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October 27, 2004
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For the long-term freedom, health, prosperity, and security of Americans -
- and the world's other six billion people, and all its other species, too --
there is no more critical task than to oust George W. Bush from the
presidency on November 2.
John Kerry for President!
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The Most Important Election of our Lifetime?
Spiritual Teachers Express Their Views:
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"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of
colors, there would be an unbelievably gorgeous shrieking into the heart
of the night."
--Rainer Maria Rilke, *Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892-1910*
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"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
--Thomas Jefferson
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"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit
group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people
as yourself and your friends."
--Robert Anton Wilson, http://www.rawilson.com
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
--R. Buckminster Fuller, *Critical Path*
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
--Helen Keller
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"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us or we find it not."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, *Essays: First Series,* "Essay XII, Art"
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"Love the earth and the sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to
everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your
income and labors to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to
nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely
with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and mothers of
families, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any
book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be
a great poem and have the richest fluency, not only in its words but in
the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes
and in every motion and joint of your body."
--Walt Whitman, *Leaves of Grass*
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"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
--John Keats, *Letters of John Keats,* Frederick Page, editor
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"To transform life into celebration is the only authentic science of
religion."
--Osho
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning October 28
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I advise you to spend the Halloween
season awakening and nurturing your wildness, I'm referring to the
definition of that word offered by Robert Bly in his book, *The Rag and
Bone Shop of the Heart.* To be wild is not to be crazy like a criminal or
psychotic, but "mad as the mist and snow." It has nothing to do with
being childish or primitive, nor does it manifest as manic rebellion or self-
damaging alienation. The marks of wildness, Bly says, are a love of nature,
a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an
exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. Follow these leads, Aries,
and expand on their meaning. Halloween costume suggestions: whirling
dervish, ecstatic saint, Green Man, Artemis, Pan, trickster crone.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his book *How's Your AQ Today?,* ex-
business executive Ed Rychkun says that our culture is so twisted that
most bosses and leaders are jerks. In fact, it's often necessary "to be an
a**hole in order to succeed." (The "AQ" in his title stands for "A**hole
Quotient.") I doubt that you're an arrogant tyrant, insensitive egotist, or
deceitful bully, Taurus, so I can't imagine that you have a high AQ. That
may also mean you've never been in a position to manipulate and exploit
lots of people. According to my reading of the astrological omens,
however, you need to *temporarily* experience what corrupt power is
like. It will fill a gap in your education. That's why I suggest you disguise
yourself as a domineering, hyper-ambitious honcho this Halloween.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Most of us lie regularly. Studies say the
average person unleashes three fictions per day. Our deceits are often
harmless, designed to avoid hurting someone's feelings or to spare
ourselves from inconvenience. Still, the habit is so unconscious it puts us
in peril of falsifying more important matters. Your task in the coming
week, Gemini, is to investigate your tendency to distort the truth. The
masquerade season presents you with an opportunity to do this in a
radically fun way: through parody and exaggeration. For your Halloween
persona, you could be "The Big Liar." At parties, tell nonstop whoppers.
Wear white clothes on which you've written fibs like "I am President of
Madagascar," "Eating ice cream and potato chips prevents cancer," and
"Luxembourg is hiding weapons of mass destruction."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Real estate developer and TV star Donald
Trump filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He
was seeking to get a legal death grip on his signature phrase, "You're
fired!" That inspired me to try to get a trademark for one of my favorite
declarations, "You're a genius!" I haven't had a good excuse to direct that
praise your way any time recently, Cancerian, but in the coming weeks
you'll be the sign most deserving of it. You are now at the height of your
originality; you're as close as you've ever been to discovering your special
mission here on earth. For Halloween, consider dressing up as a famous
prodigy, including any of the following: Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci,
Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Marie Curie, Jane Goodall,
Georgia O'Keeffe, or hip-hop artist Missy Elliott.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "In the very earliest time," wrote the Inuit
shamaness and poet, Nalungiaq, "people and animals spoke the same
language." Your Halloween assignment, Leo, is to find within you the
atavistic remnant of that magic. Imagine yourself as an animal that
speaks. Visualize yourself as a human who growls or brays or warbles.
Picture yourself as a creature who can easily shift back and forth between
the two parts of you, the animal that talks and the human who crows and
bellows and purrs. Costume suggestion: panther-witch, eagle-clown,
crocodile-executive, dragonfly-doctor, bear-rock star.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Nothing could give you more power over your
fears than a Halloween devoted to impersonating your fears. That's why I
suggest you get yourself a costume that will let you pretend to be what
you're most afraid of. If a nuclear explosion is your greatest bugaboo,
dress up as a mushroom cloud. If your boss is the source of your most
primal dread, become him or her for a couple of days. If you're terrified of
being exposed as a fraud or descending into poverty or losing your good
looks, dive into the heart of that scary experience.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): No provocative poetry this week, Libra. No
sublime philosophy or soulful psychology. Just the facts, ma'am or sir. It's
time to get down to earth and back to basics; time to cut the crap and
prune the weeds. So try this no-nonsense straight-talk on for size: Don't
negotiate when you're exhausted. Tolerate a temporary hassle if you're
sure it will lead to a permanent upgrade. Be a creator rather than a
spectator. Sell yourself first, then your product. Don't vote for smiling
monsters who play on your fears. For Halloween, dress up as a hundred-
dollar bill or a hammer and a nail or a book called, *How to Be Real.*
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To be silent when it's time to speak is a
weakness, says a Persian proverb. I say it's also a bad idea to speak when
it's time to be silent. In the coming week, one of these rules or the other
will always be in effect for you, Scorpio. To know which one is in
ascendancy at any given time, you'll have to be very alert; conditions will
be shifting constantly. Make it your goal to be so attuned to the fresh
truth of each new moment that you will always express yourself when the
time is ripe, and shut up when it isn't. Halloween costume suggestions: a
pythoness or fortune-teller; a talking mime or a silent clown who carries
around chalk and a portable chalkboard to communicate; Triumph the
Insult Comic Dog with a muzzle.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1204, Roman Catholic Crusaders
destroyed Constantinople because it was the spiritual center of the
Orthodox Christian Church, which had broken away from Vatican rule.
Almost 800 years later, Pope John Paul II formally apologized to the
Orthodox leader, Bartholomew I. It took a while, but Bartholomew finally
accepted the apology in 2004. In the coming week, Sagittarius, I urge you
to be inspired by their actions as you carry out an orgy of atonement.
Extend forgiveness even to those who hurt you long ago, and ask for
forgiveness even from those you hurt long ago. Halloween costume
suggestion: religious penitent or self-flagellant.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Lessons becoming available to you in the
near future will offer more long-range benefits than you can imagine. If
you take them to heart, they could influence you to make changes that
will ultimately allow you to live past the age of 100. They might also help
you bring your ten-year and twenty-year master plans into sharper focus.
Added bonus: Your priorities concerning love will receive a spiritual
version of a chiropractic adjustment. Halloween costume suggestion: an
eager, curious student who carries books and takes notes everywhere you
go.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The omurasaki butterfly is native to East
Asia. Though beautiful and graceful, it's unusually big and strong. In
territorial battles over who gets the right to suck the sap of the *kunugi*
and *konara* trees, it beats out all of its butterfly competitors, and is
even known to chase away birds that try to horn in on its sweet treat. I
suggest that you dress up as the big, purple-winged omurasaki this
Halloween. It will symbolize your soul's growing ability to be elegant yet
tough-to be a gliding and lyrical yet willful force of nature.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I predict that in the next 11 months you will
be wanted, needed, desired, and adored more than you ever have before.
You may also be mistrusted and doubted more frequently as well. To put
yourself in a frame of mind that will prepare you for this state, I suggest
you choose from the following disguises for your Halloween revels: a
gorgeous femme fatale, a generous billionaire, or a barrel of oil.
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HOMEWORK:
Report on the transformations that are unleashed when you get the
chance to masquerade as someone else this Halloween. Testify by going
to www.freewillastrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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