Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 27, 2016
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YOUR FUTURE
I've gathered together all the Free Will Astrology horoscopes that address
the far-reaching themes of your destiny in the coming months. Read a
compendium of your written horoscopes for 2016:
http://bit.ly/BigPicture2016
In addition to these, I've created three-part, in-depth EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES about Your Long-Range Future. They go even further in
exploring your prospects and challenges in 2016.
Who do you want to become in the coming months? Where do you want
to go and what do you want to do? How can you exert your free will to
create 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 these three-part, in-depth reports, go here:
http://RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then access the
horoscopes by clicking on "Long Range Prediction." (Choose from Part 1,
Part 2, Part 3.)
If you'd like a boost of inspiration to fuel you in your quest for beauty and
truth and love and meaning, tune in to my meditations on your Big-Picture
outlook.
Each of the three-part reports is seven to nine minutes long. The cost is
$6 per report. There are discounts for the purchase of multiple reports.
P.S. You can also listen to a short-term Expanded Audio Horoscope for
the coming week.
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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 are excerpts.
CLOWN CHAKRA
Dionysian scientists at the Crazy Wisdom Institute of Applied Surpiseology
have discovered the existence of the Clown Chakra. Located between the
Gut and Sex Chakras, it houses the sense of humor and determines one's
capacity for spiritually cleansing laughter.
Sadly, it's largely shut down in many people, resulting in the current
global epidemic of taking things too damn seriously.
(P.S. I have embedded a subliminal prompt within this message that is
designed to awaken and arouse any part of your own clown chakra that
may be dormant.)
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MAKE THE INVISIBLE DARK FORCE BEAUTIFUL
Make the invisible dark force beautiful. Create a song out of your moans.
Brag about your wounds. Dance reverently on the graves of your enemies.
Sneak a gift to your bad self. Dissolve the ties that bind you to hollow
intelligence.
Train yourself in the art of unpredictability. Play forever in time's blessing.
Lift up your heart unto the wild sun. Distribute your favors to the little
ones who can never pay you back. Fall out of love with fear. Make
beautiful messes in the midst of ugly messes.
Anything I missed?
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LOVING THE CHANGES?
Whether you're a fan of a monotheistic God or a pluralistic
Goddess, you've undoubtedly noticed a deeply rooted quirk about
the Divine Temperament: an extreme fondness for change. The
Creator really likes to keep things moving right along.
Earlier in my life, I bore a grudge against this incorrigible
inclination. But after repeatedly having my karma crumpled for
resisting it, I realized I'd better get used to it. In recent years,
I've come a long way in retraining myself to be cheerfully
cooperative with the primal flux.
As a reward, the Cackling Goddess (my current favorite name for
the Sublime Mystery) has blessed me with a relentless series of
opportunities to prove how well I've learned my lesson. She just keeps
throwing changes my way, daring me to adjust with as much skill and
grace as I can muster.
And you?
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VOWS
I invite you to speak these vows out loud:
"As long as I live, I vow to die and be reborn, die and be reborn, die and
be reborn, over and over again, forever reinventing myself.
"I promise to be stronger than hate, wetter than water, deeper than the
abyss, and wilder than the sun.
"I pledge to remember that I am not only a sweating, half-asleep,
excitable, bumbling jumble of desires, but that I am also an immortal four-
dimensional messiah in continuous telepathic touch with all of creation.
"I vow to love and honor my highs and my lows my yeses and noes, my
give and my take, the life I wish I had and the life I actually have.
"I promise to push hard to get better and smarter, grow my devotion to
the truth, fuel my commitment to beauty, refine my emotions, hone my
dreams, wrestle with my shadow, purge my ignorance, and soften my
heart -- even as I always accept myself for exactly who I am, with all of
my so-called foibles and wobbles."
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
There Are Now More Solar Jobs In America Than Oil Jobs
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Two States Will Let Women Get Birth Control Without a Doctor in 2016
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12-Year-Old Arizona Girl Collects 1,000 Coats for the Homeless
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(Note: I endorse these because I like them. They aren't advertisements,
and I get no kickbacks.)
Please tell me your own nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning January 28
Copyright 2016 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "It seems that the whole time you're living
this life, you're thinking about a different one instead," wrote Latvian
novelist Inga Abele in her novel *High Tide.* Have you ever been guilty of
that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That's
the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you
excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at
once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you
should be doing something other than what you're doing. You can get the
hang of what it's like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are
actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on
this project.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy
tales," says a character in Ivan Turgenev's novel *Fathers and Sons.* In
other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long
been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical
sustenance. They can't eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that
practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy
stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much
as you need your daily bread. Your soul's hunger has reached epic
proportions. It's time to gorge.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know Emily Brontë's novel *Wuthering
Heights*? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar,
a man she's interested in. "He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,"
Catherine says, "and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee.
I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be
drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in
mine." If you're a typical Aries, you're more aligned with Catherine than
with Edgar. But I'm hoping you might consider making a temporary
compromise in the coming weeks. "At last, we agreed to try both,"
Catherine concluded, "and then we kissed each other and were friends."
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People turn to you Tauruses for help in
staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism.
They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with
the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you
offer! It's a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to
demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant --
that it's strong exactly because it's flexible and adaptable. The coming
weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your
superpower.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When winter comes, pine trees that grow near
mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the
ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen.
Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and
drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini,
this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming
weeks. For the time being, look UP to obtain what you need. Be fed
primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and high-minded
people.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): We all go through phases when we are at
odds with people we love. Maybe we're mad at them, or feel hurt by
them, or can't comprehend what they're going through. The test of our
commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That's why I
agree with author Steve Hall when he says, "The truest form of love is
how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them." The
coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle
with extra devotion -- not just for the sake of the people you care about,
but also for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health.
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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 2016?
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.
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then access the
horoscopes by clicking on "Long Range Prediction." (Choose from Part 1,
Part 2, Part 3.)
A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and killing each other for years on
end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The
treaty was optimistically called "The Endless Peace." Sadly, "endless"
turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I'm happy
to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement
are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace
anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally
wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the
whole." Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I'm offering it to you,
just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming
weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating
your allies -- and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect
you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your
misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese
naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was
crucial to America's ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One
military historian called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the
history of naval warfare." This milestone occurred just six months after
Japan's devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare
your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I'm in a bombastic
mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the
second half of 2016, you'll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or
defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is
when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found
it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he
hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get
naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in
the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on
socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his
masterpiece *Cyrano de Bergerac,* as well as numerous other plays. I
suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve
out some quality alone time.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "I opened my mouth, almost said
something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently
if I had. But I didn't." The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character
in Khaled Hosseini's novel *The Kite Runner.* I bring it up in hopes that
you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate
what you're burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will send your life on
a course that's in closer alignment with your pure intentions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to some traditional astrologers,
you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest
that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you
have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you
need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This
behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by
withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of
truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it's only part of
the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your
clout with unabashed authority. You won't save yourself for later; you'll
engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and
unbridled as you do whatever's required to carry out the important
foundation work that needs to be done.
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Homework: What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage?
Read "Liberate Your Imagination": http://bit.ly/Liberate
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