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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 21, 2012
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YOU SHOWER BLESSINGS ON ALL OF CREATION
The Beauty and Truth Lab is coming to you live from your repressed
memory of paradise, reminding you that all of creation loves you very
much.
Even now, secret allies are cooking up mysteries that will excite you and
incite you for years to come.
Even now, the Earth, moon, and sun are collaborating to make sure you
have all you need to make your next smart move.
But here's the loaded question: Are you willing to start loving life back
with an equal intensity? The adoration it offers you has not exactly been
unrequited, but there is room for you to be more demonstrative.
Half of the art of pronoia is about being improvisationally receptive to
life's elaborate scheme to shower you with blessings. The other half is
about learning to be a co-conspirator who assists life in doling out
blessings -- to help everyone else get exactly what they need, exactly
when they need it.
Visualize yourself being able to recognize the raw truth about the people
you care about. Imagine that you can see how they already embody the
beauty their souls' codes have promised as well as how they still fall short
of embodying that beauty.
Picture yourself being able to make them feel appreciated even as you
inspire them to risk changes that will activate more of their souls' codes.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
PRONOIA FROM BELOW
The Occupy movement evolves, showing all of us rabble-rousing
progressives how to build a mass movement and transform the way the
political process works: Start at the grassroots by helping people in need.
http://tinyurl.com/azkd8pf
PRONOIA FROM THE FUTURE
Germany exports more energy than ever. The surplus is due to the
massive development of renewable energies.
http://tinyurl.com/ayqepr6
THIS YEAR IN PRONOIAC HISTORY
50 years ago, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, second-in-
command Vasilli Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused to agree
with his Captain's order to launch nuclear torpedoes against US warships
and setting off what might well have been a terminal superpower nuclear
war.
http://tinyurl.com/3csurr
http://i.imgur.com/t0Shw.jpg
THE EVIDENCE KEEPS ACCUMULATING
A compendium of pronoiac news.
http://PronoiaResources.com
(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 November 22
Copyright 2012 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix
is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you've managed
to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-
resolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally-remastered
simulation of your first kiss. You're almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius!
The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock
absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be flying high
and looking very, very good.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The plot twists will be intriguing. The
actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be
happening simultaneously, and the line between wisdom and craziness
could get blurry. There's not nearly enough room in this little horoscope
to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes. Are
you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as
too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others
are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn,
because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama
with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Psychologists have done studies that
suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of fictional characters we
read about or see in movies. That's not a problem if those characters are
smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours.
But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others
badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us
astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the
role models you allow to seep into your imagination. You're especially
susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: Expose
yourself intensely to only the very best fictional characters who embody
the heights you aspire to reach.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "The fates guide him who will; him who won't,
they drag." So said the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca, and now I'm
passing it on to you. It's an excellent time for you to think about the
issue. Ask yourself: Have you been cooperating with fate so that it has
maximum power to shepherd you? Have you been working closely with
fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints
and timely nudges? Or have you been you avoiding fate, even resisting it
out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the
next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and
righteous.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Don't think about making art, just get it
done," said Andy Warhol. "Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more
art." I encourage you to adopt that mini-manifesto for your own purposes
in the coming weeks, Aries. If you're not an artist, simply substitute the
appropriate phrase for "making art." It could be "creating interesting
relationships," "exploring exotic lands," "changing corrupt political
institutions," "fixing environmental problems," or even "making money."
The main point is: Focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning,
and forget about what people think of it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A Jungian writer whose name I have
unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: "In a man's
psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, filled with violent and
irrational processes of generation and destruction. But to a woman's
psyche the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and
rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the secret
unity of all life." After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you
Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your
unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: You have the
chance to get a vivid, visceral understanding of how true this description
of the female unconscious is.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let's talk about the Decision. I'm referring to
the Choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and
analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different
solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet
the requirements of being intelligent, responsible, and fun. Of those
seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun, and enduring. Of
those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring, and
the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I'm not necessarily asserting that you need to
edit yourself, Cancerian. Only you can decide that. But I will state
unequivocally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a
good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your
life might benefit from being condensed, corrected, and fine-tuned. It's
also true that the rectifications you do in the coming weeks will be
relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please.
Should you calm your blame reflex? Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed
some emotional baggage?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How many times have you been in love, Leo? Just
once or twice? Or have you dived into the depths of amorous
togetherness again and again over the years? Whatever the case may be,
I bet you have strong ideas about the nature of passionate romance and
profound intimacy. That's natural and normal. But I'm going to ask you to
temporarily forget everything you think you know about all that stuff. I
invite you to become innocent again, cleansed of all your mature, jaded,
hopeful, and resentful thoughts about the game of love. In my astrological
opinion, there's no better way for you to prepare for what will come next.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A medical research journal reported on a
British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her
stomach for 25 years. When surgeons finally removed it, they were
surprised to find it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything
remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect,
though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical
resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and find use
for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Sapiosexual" is a relatively new word that
refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence.
Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: "I want an
incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom
philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want a sapiosexual." In the coming
weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to fitting this definition than
you've ever been before. The yearning that's rising up in you is filled with
the need to be stimulated by brilliance, to be influenced by wisdom, to be
catalyzed by curiosity.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2007 the band White Stripes did a tour of
Canada. One of their final gigs was outdoors in St. John's, Newfoundland.
They came on stage, played one note -- a C-sharp -- and declared the
performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from
the current astrological omens, Scorpio, I'm thinking it would be a good
time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the
potential to be extremely concise and intense and focused in all you do. I
urge you to fulfill that potential. Pack every speech, gesture, and action
with a concentrated wealth of meaning.
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great new thing into your life? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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