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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
May 7, 2008
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"I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God."
- Deepak Chopra
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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
Here's an excerpt:
[For an explanation of why the text below appears in a book about beauty
and truth, go here: http://tinyurl.com/yqr9am]
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE SPELL #2
Banging your head against a wall consumes 150 calories an hour. Sigmund
Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Life is "a meaningless existential hell," say 26 percent of American male
college students.
Most Americans would vote against the Bill of Rights if it were presented
to them in a referendum.
The odds that Elvis Presley will crash-land a UFO on the head of the Loch
Ness monster are 14 million to one, according to a British betting agency.
Heroin addiction causes constipation.
More than half of the pianos in the world are out of tune.
An underground economy that runs on marijuana, porn, and the services
of illegal immigrants comprises 10 percent of the American economy.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet and kills
more than a thousand people a year.
Sleep deprivation, which has reached epidemic proportions, is akin to drug
abuse in the way that it dramatically lowers competence levels and causes
aberrant behavior.
Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar decreed that if any of her subjects
appeared in her dreams, they would be killed.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
Big drug companies don't invest in the development of a new drug if it's a
cure for a relatively rare disease that wouldn't affect enough people to
generate a substantial profit.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
An Alabama court upheld a ban on the sale of vibrators, ruling that
there's no constitutional right to an orgasm.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
The sun's mass decreases by four million tons per second, and our home
star will die a few billion years from now.
Every time an actor portraying a doctor performs a particular kind of
surgery on a popular soap opera, real doctors are sought out to perform
the same surgery at a dramatically higher rate.
You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous
spider.
Mortuary workers in Zimbabwe rented corpses to drivers who wanted to
take advantage of the priority given to hearses in gas-station lines. None
of Socrates' writings survive.
In Jon Rappoport's book *The Secret Behind Secret Societies,* hypnotist
Jack True says he rarely practices his craft any more because most of his
clients are already in a light trance when they come to see him.
What was an hour ten years ago is now only 52 minutes.
Every night, millions of Americans are tormented by nightmares of the CIA
overthrowing the democratically elected governments of Iran in 1953,
Guatemala in 1954, Brazil in 1963, and Chile in 1973.
Israeli scientists are working to perfect a procedure whereby they harvest
eggs from aborted human fetuses, fertilize them, and transplant them
into the wombs of infertile women, thereby making the donor fetus an
unborn mother.
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
YOU ARE GROWING MORE AND MORE INTELLIGENT
"Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower"
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TOMORROW IS ALREADY OBSOLETE
The Super-Fast Grid Will Replace the Internet
http://tinyurl.com/59xql3
BEYOND LUCID DREAMING IS LUCID WAKING
*Lucid Waking: Mindfulness and the Spiritual Potential of Humanity*
by Georg Feuerstein
"Lucid Waking shows us that it is possible to be so vividly engaged in life
that it will seem as though others are sleepwalking by comparison."
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(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are 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 May 8
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Alison Covarrubias is a mentor for female
entrepreneurs. Her "Ladies Who Launch" program inspires women to be
brave and brazen as they develop their own businesses. One of
Covarrubias's prime pieces of advice: "If you don't feel like you're going
to throw up, you're not taking enough risks." That's also my message for
you, Taurus. In the name of smart gambles and tricky success, I dare you
to push yourself way out of the comfort zone.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to a survey, one out of every ten
people says the Internet makes them feel closer to God. I predict that you
will be part of that group in the coming days, Gemini. But it's not just
surfing the Web that will bring you into more intimate communion with
the Divine Wow. Washing dishes will do it, too, as will buttering toast,
brushing your teeth, and skipping down the street. For that matter,
throwing imaginary rocks at the sky, blowing your nose on your sleeve,
and pretending you're a rock star will put you into a more fluid alignment
with the Primal Root. Pretty much everything! What if you're an atheist?
You're free to ignore the evidence of Spirit's presence pressing in on you
from all sides. But even if you do that, I bet you'll still enjoy a profoundly
enhanced sense that life is wildly meaningful.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to physicist Paul Steinhardt, "Good
science creates two challenging puzzles for each puzzle it resolves." I
propose that we expand that formula to make it apply to life in general:
Good decision-making about anything at all creates two challenging
puzzles for each puzzle it resolves. That should be your guiding
meditation, Cancerian. You are currently at the height of your ability to
wrestle long-standing dilemmas into more satisfying configurations. I
expect that whenever you capitalize on this potential, you will conjure up
fresh riddles that will energize you for weeks.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you fully prepared for your showdown with
The Machine? Are you as confident as you need to be in order to fight for
the rights of soulful beauty? Of course not. None of us is ever perfectly
prepared as we go up against the Big Lies of the mechanical thinkers. But
I do have great faith in your ability to prevail -- especially if you
strengthen yourself with this meditation from the book *Less Than One,*
by Joseph Brodsky: "The surest defense against evil is extreme
individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality -- even if you will,
eccentricity . . . Evil is a sucker for solidarity. It always goes for big
numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies
and balance sheets."
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AUDIO LOVE LETTERS
In addition to the horoscopes that come to you in this newsletter, I create
more in-depth audio horoscopes for your inspiration. I think of them as
my love letters to you. They're $6 if you access them on the Web, or
$1.99 per minute over the phone.
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They're available by phone at 1-877-873-4888
or 1-900-950-7700.
"Your expanded astrology thingees help me remember who I really am." -
Gareth N., Toronto
"I never knew it was possible to get my butt kicked and my head patted
at the same time -- until I listened to you, Rob." -Kristi P., Portland, OR
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My songwriter friend Darius has created some
fine music, but he periodically goes through phases when everything he
produces sounds contrived. It's not writer's block he suffers from. During
his bouts with bad composing, he's often teeming with ideas. The problem
is that he gets caught up in a vortex of too much thinking. He can't stop
his mind from tinkering endlessly with every raw impulse that wells up.
Recently he joined the Immersion Composition Society, an organization
that helps "talented basket cases" and "tortured geniuses" cut through
their tendency to over-analyze and thereby reconnect to their pure
inspiration. One technique: Musicians agree to take on firm deadlines that
compel them to create songs wicked fast. I hope you find the equivalent
assistance for your own field of expression, Virgo. The time is ripe for you
to dissect less and build more.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "What makes a river so restful to people is that
it doesn't have any doubt," wrote columnist Hal Boyle. "It is sure to get
where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." Your
assignment for the rest of 2008, Libra, is to do whatever's necessary to
make yourself fit this description. The next eight months will provide
unprecedented opportunities to turn yourself into a river flowing toward
your destiny with surprisingly sublime freedom.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You're not any more narcissistic and
egotistical than the rest of us, but this week happens to be your special
time to make amends for being that way. Therefore, I recommend that
you try the following corrective measures: 1. Every day, do three things
motivated by compassion that are helpful to people you know. 2. For a
few minutes each day, use your imagination to get inside the mind of
someone you care about and see the world through his or her eyes. 3.
Every day, take at least one action that will in some way beautify your
environment, contribute to the well-being of strangers, or help save the
world.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Traditional astrologers say that
Sagittarians are the master travelers of the zodiac; no other sign roams
as far and as wide as yours. But if that's true, how do you explain William
Blake and Emily Dickenson, two of history's greatest Sagittarian poets?
They barely left their neighborhoods, content to explore a narrow
sampling of the planet's wonders. The answer is that they covered vast
distances in the inner realms, seeking out adventures in exotic territories
of the imagination. I'm thinking their approach would work really well for
you in the coming weeks.
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AUDIO HOROSCOPES
In addition to the horoscopes that you're reading here, I create more in-
depth audio horoscopes for your inspiration. Find out more at
http://RealAstrology.com.
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): It's an excellent time to make yourself
more magnetic to blessings. You might want to experiment, therefore,
with good luck charms or magic invocations -- anything that you imagine
might attract benevolence into your life. How about the potion that is
popular in South Africa right now? It's a concoction cooked up from
ground-up vulture bones. Or maybe the kind of mystic jewelry I saw
advertised in one of the tabloids, a necklace made of meteorite chunks?
Both of those would pale in comparison, however, to the thing I consider
the very best attractor of blessings. It's the sacred metaphorical talisman
that Tom Waits recommends in his song "Get Behind the Mule": Always
keep a diamond in your mind.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When the spell is broken, Aquarius, you will
be able to tap into resources that you've been cut off from. When the
spell is broken, you will finally notice three big, beautiful secrets that have
been staring you in the face. When the spell is broken, you will slip down
off a clean, lofty perch where it has been hard to relax and arrive at a low,
funky spot where you'll be free to feel things you haven't felt in a long
time. When the spell is broken, it will be because you have decided to
break it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Don't eat any food that's incapable of
rotting," says Michael Pollan in his book *In Defense of Food: An Eater's
Manifesto.* In other words, highly processed foods with a long shelf life
don't contribute to your optimum vitality. I'd like to expand this rule to
make it an all-purpose guideline for life. Try out this hypothesis: If you're
involved with any person or situation that never decays, or if there is
some part of you that never decays, that's highly suspicious and may be
a problem. Like growth, rot is a natural phenomenon. Indeed, every
advancement requires or brings the disintegration of whatever it replaces.
You can't grow if you don't rot! The "perfection" of stasis can be
hazardous to your health! So let me ask you, Pisces: What's due to rot in
your world?
ARIES (March 21-April 19): For many Aries, independence is a virtue that
flows in abundance -- so much so that it's sometimes on the verge of
becoming excessive and turning into a vice. That's why I'm thrilled to
inform you that the mysteries of dependence could be especially
intriguing and useful to you in the coming days. They might also lead,
paradoxically, to a form of interdependence that would in the long run
nourish your independence. So how about it? Without compromising your
free-wheeling spirit, can you blend yourself more thoroughly with
trustworthy souls who care about you?
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HOMEWORK: Name something you feel like begging for. Then visualize in
great detail that this something is already yours. 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, but I highly recommend my 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://YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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