Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
OCTOBER 5, 2011
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The piece below is excerpted from my book PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
YOU ARE A DISSEMINATOR OF PRONOIA
All of creation loves you very much.
Even now, secret and not-so-secret allies are cooking up mysteries
that will excite you and incite you for years to come.
Even now, the Earth, moon, and sun are collaborating to make
sure you have all you need to make your next smart move.
But here's the loaded question: Are you willing to start loving
life back with an equal intensity? The adoration it offers you
has not exactly been unrequited, but there is room for you to
be more demonstrative.
Half of the art of pronoia is about being improvisationally receptive
to life's elaborate scheme to shower you with blessings. The other
half is about learning to be a co-conspirator who assists life
in doling out blessings -- to help everyone else get exactly what
they need, exactly when they need it.
Visualize yourself being able to recognize the raw truth about
the people you care about. Imagine that you can see how they already
embody the beauty their souls' codes have promised as well as
how they still fall short of embodying that beauty.
Picture yourself being able to make them feel appreciated even
as you inspire them to risk changes that will activate more of
their souls' codes.
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The excerpt below is from my book THE TELEVISIONARY ORACLE
available at Amazon: bit.ly/Televisionary
or Powells: bit.ly/TelevisionaryPowells
Think globally,
but act locally.
Plan for the future,
but act in the present.
Dream of all the masterpieces you'd be thrilled to create,
but work on just one at a time.
Lust for every enticing soul you see,
but only make love to the imperfect beauty you're actually with.
Allow yourself to tune in
to every last feeling that bubbles up from your subconscious,
but understand that only a very few of these feelings
need to be expressed.
Be passionately attuned
to all the injustices and hypocrisies you see around you,
but be selective when choosing which of those you will actually
fight,
and fight them with cheerful life-affirming zeal,
not bitter, resentful chagrin.
Homework
Write an essay on at least two of the following topics:
1. "How I Used My Nightmares to Become Smart and Strong"
2. "How I Exploited My Problems to Become a Spiritual Freedom
Fighter"
3. "How I Fed and Fed and Fed My Monsters Until They Ate
Themselves to Death"
4. "How I Turned Envy, Frustration, and Smoldering Anger
into Generosity, Compassion, and Fiery Success"
5. "Why Perfection Sux"
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
DESPITE ALL THE DELUSIONAL PROPAGANDA YOU HEAR, THE FACT IS THE
HUMAN RACE IS BECOMING LESS VIOLENT
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
"Many people think we live in the most violent age ever.
But this book shows the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing
for millennia. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide,
child abuse, pogroms, gruesome punishments, and genocide were
ordinary features of life. But today, these have all dwindled
and are widely condemned."
tinyurl.com/3l8x39f
LIFE GETS A BIT MORE BEAUTIFUL FOR PERU'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
A new law recognizing the land ownership rights of Peru's native
inhabitants sets an important regional precedent.
tinyurl.com/4xn4sam
YOUR MINIMUM DAILY REQUIREMENT OF BEAUTY
I dare you to gaze at an aurora and tell me that life sucks.
tinyurl.com/4yauloy
(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 October 6
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on
Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send
back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept
working for over six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is
still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully
prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve
that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of
the vast potential you have available. Don't scrimp on the love
and intelligence you put into your labor of love.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
"I don't want to play the part of the mythical phoenix
again," my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares
for her latest trial by fire. "I've burned myself to the
ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already.
Why can't someone else take a turn for a change?" While I
empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider
to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios
have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation
and regeneration. You're better able to endure the ordeal, too.
Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the
baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself
from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
When she was seven years old, my daughter Zoe created a cartoon
panel with colored pens. It showed an orange-haired girl bending
down to tend to three orange flowers. High overhead was an orange
five-pointed star. The girl was saying, "I think it would
be fun being a star," while the star mused, "I think
it would be great to be a girl." I urge you to create your
own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself
where the girl was in Zoe's rendering. Getting your imagination
to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to
notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will
bring you. Here's your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics
espouse: "As above, so below."
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join MENSA, an organization
for people with high IQs. Since I'd never gotten any awards, plaques,
or badges, I thought I'd indulge in this little sin of pride.
Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot
for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to MENSA, I felt
sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra smart. Eventually
I resigned from the so-called genius club. But then I descended
into deeper egomania -- I started bragging about how I had quit
MENSA because I didn't want to come off like an egotist. How egotistical
was that? Please avoid this type of unseemly behavior in the coming
week, Capricorn. Be authentically humble, not fake like me. It'll
be important for your success.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Right now you have license to make pretty much everything bigger
and funnier and wickeder. Good fortune is likely to flow your
way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and
colorful and thought-provoking. This is no time for you to be
shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up
adventure. Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter,
nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs
your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
There is a slight chance the following scenario will soon come
to pass: A psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that
can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on
absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace
period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering
guilt you've carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent
less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: You'll feel
like a wise rookie who's ready to learn all about intimacy as
if you were just diving into it for the first time. But get this,
Pisces: There's an even greater chance that these same developments
will unfold very naturally -- without the psychic, without the
prediction about a mutant liver, and without the nonstop drunkenness.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"Do unto others as they wish," advised French artist
Marcel Duchamp, "but with imagination." I recommend
that approach to you, Aries. You're in a phase of your astrological
cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning
into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those
needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways.
Don't just give the people you care about the mirror image of
what they ask for; give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects
your playful tinkering.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote
thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful
creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. "I
have woven a parachute out of everything broken," he said
in describing his life's work. You are now in a phase when you
could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to
turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Is there something you've always wanted to create but have not
gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to finally
get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized
about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would
be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious
deal you've thought about connecting with but never have? Any
profound question you've longed to pose but didn't? Any heart-expanding
message you've wanted to deliver but couldn't bring yourself to?
You know what to do.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
The experiences you're flirting with seem to be revivals of long-forgotten
themes. You're trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was
abandoned or neglected way back when. You're dipping into the
past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to find new applications
for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you're doing, I've
resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-century dictionary.
Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive
again. "Euneirophrenia" means "peace of mind after
a sweet dream." The definition of "neanimorphic"
is "looking younger than one's true age." "Gloze"
is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade.
"Illapse" means the gradual or gentle entrance of one
thing into another.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
An old Egyptian saying declares that "the difference between
a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather." I suspect
that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy
of that statement. There will be a very fine line between delusional
nonsense and helpful wisdom . . . between colorful but misleading
BS and articulate, provocative analysis . . . between interesting
but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidence-based prognostications.
Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of getting
it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong
truth.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
What's the most practical method of acquiring wealth? One out
of every five Americans believes that it's by playing the lottery.
While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated
chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance -- the
odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one
-- I don't recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial
security in this particular way. A much better use of your current
cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach
to making, spending, saving, and investing money.
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Provide proof of the following hypothesis: "You know what
to do and you know when to do it." Freewillastrology.com.
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