Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
November 25, 2015
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Below are excerpts.
The people I trust the most are those who are always tenderly wrestling
and negotiating with their own shadows, making preemptive strikes on
their personal share of the world's evil, fighting the good fight to keep
from spewing their darkness on those around them. I aspire to be like
that, which is why I regularly kick my own ass.
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"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see
one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole."
- Lauren Oliver
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"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our
memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have
changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful
and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We
must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
- T. S. Eliot, "The Cocktail Party"
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"The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how
you feel about them."
- Steve Hall
An interviewer urged the Dalai Lama to discourse on how to cultivate
lovingkindness. His Holiness said, "That may be too much to ask. How
about if we just work on getting the 'kindness' part right?"
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It seems that we are more often frightened than hurt, and that we tend
to suffer more from imagination than from reality. "
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self-managing the imagination, to
defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink, and
sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate, expand, and nourish it."
The above is an excerpt from a wonderful piece by M. T. Xen, which I
highly recommend. http://tinyurl.com/q4wxvj9
You can also listen to my six-minute take on the power of your
imagination here: http://bit.ly/lovesmart.
Or read my piece here: http://bit.ly/1RZgPVe
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Here's a compilation of Uplifting News: http://reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews
For example:
Boy, 8, saved from bear attack by his hero friend, 12, and a daredevil
dachshund
Australian government bans dumping in the Great Barrier Reef
Seven year old boy with cancer uses his wish to help other sick kids
Underwater Vertical Seaweed Farm Restores Our Oceans While Providing
Food and Fuel
Ten UK universities divest from fossil fuels
After Years in the Logging Industry, Rescued Elephant Makes New Friends
at Sanctuary Home
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Here's another compilation of Uplifting News:
thttp://pronoiaresources.com/
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Here's a third compilation of good news:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
(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 November 26
Copyright 2015 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): From the dawn of civilization until 1995,
humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then,
we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent
discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by
laypersons, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to
access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the
European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect
you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success. So trust your
rookie instincts. Feed your innocent curiosity. Ride your raw enthusiasm.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Whether or not you are literally a student
enrolled in school, I suspect you will soon be given a final exam. It may
not happen in a classroom or require you to write responses to questions.
The exam will more likely be administered by life in the course of your
daily challenges. The material you'll be tested on will mostly include the
lessons you have been studying since your last birthday. But there will
also be at least one section that deals with a subject you've been
wrestling with since early in your life -- and maybe even a riddle from
before you were born. Since you have free will, Capricorn, you can refuse
to take the exam. But I hope you won't. The more enthusiastic you are
about accepting its challenge, the more likely it is that you'll do well.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For $70,000 per night, you can rent the
entire country of Liechtenstein for your big party. The price includes the
right to rename the streets while you're there. You can also create a
temporary currency with a likeness of you on the bills, have a giant
rendition of your favorite image carved into the snow on a mountainside,
and preside over a festive medieval-style parade. Given your current
astrological omens, I suggest you consider the possibility. If that's too
extravagant, I hope you will at least gather your legion of best friends for
the Blowout Bash of the Decade. It's time, in my opinion, to explore the
mysteries of vivid and vigorous conviviality.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you available to benefit from a
thunderbolt healing? Would you consider wading into a maelstrom if you
knew it was a breakthrough in disguise? Do you have enough faith to
harvest an epiphany that begins as an uproar? Weirdly lucky phenomena
like these are on tap if you have the courage to ask for overdue
transformations. Your blind spots and sore places are being targeted by
life's fierce tenderness. All you have to do is say, "Yes, I'm ready."
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "We are torn between nostalgia for the
familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange," wrote novelist Carson
McCullers. "As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have
never known." I'm guessing that these days you're feeling that kind of
homesickness, Aries. The people and places that usually comfort you
don't have their customary power. The experiences you typically seek out
to strengthen your stability just aren't having that effect. The proper
response, in my opinion, is to go in quest of exotic and experimental
stimuli. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, they can provide the
grounding you need. They will steady your nerves and bolster your
courage.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Pekingese is a breed of dog that has been
around for over 2,000 years. In ancient China, it was beloved by Buddhist
monks and emperors' families. Here's the legend of its origin: A tiny
marmoset and huge lion fell in love with each other, but the contrast in
their sizes made union impossible. Then the gods intervened, using magic
to make them the same size. Out of the creatures' consummated passion,
the first Pekingese was born. I think this myth can serve as inspiration for
you, Taurus. Amazingly, you may soon find a way to blend and even
synergize two elements that are ostensibly quite different. Who knows?
You may even get some divine help.
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PLEASURE IS HOLY?
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your
spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis
that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate
person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you
every day.
For inspiration in practicing this approach, tune in to your EXPANDED
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Gareth N., Toronto
"I never knew it was possible to get my butt kicked and my head patted
at the same time -- until I listened to you, Rob." -Kristi P., Portland, OR
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Virginia Woolf wrote this message to a
dear ally: "I sincerely hope I'll never fathom you. You're mystical, serene,
intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The luster of your
presence bewitches me . . . the whole thing is splendid and voluptuous
and absurd." I hope you will have good reason to whisper sweet things like
that in the coming weeks, Gemini. You're in the Season of Togetherness,
which is a favorable time to seek and cultivate interesting kinds of
intimacy. If there is no one to whom you can sincerely deliver a memo like
Woolf's, search for such a person.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some people are so attached to wearing a
favorite ring on one of their fingers that they never take it off. They love
the beauty and endearment it evokes. In rare cases, years go by and their
ring finger grows thicker. Blood flow is constricted. Discomfort sets in.
And they can't remove their precious jewelry with the lubrication provided
by a little olive oil or soap and water. They need the assistance of a
jeweler who uses a small saw and a protective sheath to cut away the
ring. I suspect this may be an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your
life, Cancerian. Is it? Do you wonder if you should free yourself from a
pretty or sentimental constriction that you have outgrown? If so, get
help.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Most human beings have an almost infinite
capacity for taking things for granted," wrote Leo author Aldous Huxley.
That's the bad news. The good news is that in the coming weeks you are
less likely to take things for granted than you have been in a long time.
Happily, it's not because your familiar pleasures and sources of stability
are in jeopardy. Rather, it's because you have become more deeply
connected to the core of your life energy. You have a vivid appreciation
of what sustains you. Your assignment: Be alert for the eternal as it wells
up out of the mundane.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In their quest to collect nectar, honeybees are
attuned to the importance of proper timing. Even if flowering plants are
abundant, the quality and quantity of the nectar that's available vary with
the weather, season, and hour of the day. For example, dandelions may
offer their peak blessings at 9 a.m., cornflowers in late morning, and
clover in mid-afternoon. I urge you to be equally sensitive to the sources
where you can obtain nourishment, Virgo. Arrange your schedule so you
consistently seek to gather what you need at the right time and place.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you willing to dedicate yourself fully to a
game whose rules are constantly mutating? Are you resourceful enough
to keep playing at a high level even if some of the other players don't
have as much integrity and commitment as you? Do you have confidence
in your ability to detect and adjust to ever-shifting alliances? Will the
game still engage your interest if you discover that the rewards are
different from what you thought they were? If you can answer yes to
these questions, by all means jump all the way into the complicated fun!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect your body has been unusually
healthy and vigorous lately. Is that true? If so, figure out why. Have you
been taking better care of yourself? Have there been lucky accidents or
serendipitous innovations on which you've been capitalizing? Make these
new trends a permanent part of your routine. Now I'll make a similar
observation about your psychological well-being. It also seems to have
been extra strong recently. Why? Has your attitude improved in such a
way as to generate more positive emotions? Have there been fluky
breakthroughs that unleashed unexpected surges of hope and good
cheer? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine.
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Homework: Who teaches and helps you? Who sees you for who you really
are? Who nudges you in the direction of your fuller destiny? Write to
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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