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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 20, 2013
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YOU ARE A DISSEMINATOR OF PRONOIA
The Beauty and Truth Lab is coming to you live from your repressed
memory of paradise, reminding you that all of creation loves you very
much.
Even now, secret allies are cooking up mysteries that will excite you and
incite you for years to come.
Even now, the Earth, moon, and sun are collaborating to make sure you
have all you need to make your next smart move.
But here's the loaded question: Are you willing to start loving life back
with an equal intensity? The adoration it offers you has not exactly been
unrequited, but there is room for you to be more demonstrative.
Half of the art of pronoia is about being improvisationally receptive to
life's elaborate scheme to shower you with blessings. The other half is
about learning to be a co-conspirator who assists life in doling out
blessings -- to help everyone else get exactly what they need, exactly
when they need it.
Visualize yourself being able to recognize the raw truth about the people
you care about. Imagine that you can see how they already embody the
beauty their souls' codes have promised as well as how they still fall short
of embodying that beauty.
Picture yourself being able to make them feel appreciated even as you
inspire them to risk changes that will activate more of their souls' codes.
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Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt:
Rolling Jubilee spent $400,000 to purchase debt cheaply from banks
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"These traditions come from Neolithic times -- from shamanism -- and
they have never stopped. For a few nights you can behave like a goat,
drink a lot and forget about being civilized. You can be a wild animal for
three days and then you go back to controlling your wildness."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning November 21
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Costa Rica will be closing its zoos in
2014. What will happen to the 400 or so animals that are housed there?
They will have to be rehabilitated at animal rescue centers and then
released into the wild. I suspect there will be a metaphorically similar
process going on for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Parts of your
instinctual nature will, in a sense, be freed from captivity. You will need to
find ways to retrain your animal intelligence how to function outside of
the tame conditions it got used to.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Will fate kick your sweet ass sometime
soon? Quite possibly. You may be compelled to face up to the
consequences of your unloving actions or unconscious decisions. I'm
pleased to tell you, however, that you might be able to dramatically
minimize or even neutralize the butt-thumping. How? Go over the events
of the last 11 months, and identify times when you weren't your very
best self or didn't live up to your highest ideals. Then perform rituals of
atonement. Express your desire to correct wrong turns. Give gifts that will
heal damaged dynamics.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Bill
Withers became a big star in the 1970s with hits like "Ain't No Sunshine"
and "Lean on Me." But he hasn't recorded a new album since 1985, nor
has he toured. What happened? In *Still Bill,* the documentary film about
his life, Withers says, "I watch other people show off and I say, man, I
used to want to show off. If I could just get, you know, moved to. I need
a little injection in my showin' off gland." I wish you could get an injection
like that, too, Aquarius. I'd like to see you show off more. Not in a
contrived, over-the-top, Lady Gaga-esque way. Rather, the purpose would
be to get more aggressive in showing people who you are and what you
can do. I want your talents and assets to be better known.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I have a feeling that your value will be rising
in the coming weeks. An attractive person you thought was out of your
league may express curiosity about you. You could get an offer to do an
interesting job or task that you had previously considered unavailable. I
bet your reputation will be growing, mostly for the better. Who knows? If
you put a half-eaten piece of your toast for sale on eBay, it might sell for
as much as if it were Justin Timberlake's toast. Here's the upshot: You
should have confidence in your power to attract bigger rewards and more
appreciation.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles Baudelaire prayed for help,
but not to God -- rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Novelist
Malcolm Lowry sometimes pleaded with God to give him insight, but he
also prayed to the writer Franz Kafka. I really like this approach to seeking
guidance, and recommend it to you in the coming days. Which hero, dead
or alive, could you call on to uplift you? What amazing character might
bring you the inspiration you need? Be brazen and imaginative. The spirits
could be of more help than you can imagine. Magic is afoot.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): U.S. Confederate General Richard S. Ewell
(1817-1872) sometimes experienced episodes in which he truly thought
he was a bird. Princess Alexandria of Bavaria (1826-1875) believed that
when she was young, she had eaten a glass piano. Then there was the
Prussian military officer Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742-1819),
who imagined he was pregnant with an elephant. Sad and funny and
crazy, right? And yet it's my understanding that all of us have fixed
delusions. They are less bizarre than those I cited, but they can still be
debilitating. What are yours, Taurus? Do you secretly believe that a
certain turning point in your past scarred you forever? Are you incorrectly
wracked with anger or guilt because of some event that may not have
actually happened the way you remember it? Here's the good news: Now
is an excellent time to shed your fixed delusions.
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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
state of your destiny and where you're headed.
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The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
"I don't much believe in astrology. But that doesn't seem to get in the
way of me deriving a whole lot of benefits from your expanded audio
horoscopes."
- A. Arrosto, Indianapolis
"You have an amazing aptitude for cutting through the lies I tell myself.
Thanks for the gentle shocks."
- T. Preneris, Toronto
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Philosopher Eckhart Tolle suggests that "there
may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and
more intensely than others." For some of us, this numinous reflection
comes from a special animal. Whatever is the case for you, Gemini, I urge
you to devote extra time to your relationship with this creature in the
next 14 days. Meditate on how you could provide more nurturing and
inspiration. Brainstorm about the possibility of deepening your
connection. What practical actions could you take to boost your loved
one's fortunes?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Cancerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad was
regarded as one of the great operatic singers of the 20th century. Critic
Desmond Shawe-Taylor said that "No one within living memory surpassed
her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone." She specialized in
the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, whose master work,
*The Ring of the Nibelung,* takes 15 hours to perform. Flagstad was
asked to name the single most important thing she needed in order to
perform Wagner's music with the excellence it demanded. Her answer:
comfortable shoes. Regard that as good advice for your own life and
work, Cancerian -- both literally and metaphorically. It's time to get really
well-grounded.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever been in a social situation where
you really didn't care what anyone thought of you and therefore felt
absolutely free to act on your inner promptings? When was the last time
you lost all your inhibitions and self-consciousness while making love? Can
you truly say that sometime recently you have been totally responsive to
your festive impulses? If you have experienced any blockages in
expressing this type of energy, now is a perfect moment to fix that. You
have a date with robust, innocent self-expression.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian public television is experimenting
with a phenomenon called Slow TV. In one reality show, the main
character built a fire with logs and kept it burning for 12 hours. In another
program, patient viewers watched for five days as a cruise ship made its
way along the Norwegian coast. A third show featured a woman knitting a
sweater from start to finish. I wish you would get hooked on slow-motion
activities like those, Virgo. Maybe it would help you lower your thoughts-
per-minute rate and influence you to take longer, deeper breaths and
remember that relaxation is an art you can cultivate. And then you would
be in righteous alignment with the cosmic rhythms.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You're smarter than you think you are, and
soon you will be even smarter. Previously inaccessible wisdom is seeping
up from the depths of your subconscious mind, making its way to your
conscious awareness. Your eyes are noticing more than they usually do.
Your memory is working at peak levels. And your enhanced ability to
entertain paradoxical ideas is giving you special insight into the nature of
reality. What will you do with this influx of higher intelligence? I suggest
you focus its full force on one of your knottiest problems.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): *The Paris Review* interviewed Mexican poet
Octavio Paz. "Just how much revising do you do?" the interviewer asked.
"I revise incessantly," Paz replied. "Some critics say too much, and they
may be right. But if there's a danger in revising, there is much more
danger in not revising. I believe in inspiration, but I also believe that we've
got to help inspiration, restrain it, and even contradict it." I bring this up,
Scorpio, because I believe you are ripe for a phase of intense revision.
Inspiration has visited you a lot lately, but now it will subside for a while
so you can wrangle all your raw material into graceful, resilient, enduring
shapes.
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Homework: Forget all you know about gratitude. Act as if it's a new
emotion you're tuning into for the first time. Then let it rip. Tell me about
it at uaregod@comcast.net.
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