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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
December 18, 2013
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DEAR READERS,
With the horoscopes below, I offer you the first of three weeks' worth of
big-picture views of your future in 2014. They're free.
Beginning next week, I will also be offering the first of four weeks' worth
of Expanded Audio Horoscopes that explore your long-term destiny in the
coming months. They cost money. There'll be more info about them in
next week's newsletter.
Would you like to check to see whether my long-term horoscopes from
last January were accurate portrayals of your life in 2013? Check them
out here: http://bit.ly/BigLife2013
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My book
*PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
or Powells: http://bit.ly/PronoiaPowells
Here's an excerpt.
Dear Co-Conspirators: Congratulations on having such ambidextrous
brains. Due to your ever-growing ability to blend supple rationality with
robust intuition, you're not falling prey to the inane strains of insanity
that are going around.
Instead you're achieving glorious victory after glorious victory over the
fearful fantasies that pass for normalcy.
Best of all, you're increasing your mastery of the art of the paradox; more
and more you're attuned to the amusing fact that when the mythic shifts
hit the fan, the apparent opposites turn inside-out and trade places. The
rot prepares the way for the splendor. The chaos becomes the source of
the rejuvenation. The end of the world mutates into the beginning of the
world.
Please accept the thunderous applause of my one hand clapping. The
people who take everything personally and seriously may not recognize
your ingenious work, but we connoisseurs of the liberated imagination do.
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This perfect moment is brought to you by the imaginary lightning bolts
you can fling from your fingers any time you want to.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news to all of the dogmatic,
compulsive cynics in the world, but there is an abundance of good news
to report: http://tinyurl.com/myhjf46
Read it and weep, doom-and-gloomers:
5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History
1. Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer.
2. Fewer people suffer from extreme poverty, and the world is getting
happier.
3. War is becoming rarer and less deadly.
4. Rates of murder and other violent crimes are in free-fall.
5. There's less racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination in the
world.
6. Same-Sex marriage is being legalized at a rapid rate all over the world.
Read the whole article, which has lots more details:
http://tinyurl.com/myhjf46
"The US has stunned the world by overtaking Germany as the world's
number one in solar power installations. Residential solar is up 45% with
strong continuing demand in a record shattering year for the solar
industry."
http://tinyurl.com/k76aqfx
"Margaret Anne Cargill was a philanthropist born into one of the
wealthiest families in the world. She gave away more than $200 million
during her life, always anonymously, and provided that after her death all
her wealth go to charity. In 2011 her assets were liquidated, resulting in a
$6 billion donation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Anne_Cargill
(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 December 19
Copyright 2013 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Derrick Brown has a poem entitled
"Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lustblaster!" I hope
that at least once in 2014 you will get up the nerve to call someone you
love by that name. Even if you can't quite bring yourself to utter those
actual words, it will be healing for you to get to the point where you feel
wild enough to say them. Here's what I'm driving at, Capricorn: In the
coming months, you will be wise to shed any inhibitions that have
interfered with you getting all of the free-flowing intimacy you'd love to
have.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Artists who are content merely to hone
their gifts eventually come to little," says the Belgian writer Simon Leys.
"The ones who truly leave their mark have the strength and the courage
to explore and exploit their shortcomings." I'd like to borrow that wisdom
and provide it for you to use in 2014, Aquarius. Even if you're not an
artist, you will be able to achieve an interesting kind of success if you're
willing to make use of the raw materials and untapped potential of your
so-called flaws and weaknesses. Whatever is unripe in you will be the key
to your creativity.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2014, you will have the mojo to escape a
frustration that has drained you and pained you for a long time. I mean
you can end its hold on you for good. The coming months will also
provide you with the chance to activate and cultivate a labor of love that
will last as long as you live. While this project may not bloom overnight, it
will reveal its staying power in dramatic fashion. And you will be able to
draw on the staunch faith you'll need to devote yourself to it until its full
blessings ripen.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Life is best organized as a series of daring
ventures from a secure base," wrote psychologist John Bowlby. Some of
you Aries enjoy the "daring venture" part of that formula, but neglect the
"secure base" aspect. That's why your daring ventures may on occasion
go awry. If you are that type of Ram, the first half of 2014 will be an
excellent time to correct your bad habit. Life will be offering you
considerable help and inspiration in building a strong foundation. And if
you already appreciate how important it is for your pursuit of excitement
to be rooted in well-crafted stability, the coming months will be golden.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here's a tale of three renowned Taurus
brainiacs: Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell. They all
had IQs over 175 and all made major contributions to philosophy. Yet all
three were physically inept. Kant had trouble keeping a sharp point on his
writing instrument, the quill, because he was clumsy using a knife. Mill was
so undexterous he found it a chore to tie a knot. Russell's physical
prowess was so limited he was incapable of brewing a pot of tea. Chances
are that you are neither as brilliant nor as uncoordinated as these three
men. And yet, like them, there is a disconnect between your mind and
body -- some glitch in the way the two of them communicate with each
other. The coming year will be an excellent time to heal the disconnect
and fix the glitch.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A horticultural company in the UK is selling
TomTato plants to home gardeners. Each bush grows both cherry
tomatoes and white potatoes. The magic was accomplished through
handcrafted hybridization, not genetic engineering. I foresee a comparable
marvel in your long-term future, Gemini. I'm not sure about the exact
form it will take. Maybe you will create a product or situation that allows
you to satisfy two different needs simultaneously. It's possible you will
find a way to express two of your talents in a single mode. Or perhaps
you will be able to unite two sides of you that have previously been
unbonded. Congratulations in advance!
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YOU NEED MAGIC
Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less
information. The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.
Every day, you're over-exposed to narratives that have been sucked free
of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make strenuous efforts to
keep your world enchanted.
I aspire to contribute to the sacred cause of feeding your sense of
wonder and enchantment. That's one of my main motivations for offering
you my free horoscopes, book excerpts, and music.
If you ever want more of that stuff, and think it's worth paying for, try
out my Expanded Audio Horoscopes. They're four-to-five-minute
meditations on the current state of your destiny.
Go here to access them: http://RealAstrology.com/
You can also listen over the phone by calling
1-877-873-4888
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): "To destroy is always the first step in any
creation," said the poet E. E. Cummings. Do you buy that idea, Cancerian?
I hope so, because the cosmos has scheduled you to instigate some major
creative action in 2014. In order to fulfill that potential, you will have to
metaphorically smash, burn, and dissolve any old structures that have
been standing in the way of the future. You will have to eliminate as many
of the "yes, buts" and "I can'ts" and "not nows" as you possibly can.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When did you first fall from grace? Do you
remember? It has happened to most of us. We spend time being
privileged or cared about or respected, and then, suddenly, we no longer
are. We lose our innocence. Love disappears. Our status as a favorite
comes to an end. That's the bad news, Leo. The good news is that I think
the months ahead may be time for you to climb back up to one of those
high states of grace that you fell from once upon a time. The omens
suggest that even now you're making yourself ready to rise back up --
and sooner than you think, there will be an invitation to do so.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Leonardo da Vinci created the painting *St.
Jerome in the Wilderness* around 1480. It now hangs in the Pinacoteca
Vaticana, a museum in Vatican City. For several centuries, though, the
treasured work of art was missing. Legend tells us that in the early 19th
century, Napoleon's uncle found the lower half of the painting in a junk
shop in Rome. Years later he stumbled upon the top half in another back
alley, where it was being used as a wedge in a shoemaker's bench. I
foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence unfolding for you in
2014, Virgo. You just may manage to restore a lost beauty to its proper
place of honor, one step at a time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Italian painter Tintoretto (1518-1594) was
a Libra. He worked with such vigor and passion that he was nicknamed Il
Furioso -- The Furious. One of his crowning achievements was his painting
*Paradise,* which is 74 feet long and 30 feet tall -- about the size of a
tennis court. It adorns a huge wall in the Doge's Palace, a landmark in
Venice. I propose that Tintoretto serve as one of your inspirational role
models in 2014. The coming months will be an excellent time for you to
work hard at crafting your own personal version of paradise on earth. You
may not be so wildly robust to deserve the title "Il Furioso." But then
again, you might.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Between 2002 and 2009, Buddhist monk
Endo Mitsunaga spent a thousand days meditating as he did a ceremonial
walk around Mount Hiei in Japan. In 2006, English writer Dave Cornthwaite
took 90 days to skateboard across the entire length of Australia, a
distance of 3,618 miles. The first man's intentions were spiritual, the
second man's adventurous. The coming months will be prime time for you
to contemplate both kinds of journeys, Scorpio. The astrological omens
suggest that you will generate extra good fortune for yourself by seeking
out unfamiliar experiences on the open road. To get yourself in the mood,
ruminate on the theme of pilgrimage.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many farms in California's Tulare County
grow produce for supermarket chains. Here's the problem: Those big
stores only want fruits and vegetable that look perfect. So if there are
brown spots on the apples or if the zucchinis grow crooked or if the
carrots get too big, they are rejected. As a result, 30 percent of the
crops go unharvested. That's sad because a lot of poor people who live in
Tulare don't have enough to eat. Fortunately, some enterprising food
activists have begun to work out arrangements with farmers to collect
the wasted produce and distribute it to the hungry folks. I gather there's
a comparable situation in your life, Sagittarius: unplucked resources and
ignored treasures. In 2014, I hope you take dramatic action to harvest
and use them.
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Homework: What do you want to be when you grow up? Testify at
Freewillastrology.com.
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