Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
APRIL 22, 2009
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"The planet is some kind of organized intelligence. It's
very different from us. It's had 5- or 6-billion years to create
a slow moving mind that is made of oceans, and rivers, and rainforests,
and glaciers. It's becoming aware of us, as we are becoming aware
of it, strangely enough.
"Two less likely members of a relationship can hardly be
imagined -- the technological apes and the dreaming planet. And
yet, because the life of each depends on the other, [we have]
a feeling towards this immense, strange, wise, old, neutral, weird
thing, and it is trying to figure out why its dreams are so tormented
and why everything is out of balance."
- Terence McKenna
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning April 23
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Astrology and Tarot cards are my favorite divinatory tools, but
I also get a lot of use out of magnetic poetry kits. These are
boxes full of evocative words and symbols in the form of refrigerator
magnets. Sometimes after analyzing your astrological omens, I'll
close my eyes, beam a question out into the ethers, and pluck
a few magnets at random from one of my poetry kits. I just did
that for you. "What are the keys to unlocking the enormous
reserves of energy that are potentially available for Aries folks
right now?" I asked. Here's the message that came: "swooping
orgasms & laughing tears." (Or it could also be arranged
this way: "laughing orgasms & swooping tears.")
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Rachael Yanetta, a young English woman, got a bellyache while
working her regular job at the local pub. Despite the pain, she
toughed it out until her shift was over, then went home. Her distress
increased, though, and at 3 a.m. she checked into the hospital.
A little over an hour later, to her shock, she gave birth to her
first child, having been unaware she was pregnant until the very
end of her nine-month term. I predict a comparable sequence for
you in the coming days, Taurus. You'll power through some perplexing
anomaly that leads to the unexpected arrival of a new creation
or vital revelation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
As I close my eyes and ask my deep self for a psychic vision
that symbolizes your current astrological omens, here's what I
see: You're trying to look relaxed even though you have one foot
on a dock and one foot on a boat as the boat pulls away. How should
we interpret this scene? Here's what I think: It seems likely
that at any minute now you will have to commit yourself to either
the dock, the boat, or the water.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
This would be an excellent time for you to lead a populist revolt
to overthrow the abusive authorities or out-of-touch elites who
have been working their dumb magic for far too long. It would
also be a perfect moment for you to stop cooperating with energy-draining
situations that undermine your autonomy. The Age of Passivity
is ending, thank Goddess. Launching the Age of Awakening may not
be easy or fast, but you will attract extra help and encouragement
if you do it now.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
"I am not interested in money," said actress Marilyn
Monroe. "I just want to be wonderful." Consider the
possibility of trying out that approach for a while, Leo. I'm
not, of course, encouraging you to be apathetic toward financial
matters. But I do think it's an excellent time to for you to specialize
in making yourself more wonderful. The cosmic signs say that you
now have access to unprecedented reserves of the most profound
kind of charm (not the cheap, fake, manipulative stuff). They
also suggest that certain qualities in you that have previously
been merely fine are primed to evolve into being amazingly marvelous.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
I once had a Virgo girlfriend who was exceedingly well-organized.
The capstone of her heroic efforts to keep life rigorously ordered
was her approach to her underwear. Each of her panties was embroidered
with the name of a day of the week. In the large drawer where
they were kept, all the Mondays were in a neat pile at the upper
left-hand corner, followed by the rest of the days in their proper
sequence. She was always able to grab the correct pair, even when
she was half-asleep and the room was dark. If I were going to
contact her now, I'd recommend that she should, for a change,
arrange her intimate items out of order, and maybe wear Monday
on Friday, or put Tuesday on inside-out on Saturday. According
to my reading of the omens, this kind of playful self-trickery
would set the right tone for you Virgos; it would encourage the
universe to send you the benevolent interruptions and interesting
interventions you need.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
"Being understood is not the most essential thing in life,"
said actress Jodie Foster. While that may be true for her, I bet
you won't turn it down if a flood of appreciation and acknowledgement
comes your way in the next few weeks. According to my reading
of the astrological omens, you now have the potential to be better
understood than maybe you've been in a long time. I suggest you
take maximum advantage of this good fortune. Make it easy for
people to see you for who you really are.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
The famous physicist Robert Oppenheimer sometimes displayed a
disarming humility. "There are children playing in the streets
who could solve some of my top problems in physics," he said
once, "because they have modes of sensory perception that
I lost long ago." I invite you to consider the possibility
that you, too, could learn a lot from people you regard as beneath
you or utterly unlike you. It's one of those rare phases in your
astrological cycle when useful revelations are likely to arrive
from outside your normal frame of reference. (P.S. Animals might
be great teachers as well.)
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
It's a Love Emergency! Am I right? There's a growing itch in
the romantic sphere, and it needs immediate scratching. I mean
it really can't wait for a few more days to pass; something's
got to be done soon. It may be true that this thickening of the
plot has been underway for quite a while, and its growing urgency
may have snuck up on you. It also may be true that the shift will
ultimately be a promising development. But that doesn't mean you
can afford to be casual about it. Take action!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
From an astrological point of view, the coming weeks will be
an excellent time to start a band and record an album. Your creativity
is waxing, your attunement with the right side of your brain is
especially sweet, and you will benefit immensely from anything
you do to become less of a spectator and more of a participant.
To jumpstart the process, go to Wikipedia and click on "random
article." That's the name of your band. Then go to en.wikiquote.org
and click on "random page." The last few words of the
last quote on that page will be your album's title. Finally, go
to flckr.com/photos, click on "the
last 7 days," and choose a photo from the new page to be
your CD cover. (My band is Widemouth Blindcat, our album is "More
Time for Dreaming," and our cover art is a spiral staircase
from here: tinyurl.com/c89rt7.)
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
You've said enough for the time being. You have expressed the
hell out of yourself and have been thorough in providing your
vision of how the collaborative efforts should unfold. But now
I think you should cultivate the power of silence. Keep your evolving
thoughts to yourself for a while so that they can ripen in your
imagination, and allow the ideas you have already put out there
to fully work their way into the imaginations of others. In early
May, it will be time to jump back in with a new dose of your insight
and inspiration. By then, people should be begging you for more.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
As a leading practitioner of magical thinking, I regard it as
my responsibility to serve as a kind of Quality Control Board.
Excessive trust in invisible forces and odd coincidences, after
all, can be as hazardous to your intelligence as blind faith in
pure reason. This week, in fact, I'd rather see you operate like
a scientist than a mystic. I hope you'll evaluate every situation
by invoking the powers of unbiased perceptivity and lucid objectivity.
So please don't heed anyone's mumbo-jumbo, especially if it's
fear-based. Reject supernatural explanations if natural ones make
equal sense. Be assured that when superstitious fantasies pop
up, they'll have little to do with what's actually happening.
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HOMEWORK:
Go outside at night, make two fists, and punch the sky ten times
while you announce, "Hey God, listen up! I'm gonna fight
for what's rightly mine!" Share your experience by going
to FreeWillAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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