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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 9, 2011
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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I want to call your attention to one of the few NC-17-rated pieces in the
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If I quoted from it here in the newsletter, however, it would trigger all the
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PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION! This material has graphic references
to love, lust, tenderness, bliss, and rapture.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
IT'S ACTUALLY NOT AS BAD AS MANY PEOPLE THINK
5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically Nonsense)
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DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE?
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GUERRILLA OUTBREAKS OF SANITY
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 10
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When some Westerners hear the term
"tantra," they think it's a New Age codeword for lavish sex. But in its
original form, tantra is a philosophy that advocates spiritual union with all
of creation, not just erotic union with an attractive partner. Tantric
practitioners might engage in metaphorical "love-making" with lizards,
birch trees, clouds, toasters, rivers, and quirky friends, among other
wonders. I recommend that you experiment with this perspective,
Aquarius. I bet you'll find that cultivating lusty compassion for the entire
world will enhance your personal intimacy with the people you care about.
Happy Valentine Daze!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In many of the weddings I've been to as a
guest, the love birds have sealed their vows with a chaste kiss -- a formal
gesture that wasn't imbued with much spontaneous passion. But in a
recent marriage ceremony I attended, the new husband and wife showed
little inhibition at the climax. They French-kissed in a prolonged embrace
that also included ample groping. In the coming week, I urge you to put
yourself as much as possible in situations where you can express that kind
of free-wheeling spirit. Happy Valentine Daze, Pisces!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Before I loved you, nothing was my own,"
wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. "It all belonged to
someone else -- to no one." Have you ever experienced a sense of being
dispossessed like that, Aries? A sense of there being nowhere and nothing
in the world that you can call your own? And have you ever fantasized
that your emptiness could be remedied by the intimate presence of a
special companion? I wish for you to have that consoling experience in the
coming week. In fact, I predict it. Happy Valentine Daze!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're very familiar with the inexhaustible
longings that you harbor in your depths. Your primal hungers for love and
connection are never far from your awareness. But the sad thing is that
you often regard this as a problem -- as a vulnerability that disempowers
you. This Valentine season I'm asking you to change all that. I'm urging
you to see your enormous yearnings as strengths . . . to celebrate them
as essential fuel for your vitality . . . to treat them as crucial ingredients in
your lust for life. Take it from someone who has seen too many people
crippled by their lack of passion: You're lucky to be so well-endowed with
desire.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! Here's my
prescription for making best use of the current cosmic currents: Be
enchanting, but in an understated way. Be slyly charismatic and
innocently flirtatious and serenely wild. Show how sexy it is to be
sublimely relaxed. Make judicious use of small acts of friendly mischief. Be
affectionately unpredictable, always in the service of showing how much
you care.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your love story has elements of a farce mixed
with a soap opera, fairy tale, and ghost story. For a normal human being,
it might be too intense and convoluted to deal with; it requires so much
willing suspension of disbelief and involves so much letting go of certainty
that no one in their right mind would agree to its demands. Luckily, you're
not a normal human being these days, and you're not particularly in your
right mind. That's why I say unto you: Ride this snaky tale for all it's
worth. Enjoy every plot twist and riddle as if you've been given an epic
myth you can ponder and learn from for the next ten years. Happy
Valentine Daze, Cancerian!
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I think, therefore I am," declared the philosopher
Descartes. Couldn't he have equally said, "I feel, therefore I am" or "I
sense, therefore I am"? During this Valentine season, I suggest that you
put the emphasis on those other proofs of identity, not Descartes'. From
what I can tell, intimacy is most likely to thrive if you liberate it from
excessive thinking and lubricate it with generous amounts of trans-
rational contact. For love's sake, empty your head of abstractions,
opinions, and theories. Make lots of room for the aroma of freshly washed
hair, the shimmer of peaceful excitement, the shuddering solace of moist
skin, the zing of poignant empathy, the wisdom of wandering hands, and
the telepathy of shared perceptions.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! What's the best
way for you to celebrate the season of love? In accordance with the
astrological omens, here's a good suggestion: Write haiku-like poems on
scraps of red paper and leave them around for a special someone to find.
You can borrow the following samples, adopted from the work of
Raymond Roseliep. 1. "mist on my mouth -- air you touched." 2. "I tried
to bring you that one cloud in this cup of water." 3. "black raspberries --
your name breaking in the soft burst." 4. "love song: I enter your mirror."
To get more inspiration, check at tinyurl.com/brisk88.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Libra. It's my
astrological opinion that you need more jokes, comedy, and humor in your
romantic adventures. If you're too serious about seeking the pleasures of
love, you can't get what you want. To inspire your efforts, I present the
winning entry from last year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. It was
judged the worst possible opening line for a novel, but it's perfect fodder
for the project I've assigned you: "For the first month of Ricardo and
Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with
a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's
mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the
world's thirstiest gerbil."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This Valentine season, you have considerable
potential to bring more lyricism into your close relationships. To stimulate
you in that noble effort, I'm borrowing from the poetry of Andre Breton.
See if you can adopt this style of expressing yourself (or steal the actual
words) as you reach out to a person you'd like to be closer to: "Your neck
is pearled barley. Your hair is a wood fire. Your mouth is a bouquet of
stars. Your eyelashes are a child's first stroke of writing. Your eyebrows
are the edge of a swallow's nest. Your shoulders are dolphins' heads under
the ice. Your fingers? The ace of hearts. Your armpits? Beechnut and
midsummer night. Your arms are the sea foam and flood gate foam. Your
feet are bunches of keys."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Love that stammers, that stutters, is
apt to be the love that loves best," wrote poet Gabriela Mistral. That's an
important theme to keep in mind during the season of amour. Your job as
a lover is not to be inflated with the perfect knowledge of how to
proceed, not to stride forcefully into each romantic nuance with your
confidence exploding . . . but rather to stumble along humbly, waging
experiment after experiment, striving to kindle the spark, unleash the
deluge, conjure the whirlwind, burrow into the dirty, sacred depths -- or
whatever the idiosyncratic truth of the moment calls for. Happy Valentine
Daze, Sagittarius!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn!
Borrowing words from poet Amy Lowell, I've created the nucleus of a love
note for you to use as your own. Feel free to give these words (and
others you write yourself) to a person whose destiny needs to be woven
more intimately together with yours. "Your shadow is moonlight on a
plate of silver; your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; the mystery of
your voice, a chime of bells across the windless river air. The movement
of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun. Young
horses are not more limber than your thoughts. Your laughs are bees
buzzing around a pear tree. I dare to reach to you. I dare to touch the rim
of your brightness."
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would improve your love life. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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