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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
October 9, 2013
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LET'S MAKE MORALITY FUN
Are you turned off by the authoritarian, libido-mistrusting perversity of
the right-wing moral code, but equally reluctant to embrace the atheism
embedded in the left wing's code of goodness?
Are you hungry for a value system rooted in beauty, love, pleasure, and
liberation instead of order, control, politeness, and fear, but allergic to the
sophistry of the New Age?
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by
sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals
who worship at the empty-hearted shrine of scientific materialism?
It may be time for you to whip up your very own moral code. If you do,
you might want to keep the following guidelines in mind:
1. A moral code becomes immoral unless it can thrive without a devil and
enemy.
2. A moral code grows ugly unless it prescribes good-natured rebellion
against automaton-like behavior offered in its support.
3. A moral code becomes murderous unless it's built on a love for the
fact that EVERYTHING CHANGES ALL THE TIME, and unless it perpetually
adjusts its reasons for being true.
4. A moral code will corrupt its users unless it ensures that their primary
motivation for being good is because it's fun.
5. A moral code deadens the soul of everyone it touches unless it has a
built-in sense of humor.
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Marriage Equality Victories Show How Change Happens: One Step at a
Time. Before 2004, no state in the U.S. allowed same-sex marriage.
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see how political progress is made, look to the local level.
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Six Ways to Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love.
Quitting work that leaves you unfulfilled requires a lot of courage. Here
are six things you can do to get yourself ready to take the plunge.
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For a Future that Won't Destroy Life on Earth, Look to the Global
Indigenous Uprising.
"Idle No More" is the latest incarnation of an age-old movement for life
that doesn't depend on infinite extraction and growth. Now, armed with
Twitter and Facebook, once-isolated groups from Canada to South
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning October 10
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The advice I'm about to dispense may have
never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might
also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will
help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are
erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate
a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations.
Ready? The message comes from *Do the Work,* a book by Steven
Pressfield: "Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are
of birth and genesis."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Two years ago a British man named Sean
Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his
middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to
blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in
the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory,
though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that
you not follow Murphy's lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways
with a hurtful burden, but I'm sure you can do it without causing a lot of
collateral damage.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Grace has been trickling into your life
lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting
coincidences seems imminent. There's a good chance that an abundance
of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to
pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as
much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an
excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you
may have been harboring. For now at least, it's realistic to be optimistic.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built
Amazon.com from the ground up. He now owns *The Washington Post,*
one of America's leading newspapers. It's safe to say he might have
something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical
realities. "We are stubborn on vision," he says about his team. "We are
flexible in details." In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to
create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries
out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That's excellent advice for you,
Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here's the horoscope I would like to be able
to write for you by the first week of December: "Congratulations,
Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You
have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You
are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you.
Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic
has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good
work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life -- as
opposed to the life that other people think you should live."
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "It's an unbearable thought that roses were
not invented by me," wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You're not
as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you've ever had a similar
"unbearable thought." And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging
egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses
in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and
mist and moss; almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing.
Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your
creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new
marvel into the world.
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WHAT NEW INFLUENCES ARE HEADED 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
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries.
You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all
the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don't think that will
be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than
usual to the ongoing process. You're not going to bolt. That's a good
thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right
now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You've got to be clear
that there's something about it you don't like and want to change. If you
fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away
somewhere down the line. Be proactive now and you won't be rash later.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): *Jugaad* is a Hindi-Urdu word that can be
translated as "frugal innovation." People in India and Pakistan use it a lot.
It's the art of coming up with a creative workaround to a problem despite
having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of *jugaad*
call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see
this as your specialty right now, Taurus. Although you may not have
abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you've nevertheless got the
resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you
produce may even turn out better than if you'd had more assets to draw
on.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In accordance with your current astrological
omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week -- specifically,
like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: "To be a bird is
to be more intensely alive than any other living creature. Birds have
hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions. They live in a world that
is always present, mostly full of joy." Take total advantage of the soaring
grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide,
love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to
hundreds of beautiful things, and do everything.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "The nonexistent is whatever we have not
sufficiently desired," wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book *Report to
Greco.* I'm hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will
feel a jolt of melancholy. I'm hoping you will get a vision of an exciting
experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to
bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally
conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make
your dream come true.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "It is truly strange how long it takes to get to
know oneself," wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein. "I am now 62 years old, yet just one moment ago I realized
that I love lightly toasted bread and loath bread when it is heavily
toasted. For over 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been
experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled
bread." Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-
discovery like Wittgenstein's. It's time for you to become fully conscious
of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God
than in church thinking about the mountains," said the naturalist John
Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be
at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract
thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all
around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind's
eye when you're lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of
God that's meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for
life in the here and now.
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Homework: What good old thing could you give up in order to attract a
great new thing into your life? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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