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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
April 16, 2014
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BE A WEAVE
What if there's no contradiction between being your idiosyncratic self in
love with your life and serving others with the best gifts you have to
give?
What if exploring your inner world to activate your personal genius
dovetails perfectly with fighting to recreate the soulless culture we're
embedded in?
What if working on your own salvation makes you a more effective force
in liberating others from their suffering?
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GLORY IN THE HIGHEST
Thousands of things go right for you every day, beginning the moment
you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand, you're still
breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been
unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that's just right for
your body's needs, as it was before you fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by
nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to
perfect.
The interesting gift of these vivid hues is furthermore made possible by
an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually
detonates nuclear explosions in order to convert its own body into light
and heat and energy for your personal use.
Your hands work wonderfully well. Your heart circulates your blood all the
way out to replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in your fingers
and palms and wrists. And after your blood has delivered its blessings, it
finds its way back to your heart to be refreshed. This wondrous mystery
recurs over and over again without stopping every minute of your life.
You can smell intoxicating aromas. You can hear provocative and soothing
sounds. You can taste a thousand different tastes. How is any of this
possible? You can think thoughts any time you want -- big, wide, colorful
thoughts or tiny dark burrowing thoughts. You can revel and wallow in
great oceans of emotion. What colossal secret intelligence or improbable
series of fabulous accidents conspired to bestow these superpowers upon
you?
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MAKE ROOM FOR MORE
Is your schedule too rigid to allow magic to seep in? Then mutate that
schedule, please.
Is your brain so crammed with knowledgeable opinions that no fresh
perceptions can crack their way in? Then flush out some of those
opinions.
Is your heart so puckered by the stings of the past that it can't burst
forth with any expansive new invitations? Then unpucker your heart, for
God's sake.
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YOUR SOUL MATE?
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please
send you your soul mate, please don't slur your words in such a way that
they sound like "cell mate."
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"More solar power was installed in the United States last year than the
previous 30 years combined, and the per unit cost of solar power is falling
so rapidly it's soon likely to drop below that of coal." - Robert Reich
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and I get no kickbacks.)
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning April 17
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It's Compensation Week. If you have in the
past suffered from injustice, it's an excellent time to go in quest of
restitution. If you have been deprived of the beauty you need to thrive,
now is the time to get filled up. Wherever your life has been out of
balance, you have the power to create more harmony. Don't be shy about
seeking redress. Ask people to make amends. Pursue restorations. But
don't, under any circumstances, lust for revenge.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Our brains are no longer conditioned for
reverence and awe," said novelist John Updike. That's a sad possibility.
Could you please do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it
be too much to ask if I encouraged you to go out in quest of lyrical
miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for
sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs
that heal a wound you've feared might forever plague you? Here's what
the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe
are far more likely than usual.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wonder if it's time for you to modify an old
standby. I'm getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with a
familiar resource that has served you pretty well. Why? This resource may
have some hidden weakness that you need to attend to in order to
prevent a future disruption. Now might be one of those rare occasions
when you should ignore the old rule, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." So be
proactive, Gemini. Investigate what's going on beneath the surface. Make
this your motto: "I will solve the problem before it's a problem -- and then
it will never be a problem."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Do you really have what it takes or do you
not have what it takes?" That's the wrong question to ask, in my opinion.
You can't possibly know the answer ahead of time, for one thing. To dwell
on that quandary would put you on the defensive and activate your fear,
diminishing your power to accomplish the task at hand. Here's a more
useful inquiry: "Do you want it strongly enough or do you not want it
strongly enough?" With this as your meditation, you might be inspired to
do whatever's necessary to pump up your desire. And that is the single
best thing you can do to ensure your ultimate success.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I swear my meditations are more dynamic when I
hike along the trail through the marsh than if I'm pretzeled up in the lotus
position back in my bedroom. Maybe I've been influenced by Aristotle's
Peripatetic School. He felt his students learned best when they
accompanied him on long strolls. Then there was philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche, who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as
he rambled far and wide. Even if this possibility seems whimsical to you,
Leo, I invite you to give it a try. According to my reading of the current
astrological omens, your moving body is likely to generate bright ideas
and unexpected solutions and visions of future adventures.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Throughout North America and Europe, there
are hundreds of unused roads. Many are former exit and entrance ramps
to major highways, abandoned for one reason or another. Some are
stretches of pavement that used to be parts of main thoroughfares
before they were rerouted. I suggest we make "unused roads" your
metaphor of the week, Virgo. It may be time for you to bring some of
them back into operation, and maybe even relink them to the pathways
they were originally joined to. Are there any missing connections in your
life that you would love to restore? Any partial bridges you feel motivated
to finish building?
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WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals
a different kind of blessing than the waxing.
But whether it's our time to ferment in the valley of shadows or rise up
singing in the sun-splashed meadow, fresh power to transform ourselves
is always on the way. Our suffering won't last, nor will our triumph.
Without fail, life will deliver the creative energy we need
to change into the new thing we must become.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Karma works both ways. If you do ignorant
things, ignorant things may eventually be done to you. Engage in
generous actions, and at some future date you may be the unexpected
beneficiary of generosity. I'm expecting more of the latter than the
former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet
compensations for your enlightened behavior in the past. I'm reminded of
the fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a
seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good
witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as I hinted, there could
also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would
you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good
deeds. Anytime you have a chance to help people in need, do it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As they lie in the sand, African crocodiles are
in the habit of opening their jaws wide for hours at a time. It keeps them
cool, and allows for birds called plovers to stop by and pluck morsels of
food that are stuck between the crocs' molars. The relationship is
symbiotic. The teeth-cleaners eat for free as they provide a service for
the large reptiles. As I analyze your astrological aspects, Scorpio, I'm
inclined to see an opportunity coming your way that has a certain
resemblance to the plovers'. Can you summon the necessary trust and
courage to take full advantage?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you sure you have enough
obstacles? I'm afraid you're running low. And that wouldn't be healthy,
would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after all. They motivate you to get
smarter. They compel you to grow your willpower and develop more
courage. Please understand that I'm not taking about trivial and boring
obstacles that make you numb. I'm referring to scintillating obstacles that
fire up your imagination; rousing obstacles that excite your determination
to be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment is to
acquire at least one new interesting obstacle. It's time to tap into a
deeper strain of your ingenuity.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1937, physicist George Paget Thomson
won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a
wave. That's funny, because his father, physicist J. J. Thomson, was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a
particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron,
which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it's an
excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: follow
up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be
inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or
she gave the world, extending or expanding it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have been a pretty decent student
lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well
as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate
details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you
summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your against-the-grain
effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four
weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next
chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all
you've absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary
where you can relax more deeply than you've allowed yourself to relax in
a while.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have the power to shut what has been
open or open what has been shut. That's a lot of responsibility. Just
because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn't
mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and
your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you.
Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come.
And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions,
by all means proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or
open what has been shut -- or both.
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Homework: Comment on the following hypothesis: "You know what to do
and you know when to do it." Freewillastrology.com
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