Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
March 14, 2018
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Question: What are the lifestyle choices that enhance your awareness and
intelligence?
I invite you to send your answers to me.
Go to http://RealAstrology.com
and click on "Email Rob" at the bottom of the page.
Below are some of my answers.
I take good care of my body, emotional life, soul, spirit, and imagination.
Cultivate love as my primary orientation. Treat people well.
Listen to other kinds of intelligence besides humans'.
Listen listen listen. Be influence-able. Be willing to transform.
Relish and wrestle with and honor my nightly dreams.
Meditate 24/7.
Practice reverence for all of creation.
Understand the universe as divine play.
Consult Goddess on every decision.
Identify the best gifts I have to give and give them on a regular basis.
Figure out practical ways to express my compassion and lust for social
justice.
Trust desire.
Feel gratitude for all I'm given.
Celebrate being alive even when I'm fearful or hurt.
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YOUR ENTRANCE
Of the many things that have gone right for you during your time on
Earth, the most crucial was your birth. As you crossed over the threshold,
trading the warm dark sanctuary for the bright noisy enigma, you didn't
die!
It was a difficult act of high magic that involved many people who worked
very hard in your behalf. The skills they provided in helping you navigate
your rite of passage were in turn made possible by previous generations
of threshold-tenders who bequeathed their expertise.
Months before that initiation, a more secret miracle bloomed: Your life
began as a single cell, spawned by the explosive fusion of two highly
specialized bundles of chromosomes. How could that tiny package of raw
material have possibly grown a brain and liver and heart and stomach over
a period of a few months? What inscrutable genius guided and oversaw
the emergence of your fully formed infant body, that virtuoso creation,
from the slimmest of clues?
P.S. You have continued to grow since your birth, with millions of new
cells continually blooming to replace the old ones that are always dying.
At this moment, you're host to about 50 trillion cells, and each of them is
really a sentient being in its own right. They all act together as a
community, implementing the monumental collaboration you call your
body.
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"May a good vision catch me
May a benevolent vision take hold of me, and move me
May a deep and full vision come over me, and burst open around me
May a luminous vision inform me, enfold me.
May I awaken into the story that surrounds,
May I awaken into the beautiful story.
May the wondrous story find me;
May the wildness that makes beauty arise between two lovers
arise beautifully between my body and the body of this land,
between my flesh and the flesh of this earth,
here and now,
on this day,
May I taste something sacred."
—David Abram
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The preceding three blips are excerpts from my book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
It's available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
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PUBLIC APPEARANCES
In years past I've done numerous live shows and public appearances, but
these days I'm hermetically sealed into my Cancerian sanctuary, working
cheerfully and doggedly on new books.
I reckon I'll have a coming out party in the latter part of 2018 or the first
part of 2019, with maybe a tour of North America and a run of my pagan
revival show, "Sacred Uproar."
For now, here's a video of my show at Symbiosis:
http://bit.ly/RobAtSymbiosis
Here's a video of an interview with me by an Italian journalist:
http://bit.ly/InterviewWithRob
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WHAT YOU MAY NEED
What you may need is a more curious and mysterious sweetness. A
wilder, stronger sweetness. A sweetness that pulverizes illusions.
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"Something unknown is doing we don't know what," said astrophysicist
Arthur Eddington about the universe. And we are the beneficiaries.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
The New York Times has finally buckled under my relentless pronoiac
pressure, and is now offering a weekly GOOD NEWS section. Check it out:
https://tinyurl.com/y88vcllz
Here are some headlines from recent stories:
A new national park system in Chile will be three times the size of
Yosemite and Yellowstone combined.
Shade-grown coffee beans are good for birds.
Mr. Rogers will be immortalized on a postage stamp.
Two drugs could delay the spread of prostate cancer for years.
Some animals can count better than you.
India wants to give half a billion people free health care.
Tens of thousands of ancient Maya structures were revealed by lasers.
A special police force in the Netherlands helps animals in trouble.
American teenagers are smoking fewer cigarettes.
(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 March 15
Copyright 2018 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Although her work is among the best Russian
literature of the twentieth century, poet Marina Tsvetayeva lived in
poverty. When fellow poet Rainer Maria Rilke asked her to describe the
kingdom of heaven, she said, "Never again to sweep floors." I can relate.
To earn a living in my early adulthood, I washed tens of thousands of
dishes in restaurant kitchens. Now that I'm grown up, one of my great
joys is to avoid washing dishes. I invite you to think along these lines,
Pisces. What seemingly minor improvements in your life are actually huge
triumphs that evoke profound satisfaction? Take inventory of small
pleasures that are really quite miraculous.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The British science fiction TV show *Dr. Who*
has appeared on BBC in 40 of the last 54 years. Over that span, the
titular character has been played by 13 different actors. From 2005 until
2010, Aries actor David Tennant was the magic, immortal, time-traveling
Dr. Who. His ascendance to the role fulfilled a hopeful prophecy he had
made about himself when he was 13 years old. Now is an excellent time
for you, too, to predict a glorious, satisfying, or successful occurrence in
your own future. Think big and beautiful!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): New York City is the most densely populated
city in North America. Its land is among the most expensive on earth; one
estimate says the average price per acre is $16 million. Yet there are two
uninhabited islands less than a mile off shore in the East River: North
Brother Island and South Brother Island. Their combined 26 acres are
theoretically worth $416 million. But no one goes there or enjoys it; it's
not even parkland. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I
suspect it's an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life: a
potentially rich resource or influence that you're not using. Now is a good
time to update your relationship with it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The iconic 1942 movie *Casablanca* won three
Academy Awards and has often appeared on critics' lists of the greatest
films ever made. That's amazing considering the fact that the production
was so hectic. When shooting started, the script was incomplete. The
writing team frequently presented the finished version of each new scene
on the day it was to be filmed. Neither the director nor the actors knew
how the plot would resolve until the end of the process. I bring this to
your attention, Gemini, because it reminds me of a project you have been
working on. I suggest you start improvising less and planning more. How
do you want this phase of your life to climax?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): If all goes well in the coming weeks, you will
hone your wisdom about how and when and why to give your abundant
gifts to deserving recipients -- as well as how and when and why to *not*
give your abundant gifts to deserving recipients. If my hopes come to
pass, you will refine your ability to share your tender depths with worthy
allies -- and you will refine your understanding of when to *not* share
your tender depths with worthy allies. Finally, Cancerian, if you are as
smart as I think you are, you will have a sixth sense about how to receive
as many blessings as you disseminate.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How adept are you at playing along the
boundaries between the dark and the light, between confounding dreams
and liberated joy, between "Is it real?" and "Do I need it?"? You now have
an excellent opportunity to find out more about your capacity to thrive
on delightful complexity. But I should warn you. The temptation to
prematurely simplify things might be hard to resist. There may be
cautious pressure coming from a timid voice in your head that's not fierce
enough to want you to grow into your best and biggest self. But here's
what I predict: You will bravely explore the possibilities for self-
transformation that are available outside the predictable niches.
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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
http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page.
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
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone.
The Expanded Audio Horoscopes work on most smart phones and tablets.
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"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
"No one knows more about me than me. But you're right up there near
the top of the list of people who do understand something about how I
tick. How is that possible?"
- R. Goren, Albuquerque
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cultivating a robust sense of humor makes
you more attractive to people you want to be attractive to. An inclination
to be fun-loving is another endearing quality that's worthy of being part
of your intimate repertoire. There's a third virtue related to these two:
playfulness. Many humans of all genders are drawn to those who display
joking, lighthearted behavior. I hope you will make maximum use of these
qualities during the coming weeks, Virgo. You have a cosmic mandate to
be as alluring and inviting as you dare.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suggest you gaze at exquisitely wrought
Japanese woodcuts . . . and listen to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
collaborating with saxophonist John Coltrane . . . and inhale the aroma of
the earth as you stroll through groves of very old trees. Catch my drift,
Libra? Surround yourself with soulful beauty -- or else! Or else what? Or
else I'll be sad. Or else you might be susceptible to buying into the
demoralizing thoughts that people around you are propagating. Or else
you may become blind to the subtle miracles that are unfolding, and fail
to love them well enough to coax them into their fullest ripening. Now get
out there and hunt for soulful beauty that awakens your deepest
reverence for life. Feeling awe is a necessity for you right now, not a
luxury.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the Sikh religion, devotees are urged to
attack weakness and sin with five "spiritual weapons": contentment,
charity, kindness, positive energy, and humility. Even if you're not a Sikh, I
think you'll be wise to employ this strategy in the next two weeks. Why?
Because your instinctual nature will be overflowing with martial force, and
you'll have to work hard to channel it constructively rather than
destructively. The best way to do that is to be a vehement perpetrator of
benevolence and healing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1970, a biologist was hiking through a
Brazilian forest when a small monkey landed on his head, having jumped
from a tree branch. Adelmar Coimbra-Filho was ecstatic. He realized that
his visitor was a member of the species known as the golden-rumped lion
tamarin, which had been regarded as extinct for 65 years. His lucky
accident led to a renewed search for the elusive creatures, and soon more
were discovered. I foresee a metaphorically comparable experience
coming your way, Sagittarius. A resource or influence or marvel you
assumed was gone will reappear. How will you respond? With alacrity, I
hope!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Velcro fastener is a handy invention
that came into the world thanks to a Swiss engineer named George de
Mestral. While wandering around the Alps with his dog, he got curious
about the bristly seeds of the burdock plants that adhered to his pants
and his dog. After examining them under a microscope, he got the idea to
create a clothing fastener that imitated their sticking mechanism. In
accordance with the astrological omens, Capricorn, I invite you to be alert
for comparable breakthroughs. Be receptive to help that comes in
unexpected ways. Study your environment for potentially useful clues and
tips. Turn the whole world into your classroom and laboratory. It's
impossible to predict where and when you may receive a solution to a
long-running dilemma!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest. They were
celebrated as intrepid heroes. But they couldn't have done it without
massive support. Their expedition was powered by 20 Sherpa guides, 13
other mountaineers, and 362 porters who lugged 10,000 pounds of
baggage. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, in the hope that it will
inspire you. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to gather more of
the human resources and raw materials you will need for your rousing
expedition later this year.
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