Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
FreeWillAstrology.com
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My book
PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
Below is an excerpt from a piece called UNHAPPY HOUR.
(You can hear me perform the whole thing at bit.ly/zxnYnD)
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You're invited to celebrate Unhappy Hour. It's a ceremony that
gives you a poetic license to rant and whine and howl and sob
about everything that hurts you and makes you feel bad.
During this perverse grace period, there's no need for you to
be inhibited as you unleash your tortured squalls. You don't have
to tone down the extremity of your desolate clamors. Unhappy Hour
is a ritually consecrated excursion devoted to the full disclosure
of your primal clash and jangle.
Here's the catch: It's brief. It's concise. It's crisp. You dive
into your darkness for no more than 60 minutes, then climb back
out, free and clear. It's called Unhappy Hour, not Unhappy Day
or Unhappy Week or Unhappy Year.
Do you have the cheeky temerity to drench yourself in your paroxysmal
alienation from life? Unhappy Hour invites you to plunge in and
surrender. It dares you to scurry and squirm all the way down
to the bottom of your pain, break through the bottom of your pain,
and fall down flailing in the soggy, searing abyss, yelping and
cringing and wallowing.
That's where you let your pain tell you every story it has to
tell you. You let your pain teach you every lesson it has to teach
you. But then it's over. The ritual ordeal is complete. And your
pain has to take a vacation until the next Unhappy Hour, which
isn't until next week sometime, or maybe next month.
You see the way the game works? Between this Unhappy Hour and
the next one, your pain has to shut up. It's not allowed to creep
and seep all over everything, staining the flow of your daily
life. It doesn't have free reign to infect you whenever it's itching
for more power.
Your pain gets its succinct blast of glory, its resplendent climax,
but leaves you alone the rest of the time.
If performed regularly, Unhappy Hour serves as an exorcism that
empties you of psychic toxins, while at the same time -- miracle
of miracles -- it helps you squeeze every last drop of blessed
catharsis out of those psychic toxins.
Pronoia will then be able to flourish as you luxuriate more frequently
in rosy moods and broad-minded visions. You'll develop a knack
for cultivating smart joy and cagey optimism as your normal states
of mind.
Now let's get you warmed up for Unhappy Hour . . . .
TO READ (and hear) THE REST OF THIS PIECE, GO HERE: bit.ly/zxnYnD
Or buy the book! It's called PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR
PARANOIA and is available here: bit.ly/Pronoia
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning September 12
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
This is a good time to free yourself from a curse that an immature
soul placed on you once upon a time. I'm not talking about a literal
spell cast by a master of the dark arts. Rather, I'm referring
to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps inadvertently,
by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate
the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power
to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don't need a wizard
or a witch to handle it for you. Follow your intuition for clues
on how to proceed. Here's a suggestion to stimulate your imagination:
Visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See yourself hurling
it into a vat of molten gold.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
The current chapter of your life story may not be quite as epic
as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. Still,
what I'm going to tell you is something we all need to hear from
time to time. And I'm pretty sure this is one of those moments
for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: "Nobody can
save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly
impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through
subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die
quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily
won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody
can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
The cosmos hereby grants you poetic license to be brazen in
your craving for the best and brightest experiences . . . to be
uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for
you . . . to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what
you really, really want more than anything else. This is a limited
time offer, although it may be extended if you pounce eagerly
and take full advantage. For best results, suspend your pursuit
of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your bitchy complaints
about life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
At the last minute, Elsa Oliver impulsively canceled her vacation
to New York. She had a hunch that something exciting would happen
if instead she stayed at her home in England. A few hours later,
she got a message inviting her to be a contestant on the UK television
show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? In the days and weeks
that followed, she won the equivalent of $100,000. I'm not predicting
anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius. But I do suspect
that good luck is lurking in unexpected places, and to gather
it in you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking
shifts in fate, and be willing to alter your plans.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
"The only thing standing between you and your goal,"
writes American author Jordan Belfort, "is the bullshit story
you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
I don't entirely agree with that idea. There may be other obstacles
over which you have little control. But the bullshit story is
often more than half the problem. So that's the bad news, Capricorn.
The good news is that right now is a magic moment in your destiny
when you have more power than usual to free yourself of your own
personal bullshit story.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Is the truth a clear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big diamond
glittering in the sunlight? Does it have an objective existence
that's independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a
fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking
through an underground cavern? Does it have a different meaning
for every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course,
is: both. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other
times it's a stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius,
the truth is the latter. You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity
as you cultivate your relationship with it. It's more likely to
reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame
of mind.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
It's a good time to indulge in wide-open, high-flying, anything-goes
fantasies about love -- IF, that is . . . IF you also do something
practical to help those fantasies come true. So I encourage you
to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance
and intimacy -- as long as you also make specific adjustments
in your own attitudes and behavior that will make the revolution
more likely. Two more tips: 1. Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs
you might have about love's possibilities. 2. Work to increase
your capacity for lusty trust and trusty lust.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later
break your heart," wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger
Than Fiction. From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is
the reverse for you. In your story, the disruption has already
happened. Next comes the part where you laugh. It may be a sardonic
chuckle at first, as you become aware of the illusions you had
been under before the jolt exposed them. Eventually I expect you
will be giggling and gleeful, eternally grateful for the tricky
luck that freed you to pursue a more complete version of your
fondest dream.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an interviewer to compose
a seven-word autobiography. In response, he came up with ten words:
"unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned,
underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy." The
coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar
assignments. I'd love to see you express the essential truth about
yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you
make it clear that even though you're a work-in-progress, you
have a succinct understanding of what you need and who you are
becoming.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
The French word sillage means "wake," like
the trail created behind a boat as it zips through water. In English,
it refers to the fragrance that remains in the air after a person
wearing perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will
expand the definition to include any influences and impressions
left behind by a powerful presence who has exited the scene. In
my astrological opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you
to monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study it. It will
be a source of information that helps you make good decisions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
"Cataglottism" is a rarely used English word that
has the same meaning as French kissing -- engaging in liberal
use of the tongue as you make out. But I don't recommend that
you incorporate such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary.
Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst of French kissing,
that what you're doing is "cataglottism." Your pleasure
would probably be diminished. This truth applies in a broader
sense, too. The language you use to frame your experience has
a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds. The coming week will
be an excellent time to experiment with this principle. See if
you can increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what's
happening to you with beautiful and positive words.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
This is Correct Your First Impressions Week. It's a perfect
time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based
on mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to
the possibility that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions?
Are you willing to question certainties that hardened in you after
just a brief exposure to complicated processes? During Correct
Your First Impressions Week, humble examination of your fixed
prejudices is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.
P.S. This is a good time to re-connect with a person you have
unjustly judged as unworthy of you.
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