Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
DECEMBER 14, 2011
FreeWillAstrology.com
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 15
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The Amazon is the second longest river in the world, and has
such a voluminous flow that it comprises 20 percent of all river
water in the world. And yet there is not a single bridge that
crosses it. I love that fact. It comforts and inspires me to know
that humans have not conquered this natural wonder. Which leads
me to my advice for you this week, Sagittarius. Please consider
keeping the wild part of you wild. It's certainly not at all crucial
for you to civilize it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Emotion is the resource we treasure when we're young, says poet
Naomi Shihab Nye, but eventually what we thrive on even more is
energy. "Energy is everything," she says, "not
emotion." And where does energy come from? Often, from juxtaposition,
says Nye. "Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy;
rubbing one image against another." That's what she loves
about being a poet. Her specialty is to conjure magic through
juxtaposition. "Our brains are desperate for that kind of
energy," she concludes. I mention this, Capricorn, because
the coming weeks will be prime time for you to drum up the vigor
and vitality that come from mixing and melding and merging, particularly
in unexpected or uncommon ways.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Studies show that if you're sharing a meal with one other person,
you're likely to eat up to 35 percent more food than if you're
dining alone. If you sit down at the table with four companions,
you'll probably devour 75 percent extra, and if you're with a
party of eight, your consumption may double. As I contemplate
your horoscope, these facts give me pause. While I do suspect
you will benefit from socializing more intensely and prolifically,
I also think it'll be important to raise your commitment to your
own physical health. Can you figure out a way to do both, please?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul,"
said psychologist Carl Jung, "human beings would rot away
in their greatest passion, idleness." To that edgy observation
I would add this corollary: One of the greatest and most secret
forms of idleness comes from being endlessly busy at unimportant
tasks. If you are way too wrapped up in doing a thousand little
things that have nothing to do with your life's primary mission,
you are, in my opinion, profoundly idle. All the above is prelude
for the climactic advice of this week's horoscope, which goes
as follows: Give everything you have to stimulate the leaping
and twinkling of your soul.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Jim Moran (1908-1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard
him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his colorful
career, he led a bull through a china shop in New York City, changed
horses in midstream in Nevada's Truckee River, and looked for
a needle in a haystack until he found it. You might want to draw
inspiration from his work in the coming weeks, Aries. You will
not only have a knack for mutating cliches and scrambling conventional
wisdom. In doing so, you could also pull off feats that might
seem improbable.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
One possible way to tap into the current cosmic opportunities
would be to seek out storegasms -- the ecstatic feelings
released while exercising one's buyological urges in consumer
temples crammed with an obscene abundance of colorful material
goods. But I advise you against doing that. It wouldn't be a very
creative solution to the epic yearnings that are welling up in
your down-below-and-deep-inside parts. Instead, I offer a potentially
far more satisfying recommendation: Routinely maneuver yourself
into positions where your primal self will be filled up with sublime
wonder, mysterious beauty, and smart love.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
I'm not an either-or type of person. I don't think that there
are just two sides of every story and that you have to align yourself
with one or the other. That's one reason why, as an America voter,
I reject the idea that I must either sympathize with the goals
of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It's also why
I'm bored by the trumped-up squabble between the atheists and
the fundamentalist Christians, and the predictable arguments between
dogmatic cynics and fanatical optimists. I urge you to try my
approach in the coming weeks, Gemini. Find a third way between
any two sides that tend to divide the world into Us against Them.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
No one actually looks like the retouched images of the seemingly
perfect people in sexy ads. It's impossible to be that flawless,
with no wrinkles, blemishes, and scars. Acknowledging this fact,
the iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford once said, "I wish I
looked like Cindy Crawford." Our unconscious inclination
to compare ourselves to such unrealistic ideals is the source
of a lot of mischief in our lives. Your assignment in the coming
week, Cancerian, is to divest yourself, as much as possible, of
all standards of perfection that alienate you from yourself or
cause you to feel shame about who you really are. (More fodder
to motivate you: tinyurl.com/SoftKill.)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Barney Oldfield (1878-1946) was a pioneer car racer who was the
first ever to run a 100-mile-per-hour lap at the Indianapolis
500. He was a much better driver while setting speed records and
beating other cars on racetracks than he was at moseying through
regular street traffic. Why? He said he couldn't think clearly
if he was traveling at less than 100 miles per hour. I suspect
you may temporarily have a similar quirk, Leo -- not in the way
you drive but rather in the way you live and work and play. To
achieve maximum lucidity, you may have to be moving pretty fast.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Back in August 2010, there was an 11-day traffic snarl on a Chinese
highway. At one point the stuck vehicles stretched for 60 miles
and inched along at the rate of a mile per day. In that light,
your current jam isn't so bad. It may be true that your progress
has been glacial lately, but at least you've had a bed to sleep
in and a bathroom to use, which is more than can be said for the
stranded Chinese motorists and truck drivers. Plus I'm predicting
that your own personal jam is going to disperse sometime in the
next few days. Be prepped and ready to rumble on.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Here's a joke from Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall: "Two
elderly women are in a Catskills Mountain resort and one of them
says: 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other
one says, 'Yeah, I know -- and such small portions.'" Is
it possible you're acting like the second woman, Libra? Are you
being influenced to find fault with something that you actually
kind of like? Are you ignoring your own preferences simply because
you think it might help you to be close to those whose preferences
are different? I urge you not to do that in the coming week. According
to my analysis of the astrological omens, it's very important
that you know how you feel and stay true to your feelings.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
The Los Angeles school district dramatically downgraded the role
that homework plays in the life of its students. Beginning this
fall, the assignments kids do after school account for only 10
percent of their final grade. As far as you're concerned, Scorpio,
that's not a good trend to follow. In fact, I think you should
go in the opposite direction. During the enhanced learning phase
you're now entering, your homework will be more important than
ever. In order to take full advantage of the rich educational
opportunities that will be flowing your way, you should do lots
of research, think hard about what it all means, and in general
be very well-prepared. The period between late 2011 and early
2012 is homework time for you.
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HOMEWORK:
Make a prediction about what you will do in 2012. Tell me about
it by going to RealAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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