Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
April 14, 2021
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When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes
sacred.
—Allen Ginsberg
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COMPLIMENTS
Sara Kuburic writes: Here are some compliments you can bestow that
don't refer to physical characteristics:
"I constantly learn from you"
"The way you treat people is beautiful"
"Your character is strong"
"You are such a good listener. I always feel heard"
"I appreciate how authentically you show up"
"Your confidence is something I aspire to"
"You make me feel like I belong"
"Your resilience is inspiring"
"I love that you don't hesitate to apologize when you're wrong"
"I really admire your passion for self-exploration"
"I love how transparent you are"
"You bring out the best in me"
"You're dependable. I always feel safe around you"
"Your passion is contagious"
These are were written by Sara Kuburic, CCC; @mIllennial.therapist
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A THOUSAND YEARS FROM TODAY
A thousand years from today, everyone you know will be long dead and
forgotten. There'll be nothing left of the life you love, no evidence that you
ever walked this planet. That, at least, is what the fundamentalist
materialists would have you believe.
But suppose the truth is very different? What if in fact every little thing
you do subtly alters the course of world history? What if your day-to-day
decisions will actually help determine how the human species navigates
its way through the epic turning point we're living through?
And finally, what if you will be alive in a thousand years, reincarnated
into a fresh body and in possession of the memories of the person you were
back in this era?
These are my hypotheses. These are my prophecies. That's why I say: Live
as if your soul is eternal.
—from my book *The Televisionary Oracle*
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MARKS OF WILDNESS
Here are some marks of wildness:
a passion to find where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger
meet;
a determination to serve your highest purpose as you give the world your
finest gifts;
a commitment to doing what you love as you express your love for all
those who have given so much to you.
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YOUR TRUE HOME
I invite you to dream and muse about your true home; your sweet,
energizing, love-strong home, the haven where you can freely be high and
deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous; the oasis where you are the
person you promised yourself you could be.
To stimulate and enhance your thoughtful feelings about your true home,
experiment with the following activities.
• Feed your roots.
• Visualize the memories that empower you.
• Celebrate and honor the experiences that imbue you with confidence and
self-possession.
• Keep reinventing and reinvigorating your vital traditions.
• Cherish and foster your reliable sources of energy and inspiration.
* Refine the magic that liberates you.
• Identify all the influences that nurture you, and treasure your
relationship with them.
Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your serene
authority and relaxed aplomb?
• Tend to your web of close allies.
• Take care of what takes care of you.
• Cultivate the arts of adoration and reverence and awe.
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MY FUTURE BOOKS
After many years of work, I have finished writing my new novel as well as
a book of experimental prose and poetry. Now I must decide whether to
publish and promote these two beautiful things myself or else seek a
publisher to do that work.
The advantage of the first option is that I maintain full ownership of my
writing and don't have to deal with the sometimes sticky aspects of the
book business.
The advantage of the second option is that the books would potentially
reach more readers and be more likely to be reviewed.
My question for you is: Do you know a literary agent or publisher that you
think would feel a connection with my writing? If so, who?
If you have any leads, send them to me at Truthrooster@gmail.com
Here's the image of the working cover for the novel
https://tinyurl.com/59m5rahe
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TENDER RIDDLES
1. What is the most important thing you have never done?
2. How could you play a joke on your fears?
3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself.
4. Name a good old thing you would have to give up in order to get a great
new thing.
5. What's the one feeling you want to feel more than any other during the
next three years?
6. What inspires you to love?
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PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO YOURSELF
I invite you to say this, or something like this: "I pledge to wake myself
up, never hold back, have nothing to lose, go all the way, kiss the stormy
sky, be the hero of my own story, ask for everything I need and give
everything I have, take myself to the river when it's time to go to the
river, and take myself to the mountaintop when it's time to go to the
mountaintop."
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
In 24 Years California Has Cut Toxic Air Pollution By 78%, Resulting in
82% Fewer Attributable Deaths.
https://tinyurl.com/dfcyn6a4
Bird Protectors Built a Giant Sandcastle to Ensure These Martins Have a
Nesting Home For Years to Come.
https://tinyurl.com/4nmtwva6
With Time to Pursue New Hobbies, 6 in 10 Have ‘Leveled Up’ — And 40%
Think They’ll Make Money From it.
https://tinyurl.com/spuhjfhc
Parole Officer ‘Empathy Training’ Leads to a 13% Drop in Offenders
Returning to Jail.
https://tinyurl.com/5v6fjxzh
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For a lot more pronoiac resources and ideas, read my book *Pronoia Is the
Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You
with Blessings*
Available at Bookshop.org: https://tinyurl.com/548hp8y8
Available at Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/PronoiaBN
Available at Amazon: https://bit.ly/Pronoia
A free preview of the book is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/PronoiaPreview
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Please tell me your own nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning April 15
Copyright 2021 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Today I feel the whole world is a door,"
wrote poet Dennis Silk. In a similar spirit, 13th-century Zen master
Wumen Huikai observed, "The whole world is a door of liberation, but
people are unwilling to enter it." Now I'm here to tell you, Aries, that
there will be times in the coming weeks when the whole world will feel
like a door to you. And if you open it, you'll be led to potential
opportunities for interesting changes that offer you liberation. This is a
rare blessing. Please be sufficiently loose and alert and brave to take
advantage.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
was called a genius by Nobel Prize-winning author Bertrand Russell. His
*Philosophical Investigations* was once voted the 20th century's most
important philosophy book. Yet one of Wittgenstein's famous quotes was
"How hard it is to see what is right in front of my eyes!" Luckily for all of
us, I suspect that won't be problem for you in the coming weeks, Taurus.
In fact, I'm guessing you will see a whole range of things that were
previously hidden, even though some of them had been right in front of
your eyes. Congrats! Everyone whose life you touch will benefit because of
this breakthrough.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Why don't rivers flow straight? Well,
sometimes they do, but only for a relatively short stretch. According to
the US Geological Survey, no river moves in a linear trajectory for a
distance of more than ten times its width. There are numerous reasons
why this is so, including the friction caused by banks and the fact that
river water streams faster at the center. The place where a river changes
direction is called a "meander." I'd like to borrow this phenomenon to
serve as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. I suspect your
regular flow is due for a course change—a meander. Any intuitive ideas
about which way to go? In which direction will the scenery be best?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Denis Johnson eventually
became a celebrated writer who won numerous prizes, including the
prestigious National Book Award. But life was rough when he was in his
twenties. Because of his addictions to drugs and alcohol, he neglected his
writing. Later, in one of his mature poems, he expressed appreciation to
people who supported him earlier on. "You saw me when I was invisible,"
he wrote, "you spoke to me when I was deaf, you thanked me when I was a
secret." Are there helpers like that in your own story? Now would be a
perfect time to honor them and repay the favors.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What do you believe in, exactly, Leo? The coming
weeks will be a fine time to take an inventory of your beliefs—and then
divest yourself of any that no longer serve you, no longer excite you, and
no longer fit your changing understanding of how life works. For extra
credit, I invite you to dream up some fun new beliefs that lighten your
heart and stimulate your playfulness. For example, you could borrow poet
Charles Wright's approach: "I believe what the thunder and lightning have
to say." Or you could try my idea: "I believe in wonders and marvels that
inspire me to fulfill my most interesting dreams."
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Charles Wright testifies, "I write
poems to untie myself, to do penance and disappear through the upper
right-hand corner of things, to say grace." What about you, Virgo? What
do you do in order to untie yourself and do penance and invoke grace? The
coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to use all the tricks at
your disposal to accomplish such useful transformations. And if you
currently have a low supply of the necessary tricks, make it your healthy
obsession to get more.
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DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES
Did you know that I write daily horoscopes, available as text messages
sent to your phone? They're shorter than the weekly 'scopes, but more
frequent. They're called SUNBURSTS.
You can get these regular bursts of inspiration for 67 cents a day if you
sign up for a subscription.
Go to https://RealAstrology.com. Register or log in. On the new page, click
on "Subscribe / Renew" under "Daily Text Message Horoscopes" in the
right-hand column.
As always, you can also buy and listen to my Expanded Audio Horoscopes,
also available at https://RealAstrology.com.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire and
China in the second half of the 13th century, kept a retinue of 5,000
astrologers on retainer. Some were stationed on the roof of his palace,
tasked with using sorcery to banish approaching storm clouds. If you
asked me to perform a similar assignment, I would not do so. We need
storms! They bring refreshing rain, and keep the earth in electrical
balance. Lightning from storms creates ozone, a vital part of our
atmosphere, and it converts nitrogen in the air into nitrogen in the
ground, making the soil more fertile. Metaphorical storms often generate
a host of necessary and welcome transformations, as well—as I suspect
they will for you during the coming weeks.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Unexpressed emotions will never die,"
declared trailblazing psychologist Sigmund Freud. "They are buried alive
and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways." I agree, which is why I
advise you not to bury your emotions—especially now, when they urgently
need to be aired. OK? Please don't allow a scenario in which they will
emerge later in ugly ways. Instead, find the courage to express them
soon—in the most loving ways possible, hopefully, and with respect for
people who may not be entirely receptive to them. Communicate with
compassionate clarity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Cristin O’Keefe
Aptowicz wrote a poem entitled "Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the
Same as Doing Something Right." I propose that we make that thought one
of your guiding themes during the next two weeks. If you choose to accept
the assignment, you will make a list of three possible actions that fit the
description "not doing something wrong," and three actions that consist of
"doing something right." Then you will avoid doing the three wrong things
named in the first list and give your generous energy to carrying out the
three right things in the second list.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the past few weeks, I hope you've been
treating yourself like a royal child. I hope you've been showering yourself
with extra special nurturing and therapeutic treatments. I hope you've
been telling yourself out loud how soulful and intelligent and resilient you
are, and I hope you've delighted yourself by engaging with a series of
educational inspirations. If for some inexplicable reason you have not
been attending to these important matters with luxurious intensity,
please make up for lost time in the coming days. Your success during the
rest of 2021 depends on your devout devotion to self-care right now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometimes when a disheartening kind of
darkness encroaches, we're right to be afraid. In fact, it's often wise to be
afraid, because doing so may motivate us to ward off or transmute the
darkness. But on other occasions, the disheartening darkness that seems to
be encroaching isn't real, or else is actually less threatening than we
imagine. Novelist John Steinbeck described the latter when he wrote, "I
know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did
not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid." My
suspicion is that this is the nature of the darkness you're currently
worried about. Can you therefore find a way to banish or at least diminish
your fear?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Some people, if they didn't make it hard
for themselves, might fall asleep," wrote novelist Saul Bellow. In other
words, some of us act as if it's entertaining, even exciting, to attract
difficulties and cause problems for ourselves. If that describes you even a
tiny bit, Pisces, I urge you to tone down that bad habit in the coming
weeks—maybe even see if you can at least partially eliminate it. The
cosmic rhythms will be on your side whenever you take measures to
drown out the little voices in your head that try to undermine and sabotage
you. At least for now, say "NO!" to making it hard for yourself. Say "YES!"
to making it graceful for yourself.
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teaches you the most. FreeWillAstrology.com
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