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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 6, 2010
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EXPLORE YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-Part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
http://RealAstrology.com
Who do you want to become in 2010? Where do you want to go and
what do you want to do? I'm ready to help you muse about the
interesting possibilities.
This week and next week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES will feature
Part 2 and Part 3 of my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny
in 2010. Part 1 of your Year-End Predictions, which I offered last week, is
also still available for your listening pleasure.
What will be the story of your life in 2010? How can you exert your free
will to create adventures that'll bring out the best in you, even as you
find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go here:
http://www.RealAstrology.com
You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-
950-7700
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web, or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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The revised and expanded version of my book *PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA* is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
Below is an excerpt. To read the whole text, go here:
http://bit.ly/6f71HM
To hear the sung version, go here:
http://bit.ly/PerfectMoment
THIS IS A PERFECT MOMENT
This is a perfect moment. It's a perfect moment for many reasons, but
especially because you and I are waking up from our sleepwalking,
thumbsucking, dumb-clucking collusion with the masters of illusion and
destruction.
Thanks to them,
from whom the painful blessings flow,
we are waking up.
Their wars and tortures,
their crimes against nature,
extinctions of species
and brand new diseases.
Their spying and lying
in the name of the father,
sterilizing seeds and
trademarking water.
Molestations of God,
celebrations of shame,
stealing our dreams and
changing our names.
Their cunning commercials
and blood-sucking hustles,
their endless rehearsals
for the end of the world.
Thanks to them,
from whom the awful teachings flow,
we are waking up.
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Their painful blessings are cracking open more and more gashes in the
shrunken and crippled mass hallucination that is mistakenly called
"reality."
And through the fractures, ripe eternity is flooding in; news of the soul's
true home is pouring in; our allies from the other side of the veil are
swarming in, inspiring us to become smarter and wilder and kinder and
trickier.
We are waking up.
As heaven and earth come together, as the dreamtime and daytime
merge, we register the shockingly exhilarating fact that we are in charge
of creating a New Earth. Not in some distant time or faraway place, but
right here and right now . . . .
THIS IS AN EXCERPT. READ THE REST HERE: http://bit.ly/6f71HM
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To see me perform the piece at The Marsh, a theater in San Francisco, go
here:
http://bit.ly/7kwTIt
To see me perform this piece at the Harmony Festival, go here:
http://bit.ly/6KTCpS
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
EXPERTS AND AUTHORITIES ARE PUZZLED WHEN THINGS GET BETTER
Crime Rate Continues to Fall
http://bit.ly/4Vgh1H
OPTIMISM IS FOR RADICAL DISSIDENTS
Five Reasons for Optimism
http://bit.ly/4vr39T
SOONER OR LATER, EVERYONE WILL HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS
Bigotry Continues to Fade
America's fourth biggest city elects gay mayor
http://bit.ly/61N3wy
Mexico City legalizes gay marriage
http://bit.ly/7GFAOQ
(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own personal nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 7
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "You are what you love, not what loves
you," says the character Charlie Kaufman in the film, *Adaptation.*
(Kaufman is played by Nicolas Cage, who has three planets in Capricorn.) I
urge you to work hard to make that perspective your own, Capricorn.
Ideally, it will become a permanent addition to your philosophy of life. But
please at least try to install it as your primary words to live by for the
next three weeks. To do so will smooth out a distortion in your energy
field, making it easier for people to love you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect you have to go down into the
underworld for a while. But you have a choice about how it will play out.
You shouldn't wait for some random goblin to come along and pull you
down into the miserable abyss. Instead, be proactive. Shop around for a
more useful abyss -- a womb-like pit with half-decent accommodations
and a good learning environment -- and go there under your own power.
That way you won't have to slog your way through musty fogs and
creepy pests and slimy muck. You'll keep your suffering to a minimum and
attract adventures that are more intriguing than demoralizing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When my acupuncturist pushes a needle into
my chest, my feet sometimes twitch involuntarily. A jab in my earlobe can
cause my hand to leap off the table; when she pokes the bridge of my
nose, my liver may throb. The lesson for me is that parts of the body are
linked in ways that aren't obvious. I invite you to expand this principle as
you use it to evaluate the interconnections between different areas of
your life. How do your attitudes about love affect your ability to attract
money? (And vice versa.) Are there any ways in which your capacity for
happiness is affected by your political views? How do your judgments
about other people impact your physical health? More than even you
farseeing Pisceans imagine, everything's linked to everything.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my reading of the astrological
omens, it'll be a hair-on-fire kind of week for you -- and yet also a heart-
in-repose kind of week. In other words, you have the potential to be fierce
*and* relaxed, vigorously ambitious *and* sublimely poised. In fact, this
might be one of those rare times when you can be both a justice-
dispensing warrior and an enlightenment-seeking magician. Want to turn
water into wine when the pressure's on? Find the pearl of great price in
the heat of the battle? Feats like these are quite possible.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Can you pull off a mid-course correction while
hurtling through the air across a chasm during a leap of faith? If anyone is
capable of such a feat, you are. However, I'd prefer it if that wasn't
necessary. I'd rather see you prepare a little better, like by procuring the
help you'd need to create a safety net or sturdy bridge that will stretch
across the chasm. Or by getting one of those jet packs to strap across
your back and allow you to fly. Or by taking as much guesswork as
possible out of the details about how you're going to get from the edge
of one cliff to the edge on the other side.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): This is one of those rare times when you can
get abundant access to insider secrets, unauthorized information, taboo
knowledge, and forbidden wisdom. Proceed carefully. As much as I'm an
advocate of you getting to the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it's
also my duty to remind you that it could be disruptive to find out all of
the truth in one big swoop. You should ask yourself if you're fully
prepared to change what needs to be changed once the previously hidden
stuff emerges. If you're not, it might be better to wait until you are.
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EXPLORING YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2010?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part Two of a
long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming year.
Part Three will be available next week. Part One is still available.
Find out how to access them online at http://RealAstrology.com.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-
7700.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Which metropolitan areas in America have the
most brainpower? Not the best sports teams or the richest businessmen
or the most powerful politicians, but the smartest people? "The Daily
Beast" did a study and declared that the top two were the Raleigh-
Durham area in North Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. Now it so
happens that those are the two places where I've spent much of my adult
life. It doesn't mean I'm brilliant, but it does suggest I have an instinct for
knowing where the brilliant people congregate. And I'm quite sure that
they have been a very good influence on me. My recommendation to you
in 2010, Cancerian, is to cultivate this knack. Gravitate toward genius.
Surround yourself with deep thinkers and innovative dreamers. Hang out
in the vicinity of brainstorms.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "The more you complain," says an old adage, "the
longer God lets you live." If that's true, I hope you will be adding many
years to your lifespan in the coming week. Would you like to live to the
age of 100? There are many rich and colorful opportunities for you to
lodge protests right now. You have cosmic permission to rouse a ruckus
in the name of improving the way everything works. But try to
concentrate on constructive criticism that really helps transform what's
stuck. The Divine Wow is more likely to give credit for that approach than
for mere narcissistic grousing.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A reader calling herself Rebellioness
collaborated with me to come up with five revolutionized approaches to
the art of rebellion. I present them here for your use, as they identify the
kinds of behavior that will be most nurturing for you to cultivate in the
coming weeks. 1. Experimenting with uppity, mischievous optimism. 2.
Invoking insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity. 3. Indulging
in an insolent refusal to be chronically fearful. 4. Pursuing a cheeky
ambition to be as wide-awake as a dissident young messiah. 5. Bringing
reckless levels of creative intelligence to all expressions of love.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I want to tell you about Harj, a character in
Douglas Coupland's novel *Generation A.* He's an enterprising young Sri
Lankan man who sells "celebrity room tones" over the Internet. Each
hour-long recording purports to convey the sound of the silence that
pervades the homes of luminaries like Mick Jagger and Cameron Diaz when
they're not there. I think that you Libras are now primed to learn from
Harj's example. Like him, you have the power to capitalize on nothingness
and absence and emptiness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A guy I know broke up with his girlfriend
recently. He used a time-honored strategy: making it sound as if he
wasn't worthy of her. "It's like you're a grandmaster at a chess
tournament," he told her, "while I just got my first checkerboard and am
still figuring out how to play checkers." He was implying that she was
much more skillful than he was in the arts of relationship. I have a feeling
that there's a situation like this in your world, Scorpio -- an alliance in
which the two parties are at different levels of maturity. I'm not
necessarily saying you should sever the connection. But you should at
least acknowledge the gap and decide what to do about it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a million years, I would never
authorize you to unleash your naked greed and give it unconditional
license to careen through the world gobbling and acquiring and
appropriating. However, due to an odd blip in the astrological
configurations, I am at liberty to give you permission to unleash your
discerning, elegant greed and grant it a temporary dispensation to sample
more than usual of anything that captivates your ravenous imagination.
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HOMEWORK: Tell the story of your life, but in 50 words or less. Be very
concise. Go to FreeWillAstrology.com and click on "Email Rob."
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely matches my own. In our
many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had a major
influence on each other's work.
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://YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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