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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 12, 2014
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ELATIONSHIP LOVE SPELLS FOR BEAUTY & TRUTH LAB ALLIES
The Beauty and Truth Lab's rapturists have formulated a batch
of personal ads for you to borrow. If you're a Crafty Optimist or
Mystical Activist or Ceremonial Teaser who aspires to put the
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My book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
I want to call your attention to one of the few NC-17-rated
pieces in the book. It's called "THE ORGASMIC ROOTS OF
PRONOIA."
If I quoted from it here in the newsletter, however, it would
trigger all the spam filters that lie between me and you,
preventing the text from reaching you.
Instead, I will give you a place to read it online:
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PROCEED WITH CAUTION! This material has graphic references
to love, lust, tenderness, bliss, and rapture.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Be Happier: Spend More Money on Others
"Psychologists report that the benefits of helping others are
evident in givers old and young in countries around the world,
and extend to not only subjective well-being, but also objective
health."
http://tinyurl.com/ksqt4zf
Wind power was Spain's top source of electricity in 2013:
Remarkable new figures from Spain's grid operator have
revealed that greenhouse gas emissions from the country's
power sector are likely to have fallen 23.1% last year, as power
generation from wind farms and hydroelectric plants soared.
http://tinyurl.com/qejr57z
The Beautiful Flight Paths of Fireflies: Flirting lightning bugs
illuminate a dark forest with golden flight during mating season.
http://tinyurl.com/p5577cf
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not
advertisements, and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA
RESOURCES.
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Confidante?
Check out Match.com via Free Will Astrology's link:
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Look for a Co-Pilot, Co-Conspirator, or Collaborator . . . an
Agent to represent you or a Disciple to worship you . . . a Secret
Sharer who'll listen better than anyone or an Amazing
Accomplice with whom you can practice the Art of Liberation.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 13
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you feel oppressed by
Valentine's Day? Maybe you're single and reject the cultural bias
that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm.
Or maybe you're part of a couple but are allergic to the
cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the
Valentine marketing assault. If you'd rather consecrate love and
intimacy in your own unique way, untainted by the stereotypes
flying around, I invite you to rebel. Make this the year you
overthrow the old ways and start a new tradition: Valentine's
Day 2.0. Mock sappy, sentimental expressions of romance even
as you carry out futuristic experiments in radically slaphappy
love.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I have come to be fascinated with
the messiness of desire," writes novelist Ashley Warlick, "with
the ways people fit themselves together, take themselves apart
for each other, for want of each other, for want of some parts of
each other." Your assignment, Pisces, is to celebrate the
messiness of desire; to not just grudgingly accept it as an
inconvenience you've got to tolerate, but rather to marvel at it,
be amused by it, and appreciate it for all the lessons it
provides. Your motto this Valentine season could be, "I bless
the messy largesse of my longing."
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her TED talk, science writer Mary
Roach made it clear that human beings don't need genital
stimulation to experience orgasms. She spoke of a woman who
routinely reaches ecstatic climax by having her eyebrows
caressed, and another woman who reaches the big O simply by
brushing her teeth. Then there's the woman who can simply
think herself into coming, no physical touch necessary. I can't
guarantee that a similar aptitude will suddenly turn on in you,
Aries, but the coming days could bring you as close as you have
ever been. Right now you're a connoisseur of deep pleasure --
a blessed bliss master.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "The fact that someone else loves
you doesn't rescue you from the project of loving yourself,"
writes blogger Sahaj Kohli. Nothing else rescues you from that
quest, either, I would add. Sooner or later, whether it's now or
20 years in the future, you will have to master this fine art. It's
not enough to merely feel affection for yourself; not enough to
seek pleasure and avoid pain. You've got to make extensive
investigations to discover what it means to love yourself; you
have to develop rigorous plans for how to accomplish it; and
you must fire up a deep commitment as you actually carry out
those plans. By the way, the coming weeks will be an excellent
time to work on mastering this fine art.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Drunk with my madness, I shouted
at him furiously, 'Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!'" So
says a character in a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire. And
now, even though I am neither drunk nor furious nor consumed
with madness, I am whispering the same command to you. I
hope you will respond by embarking on a heroic effort to make
life beautiful everywhere you go. The astrological omens
suggest that if you do, you will be inundated with practical
blessings that are as valuable as money. This will also be an
excellent way to drum up the kind of love you crave.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here's what I wish for you during the
Valentine season: to be happily in love with an intimate partner
who loves you back. If that's not feasible, here's what I hope:
that you are learning provocative lessons about yourself
through your growth-inducing relationship with a close ally. And
if you're not blessed with either of those experiences, here's a
third alternative: that you cherish your fathomless longing for
its own sake, feeling wonder and reverence for its wild power
even if it's unfulfilled.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making eye contact is essential for
building potent links with people you care about. It bypasses
rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies
that enhance empathy and intimacy. In practicing the art of
love, it's one of the most potent moves you can make. This
Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to
explore the frontiers of what's possible through prolonged eye
contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what's
simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as
your driving force, your gaze won't be clouded by shyness or
self-consciousness.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "I prefer an ecstatic orgasm to a lot
of angst," says Filipino artist David Medalla. I hope you consider
making that your battle cry during this Valentine season. It
would be in rapt harmony with the current cosmic omens. There
really is no need for you to get sidelined by anxiety or
distracted by stress when the natural remedy is so easily
available. In every way you can imagine, Virgo, fight off
sourness and dourness by engaging in acts of joy and pleasure.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her poem "Implications of One
Plus One," Marge Piercy marvels at the way she and her long-
term partner keep finding new nuances in their love-making.
"Ten years of fitting our bodies together / and still they sing
wild songs in new keys," she writes. What's their secret? It's
"timing, chemistry, magic and will and luck." What I wish for you
this Valentine season, Libra, is that you will have access to all
five of those ingredients as you reinvigorate your relationship to
love. More importantly -- based on the current cosmic omens --
I *predict* you will have access to them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jesuit priest Pedro Arrupe touted
the practical value of being totally in love. "What you are in love
with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything," he
said. "It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings,
how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude." Are you in love,
Scorpio? With either a person, a beloved animal, a certain patch
of land, your creative work, or life itself? If not, there's no
excuse! Astrologically speaking, it's an excellent time for you to
be stupendously in love with someone or something --
anything! If you are already in this state, trust your intuition to
make it even smarter and finer.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Borrowing the words of Rumi
(translated by Coleman Barks), I've prepared a love note for
you to use as your own. Give it to a person whose destiny needs
to be woven more closely together with yours: "You are the sky
my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place."
Would you like even more inspirational words to deliver to your
chosen one? I hope so. Be greedy for lyrical bonding. Lust for
springy intimacy. Feed your churning yearning. Try saying this,
lifted from the book *The Last Unicorn*: "We are two sides of
the same magic." And be sure to say this, paraphrased from
Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: "I love you in a way that will
always make you feel free."
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "People think a soul mate is
your perfect fit," says author Elizabeth Gilbert. "But a true soul
mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is
holding you back . . . They tear down your walls and smack you
awake. . . shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show
you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so
new light can get in, make you . . . transform your life." Does
that sound like the kind of person you want in your life,
Capricorn? Or do you prefer someone who likes what you like,
appreciates you just as you are, and makes your life more
secure and comfortable? This Valentine season is a good time
to make or renew your commitment to one choice or the other.
Whatever you decide, you're likely to experience it on a richer,
deeper level during the next 12 months.
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