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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
May 1, 2013
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Although we are all born geniuses, the grind of day-to-day living tends to
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I've created a ten-minute ritual you can use to jump-start the process. To
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"I am a genius" . . . .
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
THE PRONOIA OF GENDER EQUALITY
Dalai Lama Says He Would Support A Woman Successor
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ART FOR PRONOIA'S SAKE
Brian Eno's new work, "77 Million Paintings," combines sounds and images
to help heal people in a hospital.
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THE PRONOIA OF FACEBOOK?
Enlightenment.com's Jordan Gruber testifies about his experience with
Facebook:
"Facebook absolutely fills me with love. SpiritFace Book is what it is,
because I can see the Spirit Faces of some of those Whom I have loved
throughout my entire life, rejoicing in their victories, comforting them in
their struggles, sharing care and skill back and forth. An actual real-time
friggin' miracle, this technology is."
(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 May 2
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Imagine you're in a large room full of
costumes. It's like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area
where a theater troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide
variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on
different masks and wigs and disguises and get-ups. You can envision
yourself living in different eras as various characters. If you like, you can
even go out into the world wearing your alternate identities. Try this
exercise, Taurus. It'll stimulate good ideas about some new self-images
you might want to play with in real life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Ray LaMontagne sings these lyrics in his tune
"Empty": "I looked my demons in the eyes. Laid bare my chest and said,
'Do your best to destroy me. I've been to hell and back so many times, I
must admit you kind of bore me.'" I wouldn't be opposed to you
delivering a message like that to your own demons, Gemini -- with one
caveat: Leave out the "Do your best to destroy me" part. Simply peer
into the glazed gaze of those shabby demons and say, "You bore me and
I'm done with you. Bye-bye." And then walk away from them for good.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I know a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism who
got an unexpected message from her teacher. He told her she has made
such exemplary progress in her quest for enlightenment that she has
earned the ultimate reward. When she dies many years from now, the
teacher said, she will enter nirvana! She will have no further karmic
obligation to reincarnate into a new body in the future, and will be forever
excused from the struggle of living in the material world. Although her
teacher meant this to be good news, she was heartbroken. She *wants*
to keep reincarnating. Her joyous passion is to help relieve the suffering
of her fellow humans. Can you guess what sign she is? Yes: a Cancerian.
Like her, many of you are flirting with an odd and challenging choice
between selfishness and selflessness.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A lawyer named John Keogh filed an application
with the Australian Patent Office. It was for a "circular transportation
facilitation device." His claim was approved. He thus became the owner of
the world's first and only patent for the wheel. So far, he has not tried to
collect royalties from anyone who's using wheels. I nominate him to be
your role model, Leo. May he inspire you to stamp your personal mark on
a universal archetype or put your unique spin on something everyone
knows and loves.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the best week in a long time to
practice the art of crazy wisdom. And what is crazy wisdom? Here's how
novelist Tom Robbins described it to *Shambhala Sun*: It's "a
philosophical worldview that recommends swimming against the tide,
cheerfully seizing the short end of the stick, embracing insecurity,
honoring paradox, courting the unexpected, celebrating the unfamiliar,
shunning orthodoxy, volunteering for tasks nobody else wants or dares to
do, and breaking taboos in order to destroy their power. It's the wisdom
of those who turn the tables on despair by lampooning it, and who neither
seek authority nor submit to it." And why should you do any of that weird
stuff? Robbins: "To enlarge the soul, light up the brain, and liberate the
spirit."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Why should we honor those that die upon the
field of battle?" asked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. "A man may show
as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." A woman
may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that's the
noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive into the depths of your
inner workings. I hope that's the direction you go; I hope you don't take
your stouthearted struggle out into the world around you. All the best
action will be happening in that fertile hub known as your "soul."
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Historical records suggest that ancient Greek
philosopher Democritus went blind late in his life. There are different
stories about why. According to one account, he intentionally did it to
himself by gazing too long into the sun. That was his perverse way of
solving a vexing problem: It freed him from the torment of having to look
upon gorgeous women who were no longer interested in or available to
him because of his advanced age. I hope you won't do anything like that,
Scorpio. In fact, I suggest you take the opposite approach: Keep your
attention focused on things that stir your deep attraction, even if you
think you can't have them for your own. Valuable lessons and unexpected
rewards will emerge from such efforts.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Search your memory, Sagittarius, and
recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over
a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with
extreme focus and intensity. You were rarely bored and never resentful
about the enormous effort you had to expend. You loved throwing
yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness
and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic
breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next
exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make
plans to bring it into your life in the near future.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Nairobi is Kenya's capital and home of over
three million urbanites. A few minutes' drive from the city center, there's
a 45-square-mile national park teeming with wildlife. Against a backdrop
of skyscrapers, rhinos and giraffes graze. Lions and cheetahs pounce.
Wildebeests roam and hyenas skulk. I suggest you borrow the spirit of
that arrangement and invoke it in your own life. In other words, be highly
civilized and smartly sophisticated part of the time; be wild and free the
rest of the time. And be ready to go back and forth between the two
modes with grace and ease.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the wild, a tiger's diet consists entirely of
meat. The big cat loves to feast on deer and wild boar, and eats a variety
of other animals, too. The hunt is always solitary, never done in
collaborative groups. That's why the creature's success rate is so low. A
tiger snags the prey it's seeking only about five percent of the time. It
sometimes has to wait two weeks between meals. Nevertheless, a tiger
rarely starves. When it gets what it's after, it can devour 75 pounds of
food in one sitting. According to my astrological analysis, Aquarius, you're
like a tiger these days. You haven't had a lot of lucky strikes lately, but I
suspect you will soon hit the jackpot.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The French word *flaneur* is a meme that
refers to a person who strolls around the city at a leisurely pace, exploring
whatever captivates her imagination. To the casual observer, the
*flaneur* may seem to be a lazy time-waster with nothing important to
do. But she is in fact motivated by one of the noblest emotions -- pure
curiosity -- and is engaged in a quest to attract novel experiences, arouse
fresh insights, and seek new meaning. Sound fun? Well, congratulations,
Pisces, because you have been selected as the Flaming *Flâneur* of the
Zodiac for the next two weeks. Get out there and meander!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you afraid that you lack a crucial skill or
aptitude? Do you have a goal that you're worried might be impossible to
achieve because of this inadequacy? If so, now is a good time to make
plans to fill in the gap. If you formulate such an intention, you will attract
a benevolent push from the cosmos. Why spend another minute fretting
about the consequences of your ignorance when you have more power
than usual to correct that ignorance?
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an answer for in the next five years? Deliver your best guess to me at
Freewillastrology.com.
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