Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 12, 2019
FreeWillAstrology.com
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Everyone's my teacher. Everywhere I go, I'm a student.
Everyone is in some way my informant, my revelator, my healer, my direct connection to the Who-Knows-What.
The animals, too: They are my confidants, my beloveds, my spirit guides.
And yes, the plants! My godparents, my role models, my advisers.
Yes, too, to the wind and sun and sky and mountain and rivers and oceans and rocks: I greet them daily as my family members, my agent provocateurs, my fellow celebrants.
Playful, mysterious intelligences surround me in every direction. I'm available! I gleefully vow to shut up and listen reverently on a regular basis.
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Luckily for me, everything is infused with the divine. The Living Intelligent Consciousness is everywhere. There's nowhere it's not. For billions of light years in every direction, it is the interplay of the Sublime Wow Formerly Known as God and the Blooming HaHa Formerly Known as Goddess.
More precisely, it is the Torrential and Torturous Ecstasy spawned anew every nanosecond by the glide of the Sublime Wow's virile eternity against the Blooming HaHa's voluptuous infinity. It is the Cosmic Love that recreates the universe again and again in every nanosecond.
And here's my place in that mystery. I aspire to locate myself in the Crux of the Flux of the Cosmic Love—in the Flux of the Crux of the Cosmic Love.
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P.S. Water and rocks are as infused with the Living Intelligent Consciousness as mimosa trees and golden orb spiders and human beings and stars.
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FRESH POWER IS ON ITS WAY TO YOU
Pronoia doesn’t promise uninterrupted progress forever. It’s not a slick commercial for a perfect summer day that never ends.
Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow.
The waning reveals a different kind of blessing than the waxing.
But whether it’s our time to ferment in the valley of shadows or rise up singing in the sun-splashed meadow, fresh power to transform ourselves is always on the way.
Our suffering won’t last, nor will our triumph.
Without fail, life will deliver the creative energy we need to change into the new thing we must become.
[This is excerpted from my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings - bit.ly/Pronoia]
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YOU BELONG TO YOURSELF
While you commune with us here at the Conspiracy to Commit Insurrectionary Beauty and Smart Love:
Your favorite phrase might be "flux gusto"
The colors of your soul might be sable, vermilion, ivory, and jade
Your special emotion might be skeptical faith
Your magic talisman might be a thousand-year-old Joshua tree whose flowers blossom just one night each year and can only be pollinated by the yucca moth
The garage sale item you most resemble might be an old but beautiful and sonorous accordion with a broken key
Your magic verbs are dig, descend, and disclose
Your sweet spot might be in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics
You have a secret name that will be revealed to you very soon
You have fire in your blood and sea salt in your tears
Your vision of power is the red-tailed hawk soaring over the shopping mall
Your sacred fungus might be yeast and your soil of destiny might be peat moss
Your lucky number might be 3.14159265
Your lucky phobia might be arachibutyrophobia, or the fear of peanut butter adhering to the roof of your mouth
Your holiest pain might come from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change
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WANT TO GET YOUR ASTROLOGICAL CHART READ?
If you want your personal chart done, I recommend a colleague whose approach to reading astrology charts closely matches my own. She's my wife, RO LOUGHRAN. She's at www.roloughran.com.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and 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.
In addition to over 30 years of astrological experience, Ro has been a licensed psychotherapist for 17 years. She integrates psychological insight with astrology's cosmological perspective.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise work with you regardless of geographic boundaries.
Check out Ro's website at www.roloughran.com
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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY IS EASY
How easy it is to make people happy, when you don't want or need anything from them.
― Gail Godwin
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WILLFUL PERCEPTIONS OF PERFECT MOMENTS
Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular perception of perfect moments is an effective way to smooth jagged wrinkles on your attitude, scour away stains on your courage, and dispose of old psycho-gunk stuck to your karma.
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LOVE HYMN
(by me)
Cushioned on each others' sighs
in a garden of reveries,
me sipping your streaming song,
you renaming my hymned blossoms,
we reweave the aftertaste of sun,
the fragrant glimmer of rising moon.
When I drench myself in your dream
and you adore my sweet shadows,
lotus petals flutter and surge from the mud
like childhood prayers,
remembering our resurrected breath,
reclaiming our holy bodies.
When I submerge myself in your eyes,
and you discover my lost secrets,
barely visible whirlwinds
erupt from the soaked roots
bearing our guts' primeval questions,
reviving the thunder in our blood,
retraining our future liberations.
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RESURRECTION OF WHAT HAS BEEN MISSING
Novelist Tom Robbins: "I'm afraid I can't be counted among those who've latched onto the Goddess as a politically correct alternative to God the Father. The Transcendent Principle—the Divine, if you willis no more wholly female than it is wholly male.
"To be sure, the Divine has feminine aspects and masculine aspects, but its cumulative aspects transcend gender and, indeed, are so far beyond definition or description that they can't even be rationally discussed.
"It's the Mystery, baby, and the Mystery is ultimately unknowable. We can interface with it, we can marvel at it, we can connect to it and be elevated by it, but we can never comprehend it.
"What really interests me about the Goddess is the fact that while she was beloved and honored by our ancestors, was the central spiritual archetype and prevailing deity all over the globe for thousands of years, she has been so successfully eradicated by revisionist patriarchal spin doctors that most modern Christians, Moslems and Jews are totally ignorant of her massive and dominant historical presence.
"If someone or something of that enormous scope can be so thoroughly concealed from the masses, it can't help but call into question everything we've been taught by our various institutions.
"The subversion and repression of the Goddess is the Big Lie of the past two millennia —and as the dumbing down of America gains momentum, the duplicity is strengthening its grip.
"The good news is that a significant minority has recently become informed about the Goddess, and that has both revealed the essential spiritual foundation of feminism and inspired a growing distrust of traditional dogma and the meatballs who've propagated it."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning June 13
Copyright 2019 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band the Beach Boys. A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped driving so he could devote his full attention to what he considered a shockingly beautiful work of art. "I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums, and percussion," he told The New York Times. "Once I got all those learned, I knew how to produce records." I suspect a pivotal moment like this could unfold for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert!
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
My dear Cancerian, your soul is so rich and complicated, so many-splendored and mysterious, so fertile and generous. I'm amazed you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain. Isn't it sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling over? Like a river at high tide during heavy rains? And yet every so often there come moments when you go blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go missing. That's OK! It's all part of the Great Mystery. You need these fallow phases. And I suspect that the present time might be such a time. If so, here's a fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily use as your motto: "I have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness.”
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
America's premier eventologist is Leo-born Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith. When she was going through a hard time in 1991, she resolved to buoy her spirits by creating cheerful, splashy new holidays. Since then she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 new occasions to celebrate. What a perfect way to express her radiant Leo energy! National Splurge Day on June 18 is one of Adrienne's favorites: a time for revelers to be extra kind and generous to themselves. That's a happy coincidence, because my analysis of the astrological omens suggests that this is a perfect activity for you to emphasize during the coming weeks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
"Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." Virgo poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was perfectly reasonable for her, given her occupation, although a similar declaration might sound outlandish coming from a non-poet. Nonetheless, I'll counsel you to inhabit that frame of mind at least part-time for the next two weeks. I think you'll benefit in numerous ways from ingesting more than your minimum daily dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment, and astonishment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Libran philosopher Michel Foucault articulated a unique definition of "criticism." He said that it doesn't dish out judgments or hand down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by encouraging them, by identifying dormant potentials and hidden beauty. Paraphrasing and quoting Foucault, I'll tell you that this alternate type of criticism ignites useful fires and sings to the grass as it grows. It looks for the lightning of possible storms, and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I hope you'll practice this kind of "criticism" in the coming weeks, Libra—a criticism that doesn't squelch enthusiasm and punish mistakes, but instead champions the life spirit and helps it ripen.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Help may be hovering nearby, but in an unrecognizable guise. Rumpled but rich opportunities will appear at the peripheries, though you may not immediately recognize their value. A mess that you might prefer to avoid looking at could be harboring a very healthy kind of trouble. My advice to you, therefore, is to drop your expectations. Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on your radar. Be willing to learn lessons you have neglected or disdained in the past.
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YOU NEED MAGIC EVERY DAY
Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less facts. The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.
Every day, you're over-exposed to cynical narratives that have been sucked free of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make such strenuous efforts to keep your world enchanted.
I like to think I can contribute to the sacred cause of feeding your sense of wonder and enchantment. In fact, that's one of my prime motivations for offering you the free weekly horoscopes you read in this newsletter.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
As much as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I'm granting you a temporary exemption from their supremacy. To understand what's transpiring in the coming weeks, and to respond with intelligence, you will have to transcend logic and reason. They will simply not be sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with the Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to unleash the full power of your intuition. You must harness the wisdom of your body, and the information it reveals to you via physical sensations. You will benefit from remembering at least some of your nightly dreams, and inviting them to play on your consciousness throughout the day.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
For the sake of your emotional and spiritual health, you may need to temporarily withdraw or retreat from one or more of your alliances. But I recommend that you don't do anything drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words and sudden breaks. For now, seal yourself away from influences that are stirring up confusion so you can concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest truths. Once you've done that for a while, you'll be primed to find helpful clues about where to go next in managing your alliances.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
I've got a list of do's and don't's for you. Do play and have fun more than usual. But don't indulge in naïve assumptions and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as it really is. Do take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonment you're still carrying from the old days. But don't poison yourself with feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned you. Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations about seemingly impossible futures that maybe aren't so impossible. But don't get so fixated on wild fantasies and marvelous speculations that you neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are actually available to you right now.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"At times, so many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I'm feeling and why," writes Piscean poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to everyone, it's especially common for you Pisceans. That's the bad news. But here's the good news: in the coming weeks, your heart is unlikely to be trampled by your memories. Hence, you will have an excellent chance to know exactly what you're feeling and why. The weight of the past will at least partially dissolve and you'll be freer than usual to understand what's true for you right now, without having to sort through confusing signals about who you used to be.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
We may not have to travel to other planets to find alien life. Instead of launching expensive missions to other planets, we could look for exotic creatures here on earth. Astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken her to Chile's Atacama Desert, whose terrain has resemblances to Mars. She's looking for organisms like those that might have once thrived on the Red Planet. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to use this idea as a metaphor for your own life. Consider the possibility that you've been looking far and wide for an answer or resource that is actually close at hand.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Philosopher Martin Buber believed that some stories have the power to heal. That's why he said we should actively seek out stories that have the power to heal. Buber's disabled grandfather once told Buber a story about an adored teacher who loved to dance. As the grandfather told the story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair to imitate the teacher, and suddenly began to hop and dance around in the way his teacher did. From that time on, the grandfather was cured of his disability. What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you will find stories like that.
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