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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 23, 2011
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The piece below is excerpted from my book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
AM I TOO SAD AND IS THE WORLD TOO MESSED UP FOR ME TO BELIEVE
IN PRONOIA?
by Kali Miroir
"I'd really like to believe in pronoia," I told her. "I'd feel much better about
being alive if I could. But it just seems impossible. I'm too angry. I'm too
sad. The world's too messed up. I'm too messed up."
"So your question is?" she said.
"Is there an honest way for me to get to the point where I could actually
believe that the world is conspiring to shower me with blessings?"
READ THE REST HERE:
http://bit.ly/PronoiaTestimony
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
REVOLUTION FOR THE FUN OF IT
Beginning of an American Uprising?
http://tinyurl.com/4hbedsy
IMPERFECT BEAUTY SALVAGED FROM THE WASTE
Cathedral made from trash
http://tinyurl.com/65ojrc3
THIS IS THE AGE OF MAXIMUM CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Siberian wizard meets Rastafarian devotee
http://i.imgur.com/RN9xf.jpg
(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 24
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I'm hoping that you will grant your ego more
permission to shine in the coming weeks, Pisces. I'm hoping you will allow
it to unveil more flash, feel more zeal, and exert more force. After all your
earnest bouts of self-sacrifice, you deserve a poetic license to brag like a
hip-hop millionaire. After putting in such tireless devotion to maintaining
an oceanic sense of self, you have every right to bust out a crisp,
ferocious blast of "I am!"
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to
discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization,"
said George Bernard Shaw more than six decades ago -- and it's still true.
It's very important that you be more discerning than newspapers in the
coming weeks, Aries. You can't afford to confuse a minor mess with a
major snafu; it would be a big mistake to treat a small temporary detour
as a permanent loss of momentum. Please keep your melodramatic
tendencies in check, even as you appreciate the entertainment value of
your ever-shifting story.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I know many Tauruses who are skilled at
selling products and services, but less adept at presenting themselves.
They don't mind being pushy and strategic when it comes to shaping the
opinions of others, as long as they can remain a bit shy about showing
others exactly who they are. If this is true about you, I propose that you
work on changing it. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you
to be bold about expressing the totality of your beauty and making sure
that everyone who matters to you gets to see it in its full glory.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You're not scared of acquiring more clout and
luster, right? You won't get nervous if you suddenly have to deal with
more success than usual, right? You won't run away if a power spot
you've been cultivating for yourself finally starts providing you with the
opportunities and responsibilities you'd been hoping for, right? I just hope
you're ready to handle the good stuff that's available, Gemini. Please
don't confuse this enjoyable stress with the other kind.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her essay "The Possible Human," Jean
Houston describes amazing capacities that are within reach of any of us
who are brazen and cagey enough to cultivate them. We can learn to
thoroughly enjoy being in our bodies, for example. We can summon
enormous power to heal ourselves; develop an acute memory; enter at
will into the alpha and theta wave states that encourage meditation and
creative reverie; cultivate an acute perceptual apparatus that can see
"infinity in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower;" and practice the
art of being deeply empathetic. Guess what, Cancerian: The next six
months will be one of the best times ever for you to work on developing
these superpowers. To get started, answer this question: Is there any
attitude or belief you have that might be standing in the way? (Here's
Houston's essay: tinyurl.com/PossibleHuman.)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The depths are calling to you, Leo. Can you hear
their subtle melodies? Don't worry: I'm not referring to the icky, stinky,
creepy depths; I don't mean that you'll have to lose yourself in a chaotic
miasma, or wander speechless in a claustrophobic maze. No: The deep
place I'm talking about is maybe the cleanest, most well-lit abyss you've
ever had the complicated pleasure to explore. I'm not saying there'll be no
hairy riddles to deal with; but I am saying that even the hairy riddles will
be interesting, at least a little fun, and helpful in your efforts to purify
yourself.
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MY OTHER HOROSCOPES
Factual information and reasonable thinking alone are not sufficient to
guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular
deliveries of uncanny revelation.
One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to
receive mysteriously useful omens on a regular basis. In this spirit, I offer
you the free weekly horoscopes you read in this newsletter.
If you ever want more, and think it's worth paying for, try my daily text
message 'scopes or my expanded audio 'scopes.
Go here to access them:
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1-877-873-4888
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I'm no fan of the climate change that's rocking
every corner of the planet. In fact, I oppose it; I protest it; I resist it.
However, I do need to acknowledge that there is at least one upside: The
world is becoming more fragrant. Scientists say that as carbon dioxide
levels rise, plants will release more aromatic chemicals known as "biogenic
volatile organic compounds." The smell of growing vegetation could
intensify by as much as 40 percent in the coming decades. This situation
is not a precise metaphorical match for your upcoming destiny, Virgo, but
I do see some similarities. Things are going to be getting hotter for you,
emotionally speaking -- and that will be stimulating, often even
pleasurable, to your senses.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An interviewer asked me, "What is the most
difficult aspect of what you do?" Here's what I said: "Not repeating
myself is the hardest thing. And yet it's also a lot of fun. There's nothing
more exciting for me than to keep being surprised by what I write. It's
deeply enjoyable to be able to feed people clues they haven't heard from
me before. And when I focus on doing what gives me pleasure, the
horoscopes write themselves." I hope this testimony helps you in your
own life right now, Libra. If you're afraid that you're in danger of
repeating yourself, start playing more. Look for what amuses you, for
what scrambles your expectations in entertaining ways. Decide that
you're going to put the emphasis on provoking delight in yourself, not
preserving your image.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I am a big fan of your analytical intellect, and
would never advise you to shove it out of the way so that your emotional
intelligence can rule uncontested. But this is one time when I think the
latter needs to get more say than the former; your emotional intelligence
has license to take precedence over your analytical intellect. In that light,
please consider the following counsel from my Facebook friend Sophia
Veleda: "I do not consider emotions to be the dirty redheaded stepchild
of the frontal cortex. Our emotional selves are more intuitive, faster,
smarter (by means of being able to take in more data at once), and just
as capable. The frontal cortex is as likely to make errors due to data
omission as the emotional center is likely to get a degree of magnitude
wrong."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are thousand of things in the
world that provide you with only mediocre nourishment; the influences
that deeply enrich you with their blessings are much smaller in number. To
say it another way: You derive a bare amount of inspiration and teaching
from the great majority of people, songs, images, words, stories,
environments, and sights; whereas you draw life-sustaining illumination
and spirit-ennobling motivation from just a precious few. Your task in the
coming weeks, Sagittarius, is to identify that special minority, and to take
aggressive steps to be in more ongoing communion with it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Research suggests that more and more
American high school students are getting good grades every year. The
number of A's doled out has been going up steadily. Does that mean kids
are getting smarter or that teachers have relaxed their standards? I don't
have a definitive answer for that. But I do have a theory that all over the
world, the Capricorn tribe has been growing more intelligent in recent
years. Your increase in 2010 was especially notable. There may have been
a bit of tapering off lately, but I expect that to change soon. The omens
say you're due for another growth spurt in your ability to understand how
the world works.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is there anything you tend to hoard,
Aquarius? Anything you store up in excessive amounts? Are there
emotions you cling to past the time they're doing you any good? Do you
notice yourself feeling pangs of acquisitiveness when in the presence of
particular treasures or symbols or pretty things? If so, this is an excellent
time to work on dissipating those fixations. In the coming days, you will
have cosmic assistance whenever you exert your willpower to undo your
fanatical attachments to just about anything.
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Homework: Though sometimes it's impossible to do the right thing, doing
the half-right thing may be a viable option. Give an example from your
own life: http://www.freewillastrology.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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