Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
December 31, 2014
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
http://RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2015? What fresh
resources will you be able to draw on? How can you conspire with life to
create the best possible future for yourself?
Beginning this week, and for the next two weeks as well, I'm exploring the
BIG PICTURE of your life in my Expanded Audio Horoscopes. If you slip into
a philosophical, visionary mood at the end of each year, you might
appreciate my perspectives on your long-term outlook.
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go to
http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"Long Term Forecast for 2015."
You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts available for bulk
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone. Each forecast is 7-9 minutes
long.
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Even if you don't call yourself an artist, you have the potential to be a
dynamic creator who is always hatching new plans, coming up with fresh
ideas, and shifting your approach to everything you do as you adjust to
life's ceaseless invitation to change.
It's to this part of you -- the restless, inventive spirit -- that I address the
following: Unleash yourself! Don't be satisfied with the world the way it is;
don't sit back passively and blankly complain about the dead weight of
the mediocre status quo.
Instead, call on your curiosity and charisma and expressiveness and lust
for life as you tinker with and rebuild everything you see so that it's in
greater harmony with the laws of love and more hospitable to your soul's
code.
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Wake up
Kick ass.
Be kind.
Repeat.
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"Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may
contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect
omens, epiphanies, casual blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak
to your condition."
- Sam Keen
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Homework: Think of examples to illustrate the differences between trivial,
useless "pleasure" and smart, life-exalting pleasure.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
In my book *Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia,* I wrote the following:
We at the Beauty and Truth Lab are willing to let the news media fill up
half their pages and airwaves and bandwidths with poker-faced accounts
of decline and degeneration, misery and destruction. We can tolerate a
reasonable proportion of movies and novels and TV dramas that revel in
pathology. But we also demand EQUAL TIME for stories about integrity
and joy and beauty and bliss and renewal and harmony and love. That's all
we ask: a mere 50 percent.
Now here's an update: Our demand has been partially met. In recent
years, there has been a proliferation of news sources reporting the other
sides of the story. Here are some of the best:
*Yes* magazine
http://yesmagazine.org
Good News Network
http://goodnewsnetwork.org
Great News Network
http://greatnewsnetwork.org
Good News Daily
http://goodnewsdaily.com
Good News Blog
http://goodnewsblog.com
Heroic Stories
http://heroicstories.com
Good News Economist
http://goodnewseconomist.com
The Intelligent Optimist
http://theoptimist.com/
Pronoia Resources
http://pronoiaresources.com/
Talks by great thinkers
http://ted.com
(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 January 1
Copyright 2014, 2015 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Even in normal times, you are a fount of
regeneration. Your ever-growing hair and fingernails are visible signs of
your nonstop renewal. A lot of other action happens without your
conscious awareness. For example, your tastebuds replace themselves
every two weeks. You produce 200 billion red blood cells and 10 billion
white blood cells every day. Every month the epidermis of your skin is
completely replaced, and every 12 months your lungs are composed of a
fresh set of cells. In 2015, you will continue to revitalize yourself in all
these ways, but will also undergo a comparable regeneration of your mind
and soul. Here's my prediction: This will be a year of renaissance,
rejuvenation, and reinvention.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining
under the weight of all the lives I'm not living," says a character in
Jonathan Safran Foer's novel *Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.* If
you have ever felt that way, Aquarius, I predict that you will get some
relief in 2015. Your bones won't be straining as much as they have in the
past because you will be living at least one of the lives you have wanted
to live but haven't been able to before. How you will handle all the new
lightness that will be available?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Erotomania" is a word for the erroneous
fantasies people entertain when they imagine that a celebrity is in love
with them. Laughable, right? Just because I have dreams of *Game of
Thrones* actress Lena Headey texting me seductive notes doesn't mean
that she genuinely yearns for my companionship. And yet most of us,
including you and me, harbor almost equally outlandish beliefs and
misapprehensions about all kinds of things. They may not be as far-
fetched as those that arise from erotomania, but they are still out of sync
with reality. The good news, Pisces, is that in 2015 you will have the best
chance ever to become aware of and shed your delusions -- even the
long-running, deeply-rooted kinds.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Most salamanders reproduce by laying eggs,
but the alpine salamander doesn't. Females of that species give birth to
live young after long pregnancies that may last three years. What does
this have to do with you? Well, I expect you to experience a metaphorical
pregnancy in the coming months. Even if you're male, you will be
gestating a project or creation or inspiration. And it's important that you
don't let your the incubation period drag on and on and on, as the alpine
salamanders do. I suggest you give birth no later than July.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Maybe you have had a dream like this: You're
wandering around a house you live in, and at the end of a long hallway
you come to a door you've never seen before. How could you have
missed it in the past? It must have been there the whole time. You turn
the knob, open the door, and slip inside. Amazing! The room is full of
interesting things that excite your imagination. What's more, on the
opposite wall there's another door that leads to further rooms. In fact,
you realize there's an additional section of the house you have never
known about or explored. Whether or not you have had a dream like that,
Taurus, I'm betting that in 2015, you will experience a symbolically similar
series of events in your waking life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Greek god Zeus had seven wives. Themis,
Leto, Eurynome, and Hera were among them. Another was his older sister
Demeter, and a sixth was his aunt Mnemosyne. Then there was the sea
nymph Metis. Unfortunately, he ate Metis -- literally devoured her -- which
effectively ended their marriage. In 2015, Gemini, I encourage you to
avoid Zeus's jumbled, complicated approach to love and intimacy. Favor
quality over quantity. Deepen your focus rather than expanding your
options. Most importantly, make sure your romantic adventures never
lead to you feeling fragmented or divided against yourself. This is the year
you learn more than ever before about what it's like for all the different
parts of you to be united.
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EXPLORING YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2015?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you a long-term, in-
depth exploration of your destiny in the coming months. This is Part One
of a three-part series.
Part Two and Part Three will be available in the next two weeks.
Access them online at http://RealAstrology.com. Register and sign in.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts are available for bulk
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are three of my top wishes for you in
2105: You will have a clear, precise sense of what's yours and what's not
yours . . . of what's possible to accomplish and what's impossible . . . of
what will be a good influence on you and what won't be. To help ensure
that these wishes come true, refer regularly to the following advice from
Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert: "You need to learn how to select your
thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. That's a
power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad,
work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Robert Moss has published 27 books.
When he talks about the art of launching and completing big projects, I
listen attentively. There's one piece of advice he offers that would be
particularly helpful for you to keep in mind throughout the first half of
2015. "If we wait until we are fully prepared in order to do something, we
may never get it done," he says. "It's important to do things before we
think we are ready." Can you handle that, Leo? Are you willing to give up
your fantasies about being perfectly qualified and perfectly trained and
perfectly primed before you dive in?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The fish known as the coelacanths were
thought to have become extinct 66 million years ago. That was when
they disappeared from the fossil record. But in 1938 a fisherman in South
Africa caught a live coelacanth. Eventually, whole colonies were
discovered in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa and near
Indonesia. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening in your life
during the coming months, Virgo. An influence you believed to have
disappeared from your life will resurface. Should you welcome and
embrace it? Here's what I think: Only if you're interested in its potential
role in your future, not because of a nostalgic attachment.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Nothing brings people closer than business,"
said composer Arnold Schoenberg. You could be living proof of that
hypothesis in 2015, Libra. Your drive to engage in profitable activities will
be at a peak, and so will your knack for making good decisions about
profitable activities. If you cash in on these potentials, your social life will
flourish. Your web of connections will expand and deepen. You will
generate high levels of camaraderie by collaborating with allies on
productive projects.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Deathwatch beetles have a peculiar approach
to the mating game. Their seduction technique consists of smacking their
heads against a hard object over and over again. This generates a tapping
sound that is apparently sexy to potential partners. I discourage you from
similar behaviors as you seek the kind of love you want in 2015. The first
rule of romantic engagement is this: Sacrificing or diminishing yourself
may seem to work in the short run, but it can't possibly lead to lasting
good. If you want to stir up the best results, treat yourself with
tenderness and respect.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a
German composer whose organ music is still played today. He was a major
influence on a far more famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750). When Bach was a young man, he decided it was crucial for
him to experience Buxtehude's music first-hand. He took a leave of
absence from his job and walked over 250 miles to the town where
Buxtehude lived. There he received the guidance and inspiration he
sought. In 2015, Sagittarius, I'd love to see you summon Bach's
determination as you go in quest of the teaching you want and need.
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Homework: Send me a list of your top five New Year's resolutions. I'm at
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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