Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
September 16, 2009
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
"Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves
think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own
human dignity."
- Anton Chekhov( this way to Jason Mraz pronoia )
What does it say about the current state of reality when an intelligent optimist like Mraz has such mainstream popularity? Here's what I suspect: The media may relentlessly wallow in news about what's wrong and bad and rotting, but a lot of people are resisting that hypnotic hum as they wake up to the glorious other side of the story.
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Gemini Horoscope for week of August 27, 2009
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you'd be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It's time to question the story you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost. Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that everything you've believed is at least half-wrong -- that your origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it was actually a precious medicine.
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Yes. I know. By all Cartesian/Newtonian/Western modern thought this is malarky. OTOH, it makes me think, makes me examine my life and my self (Platonic, wot? or is it Socratic? lol!) and moves me to learn, to think, to try, to care. So: as Herb Caen would say (or is The New Yorker, or both? Notes from all over: onward, to the horoscopes.
From Georgia Nicols Weekly Horoscope: Sunday, January 18, 2009 (Canadian)
All signs:
An Aquarian shift is taking place now. All kinds of unexpected surprises and opportunities will suddenly present themselves in different ways to different signs. (It won't be boring!) Mostly it's good. For those of you who always plow a steady line, your velvet rut might be shaken up a bit. (Hey, it's the rigid trees who are the first to snap in a storm.) But if you're light on your feet, flexible and prepared to go with what's happening, it will be exciting and rejuvenating! Change is often scary but I think most of the changes taking place now have the potential for good and something better. Nevertheless, even if you're ready to stick your neck out, button your top collar. Steady as she goes! ( signs individually )
Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astronomy (Californian)
Free Will Astrology horoscopes for week of January 15, 2009 (Rob doesn't do an "all signs" so much as an "all people" in his blog: here are two excerpts from this week's:
From his book PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings:
As much as we might be dismayed at the actions of our political leaders, pronoia says that toppling any particular junta, clique, or elite is irrelevant unless we overthrow the sour, crippled mass hallucination that is mistakenly called "reality" -- including the part of that hallucination we foster in ourselves. We can't change the world unless we change ourselves.
The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.
AND:
AT THIS PARTY
I don't want to be the only one here
Telling all the secrets --
Filling up all the bowls at this party,
Taking all the laughs.
I would like you
To start putting things on the table
That can also feed the soul
The way I do.
That way
We can invite
A hell of a lot more
Friends.
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
( individual signs )
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Astrodienst (Geneva, Switzerland)
Astrodienst is a bit different in that it requires you to sign in with some birth data to get horoscopes. Since I know not everyone's going to want to do that, I'll pull up mine (Gemini):
Don't cave in
During this time most people have to deal with feelings of doubt, discouragement and inadequacy. Also you may find yourself unpleasantly confronted by the consequences of past actions that you hoped would simply go away. The challenge is to confront them without caving in and feeling hopeless. Now you will question whether you are doing what you should with your life. The temptation is to decide that you are not, and to give up. Others may try to convince you that you are on the wrong course and give you very demoralizing advice. Of course, you may in fact be wrong in some area, and there you should change course. But you must avoid the tendency to cave in. Evaluate what you are doing in your own terms, not someone else's, and decide whether you are acting properly in various matters.
Tarot.com Rick Levine (US, not sure where based) (Where I also check the I-Ching, Tarot, numerology, etc. when I stop by)
General Daily Horoscope
The Moon enters intense Scorpio at 1:21 am EST, reminding us that balance sometimes sounds better than it actually is. Now we are wise to take a stand, no matter what the consequences. However, we may overstate our opinions as communicator Mercury conjoins excessive Jupiter. This can be dangerous when combined with the Scorpio Moon's passion. Additionally the Moon squares Mercury and Jupiter, indicating stress between our feelings and our beliefs.
( horoscopes individually )
[And for those who've not partaken yet, Caroline Myss: Sacred Contract of America, and Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles.]
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