Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 25, 2017
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YOUR FUTURE
I've gathered together all the Free Will Astrology horoscopes that address
the far-reaching themes of your destiny in the coming months. Read a
compendium of your written horoscopes for 2017:
http://bit.ly/BigPicture2017
In addition to these, I've created three-part, in-depth EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES about Your Long-Range Future. They go even further in
exploring your prospects and challenges in 2017.
Who do you want to become in the coming months? Where do you want
to go and what do you want to do? How can you exert your free will to
create adventures that'll bring out the best in you, even as you find
graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
To listen to these three-part, in-depth reports, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then access the
horoscopes by clicking on "Long Range Prediction." Choose from Part 1,
Part 2, and Part 3. Each part is a standalone report, not dependent on the
other two.
If you'd like a boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest for beauty and
truth and love and meaning, tune in to my meditations on your Big-Picture
outlook.
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Each of the three-part reports is seven to nine minutes long. The cost is
$6 per report. There are discounts for the purchase of multiple reports.
P.S. You can also listen to a short-term Expanded Audio Horoscope for
the coming week.
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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
Below are excerpts.
As we stand on this brink, as we dance on this verge, we cannot let the
ruling fools of the dying world consummate their curses. We've got to rise
up and fight their deranged logic; defy, resist, and prevent their tragic
magic; uncork our sacred rage and supercharge it.
But overthrowing the psychopathic leaders is not enough. Protesting the
well-dressed planet-rapers is not enough. We cannot afford to be
consumed with our anger; cannot be obsessed and possessed by their
danger.
Our mysterious animal bodies crave delight and fertility. Our ancient
imaginations demand ever-fresh tastes of infinity.
In the new culture we are hatching, we need lusty compassion and
euphoric duty, lyrical logic and insurrectionary beauty. In the new alliance
we are mobilizing, we need radical curiosity and reverent pranks,
voracious listening and ferocious thanks.
Listen to the whole song that these lyrics are excerpted from:
http://bit.ly/1NDeqiZ
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HOW TO BE BOTH A WRATHFUL INSURRECTIONARY AND AN EXUBERANT
LOVER OF LIFE?
A voice in the depths of my meditation said to me: "It's possible that
redemption will ultimately emerge from the looming Trumpocalypse. If you
want to help ensure that it does lead to awakening and rebirth rather than
mayhem and disaster, practice the discipline of warrior love."
Here’s how I responded to the voice: How do I do it? How can I
cultivate and express an effective blend of practical compassion and
constructive anger?
How do I refrain from hating Trump fans even as I fight ingeniously
against the hatred and pathology they have unleashed?
How do I cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as I work to neutralize the
bigoted, destructive, autocratic poisons that are on the loose?
How can I be both a wrathful insurrectionary and an exuberant lover of
life?
How can I stay in a good yet unruly mood as I help overthrow the mass
hallucinations that are on the loose?
In the face of the danger, how do I remain intensely dedicated to building
beauty and truth and justice and love even as I keep my imagination wild
and hungry and free?
Can my struggle also be a form of play?
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LET'S KEEP CELEBRATING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S BIRTHDAY
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my heroes: a peaceful warrior who fought
for justice with militant love. Studying his life, I learned that it's possible
for a person to have both a well-honed intellect and a fierce spiritual faith.
He showed me that uplifting passion, lyrical language, and inventive
imagination are essential elements of political activism. He proved you can
be devoted to divine mysteries without turning into a fundamentalist
fanatic who hates non-believers.
Many people have forgotten that King was a leftwing Christian whose
spirituality was at the heart of his work. Like United Farm Workers leader
Cesar Chavez, he was a political activist who was also deeply religious. For
both King and Chavez, their relationship with the divine was a core
element in their fight for social justice.
There are still a lot of spiritual people around who share their vision, but
their voices are barely noticed by the media, which prefers to spotlight
the shrill nonsense of rightwing fundamentalists (who are actually a
minority even among Christians).
P.S.: Martin Luther King Jr. was not just the safe-for-all-political-stripes
civil-rights activist he is often portrayed as today. He was an antiwar,
anti-materialist activist whose views on American power would shock
many of the same politicians who now scramble to sing his praises.
He came out strongly against the US war in Vietnam and called America
"the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." He decried the
"triple threat of racism, poverty, and militarism."
http://tinyurl.com/kackhtx
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"In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his acceptance speech for
the Nobel Peace Prize. King argued that the 'spiritual and moral lag' in
modern man was due to what he later referred to as the 'triple evils' of
society: capitalism, militarism and racism. For King, the genocide that
took place in Vietnam, combined with the ongoing racism and extreme
poverty, especially in the black community, only solidified the idea that
the three were inextricably linked and part of the same fight for universal
human rights." - Vincent Intondi
http://tinyurl.com/muxs2z2
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
India, the world's second-most populous country, dismisses Trump's
impact on climate targets. The energy minister says the new U.S.
government will have no impact on his country’s renewable power
plans, with investors queuing up to support new wind and solar projects.
http://tinyurl.com/zfr5aft
World poverty continued to decline in 2016, and researchers learned
more and more about how to help the poor.
http://tinyurl.com/h8fyqso
The 50 best places to work in 2017, according to employees
http://tinyurl.com/z5bt7vz
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They aren't advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 5
Copyright 2017 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A London-based think tank does an annual
study to determine which of the world's countries offers the most
freedom. The Legatum Institute measures indicators like civil liberties,
social tolerance, and the power to choose one's destiny. The current
champion is Luxembourg. Canada is in second place. France is 22nd, the
U.S. is 26th, and Italy 27th. Since I'm hoping you will markedly enhance
your own personal freedom in the coming months, you might want to
consider moving to Luxembourg. If that's not an option, what else could
you do? The time is ripe to hatch your liberation plans.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I love to see dumpsters that have been
decorated by graffiti artists. Right now there's one by the side of a busy
road that I often drive down. Its drab gray exterior has been transformed
into a splash of cartoon images and scripts. Amidst signatures that look
like "Riot Goof" and "Breakfast Toys" and "Sky Blooms," I can discern a
ninja rhinoceros and a gold-crowned jaguar and an army of flying monkeys
using squirt guns to douse a forest fire. I suspect it's a perfect time for
you to be inspired by this spectacle, Pisces. What dumpster-like situation
could you beautify?
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Westward Ho! is the name of a village in
southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation
point. But it's not as dramatic as that of the only town on earth with two
exclamation points: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is in Quebec. I invite you
Aries folks to be equally daring. According to my reading of the
astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate and poetic license to
cram extra !!!!s into all your writing and speaking, and even add them to
the spelling of your name! Why? Because this should be one of the most
exciting and ebullient phases of your astrological cycle -- a time to risk
showing just how enthusiastic and energetic you are!!!!!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The New York Film Critics Circle named Casey
Affleck the Best Actor of the year for his role in the film *Manchester by
the Sea.* In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony, Affleck gave a
dramatic reading of quotes by David Edelstein, a prominent critic who has
criticized his work. "Mumbly and mulish," was one of Edelstein's jabs
about Affleck. "Doesn't have a lot of variety," was another. A third:
"Whenever I see Affleck's name in a movie's credits, you can expect a
standard, genre B picture -- slowed down and tarted up." I suspect that in
the coming weeks, Taurus, you may get a vindication comparable to
Affleck's. I suggest you have wicked fun with it, as he did.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The roulette wheels at casinos in Monaco have
37 pockets. Eighteen are black, 18 are red, and one is green. On any
particular spin, the ball has just less than half a chance of landing in a red
or black pocket. But there was one night back in August of 1913, at the
Casino de Monte-Carlo, when probability seemed inoperative. The little
white ball kept landing on the black over and over again. Gamblers
responded by increasingly placing heavy bets on red numbers. They
assumed the weird luck would soon change. But it didn't until the 27th
spin. (The odds of that happening were 136,823,184 to 1.) What does
this have to do with you? I suspect you're in a comparable situation -- the
equivalent of about 20 spins into an improbable streak. My advice: Don't
bet on the red yet.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Born to a religious mother on July 8, 1839,
John D. Rockefeller amassed a fortune in the oil industry. Even in
comparison to modern billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, he's
the richest American who ever lived. "God gave me the money," he said
on numerous occasions. Now I'm going to borrow the spirit of
Rockefeller's motto for your use, Cancerian. Why? Because it's likely you
will be the recipient of blessings that prompt you to wonder if the Divine
Wow is involved. One of these may indeed be financial in nature. (P.S.:
Such boons are even more likely to transpire if you're anchored in your
sweet, dark wisdom and your holy, playful creativity.)
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EXPLORING THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2017?
You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny
in the coming months. Each report in the three-part series is 7 to 9
minutes long.
Go to http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then access the
horoscopes by clicking on "Long Range Prediction." (Choose from Part 1,
Part 2, Part 3.)
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What influence do you need most in your life right
now? Are you suffering because you lack a particular kind of help or
teaching? Would you benefit from having a certain connection that you
have not yet figured out how to make? Is there a person or event that
could heal you if you had a better understanding about how you need to
be healed? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get useful
answers to these questions -- and then take action based on what you
discover.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The next two weeks will be a favorable time to
kiss the feet of helpful allies, but not to kiss the butts of clever
manipulators. I also advise you to perform acts of generosity for those
who will use your gifts intelligently, but not for those who will waste your
blessings or treat you like a doormat. Here's my third point: Consider
returning to an old fork in the road where you made a wrong turn, and
then making the correct turn this time. But if you do, be motivated by
bright hope for a different future rather than by sludgy remorse for your
error.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the beginning was the wild cabbage. Our
ancestors found that it had great potential as food, and proceeded to
domesticate it. Over the centuries, they used selective breeding to
develop many further variations on the original. Kale and kohlrabi were the
first to appear. By the 15th century, cauliflower had been created.
Broccoli came along a hundred years later, followed by Brussels sprouts.
Today there are at least 20 cultivars whose lineage can be traced back to
the wild cabbage. In my astrological opinion, you Libras are in a wild
cabbage phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming months you can
and should do seminal work that will ultimately generate an abundance of
useful derivatives.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1733, workers finished building the New
Cathedral in Salamanca, Spain. But if you go there today, you will see two
seemingly modern elements on one facade: carvings of a helmeted
astronaut and of a gargoyle licking an ice cream cone. These two
characters were added by craftsmen who did renovations on the cathedral
in 1992. I offer this vignette as metaphor for your life, Scorpio. It's a
favorable time to upgrade and refine an old structure in your life. And if
you do take advantage of this opening, I suggest you add modern
touches.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect that in the coming weeks, you
will be afforded opportunities to bend the rules in ways that could make
life simpler, more pleasurable, and more successful -- or all of the above.
To help you deal with the issue of whether these deviations would have
integrity, I offer you these questions: Would bending the rules serve a
higher good, not just your selfish desires? Is there an approach to bending
the rules that may ultimately produce more compassionate results than
not bending the rules? Could you actually get away with bending the
rules, both in the sense of escaping punishment and also in the sense of
being loyal to your own conscience?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don't necessarily guarantee that you will
acquire paranormal powers in the coming weeks. I'm not saying that you
will be able to foretell the future or eavesdrop on conversations from a
half-mile away or transform water into whiskey-flavored coffee. But I do
suspect that you will at least tap further into a unique personal ability
that has been mostly just potential up until now. Or you may finally start
using a resource that has been available for a long time. For best results,
open your imagination to the possibility that you possess dormant magic.
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Homework: Say "I love you" at least 25 times a day for the next seven
days. Report your results to Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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