Thank you for this newsletter, Rob. I've been recently struggling with a challenging set of people who are resisting my happy efforts. I awoke this morning not feeling enthusiastic about continuing to live. Your words are helping me look differently about all of this. I think I need to move on, not from life, but from them.
After contending with periods ranging from deep sorrow to paralyzing fear since November 5, I found a great deal of relief, optimism, and joy in this newsletter. Thank you so much, Rob, and a very happy 2025 to you and your loved ones.
As a recovering Pollyanna, I often feel confused on how to proceed. My default "optimism to a fault" is met with questions that spiral me back around to optimism, yet from a more authentic center. Hopefully;). Your words assist the spiral in an honest and nourishing manner. Ever grateful, Rob. Here's to a more compassionate 2025 for all. pure love~hh
I would like to thank you for your work. I've followed you for years. But today you solidified my recent.. new world, new year, end of year, ongoing obligatory gemini sun, cancer moon, aries rising old soul need, of never making a choice on which sector of life to focus on for the betterment of myself and all. When you write what I already have felt, then I know. And for someone of my nature that is a huge help. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Best, -M
This week's newsletter reminded me of this poem- and how it reveals how the poet contends with writing happiness while acknowledging, maybe wrestling with, the less than happy aspects of life.
I just read a note from Xavier Dagba about bliss -- which I believe is the kind of happiness you're referring to here -- as being inconvenient to the ego-mind, as bliss is soul-level happiness. By design, it tends to eschew the trappings of the comfortable and familiar, trading them up for deep purpose and higher vision. It's a path I'm getting to know well, and in the knowing of it, I am realizing how little I actually know! (: ...which of course freaks out my ego, but my soul has never been happier.
Thanks as always for speaking the uncomfortable truths.
PS. I am a long-standing subscriber to your email newsletter, and on the 14th you sent out a wonderful missive ("Reminding you of who you really are") that I was surprised not to also see on Substack, as it would be well-received here, hint hint.
Thank you for this newsletter, Rob. I've been recently struggling with a challenging set of people who are resisting my happy efforts. I awoke this morning not feeling enthusiastic about continuing to live. Your words are helping me look differently about all of this. I think I need to move on, not from life, but from them.
After contending with periods ranging from deep sorrow to paralyzing fear since November 5, I found a great deal of relief, optimism, and joy in this newsletter. Thank you so much, Rob, and a very happy 2025 to you and your loved ones.
As a recovering Pollyanna, I often feel confused on how to proceed. My default "optimism to a fault" is met with questions that spiral me back around to optimism, yet from a more authentic center. Hopefully;). Your words assist the spiral in an honest and nourishing manner. Ever grateful, Rob. Here's to a more compassionate 2025 for all. pure love~hh
I would like to thank you for your work. I've followed you for years. But today you solidified my recent.. new world, new year, end of year, ongoing obligatory gemini sun, cancer moon, aries rising old soul need, of never making a choice on which sector of life to focus on for the betterment of myself and all. When you write what I already have felt, then I know. And for someone of my nature that is a huge help. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Best, -M
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1625146/for-after-jan-beatty
This week's newsletter reminded me of this poem- and how it reveals how the poet contends with writing happiness while acknowledging, maybe wrestling with, the less than happy aspects of life.
I just read a note from Xavier Dagba about bliss -- which I believe is the kind of happiness you're referring to here -- as being inconvenient to the ego-mind, as bliss is soul-level happiness. By design, it tends to eschew the trappings of the comfortable and familiar, trading them up for deep purpose and higher vision. It's a path I'm getting to know well, and in the knowing of it, I am realizing how little I actually know! (: ...which of course freaks out my ego, but my soul has never been happier.
Thanks as always for speaking the uncomfortable truths.
PS. I am a long-standing subscriber to your email newsletter, and on the 14th you sent out a wonderful missive ("Reminding you of who you really are") that I was surprised not to also see on Substack, as it would be well-received here, hint hint.
Not sure what you mean, Carrie. The newsletter is definitely on Substack: https://newsletter.freewillastrology.com/p/reminding-you