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Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter
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December 1, 2004
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"I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and
try to love the questions themselves."
--Rilke
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 2
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The seeds of some trees are so tightly
compacted within their protective cones that only flames can free them
and allow them to sprout. The lodgepole pine and jack pine can't
reproduce, in other words, without the help of forest fires. I suspect that
you will have a resemblance to those fire-dependent, fire-resistant seeds
in the coming months, Aries. Your ability to prosper and flourish may
require you to spend time in the metaphorical equivalent of a large blaze.
Don't worry for your sanity or safety. Just as the seeds in jack pine cones
can tolerate temperatures of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, you will be very
hardy. P.S. Your first trial by fire may begin any minute now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your soul is the best friend you keep
forgetting you have. It's closer than your breath and older than death. It
dreams like a mountain, laughs like a river, and communicates with you in
the exuberantly mysterious style of animals and gods. You are alive
because of your soul! It loves you with nonstop unconditional ingenuity.
Isn't it right, then, to devote at least one special day each year to
honoring it and giving thanks for its blessings? From an astrological
perspective, this is a perfect time to do just that. Schedule Soul
Celebration Day for sometime this week.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It's an excellent time for you to fuel your urge
to compete. But wait! Before you start working yourself into a frenzy
about your rivals and adversaries, before you erupt with a surge of jealous
fantasies, read this quote from ballet superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov: "I do
not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than
myself." That's the special kind of competitive zeal I advise you to stoke
in the coming weeks, Gemini.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Centuries of travel lore suggest that when
we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun." So
says Phil Cousineau in his book, *The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's
Guide to Making Travel Sacred.* I hope that's a perfect description of
your current state, Cancerian. It may not be obvious yet, but losing your
direction is the best gift you could have possibly been given. Being unsure
of your next move is a crucial development in your life story, and a virtual
guarantee that you will be in the right place at the right time for a divine
intervention a few weeks from now.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One good way to celebrate your astrological
Season of Rapture would be to acquire the book *Sexual Energy Ecstasy:
A Practical Guide to Lovemaking Secrets of the East and West,* by David
and Ellen Ramsdale. Carry out any of the exercises between pages 333
and 339, including these: 1. Imagine that your house is burning down
around you while you're making love; you're too blissfully engrossed to
flee, and die in each other's arms. 2. As you make love, imagine you're
dreaming, and will soon wake up. 3. Imagine that your lover's face keeps
changing, becoming the faces that he or she had in past incarnations. 4.
Make love with paper bags over your heads. Cut out holes for your eyes
and mouths. 5. Imagine that you're making love to Jesus Christ, Mary
Magdalene, Buddha, Tara, Kwan Yin, Krishna, Parvati, or some other
enlightened one.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don't fight the inevitable. Don't resist it and
bitch about it and curse it. On the other hand, don't just lie down and let
it roll on over you, relinquishing your will and losing your spunk. Instead,
Virgo, have fun with the inevitable. Tease it and question it. Influence it
through the ingenuity of your playfulness. Develop a relationship with it
that allows you to be true to yourself even as you learn to love it.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My house isn't big enough to hold all my stuff,
so I keep some of it at a local storage facility. My room there is number
417. It's in the middle of a long hall lined with rooms that other people
have rented for their junk. The sequence of numbered doors is odd; it
goes 415 to 416 to 417 to 752 to 418 to 419 to 420. How did 752 get
in there? It's a mystery--sort of like your life in the coming week, Libra. I
predict that you'll soon experience a comparable interruption in the
orderly flow of things. But that shouldn't be a problem for you as long as
you don't worry about it. I suggest that you just glide through the
seemingly out-of-place event, having faith that the regularly scheduled
flow will return after a relatively brief blip.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson
declared an unconditional "war on poverty." It was an enlightened use of
martial force--an unprecedented attempt to channel the macho might of
the federal government into an onslaught of benevolence. Now I call on
you to pull off a comparable trick. In the coming weeks, convince your
inner warrior to turn away from all temptations to express rage and
destruction. Reprogram him or her to fight wildly in behalf of beauty,
truth, justice, and love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): *Be here now.* That's usually pretty
good advice. It means reeling your mind in from its distracted
daydreaming about the past and future so that you can be fully attentive
to the present moment. To really *be here now,* you have to stop
fantasizing about what might happen or what could have been, and
instead focus on what's actually unfolding right in front of you. Having
said all that, however, I'm going to give you astrological permission to
spend an inordinate amount of time in the coming week following a
different mandate. For a limited time only, Sagittarius, you can and should
*be there then:* Vividly imagine yourself in a desirable future scenario as
if it were already happening. Feel the feelings you'll have when it
materializes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book, *The Secrets and Mysteries of
Hawaii,* Pila Chiles recounts the advice given him by an Indian holy man:
"If you have lost the business, your house, and wife, after you have been
pronounced terminally ill and life has dealt you the worst blows, there is
only one duty left. That is to crawl over to the nearest mirror, hoist
yourself up, look deeply into it with your last breath, and say aloud seven
times: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!'" No matter how low you might feel,
Capricorn, you have to admit that your problems aren't even one percent
as serious as that. You should find it relatively easy, then, to go to a
mirror right now and crow "cock-a-doodle-doo!" seven times. Please do.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Dr. Ivan Goldberg
(http://psychcentral.com/maniaquiz.htm) has created a questionnaire to
help excitable people stay alert for when they may be about to go over
the edge. For instance, he advises them to be wary if they're thinking
things like, "My mind has never been sharper," "I need less sleep than
usual," "I have more new ideas than I can handle," "I have been feeling
particularly playful," or "I have been feeling like 'the life of the party.'"
The weird thing is, Aquarius, that you're expressing many of the
symptoms he names, only in you it's a sign of extraordinary vitality. Now
please tap into the generosity and joy you've got in such abundance right
now, and make the following affirmation, which is number 15 on
Goldberg's list: *I have special plans for the world.*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For far too long, Pisces, you have been overly
tolerant of sober, solemn approaches. You have allowed business-like
people with a lack of emotional riches to define important questions. You
have acted as if the absurdly literal mindset that views everything in black
and white is strong and authoritative. What better time than now,
therefore, to launch a strike in the name of irreverence, hilarity, and wildly
poetic justice?
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HOMEWORK:
What kind of teacher do you need the most right now? What is the
ignorance that's causing you to suffer? Testify by going to
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing charts these days. In addition to writing my weekly column
and expanded audio horoscopes, I'm also working on a book and CD.
But I can recommend a colleague whose astro-aesthetics closely match
my own. She's RO LOUGHRAN.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and a high
degree of technical proficiency in horoscope interpretation; she is skilled
at exploring the mysteries of your life's purpose and nurturing your
connection with your own inner wisdom. In addition to over 20 years of
astrological experience, Ro is also a licensed psychotherapist, allowing her
to integrate psychological insight with the cosmological perspective that
astrology offers.
Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic boundaries.
Ro's website is at
http://www.astrology-psychotherapy.com/
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
Namaste,
Rob
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