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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
March 4, 2009
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"If you have ice cream, I will give it to you. If you have no ice cream, I will
take it from you."
- Rishi Suzuki (He calls this the ice cream koan)
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THE POSSIBLE REWARDS OF PRONOIA: You will be able to claim the
rewards promised you at the beginning of time -- not just any old beauty,
wisdom, goodness, love, freedom, and justice, but rather exhilarating
beauty that incites you to be true to yourself; crazy wisdom that
immunizes you against the temptation to believe your ideals are ultimate
truths; outrageous goodness that inspires you to experiment with
irrepressible empathy; generous freedom that keeps you alert for
opportunities to share your wealth; insurrectionary love that endlessly
transforms you; and a lust for justice that's leavened with a knack for
comedy, keeping you honest as you work humbly to liberate everyone in
the world from ignorance and suffering.
MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
START THE PRONOIAC REVOLUTION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
British Teach Children Empathy, Happiness, and Critical Thinking
http://tinyurl.com/9b6679
EVEN BIG CORPORATIONS ARE CAPABLE OF PRONOIA
Bank of America agrees to stop financing companies that mine coal by
stripping the tops of mountains.
http://tinyurl.com/6n6fy4
CONTEMPLATIVE ECSTACY
Support Group for Ecstatic Buddhists and Other Bliss-Seeking
Contemplatives
http://tinyurl.com/3l74o4
(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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To buy my book,
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings*
go here: http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
or here: http://tinyurl.com/3dsx6q
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 5
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "The biggest human temptation is to settle
for too little," wrote the spiritual activist Thomas Merton. Judging from
your current astrological omens, I suspect that's a warning you should
heed. The time has come for you to consider the possibility that you
aren't thinking big enough . . . that you need to actively rebel against the
voices telling you to sit back and accept your comfortable limitations. In a
sense, the cosmos is giving you a poetic license to ask for more.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "You never want a serious crisis to go to
waste," said Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff. "It's an
opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." While
your crisis is nowhere near as pressing as those faced by Obama's team,
Aries, I recommend that you adopt a similar attitude in the coming days.
Just assume that any breakdowns you experience will allow you to make
breakthroughs that were previously impossible. Take advantage of a
spiritual emergency to accomplish a spiritual emergence. As you deal with
a scary trial, use it as an impetus to find a sacred trail.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your key theme for the week is "Healthy
Obsessions." Not "Melodramatic Compulsions" or "Exhausting Crazes" or
"Manias That Make You Seem Interesting to Casual Bystanders," but
"Healthy Obsessions." To carry out your assignment in the right way, you
will have to take really good care of yourself as you concentrate
extravagantly on tasks that fill you with zeal. This may require you to
rebel against the influences of role models, both in your actual life and in
the movies you've seen, who act as if getting sick and imbalanced is an
integral part of being true to one's genius.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The closest modern relative of the
Tyrannosaurus rex may be the chicken, says geneticist John Asara. He
came to this conclusion after studying traces of tissue from a 68-million-
year-old bone of the king of dinosaurs. I invite you to draw inspiration
from this theory, Gemini. Try the following thought experiment. Envision a
couple of monstrous influences from your past -- big bad meanies who
hurt you or scared you. Imagine they were like Tyrannosaurus rexes back
then. Close your eyes and see their faces glaring from the beast's skull.
But then imagine that in the intervening months and years they have
devolved and shrunk. Picture them now as clucking chickens pecking at
seeds in the dirt. Can you see their faces at the top of their bobbing,
feathery bodies?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Scientists and fundamentalist Christians don't
share much common ground, but one thing most of them agree on
devoutly: There's no such thing as reincarnation. Now I'm pleased to be
able to offer you the chance to rebel against their dogmatic delusion. You
see, Cancerian, it's an excellent time to try out the hypothesis that you
have lived many times before and will live many times again. For one
week, act as if it were true, and see how it changes the way you feel,
think, and act. What if everything you do has repercussions forever?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This horoscope presents three clues for you to
work with. Here's the first: I know a psychotherapist's son who, while
growing up, rarely received the benefits of his father's psychological
expertise. "The shoemaker's child has no shoes," my friend says. Here's
your second clue: In the Bible's book of Mark, Jesus declares, "A prophet
is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own
relatives, and in his own house." The third clue: A neurologist of my
acquaintance suffers from migraine headaches that he has been unable to
cure. Now, Leo, I invite you to meditate on how these alienations may
reflect situations that you're experiencing. If they sound familiar, take
action. It's prime time to heal them.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One reason I've been put on this earth is to
expose you to a kind of astrology that doesn't crush your free will, but
instead clarifies your choices. In this horoscope, for instance, I'll crisply
delineate your options so that you may decide upon a bold course of
action that's most in tune with your highest values. Study the following
multiple-choice query, then briskly flex your freedom of choice. Would you
rather have love: 1. knock the wind out of one of your illusions, thereby
exposing the truth about what you really want; 2. not exactly kick you in
the butt, but more like pinch and spank you there, inspiring you to revise
your ideas about what it means to be close to someone; 3. spin you
around in dizzying yet oddly pleasurable circles, shaking up your notions
about how to keep intimacy both interestingly unpredictable and
soothingly stable.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Cartoonist Gary Larson defines luposlipaphobia
as the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table
while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. According to my reading of
the astrological omens, there is a real danger you could fall victim to that
deluded phobia. And it is definitely a delusion. No timber wolves will be in
your immediate future. If you hope to avoid this mistaken anxiety, as well
as other equally irrelevant and unproductive superstitions, you should
have a nice long talk with yourself as soon as you finish reading this. Be
very clear and strict and rational as you explain how important it is to be
very clear and strict and rational right now.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe you shouldn't mend your supposedly
"evil" ways if your "evil" ways are about to mutate into a fascinating new
approach to goodness. Maybe the very quality that has threatened to
cause your downfall has now become the key to your upgrade. And
maybe the thing that has made you most nervous about yourself about
yourself will soon start ripening into a beautiful asset that will activate
reserves of life energy you didn't know you could have at your disposal.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Jakob Dylan has created a
solid musical career for himself. He's a bit defensive, however, about the
possibility that the fame of his father, Bob Dylan, has played a role in his
success. His contracts specify that he should never be called "Bob Dylan's
son." I understand his longing to have his work be judged on its own
merits, and I sympathize with his urge to be independent of his heritage.
But in the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I advise just the opposite approach
for you. You will place yourself in alignment with cosmic rhythms by
expansively acknowledging all of the influences that have helped you
become the person you want to be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Throx.com sells you socks in threes, so if
you lose one you have an extra to take its place. Their ingenious
marketing plan resembles the approach of some romance-addicts I know,
who always date two or three people just in case they get dumped by one
of them. No bouts of loneliness to worry about! Which brings us to my
main advice for you this week, Capricorn: Have a back-up plan. Keep an
alternative handy. Make sure you won't run out of the stuff you really
need.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My Chevy got stolen in San Francisco on a
January night some years ago. The thief broke a window and smashed his
way into the steering column with a tire iron to get to the ignition wires.
Eventually the cops recovered the car and returned it to me. But no repair
shop could ever completely fix the transmission, and though the car sort
of worked for another 18 months, I was never able to shift it into reverse
again. Driving a vehicle that only moved forward presented problems that
required creative solutions. It was an apt metaphor for my life at the time,
when I found it impossible to go backward in any way. I suspect it will also
be one of your operative metaphors in the coming months, Aquarius.
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HOMEWORK: Write a fairy tale or parable that captures what your life has
been like so far in 2009. Share with me by going to
http://FreeWillAstrology.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
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She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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