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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
July 2, 2014
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My mid-year, long-term audio horoscopes are still available. There's more
information about them below.
Whether or not you want to listen to those Big Picture audio reports for
the rest of 2014 and beyond, you may be interested in reviewing the
long-term horoscopes I've written for you.
To see them, go here: http://bit.ly/BigLife2014
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WHAT'S AHEAD FOR YOU in the next eight to ten months?
To hear my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for YOUR LIFE for
the rest of 2014 and beyond, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com
Log in through the main page, and then click on the link "Long Term
Forecast for Second Half of 2014."
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and
divine inspiration?
Where are the prime sources of motivation that will be welling up from
your depths?
How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?
Where are you likely to find most success?
Tune in.
You can also listen to your short-term forecast for the coming week by
clicking on "This week (July 1, 2014)."
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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
Here's an excerpt:
CRIMES THAT DON'T BREAK ANY LAWS
(To read the entirety of this feature, go here: http://bit.ly/WeDemand)
We're psychically assaulted by dangerous images and sickening words
every day. The media relentlessly blast us with their trendy doom and
gloom fixation, generating an endless onslaught of messages about how
bad life is and what a mess the future will bring. The entertainment
industry force-feeds us insipidly paranoid scenarios that keep our fear
reflexes chronically throbbing.
Is this acceptable to you? It's not to me.
Our eyes and ears are constantly scalded by blistering harangues to buy
stuff we don't really need. The sacred temples of our imaginations are
pounded ruthlessly by smart bombs whipped up by evil advertising
geniuses in their Madison Avenue laboratories. Our ability to envision the
astounding intricacy and richness of the web of life has gotten hijacked
and hooked on decadent fantasies about new possessions that would
allegedly make us happier.
I for one am no longer willing to absorb the dazzling psychic toxins that
sting and sap and wound our lust for life. I reject the epidemic obsession
with big bad nasty things and flashy trite empty-hearted things. I say it's
time for us to rise up and fight back -- to reconsecrate and regenerate
our imaginations. Here are my demands.
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DEMAND #1: I demand that Amnesty International launch a crusade
against a grievously unacknowledged form of terrorism. I call this crime
against humanity the genocide of the imagination.
DEMAND #2: I demand that you refuse to be entertained by bad news. I
demand that you seek out and create stories that make you feel strong
and joyous and enigmatic.
DEMAND #3: I demand that *People* magazine do a cover story on "The
World's 50 Sexiest Perpetrators of Beauty, Truth, and Love."
DEMAND #4: I demand that you learn the difference between your own
thoughts and those of the celebrities who have demonically possessed
you.
DEMAND #5: I demand that you wear underpants on your head and dance
naked in slow motion whenever you watch TV movies about tormented
geniuses who supposedly create great art but treat everyone in their lives
like crap.
DEMAND #6: I demand that the sadomasochist storytellers disguised as
journalists give prominent coverage to the startling fact that the world
has become dramatically less violent since the end of the Cold War, and
that we are currently living in the most peaceful era the human race has
ever known. I further demand that the worshipers of cynicism who
pretend to be clear-seeing news writers acknowledge that death rates
from cancer are declining; that rising rates of intermarriage are helping to
dissipate ethnic and religious strife worldwide; that Americans' IQ scores
have been steadily rising for a long time; that the number of people living
in poverty in the developing nations is declining dramatically; that the
world is steadily becoming more free, and is now the most free it has ever
been; and that the miracle of your breathing transpires about 10 million
times a year, even though you never have to will it to continue.
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I have more demands, but I want to make sure you know that your
imagination and the imaginations of everyone you know are at risk. And
who's responsible? Who are the perpetrators of the genocide of the
imagination?
TO READ THE REST OF THIS PIECE,
"CRIMES THAT DON'T BREAK ANY LAWS,"
go here: http://bit.ly/WeDemand
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
About the intelligence of bees
http://tinyurl.com/k6hsa8p
Lightning and a rainbow gracing Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona. photo
by Guy Schmickle
http://tinyurl.com/moq9mbx
Achilles' heel in antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered
http://tinyurl.com/n993rgr
A compendium of pronoiac news.
http://PronoiaResources.com
(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 July 3
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue
that's over 2,100 years old. Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess
of love, beauty, and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in
Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost -- buried underground on the
Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging
on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks,
Cancerian. You will uncover a source of beauty, love, or pleasure -- or
perhaps all three -- that has been missing or forgotten for a long time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus
keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just
before he reaches the top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the
bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started
and makes another effort to roll it up again -- only to fail again. The myth
says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I'm happy to report,
Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of
Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a
certain uphill task, you will not be forever frustrated. In fact, I believe a
breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be
due to your gutsy determination or your neurotic compulsion or both? It
doesn't matter.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of America's founding fathers believed
slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the
institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn't invent
hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In
comparison, the hypocrisy that you express is mild. Nevertheless, working
to minimize it is a worthy task. And here's the good news: You are now in
a position to become the zodiac's leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of
all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing
what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ideals
into practical action.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the last two decades, seven Academy Award
winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Oscars. By
contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio
executive Harvey Weinstein. Who would you acknowledge as essential to
your success, Libra? What generous souls, loving animals, departed
helpers, and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive?
Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your
appreciation. For mysterious reasons, doing so will enhance your luck and
increase your chances for future success.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have permission to compose an all-
purpose excuse note for yourself. If you'd like, you may also forge my
signature on it so you can tell everyone that your astrologer sanctified it.
This document will be ironclad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic
license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to
slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, escape small-
minded influences, and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-
strength excuse note will free you to seek out adventures you have been
denying yourself for no good reason.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the Inuktitut language spoken in
northern Canada, the term *iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga*
means "I should try not to become an alcoholic." I encourage you to have
fun saying that a lot in the coming days. Why? Now is an excellent time to
be playful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive
tendencies you might have. Whether it's booze or gambling or abusive
relationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive
self-saboteur, you have more power than usual to break its hold on you --
especially if you don't take yourself too seriously.
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WHAT'S TO COME?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Second Half of 2014:
http://RealAstrology.com
What will be the story of your life during the rest of 2014 and beyond?
How can you exert your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out
the best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the
tides of destiny? Tune in to my meditations on your long-term outlook.
Go here: http://RealAstrology.com
Register or log in and click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for Second Half of 2014"
You can also listen to your short-term forecast for the coming week by
clicking on "This week (July 1, 2014)."
"Your Expanded Audio Horoscopes provide me with the Rest of the Story.
I'm not necessarily a believer in the scientific accuracy of astrology, but I
do think you've got a lot of practical wisdom to impart."
- M. Tennenbaum, New York
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an
influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the
discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here's one: Gazing at
Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a
central hub on the planet's surface. But we now know that Venus is
shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no surface features are visible.
So what did Lowell see? Due to an anomaly in his apparatus, the
telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of
Venus. The "spokes" were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let
this example serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks,
Capricorn. Don't confuse what's within you with what's outside you. If you
can clearly discern the difference, your closest relationships will
experience healing breakthroughs.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps
you clean." So said British writer G. K. Chesterton. Now I'm passing his
advice on to you just in time for the Purge and Purify Phase of your
astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will generate good fortune
for yourself whenever you wash your own brain and absolve your own
heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sexual feelings. As you
proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious
choice to undergo a trial by fire.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I awake in a land where the lovers have
seized power," writes Danish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful
poem "The Lovers." "They have introduced laws decreeing that orgasms
need never come to an end. Roses function as currency. . . The words
'you' and 'I' are now synonymous." A world like the one he describes is a
fantasy, of course. It's impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks
you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be
audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial romance. Dare to
put love at the top of your priority list. And be inventive!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Would you like your savings account to grow?
Then deposit money into in it on a consistent basis. Would you like to feel
good and have a lot of physical energy? Eat healthy food, sleep as much
as you need to, and exercise regularly. Do you want people to see the
best in you and give you the benefit of the doubt? See the best in them
and give them the benefit of the doubt. Would you love to accomplish
your most important goal? Decide what you want more than anything else
and focus on it with relaxed intensity. Yes, Aries, life really is that simple -
- or at least it is right now. If you want to attain interesting success, be a
master of the obvious.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your urge to merge is heating up. Your
curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it's time to conduct
jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here's what I propose: Let
your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with
medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don't be attached to
the outcomes. Some of your research may lead to permanent
arrangements, and some won't. Either result is fine. Your task is to enjoy
the amusing bustle, and learn all you can from it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The American painter Ivan Albright (1897-
1983) was a meticulous creator. He spent as much time as necessary to
get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect
one square inch of a painting, and some of his pieces took years to finish.
When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush
composed of a single hair. That's the kind of attention to minutia I
recommend for you -- not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be careful
and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you
maximum freedom of movement later this year.
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Homework: Picasso said, "I am always doing that which I cannot do in
order that I may learn how to do it." Your comment? Write
uaregod@comcast.net.
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