Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
FreeWillAstrology.com
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Describe the everyday miracles you take for granted, the uncanny
powers you possess, the small joys that occur so routinely you
forget how much they mean to you, and the steady flow of benefits
bestowed on you by people you know and don't know. What works
for you? What makes you feel at home in the world?
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Excerpted from PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
LET'S EXPOSE THE OBVIOUS MIRACLES, Part 2
You can drink a glass of water. You can spread butter on a slice
of toast. You can wash your hair and prune your plants and draw
infinity signs on a piece of paper. Your hands work wonderfully
well! Their intricate force and sustained grace are amply supported
by your heart, which circulates your blood all the way out to
replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in your fingers
and palms and wrists.
After your blood has delivered its blessings, it finds its way
back to your heart to be refreshed. This masterful mystery repeats
itself over and over again without you ever having to think about
it.
Contemplate the unfathomable prowess of your digestive system.
Countless chemical reactions have to unfold with alacrity in order
for it to work as well as it does. The gastric juice has to be
composed of just the right mix of pepsin, rennin, mucus, and hydrochloric
acid. The bile and pancreatic juice must arrive at the right spot
and at the right time. The enterocytes in your small intestine
always have to remember anew how to carry out their uptake of
ions, lipids, and peptides. How can they possibly be so good at
knowing exactly what to do and when to do it?
The circulation of blood and the conversion of food into fuel
are just two of many alchemical feats that the secret intelligence
within you takes care of. Thousands of other exchanges and transformations
and syntheses are ceaselessly working their wizardry inside your
body without your conscious participation.
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You may sometimes take for granted the luxuriant variety of unique
and subtle aromas that come to you, but the truth is that you
love your sense of smell. You're also thrilled about your power
to hear sounds, and taste flavors, and touch textures. A few of
these impressions repel or offend you -- although even those are
often interesting -- but the vast majority ground you and gratify
you.
Maybe you rarely celebrate the fact that you can think, but according
to my inside sources, the flash of mercurial codes through your
brain is among the universe's most dazzling accomplishments. Try
to imagine the colossal divine plan or the implausible series
of fabulous accidents that had to coalesce in order for you to
be able to generate thoughts -- soaring, luminescent, liberating
thoughts or shriveled, rusty, burrowing thoughts ... thoughts
that can invent or destroy, corrupt or redeem, bless or curse.
Your capacity to experience emotions and passions and longings
is one of your most precious endowments. You may not exult in
the waves of anger or jealousy that sometimes ripple through you,
but you're glad you have the power to feel them. Your yearning
for an impossible dream may feel shattering, but you relish being
able to accommodate that much intensity . . . .
TO READ THE REST OF THIS PIECE, go here: bit.ly/ObviousMiracle2
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READ PART 1 OF THE SERIES "Let's Expose the Obvious Miracles"
here:
bit.ly/ObviousMiracle1
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 25
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
It's Experiment with Your Self-Image Week -- a time when it
would be invigorating to shift and play with your identity. During
this reinvention phase, you might find you can change yourself
on the inside simply by rearranging yourself on the outside. So
have fun wearing clothes you've never donned before. Entertain
yourself with a new hairstyle. Speak in foreign accents or use
words you don't usually utter. Amuse yourself with a variety of
novel approaches to walking, laughing, gesticulating, and moving
your face. Think of your persona as a work of art that you love
to tinker with.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't,"
said physician James Gordon. "It's that some people are ready
to change and others are not." That's why you may soon appear
to the casual observer, Capricorn, as someone who's able to call
on enormous reserves of willpower. According to my reading of
the astrological omens, you are now more amenable to change than
you've been in a long time. In fact, I suspect that in the coming
weeks you'll be willing and even eager to initiate transformations
that seem heroic to people who are addicted to the status quo.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
All belief systems, ideologies, philosophies, and religions are
mostly wrong, even though many of them have chunks of useful information
that contribute to the common good. Said another way, absolutely
no one has the whole truth, but pretty much everyone has a part
of the truth. Now it so happens, Aquarius, that your little fraction
of ultimate wisdom is currently clearer and stronger than usual.
That makes you especially valuable to your gang, family, or tribe.
It doesn't mean you should be the supreme arbiter of correct thinking
forever, but it does suggest that right now you should exert extra
leadership with forceful grace.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Think back over the course of your life and identify any worthy
ambitions that got irretrievably blocked or frustrated or squandered.
Once you've named those lost chances, do a ritual in which you
completely let go of them. As much as possible, give up all regrets.
Flush the sadness. Forgive anyone who interfered. Wipe the slate
clean. Only by doing this can you open the way to an opportunity
that's lurking just outside your awareness. And what exactly is
that opportunity? Even if I told you, you wouldn't know what I
was talking about. Your ability to find it requires you to do
the preliminary work of purging your remorse for missed opportunities.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Should you rely on hard facts or soft feelings? Would it be advisable
to trust your tried-and-true medicine or else a potion brewed
from the tongue of a snake, the feather of a crow, and a mandrake
root? Can you get better results by mingling with staunch allies
or with rebel upstarts who have a knack for shaking things up?
Only you can decide on these matters, Aries. My opinion? You'll
probably generate more interesting developments by going with
the feelings, the mandrake root, and the upstarts.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
"We cannot have any unmixed emotions," said poet William
Butler Yeats. "There is always something in our enemy that
we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike."
I hope that's OK with you, Taurus. In fact I hope you regard that
as a peculiar blessing -- as one of the half-maddening, half-inspiring
perks of life on earth. The fact is, as I see it, that you are
in the thick of the Season of Mixed Emotions. The more graciously
you accept that -- the more you invite it to hone your soul's
intelligence -- the better able you'll be to capitalize on the
rich and fertile contradictions that are headed your way.
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WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES ARE LIKE?
To get an idea of how my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES might make
you feel, tune in to my podcast, "Fear Versus Intuition."
It's here: bit.ly/FearVersusIntuition
"Fear Versus Intuition" is a meditation about the difference
between your fearful fantasies and your authentic, accurate intuitions.
My approach there has a close resemblance to the style of my
weekly EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES. Go here to access them: RealAstrology.com
The weekly forecasts are also available by phone: 1-877-873-4888
or 1-900-950-7700.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Louisiana porn star Stormy Daniels considered running for a U.S.
Senate seat in 2010, although she eventually dropped out because
it was too expensive. I admired one of her campaign strategies:
She went on a "listening tour," traveling around her
state to hear what potential constituents might want to tell her.
I encourage you to embark on your own listening tour in the coming
weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you to find out about
everything you don't even realize you need to know. Adopt a mode
of maximum receptivity as you ask a lot of questions. Wipe your
mind clean of assumptions so you can get all of the benefits possible
from being innocent and curious.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
I love astrology. It excites my imagination and helps ensures
that my relationship with the world is never too literal or prosaic.
It anchors me in the paradoxical insight that although many things
are out of my control, I have huge amounts of free will. My study
of the mysterious meanings of planetary omens provides guidance,
keeps me humble, and is a constant reminder that poetry provides
an understanding of reality that's as useful as science. On the
other hand, astrology sometimes feels oppressive. I don't like
any system, even one as interesting as astrology, to come between
me and the raw truth about reality. I aspire to see the actual
person who's in front of me, not be interpreting everything she
does through the lens of her horoscope. Now I urge you to do what
I've just done, Cancerian: Express your appreciation for something
in your life that provides beauty and power, even as you also
critique its downsides.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Bees pollinate apples. Butterflies perform the same service for
lilies and moths do it for tobacco. Horse chestnut requires the
help of hummingbirds to pollinate, wild ginger needs flies, and
oak trees depend on the wind. The world's largest flower, the
rafflesia, can be pollinated by elephants' eyebrows as the beasts
use their trunks to search for nectar. My point is that in the
natural world, fertilization is species-specific. Bees don't pollinate
lilies and butterflies don't pollinate horse chestnut. A similar
principle holds true for you, Leo. Can you name the influences
that fertilize you? Now's a good time to get very clear about
that, and then seek out a more focused connection with those influences.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Native Americans took care of the land better than the white
people who appropriated it, but they were by no means masters
of sustainability. Recent research reveals they had a sizable
carbon footprint, pumping lots of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
as they cleared and burned forests. (More info at tinyurl.com/NativeCarbon.)
Taking a cue from that little shock, I'm encouraging you to see
if there are aspects of your personal past that should be reinterpreted.
The astrological omens suggest that you'd be wise to revise some
of the stories you tell about what happened to you way back when.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
British engineer John Reid wants to translate dolphins' speech
into human language. For years, he has been working on the Cymascope,
a machine that will help him analyze the basic patterns of dolphin
grammar and vocabulary. I encourage you to be inspired by his
efforts, Libra. It is now an excellent time for you to devote
your ingenuity to improving the way you communicate with alien
species like black sheep, fallen angels, feral mavericks, your
mother-in-law, odd ducks, co-workers who resemble raccoons and
bears, and zombies who don't share your political views.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
An African proverb says, "If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together." I think that sums up
the choice you have before you. There is something to be said
for going fast; it may be that you can get as far as you need
to go by starting immediately and speeding along by yourself.
On the other hand, the distance you have to cover may be beyond
your ability to estimate in the early days. If you think that's
the case, you might want to opt for the slower-paced power of
a joint operation.
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HOMEWORK:
Is it possible there's something you really need but you don't
know what it is? What might it be? Write 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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