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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 24, 2010
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Do you promise to push hard to get better and smarter, grow your
devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your
emotions, hone your dreams, wrestle with your shadow, purge your
ignorance, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself
for exactly who you are, with all of your so-called foibles and wobbles?
Do you pledge to wake yourself up, never hold back, have nothing to lose,
go all the way, kiss the stormy sky, be the hero of your own story, ask for
everything you need and give everything you have, take yourself to the
river when it's time to go to the river, and take yourself to the
mountaintop when it's time to go to the mountaintop?
- *PRONOIA*
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The revised and expanded version of my book *PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA* is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
I invite you to deepen and intensify your commitment to the most
important person in your life -- you. One way to further that sacred cause
is to get married to yourself. In my book, I've created a text you can refer
to as you perform the wedding. Or you can use my text for inspiration as
you create your own version.
Below is an excerpt. To read the whole text, go here:
http://bit.ly/IMeWed
I ME WED
Let's begin by telling a simple truth: You will probably never create a
resilient, invigorating bond with the lush accomplice of your dreams until
you master the art of loving yourself ingeniously. A wedding ritual that
joins you to yourself could catalyze an uncanny shift in your personal
mojo that would attract a fresh, hot consort into your life, or else awaken
the sleeping potential of a simmering alliance you have now.
If you're feeling brave, try speaking the following words aloud:
"I am no longer looking for the perfect partner.
I am my own perfect partner."
Say it even stronger:
"I am no longer looking for the perfect partner
to salve all my wounds
and fix all my mix-ups
and bridge all my chasms.
I am no longer looking for the perfect partner
because I am my own perfect partner."
TO READ THE REST OF "I ME WED," go here:
http://bit.ly/IMeWed
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
WHAT IF YOU COULD REDUCE YOUR LEVELS OF SHAME BY, SAY, EVEN
30%?
Juices of Mortal Glory
A pronoiac view of shame from the poet Robert Hass
Warning: This poem may offend some people who feel shame about their
juices of mortal glory
http://tinyurl.com/yzytrdc
WE'RE CLOSER TO EACH OTHER THAN WE KNOW
Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain
http://tinyurl.com/yg96mhu
DON'T YOU PREFER GOOD SHOCKS TO BAD ONES?
12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
http://tinyurl.com/m9ue7d
(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 February 25
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you were going to launch a career as a rap
artist any time soon, I'd suggest that maybe you use the alias "Big Try"
as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic religious
path and get a new spiritual name, I'd recommend something like "Bringit
Harder" or "Pushit Stronger." If you were about to join an activist group
that fights for a righteous cause, and you wanted a new nickname to
mark your transformation, I'd urge you to consider a tag like "Radical" or
"Prime" or "Ultra." And even if you're not doing any of the above, I hope
you'll carry out some ritual of transition to intensify your commitment to
your life's vital dreams.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Everything is complicated," wrote poet
Wallace Stevens. "If that were not so, life and poetry and everything else
would be a bore." I hope you will choose his wisdom to serve as your
guiding light in the coming weeks. It is high time, in my astrological
opinion, for you to shed any resentment you might feel for the fact that
life is a crazy tangle of mystifying and interesting stories. Celebrate it,
Aries! Revel in it. Fall down on your knees and give holy thanks for it. And
by the way, here's a big secret: To the extent that you do glory in the
complications, the complications will enlighten you, amuse you, and enrich
you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is one time when you can be both the
river and the bridge. In fact, I strongly suggest that you make every
effort to be both the river and the bridge. I'll leave it up to you to
interpret how this metaphor applies to your life, but here's a clue to get
you started. Be a force of nature that flows vigorously along even as you
also provide a refuge for those who want to be close to your energy but
are not yet ready to be inside it and flow along with it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Almost exactly ten years from now, you will be
blessed with an eruption of personal power that's so crafty and so
practical that you will be able to visualize a solution to a problem that has
stumped you for a long time. It may take you months to actually carry
out that solution in its entirety, but all the while you will have the luxury
of feeling perfect certainty about what must be done. And you know what
the weird thing is, Gemini? Something very similar is in the works for the
next few weeks: an eruption of crafty, practical power that will help you
materialize the key to solving an old dilemma, hopefully followed by
months of carrying out your lucid plan.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Last night I had a dream in which I was
addressing a crowd of thousands of Cancerians in a large stadium. I was
referring to them as dolphins rather than as crabs. "I say unto you, my
fellow dolphins," I proclaimed (I myself was born June 23), "that you have
been given a sacred assignment by the great gods of time themselves.
And that assignment is to master the art of Timeology." When I awoke
from the dream, I was awash with feelings of deep relaxation and ease,
although I wasn't sure why. I had never before heard that word
"timeology," so I googled it. Here's how the Urban Dictionary defined it:
"spending time doing what you want to do, not accomplishing anything
major but also not wasting time." It so happens that this prescription is
well-suited to our current astrological omens. I suggest that you and I be
as playful as dolphins.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In an episode of the animated TV sci-fi series
*Futurama,* we get to see inside the headquarters of Romanticorp, where
"love research" is being done. One of the experiments involves robots
delivering various pick-up lines to actual women. The line that works best
is "My two favorite things are commitment and changing myself." I
recommend that you make that your own catchphrase, Leo -- not just
this week but for the foreseeable future. The entire year of 2010 will be
an excellent time to deepen your commitments and transform yourself,
and the weeks ahead will bring unprecedented opportunities to intensify
those efforts.
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IF YOU WANT MORE FREE WILL ASTROLOGY,
TRY THE EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
The horoscopes you read in this newsletter may be plenty for your needs.
But if you'd like to experience more of my thoughts about your current
situation, you might want to try my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES.
They're 4 to 5 minute meditations on the state of your life and where
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If you like you can get both a reading about the days ahead and a long-
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1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,"
advises a passage in the Bible, "for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares." While that's always good counsel, it's especially apt for you in
the coming days. I believe you will come into contact with people who can
provide you with valuable teaching and healing, even if they're disguised
as baristas or pet shampooers or TV repairmen -- and even if this will be
the one and only time they will provide you with teaching and healing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Metaphorically speaking, you have recently
begun crossing the water in a dream boat that has a small leak. If you
keep going, it's possible you will reach the far side before sinking. But
that's uncertain. And even if you were able to remain afloat the entire
way, the shakiness of the situation would probably fill you with anxiety.
My suggestion, then, is to head back to where you started and fix the
leak.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some Scorpios bring out the worst in people.
Other Scorpios draw out the best. Then there are those members of your
tribe who sometimes bring out the worst in their fellow humans and other
times bring out the best. Where do you fit in this spectrum? Regardless
of your position up until now, I'm betting that in the coming months you'll
be moving in the direction of bringing out more of the best. And it all
begins now. To get the process underway, think of five people you care
about, and visualize the wonderful futures that it might be possible for
them to create for themselves.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): More than a few fairy tales feature the
theme of characters who accidentally find a treasure. They're not
searching for treasure, don't feel worthy of it, and aren't fully prepared
for it. They may initially not even know what they're looking at, and see it
as preposterous or abnormal or disquieting. Who could blame them if they
ran away from the treasure? In order to recognize and claim it, they might
have to shed a number of their assumptions about the way the world
works. And they might have to clear up a discrepancy between their
unconscious longings and their conscious intentions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Everyone alive has some kind of learning
disability. I know brilliant physicists who are dumb about poetry. There are
fact-loving journalists whose brains freeze when they're invited to
consider the ambiguous truths of astrology. My friend John suffers from
dyslexia, while I myself am incapable of mastering the mysteries of
economics. What's your blind spot, Capricorn? What's your own personal
learning disability? Whatever it is, this would be an excellent time,
astrologically speaking, to work with it. For the next few months, you will
be able to call on what you need in order to diminish its power to limit
you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "We cannot change anything until we
accept it," said psychologist Carl Jung. "Condemnation does not liberate,
it oppresses." Make that your hypothesis, Aquarius, and then conduct the
following experiment. First, choose some situation you would like to
transform. Next, open your heart to it with all the love and compassion
you can muster. Go beyond merely tolerating it with a resigned
disappointment. Work your way into a frame of mind in which you
completely understand and sympathize with why it is the way it is.
Imagine a scenario in which you could live your life with equanimity if the
situation in question never changed. Finally, awash in this grace, meditate
on how you might be able to actually help it evolve into something new.
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HOMEWORK: What are you doing to get ready for 2012? Read my
suggestions at http://bit.ly/2012now, then tell me your own at
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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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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