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December 21, 2011
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A PREVIEW OF YOUR DESTINY IN 2012
Want to get a head start on your future? This week my EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES offer you a sneak-peek, teaser look at some major themes
you'll be working and playing with in 2012.
Beginning next week, I will devote three consecutive weeks to an in-depth
discussion of your long-range outlook for the coming year.
Part One of my LONG-TERM FORECASTS FOR 2012 will be available
beginning Tuesday, December 27.
Part Two will be available on Tuesday, January 3.
Part Three will be available on Tuesday, January 10.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 22
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Suzan-Lori Parks is a celebrated American
playwright who has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation
"Genius" Grant. During the time between November 2002 and November
2003, she wrote a new short play every day -- a total of 365 plays in 365
days. I think you could be almost as prolific as that in 2012, Capricorn.
Whatever your specialty is, I believe you will be filled with originality about
how to express it. You're also likely to have the stamina and persistence
and, yes, even the discipline necessary to pull it off.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Pigeons are blessed with an extraordinary
ability to find home, even if they're hundreds of miles away. They have an
internal compass that allows them to read the Earth's magnetic field, and
they also create a "map of smells" that gives them crucial clues as they
navigate. A team of scientists performed some odd experiments that
revealed a quirky aspect to the birds' talent: If their right nostril is
blocked, their innate skill doesn't work nearly as well. (It's OK if their left
nostril is blocked, though.) What does this have to do with you? Well,
Aquarius, you've been like a homing pigeon with its right nostril blocked,
and it's high time you unblocked it. In the coming months, you can't
afford to be confused about where home is, what your community
consists of, or where you belong.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of Alexander the Great's teachers was
Aristotle, who was tutored by Plato, who himself learned from Socrates. In
2012, I'd love to see you draw vital information and fresh wisdom from a
lineage as impressive as that, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you need
much more than a steady diet of factoids plucked from the Internet and
TV. You simply must be hungry for more substantial food for thought
than you get from random encounters with unreliable sources. It will be
time for you to attend vigorously to the next phase of your life-long
education.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the fictional world of the wizard Harry
Potter, muggles are people who have no magical powers. Because of their
deficiency, certain sights may be literally invisible to them, and certain
places inaccessible. I'm going to boldly predict that you Aries people will
lose at least some of your muggleness in the coming year. A part of your
life where you've been inept or clueless will begin to wake up. In ways
that may feel surprisingly easy, you'll be able to fill a gap in your skill set
or knowledge base.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On January 15, 1885, Wilson Bentley
photographed his first snowflake. Over the course of the next 46 years,
he captured 5,000 more images of what he called "tiny miracles of
beauty." He was the first person to say that no two snowflakes are alike.
In 2012, Taurus, I suggest that you draw inspiration from his example.
The coming months will be prime time for you to lay the foundations for a
worthy project that will captivate your imagination for a long time -- and
perhaps even take you decades to complete.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In her memoir *Blood, Bones & Butter: The
Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef,* Gabrielle Hamilton suggests
my horoscopes were helpful to her as she followed her dream to create
her New York City restaurant, Prune. "I killed roaches, poisoned their
nests, trapped rats, stuffed their little holes with steel wool and glass
shards," she wrote, "while my girlfriend . . . walked through the place
'purifying' it with a burning sage smudge stick and read me my Rob
Brezsny horoscopes in support." I would love to be of similar service to
you in the coming months, Gemini, as you cleanse whatever needs to be
cleansed in preparation for your next big breakthrough. Let the
fumigation, purgation, and expiation begin!
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EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES
This week my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES offer you a teaser sneak-
peek look of some major themes you'll be working and playing with in
2012.
Beginning next week, I will devote three consecutive weeks to an in-depth
discussion of your long-range outlook for the coming 12 months.
To access the Expanded Audio Horoscopes, go to
http://RealAstrology.com.
They're $6 if you access them on the Web, or $1.99 per minute over the
phone: 1-877-873-4888.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1992, 30,000 Americans signed a petition
asking the governor of Hawaii to change the name of Maui to "Gilligan's
Island." Fortunately, the request was turned down, and so one of the
most sublime places on the planet is not now named after a silly TV
sitcom. I'm urging you to avoid getting swept up in equally fruitless
causes during the coming months, Cancerian. You will have a lot of energy
to give to social causes and collective intentions in 2012, but it will be
very important to choose worthy outlets that deserve your intelligent
passion and that have half a chance of succeeding.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Palace of Versailles once served as home for
French kings and their royal courts, and was the hub of the French
government. To this day it remains a symbol of lavish wealth and high
civilization. Set on 26 acres, it has 700 rooms, 67 staircases, 6,000
paintings, and 2,100 sculptures. The grounds feature 50 fountains and
21 miles of water conduits. And yet the word "Versailles" means "terrain
where the weeds have been pulled." Prior to it being built up into a
luxurious center of power, it was a marsh in the wilderness. I nominate it
to be your inspirational image for the coming year, Leo: a picture of the
transformation you will begin.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A guy named George Reiger is a certifiable
Disney freak. He has covered his skin with 2,200 tattoos of the
franchise's cartoon characters. If you plan to get anything like that much
thematic body decoration in 2012, Virgo, I recommend that you draw
your inspiration from cultural sources with more substantial artistry and
wisdom than Disney. For example, you could cover your torso with
paintings by Matisse, your arms with poems by Neruda, and your legs with
musical scores by Mozart. Why? In the coming months it will be important
for you to surround yourself with the highest influences and associate
yourself with the most inspiring symbols and identify yourself with the
most ennobling creativity.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the Classical Nahuatl language of the Aztecs,
the word *teocuitlatl* literally meant "god poop." It was used to refer to
gold, which was regarded as a divine gift that brought mixed blessings. On
the one hand, gold made human beings rich. On the other hand, it could
render them greedy, stingy, and paranoid. So it was potentially the source
of both tremendous bounty and conflict. I suspect that in 2012, Libra,
you will have to deal with the arrival of a special favor that carries a
comparable paradox. You should be fine -- harvesting the good part of the
gift and not having to struggle mightily with the tough part -- as long as
you vow to use it with maximum integrity.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What spell would you like to be under in
2012? Be careful how you answer that; it might be a trick question. Not
because I have any interest in fooling you, of course, but rather because I
want to prepare you for the trickiness that life may be expressing in your
vicinity. So let me frame the issue in a different way. Do you really want
to be under a spell -- of any kind? Answer yes only if you're positive that
being under a spell will help you manifest your biggest dream. And please
make sure that whoever or whatever is the source of the spell is in the
service of love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Environmental Working Group wrote
the *Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health.* It concluded that
if every American avoided eating cheese and meat one day a week,
emissions would be lowered as much as they would be by removing 7.6
million cars from the roads. This is the kind of incremental shift I urge you
to specialize in during 2012, Sagittarius -- whether it's in your
contribution to alleviating the environmental crisis or your approach to
dealing with more personal problems. Commit yourself to making little
changes that will add up to major improvements over the long haul.
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