Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
February 19, 2020
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Congrats if you're having these symptoms:
* spontaneous eruptions of gratitude
* declining fascination with conflict
* mounting inability to tolerate boring influences that resist
transformation
* increasing knack for recognizing and receiving the love available to you
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BRAINSTORM ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with the help of my 3-part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for 2020.
My long-range, big-picture audio horoscopes for 2020 are still available
for a few more weeks.
Who do you want to become between now and January 2021? 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:
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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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P.S. You can also listen to a short-term Expanded Audio Horoscope for the
coming week.
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YOU CREATE AND CHANGE
Even if you don't call yourself an artist, you have the potential to be a
dynamic creator who is always hatching new plans, coming up with fresh
ideas, and shifting your approach to everything you do as you adjust to
life's ceaseless invitation to change.
It's to this part of you -- the restless, inventive spirit -- that I address
the following: Unleash yourself! Don't be satisfied with the world the way
it is; don't sit back passively and blankly complain about the dead weight
of the mediocre status quo.
Instead, call on your curiosity and charisma and expressiveness and lust
for life as you tinker with and rebuild everything you see so that it's in
greater harmony with the laws of love and more hospitable to your soul's
code.
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I'm a big fan of the wise astrologer and witch Amanda Yates Garcia
https://www.instagram.com/oracleofla/
Here's her message for Mercury Retrograde, which is happening now:
WELCOME TO MERCURY RETROGRADE!
I love how the astrology of Mercury in retrograde creates built in review
periods for our year.
For me, communication, particularly via technology, can feel like an
invasive species. I need to cut it back so my native plant spirit can
flourish.
For instance, this Mercury Retrograde I’m most excited to:
* Admit to the Goddess that my email inbox has become unmanageable and
that I need Mercury’s help to fix it.
* Get in touch with an old friend who’s seemed upset with me lately but
hasn’t shared why. I’m looking forward to clearing that up.
* Finish reading the books I have sitting on my nightstand — and take
notes. No new books until I finish these old ones!
* It’s spring, and warmer now, so I want to return to my practice of
drinking shots of lemon, ginger, hemp oil and turmeric juice in the
morning again.
* No Instagram until after 10am.
* And finally, sorting out all my confusing and unmanageable passwords!
What about you? Which of these are YOU most excited about tackling?
What’s your Mercury Retrograde pleasure?
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And check out Amanda Yates Garcia's "6 Pleasures for Mercury
Retrograde": https://tinyurl.com/vpxoval
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TWO SECRETS
Always keep 2 pieces of paper in your pockets. One says, "I am a speck of
dust;" the other, "The world was created for me."
- Rabbi Bunim
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I INVITE YOU
I invite you to speak these vows out loud:
As long as I live, I vow to die and be reborn, die and be reborn, die and be
reborn, over and over again, forever reinventing myself.
I promise to be stronger than hate, wetter than water, deeper than the
abyss, and wilder than the sun.
I pledge to remember that I am not only a sweating, half-asleep,
excitable, bumbling jumble of desires, but that I am also an immortal
four-dimensional messiah in continuous telepathic touch with all of
creation.
I vow to love and honor my highs and my lows my yeses and noes, my give
and my take, the life I wish I had and the life I actually have.
I promise to push hard to get better and smarter, grow my devotion to the
truth, fuel my commitment to beauty, refine my emotions, hone my
dreams, wrestle with my shadow, purge my ignorance, and soften my
heart -- even as I always accept myself for exactly who I am, with all of
my so-called foibles and wobbles.
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CUTTING LOOSE
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason,
you sing. For no reason, you accept
the way of being lost, cutting loose from
all else and electing a world
where you go where you want to.
Arbitrary, sound comes, a reminder
that a steady center is holding
all else. If you listen, that sound
will tell you where it is, and you
can slide your way past trouble.
Certain twisted monsters
always bar the path – but that’s when
you get going best, glad to be
lost, learning how real it is
here on the earth, again and again.
– William Stafford, "Cutting Loose" in "Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems"
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RECEPTIVITY REMEDIES
To read the entire piece, go here: https://bit.ly/x11kmj
Alert, relaxed listening is the radical act at the heart of our pronoiac
practice. Curiosity is our primal state of awareness. Wise innocence is a
trick we aspire to master. Open-hearted skepticism is the light in our
eyes.
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To achieve what the Zen Buddhists call "beginner's mind," you dispense
with all preconceptions and enter each situation as if seeing it for the
first time.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," wrote Shunryu
Suzuki in his book *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind,* "but in the expert's
there are few."
As much as I love beginner's mind, though, I advocate an additional
discipline: cultivating a beginner's heart. That means approaching every
encounter imbued with a freshly invoked wave of love that is as pure as if
you're feeling it for the first time.
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To be the best pronoiac explorer you can be, I suggest you adopt an outlook
that combines the rigorous objectivity of a scientist, the "beginner's
mind" of Zen Buddhism, the "beginner's heart" of pronoia, and the
compassionate friendliness of the Dalai Lama.
Blend a scrupulously dispassionate curiosity with a skepticism driven by
expansiveness, not spleen.
To pull this off, you'll have to be willing to regularly suspend your
brilliant theories about the way the world works. Accept with good humor
the possibility that what you've learned in the past may not be a reliable
guide to understanding the fresh phenomenon that's right in front of you.
Be suspicious of your biases, even the rational and benevolent ones. Open
your heart as you strip away the interpretations that your emotions might
be inclined to impose.
"Before we can receive the unbiased truth about anything," wrote my
teacher Ann Davies, "we have to be ready to ignore what we would like to
be true."
At the same time, don't turn into a hard-ass, poker-faced robot. Keep
your feelings moist and receptive. Remember your natural affection for
all of creation. Enjoy the power of tender sympathy as it drives you to
probe for the unimaginable revelations of every new moment.
"Before we can receive the entire truth about anything," said Ann Davies,
"we have to love it."
To read the rest of "RECEPTIVITY REMEDIES," go here:
https://bit.ly/x11kmj
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THE POWER OF PRONOIAC THINKING
"Scientific American" chimes in on the power of pronoiac thinking: "Your
thoughts can release abilities beyond normal limits. Better vision,
stronger muscles -- expectations can have surprising effects."
Excerpt:
"Thinking that we are limited is itself a limiting factor. There is
accumulating evidence that suggests that our thoughts are often capable of
extending our cognitive and physical limits."
More: https://tinyurl.com/pqc4am5
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains;
I invented a brighter flame for myself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Finland's Women-Led Government Has Equalized Family Leave: 7 Months
For Each Parent.
https://tinyurl.com/wpo2m32
No one has been able to discover the fountain of youth, but an English
study indicates that a trip to your local art museum could help extend
your life.
https://tinyurl.com/uwt4oov
If You Buy a Sapling For This Rainforest, Money Also Helps Turn Illegal
Loggers into Forest Guardians.
https://tinyurl.com/ujww5vp
Who scored recent victories? According to DailyKos:
The labor movement, as data show there were 25 major strikes in 2019,
nearly double the yearly average of 2010 through 2018
Native Americans in North Dakota, for scoring a big win as the Secretary
of State settles lawsuits against the Republicans' discriminatory voter ID
law
Michael Marando, Aaron Zelinsky, Jonathan Kravis, and Adam Jed, the
federal prosecutors on the Roger Stone case who resigned after AG Bill
Barr interfered for political reasons
The Virginia House of Delegates, for passing a bill making it a crime to
own assault weapons, large-capacity magazines, silencers, or trigger
activators
Astronaut Christina Koch, who returned from the Space Station after
breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman---328
days, including 45 hours spacewalking
Andrew McCabe, as Trump's vicious, horrible, disgraceful witch hunt
turns to dust and the former FBI deputy director is cleared of wrongdoing
by the Justice Department
Anti-Nazi face punchers, as Trump cultist Conor Climo of the "Feuerkrieg
Division" pleads guilty in a plot to bomb a synagogue, gay bar, and/or
office of the Anti-Defamation League
Georgia, where the voter registration drive led by Stacey Abrams is
signing up new voters faster than the Republican crooks there can purge
them
(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 February 20
Copyright 2020 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1908, British playwright W. Somerset
Maugham reached the height of success. Four of his plays were being
performed concurrently in four different London theaters. If you were
ever in your life going to achieve anything near this level of overflowing
popularity or attention, I suspect it would be this year. And if that's a
development you would enjoy and thrive on, I think the coming weeks will
be an excellent time to set your intention and take audacious measures.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you feel ready to change your mind about
an idea or belief or theory that has been losing its usefulness? Would you
consider changing your relationship with a once-powerful influence that
is becoming less crucial to your life-long goals? Is it possible you have
outgrown one of your heroes or teachers? Do you wonder if maybe it's
time for you to put less faith in a certain sacred cow or overvalued idol?
According to my analysis of your astrological omens, you'll benefit from
meditating on these questions during the coming weeks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was alive more than 2,500 years
ago, the Greek poet Sappho was so famous for her lyrical creations that
people referred to her as "The Poetess" and the "Tenth Muse." (In Greek
mythology, there were nine muses, all goddesses.) She was a prolific
writer who produced over 10,000 lines of verse, and even today she
remains one of the world's most celebrated poets. I propose that we make
her your inspirational role model for the coming months. In my view,
you're poised to generate a wealth of enduring beauty in your own chosen
sphere. Proposed experiment: Regard your daily life as an art project.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever dropped out of the daily grind
for a few hours or even a few days so as to compose a master plan for your
life? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to give yourself that
necessary luxury. According to my analysis, you're entering a phase when
you'll generate good fortune for yourself if you think deep thoughts about
how to create your future. What would you like the story of your life to be
on March 1, 2025? How about March 1, 2030? And March 1, 2035? I
encourage you to consult your soul's code and formulate an inspired,
invigorating blueprint for the coming years. Write it down!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian novelist William Makepeace
Thackeray (1819–1875) is famous for *Vanity Fair*, a satirical
panorama of 19th-century British society. The phrase "Vanity Fair" had
been previously used, though with different meanings, in the Bible's book
of Ecclesiastes, as well as in works by John Bunyan and St. Augustine.
Thackeray was lying in bed near sleep one night when the idea flew into
his head to use it for his own story. He was so thrilled, he leaped up and
ran around his room chanting "Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!" I'm foreseeing at
least one epiphany like this for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. What
area of your life needs a burst of delicious inspiration?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Who loves you best, Leo? Which of your allies
and loved ones come closest to seeing you and appreciating you for who you
really are? Of all the people in your life, which have done most to help
you become the soulful star you want to be? Are there gem-like
characters on the peripheries of your world that you would like to draw
nearer? Are there energy drains that you've allowed to play too prominent
a role? I hope you'll meditate on questions like these in the coming weeks.
You're in a phase when you can access a wealth of useful insights and
revelations about how to skillfully manage your relationships. It's also a
good time to reward and nurture those allies who have given you so much.
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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 2020?
You can still buy access 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 https://freewillastrology.sparkns.com to register and/or sign in
through the main page.
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.
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.
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Doom and gloom dominate the forecasts made
by many prophets. They experience perverse glee in predicting, for
example, that all the rain forests and rivers will be owned by greedy
corporations by 2050, or that extraterrestrial invaders who resemble
crocodiles will take control of the U.S. government "for the good of the
American people," or that climate change will eventually render chocolate
and bananas obsolete. That's not how I operate. I deplore the idea that it's
only the nasty prognostications that are interesting. In that spirit, I make
the following forecasts: The number of homeless Virgos will decrease
dramatically in the near future, as will the number of dreamhome-less
Virgos. In fact, I expect you folks will experience extra amounts of
domestic bliss in the coming months. You may feel more at home in the
world than ever before.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I don't require everyone I learn from to be an
impeccable saint. If I vowed to draw inspiration only from those people
who flawlessly embody every one of my ethical principles, there'd be no
one to be inspired by. Even one of my greatest heroes, Martin Luther King
Jr., cheated on his wife and plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation.
Where do you stand on this issue, Libra? I bet you will soon be tested. How
much imperfection is acceptable to you?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio comedian John Cleese co-founded the
troupe Monty Python more than fifty years ago, and he has been
generating imaginative humor ever since. I suggest we call on his counsel
as you enter the most creative phase of your astrological cycle. "This is
the extraordinary thing about creativity," he says. "If you just keep your
mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner
or later you will get a reward from your unconscious." Here's another one
of Cleese's insights that will serve you well: "The most creative people
have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much
longer, and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their
solutions are more creative."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian philosopher Baruch Spinoza
(1632–1677) developed a vigorous and expansive vision. That's why he
became a leading intellectual influence in the era known as the
Enlightenment. But because of his inventive, sometimes controversial
ideas, he was shunned by his fellow Jews and had his books listed on the
Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books. Understandably, he sometimes
felt isolated. To compensate, he spent lots of time alone taking wide-
ranging journeys in his imagination. Even if you have all the friends and
social stimulation you need, I hope you will follow his lead in the coming
weeks—by taking wide-ranging journeys in your imagination. It's time to
roam and ramble in inner realms.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Absolute reason expired at eleven
o’clock last night," one character tells another in Henrik Ibsen's play
*Peer Gynt*. I'm happy to report that a different development is on the
verge of occurring for you, Capricorn. In recent days, there may have
been less than an ideal amount of reason and logic circulating in your
world. But that situation will soon change. The imminent outbreak of good
sense, rigorous sanity, and practical wisdom will be quite tonic. Take
advantage of this upcoming grace period. Initiate bold actions that are
well-grounded in objective rather than subjective truth.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Renowned Aquarian composer Franz
Schubert (1797–1828) created more than 700 compositions, some of
which are still played by modern musicians. Many of his works were
written on and for the piano—and yet he was so poor that he never owned a
piano. If there has been a similar situation in your life, Aquarius—a lack
of some crucial tool or support due to financial issues—I see the coming
weeks as being an excellent time to set in motion the plans that will enable
you to overcome and cure that problem.
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