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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
March 19, 2014
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*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
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GAZING INTO THE ABYSS OF HAPPINESS
More and more creative people find they do their best work when they're
feeling healthy and secure. We know writers who no longer need to be
drunk or in agony in order to shed the numbness of their daily routine and
tap into the full powers of their imagination. We have filmmaker friends
whose best work flows not from the depths of alienated self-doubt but
rather from the heights of well-earned bliss. Singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey
is the patron saint of this new breed. "When I'm contented, I'm more
open to receiving a lot of inspiration," she has testified. "I'm most
creative when I feel safe and happy."
At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we've retired the archetype of the
tormented genius. We have zero attraction to books and movies and
songs by depressed jerks whose work is celebrated but whose lives are a
mess. Stories about supposedly interesting creeps don't rouse our
perverse fascination because we've broken our addiction to perverse
fascination. When hearing about illustrious creators who brag that they
feel most stimulated when they're angry or miserable, we unleash the
Official Beauty and Truth Lab Histrionic Yawn . . . .
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
100% renewable energy is feasible and affordable. Stanford University
researchers have developed detailed plans for each state in the union to
move to 100 percent wind, water, and solar power by 2050 using only
technology that's already available. The plan doesn't rely, like many
others, on dramatic energy efficiency regimes. Nor does it include biofuels
or nuclear power, whose green credentials are the source of much debate.
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Honokohau Falls, Hawaii - Too much beauty for you to bear?
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See the "Get Out of Hell Free" card from Randy Cassingham:
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(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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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 20
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "When you plant seeds in the garden, you
don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet," says
Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron. "You simply water them and clear away
the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time." That's sound
advice for you, Aries. You are almost ready to plant the metaphorical
seeds that you will be cultivating in the coming months. Having faith
should be a key element in your plans for them. You've got to find a way
to shut down any tendencies you might have to be an impatient control
freak. Your job is simply to give your seeds a good start and provide them
with the persistent follow-up care they will need.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Thank you, disillusionment," says Alanis
Morissette in her song "Thank U." "Thank you, frailty," she continues.
"Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence." I'd love to hear you express
that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that
I don't think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty,
nothingness, and silence. Not at all. What I do suspect is that you will be
able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and
blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively
they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower, and
inner beauty.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet your support system will soon be abuzz
with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get
deeper and feistier and prettier. Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra
clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum
up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to
assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will
synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your
ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying
your ambitions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): During her 98 years on the planet, Barbara
Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies.
What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the
Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many
of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favorite couch
covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As
her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary.
I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own
personal formula -- and then apply it with zeal during the next eight
weeks. What is the exact nature of the comforts that will best nourish
your creativity?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that scans
millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the
course of time. For instance, it reveals that "impossible" appears only half
as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the
year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve
prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don't know, but I
can say this with confidence: If you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve
prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used
to be.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tibetan mastiff is a large canine species
with long golden hair. If you had never seen a lion and were told that this
dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that's exactly what a zoo in
Luohe, China did. It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan
mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the
charade when the beast started barking. Now I'll ask you, Virgo: Is there
anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked
to believe that a big dog is actually a lion, or the metaphorical equivalent?
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YOU NEED MAGIC EVERY DAY
Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less facts.
The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.
Every day, you're over-exposed to narratives that have been sucked free
of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make such strenuous
efforts to keep your world enchanted.
I like to think I can contribute to the sacred cause of feeding your sense
of wonder and enchantment. In fact, that's one of my prime motivations
for offering you the free weekly horoscopes you read in this newsletter.
If you ever want more of that good stuff, and think it's worth paying for,
please consider trying out my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES. They're
four-to-five-minute meditations on the current state of your destiny.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock," the narrator seems tormented about the power of his
longing. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" he asks. I wonder what he's thinking.
Is the peach too sweet, too juicy, too pleasurable for him to handle? Is he
in danger of losing his self-control and dignity if he succumbs to the
temptation? What's behind his hesitation? In any case, Libra, don't be like
Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your finicky doubts out of the way as
you indulge your lust for life with extra vigor and vivacity. Hear what I'm
saying? Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should eat the
peach. Just go ahead and eat it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young
has been making music professionally for over 45 years. He has recorded
35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of
his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same
day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he
wrote "Cowgirl in the Sand," "Cinnamon Girl," and "Down by the River." I
suspect you may soon experience a milder version of this mythic event,
Scorpio. At a time when you're not feeling your best, you could create a
thing of beauty that will last a long time, or initiate a breakthrough that
will send ripples far into the future.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There should be nothing generic or
normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for
example, you shouldn't stick to your usual brew. You should track down
and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical
Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton's Clown Poison.
And if you're a lipstick user, you shouldn't be content to use your old
standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter
Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it
wouldn't make sense to seek out romantic adventures you've had a
thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred
eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously
reverent waggling rapture.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Actor Gary Oldman was born and raised in
London. In the course of his long career he has portrayed a wide range of
characters who speak English with American, German, and Russian
accents. He has also lived in Los Angeles for years. When he signed on to
play a British intelligent agent in the 2011 film *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,*
he realized that over the years he had lost some of his native British
accent. He had to take voice lessons to restore his original
pronunciations. I suspect you have a metaphorically comparable project
ahead of you, Capricorn. It may be time to get back to where you once
belonged.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every now and then, you're blessed with a
small miracle that inspires you to see everyday things with new vision.
Common objects and prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual
expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting to you as
they were before numb familiarity set in. The beloved people you take for
granted suddenly remind you of why you came to love them in the first
place. Boring acquaintances may reveal sides of themselves that are quite
entertaining. So are you ready and eager for just such an outbreak of
curiosity and a surge of fun surprises? If you are, they will come. If you're
not, they won't.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before she died, Piscean actress Elizabeth
Taylor enjoyed more than 79 years of life on this gorgeous, maddening
planet. But one aptitude she never acquired in all that time was the ability
to cook a hard-boiled egg. Is there a pocket of ignorance in your own
repertoire that rivals this lapse, Pisces? Are there any fundamental life
skills that you probably should have learned by now? If so, now would be
a good time to get to work on mastering them.
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