Luminous Tease

LUMINOUS TEASE

Change yourself in the way you want everyone else to change
Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be jerks
Avoid thinking about winning the lottery while making love
Brainwash yourself before someone nasty beats you to it
Confess big secrets to people who aren't very interested
Write a love letter to your evil twin during a lunar eclipse
Fool the tricky red beasts guarding the Wheels of Time
Locate the master codex and add erudite graffiti to it
Dream up wilder, wetter, more interesting problems
Change your name every day for a thousand days
Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues
Kill the apocalypse and annihilate Armageddon
Brag about what you can't do and don't have
Get a vanity license plate that reads KZMYAZ
Bow down to the greatest mystery you know
Make fun of people who make fun of people
See how far you can spit a mouthful of beer
Pick blackberries naked in the pouring rain
Scare yourself with how beautiful you are
Simulate global warming into your pants
Stage a slow-motion water balloon fight
Pretend your wounds are exotic tattoos
Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees
Plunge butcher knives into accordions
Commit a crime that breaks no laws
Sip the tears of someone you love
Build a plush orphanage in Minsk
Feel sorry for a devious lawyer
Rebel against your horoscope
Give yourself another chance
Write your autohagiography
Play games with no rules
Teach animals to dance
Trick your nightmares
Relax and go deeper
Dream like stones
Mock your fears
Drink the sun
Sing love
Be mojo
Do jigs
Ask id



~Rob Brezsny~


Huichol Sun and Moon, image from Photobucket

You taste delicious

From the fertile mind of Rob Brezsny comes this:

YOU TASTE DELICIOUS

You taste delicious
Animals understand you
Your importance is unusual

The funny faces you make are interesting to look at
You fight for power in all the right ways

Ecstatic gratitude is pouring out of you
I see the best in you
Your divine attitude

You have strong feet and a pioneer heart

No one can overflow as well as you can

You are famous with God
You are famous with me
You are famous with the snakes and birds
and roses and pines
and oceans and earth and sky

A lost tribe salutes you from the other side of the veil

You remind me of a star

Nature's astrological chart

I took these yesterday.  The pattern is on an old and weathered redwood stool in the back yard.  I wasn't sure about the actual detail of the pattern until I uploaded the picture - the formation does look like an astrological chart, doesn't it?  A natural astrological mandala!

And if the question does arise:  No - I have never seen the face of the Virgin or Jesus on a piece of bread, although I have seen other faces in trees!  (Click on images to enlarge them.)

Update for all Sagittarians - good news from Rob!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you resolved every last detail of

your unfinished business? Have you tied up the loose ends, flushed out

the lingering delusions, and said your final goodbyes to the old ways and

old days? "Yes," you say? You're absolutely positive? Well then, it is with

a deep sense of pleasure and relief that I hereby unbound you and unleash you. 

You are officially cleared for take-off into the wild blue yonder or the

fizzy red vortex or the swirling green amazement, whichever you prefer.

To which I add a resounding Huzzah!

Free Will Astrology

Image is from here.

What to make of this, from Rob:

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Congratulations, Sagittarius! Free Will Astrology's Task Force on Creative Suffering has confirmed that your current dilemmas are exceptionally interesting and useful. You have demonstrated an impressive talent for getting embroiled in riddles that promise to bring out your dormant reserves of vitality and ingenuity. The dumfounding questions you've been wrestling with are high-caliber tests that have drawn you closer to the heart of the reasons you're here on Earth. Take full advantage of this beautiful mess, my dear. Chaos this fertile is hard to come by.