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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 18, 2008
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http://FreeWillAstrology.com
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"Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen."
- Robert Bresson
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my MID-YEAR PREVIEW of YOUR DESTINY for the REST of 2008
http://RealAstrology.com
This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I think will
be important for you during the next six months.
What questions should you be asking?
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and
divine inspiration?
Where are you likely to find most success?
How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
Tune in.
To listen to my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
during the next six months, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Or for phone access, call:
1-877-873-4888
The Expanded Audio horoscopes cost $6 apiece if you access them on
the Web (discounts are available for multiple purchases), or $1.99 per
minute if you want them over the phone.
P.S. The EXPANDED AUDIO FORECAST is not a repeat of the written
horoscope you find BELOW, but is an entirely fresh exploration of your
astrological omens, designed to help you tune in to your soul's code.
I want you to know exactly who you are and to be able to express that
uniqueness in ever-more satisfying ways. It's your birthright!
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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:
I HAVE A DREAM
I have a dream that in the New World, there will be a new Bill of Rights.
The first amendment will be, "Your daily wage is directly tied to the
beauty and truth and love you provide."
I have a dream that in the New World, childbirth will be broadcast in prime
time on a major TV network every night.
I have a dream that the New World will have exhilarationists, and they'll
vastly outnumber the terrorists. The exhilarationists will be performance
artists with a conscience ... charismatic improvisers who love to spring
fun surprises. They'll commit unexpected interventions and unscheduled
spectacles that delight hordes of strangers.
I have a dream that in the New World, we will add an eleventh
commandment to the standard ten: Thou shalt not bore God.
I have a dream of a week-long annual holiday called the Bacchanalia. Work
and business will be suspended so that all adults can explore their ripe
mojo with frothy erotic experiments. Tenderly orgiastic marathons will
rage unabated. Reverential ecstasy and grateful generosity will rule.
I have a dream that when anchormen report tragedies on their nightly TV
shows, they'll break down and cry and let their emotions show. No more
poker faces.
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I have a dream that in the New World, plutocracy will be a felony. April
Fool's Day will come once a month. There'll be scientific horoscopes and
mystical logic. Every one of us will have at least one imaginary friend.
Compassion will be an aphrodisiac.
In the New World, we'll launch an affirmative action program that
ultimately makes most of us celebrities. Buddhist real estate developers
will build a chain of sacred shopping centers in the heartland. The CEOs of
the Fortune 500 companies will be required by law to enjoy once-a-week
sessions with Jungian psychotherapists. Pioneers in artificial intelligence
research will develop computers that can talk to God.
In the New World, same-sex marriages will be fully sanctioned, of course.
But why stop there? We'll also legalize wedding bonds among
threesomes, foursomes, fivesomes, and large groups of people who are in
love with each other. I have a dream that we will expand the meaning of
love beyond anything our ancestors imagined.
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I have a dream that in the New World, Oprah Winfrey will buy up all the
Pizza Huts on the planet and convert them into a global network of
menstrual huts, where for a few days each month, every one of us, men
and women alike, can resign from the crazy-making 9–5—drop out and
slow down, break trance and dive down into eternal time . . .
To read the entirety of "I HAVE A DREAM," excerpted from
*PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia,*
go here:
http://tinyurl.com/22gcko
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To read news and features from my book, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/lhwx2
You can buy the book here:
AMAZON
http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
POWELLS
http://tinyurl.com/3dsx6q
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
THE STEALTH REVOLUTION
*The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall
Street and Washington* by David Sirota
http://tinyurl.com/638g8r
"This book engages in the nearly lost art of reporting to tell us what's
going on in the many places that the elite media can't be bothered to
look." - Bill McKibben
"David Sirota is a clear-headed and principled hell-raiser for economic
justice." - Naomi Klein
"After so many decades of fake populism -- of revolts by the wealthy,
red-state fantasies, and stock-picking grandmas -- could we finally be
looking at the real thing?" - Thomas Frank
BENEVOLENT PRANKS
Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks
http://tinyurl.com/5p63gd
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANET I'VE EVER LIVED ON"
The sky from above
http://tinyurl.com/5k2xvq
(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 June 19
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CANCER (June 21-July 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Cancerian? Now that we're halfway through 2008,
let's take an inventory. I'm hoping that six months from now, you will look
back and make the following declaration: "This year I discovered
everything that's important to know about what I don't need and who I
don't want to be. That's one of the important reasons why -- hallelujah! -
- I've learned to avoid the suffering that comes from wishing my life were
different from how it actually is. I'm more at peace with my soul's
idiosyncratic destiny than I've ever been."
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We're halfway through 2008. It's time to take
inventory of how well you're capitalizing on this year's unique
opportunities. So let me ask you, Leo: Have you been redefining your
relationship to your job so that it better serves the *real* you? Are you
invoking all your imaginative powers so as to get into a position in which
you will love work more than ever before? I hope you've been doing those
things, because it means you've primed yourself to attract lots of help in
accomplishing those changes.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Virgo? Now that we're halfway through 2008, let's
take an inventory. I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll look back
and make the following declaration: "I've learned more about love in the
past 12 months than maybe I ever have. I've also become far more skilled
in the art of making myself happy. And I've finally figured out how to
purge some of the martyr-like aspects from my generosity, which means
I'm better able to give without strings attached and I'm more attractive
to interesting people who are inclined to give me things I really want."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Libra? Now that we're halfway through 2008, let's
take an inventory. I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll look back
and make the following declaration: "It's so funny that in order to find out
where I truly belong, I had to change my ideas about where I truly belong.
Feeling at home on this planet and in this life wasn't possible until I got
cured of my delusions about what it would feel like to be at home on this
planet and in this life. I had to lose some of my certainties in order to gain
more security."
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2008:
http://RealAstrology.com
What hidden factors will be massaging your destiny during the next six
months? Could you use some hints about how to prepare for the
adventures awaiting you during the rest of 2008?
To listen to my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
during the next six months, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Or for phone access, call:
1-877-873-4888
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Scorpio? Now that we're halfway through 2008,
let's take an inventory. One of the most important things you're doing, I
hope, is increasing your effectiveness as a communicator. What do I mean
by that? While it's true that you Scorpios gather information more
skillfully than any other sign, you aren't necessarily as blessed when it
comes to *sharing* information. In part that's because you believe that
keeping secrets enhances your personal power. And in part it's because
you sometimes forget that other people aren't as clued in to what's
happening below the surface as you are. Your mandate in the coming
months is to overcome those challenges as you learn to express yourself
with ever-greater candor and clarity and clout.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How well are you capitalizing on this
year's unique opportunities, Sagittarius? Now that we're halfway through
2008, let's take an inventory. I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll
look back and make the following declaration: "I'm on much friendlier
terms with money than I've ever been. I'm sure it's because I have a more
rooted and relaxed understanding of my true value, and am not so
attached to what other people think I'm worth. I've declared my
independence from the conventional wisdom's distorted worship of
superficial appearances. Ironically, as I've shaken off the sickening
influence of materialism, I've upgraded my ability to create material
success."
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Capricorn? Now that we're halfway through 2008,
let's take an inventory. Your self-image is in the midst of an exhilarating
expansion, right? Your excitement about being alive is growing steadily,
right? Your devotion to cultivating an inner sense of freedom is getting
more intense every day, right? You have an ever-increasing clarity about
what life experiences you need in order to feel powerful, right? If you're
falling short in any of these projects, start making up for lost time
immediately.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Aquarius? Now that we're halfway through 2008,
let's take an inventory. By now, you should have banished at least half of
the ghosts that were pestering you. By August, you should have
neutralized, dissolved, or rendered irrelevant a load of weird karma, and
said goodbye to parts of your past that were bogging you down. By
January 1, 2009, I hope you will have laid to rest a broken dream,
escaped a dead end, and ended your relationship with a lost cause. If you
have spent the last six months earnestly engaged in doing this tough,
messy work, it won't be anywhere near as tough and messy during the
next six months.
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WHAT'S TO COME?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2008:
http://RealAstrology.com
What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2008? How can you
exert your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out the best in
you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of
destiny?
If you'd like a high-octane boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest
for beauty and truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in to my
meditations on your long-term outlook.
Go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Or for phone access, call:
1-877-873-4888
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Pisces? Now that we're halfway through 2008, let's
take an inventory. You're getting better connected to your community
than you ever have before, right? You've become far more purposeful and
crafty about forging the alliances you need to be effective, right? You're
developing smart strategies for upgrading your unique gifts and giving
them to the right people, right? You're working hard to create niches for
yourself that suit your temperament and needs, and you're no longer
leaving it to other people to shape those niches for you, right?
ARIES (March 21-April 19): We're halfway through 2008. It's a perfect
moment to take inventory of how well you're capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Aries: Are you working your ass
off in order to stoke the fire in your belly? In other words, are you doing
everything you can think of to get more motivated? Are you trying hard
to supercharge your ambitions and refine your passions? If so, this will be
the year when you finally figure out how to do what you love to do a
majority of the time -- and how to get rewarded by the world for doing it.
It's high time to answer your highest calling.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We're halfway through 2008. It's time to take
inventory of how well you're capitalizing on this year's unique
opportunities. So let me ask you, Taurus. Have you been climbing out on a
limb in order to think outside of the box? Have you been having
adventurous fun while experimenting freely? I hope so. Playing around
with smart gambles has been and will continue to be the secret to your
success. Note well the adjective "smart" in the previous sentence. Dumb
gambles and poorly thought-out risks should *not* be part of your game
plan.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How well are you capitalizing on this year's
unique opportunities, Gemini? Now that we're halfway through 2008, let's
take an inventory. I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll look back
and make the following declaration: "This year I've learned more about
togetherness and collaboration than I'd picked up in the previous five
years combined. I've finally registered the fact that a successful alliance
of any kind requires as much hard work as any job. Most of my important
relationships are better and more interesting, and the rest have faded
away. I've surprised myself with how creative I've been in finding
interesting ways to handle commitment."
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HOMEWORK: Make a prediction about what your life will be like in the
second half of 2008. Go to http://FreeWillAstrology.com and click 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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