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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
July 18, 2012
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Hi, beauty and truth fans, and welcome to the end of your nightmares!
We're coming to you on location from your repressed memory of paradise
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Reminding you that you can have anything you want if you'll just ask for it
in an unselfish tone of voice . . .
Helping you to help us prevent the global genocide of the imagination . . .
The world is young, your soul is free, and a naked celebrity is dying to talk
to you about your most intimate secrets right now!
Just kidding. In actuality, the world is young, your soul is free, and at any
moment you'll begin to feel horny for salamanders, clouds, toasters, oak
trees -- and even the ocean itself!
Whoever you think you are, whatever friendly monsters you've tried to
make into your guides, whatever media viruses you might have invited
into your most private sanctuaries -- you can decide right now that your
turning point has arrived. You can decide that you're ready to change
your lives . . . and change your signs . . . and change your changing.
Because when you tuned in to this, the Most Secret Spectacle on Earth,
you tuned into your own purified, glorified, unified, and mystifying self.
We're inside your shadow, beauty and truth fans, helping you use your
terror to become rich and famous -- if that's what you want.
We're percolating up from the ground beneath you, bringing you the
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you want.
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apocalypse, we're even riding on the underbelly of tonight's satellite
transmission from CNN, NBC, UFO, and CIA, broadcasting to you on
location from wherever we happen to be at the moment -- if that's what
you want.
We're all around you -- if that's what you want -- or nowhere to be seen --
a secret keeping itself, like nature -- if that's what you want.
So. What do you want, anyway?
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He was walking in a graveyard
It was dawn on a holiday
She was dancing alone
on the top of the gravestone
Looking for someone to pray to her
He said
Dream girl, look down on me
Dream girl, shine on
Shine on me
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning July 19
Copyright 2012 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lately you've been spending time in both the off-
kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo. On one notable
occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How'd
you do that? The results have been colorful but often paradoxical. What
you don't want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You
have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also
been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere
but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal
excitement. What will you do for an encore? Hopefully, nothing that
complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and
taking inventory of all that's changed.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The painter Philip Guston loved to express
himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to
divest himself of what he knew. By washing away the backlog of old ideas
and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand new.
In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston's approach
sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow. The next couple of weeks
will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and
deprogramming. You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions,
loosening the past's hold on you, and clearing out room in your brain for
fresh imaginings.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens
wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in
depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime, and classism. Yet one critic
described him as a "genial and loving humorist" who showed that "even in
dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius
could still be clean and mirth could be innocent." I'm thinking that Dickens
might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It
will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice
and speak up in behalf of those less fortunate than you. You'll get best
results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For many years, ambergris was used as a
prime ingredient in perfumes. And where does ambergris come from? It's
basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal
tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they've eaten,
then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I
challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset,
even a beautiful blessing. I don't expect you to accomplish this task
overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May of 2013.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Interruption" will be a word of power
for you in the coming days. No, really: I'm not being ironic, sarcastic, or
satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient
or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their
intervention. They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked
out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you've been
neglecting. Don't think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but
rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to
where it should be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You don't have to stand in a provocative
pose to be sexy. You don't have to lick your lips or radiate a smoldering
gaze or wear clothes that dramatically reveal your body's most appealing
qualities. You already know all that stuff, of course; in light of this week's
assignment, I just wanted to remind you. And what is that assignment?
To be profoundly attractive and alluring without being obvious about it.
With that as your strategy, you'll draw to you the exact blessings and
benefits you need. So do you have any brilliant notions about how to
proceed? Here's one idea: Be utterly at peace with who you really are.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I brazenly predict, my dear Aquarius, that in
the next ten months you will fall in love with love more deeply than you
have in over a decade. You will figure out a way to exorcise the demons
that have haunted your relationship with romance, and you will enjoy
some highly entertaining amorous interludes. The mysteries of intimacy
will reveal new secrets to you, and you will have good reasons to redefine
the meaning of "fun." Is there any way these prophecies of mine could
possibly fail to materialize? Yes, but only if you take yourself too seriously
and insist on remaining attached to the old days and old ways.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be alert for fake magic, and make yourself
immune to its seductive appeal. Do not, under any circumstances, allow
yourself to get snookered by sexy delusions, enticing hoaxes, or clever
mirages. There will in fact be some real magic materializing in your
vicinity, and if you hope to recognize it you must not be distracted by the
counterfeit stuff. This is a demanding assignment, Pisces. You will have to
be both skeptical and curious, both tough-minded and innocently
receptive. Fortunately, the astrological omens suggest you now have an
enhanced capacity to live on that edge.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Acro-Yoga is a relatively new physical
discipline. According to a description I read on a flyer in Santa Cruz, it
"blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of massage, and
the dynamic power of acrobatics." I'd love to see you work on creating a
comparable hybrid in the coming months, Aries -- some practice or
system or approach that would allow you to weave together your various
specialties into a synergetic whole. Start brainstorming about that
impossible dream now, and soon it won't seem so impossible.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Unless you grow your own or buy the
heirloom variety at farmer's markets, you probably eat a lot of tasteless
tomatoes. Blame it on industrial-scale farming and supermarket chains.
They've bred tomatoes to be homogenous and bland -- easy to ship and
pretty to look at. But there's a sign of hope: A team of scientists at the
University of Florida is researching what makes tomatoes taste delicious,
and is working to bring those types back into mainstream availability. I
think the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks is
metaphorically similar, Taurus. You should see what you can to do restore
lost flavor, color, and soulfulness. Opt for earthy idiosyncrasies over fake
and boring perfection.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It'll be a humming, murmuring, whispering kind
of week -- a time when the clues you need will most likely arrive via
ripplings and rustlings and whirrings. Here's the complication: Some of the
people around you may be more attracted to clangs and bangs and
jangles. They may imagine that the only information worth paying
attention to is the stuff that's loudest and strongest. But I hope you
won't be seduced by their attitudes. I trust you'll resist the appeals of the
showy noise. Be a subtlety specialist who loves nuance and undertones.
Listen mysteriously.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Most change is slow and incremental. The
shifts happen so gradually that they are barely noticeable while you're
living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare
times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly.
Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up.
Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear
answers. I think you're at one of these junctures now, Cancerian. It's not
likely you'll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That's
because you've been tracking the energetic build-up for a while, and it will
feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in.
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Homework: Make two fresh promises to yourself: one that's easy to keep
and one that's at the edge of your capacity to live up to. Share at
FreeWillAstrology.com.
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