I am sharing today’s Rob Brezsny newsletter, because he answers a lot of question for me, about my work as well.
For example, why would soul correction be calculated from your date of birth… WTF, right? But it is very accurate, I must tell you. Even though I discover and am shown aspects of a soul correction, once I see the new aspect, I can look and it fits all people with the same correction like a glove.
I am also starting to see more clearly some low vibration aspects of different systems of thought.
For example: any system of thought that subscribes to god, gods, angels, or in fact any entities, loses truth value and vibration to the degree that the system depends on that idea, on those ideas.
The idea for a need for a supernatural being, or two or many shows a low grasp on reality, and that is low vibration.
The vibration, could be said, is a number that shows the accuracy of your worldview.
And another aspect of a low vibration is denying anything that is not visible, not measurable, or doesn’t make sense to the man sitting in Plato’s Cave, the mind.
The invisible doesn’t cast a shadow, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t mean it is not influencing you or life.
My whole work is flowing from the invisible. And in that regard, Rob Brezsny and I are kindred spirits.
Rob Brezsny’s Astrology Newsletter
May 16, 2018
QUESTION. How can an intelligent person possibly believe astrology has any merit?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. Many of the debunkers 1 who try to discredit astrology have done no research on the subject. They haven’t read smart astrological philosophers like Dane Rudhyar, don’t know that seminal astronomers Johannes Kepler and Galileo were skilled astrologers, and aren’t aware that eminent psychologist C.G. Jung cast horoscopes and believed that “astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”
The closest approach the fraudulent “skeptics” usually make to the ancient art is to glance at a random horoscope column in a newspaper or on a website. To match their carelessness, I might make a drive-by of a strip mall and declare that the profession of architecture is shallow and debased.
That’s one reason why these ill-informed “skeptics” spread so many ignorant lies. For instance, they say that astrologers think the stars and planets emit invisible beams that affect people’s lives. The truth is, many Western astrologers don’t believe any such thing. (You can read more comments about this below.)
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QUESTION. Because you pack your column with doses of wry humor and wild imagery, some people think you don’t take astrology seriously.
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. On the contrary, I think my humor and imagery, along with my passion for crafting cliché-free language, demonstrate how much respect I have for astrology. With the vigor I apply to writing my oracles, I feel I’m alerting people to the possibility that astrology may have more credibility than both its sloppy practitioners and careless debunkers have afforded it.
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QUESTION. You have said in the past that you believe in astrology “about 80 percent.” What’s up with the other 20 percent?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. I use the same 80-20 approach with every belief system I love and benefit from: Qabala, science, paganism, transpersonal psychology, postmodern rationalism, feminism, and others. I take what’s useful from each, but am not so deluded as to think that any single system is the holy grail the physicists call the “Theory of Everything.” Unconditional, unskeptical faith is the path of the fanatic and fundamentalist, and I aspire to be a rowdy philosophical anarchist, aflame with objectivity and committed to the truth that the truth is always mutating.
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QUESTION. But don’t you risk playing the same role the lazy astrologers do: enticing people to take on a superstitious approach to life and seducing them into believing their fate is determined by supernatural forces beyond the influence of their willpower?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. I call what I do predicting the present, not forecasting the future. My goal is to awaken my readers to the hidden agendas, unconscious forces, and long-term cycles at work in their lives so that they can respond to the totality of what’s happening instead of to mere appearances. I want to be a friendly shocker who helps unleash their imaginations, giving them the power to create their destinies with the same liberated fertility that great artists summon to forge their masterpieces.
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QUESTION. How do you write your column? Do you use actual astrological data, or just go into a trance and let your imagination run wild?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. I draw up a weekly chart for the sun, moon, and major aspects of each sign. It’s the framework within which I improvise. The artistic part of the work is harder to pin down. One of my guiding principles, though, is to treat each sign’s horoscope as a personal love letter—to speak as intimately about the mysteries of the moment as if I were addressing a close friend.
Where do my inspirations come from? Dreams, letters from readers, overheard conversations, meditation, lots of reading in a wide variety of texts both sacred and profane, and the intensive cultivation of my own receptivity.
I also rely on fact-finding missions I call whirlygigs. During these, I steep myself with the intention of attracting lessons I don’t know I need, then meander the streets at random, going places I’ve never been and striking up conversations with strangers with whom I apparently have nothing in common.
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QUESTION: Many modern skeptics/scientists’ assumption imagine that astrology is based on the belief that the gravity or movements of the planetary bodies themselves is what influences us. Is that a misconception?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. Yes. It’s another case of scientists not acting like scientists — not bothering to research the subject they speak about authoritatively.
In his book *Cosmos and Psyche*, Richard Tarnas says the planets don’t emit invisible forces that shape our destinies as if we were puppets. Rather, they are symbols of the unfolding evolutionary pattern. Just as clocks tell time but don’t create it, the heavenly bodies show us the big picture but don’t cause it.
Quoting Greek philosopher Plotinus, Tarnas writes, “The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
So it’s not just the distant globes whose movements and relationships serve as divinatory clues. If you’re sufficiently attuned to the gestalt of creation and pay close enough attention to its unfolding details, you can read the current mood of the universe in the arrangement of red onions in the grocery store bin or the fluttering of sunlight and shadow on the mimosa tree or the scatter of soap suds in your sink after you’ve finished washing the dishes.
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QUESTION. You confuse me in the way that you praise rational thought and the scientific method, yet reserve the right to believe in astrology, angels, miracles, and other woo-woo.
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. Thousands of amazing, inexplicable, and even supernatural events occur every day. And yet most are unreported by the media. The few that are cited are ridiculed. Why?
Here’s one possible reason: The people most likely to believe in wonders and marvels are superstitious, uneducated, and prone to having a blind, literalist faith in their religions’ myths. Those who are least likely to believe in wonders and marvels are skilled at analytical thought, well-educated, and yet prone to having a blind, literalist faith in the ideology of materialism, which dogmatically asserts that the universe consists entirely of things that can be perceived by the five human senses or detected by instruments that scientists have thus far invented.
The media is largely composed of people from the second group. It’s virtually impossible for them to admit to the possibility of events that elude the rational mind’s explanations, let alone experience them. If anyone from this group manages to escape peer pressure and cultivate a receptivity to the miraculous, it’s because they have successfully fought against being demoralized by the unsophisticated way wonders and marvels are framed by the first group.
I try to be immune to the double-barreled ignorance. When I behold astonishing synchronicities and numinous breakthroughs that seem to violate natural law, I’m willing to consider the possibility that my understanding of natural law is too narrow. And yet I also refrain from lapsing into irrational gullibility; I actively seek mundane explanations for apparent miracles.
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QUESTION. Can you sum up your approach to seeing the world?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. My outlook combines the rigorous objectivity of a scientist, the “beginner’s mind” of Zen Buddhism, and the compassionate friendliness of the Dalai Lama. I blend a scrupulously dispassionate curiosity with a skepticism driven by expansiveness, not spleen.
To pull this off, I have to be willing to regularly suspend my theories about the way the world works. I accept with good humor the possibility that what I’ve learned in the past may not be a reliable guide to understanding the fresh phenomenon that’s right in front of me. I’m suspicious of my biases, even the rational and benevolent ones. I open my heart as I strip away the interpretations that my 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, I don’t want to turn into a hard-ass, poker-faced robot. I keep my feelings moist and receptive. I remember my natural affection for all of creation. I enjoy the power of tender sympathy as it drives me 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.”
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INTERVIEWER: Can you provide a 25-words-or-less summary of what “Free Will Astrology” is not?
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. My Free Will Astrology horoscopes are not rooted in or justified by any belief system, doctrine, fairy tale, authoritative teacher, elaborate secret joke, mystical wishing, well-rationalized bias, or rebellion against science. My horoscopes are fueled by poetry and in service to the liberated imagination.
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ARCHIVES OF FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Here are the Free Will Astrology horoscopes from a year ago: https://bit.ly/2qocYN1. (When you reach the link, scroll down to read your horoscope.)
Here are the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote for you at the beginning of 2018. How are they working for you? https://bit.ly/YourGloriousStory2018
Below is some reader email that came in recently. (If you’d like to tell me your opinions on my work, either positive or negative, send them to [email protected].)
Mr. So-Called Astrologer: I was browsing through the Folio Weekly newspaper in Jacksonville, and saw your horoscopes, and really had to say: what the hell?!
One horoscope has a bunch of synonyms and antonyms mushed together. What is “strong softness” supposed to mean? Or “daring acts of nurturing”? Just sounds like nonsense to me.
Another horoscope has a weird story about the history of cars (although thanks for providing the moral of the story, because otherwise I would not have realized the point)
So this is just my request to, if possible, give us more of a horoscope and less of a game of words that really do not have any usefulness.
Hold off on the irrelevant stories and be more direct in giving some practical advice about my finances or who I should date. Maybe put in some numerology or even what to watch out for in the current week.
I love reading horoscopes but yours were very confusing and disappointing.
Thank you 🙂
Fran R.
So, how accurate are Rob Brezsny’s horoscopes? This is a truth value: 20%
Rob Brezsny: personal vibration: 200
If he could raise his vibration, his stuff’s truth value would go higher.
Are Rob Brezsny’s horoscope valuable? I have found that the value is in the eye of the recipient. What is valuable to me is valuable because of me. And the horoscopes have been an average of 70 value on a scale of 1-100.
Because it all depends on you, my friend. Your ability to capture value.
And not surprisingly, to the degree you can capture value here, to the same degree you’ll capture value in other areas of life… probably not a whole lot.
It’s a lot like a beautiful voice captured on a low quality recording… not beautiful.
debunk:expose the falseness or hollowness of (a myth, idea, or belief)
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I am sharing today’s Rob Brezsny newsletter, because he answers a lot of question for me, about my work as well.
And another aspect of a low vibration is denying anything that is not visible, not measurable, or doesn’t make sense to the man sitting in Plato’s Cave, the mind.Rob Brezsny’s Astrology Newsletter
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. I draw up a weekly chart for the sun, moon, and major aspects of each sign. It’s the framework within which I improvise. The artistic part of the work is harder to pin down. One of my guiding principles, though, is to treat each sign’s horoscope as a personal love letter—to speak as intimately about the mysteries of the moment as if I were addressing a close friend.
ROB’S BREZSNY’S ANSWER. Thousands of amazing, inexplicable, and even supernatural events occur every day. And yet most are unreported by the media. The few that are cited are ridiculed. Why?
So, how accurate are Rob Brezsny’s horoscopes? This is a truth value: 20%
