Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
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Do you promise to push hard to get better and smarter, grow your
devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine
your emotions, hone your dreams, wrestle with your shadow, purge
your ignorance, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept
yourself for exactly who you are, with all of your so-called foibles
and wobbles?
Do you pledge to wake yourself up, never hold back, have nothing
to lose, go all the way, kiss the stormy sky, be the hero of your
own story, ask for everything you need and give everything you
have, take yourself to the river when it's time to go to the river,
and take yourself to the mountaintop when it's time to go to the
mountaintop?
- PRONOIA
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The revised and expanded version of my book PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
I invite you to deepen and intensify your commitment to the most
important person in your life -- you. One way to further that
sacred cause is to get married to yourself. In my book, I've created
a text you can refer to as you perform the wedding. Or you can
use my text for inspiration as you create your own version.
Below is an excerpt. To read the whole text, go here: bit.ly/IMeWed
I ME WED
Let's begin by telling a simple truth: You will probably never
create a resilient, invigorating bond with the lush accomplice
of your dreams until you master the art of loving yourself ingeniously.
A wedding ritual that joins you to yourself could catalyze an
uncanny shift in your personal mojo that would attract a fresh,
hot consort into your life, or else awaken the sleeping potential
of a simmering alliance you have now.
If you're feeling brave, try speaking the following words aloud:
"I am no longer looking for the perfect partner.
I am my own perfect partner."
Say it even stronger:
"I am no longer looking for the perfect partner
to salve all my wounds
and fix all my mix-ups
and bridge all my chasms.
I am no longer looking for the perfect partner
because I am my own perfect partner."
TO READ THE REST OF "I ME WED," go here: bit.ly/IMeWed
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
WHAT IF YOU COULD REDUCE YOUR LEVELS OF SHAME BY, SAY, EVEN 30%?
Juices of Mortal Glory
A pronoiac view of shame from the poet Robert Hass
Warning: This poem may offend some people who feel shame about
their juices of mortal glory
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WE'RE CLOSER TO EACH OTHER THAN WE KNOW
Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain
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DON'T YOU PREFER GOOD SHOCKS TO BAD ONES?
12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
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(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 25
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
If you were going to launch a career as a rap artist any time
soon, I'd suggest that maybe you use the alias "Big Try"
as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic
religious path and get a new spiritual name, I'd recommend something
like "Bringit Harder" or "Pushit Stronger."
If you were about to join an activist group that fights for a
righteous cause, and you wanted a new nickname to mark your transformation,
I'd urge you to consider a tag like "Radical" or "Prime"
or "Ultra." And even if you're not doing any of the
above, I hope you'll carry out some ritual of transition to intensify
your commitment to your life's vital dreams.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"Everything is complicated," wrote poet Wallace Stevens.
"If that were not so, life and poetry and everything else
would be a bore." I hope you will choose his wisdom to serve
as your guiding light in the coming weeks. It is high time, in
my astrological opinion, for you to shed any resentment you might
feel for the fact that life is a crazy tangle of mystifying and
interesting stories. Celebrate it, Aries! Revel in it. Fall down
on your knees and give holy thanks for it. And by the way, here's
a big secret: To the extent that you do glory in the complications,
the complications will enlighten you, amuse you, and enrich you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
This is one time when you can be both the river and the bridge.
In fact, I strongly suggest that you make every effort to be both
the river and the bridge. I'll leave it up to you to interpret
how this metaphor applies to your life, but here's a clue to get
you started. Be a force of nature that flows vigorously along
even as you also provide a refuge for those who want to be close
to your energy but are not yet ready to be inside it and flow
along with it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Almost exactly ten years from now, you will be blessed with an
eruption of personal power that's so crafty and so practical that
you will be able to visualize a solution to a problem that has
stumped you for a long time. It may take you months to actually
carry out that solution in its entirety, but all the while you
will have the luxury of feeling perfect certainty about what must
be done. And you know what the weird thing is, Gemini? Something
very similar is in the works for the next few weeks: an eruption
of crafty, practical power that will help you materialize the
key to solving an old dilemma, hopefully followed by months of
carrying out your lucid plan.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Last night I had a dream in which I was addressing a crowd of
thousands of Cancerians in a large stadium. I was referring to
them as dolphins rather than as crabs. "I say unto you, my
fellow dolphins," I proclaimed (I myself was born June 23),
"that you have been given a sacred assignment by the great
gods of time themselves. And that assignment is to master the
art of Timeology." When I awoke from the dream, I was awash
with feelings of deep relaxation and ease, although I wasn't sure
why. I had never before heard that word "timeology,"
so I googled it. Here's how the Urban Dictionary defined it: "spending
time doing what you want to do, not accomplishing anything major
but also not wasting time." It so happens that this prescription
is well-suited to our current astrological omens. I suggest that
you and I be as playful as dolphins.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
In an episode of the animated TV sci-fi series Futurama,
we get to see inside the headquarters of Romanticorp, where "love
research" is being done. One of the experiments involves
robots delivering various pick-up lines to actual women. The line
that works best is "My two favorite things are commitment
and changing myself." I recommend that you make that your
own catchphrase, Leo -- not just this week but for the foreseeable
future. The entire year of 2010 will be an excellent time to deepen
your commitments and transform yourself, and the weeks ahead will
bring unprecedented opportunities to intensify those efforts.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers," advises
a passage in the Bible, "for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares." While that's always good counsel, it's
especially apt for you in the coming days. I believe you will
come into contact with people who can provide you with valuable
teaching and healing, even if they're disguised as baristas or
pet shampooers or TV repairmen -- and even if this will be the
one and only time they will provide you with teaching and healing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Metaphorically speaking, you have recently begun crossing the
water in a dream boat that has a small leak. If you keep going,
it's possible you will reach the far side before sinking. But
that's uncertain. And even if you were able to remain afloat the
entire way, the shakiness of the situation would probably fill
you with anxiety. My suggestion, then, is to head back to where
you started and fix the leak.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Some Scorpios bring out the worst in people. Other Scorpios draw
out the best. Then there are those members of your tribe who sometimes
bring out the worst in their fellow humans and other times bring
out the best. Where do you fit in this spectrum? Regardless of
your position up until now, I'm betting that in the coming months
you'll be moving in the direction of bringing out more of the
best. And it all begins now. To get the process underway, think
of five people you care about, and visualize the wonderful futures
that it might be possible for them to create for themselves.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
More than a few fairy tales feature the theme of characters
who accidentally find a treasure. They're not searching for treasure,
don't feel worthy of it, and aren't fully prepared for it. They
may initially not even know what they're looking at, and see it
as preposterous or abnormal or disquieting. Who could blame them
if they ran away from the treasure? In order to recognize and
claim it, they might have to shed a number of their assumptions
about the way the world works. And they might have to clear up
a discrepancy between their unconscious longings and their conscious
intentions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Everyone alive has some kind of learning disability. I know brilliant
physicists who are dumb about poetry. There are fact-loving journalists
whose brains freeze when they're invited to consider the ambiguous
truths of astrology. My friend John suffers from dyslexia, while
I myself am incapable of mastering the mysteries of economics.
What's your blind spot, Capricorn? What's your own personal learning
disability? Whatever it is, this would be an excellent time, astrologically
speaking, to work with it. For the next few months, you will be
able to call on what you need in order to diminish its power to
limit you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
"We cannot change anything until we accept it," said
psychologist Carl Jung. "Condemnation does not liberate,
it oppresses." Make that your hypothesis, Aquarius, and then
conduct the following experiment. First, choose some situation
you would like to transform. Next, open your heart to it with
all the love and compassion you can muster. Go beyond merely tolerating
it with a resigned disappointment. Work your way into a frame
of mind in which you completely understand and sympathize with
why it is the way it is. Imagine a scenario in which you could
live your life with equanimity if the situation in question never
changed. Finally, awash in this grace, meditate on how you might
be able to actually help it evolve into something new.
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HOMEWORK:
What are you doing to get ready for 2012? Read my suggestions
at bit.ly/2012now, then tell
me your own at Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely matches my own. In
our many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had
a major influence on each other's work.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained
intuition, emotional warmth, and
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in horoscope interpretation; she
is skilled
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life's purpose and nurturing your
connection with your own inner
wisdom.
Ro is based in California, but
can do phone consultations and
otherwise
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Ro's website is at YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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