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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 13, 2013
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Four Dignities of the Warrior's Path
In Tibetan Buddhism's "Four Dignities of the Warrior's Path," courage and
ferocity are absent. In fact, the qualities regarded as essential for being a
warrior have nothing in common with the training regimens of Marines or
football players or lobbyists.
The first dignity is often translated in English as meekness, but that word
doesn't convey its full meaning. "Relaxed confidence" is a more precise
formulation -- a humble feeling of being at home in one's body.
Perkiness, or irrepressible joy, is the second dignity. To develop it, a
warrior cultivates the habit of seeing the best in everything and works
diligently to avoid the self_indulgence of cynicism.
The third is outrageousness. The warrior who embodies this dignity loves
to experiment, is not addicted to strategies that have been successful in
the past, and has a passionate objectivity that's free of the irrelevant
emotions of hope and fear.
The fourth dignity is inscrutability, or a skill at evading the pigeonholes
and simplistic definitions that might limit the warrior's inventiveness while
fighting for his or her moral vision.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 14
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
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Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sweetness is good. Sweetness is desirable.
To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis.
But you can't flourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be
oppressive or numbing. I'm speaking both literally and metaphorically: To
be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness,
bitterness, and savoriness. From what I understand, you are headed into a
phase when you'll thrive on more bitterness and savoriness than usual. To
get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents
might be for bitter tastes like coffee, beer, and olives, and for savory
tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach, and green tea.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When you procrastinate, you avoid
doing an important task. Instead, you goof off, doing something fun or
simply puttering around wasting time. But what if there were a higher
form of procrastination? What if you could avoid an important task by
doing other tasks that were somewhat less important but still quite
valuable? Here's what that might look like for you right now: You could
postpone your search for the key to everything by throwing yourself into
a project that will give you the key to one small part of everything.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his utopian novel *Looking Backward,*
American author Edward Bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies
to you right now: "It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense
of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for
the reason that such circumstances banish artificiality." Think of the relief
and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution
of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave you way through
extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave
authenticity. Take full advantage.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "I have your back" is an American
expression that could also be rendered as "I'm right behind you, ready to
help and defend you" or "I'm ready to support you whenever you've got a
problem." Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you? If
not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally.
Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and
collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of
that caliber, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic
connection even further.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Over a hundred countries around the world
celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when
they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I
encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It
could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you
escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a
higher level of autonomy, or a taboo-busting transition when you started
expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more
authority. By the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is
available to you. Any day now might be a good time to declare a new
Independence Day.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): There's something resembling a big red snake
slithering around in your mind these days. I don't mean that literally, of
course. I'm talking about a big red *imaginary* snake. But it's still quite
potent. While it's not poisonous, neither is it a pure embodiment of
sweetness and light. Whether it ends up having a disorienting or
benevolent influence on your life all depends on how you handle your
relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know
that you're the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so that it
serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic desires. If you do that,
your big red snake will heal and uplift you.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my astrological opinion, almost nothing can
keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here's the
only potential problem: You might have a mistaken or incomplete
understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with you
recognizing and welcoming the real thing. So here's my prescription: Keep
an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need
most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself
available.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "People fall so in love with their pain, they
can't leave it behind," asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Your assignment,
Gemini, is to work your ass off to fall out of love with your pain. As if you
were talking to a child, explain to your subconscious mind that the
suffering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. Tell
your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a
cornerstone of your identity. To aid the banishment, I recommend that
you conduct a ritual of severing. Tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of
your pain and tie the other side around your waist. Then cut the ribbon in
half and bury the symbol in the dirt.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "You can look at a picture for a week and
never think of it again," said painter Joan MirĂ³. "You can also look at a
picture for a second and think of it all your life," he added. The coming
days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and
several of the latter, Cancerian. It's a numinous time in your long-term
cycle: a phase when you're likely to encounter beauty that enchants you
and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other
words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways. How do
you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring? Comical and
lyrical? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There's a new genre of erotic literature: dinosaur
porn. E-books like *In the Velociraptor's Nest* and *Ravished by the
Triceratops* tell tall tales about encounters between people and
prehistoric reptiles. I don't recommend you read this stuff, though. While I
do believe that now is a good time to add new twists to your sexual
repertoire and explore the frontiers of pleasure, I think you should remain
rooted in the real world, even in your fantasy life. It's also important to be
safe as you experiment. You really don't want to explore the frontiers of
pleasure with cold-blooded beasts. Either travel alone or else round up a
warm-blooded compassion specialist who has a few skills in the arts of
intimacy.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The saxifrage is a small plant with white
flowers. It grows best in subarctic regions and cooler parts of the
Northern Hemisphere. The word "saxifrage" is derived from the Latin word
*saxifraga,* whose literal meaning is "stone-breaker." Indeed, the plant
does often appear in the clefts of stones and boulders. In his poem "A
Sort of a Song," William Carlos Williams celebrates its strength: "Saxifrage
is my flower that splits the rocks." I nominate this darling little dynamo to
be your metaphorical power object of the week, Virgo. May it inspire you
to crack through blocks and barriers with subtle force.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You're not being swept along in a flood of
meaningless distractions and irrelevant information and trivial wishes,
right? I'm hoping that you have a sixth sense about which few stimuli are
useful and meaningful to you, and which thousands of stimuli are not. But
if you are experiencing a bit of trouble staying well-grounded in the midst
of the frenzied babble, now would be a good time to take strenuous
action. The universe will conspire to help you become extra stable and
secure if you resolve to eliminate as much nonsense from your life as you
can.
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