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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
September 18, 2013
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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PRAYER FOR US
This is a perfect moment. It's a perfect moment because I have been
inspired to say a gigantic prayer. I've been roused to unleash a divinely
greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of us --
even those of us who don't believe in the power of prayer.
And so I am starting to pray right now to the God of Gods . . . the God
beyond all Gods . . . the Girlfriend of God . . . the Teacher of God . . . the
Goddess who invented God.
DEAR GODDESS, you who always answer our very best questions, even if
we ignore you:
Please be here with us right now. Come inside us with your sly slippery
slaphappy mojo. Invade us with your silky succulent salty sweet haha.
Hear with our ears, Goddess. Breathe with our lungs. See through our
eyes.
DEAR GODDESS, you who never kill but only change:
I pray that my exuberant, suave, and accidental words will move you to
shower ferocious blessings down on everyone who reads or hears this
benediction.
I pray that you will give us what we don't even know we need -- not just
the boons we think we want, but everything we've always been afraid to
even imagine or ask for.
DEAR GODDESS, you wealthy anarchist burning heaven to the ground:
Many of us don't even know who we really are.
We've forgotten that our souls live forever.
We're blind to the fact that every little move we make sends ripples
through eternity. Some of us are even ignorant of how extravagant,
relentless, and practical your love for us is.
Please wake us up to the shocking truths. Use your brash magic to help
us see that we are completely different from we've been led to believe,
and more exciting than we can possibly imagine.
Guide us to realize that we are all unwitting messiahs who are much too
big and ancient to fit inside our personalities . . . .
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DAILY HOROSCOPES
Some people don't know that I write daily horoscopes, available as text
messages sent to your cell or smart phone.
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more frequent -- every day of the week.
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if you sign up for a subscription.
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to illuminate your adventures, check them out.
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"Subscribe / Renew" under "Daily Text Message Horoscopes" in the right-
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning September 19
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The most important thing is to find out what
the most important thing is," wrote Shunryu Suzuki in his book *Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind.* That's your assignment for the next three weeks. Do
whatever it takes to find out beyond any doubt what the most important
thing is. Meditate naked an hour a day. Go on long walks in the wildest
places you know. Convene intense conversations about yourself with the
people who know you best. Create and sign a contract with yourself in
which you vow to identify the experience you want more than any other
experience on earth. No waffling allowed, Libra. What is the single most
important thing?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime in the next nine months you may
feel moved to embark on an adventure that will transform the way you
understand reality. Maybe you will choose to make a pilgrimage to a
sacred sanctuary or wander further away from your familiar comforts than
you ever have before. Right now is an excellent time to brainstorm about
the possibilities. If you don't feel ready to actually begin your quest, at
least formulate a master plan for the magic moment when you will be
ripe.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the indigenous culture of Hawaii,
"mana" refers to a spiritual power that may abide in people, objects, and
natural locations. You can acquire more of it by acting with integrity and
excellence, but you might lose some of it if your actions are careless or
unfocused. For instance, a healer who does a mediocre job of curing her
patients could lose the mana that made her a healer in the first place. I
believe that similar principles hold true for non-Hawaiians. All of us have
an ever-shifting relationship with the primal life force. What's the current
state of your own personal supply, Sagittarius? It's time to make sure
you're taking full advantage of the mana you have been blessed with.
Your motto: "Use it or lose it."
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you been getting enough? I doubt it.
I think you should sneak a peek into the hiding place where your insatiable
cravings are stored. If you're brave enough, also take a look at your
impossible demands and your unruly obsessions and your suppressed
miracles. Please note: I'm not suggesting that you immediately unleash
them all; I don't mean you should impulsively instigate an adventure that
could possibly quench your ravenous yearnings. But I do believe you will
benefit from becoming better acquainted with them. You could develop a
more honest relationship, which would ultimately make them more
trustworthy.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don't tape your thumbs to your hands and
stalk around pretending to be a dinosaur. Don't poke three holes in a large
plastic garbage bag and wear it as a tunic while imagining that you are a
feudal serf in a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi dystopia. Don't use a felt-tip
marker to draw corporate logos on your face to show everyone what
brands of consumer goods you love. To be clear: I would love you to be
extravagantly creative. I hope you will use your imagination in novel ways
as you have fun playing with experimental scenarios. But please exercise a
modicum of discernment as you wander way outside the box. Be at least
20 percent practical.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Take a lover who looks at you like maybe
you are magic," says the poet Marty McConnell. That's good advice,
Pisces -- not just in regards to your intimate relationships, but about all
your other alliances, too. If you're seeking a friend or consultant or
business partner or jogging companion or new pet, show a preference for
those creatures who look at you like maybe you are magic. You always
need to be appreciated for the sweet mystery and catalytic mojo you
bring to your partnerships, but you especially need that acknowledgment
now.
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TAP INTO THE FUTURE
What new influences are heading your way?
How do you want to create your life story in the coming weeks?
How can you exert your free will to seek out 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 help in figuring it all out, consider trying my EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES. They're four-to-five-minute meditations on the current
state of your destiny and where you're headed.
Go here to register and log in: http://RealAstrology
You can also listen over the phone by calling
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The cost is $6 if you access them on the Web -- with discounts for
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"I always feel like I know myself better after listening to your audio
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when I'm down."
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "If Taylor Swift is going to have six breakups a
year," observed comedian Bill Maher, "she needs to write a new song
entitled 'Maybe It's Me.'" He was referring to Swift's habit of using her
romantic misadventures to stimulate her lyric-writing creativity. With that
as your prompt, Aries, I'll ask you to do some soul-searching about your
own intimacy issues. How have you contributed to the problems you've
had in getting the love and care you want? What unconscious behavior or
conditioned responses have undermined your romantic satisfaction, and
what could you do to transform them? The next eight weeks will be prime
time to revolutionize your approach to relationships.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Alan Watts used to talk about
how the whole world is wiggling all the time. Clouds, trees, sky, water,
human beings: Everything's constantly shimmying and jiggling and
waggling. One of our problems, Watts said, is that we're "always trying to
straighten things out." We feel nagging urges to deny or cover up or
eliminate the wiggling. "Be orderly," we command reality. "Be neat and
composed and predictable." But reality never obeys. It's forever doing
what it does best: flickering and fluctuating and flowing. In accordance
with astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to rebel against any
natural tendencies you might have to fight the eternal wiggle. Instead,
celebrate it. Rejoice in it. Align yourself with it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Elaine Scarry defines "the basic impulse
underlying education" as follows: the "willingness to continually revise
one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty."
Consider making this your modus operandi in the coming weeks, Gemini.
Always be on the lookout for signs that beauty is near. Do research to
find out where beauty might be hiding and where beauty is ripening. Learn
all you can about what kinds of conditions attract beauty, and then create
those conditions. Finally, hang around people who are often surrounded
by beauty. This approach will be an excellent way to further your
education.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather
bed. Give me the tight-rope." So declared writer Edith Wharton. But she
was an Aquarius, and more temperamentally suited to the tight-rope.
Many of you Cancerians, on the other hand, prefer to emphasize the
feather-bed mode. I suspect that in the next nine months, however, you
will be willing and even eager to spend more time on the tight-rope than
is customary for you. To get primed for the excitement, I suggest you
revel in some intense feather-bed action in the coming weeks. Charge up
your internal batteries with an extra-special deluxe regimen of sweet self-
care.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Half of a truth is better than no truth at all, right?
Wrong! If you latch on to the partially accurate story, you may stop
looking for the rest of the story. And then you're liable to make a
premature decision based on insufficient data. The better alternative is to
reject the partially accurate story and be willing to wait around in the dark
until the complete revelation comes. That may be uncomfortable for a
while. But when the full truth finally straggles in, you will be very glad you
didn't jump to unripe conclusions.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A Chinese entrepreneur named Nin Nan
dreamed up a unique way to generate capital: He sold dead mosquitoes
online for a dollar apiece, advertising them as useful for scientific research
and decoration. Within two days, he received 10,000 orders. Let's make
him your patron saint and role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. May
he inspire you to come up with novel ways to stimulate your cash flow.
The planetary omens suggest that your originality is more likely than
usual to generate concrete rewards.
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Homework: Unleash an outrageous boast about how you're going to pull
off a certain feat that you've previously lacked the chutzpah to attempt.
Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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