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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 8, 2012
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See a pretty version of this newsletter: http://bit.ly/wlpnSc
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In case you missed any of the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote
for you, I gathered them together and bundled them in one place. Go here
to read a compendium of your forecasts for 2012:
http://bit.ly/BigLife
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My book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
Below is an excerpt.
To hear this piece as a song, go here: http://bit.ly/tlUzBZ
WORLD KISS
All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our
burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and
creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and
interesting. But everything. All of creation.
If we want to become the gorgeous geniuses we were born to be, if we
want to give back as many blessings as we are given, we've got to be in
love with every single part of the Goddess's extravagant masterpiece.
And so we can't possibly be mere heterosexuals. We can't possibly be
mere homosexuals or bisexuals.
If we want to commune with the world the way the Goddess does, we've
got to be Pantheosexuals -- we've got to be experts in the art of
Polymorphous Perverse Omnidirectional Goddess Diddling. Anything less is
a lie, an obscene limitation.
With this in mind, I invite you to perform the ritual of the World Kiss. To
do the World Kiss, conjure up your most expansive feeling of tenderness -
- like what you might experience when you're infatuated with a new lover
or when you gaze into the eyes of your new-born baby for the first time -
- and then blow kisses to all of creation.
Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. Blow
kisses to the wind and rain and rocks and machines. Blow kisses to the
gardens and jails, the cars and the toys. the politicians and saints, to the
girls and the boys and every gender in between.
And with each World Kiss you bestow, keep uppermost in your emotions a
mood of irreverent adoration and horny compassion. And remember that
it's not enough simply to perform the outer gesture; you've got to have a
heart-on in each of your seven chakras . . . .
To read or hear THE REST of WORLD KISS, go here: http://bit.ly/tlUzBZ
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ELATIONSHIP LOVE SPELLS FOR BEAUTY & TRUTH LAB ALLIES
The Beauty and Truth Lab's rapturists have formulated a whole batch of
personal ads for you to borrow. If you're a Crafty Optimist or Mystical
Activist or Ceremonial Teaser who aspires to put the elation back in
relationship, check them out here:
http://bit.ly/LoveAd
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
Rilke said that for one human being to love another is the most difficult
task of all. It's the work for which all other work is mere preparation.
Teillard de Chardin said: "Some day after we have mastered the winds, the
waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then
for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered
fire."
Leo Tolstoy said: "Everything I understand, I understand only because I
love."
Pascal said: "If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."
Emily Dickinson said: "Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."
You and I say: Because we love ruby-throated hummingbirds sip from
plum flowers and the moon sings its silver fragrance to the swans and
volcanoes and fields of wheat
Because we love, wild grapevines coil around the roots of the mountain
and mangoes ripen in the smoke of forest fires
Because we love, everything alive swims in an eternal river that flows
through our dreams all night long
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
SMART PEOPLE ARE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO HELP US ALL
High School Student Devises Possible Cure for Cancer
http://tinyurl.com/7ts9npb
NATURE CAN CURE SOME OF THE EXCESSES OF TECHNOLOGY
Camelina-based jet fuel reduces carbon emissions from jets by about 80
percent
http://tinyurl.com/6hn9lun
SOMETIMES JUST LOOKING AT IMAGES OF THE SACRED CAN INVOKE THE
PRESENCE OF THE SACRED
Photographing the Sacred
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(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 9
Copyright 2012 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe there is a soulmate for you in this
world. Maybe there isn't. But you can count on this: If that person is out
there, you will never bond with him or her by clinging to a set of specific
expectations about how it should happen. He or she will not possess all
the qualities you wish for and will not always treat you exactly as you
want to be. I'm sure you already know this deep down, Aquarius, but
hearing it from an objective observer like me might help liberate you
further from the oppressive fantasy of romantic perfection. That way you
can better recognize and celebrate the real thing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "We are all a little weird and life's a little
weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with
ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
So proclaimed Dr. Seuss. I think this is an excellent meditation for you
during this season of love. You need more permission to share your
idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, and you need more freedom to ally
yourself with people whose idiosyncrasies and eccentricities you're
compatible with -- and on behalf of the cosmos, I'm hereby giving you
that permission.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Marriage must be a relation either of
sympathy or conquest," said author George Eliot. I believe the same is
true even about intimate bonds that have not been legally consecrated.
Each tends to either be a collaboration of equals who are striving for
common goals or else a power struggle in which one party seeks to
dominate the other. Which of those two models has characterized your
romantic history, Aries? Now is an excellent time to begin working to
ensure that the partnership model will predominate for the rest of your
long life.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Love loves to love love," wrote James Joyce
in his 1922 novel *Ulysses.* "Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable
14A loves Mary Kelly. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old
Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the
turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead.
His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen." What Joyce said 90
years ago is still true: The world is a churning, burning uproar of yearning.
The droning moan of "I want you, I need you" never dies down. Give
yourself to that cosmic current without apology this Valentine season,
Taurus. Celebrate your voracious ache for love. Honor your urge to merge
with reverence and awe for its raw splendor.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I've ghostwritten a personal ad for you to give
to your Valentine or potential Valentine: "I'm looking for a free yet
disciplined spirit I can roll down hills with on sunny days and solve thorny
puzzles with when the skies are cloudy. Can you see the absurd in the
serious and the serious in the absurd? Are you a curious chameleon
always working to sharpen your communication skills? Might you be
attracted to a sweet-talking wise-ass who's evolving into a holy goofball?
Emotional baggage is expected, of course, but please make sure yours is
organized and well-packed. Let's create the most unpredictably intriguing
versions of beauty and truth that anyone ever imagined."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): On average, an adult on planet Earth has sex
103 times a year. But I'm guessing that in the immediate future,
Cancerians everywhere may be motivated to exceed that rate by a large
margin. The astrological omens suggest that your tribe's levels of sensual
desire may reach astronomical heights. Do you know anyone you're
attracted to who might be willing help you out as you follow your bliss? If
not, be your own Valentine. One way or another, it's prime time to
celebrate your relationship with eros.
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IF YOU WANT MORE FREE WILL ASTROLOGY,
TRY THE EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
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But if you'd like to experience more of my thoughts about your current
situation, you might want to try my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES.
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If you like you can get both a reading about the week ahead and/or a
long-term exploration of your destiny in 2012.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I'd love for you to be able to always give the best
gifts you have to give without worrying about whether they will be
received in the spirit with which you offer them. But that's just not
realistic. I would also be ecstatic if you never had to tone down your big,
beautiful self out of fear that others would be jealous or intimidated. And
yet that's not a rational possibility, either. Having said that, though, I do
want to note that now and then both of those pleasurable scenarios can
prevail for extended lengths of time. And I believe you're now in one of
those grace periods.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with the astrological omens,
here's what I wish and predict for you in the near future: You will be a
connoisseur of temptations. By that I mean you will have a knack for
attracting and playing with allurements and enticements. More
importantly, you'll have a sixth sense about the distinction between good
bait and bad bait -- between provocative temptations that will serve your
most fervent dreams and debilitating traps that will dissipate your
integrity. And when you get a lock on the invigorating, ennobling kind,
you will know just how to work with it so that it drives you wild with
smart longing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century author and
hermetic magician whose work has had a major influence on Western
mystery schools. The great secret of magic, he said, is fourfold: "to
KNOW what has to be done, to WILL what is required, to DARE what must
be attempted, and to KEEP SILENT with discernment." Your assignment,
Libra, is to apply this approach to your love life. How can you create a
relationship with love that will be a gift to the world and also make you
smarter, kinder, and wilder? KNOW what magic you have to do. WILL
yourself to do it. DARE to be ingenious and inspired. And don't tell anyone
what you're doing until you achieve your goal.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After analyzing the astro data for this
Valentine season, I realized that you could really benefit from being less
sober, solemn, and serious about your intimate relationships. That's why I
decided to collect some one-liners for you to use as you loosen up your
approach to togetherness. Please consider delivering them to anyone
you'd like to be closer to. 1. "Let's go maniacally obsess about our lives in
a soothing environment." 2. "We'll be best friends forever because you
already know too much about me." 3. "It would be great if you would
schedule your social events around my mood swings." 4. "I'm sorry I
drunk-dialed you before realizing you were already in bed with me." 5.
"You're one of the few people I would consider hugging right after a
Bikram Yoga class." 6. "I wanna do boring things with you." (All the one-
liners come from Someecards.com.)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The world is an oyster, but you don't
crack it open on a mattress," said a character in an Arthur Miller play. He
was referring to the idea that if you're obsessed with sex and romance,
your level of worldly accomplishment may be rather low. It jibes with what
a friend in my youth told me when he noticed how much of my energy
was engaged in pursuing desirable females: "They don't build statues in
parks for guys who chase women." I realize you may not be wildly
receptive to ruminating on these matters during the Valentine season,
Sagittarius. However, the omens suggest I advise you to do just that. It's
a good time to fine-tune the balance between your life-long career goals
and your quest for love.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ancient Egyptians thought that drinking
bear grease could stimulate ardor, while the Greeks believed that eating
sparrow brains would do the trick. When potatoes first appeared in Spain
in 1534, imported from the New World, they were used in love potions
and worth more than $1,000 a pound. The Asian rhinoceros was hunted
nearly to extinction because its horn was thought to have aphrodisiac
properties. Just in time for Valentine season, I'd like to suggest that you
call on a very different kind of romantic stimulant that costs nothing and
doesn't endanger any species: *being a good listener.*
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HOMEWORK: Write yourself a nice long love letter. Send a copy to me if
you like: FreeWillAstrology.com.
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