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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
March 13, 2013
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More and more creative people find they do their best work when they're
feeling healthy and secure. We know writers who no longer need to be
drunk or in agony in order to shed the numbness of their daily routine and
tap into the full powers of their imagination. We have filmmaker friends
whose best work flows not from the depths of alienated self-doubt but
rather from the heights of well-earned bliss. Singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey
is the patron saint of this new breed. "When I'm contented, I'm more
open to receiving a lot of inspiration," she has testified. "I'm most
creative when I feel safe and happy."
At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we've retired the archetype of the
tormented genius. We have zero attraction to books and movies and
songs by depressed jerks whose work is celebrated but whose lives are a
mess. Stories about supposedly interesting creeps don't rouse our
perverse fascination because we've broken our addiction to perverse
fascination. When hearing about illustrious creators who brag that they
feel most stimulated when they're angry or miserable, we unleash the
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 14
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A source of fulfillment you will enjoy in the
future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In
other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem.
Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian
composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring
works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, and concertos. When he was
a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that
frequently surged through his mind. "This music! This music!" he
complained to his mother. "Take it away! It's here in my head and won't
let me sleep!"
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid."
That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week.
Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being
judgmental should be at the bottom. Here's another mantra that may
serve you well: "Those who take history personally are condemned to
repeat it." I hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an
oppressive part of your past. Do you have room for one more inspirational
motto, Aries? Here it is: "I am only as strong as my weakest delusion."
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't you just love to watch the spinning of
those wheels within wheels within wheels? Aren't you grateful for the way
the ever-churning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your
attitude at a moment's notice? And aren't you thrilled by those moments
when fate reveals that its power is not absolute -- that your intelligence
and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of
karma? If you are unfamiliar with the pleasures I've just described, the
coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It won't be a good week to issue unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered demands. And please don't make peanut butter
and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in Siberia, or photocopy
your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. On the other hand, it
will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom
wall, stage a slow-motion pillow fight, and cultivate your ability to be a
deep-feeling free-thinker. Other recommended actions: Give yourself a
new nickname like Highball or Root Doctor or Climax Master; write an
essay on "The Five Things That the Pursuit of Pleasure Has Taught Me;"
and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and
the abyss of fear.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the mid-19th century, prospectors mined
for gold in the mountains of western Nevada. The veins weren't as rich as
those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their
work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud
that gummed up their machinery. It was regarded as a major nuisance.
But on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by
an expert. He discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. So
began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very
wealthy. I suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue
mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an "inconvenience" that seems to
interfere with the treasure you seek, but that is actually quite valuable.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When pioneer filmmaker Hal Roach worked on
scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual
strategy to overcome writer's block. He'd bring in a "Wildie" to join them
at the conference table. A Wildie was either a random drunk they found
wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum.
They'd engage him in conversation about the story they were working on,
and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new
possibilities. I don't necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a
Wildie, Leo, but I hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh
perspectives. Solicit creative disruptions!
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IF YOU WANT MORE FREE WILL ASTROLOGY,
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But if you'd like to experience more of my thoughts about your current
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is the term "unconscious mind" a good name
for the foundation of the human psyche? Should we really be implying
that the vast, oceanic source of everything we think and feel is merely
the opposite of the conscious mind? Dreamworker Jeremy Taylor doesn't
think so. He proposes an alternate phrase to replace "unconscious": "not-
yet-speech-ripe." It captures the sense of all the raw material burbling and
churning in our deep awareness that is not graspable through language. I
bring this up, Virgo, because you're entering a phase when a lot of not-
yet-speech-ripe stuff will become speech-ripe. Be alert for it!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1928, biologist Alexander Fleming launched
a medical revolution. He developed the world's first antibiotic, penicillin,
making it possible to cure a host of maladies caused by hostile bacteria.
His discovery was a lucky fluke that happened only because he left his
laboratory a mess when he went on vacation. While he was gone, a
bacteria culture he'd been working with got contaminated by a mold that
turned out to be penicillin. I'm thinking that you could achieve a more
modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on
you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though. Are you game?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I am iron resisting the most enormous
Magnet there is," wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully
bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a
more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think
there's something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel
the tremendous pull of our destiny -- the glorious, daunting destination
that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings
-- and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What's your current
relationship to your Magnet, Scorpio? I say it's time you allowed it to pull
you closer.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): NASA used whale oil to lubricate the
Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good
reason: Whale oil doesn't freeze at the low temperatures found in outer
space. While I certainly don't approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I
want to use this story to make a point. It's an excellent time for you, too,
to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems.
Sometimes a tried-and-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler,
or more aesthetically pleasing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The theory of the "butterfly effect"
proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately
impact the weather in New York. Here's how the writer Richard Bernstein
explains it: "Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous
multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end."
That's why, he says, "the world is just too complicated to be predictable."
I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing
you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world
you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with
how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention
into every little thing.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Former football quarterback Joe Ayoob
holds the world's record for throwing a paper airplane the longest
distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled over 226 feet. I
propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming
week. From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least
metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse
and control. It's time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.
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Homework: Choose two ancestors with whom you'd like to have closer
relationships. Try to contact their spirits in your dreams. Testify at
Freewillastrology.com.
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