Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 29, 2017
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YOUR MOST PLEASURABLE MOMENTS
I invite you to write down brief descriptions of the five most pleasurable
moments you've ever experienced in your life. Let your imagination dwell
lovingly on these memories for, say, 20 minutes. And keep them close to
the surface of your awareness in the next three days.
If you ever catch yourself slipping into a negative train of thought,
interrupt it immediately and compel yourself to fantasize about those Big
Five Ecstatic Moments.
I know this is a hard exercise to pull off. But keep in mind that you only
have to sustain it for 72 hours.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ANYTHING YOU DON'T WANT TO BE
You don't have to be anything you don't want to be.
You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations.
There's no need to strive for a kind of perfection that's not very
interesting to you.
You don't have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented.
You don't have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into
feeling.
You are free to be who you want to be.
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TAKING GOOD CARE
"Nothing's going right in my life. I feel anxious and paranoid all the time.
My relationships are a mess." In my line of work, people make confessions
like that to me.
My first response is usually something like this: "Do you habitually gobble
junk food near bedtime, steal a paltry five hours of sleep per night, gulp
two cups of coffee and no breakfast in the morning, then bolt to a
workplace where you get no sunlight or exercise and sit in an
uncomfortable chair?"
They often reply, "You must be psychic! How did you know?!"
My point is that many psychological troubles stem from our chronic failure
to take good care of our physical needs.
Name three things you can do to promote pronoia in yourself by taking
better care of your body.
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DISCOVERING FIRE AGAIN
"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we
will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in
the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
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"I LIKE LIVING"
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,
racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just
to be alive is a grand thing."
—Agatha Christie
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FORGIVE YOURSELF?
You want to perform a miracle? Forgive yourself. - Rune Lazuli
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 30
Copyright 2017 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "What is love?" asks philosopher Richard
Smoley. "It's come to have a greeting-card quality," he mourns. "Half the
time 'loving' someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the
heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person
has some concrete need or irritates us." One of your key assignments in
the next ten months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and
shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul. You
are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature,
robust love.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know that unfinished task you have
half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you'll be able to summon the
gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you'll also be able
to carry out the glorious rebirth you've been shy about climaxing. To
gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can
feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your glorious rebirth
necessary and inevitable.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an ideal world, your work and your
character would speak for themselves. You'd receive exactly the amount
of recognition and appreciation you deserve. You wouldn't have to devote
as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills
in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next
ten months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won't be so
#$@&%*! important. Your work and character WILL speak for themselves
with more vigor and clarity than they have before.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There used to be a booth at a Santa Cruz flea
market called "Joseph Campbell's Love Child." It was named after the
mythological scholar who wrote the book *The Hero with a Thousand
Faces.* The booth's proprietor sold items that spurred one's "heroic
journey," like talismans made to order and herbs that stimulated courage
and mini-books with personalized advice based on one's horoscope.
"Chaos-Tamers" were also for sale. They were magic spells designed to
help people manage the messes that crop up in one's everyday routine
while pursuing a heroic quest. Given the current astrological omens,
Pisces, you would benefit from a place that sold items like these. Since
none exists, do the next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and
inspiration you need. You can and should be well-supported as you follow
your dreams on your hero's journey.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope that everything doesn't come too easily
for you in the coming weeks. I'm worried you will meet with no
obstructions and face no challenges. And that wouldn't be good. It might
weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let
me add a small caveat, however. It's also true that right about now you
deserve a whoosh of slack. I'd love for you to be able to relax and enjoy
your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon
receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of
excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes,
you are at peak strength and alertness.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You were born with the potential to give the
world specific gifts -- benefits and blessings that are unique to you. One
of those gifts has been slow in developing. You've never been ready to
confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in
the past, it may have caused problems. But the good news is that in the
coming months, this gift will finally be ripe. You'll know how to deal crisply
with the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on. Here's your
homework: Get clear about what this gift is and what you will have to do
to offer it in its fullness.
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MY OTHER HOROSCOPES
Factual information and reasonable thinking alone are not sufficient to
guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular
deliveries of uncanny revelation.
One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to
receive mysteriously useful omens on a regular basis. In this spirit, I offer
you the free weekly horoscopes you read here.
If you ever want more, and think it's worth paying for, try my EXPANDED
AUDIO HOROSCOPES. They're four-to-five-minute meditations on the
current state of your destiny and where you're headed.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! You're halfway
between your last birthday and your next. That means you're free to
experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to
be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes
to help you celebrate. 1. "Those who cannot change their minds cannot
change anything." - George Bernard Shaw. 2. "Like all weak men he laid an
exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind." - W. Somerset
Maugham. 3. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With
consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson. 4. "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the
minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be
mind." - Friedrich Nietzsche.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest that you take a piece of paper and
write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force
within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep
sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary
fantasies in their proper place. And what is their proper place? Not as the
masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from
living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish
risks.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book *Life: The Odds,* Gregory Baer says
that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215-to-1. They're
60,000-to-1 that you'll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you'll date a
model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I
suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than
usual. That's because you're far more likely to cultivate synergetic and
symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate
your imagination, but don't necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of
models and millionaires, you're likely to connect with practical idealists,
energetic creators, and emotionally intelligent people who've done work
to transmute their own darkness.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What might you do to take better care of
yourself in 2018, Virgo? According to my reading of the astrological
omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here's a
good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn
about what makes your body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps
your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting.
Here's another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that as a
driving force, you'll be led to discover the actions necessary to
supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an ideal time to get this project
underway.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are themes I suggest you specialize in
during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don't diminish
and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How
to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being
nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing
your attractive mysteriousness. 4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and
profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life
that have been at odds with each other.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I predict that in the coming months you
won't feel compulsions to set your adversaries' hair on fire. You won't
fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be
tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect
that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero. The
monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses
you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And
you'll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger.
In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some
time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it
wisely!
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Homework: What change have you prepared yourself to embrace? What
lesson are you ripe to master? Write: FreeWillAstrology.com
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