Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
April 26, 2017
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See a pretty version of this newsletter: http://bit.ly/YouLoveYourLife
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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.
Experimental hypotheses:
1. You don't need anything that shrinks you or deflates you or tames you.
2. Influences that pinch your imagination are taboo, as is anything that
squashes your hope or crimps your life force.
3. You have license to gravitate toward situations that pump up your
insouciance and energize your whimsy and incite you to express the most
benevolent wickedness you can imagine.
4. You may have fun fattening up your soul so it can contain a vaster
sense of wonder and a more daring brand of innocence.
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ARE YOU CONSPIRING TO PERPETRATE PRONOIA?
Even now, secret allies are cooking up mysteries that will excite you and
incite you for years to come.
Even now, the Earth, moon, and sun are collaborating to make sure you
have all you need to make your next smart move.
But here's the loaded question: Are you willing to start loving life back
with an equal intensity? The adoration it offers you has not exactly been
unrequited, but there is room for you to be more demonstrative.
Half of the art of pronoia is about being improvisationally receptive to
life's elaborate scheme to shower you with blessings. The other half is
about learning to be a co-conspirator who assists life in doling out
blessings—to help everyone else get exactly what they need, exactly
when they need it.
Visualize yourself being able to recognize the raw truth about the people
you care about. Imagine that you can see how they already embody the
beauty their souls' codes have promised as well as how they still fall short
of embodying that beauty.
Picture yourself being able to make them feel appreciated even as you
inspire them to risk changes that will activate more of their souls' codes.
P.S. All of creation loves you very much.
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THIS IS A PERFECT MOMENT
The crisis is dire. The danger is real. The suffering is mounting. And yet,
this is also a perfect moment to rise and redeem and resurrect.
Here's why, according to me:
As we stand on this brink, as we dance on this verge, we cannot let the
ruling fools of the dying world sustain their curses. We have to rise up and
fight their insane logic; defy, resist, and prevent their tragic magic; erupt
with our sacred rage and supercharge it.
Read (or hear) the rest: http://bit.ly/1NDeqiZ
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Here's why, according to my brother-from-another-mother Mark Morford:
"This is the perfect time. To advance the cause. To birth the warrior. To
deepen your resolve for more life at all costs. At the gates of hell, you
plant seeds. In the midst of mania, you intend calm."
Read the rest: http://tinyurl.com/lzfmelw
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YOUR POWER TO HEAL
"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we
mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so
deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own
consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any
moment, and being love is a supreme creative act."
- Ram Dass
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
7 Signs You May be a Sacred Clown.
http://tinyurl.com/nulsohb
The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people. The job
growth is nine times greater than the average industry in this country.
http://tinyurl.com/kwjgtud
Africans are living longer, mostly due to progress against AIDS and
malaria.
http://tinyurl.com/m3lfa6z
(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 April 27
Copyright 2017 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "One of the advantages of being disorderly,"
said author A. A. Milne, "is that one is constantly making exciting
discoveries." I wouldn't normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical
dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels
me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest
that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in
the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential
reward? Exciting discoveries, of course.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my reading of the astrological
omens, it's time for you to take a break from the magic you have been
weaving since your birthday in 2016. That's why I'm suggesting that you
go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the
lessons you've been learning and the transformations you have undergone
over the past eleven months. In a few weeks, you'll be ready to resume
where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your
spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you've done
should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Apparently, a lot of kids in the UK don't like
to eat vegetables. In response, food researchers in that country marketed
a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new
dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn, and
cheese-and-onion-flavored cauliflower. I don't recommend that you get
quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian. But see
if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new
wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what
your colleagues and clientele have to choose from.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In speaking about the arduous quest to become
one's authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets
who aspire to be original but end up being imitative. "Many poets never
succeed in being themselves," he said. "They never get around to being
the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become
the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their
individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other
poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to
have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems." I
happen to believe that this is a problem for non-poets, as well. Many of us
never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming
weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become
more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving
any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): On numerous occasions, French acrobat
Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near
Niagara Falls. His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100
feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire
crossing by doing back flips and somersaults. Another time he carried a
small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet, and ate the
meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out
your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you
never tried before even though you've been sufficiently trained or
educated to perform them well?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ready for some subterranean journeys? They
may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels
and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and
forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might. At the
very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the
above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets would be
fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate?
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MAYBE JOY AND PLEASURE ARE ESSENTIAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure and happiness 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
AUDIO HOROSCOPES. They're four-to-five-minute meditations on the
current state of your destiny.
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You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
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"Your expanded horoscopes get more personal and intimate with me than
some of my closest friends. Thanks for the loving reflections."
- Ari S., Ann Arbor, MI
"When I listen to your audio 'scopes, my free will lights up." - Alex D., Los
Angeles
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you guzzle mind-clouding
moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving
tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on non-nutritious hors
d'oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine?
I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It
may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know
you can. And in the long run, you'll be happy if you do.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "You'll always be my favorite what-if."
Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from
the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided
that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away
and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next
decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the
world's sacred sites. "You'll always be my favorite what-if" was a poignant
but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue
other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to
consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I'd love to see you increase the number of
people, places, and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity
with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an
excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole
world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I'll call your attention
to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: eraunophilia,
an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with
waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia,
a zeal for asymmetrical things; sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with
intelligence.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could go online and buy an antique
Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room.
For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese "wonder toilet," complete
with a heated seat, automated bidet, and white noise generator. Here's
another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom
where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation. Or how about this?
Acquire a kit that enables you to create spontaneous poetry on your
refrigerator door using tiny magnets with evocative words written on
them. Can you think of other ideas to revitalize your home environment?
It's high time you did so.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Among America's 50 states, Texas has the
third-highest rate of teenage pregnancies. Uncoincidentally, sex education
in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no
teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex.
In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can't afford to be as deprived of the
truth as those kids. Even more than usual, you need accurate information
that's tailored to your precise needs, not fake news or ideological
delusions or self-serving propaganda. Make sure you gather insight and
wisdom from the very best sources. That's how you'll avoid behavior
that's irrelevant to your life goals. That's how you'll attract experiences
that serve your highest good.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have misgivings when I witness bears riding
bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding
diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee
meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal
power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such
civilized restraint. So here's my advice for you in the coming weeks: Take
advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations.
But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don't let people think
they've got you all figured out.
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to Realastrology.com and click on "Email Rob."
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