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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 22, 2011
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my MID-YEAR AUDIO PREVIEW of YOUR DESTINY for the REST of
2011
http://RealAstrology.com
This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I think will
be important for you during the next six months and beyond.
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and
divine inspiration?
Where are you likely to find most success?
How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
What questions should you be asking?
Tune in.
To listen to my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE
during the next six months, go here:
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Forecast for Second Half of 2011."
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My book *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
and also at Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
Here's an excerpt:
WHAT IS PRONOIA?
Read this piece in its entirety here:
http://bit.ly/WhatisPronoia
DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding
that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your
senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always
gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
OBJECTIVE OF PRONOIA: To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly
disciplined, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious,
aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully
compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair
is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is your
birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
READ THE REST HERE:
http://bit.ly/WhatisPronoia
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
HOW MUCH BEAUTY CAN YOU STAND?
Revealed: a treasure trove of gorgeous astronomical stuff
http://tinyurl.com/35ll9y6
WHAT IF THERE ARE MODES OF INTELLIGENCE WE CAN'T PERCEIVE YET?
Consciousness pervades the universe
http://tinyurl.com/3jzerqr
THERE MAY BE FUTURE INNOVATIONS WE CAN'T IMAGINE YET
Nano-electrodes may lead to phones that charge in seconds, electric cars
in minutes
http://tinyurl.com/3vxfdw8
(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 June 23
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A company that manufactures processed
food made a promotional offer: If you purchased ten of its products, it
would give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man named David
Philips took maximum advantage. He bought 12,150 pudding cups for
$3,000, earning himself more than a million frequent flyer miles -- enough
to fly to Europe and back 31 times. This is the kind of legal trick you're
now in a good position to pull off, Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please:
How could you play the system, outwit the matrix, rage against the
machine, or subvert the Man? No need to break any laws; the best gambit
will be an ethical one.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While watching fast-talking politicians talk on TV,
my Polish grand-uncle would sometimes mutter, *Zlotem pisal, a gownem
zapieczetowal.* I only learned what those words meant when I turned 18
and he decided I was old enough to know the translation: "written in gold
and sealed with crap." One of your interesting assignments in the coming
weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything that fits that description in your
own life. Once you've done that, you can get started on the next task,
which should be rather fun: Expose the discrepancy, and clean up the
mess.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago I did a book tour that brought me to
Eugene, Oregon, where my sister and her husband and their daughter live.
They came to my reading at a bookstore. My Virgo niece Jasper was
seven years old at the time. I was surprised and delighted when she
heckled me several times during my talk, always with funny and good-
natured comments that added to the conviviality of the moment and
entertained everyone in attendance. Who said Virgos are well-behaved to
a fault? Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece: With wit
and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of any events that could use
some smart agitation.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Life is like playing a violin in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on," wrote author Samuel Butler.
Ain't that the truth! You may be practicing as diligently as you can,
gradually trying to master your complex instrument, but in the meantime
your lack of expertise is plainly visible to anyone who's paying close
attention. Luckily, not too many people pay really close attention, which
gives you a significant amount of slack. Now and then, too, you have
growth spurts -- phases when your skills suddenly leap to a higher octave.
The coming weeks should be one of these times for you, Libra.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In August and September, millions of
seabirds known as Sooty Shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand
and travel thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just off the
coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it? The feeding is first-class; the
tasty fish and squid they like are available in abundance. I suggest you
consider a Sooty Shearwater-type quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio.
The very best samples of the goodies you crave are located at a distance,
either in a literal or metaphorical sense.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I really thought I'd understand sex
better by now. After all these years of doing it and studying it and
thinking about it and talking about it, I still can't regard myself as a
master of the subject. The kundalini's uncanny behavior continues to
surprise me, perplex me, and thrill me with ever-new revelations. Just
when I imagine I've figured out how it all works, I'm delivered to some
fresh mystery. How about you, Sagittarius? Judging by the current
astrological omens, I'm guessing you're due for a round of novel
revelations about the nature of eros. As long as you keep an open mind,
open heart, and open libido, it should all be pretty interesting.
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WHAT'S TO COME?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2011:
http://RealAstrology.com
What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2011? How can you
exert your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out the best in
you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of
destiny?
If you'd like a boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest for beauty and
truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in to my meditations on your
long-term outlook.
Go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Or for phone access, call:
1-877-873-4888
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A few years ago, Eve Ensler took her
famous play "The Vagina Monologues" to Pakistan. She and a group of
local Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with discourses on
vibrators, menstruation, and "triple orgasms." I invite and encourage you
to try something equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give your
spiel to a new audience; take your shtick to a wild frontier; show who you
really are to important people who don't know the truth yet.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When my "macho feminist" memoir *The
Televisionary Oracle* was published in 2000, I suffered from comical
delusions about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I
tried to get a review in *The New York Times.* As I know now, that had as
much likelihood of happening as me traveling to the moon in a rainbow
canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu of that kind of
recognition, others arrived. One of my favorites: My book went along for
the ride with a group of American goddess-worshipers on a spiritual tour
to the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey. They read my
writing aloud to each other, amused and entertained. I suspect you will
soon have a similar experience, Aquarius: having to "settle for" a soulful
acknowledgment that's different from what your ego thought it wanted.
Take it from me: That's actually better.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My favorite plant food for my African violets
is a natural fertilizer called Big Bloom. One of its key ingredients -- the
stuff that makes it so effective -- is bat guano. I'd like to suggest that
you're about due to embark on the Big Blooming phase of your own cycle,
Pisces. And it's more likely to reach its deserved pinnacle of fertility if
you're willing to summon just a hint of bat-sh** craziness from the depths
of your subconscious mind. But remember: just a dollop, not a giant heap.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Golden orb spiders of Madagascar spin robust
webs. Their silk is stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand when
struck by insects. Here's an equally amazing facet of their work: Each
morning they eat what remains of yesterday's web and spend an hour or
so weaving a fresh one. I'm thinking that your task in the coming weeks
has some similarities to the orb spider's, Aries: creating rugged but
flexible structures to gather what you need, and being ready to
continually shed what has outlived its usefulness so as to build what your
changing circumstances require. (Thanks to the California Academy of
Sciences for the info on orb spiders.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The year is almost half over, Taurus. Shall we
sum up the first part of 2011 and speculate about the adventures that
may lie ahead of you in the next six months? The way I see it, you've
been going through a boisterous process of purification since last
January. Some of it has rattled your soul's bones, while some of it has
freed you from your mind-forged manacles. In a few short months, you
have overseen more climaxes and shed more emotional baggage than you
had in the past three years combined. Now you're all clean and clear and
fresh, and ready for a less exhausting, more cheerful kind of fun.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Advertisements are often designed to make
you feel inadequate about the life you're actually living so you will be
motivated to "improve" your lot by buying what they're selling. In this
short horoscope, I don't have room to express how much soul sickness
this wreaks upon us all. Recently HBO unleashed an especially nefarious
attack. Promoting its new streaming service, it informed us that "The
story you could be watching is better than the one you're in."
Fortunately, Gemini, you won't be tempted to swallow that vicious
propaganda anytime in the coming weeks. Your personal story will be
profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO
or any other entertainment source might offer.
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HOMEWORK: This week is my birthday. The best gift you could give me is
to treat yourself to an experience you like and that you think I'd like. Tell
me about it at Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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