Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
July 20, 2016
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Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal
freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from
their suffering. You're a fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants
to help all of your fellow messiahs claim the ecstatic awareness
that is their birthright.
Try to remember. You're a vortex of fluidic light that has
temporarily taken on the form of a human being, suffering
amnesia about your true origins. And why did you do that?
Because it was the best way to forge the identity that would
make you such an elemental force in our 14-billion-year
campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth.
I'm not speaking metaphorically here. You are a mutant deity
in disguise—not a Buddha or a Christ exactly, but of the same
lineage and conjured from the same fire. You have been
around since the beginning of time and will be here after the
end. Every day and in every way, you're getting better at playing
the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed up
together before the Big Bang bloomed.
Lately, I must admit, our work has seemed almost comically
impossible. Many of us have given in to the temptation to
believe that everything is upside-down and inside-out.
Ignorance and inertia, partially camouflaged as time-honored
morality, seem to surround us.
Pessimism is enshrined as a hallmark of worldliness.
Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-
spirited irony is chic. Stories about treachery and degradation
provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people who think of
themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are
suspect and ugly truths are readily believed.
So no, at this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-
billion-year-old master game, it's not easy to carry out our
mission. We've got to be both wrathful insurrectionaries and
exuberant lovers of life. We've got to cultivate cheerful
buoyancy even as we resist the temptation to swallow thousands
of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively
packaged by those messiahs among us who bravely
volunteered to play the role of know-it-all deceivers.
We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we
overthrow the sour, puckered mass hallucination that is
mistakenly referred to as "reality."
Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-
mindedly dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love
even as we keep our imaginations wild and hungry and free. We
have to be both disciplined and rowdy.
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"The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present
moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel
love for all humanity."
—Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE GREAT MYSTERY?
The ever-evolving truth is far too complicated and fluid and
slippery and scrambled and gorgeously abundant for one
human being to completely master.
I'm lucky to have gotten my percentage of mastery up to about
3%. On a good day, that's how much I understand of the
Maddening and Delightful Mystery we are embedded in.
Here's a hypothesis that's a cornerstone of my 3%: It's smart
and healthy to joyfully rebel against everyone who assuredly
tells me that they know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.
How well do you understand the Great Mystery? What's your
percentage?
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THE ACTIVISM OF LOVE
Environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill spent two years living in
a redwood tree she named "Luna." Her goal was to save it from
being cut down by a logging company. She succeeded both
literally and mythically. Luna was spared from death, as was a
surrounding three-acre swath of trees. Hill became an inspiring
symbol of artful, compassionate protest.
Later she told Benjamin Tong in the DVD "The Taoist and the
Activist": "So often activism is based on what we are against,
what we don't like, what we don't want. And yet we manifest
what we focus on. And so we are manifesting yet ever more of
what we don't want, what we don't like, what we want to change.
"So for me, activism is about a spiritual practice as a way of life.
And I realized I didn't climb the tree because I was angry at the
corporations and the government; I climbed the tree because
when I fell in love with the redwoods, I fell in love with the world.
So it is my feeling of 'connection' that drives me, instead of my
anger and feelings of being disconnected."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning July 21
Copyright 2016 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My friend's 12-year-old daughter Brianna
got a "B" on her summer school math test. She might have
earned an "A" if it weren't for a problem her teacher had with
some of her work. "You got the right answer by making two
mistakes that happened to cancel each other out," he wrote on
her paper next to question seven. I suspect you will soon have
a similar experience. Leo. But the difference between you and
Brianna is that I'm giving you an "A." All that matters in the end
is that you succeed. I don't care if your strategy is a bit funky.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have ever fantasized about being a
different gender or race or astrological sign? Do you suspect it
might be fun and liberating to completely change your wardrobe
or your hairstyle or your body language? The coming weeks will
be an excellent time to experiment with these variables, and
with any others that would enable you to play with your identity
and mutate your self-image. You have a cosmic exemption
from imitating what you have done in the past. In this spirit,
feel free to read all the other signs' horoscopes, and act on the
one you like best. Your word of power is "shapeshifter."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Golden Goose Award is given
annually to "scientists whose work may have been considered
silly, odd, or obscure when first conducted," but which ultimately
produced dramatic advances. Entomologists Raymond Bushland
and Edward Knipling were this year's winners. More than 60
years ago they started tinkering with the sex life of the
screwworm fly in an effort to stop the pest from killing livestock
and wildlife throughout the American South. At first their ideas
were laughed at, even ridiculed. In time they were lauded for
their pioneering breakthroughs. I suspect you'll be blessed with
a vindication of your own in the coming weeks, Libra. It may not
be as monumental as Bushland's and Knipling's, but I bet it'll
be deeply meaningful for you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope it doesn't sound too
paradoxical when I urge you to intensify your commitment to
relaxation. I will love it, and more importantly your guardian
angel will love it, if you become a fierce devotee of slowing
down and chilling out. Get looser and cozier and more spacious,
damn it! Snuggle more. Cut back on overthinking and trying too
hard. Vow to become a high master of the mystic art of I-don't-
give-a-f*ck. It's your sacred duty to steal more slack from the
soul-anesthetizing grind.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I regularly travel back through
time from the year 2036 so as to be here with you. It's tough to
be away from the thrilling transformations that are underway
there. But it's in a good cause. The bedraggled era that you live
in needs frequent doses of the vigorous optimism that's so
widespread in 2036, and I'm happy to disseminate it. Why am I
confessing this? Because I suspect you now have an extra
talent for gazing into the unknown and exploring undiscovered
possibilities. You also have an unprecedented power to set
definite intentions about the life you want to be living in the
future. Who will you be five years from today? Ten years?
Twenty years? Be brave. Be visionary. Be precise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's one strategy you could
pursue, I guess: You could spank the Devil with a feather
duster as you try to coax him to promise that he will never
again trick you with a bogus temptation. But I don't think that
would work, frankly. It may have minor shock value, in which
case the Devil might leave you in peace for a short time. Here's
what I suggest instead: Work at raising your discernment so
high that you can quickly identify, in the future, which
temptations will deliver you unto evil confusion, and which will
feed and hone your most noble desires.
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MY OTHER HOROSCOPES
Factual information and reasonable thinking alone are not
sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You
need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation.
One of your inalienable rights as a human being should
therefore be to receive mysteriously useful omens on a regular
basis. In this spirit, I offer you the free weekly horoscopes you
read here.
If you ever want more, and think it's worth paying for, try my
EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES. They're four-to-five-minute
meditations on the current state of your destiny and where
you're headed.
To listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope online, go to
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You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts available for bulk
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After a cool, dry period, you'll
soon be slipping into a hot, wet phase. The reasonable
explanations that generated so much apathy are about to get
turned inside-out. The seemingly good excuses that provided
cover for your timidity will be exposed as impractical lies. Are
you ready for your passion to roar back into fashion? Will you
know what to do when suppressed yearnings erupt and the
chemicals of love start rampaging through your soft, warm
animal body? I hereby warn you about the oncoming surge of
weird delight -- and sing "Hallelujah!" for the revelatory fun it
will bring.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I'm composing your horoscope on
my iPhone after midnight on a crowded bus that's crammed with
sweaty revelers. We're being transported back to civilization
from a rural hideaway where we spent the last 12 hours at a
raging party. I still feel ecstatic from the recent bacchanal, but
the ride is uncomfortable. I'm pinned against a window by a
sleepy, drunken dude who's not in full control of his body. But
do I allow my predicament to interfere with my holy meditation
on your destiny? I do not -- just as I trust you will keep stoking
the fires of your own inspiration in the face of comparable
irritations. You have been on a hot streak, my dear. Don't let
anything tamp it down!
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have more luxuriant access
to divine luck than you've had in a long time. For the
foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semi-
miraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your
capacities. But here's a caveat: The good fortune swirling in
your vicinity may be odd or irregular or hard-to-understand. To
harvest it, you will have to expand your ideas about what
constitutes good fortune. It may bestow powers you didn't even
realize it was possible to have. For example, what if you
temporarily have an acute talent for gravitating toward
situations where smart love is in full play?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A directory published by the U.S.
Department of Labor says that my gig as an astrologer shares a
category with jugglers, rodeo clowns, acrobats, carnival barkers,
and stuntpersons. Am I, therefore, just a charming buffoon? An
amusing goofball who provides diversion from life's serious
matters? I'm fine with that. I may prefer to regard myself as a
sly oracle inflamed with holy madness, but the service I provide
is probably more effective if my ego doesn't get the specific
glory it yearns for. In this way, I have certain resemblances to
the Taurus tribe during the next four weeks. Is it OK if you
achieve success without receiving all of the credit you think you
deserve?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Over the course of a 57-year career,
Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa won 78 major awards
for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Oscars. Among the filmmakers who've named him as an
inspirational influence are heavyweights like Ingmar Bergman,
Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Francis Ford
Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. But Kurosawa wasn't too haughty
to create lighter fare. At age 86, he departed from his epic
dramas to create a 30-second commercial for a yogurt drink.
Did that compromise his artistic integrity? I say no. Even a
genius can't be expected to create non-stop masterpieces. Be
inspired by Kurosawa, Gemini. In the coming weeks, give your
best to even the most modest projects.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Capricorns may be the hardest
workers of the zodiac, and Tauruses the most dogged. But in
the coming weeks, I suspect you Cancerians will be the
*smartest* workers. You will efficiently surmise the precise
nature of the tasks at hand, and do what's necessary to
accomplish them. There'll be no false starts or reliance on iffy
data or slapdash trial-and-error experiments. You'll have a light
touch as you find innovative short cuts that produce better
results than would be possible via the grind-it-out approach.
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play you in a film about your life? Go to Realastrology.com and
click "Email Rob."
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