Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 14, 2015
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DREAM AND SCHEME ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2015? What fresh
resources will you be able to draw on? How can you conspire with
life to create the best possible future for yourself?
This week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES feature Part 3 of the
long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in 2015.
Part 1 and Part 2 of your Year-End Predictions, which I offered
the last two weeks, are also still available.
What will be the story of your life in 2015? How can you exert
your free will to create the adventures that'll bring out the
best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with
the tides of destiny?
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go to RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click
on the link "Long Term Forecast for 2015."
The cost is $6 per sign. There are discounts for the purchase
of multiple tokens.
You can also listen to Part 3 over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $1.99 per minute. Each forecast is 7-9 minutes long.
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Every January 1, many people make New Year's resolutions, promising
to embark on programs of self-improvement. But your assignment
now, should you choose to accept it, is to create a list of ANTI-resolutions.
Here are some questions to guide you:
1. What outlandish urges and controversial tendencies do you
promise to cultivate in the coming months?
2. What nagging irritations will you ignore and avoid with even
greater ingenuity?
3. What problems do you promise to exploit in order to have even
more fun as you make the status quo accountable for its corruption?
4. What boring rules and traditions will you thumb your nose
at, paving the way for exciting encounters with strange attractors?
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"You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate
attention."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Christopher Bamford says: "As a free deed, meditation is
naturally individual, uniquely our own. It is where we most fully
become ourselves. Its practice is also always individual. There
are no rules.
"Just as every potter will elaborate his or her own way
of making pots, so every person who meditates will shape his or
her own meditation. No two people will do a given meditation in
exactly the same way. The same meditation practiced daily will
be different every time.
"Every meditation is experimental. One never knows what
is going to happen. Improvisation is essential . . . Meditation
is something to play with . . . There is no 'wrong' way of doing
the meditation, except not doing it!"
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
The best news of 2014 you never heard about:
1. Child mortality rate has fallen dramatically
2. More people getting HIV treatment than people getting infected
3. More kids than ever are getting vaccines against deadly rotavirus
4. New tuberculosis treatment will dramatically reduce curing
time
5. Nigeria has almost eradicated polio and is now Ebola free
Read all about it: tinyurl.com/owz4r8l
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People who have upbeat outlooks on life have significantly better
cardiovascular health, suggests a new study (MESA) that examined
associations between optimism and heart health in more than 5,100
adults.
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(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 15
Copyright 2015 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Most plants move upwards as they grow. Their seeds fall to the
ground, are blown off by the wind, or are carried away by pollinators.
But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction.
It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground,
where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they
need to germinate. The peanut plant's approach to fertility might
be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use.
It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you're
incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don't expose
them to scrutiny or criticism.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
In his poem "The Garden," Jack Gilbert says, "We
are like Marco Polo who came back / with jewels hidden in the
seams of his ragged clothes." Isn't that true about you right
now, Aquarius? If I were going to tell your recent history as
a fairy tale, I'd highlight the contrast between your outer disorder
and your inner riches. I'd also borrow another fragment from Gilbert's
poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: "a
sweet sadness, a tough happiness." So what comes next for
you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. Take a break
to integrate the intensity you've weathered. And retrieve the
jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet,"
wrote Shel Silverstein, in his children's book Where the Sidewalk
Ends. It's especially important for you to focus on that
truth in the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. First,
it's imperative that you identify and celebrate a certain unique
aspect of yourself that no one else has ever fully acknowledged.
If you don't start making it more conscious, it may start to wither
away. Second, you need to learn how to express that unique aspect
with such clarity and steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore
it.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
You will never make anything that lasts forever. Nor will I
or anyone else. I suppose it's possible that human beings will
still be listening to Beethoven's music or watching The Simpsons
TV show 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will probably
be gone in five billion years, when the sun expands into a red
giant star. Having acknowledged that hard truth, I'm happy to
announce that in the next five weeks you could begin work in earnest
on a creation that will endure for a very long time. What will
it be? Choose wisely!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
What does your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention
of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain
drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you
like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways?
The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his
soul needed more than anything else was inspiration -- the "sweet
fire," he called it, "the strong spur, live and lancing
like the blowpipe flame." So the experience his soul craved
didn't come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose
up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my analysis
of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual
of its special nourishment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
In 1987, California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30
of the birds remained. Then the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures
to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than
400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now,
Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different
resource that is becoming scarce in your world. Act with urgency,
but also be prepared to practice patience.
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LET'S IMAGINE WHAT BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIES
MIGHT BE COMING YOUR WAY IN THE COMING YEAR
Who do you want to become in 2015? Where do you want to go and
what do you want to do? Would you like some inspiration as you
muse and wonder about your upcoming adventures?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part 3
of MY long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming
year.
Part 1 and Part 2 are still available.
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go to RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click
on the link "Long Term Forecast for 2015."
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts with the purchase
of multiple tokens).
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an American statesman who served
in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be President of
the United States, but his political party never nominated him
to run for that office. Here's the twist in his fate: Two different
candidates who were ultimately elected President asked him to
be their Vice-President, but he declined, dismissing the job as
unimportant. Both those Presidents, Harrison and Taylor, died
after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their
Vice-President, he would have taken their place and fulfilled
his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to
make a mistake comparable to Webster's.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
In one of his poems, Rumi writes about being alone with a wise
elder. "Please," he says to the sage, "do not hold
back from telling me any secrets about this universe." In
the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of
many people, and not just those you regard as wise. You're in
a phase when pretty much everyone is a potential teacher who has
a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole world as your classroom.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Have you been tapping into your proper share of smart love,
interesting beauty, and creative mojo? Are you enjoying the succulent
rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard work you've
done in the past eight months? If not, I am very upset. In fact,
I would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not
been soaking up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations,
and fun surprises. Therefore, to ensure my happiness and well-being,
I COMMAND you to experience these goodies in abundance.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Libran engineer Robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist.
His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the
foundations for space flight. Decades before the Soviet Union
launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting rockets
aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with his unusual
ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920,
The New York Times sneered that he was deficient in "the
knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools." Forty-nine
years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the
Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying
progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime soon,
your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
In the plot of the TV science-fiction show Ascension,
the U.S. government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment
for 50 years. An outside investigator named Samantha Krueger discovers
the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the
truth to the public. "We're going full Snowden," she
tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. She's invoking
the name of Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator
who in the real world leaked classified information that the U.S.
government wanted to keep hidden. It might be time for you to
go at least mini-Snowden yourself, Scorpio -- not by spilling
state secrets, but rather by unmasking any surreptitious or deceptive
behavior that's happening in your sphere. Bring everything out
into the open -- gently if possible. But do whatever it takes.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby,
a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because
the letter "e" didn't appear once in the text. Can you
imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an
odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite
you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and
self-control, Sagittarius. But devote your efforts to accomplishing
a more useful and interesting task, please. For example, you could
excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your
time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts.
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HOMEWORK:
What part of the past are you still enslaved to? What can you
do to free yourself? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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