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March 2, 2005
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 3
Copyright 2005 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "The
Daily Show," is a big star now. But on his way to the top, he has
sometimes had a laidback attitude towards ambition. "As long as I can
remember," he has said, "I wanted to sleep late, stay up late, and do
nothing in between." Believe it or not, Aries, I suggest you adopt an
equally leisurely approach in the coming week. The best thing you can do
to serve your burning desires in the long run is to explore the healing
mysteries of being a lazy bum right now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Harvest time in March? That's what the
astrological omens say for you Bulls. During the next few weeks you'll be
reaping the fruits of all the seeds you've sown since your last birthday.
One of the pesky weeds you didn't uproot will also be reaching full bloom,
but the tiny bit of blight it engenders will be vastly overshadowed by the
richness of your rewards. I suggest you throw a party or two to celebrate
your bounty, express gratitude to your helpers, and offer forgiveness to
your doubters.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Events in the coming week may be difficult for
some of you to deal with. They will include intense encounters with peace,
love, joy, and understanding, as well as possible brushes with extravagant
beauty, lyrical delight, and inspiring discoveries. There will be a dearth of
storylines that feature betrayal, abuse, pettiness, greed, extortion,
disease, and explosions. Therefore, Gemini, you should proceed with
extreme caution if you're a jaded hipster who's suspicious of feeling really
good. Ask yourself: "Am I ready to stop equating cynicism with insight?
Do I dare take the risk that exposing myself to uplifting encounters might
dull my intelligence?" If you doubt your ability to handle all the relaxing
breakthroughs, you'd better take strong measures to evade them.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "The average river requires a million years to
move a grain of sand one hundred miles," says science writer James
Trefil. The work you've been doing on yourself these past two years,
Cancerian, must sometimes have seemed as maddeningly gradual. The
good news is that you are now in the last few months of this slow-motion,
long-term project. If you can sustain your focus, you'll finish up around
your birthday, having created such a strong inner sense of sanctuary that
you will forever after be able to feel at home in the world no matter
where you are.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I have a tricky assignment for you this week, Leo.
It will require you to display an open-hearted curiosity as you live on the
edge of your understanding. It will ask you to be cheerful and optimistic
as you question as many of your certainties as you can. Your challenge is
to embody the attitude suggested by Caroline Myss in this passage from
her CD, *Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness:*
"The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is
divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human
order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're
seeing God clearly."
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming week, people may have a lot to
tell you about what you shouldn't think, how you shouldn't act, and whom
you shouldn't hang out with. Their counsel will be useful mostly in its
revelations about them. If I were you, I wouldn't actually heed much of
what they say. What you should trust, though, is your calm, lucid inner
voice, especially when it gives you intuitions about what you shouldn't
think, how you shouldn't act, and whom you shouldn't hang out with. This
is an ideal time to get clearer about the life you *don't* want to live.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Spankings can raise your intelligence, reports
*The Weekly World News.* Experiments by the Lucerne Institute of
Psychological Research showed that college students did better on their
exams after having their buns whacked. Increased adrenalin flow may have
contributed to this surprising phenomenon, the psychologists speculated.
"The adrenalin combined with the endorphins generated to minimize the
pain, and together they opened up previously underutilized neural
pathways--turning them into IQ hyperlinks," said one researcher. I bring
this up, Libra, because you've got a big life test coming up. If I were you,
I'd be willing to try innovative measures to make sure you ace it, including
maybe even having a ping-pong paddle administered to your backside.
The preparations that helped you through rites of passage in the past
may not work this time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming days, Scorpio, you will almost
certainly become pregnant--if not by literally conceiving a fetus, then by
germinating the metaphorical equivalent. Do you have any idea about
what's getting ready to sprout within you? I hope so, because if you do, it
means you're attuned to the secrets that have been ripening in the fertile
depths. But if you don't know anything about the new life that's stirring,
drop everything and find out. You need to be a fully conscious participant
in the gestation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Americans live inside their own private
echo chambers," says syndicated writer Matt Zoller Seitz, "endlessly
revisiting things they already know they like and avoiding exposure to
anything new and different." Your assignment this week, Sagittarius, is to
ask yourself if you fit Seitz's description, and then--if you do--to escape
your private echo chamber. So for instance, if you're a tattooed pagan
performance artist, attend a rodeo or NASCAR race; if you're a Christian
Girl Scout leader, listen to Ani DiFranco or Radiohead, or read Noam
Chomsky's radical critiques of American foreign policy. If you're an
atheistic intellectual, take a workshop in ecstatic Sufi dancing or a class in
Buddhist meditation. I think you catch my drift.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I'd love to see you reach out to the people
who you think should have reached out to you by now. I'd love to see you
heal rifts with former allies and rebuild bridges you burned down. Even if it
feels like a slightly awkward compromise, I'd love to see you offer your
services to X-factors and wild cards and loose cannons that aren't exactly
making the best use of their powers. How about it, Capricorn? Are you
willing to bend a little to gain a lot? Can you imagine giving more slack to
flawed possibilities, hoping that your largesse will help them fix their
flaws?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The astrological omens are unambiguous: In
the coming weeks, the entire universe will be conspiring to help you add
to your assets, increase your value, and acquire more resources. Does
that mean you'll get a raise or inherit your great uncle's ostrich farm?
Does it mean you'll enroll in a training program to upgrade your skills and
expand your know-how? Or does it mean you'll cultivate a previously
underdeveloped part of your personality that will then become more
attractive and desirable? I can't say for sure, Aquarius. How it all unfolds
will depend on your priorities--and on how aggressively you cooperate
with the universal conspiracy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book, *For the Time Being,* Annie
Dillard says that throughout history many people have thought civilization
was on the verge of collapse. Around 300 B.C., Hindus believed they were
living in a "degenerate and unfortunate time" known as the Kali Yuga--the
lowest point in the great cosmic cycle. In 426 A.D., the Christian writer
Augustine mourned that the world was in its last days. In the 1800s,
renowned Hasidic Rabbi Nachman grieved for the world's "widespread
atheism and immorality." Dillard offers more examples, concluding, "There
never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less . . . There is no
whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was
under the Buddha's bo tree." Go sit under that tree, Pisces. The time for
your awakening is now at hand.
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HOMEWORK:
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and make plans to educate it. Testify by going to
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