Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JANUARY 29, 2014
FreeWillAstrology.com
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Dear Readers,
In late December and early January, I wrote a series of long-term,
big-picture horoscopes for you. I've gathered them all together
in one place. Go here to read them: bit.ly/BigLife2014
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PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA
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Below is an excerpt. (You can read the entire piece at bit.ly/4Zh0Qr.)
LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION
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.
What can we do to help each other in this work?
TO READ THE REST OF "LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION," GO
HERE: bit.ly/4Zh0Qr
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and is on track to end homelessness by 2015.
"How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homelessness
by giving people homes. In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual
cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about
$16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless
person with an apartment and a social worker.
"So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings
attached. Each participant in Utah's Housing First program also
gets a caseworker to help them become self-sufficient, but they
keep the apartment even if they fail.
"The program has been so successful that other states are
hoping to achieve similar results with programs modeled on Utah's."
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 30
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century
England. They could soar as high as four feet above a woman's
head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair,
along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds,
and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that
in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here's a second-best
option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible.
Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of
the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license
to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
One of your anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character
that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem's
tune "Love the Way You Lie." Study the following lyrics,
mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine,
on psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal levels, you embody
the exact opposite of the attitude they express: "You're
just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that's all right
because I like the way it hurts / You're just gonna stand there
and hear me cry / But that's all right, because I love the way
you lie." To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that
would tempt you to feel and act like that.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
On my fifteenth birthday, I finally figured out that eating
dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems.
From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow's milk. My
health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month
ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense.
Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a
tub of organic vanilla yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell
to pay. I was free of snot. In the last few weeks, I have feasted
regularly on all the creamy goodies I've been missing. I bring
this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is
possible for you. Some taboo you have honored for a long time,
some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be
broken.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics,
says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall
Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information
obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist
Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found
that predictions made by political and financial professionals
are inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never
trust any experts? No. But it's important to approach them with
extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade
your trust in your own intuition.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
I'm a big fan of logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too.
Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very
good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips
and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that,
I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination.
Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate.
Pay attention to your dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild
fantasies, and see yourself as a mythic hero in life's divine
drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational and the fantastical
approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical
needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Sorry, Cancerian, you won't be able to transform lead into gold
anytime soon. You won't suddenly acquire the wizardly power to
heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists.
Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy
someone who has always resisted your charms. That's the bad news.
The good news is this: If you focus on performing less spectacular
magic, you could accomplish minor miracles. For example, you might
diminish an adversary's ability to disturb you. You could welcome
into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated.
And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself
a long time ago.
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EXPLORING THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about
your upcoming adventures in 2014?
You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations
of your destiny in the coming months. Each report in the three-part
series is 7 to 9 minutes long.
Go to RealAstrology.com
to sign in and access the EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES.
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for offering tips on
how to spice up one's sex life. Here's an example: "Take
a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations,
like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce,
and mix up yummy treats all over your lover's body." That
sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend
that you don't follow advice like that, especially in the coming
days. It's true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness
have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren't advisable
right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing
and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and
graceful risks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
You are not as broken as you may think you are. Your wounds
aren't as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove
it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will
attempt to prove it to you -- and not just in some mild,
half-hearted way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust
and unimpeachable. But here's my question, Virgo: Will you be
so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone
explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called "A Sword in a Cloud
of Light." I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological
analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power
you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with
a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don't want to get too
intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: The cloud
of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration.
The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will
invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or
sacred aspiration.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Every autumn, the bird species known as the Clark's Nutcracker
prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts
in 5,000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing
is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory
isn't as prodigious as that, but it's far better than you realize.
And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your
upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you draw on the
wisdom gained from past events -- especially those events that
foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding
and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total
honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened
by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications?
Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to
accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the
next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don't try
to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
It's a favorable time to gather up resources and amass bounty
and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won't
call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need
in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it's
fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use
-- because right now is also a favorable time to prepare for future
adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels
of resources, bounty, help, and inside information.
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HOMEWORK:
Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more blessings
into your life. Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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