Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
MARCH 4, 2009
FreeWillAstrology.com
"If you have ice cream, I will give it to you. If you have
no ice cream, I will take it from you."
- Rishi Suzuki (He calls this the ice cream koan)
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THE POSSIBLE REWARDS OF PRONOIA: You will be able to claim the
rewards promised you at the beginning of time -- not just any
old beauty, wisdom, goodness, love, freedom, and justice, but
rather exhilarating beauty that incites you to be true to yourself;
crazy wisdom that immunizes you against the temptation to believe
your ideals are ultimate truths; outrageous goodness that inspires
you to experiment with irrepressible empathy; generous freedom
that keeps you alert for opportunities to share your wealth; insurrectionary
love that endlessly transforms you; and a lust for justice that's
leavened with a knack for comedy, keeping you honest as you work
humbly to liberate everyone in the world from ignorance and suffering.
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EVEN BIG CORPORATIONS ARE CAPABLE OF PRONOIA
Bank of America agrees to stop financing companies that mine coal
by stripping the tops of mountains.
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CONTEMPLATIVE ECSTACY
Support Group for Ecstatic Buddhists and Other Bliss-Seeking Contemplatives
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(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 March 5
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little,"
wrote the spiritual activist Thomas Merton. Judging from your
current astrological omens, I suspect that's a warning you should
heed. The time has come for you to consider the possibility that
you aren't thinking big enough . . . that you need to actively
rebel against the voices telling you to sit back and accept your
comfortable limitations. In a sense, the cosmos is giving you
a poetic license to ask for more.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said
Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff. "It's an
opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
While your crisis is nowhere near as pressing as those faced by
Obama's team, Aries, I recommend that you adopt a similar attitude
in the coming days. Just assume that any breakdowns you experience
will allow you to make breakthroughs that were previously impossible.
Take advantage of a spiritual emergency to accomplish a spiritual
emergence. As you deal with a scary trial, use it as an impetus
to find a sacred trail.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Your key theme for the week is "Healthy Obsessions."
Not "Melodramatic Compulsions" or "Exhausting Crazes"
or "Manias That Make You Seem Interesting to Casual Bystanders,"
but "Healthy Obsessions." To carry out your assignment
in the right way, you will have to take really good care of yourself
as you concentrate extravagantly on tasks that fill you with zeal.
This may require you to rebel against the influences of role models,
both in your actual life and in the movies you've seen, who act
as if getting sick and imbalanced is an integral part of being
true to one's genius.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
The closest modern relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex may be the
chicken, says geneticist John Asara. He came to this conclusion
after studying traces of tissue from a 68-million-year-old bone
of the king of dinosaurs. I invite you to draw inspiration from
this theory, Gemini. Try the following thought experiment. Envision
a couple of monstrous influences from your past -- big bad meanies
who hurt you or scared you. Imagine they were like Tyrannosaurus
rexes back then. Close your eyes and see their faces glaring from
the beast's skull. But then imagine that in the intervening months
and years they have devolved and shrunk. Picture them now as clucking
chickens pecking at seeds in the dirt. Can you see their faces
at the top of their bobbing, feathery bodies?
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Scientists and fundamentalist Christians don't share much common
ground, but one thing most of them agree on devoutly: There's
no such thing as reincarnation. Now I'm pleased to be able to
offer you the chance to rebel against their dogmatic delusion.
You see, Cancerian, it's an excellent time to try out the hypothesis
that you have lived many times before and will live many times
again. For one week, act as if it were true, and see how it changes
the way you feel, think, and act. What if everything you do has
repercussions forever?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
This horoscope presents three clues for you to work with. Here's
the first: I know a psychotherapist's son who, while growing up,
rarely received the benefits of his father's psychological expertise.
"The shoemaker's child has no shoes," my friend says.
Here's your second clue: In the Bible's book of Mark, Jesus declares,
"A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country,
and among his own relatives, and in his own house." The third
clue: A neurologist of my acquaintance suffers from migraine headaches
that he has been unable to cure. Now, Leo, I invite you to meditate
on how these alienations may reflect situations that you're experiencing.
If they sound familiar, take action. It's prime time to heal them.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
One reason I've been put on this earth is to expose you to a
kind of astrology that doesn't crush your free will, but instead
clarifies your choices. In this horoscope, for instance, I'll
crisply delineate your options so that you may decide upon a bold
course of action that's most in tune with your highest values.
Study the following multiple-choice query, then briskly flex your
freedom of choice. Would you rather have love: 1. knock the wind
out of one of your illusions, thereby exposing the truth about
what you really want; 2. not exactly kick you in the butt, but
more like pinch and spank you there, inspiring you to revise your
ideas about what it means to be close to someone; 3. spin you
around in dizzying yet oddly pleasurable circles, shaking up your
notions about how to keep intimacy both interestingly unpredictable
and soothingly stable.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Cartoonist Gary Larson defines luposlipaphobia as the fear of
being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing
socks on a newly-waxed floor. According to my reading of the astrological
omens, there is a real danger you could fall victim to that deluded
phobia. And it is definitely a delusion. No timber wolves will
be in your immediate future. If you hope to avoid this mistaken
anxiety, as well as other equally irrelevant and unproductive
superstitions, you should have a nice long talk with yourself
as soon as you finish reading this. Be very clear and strict and
rational as you explain how important it is to be very clear and
strict and rational right now.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Maybe you shouldn't mend your supposedly "evil" ways
if your "evil" ways are about to mutate into a fascinating
new approach to goodness. Maybe the very quality that has threatened
to cause your downfall has now become the key to your upgrade.
And maybe the thing that has made you most nervous about yourself
about yourself will soon start ripening into a beautiful asset
that will activate reserves of life energy you didn't know you
could have at your disposal.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Sagittarian Jakob Dylan has created a solid musical career for
himself. He's a bit defensive, however, about the possibility
that the fame of his father, Bob Dylan, has played a role in his
success. His contracts specify that he should never be called
"Bob Dylan's son." I understand his longing to have
his work be judged on its own merits, and I sympathize with his
urge to be independent of his heritage. But in the coming weeks,
Sagittarius, I advise just the opposite approach for you. You
will place yourself in alignment with cosmic rhythms by expansively
acknowledging all of the influences that have helped you become
the person you want to be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Throx.com sells you socks in threes, so if you lose one you have
an extra to take its place. Their ingenious marketing plan resembles
the approach of some romance-addicts I know, who always date two
or three people just in case they get dumped by one of them. No
bouts of loneliness to worry about! Which brings us to my main
advice for you this week, Capricorn: Have a back-up plan. Keep
an alternative handy. Make sure you won't run out of the stuff
you really need.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
My Chevy got stolen in San Francisco on a January night some
years ago. The thief broke a window and smashed his way into the
steering column with a tire iron to get to the ignition wires.
Eventually the cops recovered the car and returned it to me. But
no repair shop could ever completely fix the transmission, and
though the car sort of worked for another 18 months, I was never
able to shift it into reverse again. Driving a vehicle that only
moved forward presented problems that required creative solutions.
It was an apt metaphor for my life at the time, when I found it
impossible to go backward in any way. I suspect it will also be
one of your operative metaphors in the coming months, Aquarius.
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HOMEWORK:
Write a fairy tale or parable that captures what your life has
been like so far in 2009. Share with me by going to FreeWillAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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