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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
September 11, 2013
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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Below is an excerpt from a piece called UNHAPPY HOUR.
(You can hear me perform the whole thing at http://bit.ly/zxnYnD)
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You're invited to celebrate Unhappy Hour. It's a ceremony that gives you
a poetic license to rant and whine and howl and sob about everything that
hurts you and makes you feel bad.
During this perverse grace period, there's no need for you to be inhibited
as you unleash your tortured squalls. You don't have to tone down the
extremity of your desolate clamors. Unhappy Hour is a ritually
consecrated excursion devoted to the full disclosure of your primal clash
and jangle.
Here's the catch: It's brief. It's concise. It's crisp. You dive into your
darkness for no more than 60 minutes, then climb back out, free and
clear. It's called Unhappy Hour, not Unhappy Day or Unhappy Week or
Unhappy Year.
Do you have the cheeky temerity to drench yourself in your paroxysmal
alienation from life? Unhappy Hour invites you to plunge in and surrender.
It dares you to scurry and squirm all the way down to the bottom of your
pain, break through the bottom of your pain, and fall down flailing in the
soggy, searing abyss, yelping and cringing and wallowing.
That's where you let your pain tell you every story it has to tell you. You
let your pain teach you every lesson it has to teach you.
But then it's over. The ritual ordeal is complete. And your pain has to take
a vacation until the next Unhappy Hour, which isn't until next week
sometime, or maybe next month.
You see the way the game works? Between this Unhappy Hour and the
next one, your pain has to shut up. It's not allowed to creep and seep all
over everything, staining the flow of your daily life. It doesn't have free
reign to infect you whenever it's itching for more power.
Your pain gets its succinct blast of glory, its resplendent climax, but
leaves you alone the rest of the time.
If performed regularly, Unhappy Hour serves as an exorcism that empties
you of psychic toxins, while at the same time -- miracle of miracles -- it
helps you squeeze every last drop of blessed catharsis out of those
psychic toxins.
Pronoia will then be able to flourish as you luxuriate more frequently in
rosy moods and broad-minded visions. You'll develop a knack for
cultivating smart joy and cagey optimism as your normal states of mind.
Now let's get you warmed up for Unhappy Hour . . . .
TO READ (and hear) THE REST OF THIS PIECE, GO HERE:
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Or buy the book! It's called *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
and is available here: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning September 12
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a good time to free yourself from a
curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I'm not
talking about a literal spell cast by a master of the dark arts. Rather, I'm
referring to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps
inadvertently, by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As
I evaluate the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power
to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don't need a wizard or a witch
to handle it for you. Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed.
Here's a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: Visualize the curse as a
dark purple rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The current chapter of your life story may not
be quite as epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic.
Still, what I'm going to tell you is something we all need to hear from time
to time. And I'm pretty sure this is one of those moments for you. It
comes from writer Charles Bukowski: "Nobody can save you but yourself.
You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will
attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make
you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a
war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody
can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The cosmos hereby grants you poetic license
to be brazen in your craving for the best and brightest experiences . . . to
be uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for you .
. . to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what you really, really
want more than anything else. This is a limited time offer, although it may
be extended if you pounce eagerly and take full advantage. For best
results, suspend your pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your
bitchy complaints about life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the last minute, Elsa Oliver
impulsively canceled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch that
something exciting would happen if instead she stayed at her home in
England. A few hours later, she got a message inviting her to be a
contestant on the UK television show *Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?* In
the days and weeks that followed, she won the equivalent of $100,000.
I'm not predicting anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius. But I do
suspect that good luck is lurking in unexpected places, and to gather it in
you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking shifts in
fate, and be willing to alter your plans.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "The only thing standing between you and
your goal," writes American author Jordan Belfort, "is the bulls--- story
you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." I don't entirely
agree with that idea. There may be other obstacles over which you have
little control. But the bulls--- story is often more than half the problem.
So that's the bad news, Capricorn. The good news is that right now is a
magic moment in your destiny when you have more power than usual to
free yourself of your own personal bulls--- story.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is the truth a clear, bright, shiny treasure,
like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it have an objective
existence that's independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a
fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking
through an underground cavern? Does it have a different meaning for
every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course, is: both.
Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it's a
stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius, the truth is the latter.
You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate your
relationship with it. It's more likely to reveal its secrets if you maintain a
flexible and cagey frame of mind.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's a good time to indulge in wide-open, high-
flying, anything-goes fantasies about love -- IF, that is . . . IF you also do
something practical to help those fantasies come true. So I encourage
you to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance and
intimacy -- as long as you also make specific adjustments in your own
attitudes and behavior that will make the revolution more likely. Two more
tips: 1. Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you might have about love's
possibilities. 2. Work to increase your capacity for lusty trust and trusty
lust.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "A good story should make you laugh, and a
moment later break your heart," wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book
*Stranger Than Fiction.* From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is the
reverse for you. In your story, the disruption has already happened. Next
comes the part where you laugh. It may be a sardonic chuckle at first, as
you become aware of the illusions you had been under before the jolt
exposed them. Eventually I expect you will be giggling and gleeful,
eternally grateful for the tricky luck that freed you to pursue a more
complete version of your fondest dream.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an
interviewer to compose a seven-word autobiography. In response, he
came up with ten words: "unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown,
unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy." The
coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar
assignments. I'd love to see you express the essential truth about
yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear
that even though you're a work-in-progress, you have a succinct
understanding of what you need and who you are becoming.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The French word *sillage* means "wake," like
the trail created behind a boat as it zips through water. In English, it
refers to the fragrance that remains in the air after a person wearing
perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will expand the
definition to include any influences and impressions left behind by a
powerful presence who has exited the scene. In my astrological opinion,
Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to monitor in the coming days. Be
alert for it. Study it. It will be a source of information that helps you make
good decisions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Cataglottism" is a rarely used English word
that has the same meaning as French kissing -- engaging in liberal use of
the tongue as you make out. But I don't recommend that you incorporate
such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. Imagine yourself
thinking, while in the midst of French kissing, that what you're doing is
"cataglottism." Your pleasure would probably be diminished. This truth
applies in a broader sense, too. The language you use to frame your
experience has a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds. The coming week
will be an excellent time to experiment with this principle. See if you can
increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what's happening to
you with beautiful and positive words.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is Correct Your First Impressions Week. It's a
perfect time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on
mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to the possibility
that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing
to question certainties that hardened in you after just a brief exposure to
complicated processes? During Correct Your First Impressions Week,
humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one of the greatest gifts
you can give yourself. P.S. This is a good time to re-connect with a person
you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you.
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most transformation? Testify at Freewillastrology.com
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