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Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter
"If you do not bring forth the genius within you, it will destroy you. If you
do bring forth the genius within you, it will free you."
-Jesus Christ, the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
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December 21, 2005
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http://www.freewillastrology.com
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Coming Year
What hidden factors will be massaging your destiny in 2006? Could you
use some hints about how to prepare for the adventures awaiting you in
the next 12 months? Are there any lingering secrets about 2005 you'd
like to pry loose before leaping into the new year?
Beginning this week, I'm exploring the BIG PICTURE of your life in my
Expanded Audio Horoscopes. If, like most of us, you slip into a
philosophical, visionary mood at the end of each year, you might
appreciate my perspectives on your long-term destiny.
Your BIG PICTURE horoscopes are available here:
http://snipurl.com/krjm
You can also get the readings by phone.
From the United States, call
1-900-950-7700
or if you prefer to pay by credit card
1-877-873-4888
If you live in Canada, call 1-888-499-4425 to purchase a Block of Time
with your credit card.
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Here's an excerpt from my book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings*
available at http://snipurl.com/krjj
or find out more at http://www.freewillastrology.com
DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding
that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your
senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always
gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined,
fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively
sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate
Master of Rowdy Bliss.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair
is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our
birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
PROCEDURE: Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your
amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working
behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece
you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with
blessings.
GUIDING QUESTION: "The secret of life," said sculptor Henry Moore to
poet Donald Hall, "is to have a task, something you devote your entire life
to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your
whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you
cannot possibly do." What is that task for you?
DAILY PRACTICE: Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your
devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your
emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow,
cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for
the best in people, and soften your heart—even as you always accept
yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.
POSSIBLE REWARDS: You will be able to claim the rewards promised you
at the beginning of time—not just any old beauty, wisdom, goodness,
love, freedom, and justice, but rather exhilarating beauty that incites you
to be true to yourself; crazy wisdom that immunizes you against the
temptation to believe your ideals are ultimate truths; outrageous
goodness that inspires you to experiment with irrepressible empathy;
generous freedom that keeps you alert for opportunities to share your
wealth; insurrectionary love that endlessly transforms you; and a lust for
justice that's leavened with a knack for comedy, keeping you honest as
you work humbly to liberate everyone in the world from ignorance and
suffering.
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To read other pieces from the book, go here:
http://freewillastrology.com/beauty/beauty.main145.shtml
To buy the book, use the links to Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble,
which are on my homepage at http://www.freewillastrology.com
Or cut and paste the direct links below:
AMAZON
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BARNES & NOBLE
http://snipurl.com/krjn
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 22
Copyright 2005 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Happy Holy Daze, Aries! I've been meditating
on the perfect holiday gift for you. What symbolic item might inspire you
to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? And the
answer is: "The Daughter of Jacob Meyer," one of Vincent van Gogh's
first drawings. He did it when he was 27 years old. That's right: The
celebrated painter didn't even begin his life's work until then, having failed
in his careers as an art dealer and preacher. In recommending this as a
present for you, I hope you'll be inspired to realize that no matter what
you've done up until this point, the coming year will give you a chance to
start fresh on a new quest--maybe even a calling that will sustain you for
decades.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Holy Daze, Taurus! I've been
meditating on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic items
might inspire you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in
2006? And the answer is: several full-length mirrors that you can arrange
in such a way so as to study what you look like from behind and from the
side as well as from the front. What's my reasoning? I believe you should
get to know yourself much, much better in the coming months. You
should gaze into your own mysteries far more frequently than you ever
have before, and try to see yourself with as much compassionate
objectivity as possible.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Holy Daze, Gemini! I've been meditating
on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic items might stimulate
you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? The
answer is: a lot of beautiful, comfortable shoes suitable for a variety of
moods, from hiking to working to traveling to dancing. I recommend this
dramatic upgrade in footwear because I think it would help drive home the
single most important task you have ahead of you, which is to come all
the way down to earth. This is the year you've got to become as well-
grounded as you've ever dared to be.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Happy Holy Daze, Cancerian! I've decided that
the best possible gift you could give yourself this holiday season is this: a
promise that you will love yourself with more wild abandon, reverent
devotion, and unpredictable ingenuity in 2006. If you agree with my idea,
then I suggest you make a formal pledge to do just that, preferably
written out on a piece of paper and placed in a prominent place in your
home. To carry out your vow, you might want to commit to a regular
schedule of thoughtful gestures, like buying yourself a dozen roses or
getting a massage twice a month--or handing yourself a compliment and
putting yourself in the presence of awesome beauty once a day.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Happy Holy Daze, Leo! I've been meditating on
the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic items might stimulate
you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? Here's
my answer: a skateboard or snowboard or bongo board. If you developed
your proficiency on one of these, you'd be cultivating the same capacity
you should build in your psyche: really good balance. In the coming
months, I hope you will become a master of maintaining your equilibrium,
seeing all sides of every story, and taking the middle path between two
extremes.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Happy Holy Daze, Virgo! I've been meditating
on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic offerings might inspire
you to be in closest alignment with the cosmic currents in 2006? I've
decided on a pair of binoculars, a microscope, and sunglasses with mirrors
in the corner of each lens that allow you to gaze on the reflections of
things behind you. These, I hope, would give you the message that you
should try hard to see further, deeper, and more clearly; you should
become more greedily eager to notice details you've been blind to in the
past.
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YOUR FORECAST FOR 2006
Normally my Expanded Audio Horoscopes cover just a week at a time. But
this week and the next two weeks, I am offering explorations of the entire
year ahead. To hear part one of my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM FORECAST FOR
YOUR LIFE IN 2006, check out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The
reading costs $6.
For Web access, go here:
http://snipurl.com/krjm
You can also get the readings by phone.
From the United States, call
1-900-950-7700
or if you prefer to pay by credit card
1-877-873-4888
If you live in Canada, call 1-888-499-4425 to purchase a Block of Time
with your credit card.
"Your audio horoscopes help me tune in to my own inner wisdom. It's like
you're the UNteacher teaching me how to teach myself." —Rose F.,
Ypsilanti, MI
"Why spend $80 an hour on a therapist when I can spend $6 for a few
minutes with you and get the same boost?" —Roger H., Colorado Springs,
CO
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Holy Daze, Libra! I've been meditating
on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic items might stimulate
you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? The
first thing that comes to mind is a bar of gold bullion or a stack of gold
coins. It might stir up your financial imagination and motivate you to take
aggressive steps to increase your income, which would be right in line
with the scenario that the astrological omens suggest is possible. What
might be even more effective, though, is a photo or image or drawing
that captures the invigorating experiences you'll be able to buy yourself
when you have more money.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Happy Holy Daze, Scorpio! I've been
meditating on the perfect holiday gift for you. What symbolic offering
might inspire you to be in closest alignment with the cosmic currents in
2006? I've decided on a magnesium firestarter, a metal tool with a
striking rod that's guaranteed to kindle a flame even when conditions are
wet. This would, I hope, send you the message that your job in the
coming months is to be constantly ablaze--to ignite passions, burn down
obstacles, and be a source of intense light and warmth and energy
wherever you go.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Happy Holy Daze, Sagittarius! I've been
meditating on the perfect holiday gift for you. What would best get you
ready for 2006? What symbolic offering might motivate you to take
maximum advantage of the astrological opportunities? And the answer is:
the biggest, baddest vacuum cleaner ever made--a sleek, chic cleaning
machine with turbocharged suction power, a hundred different
attachments, and a very long reach. Such a gift would, I think, be an
inspiring metaphor as you dive into the coming year's most important
project: to purge every last bit of messiness and chaos and karmic dirt
that have accumulated in your life during the last ten years.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Holy Daze, Capricorn! I've been
meditating on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What items might inspire
you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? And
the answer is: anything that makes you laugh harder, deeper, faster, and
more often. For me that would be something like DVDs by comedians
Margaret Cho, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Sarah Silverman, but you
might need different stimuli. The point is, you've got to significantly raise
your Laugh Quotient in the coming months. The astrological omens say
it's the only strategy that's guaranteed to make you an expert problem-
solver, increase your intelligence, and keep you in peak health.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Happy Holy Daze, Aquarius! I've been
meditating on the perfect holiday gift for you. What symbolic item might
inspire you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006?
I've decided it would be a fortune cookie inside of which was an oracle
based on an old Sufi saying: "I was a hidden treasure and I longed to be
known." This would serve as your motto and mantra in the coming
months, a reminder that it's high time for you to come out of every
closet, throw off all your disguises, and reveal the curious, beautiful
truths about yourself. Even if you don't do that, I bet you'll still become
better known in 2006; not necessarily famous, but certainly more
accurately perceived and more deeply understood.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Happy Holy Daze, Pisces! I've been meditating
on the perfect holiday gift for you. What would best get you ready for
2006? What symbolic offering might motivate you to take maximum
advantage of the astrological opportunities ahead? And the answer is: a
roundtrip plane ticket to the mysterious frontier or thrilling sanctuary or
provocative paradise you've been fantasizing about off and on for a long
time. Why? Because this is the year you really need to escape the
insidious comforts that have been sapping your ability to be the brave
dreamer you were born to be.
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HOMEWORK:
Tell me what holiday gift you're bestowing on yourself to inspire your
journey through 2006. Testify by going to
http://www.freewillastrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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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 CD and promoting
my new book.
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.
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
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