Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
AUGUST 26, 2009
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"All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now
are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most
beautiful of all, and all poetry now is archaic that fails to
match the wonder of this view."
- Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By
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WHAT IF EVERYTHING'S ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS?
Rupert Sheldrake and the Physics of Angels
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"If the universe is alive, if solar systems are alive, if
galaxies are alive, if planets are alive, are they conscious?
Or are they alive but unconscious, in the same way that perhaps
a worm or a bacterium might be alive but unconscious? And is the
kind of life that may exist in the cosmos more conscious than
ourselves, or do we have to assume it's a great deal less conscious
than ourselves? Are we the smartest beings in the universe? Now
the usual answer of science is yes. I think that's a very improbable
assumption."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning August 27
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
I was listening to a sports talk show on the radio. The host
had recently discovered Twitter, and was pleased with how many
fans he had already accumulated. But he was not at all happy with
the words "Twitter" or "tweet." Too effeminate,
he said. Not macho enough for a he-man like himself to use comfortably.
In fact, he promised that he would never again refer to his Twitter
messages as "tweets," but would hereafter call them
"spurts." Instead of "Twitter," he would say
"Twister." I encourage you to draw inspiration from
his example, Virgo. You're in an astrological phase when you can
and should reconfigure anything that doesn't suit your needs or
accommodate your spirit, whether it's the language you use, the
environments you hang out in, or the processes you're working
on.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Years ago, a TV sitcom called The Andy Griffith Show
ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a
mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick
was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly
after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which he thrashed
and pummeled his co-star. When he asked his psychiatrist about
the meaning of this dream violence, the shrink speculated that
he was trying to kill off his old image. I recommend that exact
strategy to you now, Libra. Don't actually wreak any real-life
mayhem. Rather, see if you can have a dream or two in which you
destroy a symbol of the life you're ready to leave behind.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
What life will you be living at noon on September 1, 2014? Who
will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What
kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving?
Will you look back at the time between August 27 and September
21, 2009 and sigh, "If only I had initiated my Five Year
Master Plan at that ripe astrological moment"? Or on September
1, 2014 will you instead be able to crow, "I can truly say
that in these past five years I have become the president of my
own life"?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
If at some future time you sell your life story to a filmmaker
who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with
adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun
will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and
be victimized by your signature pain any longer. This brave act
will recalibrate the cosmic scales and shift the currents of destiny
that flow through you. Soon you will be making progress in untangling
a mystery that has eluded your insight for a long time. You will
be able to uncover the guarded secrets of a source that has for
some time been tweaking your personal power without your full
awareness.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In his book From Heaven to Earth: Spiritual Living in a Market-Oriented
World, Aaron Zerah riffs on the Hebrew word "nabal."
It describes someone who's so staunchly concentrated on practical
concerns that he becomes impractical. Please don't let this be
your fate anytime soon, Capricorn. For the ultimate benefit of
the bottom line, disregard the bottom line for a while. Fantasize
like a teenage poet. Be as whimsical as a mystic clown. Be a sweet,
fun-loving fool so you won't turn into a sour, workaholic fool.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
A woman living in China's Jilin province got married in a wedding
gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong's dress was
decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew.
In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage
you to be extravagant and imaginative as you celebrate a great
union in the coming weeks. You have an astrological mandate to
think big as you carry out a rite of passage that will lead to
an upgrade in the role that collaboration and symbiosis play in
your life.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Close your eyes and imagine you're in a meadow as rain falls.
Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in
the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your
organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through
you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes. In my astrological
opinion, experiences like this are what you need most in the coming
week. Can you think of some others that would speak directly to
your animal intelligence? It's a perfect time to please and excite
the part of you that is a soft, warm creature.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
What I wish for you this week is that you won't be satisfied
with mediocre truths; that you'll be a fussy perfectionist focused
on cutting out waste, fraud, and delusion; that you'll be itchy
to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played.
Frustration, I hope, will be your holy fuel. Unsweetened lemonade,
I trust, will be your rejuvenating drink. These are blessings,
Aries, not curses! I pray that you'll pick one of your scabs until
it bleeds so the healing process can start over -- the right way
this time.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the
hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it.
What is that safe way of getting high that you've always wanted
to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to
try it. What is the alluring phenomenon that is always going on
just outside the reach of your ordinary awareness -- the seductive
pull you have always somehow resisted? This is the time to dive
in and explore it. (Thanks to John Averill for his inspiration
in composing this horoscope. His tweets are at twitter.com/wiremesa.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of
an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars
suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate.
I mention this, Gemini, because I think you'd be wise to review
your own personal myth of exile. It's time to question the story
you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost.
Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that
everything you've believed is at least half-wrong -- that your
origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden
fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it
was actually a precious medicine.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
The coming week will be prime time to perform minor miracles
without trying too hard. You'll probably have maximum success
if you refrain from hoping and worrying about achieving maximum
success. The cosmic currents will be likely to bend and shape
themselves to accommodate your deeper needs if you proceed on
the assumption that they know, better than your little ego does,
what's best for you. To get yourself in the proper frame of mind
to do challenging tasks without expending strenuous effort, you
might want to check out this photo spread of people practicing
drunk yoga: tinyurl.com/n5z533.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Are you familiar with the phenomenon known as a fire whirl? It
happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like
vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It's beautiful
to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I
bring this to your attention in the hope that you will not let
yourself turn into the human equivalent of a fire whirl in the
coming week. You're not yet close to being one, but there are
signs you're headed that way. With just a modicum of adjustment,
you can ensure that you'll be more like a blaze in a fireplace
or a wild but controlled bonfire on a beach -- not a fire whirl.
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HOMEWORK:
Make up a story about an adventure you might go on someday. Imagine
all the details. Go to FreeWillAstrology.com
and click on "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
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our many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had
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