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endorses the assertion of French philosopher Blaise Pascal:
"When one does not love too much,
one does not love enough."
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February 11, 2004
www.freewillastrology.com
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For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we
will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the
history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."
-Teilhard de Chardin
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The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
-Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because
I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"Any thought that is not filled with love seems unholy."
-André Gide
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"Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse
you; pray for those who treat you spitefully."
-Jesus Christ
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"Right now, we are appearing as the very light of consciousness, alive as
love, although we may require some training, like an artist would, to
fully offer our self as love's gift."
-David Deida from "Waiting to Love"
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau
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"When I love, I love so much, it's dangerous."
-Nicole Kidman
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"To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's
sweet."
-Pablo Neruda
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When I think of you,
fireflies in the marsh rise
like the soul's jewels,
lost to eternal longing,
abandoning my body
-Izumi Shikibu
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Pillowed on your thighs in a dream garden,
little flower with its perfumed stamen,
singing, sipping from the stream of you --
sunset, moonlight -- our song continues.
-Ikkyu Sojun
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FR** WILL ASTROLOGY
Week of February 12
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.beautyandtruth.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Aries! Here's an
important bulletin from poet Emily Dickinson: *Until you have been in
love, you cannot become yourself.* I'd like you to try that revolutionary
idea on for size, Aries. Do this experiment. For a given period -- say the
coming week or the next ten years -- act as if the only way you can ever
find out who you really are is to lose yourself in sublime yearning for a
worthy partner. Assume, for the sake of argument, that one of the best
strategies for becoming the unique masterpiece you were born to be is to
help a person you love become the unique masterpiece he or she was
meant to be.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus! The Goddess
of Love, Aphrodite Herself, has asked me to remind you that you have
always been in love. You will always be in love. In fact, it is impossible
for you *not* to be in love. You'd be unable to get out of bed each morning
unless there were someone or something that roused your heart and
stirred your imagination. So please just admit that you are alive because
of love; that you are *made* of love. Now write a list of the ten things you
love most, and devote some time in each of the next seven days to
expressing your appreciation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! After careful
meditation about what advice would be most likely to energize your love
life, I've decided to suggest that you say your prayers while having sex
with a saint in a sacred place. If you can't manage all that at once, at least
try praying while doing the wild thing, or fooling around with a saint, or
making out in a church or temple, or talking dirty to God. One way or
another, Gemini, you should blend earthly pleasures and spiritual
aspirations. Here's a quote to write on your mirror or your forearm: "I
never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry Ward
Beecher.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Cancerian! After
strenuous meditation about what advice would be most likely to heat up
and deepen your love life, I've decided you need a stiff challenge. That's
why I'm inviting you to have an epic showdown with your fears about love.
What keeps you from stripping away your outmoded inhibitions and
brazenly exploring the mysteries of attraction? What doubts prevent you
from enjoying regular soul-to-soul gazes with your ancient future?
Wouldn't you love to shed your psychic armor and summon the chutzpah to
whisper in someone's ear, "I'm not afraid to ask for everything."
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Leo! After careful
meditation about what advice might galvanize your love life, I've decided
to share a thought from Jewish mystic Lawrence Kushner. "Everyone
carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle," he wrote in
his book, *Honey from the Rock.* In other words, you have in your
possession certain clues to your loved ones' destinies -- secrets they
haven't discovered themselves. And in my astrological opinion, it is the
right time and place to hand over those clues -- to make a gift of the
puzzle pieces that are most needed by the people you care about. So search
your depths for insights you've never communicated. Tell truths you
haven't found a way to express before now. More than you know, you have
the power to mobilize your companions' dreams.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! After careful
meditation about what advice might purify and supercharge your love life,
I'm making this suggestion: For one week, concentrate all your passion
and ingenuity on learning to love yourself better. Write at least one love
letter and one love poem to yourself. Treat yourself to pleasures that
relax your intelligence and open your wild heart. Gaze in the mirror and
whisper a flood of sweet nothings. Give yourself thoughtful, surprising
gifts. And finally, propose marriage to yourself and perform a wedding
ceremony in which you promise to cherish and honor yourself until the
end of time.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Libra! I'm hereby
declaring a love emergency. Right now you need love more than you need
food and drink. More than that: You need to *crave* love with an almost
crazed lyrical ferocity . . . with a reverent, burning hunger that some
traditional astrologers would say Libras aren't capable of. At this pivotal
moment, you've got to find a way to claim Erica Jong's subversive words
as your own: "Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth
fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is,
if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Happy Valentine Daze, Scorpio! Is it really
love? That's always a good meditation subject for you passion addicts.
Here are some guidelines. 1. "Love asks you beautiful, unanswerable
questions." - Carl Sandburg. 2. "Love brings to life whatever is dead
around us." - Franz Rosenzweig. 3. "Love consists in this, that two
solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke. 4.
"Love is the only game where two can play and both win." - Erma
Freesman. 5. "Falling in love is a lot like dying. You never get to do it
enough to become good at it." - My Scorpio friend Elise. 6. "Love is like a
well in the wilderness where time watches over the wandering lightning."
- Pablo Neruda.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Happy Valentine Daze, Sagittarius!
After careful meditation about what advice might beautify and elevate
your love life, I've decided to offer you these insights. 1. "We are not the
same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance
if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset
Maugham. 2. "People often start by falling in love, and they go on for
years without realizing that love must change into some other love which
is unlike the original." - Iris Murdoch. 3. "Love doesn't just sit there,
like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
- Ursula K. Le Guin. 4. "A successful marriage is an edifice that must be
rebuilt every day." - Andre Maurois.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! After
careful meditation about what advice might fertilize your love life, I've
decided to alert you to two practical principles. The first comes to you
courtesy of philosopher Rollo May: "We receive love roughly in
proportion to our capacity to love." In other words: To be adored more,
adore more. Your second utilitarian theorem was immortalized by the
character Dicky Fox in the movie "Jerry Maguire." "If you don't love
everybody," he said, "you can't sell anybody." In other words: Your most
effective strategy for getting what you want is to feel tender affection for
the whole world.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Happy Valentine Daze, Aquarius! After
careful meditation about how I might help you perfect your love life, I've
decided that all you need is my authorization to be more mercurial and
improvisational. So here's a Turkish proverb for you to try on for size:
"To prepare for love, learn to run through snow, leaving no footprints."
Next, see how much fun you can stir up by taking to heart this Italian
proverb: "Love rules without rules." Finally, Aquarius, experiment with
this advice from motivational author, Sark: "Love imperfectly. Be a love
idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal."
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Pisces! After careful
meditation about what advice might enrich your love life, I've decided you
need a more joyously rowdy and rambunctious approach to togetherness.
Consider the possibility of making love with funny hats on while watching
"The Simpsons," or shaving each other in the bathtub while singing tunes
from Broadway musicals, or getting naked at the breakfast table and
trying to throw Cheerios in each other's mouths while an instructional CD
in how to speak Esperanto plays in the background.
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HOMEWORK: How will you expand, refine, and deepen your ability to love
between now and Valentine's Day, 2005? Testify by going to
www.beautyandtruth.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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