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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 25, 2008
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http://FreeWillAstrology.com
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"A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words,
just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This
is a quite literal statement."
- Deepak Chopra
"At all times I will be the pupil of everyone."
- Shantideva
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WHAT'S AHEAD FOR YOU in the next six months?
EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2008
To hear my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
between now and January 1, 2009, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Log in and click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2008"
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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.
The horoscopes cost $6 apiece. Discounts are available for multiple
purchases.
You can also listen to your short-term forecast for the coming week by
clicking on "This week (June 24, 2008)."
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:
WHAT IS THE BEAUTY AND TRUTH LABORATORY?
The Beauty and Truth Laboratory is an ever-expanding web of think tanks
and mystery schools devoted to exploring pronoia. Since I launched the
prototype in October 2001, 12 other branches have sprung up in
basements, barns, and bedrooms all over the world: eight in North
America and others in Amsterdam, London, Florence, Italy, and Sydney,
Australia.
All of these, including my own in Marin County, California, are similar in
spirit to pirate radio stations. They’re not registered, incorporated, or
licensed, and Goddess forbid that they should ever become the canonical
hubs of a franchise.
That doesn’t mean I eschew power, authority, and wealth. My own branch
of the Beauty and Truth Laboratory is stationed in a garage next to the
house I rent on the seedy outskirts of suburbia, but I’d have no problem
moving to a more expansive location, like say, a conference center on a
100-acre compound in an idyllic place that the original inhabitants of
this continent regarded as a power spot. And I’d love it if this book sold a
million copies, or if Beauty and Truth Laboratories were as common as
7-Elevens in 10 years.
On the other hand, I’m happy with whatever blessings life conspires to
bring me. If it’s to my and your ultimate benefit that this book reaches no
more than 10,000 wise guys and riot grrrls, I will celebrate that
outcome. And my garage-based laboratory is fine just the way it is, with
its sloping floor and row of tiny windows darkened by the exuberant
persimmon tree outside. The modesty of its structure is a constant
reminder that the most important aspect of my work is building the
Beauty and Truth Laboratory within me. As I prod my imagination to
nurture ever-more detailed visions of love, compassion, joy, freedom,
beauty, and truth, I’m better able to spot and name all those good things in
the world around me. I also become more skilled at creating them.
My humble headquarters brings another advantage. It encourages me to
regard everywhere I go as a potential extension of the Beauty and Truth
Laboratory. My experiments aren’t confined to the hours I spend in the
solitude of my ivory tower, but also spill out into the fertile chaos of
daily life.
On one epiphanic occasion, an eight-lane highway at rush hour turned into
a temporary Beauty and Truth Laboratory. It was just a few days after my
return from the Burning Man festival, where the dream of the Laboratory
had hatched. I was driving on 101, the artery that bisects Marin County
just north of San Francisco.
As I cruised at 65 mph between Larkspur and Corte Madera, a blonde in a
Jaguar convertible with the top down passed me on the right. Perhaps
distracted by the chat she was enjoying on her cell phone, she suddenly
zipped in front of me. After hitting my brakes to avoid rear-ending her, I
honked my horn to express my annoyance.
In response, she careened back over to the lane she’d been in before
cutting me off, then slowed down and waited for me to catch up. I avoided
eye contact at first, but finally looked over. Quaking with agitation, she
was flashing me a middle-finger salute and a mad face as fierce as a
Tibetan demon. Her car was veering closer to mine. I wondered if she
might she actually crash into me on purpose . . . .
. . . To read the rest of
"WHAT IS THE BEAUTY AND TRUTH LABORATORY?"
go here:
http://tinyurl.com/24ckbr
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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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ROB'S MUSIC
To listen to and get a free download of "Dark Ages," a song from my band's
CD *Give Too Much,* go here:
http://tinyurl.com/4vrzee
To buy the CD, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/yqy42p
All the lyrics on the CD are here:
http://tinyurl.com/6s5ymz
Info about the band here:
http://www.freewillastrology.com/cds/
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OTHER PRONOIA RESOURCES:
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
*The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future*
"We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history -- a
change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic,
political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of
mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are
changing the world."
— Willis Harman, *Global Mind Change*
http://www.shiftreport.org/
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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 June 26
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for the
second half of 2008, Cancerian. We're checking up on how well you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
Here's one of the most important things I hope you're doing: getting clear
about which of the influences in your life encourage you toward
mediocrity, and which influences, on the other hand, nudge you in the
direction of mastery. There's a second crucial lesson that's related to the
first: getting clear about which people have low expectations and distorted
images of you, and which people, on the other hand, want the best for you
and see you for who you really are.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for the
second half of 2008, Leo. We're checking up on how you're progressing
with the challenges you were given near the end of last year. As I suspect
you've guessed by now, there's one potential accomplishment that's more
important than all the others. If you can pull it off, it'll change your life
forever. I'm talking about the determination to take full responsibility
for your own happiness. How? By studying in exquisite detail all the
things you need to feel great, and taking aggressive steps to make sure
they happen consistently.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for the
second half of 2008, Virgo. We're checking up on how you're progressing
with the challenges you were given near the end of last year. I trust that
by now you're aware that you have far more access to your creative
powers than you've ever had before. If for some reason you have not yet
taken advantage of this blessing, please drop everything and get to work
tapping into the mother lode. This should be the year your self-
expression reaches unprecedented levels of vividness and originality.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for the
second half of 2008, Libra. We're checking up on how you're progressing
with the challenges you were given near the end of last year. I trust that
by now you have begun to make major renovations in the foundations of
your world. I hope you have been carrying out brave changes that will
anchor and stabilize your efforts for years to come. By January 1, 2009,
I expect that you will be standing in your place of power and fighting for
your dreams with more suppleness and stamina than you've ever
summoned.
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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
Log in and click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2008"
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for the
second half of 2008. We're checking up on how you're progressing with
the challenges you were given near the end of last year. I hope by now
you've realized that you have unprecedented opportunities to forge
combinations that have never before been possible. Opposites you'd always
assumed would never attract should now be headed toward unification.
Elements of your life you've long feared were irreconcilable have been
showing signs of finding common ground, and may even be primed to
achieve a delicious synergy. Keep refining your primal urge to merge,
Scorpio!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook
for the second half of 2008, Sagittarius. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year. I
trust that by now you're experiencing the joys of ever-growing self-
discipline. I hope you're positively gleeful with your enhanced capacity to
master details and be creatively organized. This is the year, I predict,
that you will learn to be a visionary planner without losing any of your
inspiring spontaneity.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Capricorn. How have you been progressing with
the challenges you were given near the end of last year? I trust that
you've been hungry for new ideas, fresh approaches, and novel
adventures. And I hope that this has resulted in you receiving more
invitations, dares, and temptations than you've ever had. If what I just
said describes your current state of affairs, I extend my hearty
congratulations and remind you that you're only half way through this
awakening process. If what I said doesn't fit your experience, get busy!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Aquarius. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll look back and make the
following declaration: "This is the hardest I've ever worked to be free.
Liberation always came pretty easily to me before, but this year I had to
find new ways -- complicated, interesting, highly advanced ways -- to
carve out the space to live the life I want. I'm glad I was challenged so
deeply. It has made me a genius of emancipation."
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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
Log in and click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2008"
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Pisces. I'm hoping that six months from now,
you'll look back and make the following declaration: "This year I was a
real artist in the way I lived my life. Everything I did was like working on
a beautiful masterpiece. I had a sixth sense about when to shut up and
when to speak out, when to pull back and when to push on, when to
recharge and when to ripen. Whenever my efforts were ready to climax, I
brought them to a climax and moved on to the next adventure. So here's the
big question: What can I do to keep cultivating this adroit and graceful
approach to being alive?"
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Aries. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
I'm hoping that by now you're well on your way toward leaving your
amateur or rookie status behind for good. I trust that you have had a
vision of exactly what you need to do in order to boost your level of
professionalism, and that you have taken aggressive steps to carry out
that vision. If for some bizarre reason you have not yet begun this
glorious work, jumpstart yourself immediately. Fate will conspire
dramatically on your behalf if you do. Now here's a tip on how to make
sure that your inner warrior is operating at peak efficiency: Assume
there's always more you can do to raise your standards and aspire to a
higher grade of excellence.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Taurus. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
One of the tasks at the top of your to-do list, I hope, has been the
expansion of your worldview. Whether it occurs by traveling to exotic
places, hanging out with broad-minded lovers of life, or exposing
yourself to intriguing ideas that activate your deep thoughts, you need to
seek out breathtaking views of the big picture. Here are two tips about
how to ensure that your inner pioneer is always itchy to investigate the
unknown: 1. Shed inhibitions that serve no constructive purpose. 2.
Declare your independence from trivial details.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You entered the Sex, Drugs, and Rock and
Roll phase of your long-term cycle late last year, and you'll be in that
zone until January of 2009. That means you have been and will continue
to be tempted with triple-intense opportunities to explore the frontiers
of passion, find out about alternative modes of consciousness, and expand
your capacity for lyrical release. So how is that working for you? Are you
taking maximum advantage of all the life-changing experiments these
adventures offer without being turned inside-out by the emotional risks
they entail? Everything depends on your skill in using unruly gifts.
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HOMEWORK: Make a prediction about what will happen in the world
during 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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