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"If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in
the ocean of delusion."
-- Lin-Chi
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week of April 15
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Due to a confluence of unusual astrological
influences, you've been temporarily authorized to act as if you are the
love child of comedians Chris Rock and Margaret Cho. Here's some of the
behavior you have a cosmic license to express: 1. Expose hypocrisy with
uproarious honesty. 2. Lay yourself bare as a way to educate and inspire
others. 3. Shock people awake with irreverent new spins on traditional
subjects. 4. Risk being annoying in order to be a servant of the hilarious
truth. 5. Be edgy and healing, disruptive and inspiring, half-crazy and
profoundly real.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my opinion, you're perfect just the way
you are. Everything about your life is exactly how it should be. You're
right on schedule to fulfill the mission you came to earth to carry out. The
paradoxical thing is, though, that you can become even more perfect, and
make your life even more completely what it could be, and expedite your
progress in accomplishing the mission you came to earth to carry out.
This week is an ideal time to understand how these seemingly
contradictory truths can co-exist.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you guessed that 2004 is the best year
ever to coordinate the parts of your life that have always worked at
cross-purposes? Do you realize how much power you now have to unify
opposites? Please intensify your efforts to strike a dynamic balance
between the impulses of your mind and the yearnings of your heart. Raise
your expectations as you strive to create a more perfect blend of freedom
and commitment. Summon an almost extreme faith in your ability to be
both a charismatic star and a cooperative team player.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The editors of the Old Farmer's Almanac
have proposed a new generation of superstitions. Never sing in bed, they
warn, or wear just one shoe. Avoid putting the wrong key in a lock, and
never lay a broom on a bed. The doomsayers of the mainstream media do
the same thing as the Old Farmer's Almanac all the time, of course. They
drum up an ever-fresh supply of reasons why you should walk around
paranoid, although they pretend their scary fantasies are more real than
those of the Almanac. My feeling, Cancerian, is that it's a perfect time for
you to rebel against every kind of compulsive fright-mongering, whether
it originates with the professional perpetrators of mass anxiety or in the
depths of your own unconscious. To get started, sing in bed while lying
next to a broom and wearing one shoe.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the New York Daily News, Leo
novelist Danielle Steel had a tailor embroider the word "bitch" on 16
pairs of her socks. I suggest you do the same. If that's too extreme or
time-consuming, write "hard core" on your ankle with a felt-tip marker.
If that would sully your dignity, at least *imagine* that you have a tattoo
on the sole of your foot that says "wise-guy" or "riot grrrl." The point is
not to send a tough message to the general public, but to make a secret pact
with yourself. No one else but you needs to know that you're planning to
become better grounded and more fiercely assertive.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's time for a check-in, Virgo. What progress
have you been making in your work on this year's big opportunities? As I
suggested last December, you'll attract unexpected help in 2004 by
growing the parts of your life that are small and timid and immature.
Likewise, you'll generate good luck any time you enlarge your sphere of
influence and energize your ambitions. Thirdly, you'll feel more and more
at home in the world if you aggressively seek out interesting
responsibilities that liberate you from your old images of yourself. My
sense is that you've been doing OK in all these tasks, but there's room for
improvement. The coming weeks are the perfect time to kick your efforts
into high gear.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The moment is ripe to initiate shifts in the
way you create your closest relationships. For starters, I suggest you
change the words you habitually use to deal with this part of your life.
"Relationship," for instance, is a crashingly dull term for something so
interesting. Try "hookup" or "two-way" instead. And rather than
referring to someone as your "friend" or "partner," call him or her your
"accomplice," your "freestyle," or your "lightning." Dead terms like
"significant other," "boyfriend," "girlfriend," and "spouse" should be
forever banished as well. In their places, try "lushbuddy," "heartbeat,"
or "jelly roll." Feel free, of course, to dream up your own fresh slang.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After you damage a fingernail, it grows
faster than when it's in its normal state. Scientists have proved this,
though they don't understand why it happens. I have observed that a
similar phenomenon often occurs in people who have experienced a
psychic wound. They ripen emotionally with amazing speed, blasting
through inner obstacles that had kept them enslaved to the past. I predict
that you will soon begin responding in this way to your recent hurt.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Let's take stock of the progress you've
made since January 1. Most strikingly, you've been more disciplined in
your quest for freedom and more discriminating about expressing your
generosity. That's very good news. In past years, your drive for freedom
has sometimes been chaotic, causing you to overestimate your strength;
your generosity has often been excessive, leading you to promise too
much. The fact that you're now reining in these two tendencies is a sign
that you're finally poised to claim a measure of sovereignty you've never
been ready for before.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may find this hard to believe, but it's
very important for you to decide what actor or actress you'd choose to
play you in the hypothetical movie based on your life. For me, it's
obviously Viggo Mortensen, though if he weren't available I'd probably
accept Robin Williams or Snoop Dogg. But then I can afford to indulge in
the luxury of indecision about this matter, whereas you really can't. For
reasons you can't imagine -- reasons that have to do with you taking your
life's work more seriously than ever before -- you must expand and
deepen the mythic intensity of your life story.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Please try to be a little more boring this
week, Aquarius. The swarming melodrama you call your life has become
waaaayyyy too interesting. You've got more superheated plots and subplots
going on than a Mexican soap opera. People are spreading such extremely
entertaining gossip about you that you may be hard-pressed to live up to
your growing reputation. Having said all that, however, I want to
emphasize that I'm only asking you to turn down the excitement level one
notch, and no more. You just need to shift from outrageous pandemonium
to wild intrigue.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Scientists believe that objectivity and
intellectual curiosity are the two attitudes most crucial to understanding
how the world works. The nineteenth-century Scottish essayist, Thomas
Carlyle, had a different emphasis. "A loving heart is the beginning of all
knowledge," he wrote. Kabbalistic teacher Ann Davies agreed, saying that
in order to truly see a person, you have to connect with his or her inner
essence through loving empathy. Regardless of which style of learning
you're naturally inclined to, Pisces, I suggest you use both aggressively
in the coming weeks. You have an unprecedented opportunity to grow both
smarter and wiser. The best way to take advantage is to be inquisitive,
unbiased, and profoundly compassionate.
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
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But I can recommend a colleague whose astro-aesthetics closely match my
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your connection with your own inner wisdom. In addition to over 20 years
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Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
Namaste,
Rob
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