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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
December 28, 2011
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
http://RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2012? What fresh
resources will you be able to draw on? How can you conspire with life to
create the best possible future for yourself?
Beginning this week, and for the next two weeks as well, I'm exploring the
BIG PICTURE of your life in my Expanded Audio Horoscopes. If you slip into
a philosophical, visionary mood at the end of each year, you might
appreciate my perspectives on your long-term outlook.
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.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts available for bulk
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone. Each forecast is 7-9 minutes
long.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 29
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Botticelli's painting *The Birth of
Venus,* the goddess of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for
the first time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying to
cover her private parts with her hand and thigh-length hair. Her
attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover her up.
Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests it's actually quite
sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we humans can't bear the
confrontation with sublime beauty, we must always keep it partly hidden.
Your assignment in the coming year, Capricorn, is to overcome this
inhibition. I invite you to retrain yourself so that you can thrive in the
presence of intense, amazing, and transformative beauty.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming months will be an excellent time
to take an inventory of your life to determine whether there are any ways
in which you act like a slave. Do you find it hard to defeat an addiction
that saps your energy and weakens your ability to live the life you want?
Are there institutions that you help sustain even though they cause harm
to you and others? Is it hard for you to change or end your relationships
with people who are no damn good for you? Are you trapped in a role or
behavior that is at odds with your high ideals? Discover what these
oppressors are, Aquarius -- and then summon all your intelligence and
willpower to escape them.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): California engineer Ron Patrick put a jet
engine in his silver VW Beetle. Now he's got a 1,450-horsepower vehicle -
- but it's not legal for him to drive on public highways. In the coming year,
Pisces, I suspect you'll be tempted to try something similar: create a
dynamic tool with a modest appearance or a turbo-charged source of
energy in a deceptively small package. But if you do, please make sure
that you can actually use it to improve your ability to get around and
make your life better.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In North America, a farmer who grows wheat
gets only five percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread
made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our
contract called for us to receive just seven percent of the net profits. I
encourage you to push for a much bigger share than that for the work
you do in 2012. It will be an excellent time to raise the levels of respect
you have for your own gifts, skills, and products -- and to ask for that
increased respect, as well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For much of the 19th century, aluminum was
regarded as a precious metal more valuable than gold. It was even used
for the capstone of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1884. The
reason for this curiosity? Until the 1890s, it was difficult and expensive to
extract aluminum from its ore. Then a new technology was developed
that made the process very cheap. In 2012, Taurus, I'm predicting a
metaphorically similar progression in your own life. A goodie or an asset
will become more freely available to you because of your increased ability
to separate it from the slag it's mixed with.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming year will be a good time for you to
consider investigating the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Devotees of this religion call themselves Pastafarians. Their main dogma is
the wisdom of rejecting all dogma. Having such a light-hearted approach
to spiritual matters would be quite healthy for you to experiment with.
For extra credit, you could draw inspiration from a church member named
Niko Alm. He convinced authorities to allow him to wear a pasta strainer
on his head for his driver's license photo. Having a jaunty approach to
official requirements and formal necessities will also serve you well.
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EXPLORING YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2012?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part One of a
long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming months.
Part Two and Part Three will be available in the next two weeks.
Access them online at http://RealAstrology.com. Register and sign in.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts are available for bulk
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terrence Malick's *Tree of Life* is an
ambitious work that deviates from formulaic approaches to film-making.
Some observers hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while
others approved. *New York Times* critic A.O. Scott compared the movie
to Herman Melville's *Moby Dick,* one of America's great works of
literature. Here's what Scott wrote: "Mr. Malick might have been well
advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip to the afterlife and given
us a delicate chronicle of a young man's struggle with his father and
himself. And perhaps Melville should have suppressed his philosophizing
impulses and written a lively tale of a whaling voyage." Using this as a
template, Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be
like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring, expansive
vision.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I love the way they celebrate the New Year in
Stonehaven, Scotland. A procession of revelers swings big flaming
baskets around on the ends of long chains. I recommend that you carry
out a comparable ritual as you barge into 2012, Leo. Symbolically
speaking, it would set the perfect tone. The coming months should be a
kind of extended fire festival for you -- a time when you faithfully stoke
the blaze in your belly, the radiance in your eyes, and the brilliance in your
heart. Are you ready to bring all the heat and light you can to the next
phase of your master plan? I hope so. Burn, baby, burn.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Historian David McCullough wrote *The Greater
Journey,* a book telling the stories of ambitious young American artists
who relocated to Paris between 1830 and 1900. They had to move away
because their home country had no museums or art schools at that time.
You Virgos may want to consider seeking a similar enlargement of your
possibilities in the coming months. As you seek out the resources that will
help you follow your dreams, be prepared to look beyond what you
already know and what's immediately available.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Professional basketball player Ron Artest
petitioned the court to let him change his name to "Metta World Peace."
"Metta" is a Buddhist term that signifies loving-kindness and benevolence.
When the new moniker finally became official, Metta World Peace sealed a
radical shift away from his old way of doing things, symbolized by the
time he leaped into the stands in the middle of a game to punch a fan in
the head. The coming months will be an excellent time for you Libras to
initiate a rite of passage that will expedite an equally dramatic
transformation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many of the questions we had as children
never got resolved or answered to our satisfaction. They still remain
marinating in the back of our minds. Meanwhile, fresh queries keep welling
up within us as the years go by. After a while, we've got a huge collection
of enigmas, riddles, and conundrums. Some of us regard this as a tangled
problem that weighs us down, while others see it as a sparkly delight that
keeps making life more and more interesting. Where do you stand on the
issue, Scorpio? If you're in the latter group, you will be fully open to the
experiences that will be flowing your way in 2012. And that means you
will be blessed with a host of sumptuous and catalytic new questions.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The first half of 2012 will be an
excellent time to for you to exorcize any prejudices you might be
harboring toward anyone who lives or thinks differently from you. You'll
be able to see your own irrational biases with exceptional clarity, and are
also likely to have exceptional success at scouring yourself free of them.
This will give you access to new reserves of psychic energy you didn't
even realize you were shut off from. (P.S. I'm not saying you possess
more intolerance or narrow-mindedness than any of the rest of us. It's
just that this is your time to deal brilliantly with your share of it.)
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Homework: Make a guess about what kind of person you'll be and what
you'll be doing on January 1, 2017. Testify by going to
http://www.RealAstrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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