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Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter
April 11, 2007
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
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"Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself."
– Michael Meade, http://mosaicvoices.org
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ROB PERFORMS THE "MARRY YOURSELF" CEREMONY
in SAN FRANCISCO
as part of "UNION," an evening of music, poetry, dance, and ritual
at Grace Cathedral
Friday, April 20
7:00-8:30
1100 California Street
$10 - 20 sliding scale.
For more information: http://tinyurl.com/3cjzxx
There'll be a lot of other great musicians and performers, as well.
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My book
"PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings"
is available for sale at http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
To read news and features from the book, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2uhvjl
Here's an excerpt from the book:
WELCOME HOME
Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal freedom fighter
in service to divine love. You have temporarily taken on the form of a
human being, suffering amnesia about your true origins, in order to
liberate all sentient creatures from suffering and help them claim the
ecstatic awareness that is their birthright. You will accept nothing less
than the miracle of bringing heaven all the way down to earth.
Your task may look impossible. Ignorance and inertia, partially
camouflaged as time-honored morality, seem to surround you. Pessimism
is enshrined as a hallmark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism
masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Stories about
treachery and degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people
who think of themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are
suspect and ugly truths are readily believed.
To grapple against these odds, you have to be both a wrathful
insurrectionary and an exuberant lover of life. You've got to cultivate
cheerful buoyancy even as you resist the temptation to swallow
thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively
packaged by very self-important people who act as if they know what
they're doing. You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you
overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to
as reality.
What can we do to help each other in this work?
First, we can create safe houses to shelter everyone who's devoted to
the slow-motion awakening. These sanctuaries might take the form of
temporary autonomous zones like festivals and parties and workshops,
where we can ritually potentiate the evolving mysteries of pronoia. Or
they might be more enduring autonomous zones like homes and cafes and
businesses where we can get regular practice in freeing ourselves from
the slavery of hatred in all of its many guises.
What else can we do to help each other? We can conspire together to
carry out the agenda that futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard names: to
hospice what's dying and midwife what's being born. We need the trigger
of each other's rebel glee as we kill off every reflex within us that
resonates in harmony with the putrefaction. We need each other's
dauntless cunning as we goad and foment the blooming life forces within
us that thrive on the New World's incandescent questions.
Here's a third way we can collaborate: We can inspire each other to
perpetrate healing mischief, friendly shocks, compassionate tricks,
blasphemous reverence, holy pranks, and crazy wisdom . . . .
To read the rest of "WELCOME HOME," excerpted from
PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia,
go here:
http://tinyurl.com/22ptga
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To read other news and features from my book, go here:
http://snipurl.com/l9o3
You can buy the book here:
AMAZON
http://snipurl.com/krjj
BARNES & NOBLE
http://snipurl.com/krjn
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
RADICALLY DISSIDENT TELEVISION
http://www.suprememastertv.com
"A satellite channel in Europe is showing only positive and uplifting
programming. News reports cover peace accords being signed, heroic
acts, government efforts to curb greenhouse gases, etc. Cooking shows
are all vegetarian and cultural programming gives in-depth coverage of
historical influences on dance, clothing, and traditions from many
countries. Spiritual lectures are featured, as are programs about various
religious traditions."
RADICALLY DISSIDENT PSYCHOLOGY
"Psychology's positive spin: Forgiveness, gratitude gain respect in
research, therapy"
http://tinyurl.com/9jxps
RADICALLY DISSIDENT PLANETARY EXPRESSION
The hexagram on Saturn
http://tinyurl.com/yt8az2
RADICALLY DISSIDENT GLOBAL POLITICS
Global Marshall Plan
"The Network of Spiritual Progressives call for a fundamentally new
approach to politics which emphasizes that generosity and genuine caring
for others can be a much more effective and morally coherent approach
to human security, peace and development."
http://tinyurl.com/24qw8w
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They're 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 April 12
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "'Don't look before you leap!' is a Zen saying
that contrasts with what many in the West consider wise counsel," writes
Christopher Moors in his article "Magical Buddha Nature" at
tinyurl.com/34swxd. "If everything is premeditated, we never have the
naked brilliance of a truly new experience. Though we might be able to
temper fear in this way, we live at the minimum and have no room for the
divine to enter our hearts. Love is above all things the freedom of
expansion." I'm passing on this advice, Aries, just in time for the most
unboxed, unexpected, unprecedented phase of your astrological cycle.
Rely on spontaneity to teach you all you need to know.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It appears you're cooperating (sort of) with
an authority figure who's using the carrot-and-stick routine on you. I
suppose that could lead you at least part of the way to the promised
land--especially if you really believe you can't motivate yourself without
the authority's prodding. But if you plan to continue in this vein, Taurus,
can I please convince you to ask for the biggest, freshest carrot and a
beautifully decorated stick?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here's Caroline Myss' explanation of faith:
"Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical
world while holding the position that nothing external has any authority
over what heaven has in mind for you." If you don't like the word
"heaven" in Myss' statement, Gemini, substitute a term that works for
you, like "your higher self" or "your destiny" or "your soul's code." Modify
anything else in there that's not quite right for your needs, as well. When
you're finished tinkering, I hope you'll have created a definition of faith
that motivates you with as much primal power as you feel when you're in
love.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Guinness Book of Records commissioned
miniaturization experts to make the tiniest advertisement in history and
affix it to a bee's knee. The writing was so miniscule it was invisible to the
naked eye. But now I've created an even smaller ad, which is hidden in the
period at the end of this sentence. I don't have enough space to repeat
the voluminous information contained therein, but here's the gist: It's a
favorable time to dream up new ways to promote yourself, especially if
they involve the principle of unleashing whispers that speak louder than
shouts.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
predicted the world would end in 1757. American minister William Miller
proclaimed the planet's "purification by fire" would occur in 1844.
They're just two of history's many megalomaniacs disguised as moral
guardians who've been shills for apocalyptic delusions. Our age has more
of these wackos per capita, but the song is the same as it ever was. Your
assignment, Leo, is to wash the taint of chronic doom-and-gloom
propaganda out of your lovely brain. I'm not urging you to be a raving
Pollyanna, merely suggesting that you exorcise the fear foisted on you by
hysterical prophets of every stripe. That includes peak-oil fanatics,
Luddites who preach the gospel of techno-catastrophe, religious
fundamentalists hyping Armageddon, and all the other nihilistic
storytellers. You urgently need to declare your independence from our
culture's professional scaremongers.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was an
intellectual theologian whose doctrines became part of the canon of the
Catholic Church, second in importance only to the Bible. But the Church
has ignored and disavowed *Aurora Consurgens,* the work Aquinas
reputedly wrote near the end of his life after having mystical visions of
the Goddess. "All that I have written seems to me like so much straw," he
reported, "compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to
me." Your assignment, Virgo, is to carry out your personal equivalent of
what the Catholic Church hasn't been able to do. In other words, integrate
the raw wisdom from your past that you've been unable or hesitant to
acknowledge.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I asked my readers if they had discovered any
of the 888 Perfect Secrets from the Beginning of Time. Hundreds of
responses poured in. Of those, I've selected the three that are most
useful for you right now. Here they are. (1) Don't sweat the small stuff,
but also avoid the mistake of believing that everything is small stuff.
Some stuff is big. (2) The past isn't nearly as potent in shaping your
present as you imagine. Get over it--both the bad memories and the good
ones. (3) Always side with those who tell the most truth. But remember
that no one is ever able to tell the whole truth. P.S.: Truth is sneaky and
mischievous, often hiding in unexpected places.
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AUDIO LOVE LETTERS
In addition to the horoscopes that you're reading here, I create more in-
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"You told me the truth when no one else in my life would." -Darren H.,
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I've found a nice balance," writes Ash-land,
one of my MySpace friends, "between living like someone who has
overdosed on positive affirmations and someone who thinks everything
and everyone sucks." Are you interested in achieving a similar poise,
Scorpio? Conditions are favorable for you to do so. The omens say you're
primed to cultivate true objectivity, not the fake cynical kind. And that
means you could free yourself from negative emotional biases that cloud
your ability to see the partially hidden beauty all around you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's always a good idea to have a
soundtrack for your life--a compilation of tunes that help tone your
feelings, keeping you wild-eyed and inspired. But it's also important to
continually mutate that soundtrack. Even a set of songs that worked
magic for you once upon a time will eventually become outmoded, no
longer resonating with the new person you've become and maybe even
influencing you to stay stuck in the past. I think this is one of those times
when you need to shift the mood, Sagittarius. Go hunt down a fresh batch
of heart-massaging, mind-wobbling music.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In addition to analyzing the heavenly
portents, I sometimes use divination to arrive at your horoscope,
including Tarot cards, the I Ching, and walkomancy. In the latter method, I
take a stroll and regard any interesting quirks that catch my eye as clues
to your destiny. That's what I did this week. After spending an hour in my
office meditating on your astrological omens, I headed out to a
neighborhood where I'd never been. The first meaningful thing I saw was a
sign hanging on a cactus. It read "Caution: Armadillo Crossing." Here's my
interpretation of this clue: You should urge your "inner armadillo" to go
out exploring, while at the same time making sure it's well protected and
cared for. And what is your "inner armadillo"? Maybe it's the burrowing
mammal with the heavy armor. What do you think?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Scuttlebutt circulating on the Internet
claims that the Mississippi state legislature passed a bill regarding the
mathematical constant pi, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to
its diameter. Instead of the traditional 3.14159, lawmakers decided it
should be changed to the "Biblical value" of 3.0. Did this rumored event
actually occur? If so, I urge you Aquarians to refuse to recognize it, as
well as other abominations like it. You need to be extremely precise in the
coming days. You can't afford to try shaving down reality to fit your
theories and beliefs. Nor can you ignore details, cut corners, or make wild
guesses.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "The harder you work, the luckier you get,"
said golfer Gary Player. If that's true, Pisces, you'll be fabulously fortunate
in the coming week. The omens suggest that you will not only have the
stamina and persistence to engage in hard labor for a good cause, but
that you'll also have a robust desire to do so. You're going to love doing
what you *have* to do. As a result, I bet hard-earned blessings will flow
toward you in abundance.
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HOMEWORK: Choose one little area of your life where you're going to stop
pretending. Report results by going to http://RealAstrology.com and
clicking on "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts these days, but I highly recommend my
favorite astrological colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely
matches my own. In our many discussions about astrology over the years,
we've had a major influence on each other's work.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and a high
degree of 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.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic boundaries.
Ro's website is at
http://www.YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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