's
rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of
time. That's why it's delusional to be forever pining for some big magic
intervention that will fix everything. The best way to alter our course is
slowly and gradually, by conscientiously revamping our responses to the
small daily details.
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"The lesson that life constantly enforces is 'Look underfoot.' You are
always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure
of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is
where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the
center of the world."
- naturalist John Burroughs
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THE VALUE OF BROKEN-HEARTEDNESS
Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Persons called to this work typically feel relentless
sensations of broken-heartedness about the state of the world, but also
carry an unshakable and inspired hope for humankind.
There may be anger as well. The seemingly contradictory but powerful
forces of the broken heart commingled with hope are the enduring
underpinnings for effecting ongoing and positive change.
Interviewer: You are saying that the social activist has a broken heart?
Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Yes, a heart that is broken open -- and stays
broken open -- a soul alert to its calling.
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Here's a letter sent to the Beauty and Truth Lab:
DEAR BEAUTY AND TRUTH LAB:
The chemo treatments burned out all the math skills in my brain, which
were already pretty meager. On the other hand, they awakened my ability
to feel perfectly at ease while in the midst of paradoxical situations that
everyone else finds maddening and uncomfortable.
The chemo also made me ridiculously tolerant of people's contradictions,
sometimes even their hypocrisies, and freed me to enjoy life as an
entertaining movie with lots of interesting plot twists rather than as a
pitched battle between everything I like and everything I don't like.
I guess I could say that my cancer helped turn me into a pronoiac!
- The Chaos Artist Formerly Known as Risa Kline
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There is no God. God is dead. God is a drug for people who aren't very
smart. God is an illusion sold to dupes by money-hungry religions. God is a
right-wing conspiracy. God is an infantile fantasy favored by superstitious
cowards who can't face life's existential meaninglessness.
JUST KIDDING! The truth is, anyone who says he knows what God is or
isn't, doesn't really know.
Now read Adolfo Quezada's prayer, then confess what you don't know
about God. "God of the Wild, you are different from what I expected. I
cannot predict you. You are too free to be captured for the sake of my
understanding. I can't find you in the sentimentalism of religion. You are
everywhere I least expect to find you. You are not the force that saves
me from the pain of living; you are the force that brings me life even in
the midst of pain."
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DAILY HOROSCOPES
Some people don't know that I write daily horoscopes, available as text
messages sent to your cell or smart phone.
They're shorter than the weekly 'scopes, but on the other hand they're
more frequent -- every day of the week.
My weekly horoscopes are free, but the dailies cost about 67 cents a day
if you sign up for a subscription.
If you think you might enjoy getting regular bursts of inspiration from me
to illuminate your adventures, check them out.
Go to RealAstrology.com. Register or log in. On the new page, click on
"Subscribe / Renew" under "Daily Text Message Horoscopes" in the right-
hand column.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Good news from last week's U.S. elections:
Two women unseated Republican incumbents to become the first Latinas
elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Maine became the first state to vote for Medicaid expansion on the ballot.
The first Sikh ever elected in the U.S., Ravinder Bhalla, won the mayor's
race in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Montana elected its first person of color to mayor in the state's history.
Danica Roem, an openly transgender woman, was elected to the Virginia
House of Delegates. She defeated the bigot who wrote the anti-LGBTQ
bathroom bill.
A civil rights lawyer won the seat of top prosecutor in Philadelphia.
The first black woman was elected to mayor in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Andrea Jenkins was the first trans woman of color elected to a major
city's governing body. This happened in Minneapolis.
Americans across the country elected eight transgender people to office.
Melvin Carter became the first black mayor of St. Paul Minnesota.
Mazahir Salih became the first Sudanese-American to win a seat as an at-
large member of the Iowa City Council.
In 13 competitive races where the Democratic candidate was endorsed by
the pro–gun control group "Giffords" and the Republican was backed by
the NRA, the Giffords candidate was victorious in 12.
"Our Revolution" is the political action organization that grew out of
Senator Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign. It endorses
candidates who support issues Sanders championed, like expanding health
care, fighting income and wealth inequality, and getting Big Money out of
politics. In the recent electiions, Our Revolution candidates won 21 seats.
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They aren't advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 16
Copyright 2017 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Everything that can be invented has been
invented." - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, President,
Royal Society, 1895. "All the music that can be written has already been
written. We're just repeating the past." - 19th-century composer
Tschaikovsky. "Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures
after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box
every night." - filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in
1946. I hope I've provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful
to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don't let skeptics or conventional
thinkers waylay you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you
Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning
numbers. But you're also more likely than everyone else to throw the
ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when
you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don't be like
that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what's necessary to fully
cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is
fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a "free throw."
While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket
without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is
most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet
virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn't look cool.
Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it's not as
effective a technique. Weird! Let's invoke this as a metaphor for your life
in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you'll be more
likely to accomplish good and useful things if you're willing to look uncool.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose
recorded the song "November Rain" with his band Guns N' Roses. It had
taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime
time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more
succinct nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you
should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl's opus.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose
work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and
much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger
innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told
Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles,
and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later
said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement.
Edison's approval "was worth worlds" to him. I predict, Pisces, that you
will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in
the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Many people go fishing all their lives without
knowing that it is not fish they are after," observed Henry David Thoreau.
The spirit of Thoreau's observation is true about every one of us to some
extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong
location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I'm happy
to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever
been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to
know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get
it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.
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LOVE YOUR LIFE!
How's your fight for freedom going? Are you making progress in liberating
yourself from your unconscious obsessions, bad habits, and conditioned
responses? Are you turning out to be the hero of your own life?
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during the next ten months, you
will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at
creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to
keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no
exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and
educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and
don't want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there
past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness
that's really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events
behind you forever.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialog that
sounds something like this: "I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a
tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing
sex marathon -- but I'm not sure which! Should I descend or ascend?
Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a
heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the
poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where
none of the old rules can follow me? I can't decide! I don't know which
part of my mind I should trust!" If you do hear those thoughts in your
brain, Gemini, here's my advice: There's no rush to decide. What's
healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to storyteller Michael Meade,
ancient Celtic culture believed that "a person was born through three
forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral
spirit's wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess."
Even if you don't think that's literally true, the coming weeks will be a
favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That's because you're in a
phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health
and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory,
and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live
again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you
being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of
your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do
to further develop them?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next
ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making
yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the
mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will
regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while
attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here's the question
I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: "How
can I love myself with devotion and ingenuity?"
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most miscellaneous
horoscope I've ever created for you. That's apropos, given the fact that
you're a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here's your sweet
mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn't humbling, it's not the
right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup
something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is
possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don't be held captive by your beliefs. 5.
If you're given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next ten months will be an ideal time to
revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum
advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and
knowledge you'll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a
challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-
loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard
work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But
once you get started, you'll quickly find the process becoming easier and
more pleasurable.
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