#Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology

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Image: St Margaret of Antioch beating the devil with a hammer The image is a detail of a painting called "Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine," Barna da Siena, c1340, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Veterans of war who've been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way.

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The more I watch this, the more I agree with it.

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Jason (from the Greek Iásōn, “healer”) Peter Todd (from the German Tod, “death”) - I hope you find your way out of that grave.

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Rob Brezsny

Astrology for Your Inspiration

Astrology for Your Liberation

ROB BREZSNY

NOV 7

My new book is for sale: ASTROLOGY IS REAL: REVELATIONS FROM MY LIFE AS AN ORACLE.

It’s partially a memoir of my adventures while writing an internationally syndicated horoscope column for four decades. It’s partially a book of essays about astrology and why we need more of the soulful intelligence that astrology potentially provides.

And ASTROLOGY IS REAL is also filled with insights and inspirations about your zodiac sign, dear reader. These are different from the horoscopes I create for you in my weekly column Free Will Astrology. They are meditations on the questions, “How To Be an Aries,” “How To Be a Taurus,” “How To be a Gemini,” and how to be the other nine signs.

Here is one such section in the book:

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CANCERIAN: Below are responses to the topic "How to Be a Cancerian." My readers provided some ideas, which are noted. 

1. Be fluid and flexible while still being rooted and sturdy. Be soft and sensitive even as you are also firm and resolute.  

Be mostly modest and adaptable, but become assertive and outspoken as necessary. Be cautious about inviting and seeking out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arrives.  

Be your naturally generous self most of the time, but avoid giving too much.  

Got all that, Cancerian?  

Carrying out the multifaceted assignments I just described might be nearly impossible for most of the other signs of the zodiac, but they are in your wheelhouse. You are a specialist in fertile complexity. 

2. Gently and tenderly haunt people's dreams with your lyrical intimacy and generous mystery and inscrutable magic. 

3. Compare your everyday life to the narratives in storybooks and fairy tales and legends. Act as if you have the power to attract experiences that others believe are only true in fantasy. Really, truly believe in fantastic creatures. Whenever you need a vacation from reality, induce waking dreams to whisk you away. 

4. Listen attentively to your inner child, but don’t spoil and overindulge your inner child. 

5. More than any other sign of the zodiac, you feel the sadness and suffering of the world. Is that a debility or asset? It all depends on how you choose to respond to the inflow. Compassionate action is most likely to make it an asset. 

6. When your cup of sensitivity runneth over, MAKE ART! —Sy Pfy 

7. To entice people to surrender, flood them with love. —Shiloh Manwaring 

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What’s More Important Than Retrogrades?

No retrogrades.

At all.

I'm not joking.

I've never found a single instance of myself actually experiencing anything that matches what people say happens on any of the retrogrades.

I've tried.

I sort of almost convinced myself a few times, back when I knew little to nothing about Astrology.

I used to make memes about them, trying to teach myself by trying to feel retrogrades as different.

Everyone else seems to be feeling them, but what if that's just people being Neptunian? We're all Neptunian sometimes; not just people like me, with a Neptune chart ruler.

Then I started noticing more and more that all of my transits and prominent degree changes were explaining in specific detail why I was experiencing certain patterns and circumstances, and what to do for self improvement. I started making changes.

Now I don't blame Mercury retrograde or any of the others.

I can’t.

I deleted all of my retrograde memes, and felt a huge weight lift off; an easily noticeable energy shift. I was confusing myself on some level, attempting to work with or validate energies which aren’t necessary - at least for some of us.

It seems that (in certain ways; not in all of the ways propagated in modern Astrology) those who have a lot of retrogrades, or even just one prominent retrograde in their charts, are more sensitive towards them, and so they benefit from working closely with those planets whenever they retrograde.

I vaguely remember something lost in the mail during a Mercury retrograde, though I don’t know for certain whether or not that was coincidental. Again, that could be because my natal Mercury is direct.

And I’ve made a few memes about it and laughed a bit, but the masses of Astrologers who sit around bitching about retrogrades (especially Mercury), when they could be making (even funny) posts about, for example, the recent Neptune squares I’ve mentioned, really annoy me.

I get it that most people don’t know much about Astrology; I used to be one of them and I used to think loads of stuff was because of Mercury retrograde too.

But practicing Astrologers should know better. They should know that propagating so much negativity about one part of a vastly complex artistic science as Astrology is harmful for it’s dissonance and stagnancy. And what’s more, they often don’t even mention what else is going on and the various ways we can work through things, or at least cope easier, depending on what circumstances allow for.

I've studied a lot and have loads more to study. I don't remember exactly which old books or articles I read where there's much knowledge and wisdom, yet retrogrades aren't covered, but there have been a bunch. I have a couple of Charles E. O. Carters books and don't remember him placing any particular significance on retrogrades. He's considered among the most influential Astrologers of the 20th century and his work is still widely considered important.

If I remember right, Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology doesn't work with retrogrades. He's both insightful and poetic.

What should we pay attention to, if not retrogrades?

For those interested in anything beyond your Sun, Moon and Rising signs: Prominent transits by age, your chart rulers (both regular and Pullen chart rulers), critical degrees (and possibly decans; I’m not certain about whether or not they have as much importance as critical degrees), stellium (if you have one), house composition / shape.

In no particular order, because we are all vastly unique, with different chart compositions, and as we have free will, we don’t always make the decisions and take the actions which are best for us. We don’t always make the best choices, when we’re not paying attention to our Astrology and all of the various options it provides us for things like (yet not limited to) personal growth and reaching our goals.

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Your Inspiring Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’

Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free The post Your Inspiring Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A…

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Postscript — By Marie Howe What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters one after the other. What we did to the trees, we did to our elders stacked in their wheelchairs by the lunchroom door. What we did to our daughters, we did to our sons calling out for their mothers. What we did to the trees, what we did to the earth, we did to our sons, to our daughters. What we did to the cow, to the pig, to the lamb, we did to the earth, butchered and milked it. Few of us knew what the bird calls meant or what the fires were saying. We took of earth and took and took, and the earth seemed not to mind until one of our daughters shouted: it was right in front of you, right in front of your eyes and you didn’t see. The air turned red. The ocean grew teeth.

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La scrittrice Toni Morrison considerava la bellezza “una necessità assoluta” e non “un privilegio o un appagamento dei sensi”. Morrison diceva che “trovare, incamerare e rappresentare la bellezza è ciò che fanno gli esseri umani”. Nella sua visione del mondo non possiamo vivere senza bellezza, “come non possiamo vivere senza sogni o senza ossigeno”. Le idee di Morrison sono particolarmente in sintonia con i segni del Toro. Per noi del Toro, però, è importante che almeno una parte della bellezza sia anche utile. Come dice la scrittrice Anne Michaels: “Cerchiamo il modo di rendere necessaria la bellezza e bella la necessità”. Spero che nelle prossime settimane ti dedicherai a questo compito. Citaz. tratta dall'oroscopo di Rob Brezsny's, Free Will Astrology, per il segno del #toro . https://urly.it/3q9vn ____________ #streetphotographersfdn #StreetphotographersMagazine #StreetphotographersCommunity #streetphotography #ourstreets #streetmagazine #streetshared #streettogether #worldwide #myspc #lensculturestreets #burnmagazine #myfeatureshoot #photoobserve #magnumphotos #spicollective #HCSC_street #streetsygram #streetsgrammer #masmasonly #streetportrait #believeinfilm #streetwear #streetstyle #photoshoot #photobook #leicaq2 ____________ (presso Naples, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjZkG4noMby/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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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.

Rob Brezsny

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Renowned Taurus philosopher Bertrand Russell was sent to jail in 1918 because of his pacifism and anti-war activism. He liked being there. "I found prison in many ways quite agreeable," he said. "I had no engagements, no difficult decisions to make, no fear of callers, no interruptions to my work. I read enormously; I wrote a book." The book he produced, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, is today regarded as a classic. In 2020, I would love to see you Tauruses carve out an equally luxurious sabbatical without having to go through the inconvenience of being incarcerated. I'm confident you can do this.

Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny (Week of January 9, 2020)

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You have the keys to promising doors that don't exist yet; save those keys. You know the title of rousing stories that haven't happened yet; write those titles down. You've caught glimpses of your best future, but they're confusing because you can't imagine how you'll get to that future; imprint those glimpses on your memory.

Rob Brezsny