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Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter
April 18, 2007
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"Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive Intelligence
that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to
tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would
be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us."
- Terence McKenna
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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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I'll also be doing a short performance at the DIGITAL BE-IN
in San Francisco
Saturday, April 21
7 pm – 3 am
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street, San Francisco
http://www.be-in.com/
With a theme of "Biomimicry," the Be-In is a launching pad for new
initiatives in the sustainability movement -- and an Activation Celebration
of the Green Revolution. It's a combination symposium, exhibition and
multimedia entertainment extravaganza featuring world class "conscious
music" artists and New Edge visionaries.
Besides my performance, there will also be performances by
Aphrodesia: http://aphrodesia.org/
Mystic Family Circus: http://www.mysticfamilycircus.com/
Constance Demby: http://tinyurl.com/3y4snh
Goddess Alchemy Project: http://tinyurl.com/32u7fj
Rara Avis: http://tinyurl.com/3ae7vb
Presenters include:
Larry Harvey: http://www.burningman.com
Janine Benyus - Biomimicry Institute
Paul Hawken - WISER Earth
Peter Berg - Planet Drum Foundation
Ervin Laszlo - Club of Budapest
Greg Steltenpohl - Interra
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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 to the PRONOIA NEWS NETWORK. Here's the news.
* The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992. The
number of wars, coup d'etats, and acts of genocide has declined by 40
percent. Weapons sales between countries have dropped 33 percent
during the same time, and the number of refugees has diminished by 45
percent.
The cause of these shocking developments, according to the Human
Security Report, which did the study, is the unprecedented upsurge of
international activism, spearheaded by the United Nations.
* The violent crime rate has decreased 50 percent since 1993. Crime is
now at its lowest level since it was first officially tracked.
* The average human life expectancy is 30 years more than it was a
century ago, and is still climbing. Many scientists believe there is no
absolute limit to the human life span.
* Levels of literacy and education and political freedom and wealth are
steadily growing all over the world.
* Death rates from cancer are declining.
* Child abduction by strangers has dropped precipitously.
* In 60 years, there hasn't been a lower birth rate among teenage girls
than there is now.
* The world's largest freshwater system, the Great Lakes, is dramatically
purifying itself of the pollutants that human beings dumped into it.
* If forced to decide between having a bigger penis and living in a world
where there was no war, 90 percent of all men would pick universal
peace.
* The number of America's black elected officials has sextupled since
1970.
* Rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious
strife worldwide.
* The rivers and bays of New York City are reborn, having been cleansed
of raw sewage and industrial pollution in recent years.
* You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one
on Earth is any farther removed than your 50th cousin.
* The world's largest private bank, Citigroup, has agreed to stop financing
projects that damage sensitive ecosystems.
* The giant timber company, Congolaise Industrielle des Bois, voluntarily
agreed to stop cutting down trees in a virgin rain forest in the Congo.
* The miracle of your breathing transpires about 10 million times a year,
even though you never have to think about it.
* Every second the sun generously transforms four million tons of itself
into energy and bestows it on us free of charge.
* Diamonds rain from the sky on Uranus and Neptune.
* With every dawn, when first light penetrates the sea, many seahorse
colonies perform a dance to the sun.
* The World Health Organization reports that over 100 million acts of
sexual intercourse, involving more than 200 million partners, take place
on the earth every 24 hours.
* Most HMO executives now believe prayer and meditation can expedite
the healing process.
* Vast supplies of frozen natural gas lie beneath the oceans, harboring
more potential energy than all the world's oil reserves, and could be
mined with the right technology.
* Each of the 50 trillion cells in your body can be considered a sentient
being in its own right, and they all act together as a community,
performing an ongoing act of prodigious collaboration.
* For 1,109 more items of good news, read the book.
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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:
INSTRUCTIONS IN WAKING UP
"Mission Possible: Can humanity awaken from its current trance -- our
fixation on materialist progress and economic growth -- in time to salvage
the biosphere, and our own future?"
http://tinyurl.com/27ngfl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
GOOD NEWS
World's most livable cities
http://tinyurl.com/2g4ca8
GENEROSITY REPORTS
Billionaire gives mansions to homeless
http://tinyurl.com/3x9pbk
(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 19
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I was the wife of Vlajko Stojiljkovic,
deceased, who was indicted at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. First, I
assure you that the indictment was politically motivated and utterly
without merit. Secondly, I need to transfer our vast fortune out of the
country. The funds are in excess of 64 million U.S. dollars. Can you help?
Are you trustworthy? I can offer you 30 percent. Please forward your
contact info to me a.s.a.p. I am grateful. -Glorja." Dear Aries, there's a
good chance you'll soon get a money-related offer that's as bogus as the
above communiqué. DO NOT TAKE IT! Much more reliable financial
opportunities are on their way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I heard a radio interview in which someone
defined an oracle as "a technology for broadening the listening field."
That's a good description of the horoscope you're now reading. Its
intention is to expand the scope of what you pay attention to . . . and
alert you to the fact that you have more options than you realize . . . and
give you license to change your mind about anything and everything. To
help accomplish this, print the following oracular words on your palm,
then hold your palm to your ear for a few minutes: *luminous marrow
murmurs lightning praise.*
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Due to a rare conjunction of three potato-
shaped asteroids in your astrological House of Productive and Forgivable
Gaffes, you have cosmic license to make a lot of really cool mistakes. I've
gathered some witty remarks you can invoke to disarm anyone who might
be critical of your messy experiments: (1) "You're just jealous because
the little voices are talking to me and not to you." (2) "When I have to
choose between two evils, I enjoy picking the one I've never tried before."
(3) "Do you have a clear conscience? A clear conscience is usually the
sign of a bad memory." (4) "I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every
minute of it."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here's what George Sheehan wrote in
*Running and Being,* his book about running: "If you want to win
anything--a race, your self, your life--you have to go a little berserk." For
a limited time only, I'm endorsing that strategy for your personal use,
Cancerian. While I do love your sensitivity and subtlety, right now I'd like
to see you get half-crazy in a ferocious devotion to the noble dream you
love best.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I drove through a cloud today. It enveloped the
Golden Gate Bridge. When I left the lush green hills of Marin County, the
day was sunny. When I arrived in the lush urban mesh of San Francisco,
the day was sunny. But in between I crept through thick white haze. I
could barely see, and had to turn on my headlights and slow down. But
there was no danger. I didn't erupt with anxiety. And in a few minutes I
had moved through it. Let my experience serve as a metaphor for your
week, Leo. It's like you've just gotten on a passageway that will take you
from a soft lushness to a harder lushness, and on the way you'll have to
navigate almost blindly.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "The important thing," said French naturalist
Charles DuBois, "is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become." Did he really mean *at any moment*? Like while
we're in a convenience store buying beer? While we're lying in bed ready
for sleep and reviewing the events of the day? While we're adrift in
apathetic melancholy, watching too much TV and neglecting our friends?
At ANY moment?! I say yes. At all times and in all places, Virgo--especially
this week--be ready to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You could grow moonflowers in a toxic waste
dump, Libra. You could lift the spirits of a child who has been raised in
grievous poverty. That's how much regenerative power you possess right
now. You might even be able to locate underground water in a desert, or
resurrect a dead dream, or alleviate half of your deepest suffering. I'm not
absolutely sure you could transform lead into gold, but I do know that
now is one of your best chances ever to pull it off.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1971, astronaut Edgar Mitchell was the
sixth person to walk on the moon. Since then he has cultivated an interest
in the paranormal. At one point he asked Buddhist lama Norbu Chen to
attempt a psychic healing of his mother, who was legally blind. Norbu's
magic worked. Mom's sight returned, and she was ecstatic. A few days
later, however, she made a discovery that horrified her: Norbu wasn't a
Christian like her. "My mother believed that if such healing didn't come
from a Christian," says Mitchell, "then it must come from Satan, and she
didn't want to be healed by Satan." She then had a dramatic relapse,
completely losing the gift Norbu had bestowed. The moral of the story,
Scorpio: Don't let your beliefs get in the way of your healing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet William Carlos Williams said his
creative technique could be summed up in the phrase, "No ideas but in
things." He wanted to see the world as it really was, without imposing
theories about what anything meant. In the essay "Rucksack Poetry: How
Haiku Found a Home in America," Andrew Schelling captures Williams'
approach: "This actual moment! That bedraggled crow! This moonlit
evening, that cold rain on your skull! There you stand, inhabiting your
body with animal clarity, wide-open senses, and no preconception or
abstract idea can touch the experience itself." In accordance with the
astrological omens, Sagittarius, your assignment is to find or create five
pure moments during which you embody that state.
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AUDIO LOVE LETTERS
In addition to the horoscopes that you're reading here, I create more in-
depth audio horoscopes for your inspiration. Find out more at
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The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or
1-900-950-7700.
"You told me the truth when no one else in my life would." -Darren H.,
Minneapolis
"Your wake-up calls keep me from getting stale." -Arris T., Aspen, CO
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Dear Rob: Has the Goddess placed a
global embargo on new love? While it doesn't sound like something she'd
normally do, I'm wondering if she cast a curse of which I'm unaware? I'm
not a cynic; it's just that no one in my acquaintance has experienced new
love in a long time. In other words, is Cupid on strike? Has romance
boycotted our planet? -Out-in-the-Cold Capricorn." To the best of my
knowledge, there are no embargos, strikes, or boycotts like the ones you
propose. I've noticed, though, that some of my Capricorn cohorts have
experienced dry spells recently. But according to my astrological
reckoning, a deluge will soon change all that.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Everything's a learning experience, right? I
mean, let's say you absent-mindedly wander down to the bus station to
see if your ship has come in. Maybe the shock of being in the wrong place
at the wrong time will motivate you to do some research on the *actual*
place where your ship is likely to dock. Or let's say that in your quest for
the Real Thing, you somehow end up paired with a replacement or
substitute that initially disappoints you but that eventually turns out to
give you access to a far more interesting version of the Real Thing than
you ever imagined.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Elvis Presley got a C in his eighth grade music
class. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths
of their cats. A piece of paper can only be folded 9 times. Bill Gates
makes 125 dollars a second. Toupees for dogs are sold in Japan. The
oldest goldfish that ever lived was 41 years old and named Fred. Now
please forget all of the preceding factoids, Pisces. In fact, purge them so
thoroughly that it will be as if you never knew them in the first place.
Doing that will be the perfect warm-up for your next big assignment,
which is to clear out a nice big empty space in your brain. There are lots
of fresh hot ideas poised to flow into you in the coming weeks. But if you
hope to receive them in the proper spirit, you'll have to make more room
for them.
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HOMEWORK: Write a short essay on "How I Created Something Out of
Nothing." If you'd like to deliver it to me, go to http://RealAstrology.com
and click on "Email Rob."
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matches my own. In our many discussions about astrology over the years,
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Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and a high
degree of technical proficiency in horoscope interpretation; she is skilled
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Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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Ro's website is at
http://www.YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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