Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
December 24, 2014
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A PREVIEW OF YOUR DESTINY IN 2015
Want to get a head start on your future? This week my EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES offer you a sneak-peek, teaser look at some major themes
you'll be working and playing with in 2015. They're at
http://RealAstrology.com.
Start dreaming and scheming about who you're going to be in the new
year!
Then, beginning next week, I will devote three consecutive weeks to an in-
depth discussion of your long-range outlook for the coming year.
Part One of my LONG-TERM FORECASTS FOR 2015 will be available
beginning Tuesday, December 30.
Part Two will be available on Tuesday, January 6.
Part Three will be available on Tuesday, January 13.
To access the Expanded Audio Horoscopes, go to
http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"Long Range Prediction, Part 2"
The cost is $6 per sign. (Discounts for multiple buys.)
You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $1.99 per minute.
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your debts forgiven
your wounds healed
your apologies accepted
your generosity expanded
your love educated
your desires clarified
your uniqueness unleashed
your untold stories heard
your insight heightened
your load lightened
your wildness rejuvenated
your leaks plugged
your courage stoked
your fears dissolved
your imagination fed
your creativity uncorked
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I invite you to devote five minutes to visualizing the fulfillment of your
holiest desire, followed by five minutes of visualizing the fulfillment of a
loved one's holiest desire.
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Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
- "Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-kindness"
translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha
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Resolved: In 2015, you will experience miracles at the rate of about one
every two weeks.
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"Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe."
- Richard Tarnas, *Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View*
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"Beauty is not a luxury but a strategy for survival."
- Terry Tempest Williams, *Finding Beauty in a Broken World*
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Empathy Heroes: 5 People Who Changed the World By Taking Compassion
to the Extreme
http://tinyurl.com/nh563yf
America could power itself 100 times over with solar energy
http://tinyurl.com/mc393h4
"Forgiveness Is Liberating": Desmond Tutu On Healing A Nation's Racist
Past
http://tinyurl.com/n3wjrak
(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 25
Copyright 2014 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When he was 37 years old, actor Jack
Nicholson found out that Ethel May, the woman he had always called his
mother, was in fact his grandma. Furthermore, his "older sister" June was
actually his mom, who had given birth to him when she was 17. His
relatives had hidden the truth from him. I suspect that in 2015 you will
uncover secrets and missing information that will rival Nicholson's
experience. Although these revelations may initially be confusing or
disruptive, in the long run they will heal and liberate you. Welcome them!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Meupareunia" is an English word that refers
to a sexual adventure in which only one of the participants has a good
time. I'll be bold and predict that you will not experience a single instance
of meupareunia in 2015. That's because I expect you'll be steadily
upgrading your levels of empathy and your capacity for receptivity. You
will be getting better and better at listening to your intimate allies and
reading their emotional signals. I predict that synergy and symbiosis will
be your specialties. Both your desire to please and your skill at giving
pleasure will increase, as will your understanding of how many benefits
you can reap by being a responsive partner.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Be good and you will be lonesome," said
Mark Twain. Do you agree? I don't -- at least as it applies to your life in
2015. According to my understanding of the long-term astrological
omens, you will attract an abundance of love and luck by being good -- by
expressing generosity, deepening your compassion, cultivating integrity,
and working for justice and truth and beauty. That doesn't mean you
should be a pushover or doormat. Your resolve to be good must be
leavened by a determination to deepen your self-respect. Your eagerness
to do the right thing has to include a commitment to raising your levels of
self-care.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Hell is the suffering of being unable to love,"
wrote novelist J. D. Salinger. Using that definition, I'm happy to announce
that you have a good chance of avoiding hell altogether in 2015. If there
has been any deficiency in your power to express and bestow love, I think
you will correct it. If you have been so intent on getting love that you
have been neglectful in giving love, you will switch your focus. I invite you
to keep a copy of this horoscope in your wallet for the next 12 months.
Regard it as your "Get Out of Hell Free" card.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Beetles are abundant and ubiquitous.
Scientists have identified more than 350,000 species, and they are
always discovering new ones. In 2011, for example, they conferred official
recognition on 3,485 additional types of beetles. I'm seeing a parallel
development in your life, Taurus. A common phenomenon that you take
for granted harbors mysteries that are worth exploring. Something you
regard as quite familiar actually contains interesting features you don't
know about. In 2015, I hope you will open your mind to the novelties and
exotica that are hidden in plain sight.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was an
influential French chef who defined and standardized the five "mother
sauces." But he wasn't content to be a star in his own country. At the
age of 44, he began his "conquest of London," bringing his spectacular
dining experience to British restaurants. He thought it might be hard to
sell his new clientele on frogs' legs, a traditional French dish, so he
resorted to trickery. On the menu, he listed it as "Nymphs of the Dawn."
According to my reading of the omens, this is an example of the hocus-
pocus that will be your specialty in 2015. And I suspect you will get away
with it every time as long as your intention is not selfish or manipulative,
but rather generous and constructive.
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LET'S START TALKING ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
This week my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES offer you a teaser, sneak-
peek look of some major themes you'll be working and playing with in
2015.
Who do you want to be in the coming year? What do you want to do?
Where do you want to go? Your destiny is more wide-open than you
might imagine. You have a lot of power to shape the flow of events.
I hope to inspire you to take advantage of the possibilities!
The cost is $6, with a discount for multiple purchases.
Register and/or log in to hear the sneak peek of 2015's major themes:
http://RealAstrology.com.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The entomologist Charles P. Alexander (1889-
1981) devoted much of his professional life to analyzing the insect known
as the crane fly. He identified over 11,000 different species, drew 15,000
illustrations of the creatures, and referred to his lab as "Crane Fly Haven."
That's the kind of single-minded intention I'd love to see you adopt during
the first six months of 2015, Cancerian. What I'm imagining is that you
will choose a specific, well-defined area within which you will gleefully
explore and experiment and improvise. Is there a subject or task or
project you would have fun pursuing with that kind of intensity?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Don DeLillo's novel *Underworld,* Cotter Martin
is a young boy living in New York in the 1950s. The following description
is about him. "In school they tell him sometimes to stop looking out the
window. This teacher or that teacher. The answer is not out there, they
tell him. And he always wants to say that's exactly where the answer is." I
propose we regard this passage as one of your themes in 2015, Leo. In
other words, be skeptical of any authority who tells you where you should
or should not be searching for the answers. Follow your own natural
inclination, even if at first it seems to be nothing more than looking out
the window.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "It is always important to know when
something has reached its end," writes Paulo Coelho in his book *The
Zahir.* Use this advice heroically in 2015, Virgo. Wield it to clear away
anything that no longer serves you, that weighs you down or holds you
back. Prepare the way for the new story that will begin for you around
your next birthday. "Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters,"
Coelho says, "it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in
the past those moments in life that are over."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "On some nights I still believe," said rascal
journalist Hunter S. Thompson, "that a car with the gas needle on empty
can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on
the radio." In 2015, I invite you to adopt some of that push-it-to-the-
edge attitude for your personal use, Libra. Maybe not full-time; maybe not
with the same manic intensity that Thompson did. Rather, simply tap into
it as needed -- whenever you've got to up your game or raise your
intensity level or rouse the extra energy you need TO ACHIEVE TOTAL,
WONDROUS, RESOUNDING VICTORY!!! The coming months will be your
time to go all the way, hold nothing back, and quest for the best and the
most and the highest.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Twenty miles long, the Onyx River is the
longest body of moving water on the continent of Antarctica. Most of the
year it's ice, though. It actually flows for just two or three months during
the summer. Let's hope that continues to be the case for the foreseeable
future. It would be a shame if global warming got so extreme that the
Onyx melted permanently. But now let's talk about your own metaphorical
equivalent of the Onyx: a potentially flowing part of your life that is often
frozen. I'd love to see it heat up and thaw. I'd love it to be streaming and
surging most of the time. And in 2015, I think that's a distinct possibility.
Consider making the following declaration your battle cry: *I am the Flow
Master!*
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The best way to keep a prisoner from
escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." That quote is
attributed to both Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and Russian author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Regardless of who said it, I urge you to keep it in
mind throughout 2015. Like all of us, you are trapped in an invisible
prison: a set of beliefs or conditioned responses or bad habits that limit
your freedom to act. That's the bad news. The good news is that in the
coming months, you are poised to discover the exact nature of your
invisible prison, and then escape it.
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Homework: Make three predictions about your life in 2015. Tell me at
RealAstrology.com; click on "Email Rob."
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