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June 9, 2004
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PERFORMANCE AT HEALTH AND HARMONY FESTIVAL
I'll be speaking and singing and creating a ruckus at the Health and
Harmony Festival on Saturday, June 12 at 3:30. The festival happens in
Santa Rosa, CA. I'll do a 45-minute set in the Ecodome. For more info, go
to www.harmonyfestival.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week of June 10
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): While living in Manhattan in the 1950s,
avant-garde composer John Cage felt beleaguered by the omnipresence of
radio sound. Rather than piss and moan, he wrote a musical piece that
featured several radios tuned to different frequencies. After that, he was
always able to respond to street radio noise with a pleasant sense of
"They're playing my song." According to my reading of the astrological
omens, Aries, this is a perfect strategy for you to borrow in the coming
week. Turn something that bothers you into something that comforts you,
enhances you, or both. (Thanks to Ruby for inspiring this horoscope.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of my readers, Elizabeth Whitsage, told
me a story of when she was working at Disneyland selling mouse-eared
balloons. Every so often a mother, father, and young son would come up to
her, the parents asking in enthusiastic voices "What color do you want?"
and the son answering "Pink!" One parent, usually the father, would
recoil in horror and say something like, "No, son, don't you want red or
blue?" But before the child could reply, Elizabeth would whip a pink
balloon out of the bunch and wrap its string around his wrist. Then she'd
smile and say to the dad, "That'll be one dollar, please." Keep this story
uppermost in mind during the week ahead, Taurus. Make sure that you
always get and always give your personal equivalent of the pink balloon.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From an astrological perspective, last
January wasn't an ideal time to make New Year's resolutions. I'd be
surprised if you kept any of the promises you made back then. On the
other hand, now is a perfect moment to make New Year's-type
resolutions. Here are a few free samples to inspire you. 1. "I resolve to
seek out conversations that are so intense and interesting that I lose track
of time." 2. "While in the throes of road rage, I resolve to howl like a
wolf." 3."I resolve to unashamedly pray for cash, enjoy how messy my
room is, and sing along loudly with the muzak in public places."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Jean-Dominique Bauby was a 43-year-old
editor when he suffered an unusual stroke. Though his brain remained
undamaged, his entire body was paralyzed except for his left eye. Slowly
he learned to communicate in code by blinking, and over the next two
years he dictated a memoir. Feeling as if he were trapped in a diving bell,
but with his imagination as free as a butterfly, he called his book *The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly.* Critics have described it as
"inspirational" and "a jewel." Bauby is your role model during this last
difficult phase of your yearly cycle, Cancerian. Though you won't suffer
from any physical affliction, your psychic turmoil may make you feel
imprisoned and inaccessible. And yet I promise you that you *can* find a
way to liberate your mind and convey luminous truths to the people who
matter.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I don't know if you're the type of person who
enjoys trance-dancing half-undressed till 4 a.m. at bacchanalian parties,
then prowling the early morning streets barking at the moon and singing
songs from Broadway musicals with loony companions until you end up
playing strip poker outside an all-night diner as the sun comes up. But if
you are that type of person, this will be a perfect week to indulge your
inclinations. If you're not, please find an equivalent adventure that you're
comfortable with. 'Tis the season to be rowdy.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I propose that you drink a toast to Virgo
actress Sophia Loren, who has been in a hundred movies during her long
career. To do so may help you take maximum advantage of this phase of
your astrological cycle, when your instinct for creating abundance and
longevity is at a peak. Are you game? Say this: "May the spirit of Sophia
Loren come to me in my dreams and reveal her secret of enduring
success." I suggest you also visualize Loren's fortieth birthday, when her
husband gave her a custom-made, 14-karat-gold toilet seat. Then drink a
toast to yourself, saying: "As compensation for all the times that fate has
kicked my ass over the years, may I now receive a reward that's as
luxurious as Sophia Loren's magic toilet seat."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is a perfect time to translate your recent
inner changes into a visible form. If you're an artist, start work on a
masterpiece that reflects your fresh insights. If you're a businessperson,
dream up novel approaches to making money from doing what you love. If
you're a politician, get yourself a new spin doctor. If you're between gigs,
experiment with your physical appearance. However you do it, Libra,
show the world vivid evidence of how you've transformed.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Aeschylus, the seminal playwright of
ancient Greece, wrote over ninety plays, but most did not survive the
ravages of time. The evidence for his renown has consisted of just seven
works. Recently, however, archaeologists have discovered an eighth,
"Achilles." It was on a papyrus scroll stuffed inside an Egyptian mummy.
This summer, a theater company in Cyprus will stage the play for the
first time in over 2,000 years. I urge you Scorpios to be alert for ways
this story can serve as a metaphor for your personal quest in the near
future. What old but dynamic parts of your life have been all but lost?
How can you regain access to them and make them work for you now?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Color psychologists say that red
stimulates emotional intensity. It can raise the temperature of love and
awaken feelings that have been subconscious or dormant. Given the rich
potentials for deepening intimacy that are now available, you may
therefore want to add more red to your apparel and environment. On the
other hand, be aware that red can cloud objectivity and make negotiations
more jarring. Since you and your partners will probably want to agree on
some common goals, you should include calming blue in the mix. Not too
much, though: An excess of blue can cause a chill.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My analysis of the cosmic omens suggests
that you have one major assignment this week, Capricorn: to kill germs.
I'm referring to both the physical and psychic versions of those tiny
invaders. There'll be more of them than usual trying to mess with you. As
a public service, I'll remind you of the factors that are most effective in
zapping pests of all kinds: hot soapy water, fresh air, sunshine, orgasms,
and tears.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's the perfect moment to ask you a
question I've been thinking about posing for a long time, so here goes. I'd
like to know if you're willing to push hard to get better, improve your
attitude, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to
beauty, refine your emotions, hone your dreams, face your shadow, cure
your ignorance, and soften your heart -- even as you pledge to always
accept yourself for exactly who you are with all your so-called
imperfections, never demeaning the present moment by comparing it to
an idealized past or future. Well? Are you?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "More good has been launched by more
people from kitchen tables than any other platform in the land," says
populist writer Jim Hightower, quoted in *Orion* magazine. I hope you
take his words to heart, Pisces. Even if your power spot is normally in an
office or store or art studio, this week it will be at your kitchen table.
Even if you normally like to brainstorm with your allies at restaurants
or bars or on long walks, this week you should gather them at your
kitchen table. The dreams and schemes you hatch there in the coming days
could change the course of history.
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