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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
June 19, 2013
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This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I think will
be important for you during the next six months and beyond.
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and
divine inspiration?
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How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR
Some Christians believe Jesus will come back to fix this corrupt world.
Certain Jewish sects propose that the messiah will soon appear on Earth
for the first time. Among Muslims, many predict the legendary Twelfth
Imam will return and bring salvation to humanity.
In India, devotees of Vishnu expect the avatar Kalki to arrive on the scene
and carry out a series of miraculous redemptions. Even Buddhists
prophesy Maitreya, the chosen one who will establish universal peace.
My divinations foretell a very different scenario. I suspect that the whole
point of our spectacularly confounding moment in history is that each of
us must become our own savior. And if we hope to accomplish that,
relying on our best amateur efforts, we will have to stop waiting around
for a supposed professional to do our work for us.
Franz Kafka had a view that's not necessarily mutually exclusive with
mine:_"The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore."
Let's also consider the evidence offered by William Blake, as quoted in
*Poets and God* by David L. Edwards: "Jesus Christ is the only God. And
so am I. And so are you."
One more clue, this time from Deepak Chopra: "Every person is a God in
embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Cuts in diesel emissions have drastically reduced the amount of pollutants
in the air that cause global warming in California, potentially valuable
information in the fight to save the world's climate from a predicted
catastrophe.
http://tinyurl.com/lo39usd
Evidence that smiling causes happiness. While in a state of emotional
neutrality, putting a smile on your face can tip you in the direction of a
positive feeling.
http://tinyurl.com/ao3ywve
Uruguay's President José Mujica, a former guerrilla who took office in
2010, donates most of his salary, shuns opulence and lives modestly, as
he says the leader of a democracy should.
http://tinyurl.com/akb8vv4
(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 June 20
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "I know that I am not a category," said
philosopher Buckminster Fuller. "I am not a thing -- a noun. I seem to be a
verb, an evolutionary process." Philosopher Norman O. Brown had a similar
experience. "The human body is not a thing or substance, but a
continuous creation," he mused. "It is an energy system which is never a
complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction
and self-destruction." Now is an excellent time to imagine yourself in
these terms, Cancerian. You're not a finished product, and never will be!
Celebrate your fluidity, your changeableness, your instinctual urge to
reinvent yourself.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Renowned 20th-century theologian Karl Barth
worked on his book *Church Dogmatics* for 36 years. It was more than
9,000 pages long and contained over six million words. And yet it was
incomplete. He had more to say, and wanted to keep going. What's your
biggest undone project, Leo? The coming months will be a good time to
concentrate on bringing it to a climax. Ideally, you will do so with a
flourish, embracing the challenge of creating an artful ending with the
same liveliness you had at the beginning of the process. But even if you
have to culminate your work in a plodding, prosaic way, do it! Your next
big project will be revealed within weeks after you've tied up the last
loose end.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Susannah Cibber was a popular 18th-century
English contralto whose singing was expressive and moving. On one
occasion, she performed Handel's *Messiah* with such verve that an
influential priest responded by making an extravagant guarantee. He told
her that as a result of her glorious singing, any sins she had committed or
would commit were forever forgiven. I'd like to see you perpetrate an
equivalent amazement, Virgo: a good or beautiful or soulful deed that
wins you a flood of enduring slack. The cosmic omens suggest that such
an achievement is quite possible.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Johnny Appleseed was a 19th-century folk
hero renowned for planting apple trees in vast areas of rural America.
During the 70 years this famous Libra was alive, he never got married. He
believed that if he remained unwed during his time on earth, he would be
blessed with two spirit-wives in the after-life. Have you ever done
something like that yourself, Libra? Is there an adventure you've denied
yourself in the here and now because you think that's the only way you
can get some bigger, better adventure at a later date? If so, now would
be an excellent time to adjust your attitude.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "It is kind of fun to do the impossible," said
Walt Disney, a pioneer animator whose cartoon innovations were
remarkable. Judging from your current astrological omens, I think you
Scorpios have every right to adopt his battle cry as your mantra. You've
got an appointment with the frontier. You're primed to perform
experiments at the edge of your understanding. Great mysteries will be
tempting you to come closer and lost secrets will be teasing you with
juicy clues. As you explore and tinker with the unknown, you might also
want to meditate on the graffiti I saw scrawled on a mirror in a public
restroom: "Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the
impossible."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Astronauts on lunar expeditions have
orbited the moon and seen its entire surface. But the rest of us have
never seen more than 59 percent of it. As the moon revolves around the
Earth, it always keeps one side turned away from our view. Isn't that
amazing and eerie? The second most important heavenly body, which is
such a constant and intimate factor in our lives, is half-hidden. I'd like to
propose that there is an analogous phenomenon in your inner world,
Sagittarius: a part of you that forever conceals some of its true nature.
But I'm pretty sure you will soon be offered an unprecedented chance to
explore that mysterious realm.
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WHAT'S TO COME?
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with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2013 and
beyond:
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What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2013 and beyond?
How can you exert your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out
the best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the
tides of destiny?
If you'd like a boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest for beauty and
truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in to my meditations on your
long-term outlook.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne
married his wife Elizabeth in 1741. Twenty-five years later he fell in love
with another woman, Eliza. In composing love letters to his new
infatuation, he lifted some of the same romantic passages he had
originally written to Elizabeth when he was courting her. Try hard not to
do anything remotely resembling that, Capricorn. Give your intimate allies
your freshest stuff. Treat them as the unique creatures they are. Resist
the temptation to use shticks that worked to create closeness in the
past.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's important that you not punish yourself
or allow yourself to be punished for the sins that other people have
committed. It's also crucial that you not think nasty thoughts about
yourself or put yourself in the presence of anyone who's prone to thinking
nasty thoughts about you. Self-doubt and self-criticism may be healthy
for you to entertain about ten days from now, and at that time you will
probably benefit from receiving compassionate critique from others, too.
But for the moment, please put the emphasis on self-protection and self-
nurturing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For over three decades, a man in Assam, India
has worked to build a forest. When Jadav "Molai" Payeng started planting
and tending seeds at the age of 16, the sandbars bordering the
Brahmaputra River were barren. Today, almost entirely thanks to him,
they're covered with a 1,360-acre forest that harbors deer, birds, tigers,
rhinos, and elephants. According to my analysis of the astrological omens,
you could launch a comparable project in the next 12 months, Pisces -- a
labor of love that will require your persistent creativity and provide you
with sanctuary for a long time.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you've seen that meme circulating on
the Internet: "My desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to
remain sane." If you feel that way now -- and I suspect you might soon if
you don't already -- you have cosmic permission, at least for a while, to
emphasize sanity over being well-informed. Lose track of what Kim Jong-
un and Kim Kardashian are up to, ignore the statements of every jerk on
the planet, and maybe even go AWOL from the flood of data that
relentlessly pours toward you. Instead, pay attention to every little thing
your body has to tell you. Remember and marvel at your nightly dreams.
Go slow. Lay low. Be soft. Have fun with unspectacular influences that
make you feel at home in the world.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I expect you will be called on to move fluidly
between opposing camps or competing interests or different realities.
Maybe you'll volunteer to serve as an arbiter between the crabby good
guys and the righteous bad guys. Perhaps you'll try to decode one
friend's quirky behavior so that another friend can understand it. You
might have to interpret my horoscopes for people who think astrology is
bunk. You may even have to be a mediator between your own heart and
head, or explain the motivations of your past self to your future self. You
can't be perfect, of course. There will be details lost in translation. But if
you're as patient as a saint and as tricky as a crow, you'll succeed.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Pablo Casals was one of the greatest cello
players who ever lived. Among his early inspirations was the music of
Johann Sebastian Bach. Casals discovered Bach's six cello suites when he
was 13 years old, and played them every day for the next 13 years. Have
you ever done something similar, Gemini? Devoted yourself to a
pleasurable discipline on a regular basis for a long time? I invite you to try
it. The coming months will be an excellent time to seek mastery through a
diligent attention to the details.
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Homework: It's a shame so many of us try to motivate ourselves through
abusive self-criticism. Are you guilty of this sin? How so? What will you do
to change? Write Freewillastrology.com.
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