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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 17, 2010
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Excerpted from *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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LET'S EXPOSE THE OBVIOUS MIRACLES, Part 1
Thousands of things go right for you every single day, beginning the
moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand,
you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been
unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that's just right for
your body's needs, as it was before you fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by
nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to
perfect. The interesting gift of these vivid hues is made possible by an
unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates
nuclear reactions in order to convert its own body into light and heat and
energy for your personal use.
You can't live without the sun's inexhaustible flood of unconditional love.
Every move you make depends on it. Luckily, it never fails you.
Did you know that your personal star is located at the precise distance
from you to be of consummate service? If it were any closer, you'd fry,
and if it were any farther away, you'd freeze. Is that just a happy
accident? Or is it a sign of favor -- a big, broad hint, from a cosmic
intelligence that adores you?
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Of the many things that have gone right for you during your time on
Earth, the most crucial was your birth. As you crossed over the threshold,
trading the warm dark sanctuary for the bright noisy enigma, you didn't
die! It was a difficult act of high magic that involved many people who
worked very hard in your behalf. The skills they provided in helping you
navigate your rite of passage were in turn made possible by previous
generations of threshold-tenders who bequeathed their expertise.
Months before that initiation, a more secret miracle bloomed: Your life
began as a single cell, spawned by the explosive fusion of two highly
specialized bundles of chromosomes. How could that tiny package of raw
material have possibly grown a brain and liver and heart and stomach over
a period of a few months? What inscrutable genius guided and oversaw
the emergence of your fully formed infant body, that virtuoso creation,
from the slimmest of clues?
"Something unknown is doing we don't know what," said astrophysicist
Arthur Eddington about the universe. And we are the beneficiaries.
P.S. You have continued to grow since your birth, with millions of new
cells continually blooming to replace the old ones that are always dying.
At this moment, you're host to about 50 trillion cells, and each of them is
really a sentient being in its own right. They all act together as a
community, implementing the monumental collaboration you call your
body.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 18
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your old self is the fuel you will use to
burn your old self to the ground. This bonfire will liberate your new self,
which has been trapped in a gnarly snarl deep inside your old self. It's only
at first that you'll feel freaked out by the flames. Very quickly a sense of
relief and release will predominate. Then, as the new you makes its way to
freedom, escaping its cramped quarters and flexing its vital force, you will
be blessed with a foreshadowing of your future. The intoxication that
follows will bring you clarity and peace of mind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Do we love Heaven more than God?" asks
poet Paula Cisewski in her book *Ghost Fargo.* I think that's the kind of
cryptic question you Capricorns would benefit from mulling over in the
coming weeks. Your mind needs to get its customary categories shaken
up and rearranged . . . needs its habitual grooves broken up and diverted .
. . needs its easy certainties flushed and abandoned. Can you think of any
other queries that will help you accomplish this noble work? Let me offer
a few to get you started: 1. Do we love love itself more than we love the
people we say we love? 2. Do we fear failure so much that we interfere
with our cultivation of success? 3. Do we obsess on our longing to such a
degree that we miss opportunities to satisfy our longing?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Sanskrit word *buddhi* refers to the
part of us that adores the truth. It's good at distinguishing between
what's real and what's false, and is passionately attracted to liberation.
Although it may go into long periods of dormancy in some of us, *buddhi*
never falls asleep completely. It's always ready to jump into action if we
call on it. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius,
the *buddhi* aspect of your psyche will be extra special big strong and
bright in the coming week. In my opinion, that's better than winning the
lottery.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I like how snowboarder Graham Watanabe
described his experiences at last February's Winter Olympics. He wasn't
content with making a generic comment like "It was awesome!" or "No
words could describe how great it was!" Instead he got florid and specific:
"Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they
birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and
sunshine and rainbows. That's what it feels like." As you break through
your previous limits in the coming weeks, Pisces, I'd love to hear you
summon some bursts of articulate jubilation akin to Watanabe's.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "You don't want to be the best of the best,"
said Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. "You just want to be the only
one who does what you do." That's always good advice, but it will be
especially apt for you during the next few weeks. You're entering a phase
when competing with other people will get you nowhere fast. What will
get you somewhere fast is nurturing your unique talents and proclivities.
Do you know exactly what they are? If you're even a little fuzzy, make it
your quest to get very clear.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What is the "soul," anyway? Is it a ghostly
blob of magic stuff within us that keeps us connected to the world of
dreams and the divine realms? Is it an amorphous metaphor for the secret
source of our spiritual power? Is it a myth that people entertain because
they desperately want to believe there's more to them than just their
physical bodies? Here's what I think: The soul is a perspective that pushes
us to go deeper and see further and live wilder. It's what drives our
imagination to flesh out our raw experience, transforming that chaotic
stuff into rich storylines that animate our love of life. With the gently
propulsive force of the soul, we probe beyond the surface level of things,
working to find the hidden meaning and truer feeling. I'm bringing this up,
Taurus, because it is Celebrate the Soul Week for you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Nothing changes until it's changed in
everyone's memories," said poet Alice Notley. I urge you to keep that in
mind as you move forward, Gemini. In recent weeks, you have helped
untie a knot that once seemed impossibly tangled, and you deserve kudos
for that. But your job isn't done yet. Your next task is to work on
loosening the snarls and smoothing the kinks that still linger in the
imaginations of everyone involved.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the 1925 silent film *The Gold Rush,*
Charlie Chaplin plays a prospector during the Alaska Gold Rush. After a
series of adventures, he finds himself stuck in a remote cabin on
Thanksgiving Day with a ruffian named Big Jim. They're out of food, so
Charlie gets resourceful, boiling his right shoe in a big pot and serving it
up steaming hot. What the audience doesn't know is that the movie prop
is made of sweet licorice, not leather. So while it may seem that dinner is
a hardship, the actors actually had no trouble polishing off their meal. I
see a similar scenario in your near future, Cancerian: something like eating
a "shoe" that's made of candy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lots of toddlers in Indonesia smoke cigarettes,
not just the chain-smoking two-year-old in the famous Youtube video
(tinyurl.com/SmokerKid). But don't you dare let your inner child get
started on a similar habit any time soon, Leo. Make sure that sweet young
thing is exposed to only the very best influences; feed him or her only the
healthiest food, air, water, sounds, sights, images, and stories. The
innocent, curious, wide-eyed part of you is entering a phase when rapid
growth is going to happen, one way or another. It's your job to guarantee
that the growth goes in the right direction.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "We grow sometimes in one dimension, and
not in another; unevenly," wrote Anais Nin. "We are mature in one realm,
childish in another." In you, Virgo, the discrepancies have been especially
apparent lately. For example, your brainy insightfulness has been on a hot
streak, while your gut wisdom has not. But I suspect this situation to shift
in the coming weeks. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that
your emotional intelligence is set to thrive. It will be fine if you
concentrate on that phenomenon with all your heart, even if it means
investing a little less energy in being an analytical whiz.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E.
Coyote is constantly chasing after the Road Runner, a long-legged bird
that prefers running to flying. Presumably, Coyote would eat the Road
Runner if he ever caught him, but he never does; the bird's too fast and
smart. In one recurring motif, the Road Runner dashes into the entrance
of a cave that's cut into a wall of sheer rock. When Coyote tries to follow
him, he smashes into the rock, and it's revealed that the cave entrance is
just a very realistic painting. I suspect that you're going to have the Road
Runner's power in the coming week: an ability to find and use doors that
are inaccessible to other people.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I recently discovered a blues-gospel artist
named Famous L. Renfro, who is also known as "The Flying Sweet Angel
of Joy." His soaring, gritty music had a medicinal effect. It seemed to say
to me, "You have the power to change your life in the exact way you
want to change your life." Your assignment, Scorpio, is to find a new
source of music or art or literature or film that has a similar effect on you:
a flying sweet angel of joy that inspires you to do what has been hard for
you to do. According to my reading of the astrological omens, such an
influence is within your reach right now.
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HOMEWORK: Which actor or actress would be the best choice to play you
in a film about your life? Go to Realastrology.com and click "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
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many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had a major
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Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and a high
degree of technical proficiency in horoscope interpretation; she is skilled
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connection with your own inner wisdom.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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Ro's website is at
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She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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