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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
October 10, 2012
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LET'S MAKE MORALITY FUN
Are you turned off by the authoritarian, libido-mistrusting perversity of
the right-wing moral code, but equally reluctant to embrace the atheism
embedded in the left wing's code of goodness?
Are you hungry for a value system rooted in beauty, love, pleasure, and
liberation instead of order, control, politeness, and fear, but allergic to the
sophistry of the New Age?
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by
sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals
who worship at the empty-hearted shrine of scientific materialism?
It may be time for you to whip up your very own moral code. If you do,
you might want to keep the following guidelines in mind:
1. A moral code becomes immoral unless it can thrive without a devil and
enemy.
2. A moral code grows ugly unless it prescribes good-natured rebellion
against automaton-like behavior offered in its support.
3. A moral code becomes murderous unless it's built on a love for the
fact that EVERYTHING CHANGES ALL THE TIME, and unless it perpetually
adjusts its reasons for being true.
4. A moral code will corrupt its users unless it ensures that their primary
motivation for being good is because it's fun.
5. A moral code deadens the soul of everyone it touches unless it has a
built-in sense of humor.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning October 11
Copyright 2012 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Hello Dear Sir: I would like to place a large
order for yellow chicken curry, cherry cream cheese cupcakes, and sour,
malty Belgian golden ale. It's for my birthday party this Saturday, and will
need to serve exactly 152 people. My agent will pick it up at 11 a.m.
Please have it ready on time. - Ms. Lori Chandra." Dear Ms. Chandra: I am
an astrologer, not a caterer, so I'm afraid I can't fulfill your order. It's
admirable that you know so precisely what you want and are so
authoritative about trying to get it; but please remember how crucial it is
to seek the fulfillment of your desires from a source that can actually
fulfill them. You're a Libra, right? Your birthday is this week? Thanks for
giving me an excuse to send this timely message to all of your fellow
Libras.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here comes the big reveal of the month; the
trick ending of the year; and maybe the most unusual happiness of the
decade. Any day now you will get the chance to decipher the inside story
that's beneath the untold story that's hidden within the secret story. I
won't be surprised if one of your most sophisticated theories about the
nature of reality gets cracked, allowing you to recover at least a measure
of primal innocence. I suggest you start practicing the arts of laughing
while you cry and crying while you laugh right now. That way you'll be all
warmed up when an old style of give-and-take comes to an end,
ultimately making way for a more profound new give-and-take.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There's almost nothing about the
dandelion that humans can't make use of. People of many different
countries have eaten its buds, leaves, and greens. Besides being tasty, it
contains high levels of several vitamins and minerals. Its flowers are the
prime ingredient in dandelion wine, and its roots have been turned into a
coffee substitute. Herbalists from a variety of traditions have found
medicinal potency in various parts of the plant. Last but not least,
dandelions are pretty and fun to play with! In the coming weeks,
Sagittarius, I invite you to approach the whole world as if it were a
dandelion. In other words, get maximum use and value out of every single
thing with which you interact.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Intellect confuses intuition," asserted
painter Piet Mondrian. I don't think that's always true, even for creative
artists. But in the coming week I suspect it'll be important for you to take
into consideration. So make sure you know the difference between your
analytical thinking and your gut-level hunches, and don't let your thinking
just automatically override your hunches. Here's more helpful advice from
painter Robert Genn: "The job of the intellect is to give permission to the
intuition, and it's the job of intuition to know when intellect is once again
appropriate."
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's time to seek help from outside the
magic circle you usually stay inside. You need to call on extracurricular
resources -- people and animals and deities who can offer useful
interventions and delightful serendipity and unexpected deliverance. The
remedies that work for you most of the time just won't be applicable in
the coming days. The usual spiritual appeals will be irrelevant. I'm not
saying that you are facing a dire predicament; not at all. What I'm
suggesting is that the riddles you will be asked to solve are outside the
purview of your customary guides and guidelines.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): These days lobsters are regarded as a luxury
food, but that wasn't the case among early Americans. In the 17th and
18th centuries, the large crustaceans were meals that were thought to be
suitable only for poor people and prisoners. Wealthy folks wouldn't touch
the stuff. After examining your astrological omens, Pisces, I'm wondering
if your future holds a similar transformation. I think there could very well
be a rags-to-riches story in which an ignored or denigrated thing ascends
to a more important role.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ten percent of all sexually suggestive text
messages are delivered to the wrong number. Take precautions to make
sure you're not among that ten percent in the coming weeks. It will be
extra important for you to be scrupulous in communicating about eros
and intimacy. The stakes will be higher than usual. Togetherness is likely
to either become more intensely interesting or else more intensely
confusing -- and it's largely up to you which direction it goes. For best
results, express yourself clearly and with maximum integrity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If it were within my power, I'd help you
identify the new feelings you have not yet been able to understand. I
would infuse you with the strength you would need to shed the worn-out
delusions that are obstructing your connection to far more interesting
truths. And I would free you from any compulsion you have to live up to
expectations that are not in alignment with your highest ideals. Alas, I
can't make any of these things happen all by myself. So I hope you will
rise to the occasion and perform these heroic feats under your own
power.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972)
was a Gemini. He liked to depict seemingly impossible structures, like
stairways in which people who climbed to the top arrived at the bottom. I
nominate him to be your patron saint in the coming week. You should
have his talent for playing with tricks and riddles in ways that mess with
everyone's boring certainties. Here are four Escher quotes you can feel
free to use as your own. 1. "Are you really sure that a floor can't also be
a ceiling?" 2. "My work is a game, a very serious game." 3. "I think it's in
my basement; let me go upstairs and check." 4. "Only those who attempt
the absurd will achieve the impossible."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus flytrap is a remarkable plant that
gobbles up insects and spiders. Its leaves do the dirty work, snapping
shut around its unsuspecting prey. Evolution has made sure that the
flowers of the Venus flytrap sit atop a high stalk at a safe distance from
where all the eating takes place. This guarantees that pollinators visiting
the flowers don't get snagged by the carnivorous leaves below. So the
plant gets both of its main needs met: a regular supply of food and the
power to disseminate its seeds. I'll ask you to derive a lesson from all this,
Cancerian. Be sure that in your eagerness to get the energy you need,
you don't interfere with your ability to spread your influence and connect
with your allies.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A sinuous and shimmering archetype that begins
with the letter "s" has been trying to catch your attention, Leo --
sometimes in subliminal and serpentine ways. Why haven't you fully tuned
in yet? Could it be because you're getting distracted by mildly
entertaining but ultimately irrelevant trivia? I'm hoping to shock you out
of your erroneous focus. Here's the magic trigger code that should do the
trick: *Psssssssssst!* Now please do what you can to make yourself very
receptive to the slippery, spidery signals of the simmeringly sublime
surge.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don't burn down a bridge you haven't finished
building yet. OK, Virgo? Don't try to "steal" things that already belong to
you, either. And resist the urge to flee from creatures that are not even
pursuing you. Catch my drift? Stop yourself anytime you're about to say
nasty things about yourself behind your own back, and avoid criticizing
people for expressing flaws that you yourself have, and don't go to
extraordinary lengths to impress people you don't even like or respect.
Pretty please? This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you should
put an emphasis on keeping things simple and solid and stable.
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