Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 12, 2019
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Everyone's my teacher. Everywhere I go, I'm a student.
Everyone is in some way my informant, my revelator, my healer, my
direct connection to the Who-Knows-What.
The animals, too: They are my confidants, my beloveds, my spirit guides.
And yes, the plants! My godparents, my role models, my advisers.
Yes, too, to the wind and sun and sky and mountain and rivers and oceans
and rocks: I greet them daily as my family members, my agent
provocateurs, my fellow celebrants.
Playful, mysterious intelligences surround me in every direction. I'm
available! I gleefully vow to shut up and listen reverently on a regular
basis.
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Luckily for me, everything is infused with the divine. The Living
Intelligent Consciousness is everywhere. There's nowhere it's not. For
billions of light years in every direction, it is the interplay of the
Sublime Wow Formerly Known as God and the Blooming HaHa Formerly
Known as Goddess.
More precisely, it is the Torrential and Torturous Ecstasy spawned anew
every nanosecond by the glide of the Sublime Wow's virile eternity
against the Blooming HaHa's voluptuous infinity. It is the Cosmic Love that
recreates the universe again and again in every nanosecond.
And here's my place in that mystery. I aspire to locate myself in the Crux
of the Flux of the Cosmic Love—in the Flux of the Crux of the Cosmic Love.
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P.S. Water and rocks are as infused with the Living Intelligent
Consciousness as mimosa trees and golden orb spiders and human beings
and stars.
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FRESH POWER IS ON ITS WAY TO YOU
Pronoia doesn’t promise uninterrupted progress forever. It’s not a slick
commercial for a perfect summer day that never ends.
Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow.
The waning reveals a different kind of blessing than the waxing.
But whether it’s our time to ferment in the valley of shadows or rise up
singing in the sun-splashed meadow, fresh power to transform ourselves
is always on the way.
Our suffering won’t last, nor will our triumph.
Without fail, life will deliver the creative energy we need to change into
the new thing we must become.
[This is excerpted from my book *Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings* -
https://bit.ly/Pronoia]
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YOU BELONG TO YOURSELF
While you commune with us here at the Conspiracy to Commit
Insurrectionary Beauty and Smart Love:
Your favorite phrase might be "flux gusto"
The colors of your soul might be sable, vermilion, ivory, and jade
Your special emotion might be skeptical faith
Your magic talisman might be a thousand-year-old Joshua tree whose
flowers blossom just one night each year and can only be pollinated by the
yucca moth
The garage sale item you most resemble might be an old but beautiful and
sonorous accordion with a broken key
Your magic verbs are dig, descend, and disclose
Your sweet spot might be in between the true believers and the scoffing
skeptics
You have a secret name that will be revealed to you very soon
You have fire in your blood and sea salt in your tears
Your vision of power is the red-tailed hawk soaring over the shopping
mall
Your sacred fungus might be yeast and your soil of destiny might be peat
moss
Your lucky number might be 3.14159265
Your lucky phobia might be arachibutyrophobia, or the fear of peanut
butter adhering to the roof of your mouth
Your holiest pain might come from your yearning to change yourself in
the exact way you'd like the world around you to change
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WANT TO GET YOUR ASTROLOGICAL CHART READ?
If you want your personal chart done, I recommend a colleague whose
approach to reading astrology charts closely matches my own. She's my
wife, RO LOUGHRAN. She's at http://www.roloughran.com.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and
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.
In addition to over 30 years of astrological experience, Ro has been a
licensed psychotherapist for 17 years. She integrates psychological
insight with astrology's cosmological perspective.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic boundaries.
Check out Ro's website at http://www.roloughran.com
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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY IS EASY
How easy it is to make people happy, when you don't want or need anything
from them.
_ Gail Godwin
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WILLFUL PERCEPTIONS OF PERFECT MOMENTS
Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular
perception of perfect moments is an effective way to smooth jagged
wrinkles on your attitude, scour away stains on your courage, and dispose
of old psycho-gunk stuck to your karma.
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LOVE HYMN
(by me)
Cushioned on each others' sighs
in a garden of reveries,
me sipping your streaming song,
you renaming my hymned blossoms,
we reweave the aftertaste of sun,
the fragrant glimmer of rising moon.
When I drench myself in your dream
and you adore my sweet shadows,
lotus petals flutter and surge from the mud
like childhood prayers,
remembering our resurrected breath,
reclaiming our holy bodies.
When I submerge myself in your eyes,
and you discover my lost secrets,
barely visible whirlwinds
erupt from the soaked roots
bearing our guts' primeval questions,
reviving the thunder in our blood,
retraining our future liberations.
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RESURRECTION OF WHAT HAS BEEN MISSING
Novelist Tom Robbins: "I'm afraid I can't be counted among those who've
latched onto the Goddess as a politically correct alternative to God the
Father. The Transcendent Principle—the Divine, if you willis no more
wholly female than it is wholly male.
"To be sure, the Divine has feminine aspects and masculine aspects, but
its cumulative aspects transcend gender and, indeed, are so far beyond
definition or description that they can't even be rationally discussed.
"It's the Mystery, baby, and the Mystery is ultimately unknowable. We
can interface with it, we can marvel at it, we can connect to it and be
elevated by it, but we can never comprehend it.
"What really interests me about the Goddess is the fact that while she was
beloved and honored by our ancestors, was the central spiritual archetype
and prevailing deity all over the globe for thousands of years, she has been
so successfully eradicated by revisionist patriarchal spin doctors that
most modern Christians, Moslems and Jews are totally ignorant of her
massive and dominant historical presence.
"If someone or something of that enormous scope can be so thoroughly
concealed from the masses, it can't help but call into question everything
we've been taught by our various institutions.
"The subversion and repression of the Goddess is the Big Lie of the past
two millennia —and as the dumbing down of America gains momentum, the
duplicity is strengthening its grip.
"The good news is that a significant minority has recently become
informed about the Goddess, and that has both revealed the essential
spiritual foundation of feminism and inspired a growing distrust of
traditional dogma and the meatballs who've propagated it."
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
How Colorado Halved Abortion and Teen Birth Rates.
The decline is happening across the country, and it’s about more than just
contraceptives.
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These huge new wind turbines are a marvel. They’re also the future.
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Robert Downey Jr. has vowed to use robotics and AI to significantly clean
up the Earth in the next decade.
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(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 June 13
Copyright 2019 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com/horoscopes/
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson
began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band the Beach
Boys. A seminal moment in his development happened while he was
listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard
before came on: "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he
pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped driving so he could
devote his full attention to what he considered a shockingly beautiful work
of art. "I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums, and
percussion," he told *The New York Times*. "Once I got all those learned,
I knew how to produce records." I suspect a pivotal moment like this could
unfold for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): My dear Cancerian, your soul is so rich and
complicated, so many-splendored and mysterious, so fertile and generous.
I'm amazed you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain. Isn't it
sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling over? Like a river at high
tide during heavy rains? And yet every so often there come moments when
you go blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go missing. That's OK!
It's all part of the Great Mystery. You need these fallow phases. And I
suspect that the present time might be such a time. If so, here's a
fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily use as your motto: "I
have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness."
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): America's premier eventologist is Leo-born
Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith. When she was going through a hard time in
1991, she resolved to buoy her spirits by creating cheerful, splashy new
holidays. Since then she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 new
occasions to celebrate. What a perfect way to express her radiant Leo
energy! National Splurge Day on June 18 is one of Adrienne's favorites: a
time for revelers to be extra kind and generous to themselves. That's a
happy coincidence, because my analysis of the astrological omens suggests
that this is a perfect activity for you to emphasize during the coming
weeks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Let me keep my mind on what matters, which
is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished."
Virgo poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was perfectly reasonable
for her, given her occupation, although a similar declaration might sound
outlandish coming from a non-poet. Nonetheless, I'll counsel you to
inhabit that frame of mind at least part-time for the next two weeks. I
think you'll benefit in numerous ways from ingesting more than your
minimum daily dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment, and astonishment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran philosopher Michel Foucault
articulated a unique definition of "criticism." He said that it doesn't dish
out judgments or hand down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by
encouraging them, by identifying dormant potentials and hidden beauty.
Paraphrasing and quoting Foucault, I'll tell you that this alternate type of
criticism ignites useful fires and sings to the grass as it grows. It looks
for the lightning of possible storms, and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I
hope you'll practice this kind of "criticism" in the coming weeks, Libra—a
criticism that doesn't squelch enthusiasm and punish mistakes, but
instead champions the life spirit and helps it ripen.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Help may be hovering nearby, but in an
unrecognizable guise. Rumpled but rich opportunities will appear at the
peripheries, though you may not immediately recognize their value. A
mess that you might prefer to avoid looking at could be harboring a very
healthy kind of trouble. My advice to you, therefore, is to drop your
expectations. Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on your
radar. Be willing to learn lessons you have neglected or disdained in the
past.
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YOU NEED MAGIC EVERY DAY
Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less facts.
The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.
Every day, you're over-exposed to cynical narratives that have been
sucked free of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make such
strenuous efforts to keep your world enchanted.
I like to think I can contribute to the sacred cause of feeding your sense of
wonder and enchantment. In fact, that's one of my prime motivations for
offering you the free weekly horoscopes you read in this newsletter.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As much as I love logic and champion
rational thinking, I'm granting you a temporary exemption from their
supremacy. To understand what's transpiring in the coming weeks, and to
respond with intelligence, you will have to transcend logic and reason.
They will simply not be sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with
the Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to unleash the full
power of your intuition. You must harness the wisdom of your body, and
the information it reveals to you via physical sensations. You will benefit
from remembering at least some of your nightly dreams, and inviting
them to play on your consciousness throughout the day.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the sake of your emotional and
spiritual health, you may need to temporarily withdraw or retreat from
one or more of your alliances. But I recommend that you don't do anything
drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words and sudden breaks. For
now, seal yourself away from influences that are stirring up confusion so
you can concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest truths. Once
you've done that for a while, you'll be primed to find helpful clues about
where to go next in managing your alliances.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I've got a list of do's and don't's for you. Do
play and have fun more than usual. But don't indulge in naïve assumptions
and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as
it really is. Do take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonment
you're still carrying from the old days. But don't poison yourself with
feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned you. Do unleash wild
flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations about seemingly impossible
futures that maybe aren't so impossible. But don't get so fixated on wild
fantasies and marvelous speculations that you neglect to embrace the
subtle joys that are actually available to you right now.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "At times, so many memories trample my
heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I'm feeling and why,"
writes Piscean poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to
everyone, it's especially common for you Pisceans. That's the bad news.
But here's the good news: in the coming weeks, your heart is unlikely to
be trampled by your memories. Hence, you will have an excellent chance
to know exactly what you're feeling and why. The weight of the past will at
least partially dissolve and you'll be freer than usual to understand what's
true for you right now, without having to sort through confusing signals
about who you used to be.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): We may not have to travel to other planets
to find alien life. Instead of launching expensive missions to other planets,
we could look for exotic creatures here on earth. Astrobiologist Mary Beth
Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken her to Chile's Atacama
Desert, whose terrain has resemblances to Mars. She's looking for
organisms like those that might have once thrived on the Red Planet. In
accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to use this idea as a
metaphor for your own life. Consider the possibility that you've been
looking far and wide for an answer or resource that is actually close at
hand.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Martin Buber believed that
some stories have the power to heal. That's why he said we should actively
seek out stories that have the power to heal. Buber's disabled grandfather
once told Buber a story about an adored teacher who loved to dance. As the
grandfather told the story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair to
imitate the teacher, and suddenly began to hop and dance around in the way
his teacher did. From that time on, the grandfather was cured of his
disability. What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you will find
stories like that.
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