Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JUNE 18, 2014
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PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
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Here's an excerpt:
Dumb pain is the kind of pain you're compulsively drawn back
to out of habit. It's familiar, and thus perversely comfortable.
Smart pain is the kind of pain that surprises you with valuable
teachings and inspires you to see the world with new eyes.
While stupid pain is often born of fear, wise pain is typically
stirred up by love.
The dumb, unproductive stuff comes from allowing yourself to
be controlled by your early conditioning and from doing things
that are out of harmony with your essence.
The smart, useful variety arises out of an intention to approach
life as a beautiful, interesting game that's worthy of your curiosity.
I invite you to come up with more definitions about the difference
between dumb pain and smart pain.
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According to Nobel Prize-winning biologist Francis Crick, our
nightly dreams consist of nothing more than hallucinations produced
as the brain flushes out metabolic wastes. Of the many arguments
that can be mustered against this appalling idiocy, none is more
forceful than the life of Harriet Tubman.
After escaping from slavery in 1849, she helped organize the
Underground Railroad and personally led hundreds slaves to freedom.
Few history books choose to convey the fact that she often relied
on her dreams to provide specific information about where to find
safe houses, helpers, and passages through dangerous territory.
Robert Moss tells the whole story in his book "Dreaming
True." tinyurl.com/kfl686o
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Unleashing Empathy: How Teachers Transform Classrooms With Emotional
Learning. The secret to learning self-awareness, cooperation,
and other "social and emotional learning" skills lies
in experience, not in workbooks and rote classroom exercises.
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Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage. Activists built support for the
ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the
city.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed regulation that
would require power plants to cut emissions by 30 percent from
2005 levels by 2030.
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(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 19
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of Japanese art
that is never on display. It consists of 6,600 wood-block prints
created by artists of the ukiyo-e school, also known
as "pictures of the floating world." Some are over 300
years old. They are tucked away in drawers and hidden from the
light, ensuring that their vibrant colors won't fade. So they
are well-preserved but rarely seen by anyone. Is there anything
about you that resembles these pictures of the floating world,
Cancerian? Do you keep parts of you secret, protecting them from
what might happen if you show them to the world? It may be time
to revise that policy. (Thanks to Molly Oldfield's The Secret
Museum for the info referred to here.)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
In the next two weeks, I hope you don't fall prey to the craze
that has been sweeping Japan. Over 40,000 people have bought books
that feature the photos of hamuketsu, or hamster bottoms.
Even if you do manage to avoid being consumed by that particular
madness, I'm afraid you might get caught up in trifles and distractions
that are equally irrelevant to your long-term dreams. Here's what
I suggest: To counteract any tendency you might have to neglect
what's truly important, vow to focus intensely on what's truly
important.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Writing at FastCompany.com, Himanshu Saxena suggests that businesses
create a new position: Chief Paradox Officer, or CPXO. This person
would be responsible for making good use of the conflicts and
contradictions that normally arise, treating them as opportunities
for growth rather than as distractions. From my astrological perspective,
you Virgos are currently prime candidates to serve in this capacity.
You will continue to have special powers to do this type of work
for months to come.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
In accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted
a brief, one-time-only license to commit the Seven Deadly Sins.
You heard me correctly, Libra. As long as you don't go to extremes,
feel free to express healthy amounts of pride, greed, laziness,
gluttony, anger, envy, and lust. At least for now, there will
be relatively little hell to pay for these indulgences. Just one
caveat: If I were you, I wouldn't invest a lot of energy in anger
and envy. Technically, they are permitted, but they aren't really
much fun. On the other hand, greed, gluttony, and lust could be
quite pleasurable, especially if you don't take yourself too seriously.
Pride and laziness may also be enjoyable in moderate, artful amounts.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Scorpio novelist Kurt Vonnegut rebelled against literary traditions.
His stories were often hybrids of science fiction and autobiography.
Free-form philosophizing blended with satirical moral commentary.
He could be cynical yet playful, and he told a lot of jokes. "I
want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over,"
he testified. "Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things
you can't see from the center." He's your role model for
the next four weeks, Scorpio. Your challenge will be to wander
as far as you can into the frontier without getting hopelessly
lost.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
"Make a name for the dark parts of you," writes Lisa
Marie Basile in her poem "Paz." I think that's good
advice for you, Sagittarius. The imminent future will be an excellent
time to fully acknowledge the shadowy aspects of your nature.
More than that, it will be a perfect moment to converse with them,
get to know them better, and identify their redeeming features.
I suspect you will find that just because they are dark doesn't
mean they are bad or shameful. If you approach them with love
and tenderness, they may even reveal their secret genius.
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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 2014
and beyond:
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What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2014 and
beyond? 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.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Pet mice that are kept in cages need to move more than their
enclosed space allows, so their owners often provide them with
exercise wheels. If the rodents want to exert their natural instinct
to run around, they've got to do it on this device. But here's
a curious twist: a team of Dutch researchers has discovered that
wild mice also enjoy using exercise wheels. The creatures have
all the room to roam they need, but when they come upon the wheels
in the middle of the forest, they hop on and go for prolonged
spins. I suggest you avoid behavior like that, Capricorn. Sometime
soon you will find yourself rambling through more spacious places.
When that happens, don't act like you do when your freedom is
more limited.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
It's transition time. We will soon see how skilled you are at
following through. The innovations you have launched in recent
weeks need to be fleshed out. The creativity you unleashed must
get the full backing of your practical action. You will be asked
to make good on the promises you made or even implied. I want
to urge you not to get your feelings hurt if some pruning and
editing are required. In fact, I suggest you relish the opportunity
to translate fuzzy ideals into tidy structures. Practicing the
art of ingenious limitation will make everything better.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
It's always important for you to shield yourself against our
culture's superficial and sexist ideas about sex. It's always
important for you to cultivate your own unique and soulful understandings
about sex. But right now this is even more crucial than usual.
You are headed into a phase when you will have the potential to
clarify and deepen your relationship with eros. In ways you have
not previously imagined, you can learn to harness your libido
to serve both your spiritual aspirations and your quest for greater
intimacy.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
If you were alive 150 years ago and needed to get a tooth extracted,
you might have called on a barber or blacksmith or wigmaker to
do the job. (Dentistry didn't become a formal occupation until
the latter part of the 19th century.) Today you wouldn't dream
of seeking anyone but a specialist to attend to the health of
your mouth. But I'm wondering if you are being less particular
about certain other matters concerning your welfare. Have you
been seeking financial advice from your massage therapist? Spiritual
counsel from your car repair person? Nutritional guidance from
a fast-food addict? I suggest you avoid such behavior. It's time
to ask for specific help from those who can actually provide it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
"My music is best understood by children and animals,"
said composer Igor Stravinsky. A similar statement could be made
about you Tauruses in the coming weeks: You will be best understood
by children and animals -- and by all others who have a capacity
for dynamic innocence and a buoyant curiosity rooted in emotional
intelligence. In fact, those are the types I advise you to surround
yourself with. For now, it's best to avoid sophisticates who overthink
everything and know-it-all cynics whose default mode is criticism.
Take control of what influences you absorb. You need to be in
the presence of those who help activate your vitality and enthusiasm.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
"Nikhedonia" is an obscure English word that refers
to the pleasure that comes from anticipating success or good fortune.
There's nothing wrong with indulging in this emotion as long as
it doesn't interfere with you actually doing the work that will
lead to success or good fortune. But the problem is, nikhedonia
makes some people lazy. Having experienced the thrill of imagining
their victory, they find it hard to buckle down and slog through
the gritty details necessary to manifest their victory. Don't
be like that. Enjoy your nikhedonia, then go and complete the
accomplishment that will bring a second, even stronger wave of
gratification.
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HOMEWORK:
Compose an exciting prayer in which you ask for something you're
not "supposed" to. FreeWillAstrology.com
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