Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
April 29, 2020
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How do you get yourself into a sacred state that rejuvenates your
emotional life and expands your mind beyond its monkey chatter and
customary habits and same-old-same-old beliefs?
Some people go to church, synagogue, temple, or mosque. Some wander
out into nature. (Very few hop onto Facebook to get into arguments.)
One of my reliable ways to slip into the holy dimension is to sing songs
that stir me with righteous passion. (The lyrics must be exalting; can't
be trivializing or dumb.)
Another is to feel the joy of my body exerting itself while I walk alone up
hills.
The best is to sing righteous songs while walking up hills.
And you?
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RADICAL CONFUGURATION OF ALL LIFE STRUCTURES
Richard Tarnas, one of the best astrological thinkers on the planet,
offered his views on this "grave and astonishing moment." Here's the
youtube link:https://tinyurl.com/RadicalReconfiguration
Excerpts: "This is a time in which there are volcanically intense
evolutionary pressures for the radical reconfiguration of all life
structures."
"We're in the midst of an encounter with a collective mortal emergency
that completely focuses our attention."
"Our agency, as humans, plays a role in how these archetypal energies
express themselves. The more courage, imagination intelligence,
compassion we can bring to bear on these events, the more free and
skillful we can be in shaping the expression of the archetypal energies."
Quoting Greek philosopher Plotinus, Tarnas says, "The stars are like
letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything
in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend
on each other. Everything breathes together."
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IMAGINING THE POST-PLAGUE WORLD
David Talbot offers the following thoughts:
The bad news is that it's end of the world as we know it. The good news is
that it's the end of the world as we know it. And we can use our
imaginations to dream up a better world.
I've begun jotting down some notes about how civilization can emerge
from this catastrophic pandemic in more socially decent and healthy
ways.
1. A climate crisis turning point. The skies have never seemed cleaner
and brighter. My city has never seemed so quiet and placid. Do we really
have to return to a fossil fuel-powered, frantically acquisitive way of
life?
2. There is a new appreciation for the daily heroism of health care
workers and the fragility of our public health system. Isn't it past time
for America to join the rest of the civilized world and move to Medicare
for all?
3. There is a new appreciation for labor in America, especially those
who are keeping the country running at warehouses, markets, delivery
services. Isn't it past time for employers like Amazon -- run by the
richest man in the world who's now getting richer by the minute -- to
treat these workers fairly, increasing their wages and benefits and
allowing them to join unions?
4. Crime is down and people are shooting each other in America with
much less frequency. Does our society have to be so weaponized?
5. We have to think twice or more before reflexively making purchases
these days as the ranks of the unemployed swell and the economy crashes.
Let's convert our society from its enslaving consumerism to cooperative
networks and reduce our wasteful dependence on the latest fashions, cars
and electronic gadgets.
6. Now that it's dangerous to vote (black Americans can tell us all about
that history), we have to reinvent democracy. How about if we we
completely convert to a mail ballot system -- which would not only
make the election process safer, but also more inclusive?
How else can we imagine a new post-plague world? Your thoughts?
More from David Talbot: https://tinyurl.com/y8fsgrs3
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MAKE YOURSELF ALERT
Experiment:
Make yourself alert for
small miracles,
beguiling surprises,
marvelous tweaks,
inexplicable joys,
and subtle changes
that inspire quiet awe
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THE CREATIVE ENERGY WE NEED WILL COME
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.
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ACT NATURAL
Act natural. Act like all of nature. Act like the entire cycle of life and
death and change and rebirth.
—"Welcome to Night Vale" podcast
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I WILL SING UNTIL THE MIRACLES COME
World Kiss:
https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar/world-kiss
Shadow Blessings:
https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar/shadow-blessings
You Taste Delicious:
https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar/you-taste-delicious-version-2
I Want Everybody: https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar/i-want-
everybody
In a Crisis:
https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar/in-a-crisis
Many more of my songs here:
https://soundcloud.com/sacreduproar
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OUR RESILIENCE
This *%&^#@ pandemic is really inspiring our resilience and
resourcefulness!
https://tinyurl.com/ya7fvglp
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HUMMINGBIRD NEST
Hummingbird nest on a peach:
https://tinyurl.com/ycplr3t8
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EXPERIMENT
Make a voodoo doll of yourself and then give it a backrub
https://tinyurl.com/y6uwdj6j
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WOMEN LEADERS
In the *Washington Post*, Zoe Marks writes: In a global emergency,
women are showing how to lead. Among the countries that have seen early
successes in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic, female leaders
stand out.
Germany under Angela Merkel boasts one of the lowest fatality rates in
the world and is gradually reopening. Women-led Switzerland and
Norway have both launched multimillion-dollar multilateral relief
funds — alongside their own preventive measures — to support poorer
countries’ pandemic recovery.
And what do success stories such as Denmark, Finland and Iceland have in
common with Hong Kong and Taiwan, halfway around the world? They’re
all run by women.
The public response to their efforts is striking. Merkel gets high marks
for "reasoning rather than rousing."
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern earns praise for her "clarity and
compassion."
Commentators commend Canada’s numerous female chief medical
officers, who have taken the lead on health policy while Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau is in quarantine, for their calm and consistency.
Such perceptions owe a great deal to gender stereotypes, which affect
both how people perceive women and how women behave.
Decades of research show that female leaders are more likely to be
democratic or participative — and less autocratic — in their leadership
style, meaning they invite subordinates to participate in decision-
making.
Equally, women more often lead through motivation, engaging followers’
shared interests, while men tend to rely on incentives.
Some comparisons are illustrative. On March 13, President Trump
addressed the nation in the Rose Garden. As Trump stressed deals with
countries and corporations, Vice President Pence called companies
"synonymous with communities."
Three days later, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg convened a
very different news conference, directed at children, not shareholders:
"It is okay to be scared when so many things happen at the same time,"
she said.
Then, she went on to offer simple and straightforward answers to
questions, still ostensibly aimed at children, that many adults are also
confronting as the disruptions to their lives multiply: Can I visit my
grandparents? How long does it take to make a vaccine? What can I do to
help?
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
UC Berkeley is Offering Up Their Popular ‘Science of Happiness’ Course
for Free Online
https://tinyurl.com/ydff4626
More Than 20,000 WiFi Devices Are Being Donated to Hospitals So
Patients Can Talk With Family in Quarantine
https://tinyurl.com/y8pqgs4z
Dogs Are Joining the Fight Against COVID-19 By Learning to Sniff Out
the Virus
https://tinyurl.com/ybw3aaz9
Some Good News For Your TV: Watch the Pilot Episode of The Good News
Network!
https://tinyurl.com/ybssmnuf
Publix Supermarkets Are Buying Food From Struggling Farmers So They
Can Use it to Feed Families in Need
https://tinyurl.com/y9fca2rz
Air Pollution in Major World Cities Has Dropped By as Much as 60%
During COVID Shutdowns, Says New Report
https://tinyurl.com/ycn6zf7c
This 1,000-Year-old Cherry Tree in Japan is a Role Model for
Resilience During Trying Times
https://tinyurl.com/yawzuxx3
Bored in Quarantine, 15-Year-old Transforms Her Bedroom Wall into
8-Foot Climbing Structure
https://tinyurl.com/y87kf2qf
New York Governor Issues Order Allowing Couples to Be Legally Married
Via Zoom
https://tinyurl.com/yawyg9g9
89-Year-Old Sews 600 Masks While Listening to The Beatles –
https://tinyurl.com/ydzavhu6
(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 April 30
Copyright 2020 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where you
would like a do-over? A chance to cancel the past and erase lingering
messiness and clear a path for who-knows-what new possibility? The
coming weeks will be an excellent time to prepare—not to actually take
the leap, but rather make yourself ready for the leap. You will have God
and fate and warm fuzzy vibes on your side as you dare to dream and
scheme about a fresh start. Any mistakes you committed once upon a time
could become irrelevant as you fantasize practically about a future
breakthrough.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1855, Gemini-born Walt Whitman
published his book of poetry *Leaves of Grass*. A literary critic named
Rufus Wilmot Griswold did not approve. In a review, he derided the work
that would eventually be regarded as one of America's literary
masterpieces. "It is impossible to imagine how any man's fancy could
have conceived such a mass of stupid filth," Griswold wrote, adding that
Whitman had a "degrading, beastly sensuality" driven by "the vilest
imaginings." Whitman's crafty Gemini intelligence responded
ingeniously to the criticism. In the next edition of *Leaves of Grass*, the
author printed Griswold's full review. It helped sell even more books! I
invite you to consider comparable twists and tricks.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In your efforts to develop a vibrant
community and foster a vital network of connections, you have an
advantage. Your emotionally rich, nurturing spirit instills trust in
people. They're drawn to you because they sense you will treat them with
care and sensitivity. On the other hand, these fine attributes of yours
may sometimes cause problems. Extra-needy, manipulative folks may
interpret your softness as weakness. They might try to exploit your
kindness to take advantage of you. So the challenge for you is to be your
generous, welcoming self without allowing anyone to violate your
boundaries or rip you off. Everything I just said will be helpful to
meditate on in the coming weeks, as you reinvent yourself for the future
time when the coronavirus crisis will have lost much of its power to
disrupt our lives.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to take inventory of
your integrity. You're likely to get crucial insights if you evaluate the
state of your ethics, your authenticity, and your compassion. Is it time
to boost your commitment to a noble cause that transcends your narrow
self-interest? Are there ways you've been less than fully fair and honest
in your dealings with people? Is it possible you have sometimes failed to
give your best? I'm not saying that you are guilty of any of those sins.
But most of us are indeed guilty of them, at least now and then. And if you
are, Leo, now is your special time to check in with yourself—and make
any necessary adjustments and corrections.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will have more flying
dreams than usual in the coming weeks—as well as more dreams in
which you're traveling around the world in the company of rebel angels
and dreams in which you're leading revolutionary uprisings of oppressed
people against tyrannical overlords and dreams of enjoying eight-course
gourmet feasts with sexy geniuses in the year 2022. You may also, even
while not asleep, well up with outlandish fantasies and exotic desires. I
don't regard any of these likelihoods as problematical. In fact, I applaud
them and encourage them. They're healthy for you! Bonus: All the wild
action transpiring in your psyche may prompt you to generate good ideas
about fun adventures you could embark on once the coronavirus crisis
has ebbed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's time to work your way below the surface
level of things, Libra; to dig and dive into the lower reaches where the
mysteries are darker and richer; to marshal your courage as you go in
quest of the rest of the story. Are you willing to suspend some of your
assumptions about the way things work so as to become fully alert for
hidden agendas and dormant potentials? Here's a piece of advice: Your
fine analytical intelligence won't be enough to guide you through this
enigmatic terrain. If you hope to get face to face with the core source,
you'll have to call on your deeper intuition and non-rational hunches.
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OUR COLLABORATION
I really do feel that you're with me as I create the weekly horoscopes. In
a sense, you're my assistant. Our telepathic connection is utterly
palpable and practical. The hopes and questions you project my way
stream into my higher mind, coloring my psychic environment and
enriching my desire to give you exactly what you need.
If you want more inspiration generated in that same collaborative spirit,
keep in mind that I also offer EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES. They're
longer meditations on the current state of your destiny.
https://RealAstrology.com
Lately I've been addressing your personal story in the context of the
coronavirus. I've discussed ways that you might make best use of your
time as we navigate our way through our Shared Global Crisis.
To listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope online, go to
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When was the last time you researched the
intricacies of what you don't like and don't desire and don't want to
become? Now is a favorable time to take a thorough inventory. You'll
generate good fortune for yourself by naming the following truths: 1.
goals and dreams that are distractions from your primary mission; 2.
attitudes and approaches that aren't suitable for your temperament and
that don't contribute to your maximum health; 3. people and influences
that are not in alignment with your highest good.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed
that the cleverest people are those who regularly call themselves fools.
In other words, they feel humble amusement as they acknowledge their
failings and ignorance—thereby paving the way for creative growth.
They steadily renew their commitment to avoid being know-it-alls,
celebrating the curiosity that such blessed innocence enables them to
nurture. They give themselves permission to ask dumb questions! Now is
a favorable time for you to employ these strategies.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What wonderful improvements and
beautiful influences would you love to be basking in by May 1, 2021?
What masterpieces would you love to have as key elements of your life
by then? I invite you to have fun brainstorming about these possibilities
in the next two weeks. If an exciting idea bubbles up into your
awareness, formulate a plan that outlines the details you'll need to put in
place so as to bring it to fruition when the time is right. I hereby
authorize you to describe yourself with these terms: begetter;
originator; maker; designer; founder; producer; framer; generator.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I asked you to hug and kiss yourself
regularly, would you think I was being too cute? If I encouraged you to
gaze into a mirror once a day and tell yourself how beautiful and
interesting you are, would you say, "That's too woo-woo for me." I hope
you will respond more favorably than that, Aquarius. In fact, I will be
praying for you to ascend to new heights of self-love between now and
May 25. I will be rooting for you to be unabashed as you treat yourself
with more compassionate tenderness than you have ever dared to before.
And I do mean EVER!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, I'd love to see you get
excited about refining and upgrading the ways you communicate. I don't
mean to imply that you're a poor communicator now; it's just that you're
in a phase when you're especially empowered to enhance the clarity and
candor with which you express yourself. You'll have an uncanny knack
for knowing the right thing to say at the right moment. You'll generate
blessings for yourself as you fine-tune your listening skills. Much of
this may have to happen online and over the phone, of course. But you
can still accomplish a lot!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I always hesitate to advise Aries people to
slow down, be more deliberate, and pay closer attention to boring details.
The Rams to whom I provide such counsel may be rebelliously annoyed
with me—so much so that they move even faster, and with less attention
to the details. Nevertheless, I'll risk offering you this advisory right
now. Here's my reasoning, which I hope will make the prospect more
appealing: If you commit to a phase in which you temporarily invoke
more prudence, discretion, and watchfulness than usual, it will
ultimately reward you with a specific opportunity to make rapid
progress.
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Homework: What's the bravest thing you ever did? What will be the next
brave thing you do? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com
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