Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JUNE 16, 2010
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my MID-YEAR AUDIO PREVIEW of YOUR DESTINY for the REST of
2010
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This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I
think will be important for you during the next six months.
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance
and divine inspiration?
Where are you likely to find most success?
How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
What questions should you be asking?
Tune in.
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The revised and expanded version of my book PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
EVIL IS BORING
To read the entire text of this piece, go here: bit.ly/EvilisBoring
To hear a shorter audio version, go here: bit.ly/EvilNeedsYawns
When an old tree in the rain forest dies and topples over, it
takes a long time to decompose. As it does, it becomes host to
new saplings that use the decaying log for nourishment.
Picture yourself sitting in the forest gazing upon this scene.
How do you describe it? Would you dwell on the putrefaction of
the fallen tree while ignoring the fresh life sprouting out of
it? If you did, you'd be imitating the perspective of many modern
storytellers, especially the journalists and novelists and filmmakers
and producers of TV dramas. They devoutly believe that tales of
affliction and mayhem and corruption and tragedy are inherently
more interesting than tales of triumph and liberation and pleasure
and ingenuity.
Using the juggernaut of the media and entertainment industries,
they relentlessly propagate this covert dogma. It's not sufficiently
profound or well thought out to be called nihilism. Pop nihilism
is a more accurate term. The mass audience is the victim of this
inane ugliness, brainwashed by a multibillion-dollar propaganda
machine that in comparison makes Himmler's vaunted soul-stealing
apparatus look like a child's backyard puppet show. This is the
engine of the phenomena I call the global genocide of the imagination.
At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we believe that stories about the
rot are not inherently more captivating than stories about the
splendor. On the contrary, given how predictable and ubiquitous
they are, stories about the rot are actually quite dull. Obsessing
on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing
in despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing
a copycat crime.
To read the rest of "EVIL IS BORING," go here: bit.ly/EvilisBoring
To hear the audio version: bit.ly/EvilNeedsYawns
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
NOT EVERYONE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY
A land owner who could have become one of Australia's richest
men gifted his land -- worth billions of dollars because of its
uranium deposits -- to a national park instead of a mining company
tinyurl.com/32dvfss
PRONOIAC TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS STEP BY STEP
Shopping malls are being repurposed as farms.
tinyurl.com/2a9a3pt
THE CONCEPT OF PRONOIA IS AT LEAST 4,000 YEARS OLD
"Lila" is the Sanskrit word for "cosmic play."
The philosophy behind it describes the entire universe as arising
from the joyous love play and creative adventures of the Divine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila
(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 June 17
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
In 1965, two Russian cosmonauts orbited the Earth in the Voskhod
2 spacecraft. Due to equipment problems, they had to land the
vehicle manually. Instead of hitting the target area, they mistakenly
set down in rugged mountainous country covered with deep snow.
While they waited overnight inside their capsule, wolves gathered
outside, howling and pacing. But the next day their recovery team
reached them and scared off the hungry predators. Soon they were
safely on their way back home. Let this little tale be an inspiration
to you, Cancerian, as you come in for your landing. Even though
you may not end up quite where you intended, there'll be a happy
ending as long as you wait for your allies to be ready for you
and you don't try to rush your re-integration.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato advocated the use of dogs
in courtrooms. He thought that canines were expert lie detectors;
that they always knew when deceit was in the air. I suspect you'll
display a similar talent in the coming days, Leo. You will have
a sixth sense about when the truth is being sacrificed for expediency,
or when delusions are masquerading as reasonable explanations,
or when the ego's obsessions are distorting the hell out of the
soul's authentic understandings. Harness that raw stuff, please.
Use it discreetly, surgically, and with compassion.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
If you've been aligned with cosmic rhythms these past few weeks,
Virgo, you've been rising higher and feeling bolder. You've taken
a stand on issues about which you had previously been a bit weak
and cowardly. You have been able to articulate elusive or difficult
truths in graceful ways that haven't caused too terrible a ruckus.
Your next challenge is to rally the troops. The group that means
the most to you is in need of your motivational fervor. I suggest
that you think deeply about how to cultivate more dynamic relationships
among all the parts, thereby energizing the whole.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
"Human beings are in a state of creativity 24 hours a day,"
wrote Raoul Vaneigem in his book The Revolution of Everyday
Life. "People usually associate creativity with works
of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy
displayed by everyone a thousand times a day?" I say "amen"
to that. All of us are constantly generating fresh ideas, novel
feelings, unexpected perceptions, and pressing intentions. We
are founts of restless originality. But whether we use our enormous
power constructively is another question. Typically, a lot of
the stuff we spawn is less than brilliant and useful. Having said
that, I'm pleased to announce that you're entering a phase when
you have the potential to create far more interesting and useful
things than usual -- longer lasting, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
If you have been engaged in any S&M scenario, even metaphorically,
now would be a good time to quit it. Whether you're the person
who's whipping or being whipped, the connection is no longer serving
any worthy purpose. The good news is that freeing yourself from
compromising entanglements will make you fully available to explore
new frontiers in collaboration. You will also be blessed with
an influx of intuition about how to reconfigure bonds that have
become blah and boring. And what if you're not currently involved
in any S&M scenario? Congrats! Your assignment is to transform
one of your pretty good relationships into a supercharged union
that's capable of generating life-changing magic.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
I wouldn't say that things are about to get darker for you.
But they're definitely going to get deeper and damper and more
complicated. I don't expect there to be any confrontations with
evil or encounters with nasty messes, but you may slip down a
rabbit hole into a twilight region where all the creatures speak
in riddles and nothing is as it seems. And yet that's the best
possible place for you to gain new insight about the big questions
that so desperately need more clarity. If you can manage to hold
your own in the midst of the dream-like adventures, you'll be
blessed with a key to relieving one of your long-running frustrations.
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WHAT'S TO COME?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2010:
RealAstrology.com
What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2010?
How can you exert your free will to create the adventures that'll
bring out the best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate
with the tides of destiny?
If you'd like a boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest
for beauty and truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in
to my meditations on your long-term outlook.
Go here: RealAstrology.com
Or for phone access, call: 1-877-873-4888
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
The eulachon is a fish that lives off the Pacific Coast of North
America. Its fat content is so high that the Chinook Indians used
to dry it, thread it with a wick, and employ it as a candle. The
stink was bad, but the light was good. Remind you of anything
in your life right now, Capricorn? Something that provides a steady
flow of illumination, even if it is a bit annoying or inconvenient?
I say, treasure it for what it is and accept it for what it isn't.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
When I was growing up in Michigan, playing in the snow was a
great joy. As much as I loved the arrival of each new spring,
I endured a mourning period as the ground's last patch of dirty
sleet melted. Once in late March, though, I talked my mom into
letting me store five snowballs in the freezer. It wasn't until
my birthday in late June that I retrieved the precious artifacts.
I was slightly disappointed to find they had become more like
iceballs than snowballs. On the other hand, their symbolism was
deeply gratifying. I'd managed to invoke the tangible presence
of winter fun in the summertime. I urge you to attempt a comparable
alchemy, Aquarius. Figure out how to take a happiness you have
felt in another context and transpose it into where you are right
now.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"Even Norah Jones got bored with Norah Jones," wrote
critic Aidin Vaziri in his review of her recent concert in San
Francisco. For years she has tranquilized us with her safe, soothing
music, he said, but not any more. It was like she was fresh from
a "makeover reality show." Her new stuff, which included
an "indie-rock jolt" and quasi-psychedelic riffs, exuded
grit and defiance and weirdness. Norah Jones is your role model
for the next couple of weeks, Pisces. If there have been any ways
in which you've been boring yourself, it's prime time to scramble
the code.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Istanbul is the world's only mega-city that spans two continents.
Many Turkish commuters take the 15-minute ferry ride across the
Bosphorus Strait, traveling from their suburban homes in Asia
to the urban sprawl in Europe. I'm seeing a comparable journey
for you, Aries: a transition that happens casually and quickly,
but that moves you from one world to another. Prepare yourself,
please. Just because it unfolds relatively easily and benevolently
doesn't mean you should be nonchalant about the adjustments it
will require you to make.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
When you want to get rid of a weed that's impinging on the autonomy
of your growing tomato plant, you don't just tear away its stalk
and leaves; you yank it out by the roots. That's the approach
I urge you to take with the saboteur that has inserted itself
into your otherwise thriving patch of heaven. There's no need
to express hatred or rage. In fact, it's better to be lucid and
neutral as you thoroughly remove the invasive influence and assert
your right to care for what you love.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
A lot of people never got the mothering they needed in order
to grow up into the confident, secure lovers of life they have
the potential to become. But even greater numbers suffer from
a lack of smart fathering. And that happens to be the deprivation
that's most important for you Geminis to address right now. If
there was anything missing in the guidance and mentoring you got
from your actual daddy, I urge you to brainstorm about how you
could make up for it in the coming months. For starters, here's
one idea: Is there any father figure out there who could inspire
you to become more of your own father figure?
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HOMEWORK:
Chant this string of magic words five times a day as you visualize
yourself feeling happy: "Bravo Viva Whoopee Eureka Hallelujah
Abracadabra." Report results to Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely matches my own. In
our many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had
a major influence on each other's work.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained
intuition, emotional warmth, and
a high
degree of 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.
Ro is based in California, but
can do phone consultations and
otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic
boundaries.
Ro's website is at YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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