Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 14, 2015
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DREAM AND SCHEME ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-part 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?
This week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES feature Part 3 of the long-
range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in 2015.
Part 1 and Part 2 of your Year-End Predictions, which I offered the last
two weeks, are also still available.
What will be the story of your life in 2015? How can you exert your free
will to create the adventures that'll bring out the best in you, even as you
find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
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."
The cost is $6 per sign. There are discounts for the purchase of multiple
tokens.
You can also listen to Part 3 over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $1.99 per minute. Each forecast is 7-9 minutes long.
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Every January 1, many people make New Year's resolutions, promising to
embark on programs of self-improvement. But your assignment now,
should you choose to accept it, is to create a list of ANTI-resolutions.
Here are some questions to guide you:
1. What outlandish urges and controversial tendencies do you promise to
cultivate in the coming months?
2. What nagging irritations will you ignore and avoid with even greater
ingenuity?
3. What problems do you promise to exploit in order to have even more
fun as you make the status quo accountable for its corruption?
4. What boring rules and traditions will you thumb your nose at, paving
the way for exciting encounters with strange attractors?
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"You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Christopher Bamford says: "As a free deed, meditation is naturally
individual, uniquely our own. It is where we most fully become ourselves.
Its practice is also always individual. There are no rules.
"Just as every potter will elaborate his or her own way of making pots, so
every person who meditates will shape his or her own meditation. No two
people will do a given meditation in exactly the same way. The same
meditation practiced daily will be different every time.
"Every meditation is experimental. One never knows what is going to
happen. Improvisation is essential . . . Meditation is something to play with
. . . There is no 'wrong' way of doing the meditation, except not doing it!"
http://tinyurl.com/axjqn5w
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
The best news of 2014 you never heard about:
1. Child mortality rate has fallen dramatically
2. More people getting HIV treatment than people getting infected
3. More kids than ever are getting vaccines against deadly rotavirus
4. New tuberculosis treatment will dramatically reduce curing time
5. Nigeria has almost eradicated polio and is now Ebola free
Read all about it: http://tinyurl.com/owz4r8l
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People who have upbeat outlooks on life have significantly better
cardiovascular health, suggests a new study (MESA) that examined
associations between optimism and heart health in more than 5,100
adults.
http://tinyurl.com/kuskzwz
(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 15
Copyright 2015 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Most plants move upwards as they grow.
Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind, or are carried
away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to
reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen
underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the
moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant's approach to fertility
might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use.
It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you're
incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don't expose them to
scrutiny or criticism.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his poem "The Garden," Jack Gilbert says,
"We are like Marco Polo who came back / with jewels hidden in the seams
of his ragged clothes." Isn't that true about you right now, Aquarius? If I
were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I'd highlight the
contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches. I'd also
borrow another fragment from Gilbert's poem and use it to describe your
current emotional state: "a sweet sadness, a tough happiness." So what
comes next for you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. Take a
break to integrate the intensity you've weathered. And retrieve the jewels
you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "All the colors I am inside have not been
invented yet," wrote Shel Silverstein, in his children's book *Where the
Sidewalk Ends.* It's especially important for you to focus on that truth in
the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. First, it's imperative that
you identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no one
else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don't start making it more
conscious, it may start to wither away. Second, you need to learn how to
express that unique aspect with such clarity and steadiness that no one
can miss it or ignore it.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never make anything that lasts
forever. Nor will I or anyone else. I suppose it's possible that human
beings will still be listening to Beethoven's music or watching *The
Simpsons* TV show 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will
probably be gone in five billion years, when the sun expands into a red
giant star. Having acknowledged that hard truth, I'm happy to announce
that in the next five weeks you could begin work in earnest on a creation
that will endure for a very long time. What will it be? Choose wisely!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What does your soul need on a regular basis?
The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided
by a certain drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you
like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed
more than anything else was inspiration -- the "sweet fire," he called it,
"the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame." So the
experience his soul craved didn't come from an outside stimulus. It was a
feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my
analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual
of its special nourishment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1987, California condors were almost
extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service launched an effort to capture them all and take
emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there
are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now,
Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different
resource that is becoming scarce in your world. Act with urgency, but
also be prepared to practice patience.
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LET'S IMAGINE WHAT BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIES
MIGHT BE COMING YOUR WAY IN THE COMING YEAR
Who do you want to become in 2015? Where do you want to go and
what do you want to do? Would you like some inspiration as you muse
and wonder about your upcoming adventures?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part 3 of MY
long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming year.
Part 1 and Part 2 are still available.
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."
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts with the purchase of
multiple tokens).
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an
American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly
wanted to be President of the United States, but his political party never
nominated him to run for that office. Here's the twist in his fate: Two
different candidates who were ultimately elected President asked him to
be their Vice-President, but he declined, dismissing the job as
unimportant. Both those Presidents, Harrison and Taylor, died after a
short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their Vice-President, he
would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks,
Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster's.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of his poems, Rumi writes about being
alone with a wise elder. "Please," he says to the sage, "do not hold back
from telling me any secrets about this universe." In the coming weeks,
Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just
those you regard as wise. You're in a phase when pretty much everyone is
a potential teacher who has a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole
world as your classroom.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you been tapping into your proper share
of smart love, interesting beauty, and creative mojo? Are you enjoying
the succulent rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard work
you've done in the past eight months? If not, I am very upset. In fact, I
would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not been soaking
up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations, and fun surprises.
Therefore, to ensure my happiness and well-being, I COMMAND you to
experience these goodies in abundance.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran engineer Robert Goddard was the
original rocket scientist. His revolutionary theories and pioneering
technologies laid the foundations for space flight. Decades before the
Soviet Union launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting
rockets aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with his unusual
ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, *The
New York Times* sneered that he was deficient in "the knowledge ladled
out daily in our high schools." Forty-nine years later, after his work had
led to spectacular results, the *Times* issued an apology. I foresee a
more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime
soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the plot of the TV science-fiction show
*Ascension,* the U.S. government has conducted an elaborate covert
experiment for 50 years. An outside investigator named Samantha
Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to
reveal the truth to the public. "We're going full Snowden," she tells a
seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. She's invoking the name of
Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator who in the real
world leaked classified information that the U.S. government wanted to
keep hidden. It might be time for you to go at least mini-Snowden
yourself, Scorpio -- not by spilling state secrets, but rather by unmasking
any surreptitious or deceptive behavior that's happening in your sphere.
Bring everything out into the open -- gently if possible. But do whatever it
takes.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright
finished *Gadsby,* a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever
published because the letter "e" didn't appear once in the text. Can you
imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat?
In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an
equally impressive expression of discipline and self-control, Sagittarius.
But devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting
task, please. For example, you could excise one of your bad habits or
avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in
fearful thoughts.
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Homework: What part of the past are you still enslaved to? What can you
do to free yourself? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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