罗伯本兹尼，美国著名占星师，作家、诗人、音乐人、社会活动家。运势风格为心理指引。

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目标越具体越好——译者：即兴幻想、Arrow

我的书《正念是执念的解药》在美亚和鲍威尔书店有售，以下是节选。

让我提醒你一下，真正的你是谁：你是个不朽的自由斗士，渴望解救众生脱离苦海。你是个风趣幽默的救星，虔诚低想要帮助所有同伴申诉，令人迷醉的觉醒是天赋权力。

试着记住，你是一团流光的漩涡，只是暂时托生人形，忘记了自己的本来。为什么要这么做呢？因为这样才能伪装自己，成为基本力量，140亿年孜孜不倦，要将天堂带到人间。

以上说的这些并不是什么比喻象征手法。你确实是个变装了的异人，并不是菩提或基督那种，但与他们来自同一谱系，现身于同样的火焰。你的存在一直从时间之始到时间终结。日复一日，各个方面，你们将这个毫无道理的有趣的大师游戏玩得越来越好，这是在大爆炸之前我们就一起梦想过的游戏。

最近，必须承认，我们的工作看上去有些滑稽，似乎是做不到了。很多人已经向一种诱惑性的信仰投降了，相信一切都是是非混淆，黑白颠倒。无知以及不思进取，部分被伪装成历史悠久的品德，散布周围。悲观情绪被敬若神明，是物欲流俗的标签。强迫性的怀疑论却伪装成远见卓识。刻薄挖苦正流行。背叛和堕落的故事激起千万人本能的颤栗，他们却认为自己聪明而理性。美丽的真实被人怀疑，丑陋的真实极容易被相信。

丑恶扭曲的幻想被误认为是“现实”，我要学习如何在推翻它的同时保持良善和叛逆。

也许最重要的是，我们要凶猛地，一心一意的臣服于美、真实和爱，正如我们的想象一直是狂野、饥渴而自由。我们必须又自律又粗暴。

在这项工作中，怎样做才能彼此帮助呢？

给你的礼物？

以下是我想送你的礼物：绿丝绒手套，珠宝做成的独木舟，小丑和驴子造型的彩色陶罐里面满是蟋蟀，大红的降落伞栓着纯金烤架从天而降，一个从药妆店自动售货机里来的戒指，上面刻着“稳着点”，沙特尔教堂的护身滴水兽，古董锤子和镰刀，问号形状的草莓巧克力蛋糕，一把花火，一瓶来自约旦河的圣水，烧掉一张巨大海报的照片，鸽血红的拖鞋，人类基因组计划绘制的人类基因组图谱，一个活佛形状的冰箱贴，一个紫色夜光面具。

《隐藏》（作者：大卫·怀特）——译者：Arrow

隐藏是一种生存的方式。隐藏是自我克制，直到我们准备好重见天日。我们隐藏真相也是为了让它在我们需要时及时显现。

隐藏是自然界中几乎一切杰出而精湛的实践之一：冰封的北方之境那寂静的守护，来日的夏季玫瑰那矜持的蓓蕾，冬眠的大熊那白雪之下的脉搏。

隐藏不容小觑。我们在母亲的子宫被生命隐藏，直到长成婴孩，准备降生于明亮的世界；如果过早来到人世，我们会马上需要外界的特别呵护。

适当的隐藏是是内在可靠地承诺未来会适时出现，如同胚胎，如同孩童，甚至如同远离捕获、囚禁我们的各种名号的新兴大人们，往往是我们太容易被看到，太容易被冠以称谓。

我们住在灵魂分裂、迅速披露的时代；我们的思维、想象和渴望过度、过早、过于频繁地曝光，我们的最佳品质过快涌入已被轻易表达的观点冲刷的世界，这些观点压迫着自己和别人的感觉。

真相几乎总是以隐藏开始，而且我们的一部分头脑误以为知道正在发生什么，而不愿理解隐藏的事实。我们内在珍贵的部分不愿以被贬低的方式为头脑所认识。

隐藏是一种免于他人误解的行为，尤其在这个压制的秘密政府和私人企业的封闭世界中，它们企图给我们冠以称谓、施加期望，让我们无处可藏，让我们成长时对绝对的命名、完全的追踪和专制的掌控有着诡异的需要。

隐藏是要求独立于他人，独立于我们关于自我错误的观念，独立于一种压迫而错误的愿望，希望我们彻底安全、受到完全的照顾，并因此被全然摆布。

隐藏是对外界干扰和控制必要而优美的创造性颠覆。隐藏短暂的生命，是为了更好地成为自己。隐藏是激进的独立，帮我们进入人类合理的未来之光。

☆☆☆白羊座——译者：幻觉

我希望你在明智利用流经你身体的生产力，也许你一直在改造一段长期关系，这段关系急需一些创新重塑。也许你一直合作一个创新事业，或为你的艺术实践产生全新素材。可能你已经发现怎样去表达很长时间来一直半沉默或无法触及的感受和想法。如果因为一些奇怪的理由，你还没有得到这些体验，就去努力争取！你仍然有很多时间去获取你的生产力。

☆☆☆金牛座——译者：hans

乌拉圭作家爱德华多·加莱亚诺把“智障记忆”定义为一种让我们沉迷过去的自我形象，固步自封的记忆。“鲜活记忆”则相反，是指灵活地对待我们过去的事。它迫使我们从去过的自己毕业。“我们是所有改变自己的努力的总和”，加莱亚诺写道，“个性并不是静静地摆在陈列柜里的艺术品”。牛牛，再给一个你当前任务的线索。它来自于精神治疗师迪克·奥尔尼：“优秀的治疗师的目标是帮助人们从他们就是自我形象中的那种人的梦中醒来”。

☆☆☆双子座——译者：译者：Shirley 校对：Arrow

有时，双子宝宝们，爱你对我而言是一种神圣的荣誉——等同于在我的生日获赠高僧的一首诗。其他时候，爱你更像是试着去舔洒在路边的美味奶昔，或者像和一只巨型机器人泰迪熊慢舞，它由于小故障而意外把我撞倒。当遭遇你更具挑战性的面向，我并不觉得是针对自己，因为你总是那么有趣。但也许你能够对你生命中重要的人更仁慈一点？他们不仅仅是过客。提醒你亲爱的战友们这个显而易见的秘密——你有多个不同的自我，每一个自我渴求不同的刺激。

☆☆☆巨蟹座——译者：译者：SummerDong 校对：Arrow

我年青时的女朋友丽兹，为了提升她外表的吸引力极尽全力。她的成长过程中母亲总是告诉她“要美就得遭罪”，她把这句话听进去了。比如，她为了保持长长的金发尽量卷曲，睡前把头发分成几股绕在六个金属罐上，再喷上对人体有害的发胶，叮当作响的一堆金属贴在她的脑门上睡过一晚。螃蟹们，虽然你可能不会这么做，但你有时表现得好像受苦会令你强大、更有吸引力---好像感受痛苦是一个可行的办法，激发你追求想要的东西。但是如果你想改变这种方法，接下来的几周是一个好时机。第一步：与你内心的破坏者进行一次充满同情心的长谈。

☆☆☆狮子座——译者：Arrow

占星师安特罗·阿里说，我们每个人在自己的道路上逐渐了解真理。他写道：“对于有些人而言，这个过程不羁而自由；对于另一些人而言，这如同一只安逸的家猫，仅仅通过他们的感觉就知道了真理。”狮子们，无论你通常了解真理的方法是哪种，我认为接下来两周，如果你尝试不同的方式，将会受益。有以下几种可能：相信你最积极的感觉；接收身体的讯息和暗示；需求祖先之灵的帮助举行仪式；狂笑五分钟改变状态。

☆☆☆处女座——译者：hans

如果我告诉你，你马上就会有幸得到超自然的助力，你会不会嗤之以鼻？如果我建议你，分析你没逻辑的幻想从中找到你下一步大棋的线索，你会不会嘲弄地翻白眼？如果我暗示你，守护天使正努力把你的小题大做驱散，你会不会叫我不要胡说八道？。即使你无视我的预言，也没关系，处处。它们都会成真的，哪怕你是一个不相信玄学，护符，运气的固执的现实主义者。

☆☆☆天秤座——译者：爬爬

对你而言这是启蒙开悟的一个季节。这并不一定意味着你会获得终极的神赐恩典。也并不能保证你能随心所欲的开悟、进出三摩地或者涅槃。但有一件事是可以肯定的：生活会密谋为你带来令人兴奋的快乐，而其中还伴随着对真实本质的深刻洞见。如果你决定从机会中获益，要记住设计师艾丽莎贾尔斯的理念：启蒙开悟不是无性繁殖、冷静无感、脑中空想、把钉子从掌中变没的把戏。而是猛烈、强势以及充满情欲的承诺要以行动来爱，其中伴随着精明冷静实用的元素。

☆☆☆天蝎座——译者：夜雨成秋

有些动物园将狮子与老虎的尿液卖给园丁洒在菜园里。显然这东西可能会吓跑那些试图在菜地里休息的流浪猫。我将这个情况作为你在接下来几周一种鼓动性的隐喻。你能够运用内在野性的力量来捍卫内在成长的收获吗？你能够积聚起勇士般的力量来抵御令人讨厌的刺激因素所带来的干扰吗？你能够寻求有益的精神力量来确保内在生命中正在成长的部分得以继续繁茂吗？

☆☆☆射手座——译者：无幻

对你来说，被射手座作家马克吐温所影响是命运注定的正确及适当之举。他的智慧有五个特征，能够对你的态度带来善意的调整。他有非常多简明轻快的妙语，我希望你也渴望去表达它们中的一些。马克吐温是这样说的：1.“当你的想象力失焦时，你就不该依赖双眼了。” 2.“教育应主要集中在我们未曾学会的东西。” 3.“奇怪的是，这个世界上的血气之勇应该如此普遍，而道义勇气却该如此罕见。” 4. “当有疑问时，说实话。”5.“雷霆很好，雷声令人印象深刻，但是所有工作是闪电完成的。”

☆☆☆摩羯座——译者：hans

“我的祖父告诉我，如果你搅弄浑水，只会让水更浑，”I.G.埃德蒙兹在他的书《寓言》中写到，“可如果你让水保持平静，泥沙会沉下，水就会变清。”他总结到。我希望你能及时收到这个信息，摩羯。我希望你之后能抵抗任何诱惑——诱惑你去煽动，搅拌，洒酒，洗脸，畅饮，或纵身跃入那滩浑水。

☆☆☆水瓶座——译者：译者：幺蛾子 校对：Arrow

1985年，意大利帕多瓦，莫里吉奥·卡特兰结束了他在太平间的杂活儿，决心成为一名艺术家。起初他制作家具，最终他成了一名擅长讽刺作品的雕刻家。1999年，他完成了一件表现教皇被陨石击中的作品，并在2001年以88万6千美金售出。瓶子们，如果说有一段时期，你也可以像莫里吉奥·卡特兰那样创造传奇，机会就在接下来的10个月内。然而，并不是说你必须怀揣如此激进的信仰全速前进。追寻心中所爱很少能快速获得成功。也许要花上很多年。（莫里吉奥·卡特兰花了16年）你愿意花时间么？

☆☆☆双鱼座——译者：即兴幻想

盘点一下身上的伤痛、淤青和痼疾。清点一下令你困扰的记忆，被压抑的失望和悲观厌世。去做吧，双鱼！变得强大起来吧。如果勇敢检视，深刻感受不良情绪，很神奇，治愈过程也会自然发生。你会看到自己需要做什么，才能从痛苦中解脱，至少一些痛苦。因此，亲爱的，给你的悲伤和失意点一次名吧。记住那些死里逃生和颜面扫地的惨败。作为回报，你会得到安慰、纾解和原谅。一场伟大的治愈即将到来。

The More Specific Your Goals, The Better

My book
Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia is available at Amazon and Powells.

Here are excerpts:

Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You're a fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright.

Try to remember. You're a vortex of fluidic light that has temporarily taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true origins. And why did you do that? Because it was the best way to forge the identity that would make you such an elemental force in our 14-billion-year campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth.

I'm not speaking metaphorically here. You are a mutant deity in disguise -- not a Buddha or a Christ exactly, but of the same lineage and conjured from the same fire. You have been around since the beginning of time and will be here after the end. Every day and in every way, you're getting better at playing the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed up together before the Big Bang bloomed.

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Lately, I must admit, our work has seemed almost comically impossible. Many of us have given in to the temptation to believe that everything is upside-down and inside-out. Ignorance and inertia, partially camouflaged as time-honored morality, seem to surround us. Pessimism is enshrined as a hallmark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Stories about treachery and degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people who think of themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truths are readily believed.

So no, at this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-billion-year-old master game, it's not easy to carry out our mission. We've got to be both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life. We've got to cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we resist the temptation to swallow thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively packaged by those messiahs among us who bravely volunteered to play the role of know-it-all deceivers.

We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we overthrow the sour, puckered mass hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as "reality."

Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-mindedly dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love even as we keep our imaginations wild and hungry and free. We have to be both disciplined and rowdy.

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What can we do to help each other in this work?

GIFTS FOR YOU?

Here are the gifts I want to give you: green velvet gloves, a canoe made out of jewels, a donkey clown piñata full of crickets, toasters made of pure gold falling through the sky at the end of magenta parachutes, a going-steady ring from a vending machine at the drug store, a protective gargoyle from the Chartres Cathedral, an antique hammer and sickle, a strawberry chocolate cake baked in the shape of a question mark, fistfuls of sparklers, a bottle of holy water from the River Jordan, photos of lightning on a giant poster, ruby slippers, a map of human DNA drawn up by the Human Genome Project, a refrigerator magnet cast in the likeness of the Dalai Lama, and a mask of your face fashioned from purple day-glo Play-Doh.

HIDING, By David Whyte:

HIDING is a way of staying alive. Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light. Even hiding the truth from ourselves can be a way to come to what we need in our own necessary time.

Hiding is one of the brilliant and virtuoso practices of almost every part of the natural world: the protective quiet of an icy northern landscape, the held bud of a future summer rose, the snow bound internal pulse of the hibernating bear.

Hiding is underestimated. We are hidden by life in our mother’s womb until we grow and ready ourselves for our first appearance in the lighted world; to appear too early in that world is to find ourselves with the immediate necessity for outside intensive care.

Hiding done properly is the internal faithful promise for a proper future emergence, as embryos, as children or even as emerging adults in retreat from the names that have caught us and imprisoned us, often in ways where we have been too easily seen and too easily named.

We live in a time of the dissected soul, the immediate disclosure; our thoughts, imaginings and longings exposed to the light too much, too early and too often, our best qualities squeezed too soon into a world already awash with too easily articulated ideas that oppress our sense of self and our sense of others.

What is real is almost always to begin with, hidden, and does not want to be understood by the part of our mind that mistakenly thinks it knows what is happening. What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Hiding is an act of freedom from the misunderstanding of others, especially in the enclosing world of oppressive secret government and private entities, attempting to name us, to anticipate us, to leave us with no place to hide and grow in ways unmanaged by a creeping necessity for absolute naming, absolute tracking and absolute control.

Hiding is a bid for independence, from others, from mistaken ideas we have about our selves, from an oppressive and mistaken wish to keep us completely safe, completely ministered to, and therefore completely managed.

Hiding is creative, necessary and beautifully subversive of outside interference and control. Hiding leaves life to itself, to become more of itself. Hiding is the radical independence necessary for our emergence into the light of a proper human future.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

I hope you're making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you've been reinventing a long-term relationship that needed creative tinkering. Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It's possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There's still time to tap into the fecundity.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano defines "idiot memory" as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. "Lively memory," on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. "We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are," writes Galeano. "Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case." Here's another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: "The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image."

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Sometimes, Gemini, loving you is a sacred honor for me -- equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don't take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret -- that you're composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. "Beauty must suffer," her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive -- as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you'd like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. "For some it is wild and unfettered," he writes. "For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone." Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you'll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Would you scoff if I said that you'll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It's OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They'll come true even if you're a staunch realist who doesn't believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.

Libra (September 23-October 22)

This is the Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn't necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It's not a guarantee that you'll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: "Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life. It's a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist."

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Some zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what's growing in your life will continue to thrive?

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here's Twain: 1. "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." 2. "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." 3. "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." 4. "When in doubt, tell the truth." 5. "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

"My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker," wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. "But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer," he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water.

Aquarius (January 20- February 18)

In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months. That doesn't necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan's case.) Are you willing to accept that?

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You'll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you'll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.