Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 26, 2019
FreeWillAstrology.com
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WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE AHEAD FOR YOU in the coming months?
EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2019 and onward into 2020.
How can you exert your free will to create the adventures that will bring out the best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
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BONUS
You may also be interested in reviewing the long-term horoscopes I wrote for you early this year. They discuss your best potential destiny for all of 2019. To see them, go here: bit.ly/YourTrueStories
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YOUR YEARNING FOR LOVE
I invite you to meditate on the relentlessness of your yearning for love. Recognize the fact that your eternal longing will never leave you in peace. Accept that it will forever delight you, torment you, inspire you, and bewilder you — whether you are alone or in the throes of a complicated relationship.
Understand that your desire for love will just keep coming and coming and coming, keeping you slightly off-balance and pushing you to constantly revise your ideas about who you are.
Now read this declaration from the poet Rilke and claim it as your own: "My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing."
Anything you want to add?
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ESCAPE SONG
There is no steady path,
no unwavering way forward,
no clear strong signal from the future
guiding us home.
Or is there?
And we just haven't learned yet
how to request new passwords
and decipher the trick questions?
Even the polestar is obscured by pretty clouds,
surplus eclipses,
flocks of night birds,
aurora borealis,
beloved and torturous memories
firing in our neurons.
Or maybe not:
if we could figure out
how to fool
the foolers.
What's the difference
between a maze and a labyrinth?
We can't tell.
We wander in the mess
of overlapping convolutions.
Forgetting to sing
the Escape Song.
—by me.
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
—author David Levithan
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SALUTATIONS
What greetings and salutations do you use to bid welcome or say farewell? Here are some of my favorites:
* May your journey be fun.
* Good fortune and long life to you.
* Pleasant travels and calming thoughts.
* May your forge burn bright.
* To your health and joy.
* Sweet water and hearty laughter till we next meet.
* Guidance and clarity find you.
* Ride hard. Live free.
* May your soul live through many eras.
* Boomshakalaka flashbang!
* I wish you many beautiful things.
* The light in me recognizes the light in you.
* Do no harm but take no sh--.
* May the forces of evil never know how to find you.
* Live long and prosper.
* Give us what we want, exactly when we want it, forever, now, once upon a time.
* Have fun storming the castle.
* I see the divine spark within you.
* Nice shoes!
* Many bright blessings to you and yours.
* Happy eternal world orgasm!
* Sweet dreams.
* Marvels and wonders are coming your way.
* Be wild and free and mysterious.
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Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.
– Mary Oliver
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THE NIRVANA FALLACY
"The nirvana fallacy is the belief that because something is not completely perfect, it is deeply flawed or even broken. It is very common in economic and political discourse.
"The nirvana fallacy compares actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to assume that there is a perfect solution to a particular problem. A closely related concept is the perfect solution fallacy.
"By creating a false dichotomy that presents one option which is obviously advantageous — while at the same time being completely implausible — a person using the nirvana fallacy can attack any opposing idea because it is imperfect.
"Under this fallacy, the choice is not between real world solutions; it is, rather, a choice between one realistic achievable possibility and another unrealistic solution that could in some way be 'better.'"
- Wikipedia
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Nothing will tell you
where you are.
Each moment is a place
you’ve never been.
— Mark Strand, from "Black Maps"
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Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning June 27
Copyright 2019 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind and mobilizes your soul. AUGUST: Reconfigure the way you deal with money. Get smarter about your finances. SEPTEMBER: It's time to expedite your learning. But streetwise education is more useful than formal education. Study the Book of Life. OCTOBER: Ask for more help than you normally do. Aggressively build your support. NOVEMBER: Creativity is your superpower. Reinvent any part of your life that needs a bolt of imaginative ingenuity. DECEMBER: Love and care for what you imagine to be your flaws and liabilities.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Transform something that's semi-ugly into something that's useful and winsome. AUGUST: Go to the top of the world and seek a big vision of who you must become. SEPTEMBER: Your instinct for worthy and constructive adventures is impeccable. Trust it. OCTOBER: Be alert for a new teacher with a capacity to teach you precisely what you need to learn. NOVEMBER: Your mind might not guide you perfectly, but your body and soul will. DECEMBER: Fresh hungers and budding fascinations should alert you to the fact that deep in the genius part of your soul, your master plan is changing.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I'd love to see you phase out wishy-washy wishes that keep you distracted from your burning, churning desires. AUGUST: A story that began years ago begins again. Be proactive about changing the themes you'd rather not repeat. SEPTEMBER: Get seriously and daringly creative about living in a more expansive world. OCTOBER: Acquire a new tool or skill that will enable you to carry out your mission more effectively. NOVEMBER: Unanticipated plot twists can help heal old dilemmas about intimacy. DECEMBER: Come up with savvy plans to eliminate bad stress and welcome good stress.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Say this every morning: "The less I have to prove and the fewer people I have to impress, the smarter I'll be." AUGUST: Escape an unnecessary limitation. Break an obsolete rule. Override a faded tradition. SEPTEMBER: What kind of "badness" might give your goodness more power? OCTOBER: You're stronger and freer than you thought you were. Call on your untapped power. NOVEMBER: Narrowing your focus and paring down your options will serve you beautifully. DECEMBER: Replace what's fake with the Real Thing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Stretch yourself. Freelance, moonlight, diversify, and expand. AUGUST: Having power over other people is less important than having power over yourself. Manage your passions like a wizard! SEPTEMBER: Ask the big question. And be ready to act expeditiously when you get the big answer. OCTOBER: I think you can arrange for the surge to arrive in manageable installments. Seriously. NOVEMBER: Dare to break barren customs and habits that are obstructing small miracles and cathartic breakthroughs. DECEMBER: Don't wait around hoping to be given what you need. Instead, go after it. Create it yourself, if necessary.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Can you infuse dark places with your intense light without dimming your intense light? Yes! AUGUST: It's time for an archetypal Sagittarian jaunt, quest, or pilgrimage. SEPTEMBER: The world around you needs your practical idealism. Be a role model who catalyzes good changes. OCTOBER: Seek out new allies and connections that can help you with your future goals. NOVEMBER: Be open to new and unexpected ideas so as to get the emotional healing you long for. DECEMBER: Shed old, worn-out self-images. Reinvent yourself. Get to know your depths better.
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WHAT'S AHEAD FOR YOU?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2019 and beyond:
freewillastrology.sparkns.com
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and divine inspiration? Where are you likely to find most success? How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
Tune in to my meditations on your long-term outlook.
Go here: freewillastrology.sparkns.com
Register or log in and click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2019"
You can also listen to your short-term forecast for the coming week by clicking on "This week (Jun 25, 2019)."
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"Your long-range audio horoscopes encouraged me to think bigger about my life. As I listened, I could feel my shrunken expectations melting away." - Therese Pembroke, San Diego
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: You have an enhanced capacity to feel at peace with your body, to not wish it were different from what it naturally is. AUGUST: You can finally solve a riddle you've been trying to solve for a long time. SEPTEMBER: Make your imagination work and play twice as hard. Crack open seemingly closed possibilities. OCTOBER: Move up at least one rung on the ladder of success. NOVEMBER: Make yourself more receptive to blessings and help that you have overlooked or ignored. DECEMBER: You'll learn most from what you leave behind—so leave behind as much as possible.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I'll cry one tear for you, then I'll cheer. AUGUST: Plant seeds in places that hadn't previously been on your radar. SEPTEMBER: You may seem to take a wrong turn, but it'll take you where you need to go. OCTOBER: Open your mind and heart as wide as you can. Be receptive to the unexpected. NOVEMBER: I bet you'll gain a new power, higher rank, or greater privilege. DECEMBER: Send out feelers to new arrivals who may be potential helpers.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Your creative powers are at a peak. Use them with flair. AUGUST: Wean yourself from pretend feelings and artificial motivations and inauthentic communications. SEPTEMBER: If you want to have greater impact and more influence, you can. Make it happen! OCTOBER: Love is weird but good. Trust the odd journey it takes you on. NOVEMBER: If you cultivate an appreciation for paradox, your paradoxical goals will succeed. DECEMBER: Set firm deadlines. Have fun disciplining yourself.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Discipline your inner flame. Use your radiance constructively. Your theme is controlled fire. AUGUST: Release yourself from dwelling on what's amiss or off-kilter. Find the inspiration to focus on what's right and good. SEPTEMBER: Pay your dues with joy and gratitude. Work hard in service to your beautiful dreams. OCTOBER: You can undo your attractions to "gratifications" that aren't really very gratifying. NOVEMBER: Your allies can become even better allies. Ask them for more. DECEMBER: Be alert for unrecognized value and hidden resources.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. July: If you choose to play one of life's trickier games, you must get trickier yourself. August: Shedding irrelevant theories and unlearning old approaches will pave the way for creative breakthroughs. September: Begin working on a new product or project that will last a long time. October: Maybe you don't need that emotional crutch as much as you thought. November: Explore the intense, perplexing, interesting feelings until you're cleansed and healed. December: Join forces with a new ally and/or deepen an existing alliance.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: It's time to take fuller advantage of a resource you've been neglecting or underestimating. AUGUST: For a limited time only, two plus two equals five. Capitalize on that fact by temporarily becoming a two-plus-two-equals-five type of person. SEPTEMBER: It's time and you're ready to discover new keys to fostering interesting intimacy and robust collaboration. OCTOBER: The boundaries are shifting on the map of the heart. That will ultimately be a good thing. NOVEMBER: If you do what you fear, you'll gain unprecedented power over the fear. DECEMBER: What's the one thing you can't live without? Refine and deepen your relationship to it.
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