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Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
March 12, 2014
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zipped in front of me. After hitting my brakes to avoid rear-ending her, I
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I avoided eye contact at first, but finally looked over. Quaking with
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hear the thump of music in the distance and feel the desert breeze on my
cheeks . . .
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning March 13
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you remember being in your mother's
womb? Probably not. But here's what I know about that time: In the first
few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate.
Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with
that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a
mountain by now. So let's be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to
sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt
with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It's
basically a good thing. Just be aware that you may experience growing
pains.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "There was another life that I might have had,
but I am having this one." So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel
*The Unconsoled.* At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be
healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment
to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have
happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then
become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting
possibilities you haven't imagined yet.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top
of Mt. Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu
Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the
mountain. Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off
and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of
feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical
version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don't do the next part of the
journey the same way you did the previous phase. Take a more direct
route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seeking wisdom and chasing after pleasure are
polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the
other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or
else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True? No. No.
No. False. Wrong. Here's the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods
come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the
mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these
grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here's the answer: It's here now!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Humans walked on the moon before anyone
ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases. Unbelievable, right?
Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface,
travelers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless
containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-of-
sequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways
you are totally up-to-date, and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now
would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting
them. Metaphorically speaking, I'd love you to have rolling luggage by the
next time you take a journey.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known
as bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that
walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is
no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the
platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers' vivid
imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist.
When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was
indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually,
though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you
Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation
that the platypus is real.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): *Kyoka* is a Japanese word that means a
flower reflected in a mirror. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help
you understand what's happening in your life right now. Here are some
clues to jumpstart your ruminations. Are you more focused on the
*image* of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything
wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in
ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty
you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it
perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn
toward the real thing? If so, why?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A British researcher poured 300 million facts
into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in
history. The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost
nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I'm wondering
if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The
astrological omens suggest it's a possibility. And frankly, I hope that's
exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated
activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed
you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your
psychic batteries.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won't be the recipient of good luck in
the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird
luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip
and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for
this occasion. That word is "shluck." Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of
backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack.
Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious
coincidences that give you experiences you didn't even realize you
needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck's benefits, you have to
dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the old fairy tale "Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves," the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the
forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits.
Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, "open
sesame." This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be
full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali
Baba goes to the cave and says "open sesame" himself. The hocus-pocus
works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers'
plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy
sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version
of "open sesame." It will give you access to a less literal and more
legitimate bounty.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is
unusually high. You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and
forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become
estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate
intervention. I'm not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification,
but I'm not ruling them out, either. You have a sixth sense about how to
create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure
and offering just the right kind of tenderness.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me
to play golf. "Are you kidding?" I asked him incredulously. "The dullest
game on the planet?" He tried to convince me that it would provide lots
of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. "Name one," I
challenged him. He told me that "Volkswagen" is a slang term that
describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that
nevertheless turns out to be quite good. "Hmmm," I replied. "That is
exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope."
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