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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 13, 2010
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DREAM AND SCHEME ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
http://RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2010? What fresh
resources will you be able to draw on? How can you conspire with life to
create the best possible future for yourself?
This week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES feature Part 3 of the long-
range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in 2010. Part 1 and Part 2 of
your Year-End Predictions, which I offered the last two weeks, are also still
available.
To find out more about how to listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes
online, go to http://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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"Do you have the nerve -- do you have the gall and the chutzpah and the
courage -- to gaze into the abyss of happiness?"
- *PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia*
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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/8ixsHS
To hear the audio version, go here:
http://bit.ly/50kIBp
GAZING INTO THE ABYSS OF HAPPINESS
More and more creative people find they do their best work when they're
feeling healthy and secure. We know writers who no longer need to be
drunk or in agony in order to shed the numbness of their daily routine and
tap into the full powers of their imagination. We have filmmaker friends
whose best work flows not from the depths of alienated self-doubt but
rather from the heights of well-earned bliss. Singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey
is the patron saint of this new breed. "When I'm contented, I'm more
open to receiving a lot of inspiration," she has testified. "I'm most
creative when I feel safe and happy."
At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we've retired the archetype of the
tormented genius. We have zero attraction to books and movies and
songs by depressed jerks whose work is celebrated but whose lives are a
mess. Stories about supposedly interesting creeps don't rouse our
perverse fascination because we've broken our addiction to perverse
fascination. When hearing about illustrious creators who brag that they
feel most stimulated when they're angry or miserable, we unleash the
Official Beauty and Truth Lab Histrionic Yawn . . . .
READ THE REST: http://bit.ly/8ixsHS
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW ARE CARRYING OUT MIRACULOUS FEATS
The 10 Most Generous Moments of the Decade
http://tinyurl.com/yl6mfds
WHOEVER OR WHATEVER CREATED ALL THIS IS DEFINITELY AN ARTIST
Earth as Art
http://tinyurl.com/yzxllcy
http://tinyurl.com/yhxvyqu
HELP IS AVAILABLE EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
*The Secret History of Dreaming* by Robert Moss
After escaping from slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman helped organize the
Underground Railroad and personally led 300 slaves to freedom. Few
history books note that she relied on her dreams to provide specific
information about where to find safe houses, helpers, and passages
through dangerous territory.
http://tinyurl.com/yen8xl7
A COMPENDIUM OF ALL THE PRONOIA RESOURCES
http://pronoiaresources.com
(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 14
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The number of bacteria per square inch on
a toilet seat averages about 50. Meanwhile, your telephone harbors over
25,000 germs per square inch and the top of your desk has about
21,000. I'd like you to use this as a metaphor that you can apply more
universally. According to my analysis, you see, you are over-emphasizing
the risks and problems in one particular area of your life and
underestimating them elsewhere. Spend some time this week correcting
the misdiagnoses.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One of my readers, Judd, shared his vision
of how to cope with the blahs of January. Given your astrological omens,
I'd say his strategy perfectly embodies the approach you should take
right now. Please study his testimony below, and come up with your own
ingenious variation. "On the coldest of days, my friends and I celebrate
'scrufting,' the art of enjoying the great outdoors with indoor furniture,
while listening to loud indie-rock and adorned in our grungiest slop-ware.
Aided by Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout, we curse and laugh at the
constraints of winter by playing our favorite summer sports like Frisbee,
hacky-sack, and soccer."
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's graduation time. Not in any officially
recognized sense, maybe, but still: You have completed your study of a
certain subject in the school of life. At a later date, maybe you will
resume studying this subject on a higher level, but for now you've
absorbed all you can. I suggest you give yourself a kind of final exam. (Be
sure to grade it yourself.) You might also want to carry out a fun ritual to
acknowledge the completion of this chapter of your story. It will free up
your mind and heart to begin the next chapter.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Earth's north magnetic pole is not the
same as the geographic North Pole. If you take out a compass to orient
yourself toward due north, the compass arrow will actually point toward a
spot in the frigid wilds of Canada. But what's really odd is that the north
magnetic pole has been on the move since 1904 -- scientists don't know
exactly why -- and has dramatically sped up in recent years. According to
*National Geographic,* it's now zooming toward Siberia at the rate of
almost 40 miles per year. I suspect that your own metaphorical version of
magnetic north will also be changing in 2010, Aries. By January 2011, the
homing signal you depend on to locate your place in reality may have
migrated significantly. This is a good time to start tracking the shift.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "The common idea that success spoils people
by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous," wrote
W. Somerset Maugham. "On the contrary, it makes them, for the most
part, humble, tolerant, and kind." I think the trajectory of your journey
during the last 12 months tends to confirm his theory, Taurus. According
to my analysis, you set new benchmarks for your personal best in 2009,
while at the same time becoming a wiser, riper human being. Congrats!
Now get out there and capitalize on the grace you've earned. Be as
organized as possible as you share the fruits of your progress.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): *The Onion,* which describes itself as
"America's Finest News Source," ran a feature on the inventor Thomas
Edison. He "changed the face of modern life in 1879," said the report,
"when he devised the groundbreaking new process of taking ideas
pioneered by other scientists and marketing them as his own." The tone
was mocking, of course, but I'm perfectly sincere when I urge you to
imitate Edison in the coming weeks. Given the current astrological omens,
you'd be wise to take advantage of the breakthroughs of others and
make good use of resources created by others. Just be sure that you give
credit where credit is due, and you'll actually be doing everyone a service.
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LET'S IMAGINE WHAT BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIES
MIGHT COME YOUR WAY IN 2010
Listen to my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Coming Year.
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 3 of a
long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming year.
Part 1 and Part 2 are 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.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web, or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): A Scorpio is willing and maybe even eager to
share secrets with you. Can you marshal just the right amount of self-
protection -- not too much, not too little -- to trust a little more and go
deeper? As for Virgo: That under-self-confident person would really
benefit from getting more appreciation from you. Don't be stingy.
Meanwhile, I think you're suffering from a misunderstanding about an
Aquarius. It will be in your selfish interest to clear it up. A few more tips:
Don't give up on Pisces. There's more to come when the coast is clearer.
Browse but don't buy yet with a Leo. And make business, but not love or
war, with a Capricorn.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I like it best when the creek that runs near my
home is wide and deep. It gets that way at high tide, when the moon
shepherds in a surge of water from the bay. As I gaze out at the swollen
cascade, I feel full and fertile; everything's right with the world. Inevitably,
though, the tide goes out and the flow turns meek and narrow. Then my
mood is less likely to soar. A slight melancholy may creep in. But I've
learned to love that state, too -- to derive a quiet joy from surveying the
muddy banks where the water once ran, the muck imprinted with tracks
of egrets and ducks. Besides, I know it's only a matter of time before the
tide shifts and the cascade returns. Enjoy your own personal version of
the low-tide phase, Leo. High tide will be coming back your way soon.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you asked me to make you a mix tape that
would be conducive for making love to, I wouldn't be in the least
surprised. These long January nights are ideal times for you Virgos to be
unleashing your dormant passion and sharing volcanic pleasure and
exploring the frontier where delight overlaps with wonder. In the
compilation of tunes I'd create for you, I'd probably have stuff like
"Teardrop" by Massive Attack, "Breathe Me" by Sia, "Supermassive Black
Hole" by Muse, and "6 Underground" by the Sneaker Pimps. But I think it's
a better idea for you to assemble your own soundtrack. Tell me about it if
you do. I'm at Truthrooster@gmail.com.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The world's tallest waterfall is Angel Falls in
Venezuela. It was named after Jimmie Angel, an American who was the
first person to fly a plane over it in 1933. Recently, Venezuela's president
suggested that this place should be officially renamed *Kerepakupai
meru,* which is what the indigenous Pemon Indians have always called it.
The coming weeks happen to be a favorable time for you to consider
making a comparable move, Libra: restoring a natural wonder to its
original innocence; rehabilitating the truth about a beautiful resource;
returning an old glory to its pristine state.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the first half of 2010, your calling will be
calling to you more loudly and insistently than it has in years. It will
whisper to you seductively while you're falling asleep. It will clang like a
salvation bell during your mid-morning breaks. It will soothe you with its
serpentine tones and it will agitate you with its rippling commands to
spring into action. How will you respond to these summonses from your
supreme inner authority? This week will be a good test.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "You can have it all," says fashion
designer Luella Bartley. "It's just really hard work." That's my oracle for
you, Sagittarius -- not just for this week, but for the next three months as
well. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos will
indeed permit you to have your cake and eat it, too, as long as you're
willing to manage your life with more discipline, master the crucial little
details everyone else neglects, and always give back at least as much as
you're given.
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HOMEWORK: What could you do to free your imagination from its
bondage in 2010? For inspiration, read "Liberate Your Imagination" here:
http://bit.ly/Liberate
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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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