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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 29, 2014
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Dear Readers,
In late December and early January, I wrote a series of long-term, big-
picture horoscopes for you. I've gathered them all together in one place.
Go here to read them: http://bit.ly/BigLife2014
In addition to these, I've created EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES that go
even further in exploring your long-term destiny in 2014. Each report in
the three-part series is 7-9 minutes long.
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Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"Long Range Prediction" (either Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3).
What will be the story of your life in the coming months? What new
influences will be headed your way? What fresh resources will you be able
to draw on? How can you conspire with life to create the best possible
future for yourself?
The cost is $6 per report. There are discounts for the purchase of
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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
Below is an excerpt. (You can read the entire piece at
http://bit.ly/4Zh0Qr.)
LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION
Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal freedom fighter
who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You're a
fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs
claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright.
Try to remember. You're a vortex of fluidic light that has temporarily
taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true
origins. And why did you do that? Because it was the best way to forge
the identity that would make you such an elemental force in our 14-
billion-year campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth.
I'm not speaking metaphorically here. You are a mutant deity in disguise --
not a Buddha or a Christ exactly, but of the same lineage and conjured
from the same fire. You have been around since the beginning of time and
will be here after the end. Every day and in every way, you're getting
better at playing the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed
up together before the Big Bang bloomed.
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Lately, I must admit, our work has seemed almost comically impossible.
Many of us have given in to the temptation to believe that everything is
upside-down and inside-out. Ignorance and inertia, partially camouflaged
as time-honored morality, seem to surround us. Pessimism is enshrined as
a hallmark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as
perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Stories about treachery and
degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people who think of
themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly
truths are readily believed.
So no, at this peculiar turning point in the evolution of our 14-billion-year-
old master game, it's not easy to carry out our mission. We've got to be
both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life. We've got to
cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we resist the temptation to swallow
thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively
packaged by those messiahs among us who bravely volunteered to play
the role of know-it-all deceivers.
We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we overthrow
the sour, puckered mass hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as
"reality."
Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-mindedly
dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love even as we keep our
imaginations wild and hungry and free. We have to be both disciplined and
rowdy.
What can we do to help each other in this work?
TO READ THE REST OF "LIBERATE YOUR IMAGINATION," GO HERE:
http://bit.ly/4Zh0Qr
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
10 Groups That Are Building a Movement for Economic Justice From the
Grassroots Up
http://bit.ly/1f6BPYC
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"In eight years, Utah has reduced homelessness by 78 percent, and is on
track to end homelessness by 2015.
"How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homelessness by
giving people homes. In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of
E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per
person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an
apartment and a social worker.
"So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings attached.
Each participant in Utah's Housing First program also gets a caseworker
to help them become self-sufficient, but they keep the apartment even if
they fail.
"The program has been so successful that other states are hoping to
achieve similar results with programs modeled on Utah's."
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(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They are not advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 30
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a
while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as four feet above
a woman's head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair,
along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds, and
model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the
coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here's a second-best option:
Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring
gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and
resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more
charismatic than usual.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of your anti-role models in the coming
weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings
in Eminem's tune "Love the Way You Lie." Study the following lyrics,
mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine,
on psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact
opposite of the attitude they express: "You're just gonna stand there and
watch me burn / But that's all right because I like the way it hurts /
You're just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that's all right,
because I love the way you lie." To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations
that would tempt you to feel and act like that.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): On my fifteenth birthday, I finally figured out
that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory
problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow's milk.
My health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month ago, I
decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the
fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla
yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the
last few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I've
been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally
momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honored for a
long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be
broken.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a
Nobel Prize in Economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In
his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than
information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile,
psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He
found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are
inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never trust any
experts? No. But it's important to approach them with extra skepticism
right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own
intuition.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I'm a big fan of logic and reason, and I urge you
to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a
very good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and
fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that, I recommend
that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the
comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your
dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies, and see yourself as
a mythic hero in life's divine drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational
and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the
fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sorry, Cancerian, you won't be able to
transform lead into gold anytime soon. You won't suddenly acquire the
wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and
misogynists. Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy
someone who has always resisted your charms. That's the bad news. The
good news is this: If you focus on performing less spectacular magic, you
could accomplish minor miracles. For example, you might diminish an
adversary's ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a
source of love you have ignored or underestimated. And you may be able
to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.
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EXPLORING THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2014?
You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny
in the coming months. Each report in the three-part series is 7 to 9
minutes long.
Go to http://RealAstrology.com
to sign in and access the EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES.
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): *Cosmopolitan* magazine is famous for offering
tips on how to spice up one's sex life. Here's an example: "Take a few of
your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter
and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy
treats all over your lover's body." That sounds crazy to me, and not in a
good way. In any case, I recommend that you don't follow advice like
that, especially in the coming days. It's true that on some occasions,
silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they
aren't advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and
dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and
graceful risks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are not as broken as you may think you
are. Your wounds aren't as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will
prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will
*attempt* to prove it to you -- and not just in some mild, half-hearted
way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But
here's my question, Virgo: Will you be so attached to your pain that you
refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered?
I hope not!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called "A Sword
in a Cloud of Light." I want to borrow that image. According to my
astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact
power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with
a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don't want to get too intellectual
about the reasons why, but I will say this: The cloud of light represents
your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to
symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next
step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every autumn, the bird species known as the
Clark's Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000
pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing
is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn't as
prodigious as that, but it's far better than you realize. And I hope you will
use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be
highly effective if you draw on the wisdom gained from past events --
especially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be
going through.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can you imagine what it would be like to
live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could
relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you
mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to
awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible
for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at
accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results,
don't try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75
percent.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It's a favorable time to gather up
resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside
information. I won't call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what
you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it's fine if
you store up far more than what you can immediately use -- because right
now is also a favorable time to prepare for future adventures when you
will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help, and
inside information.
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Homework: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more
blessings into your life. Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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