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Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter
February 14, 2007
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"I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your
heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast."
–Pablo Neruda
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WHAT'S TO COME?
BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with the help of my
Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Coming Year
Go to http://RealAstrology.com
You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny
in 2007. Each report in the three-part series is about 6-8 minutes long.
What will be the story of your life in 2007? How can you exert your free
will to create the adventures that'll bring out the best in you, even as you
find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
If you'd like a high-octane boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest
for beauty and truth and love and justice and meaning, tune in to my
meditations on your long-term outlook.
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available, both on the
Web and at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
To find out more about Your BIG PICTURE horoscopes, go to
http://RealAstrology.com.
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The piece below is excerpted from my book
"PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings"
available at http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
or find out more at http://www.freewillastrology.com
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LOVE BOMB
I feel closer to you when I imagine that all of us are collaborating to fight
monumental dangers. The telepathic links among us heat up when our
emotions register the possibility that a global cataclysm could wipe us
out.
That's why I think of the nuclear bomb as a gift. It's a terrible and sacred
taboo that mobilizes our love for each other better than any other
symbol. It's the superhuman profanity on which all life depends and
against which all values must be tested. Shadowing every one of our
personal actions, the bomb is the fascinating blasphemy that won't stop
ranting unless we're all very, very good.
In the quiet abyss of our imaginations, we unconsciously worship it,
believing in its extravagant potency as if it were a god. It is the most
spiritual, most supernatural material object in the world, a fetish that has
the power to literally change all life on earth instantly and forever. We
agree to be possessed by it, to be haunted by its apparition above all
other apparitions. No other spectacle inspires more perverse attraction.
And yet it's secret. How few of us have ever stood next to the magic
body of a hydrogen bomb in a missile silo or laboratory—breathed in its
smell, touched it, communed with its actual life. Its presence among us is
rumor and mystery, like flying saucers and the afterlife. We hear stories.
At night our dreams turn the bomb into the philosopher's stone, the pearl
of great price, the doppelganger of the messiah, the violent ecstasy of
religious conversion. Our blood is alive to its alchemy, alert to its offer of
the blinding flash of irreversible illumination. We recognize the bomb as
our impossible teacher because it harbors a dangerous light that seems to
mimic the sun.
It's ours. We made it. We imagined it into existence so we could
remember that we are all one body. When I fantasize the bomb vaporizing
me into its pure primeval heat and radiation, I remember that you and I
are made of the same stuff. The bomb frees us to imagine that we all live
and die together, that we are all born out of Adam, the indivisible
hermaphrodite god of our species. And we can return now because we
never left.
We need the bomb. We need the bomb because only the tease of the
biggest, most original sin can heal us. The bomb is a blind, a fake, a trick
memory we're sending ourselves from the future that shocks us better
than all the abstract devils.
Let's call the bomb a love that's too big for us to understand yet. Let's
say it's the raging creative life of a cleansing disease that wants to cure
us so it doesn't have to kill us. Let's say it's the last judgment that
promises not to come true if we can figure out what it means.
We have genetic potentials and divine powers so undreamed of that they
will feel like magic when they finally bloom. But they may remain partially
dormant in us until we're terrified not just of our individual deaths but
also of the extinction of the human archetype.
Bless the fear. Praise the danger. O God of Good and Evil Light, let the
ugly power fascinate us all now. Let it fix our dread so precisely that we
become one ferocious, potently concentrated magician, a single guerrilla
mediator casting a spell to bind the great Satan bomb. There will be no
nuclear war.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 15
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Dear Rob: Could you please tell me how I can
get the men I like to remove me from the pedestals they put me on? If
something doesn't change soon, I'll have to call down the lightning and
obliterate their delusions. Sorry if that sounds violent. It's just that
storms start building whenever I feel cramped by demands disguised as
love. -Over-Idolized Aries." Dear Over-Idolized: Good news! You've entered
a phase that will be favorable for shattering naive projections and
unrealistic expectations. You'll also be skilled at escaping neediness that
feels like a straitjacket.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When 46 English scholars completed their
translation of the King James Bible in 1610, Taurus writer William
Shakespeare was 46 years old. In their version of Psalm 46, the 46th
word from the beginning is "shake" and the 46th word from the end is
"spear." Coincidence? I think not. Just as it's no accident that a minute
ago I finished reading Psalm 46, and am now composing your horoscope
for the period that begins February 15, which is the 46th day of the year.
As I write, I'm sitting in a cafe located at 46 Cabrillo Highway in Half Moon
Bay, CA. The people at the table next to me are celebrating their friend's
46th birthday, and out the window I can see a runway where there's a
small plane with a 46 painted on its side. My conclusion? 46 is your lucky
number, Taurus, and you're about to harvest about 46 tons of eerily
delightful synchronicities.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You seem to be suffering, although in an
interesting way, from a metaphysical version of jet lag. Maybe it's
because you've been stretching your boundaries with such experimental
vigor. Or maybe it's because you've been engaging in a form of time-
travel, exploring the past and future in your dreams and fantasies. In any
case, you can take comfort in the knowledge that the warps and tweaks
you're dealing with are the results of your brave choices. Congratulations
as well for having churned up the most useful riddles you've had to
ponder since you jumped out of your skin last year.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I expect you'll soon be communing with sore
spots and delicate feelings, Cancerian. Allergies may be featured
prominently as well--if not the literal kind, then maybe the metaphorical
version. People might be extra ticklish, sometimes to the point of
irritability. And yet all the squirming will actually be a good sign. It'll mean
that one of your most confounding contradictions is close to being
resolved. For best results, act decisively at the moment when your
vulnerability is most intense.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Imagine this scene. You're really thirsty--so
dehydrated that you're feeling faint. Yet here's the weird thing: You're
walking along the bank of a wide river that's so clear you could see the
bottom if you looked. But you're not looking. In fact, you seem oblivious
to the surging force of nature just a few yards away. Is it invisible to you?
Are you so preoccupied with your suffering that you're blind to the very
source that would end your suffering? Up ahead you see a man. As you
approach, you see he's holding a glass of water. You run to him and beg
him to let you drink. He readily agrees. Gratefully, you guzzle the precious
liquid, then thank him profusely. As you walk away, he calls after you, "By
the way, there's a lot more water over there," and he points to the river.
Do you hear him? If you hear him, do you believe him? Or do you keep
walking, hoping to find another man with another glass somewhere up
ahead?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's time to take down the "Under
Construction" signs and clean up the messes from your works in progress.
At least for now, your heart has lost its drive for further renovation and
rehabilitation. Whether you think you're ready or not, then, it's time for a
grand re-opening. I suggest you offer free toasters or other incentives to
pull in new clients, as well as to coax disaffected old ones into returning.
It may also help to put up an "Under New Management" sign.
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Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2007?
You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny
in 2007. Each report in the three-part series is about 6-8 minutes long.
Go to http://RealAstrology.com
for these EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "What have you learned so far this year?" I
asked my newsletter's readers recently. "I've learned that asking for what
I want is the first step toward actually getting it," wrote Sarah Pearson.
"And I've learned that the journey you take to try and escape your fate
can be as interesting as the fate itself." Of all the lessons I'd love you to
learn in the first half of 2007, Libra, those two are my favorites.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "My God, these folks don't know how to
love," wrote novelist D. H. Lawrence, "that's why they love so easily." He
certainly wasn't referring to people from your tribe. You Scorpios may
find it easy to entertain gusts of lust, but you're too smart about real
love to dive casually into its mysteries. You want to be a perpetual
student who's in humble awe of the primal power of deep attraction. You
know intimately that no matter how sweet and light love may sometimes
feel, it always has the potential to sweep you into the unpredictable
depths and change everything forever. Meditate further on these matters;
it'll prepare you for the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You want hot gold secrets to ripen in
your dark candy soul? Then here's what you do: Study the ocean's
memory for its teachings about moon victories. Extract a fresh green why
from the book of storms you dreamed about. When the flowers' clouds
soar over your shadow, and when night's funny sky has turned into warm
moist roars, you'll know exactly how to look through the sun to the other
side of your best fear. (The preceding horoscope may sound crazily
lyrical, even poetically feral, but it's a perfect embodiment of the attitude
you should cultivate in order to have a successful week.)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I was watching Oprah's TV show at 2 a.m.
"Take off your shirt and look down," she told me. I don't automatically do
everything the World's Wealthiest Woman tells me, but I trust her a lot.
So I did what she suggested. What she said next, however, revealed that
she wasn't actually talking to me. "Eight out of ten women are wearing
the wrong bra!" she exclaimed. "Are you?" She then gave tips on how to
select an undergarment that's just right for a woman's shape, size, and
posture. I watched in perplexed awe. How could so many people be
ignorant about such a fundamental thing? Later, while meditating on your
astrological omens, I realized there's a comparable phenomenon going on
in your world. You're missing something important about one of the basic
facts of your life. Please find out what it is.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In solidarity with eternal flux and in the
name of all that's both rowdy and holy, I hereby declare change to be a
good thing. Furthermore, in accordance with the astrological omens, I
announce that change is especially healthy for you right now. I mean it,
Aquarius. Change is not only not a bad thing. It's downright wonderful. So
let's rise up bravely, you and I, and proclaim that change is the essential
nature of the universe--that it's one of the most prominent and
resplendent qualities of God Herself. From now until forevermore, let's
agree to celebrate change, to welcome it, to revere it--starting this week.
Amen, namasté, blessed be, shalom, and hallelujah!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe you're climbing up out of the
primordial ooze for the last time. You're done! Never again will you be
fully immersed in the stinky depths of hell on earth! Never again will
moody despair comprise more than 49 percent of your worldview. From
now on, you will be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and
misery. You will also be a better escape artist. Now go buy yourself a
graduation present.
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HOMEWORK: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more
blessings into your life. Report results by going to
http://FreeWillAstrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and a high
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Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise
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