Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 3, 2018
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EXPLORE YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-Part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
http://RealAstrology.com
Who do you want to become in 2018? Where do you want to go and
what do you want to do? My reports might stimulate and inspire your
meditations about the interesting possibilities.
This week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES feature Part 2 of my long-
range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in 2018.
Part 1 of your Beginning-of-the-Year Predictions, which I offered last
week, is also still available. Part 3 will be ready for you on January 9.
What will be the story of your life in 2087? 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 your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go here:
http://www.RealAstrology.com
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"Long Range Prediction, Part 2"
The cost for the Expanded Audio Horoscopes is $6 per sign. (You can get
discounts for multiple purchases.)
You can also listen 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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P.S. You can also still access my Sneak-Peek at 2018. In these expanded
audio horoscopes, I describe some major themes I think you'll be working
and playing with in 2018. After you register and/or log in, click on "Two
Weeks Ago (Dec. 19, 2017)."
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HOW TO BECOME MORE OPTIMISTIC
"Try to think of three new things you're happy about while brushing your
teeth at night. The word new is important. If you let yourself repeat
items, you might default to some variation of 'family, friends, and health'
every day.
"But if you have to come up with three novel, specific reasons to be
happy or grateful, your brain will naturally start making mental notes of
things you can include in your list throughout the day."
More: http://tinyurl.com/y846n3t6
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THE HISTORY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH DESIRE
Imagine it's 30 years from now. You're looking back at the history of your
relationship with desire. There was a certain watershed moment when you
clearly saw that some of your desires were mediocre, inferior, and
wasteful, while others were pure, righteous, and invigorating.
Beginning then, you made it a life goal to purge the former and cultivate
the latter.
Thereafter, you occasionally wandered down dead ends trying to gratify
yearnings that weren't worthy of you, but usually you wielded your
passions with discrimination, dedicating them to serve the highest and
most interesting good.
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YOU ARE A CREATOR
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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YOUR ANTI-RESOLUTIONS
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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YOUR HOLIEST DESIRE
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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FORGIVE YOURSELF
Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who
betrayed you.
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My book *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
is available at Amazon: http://bit.ly/Pronoia
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Can kindness be taught?
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New York City and State will divest $390 billion pensions from fossil fuels:
"an undeniable victory for the global divestment movement."
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One of the number one ways to reduce global greenhouse gasses:
educate and empower women and girls.
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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 4
Copyright 2018 by Rob Brezsny
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Soulful beauty will be a major theme for
you in 2018. Or at least it should be. But I suppose it's possible you're
not very interested in soulful beauty, perhaps even bored by it. Maybe
you prefer skin-deep beauty or expensive beauty or glamorous beauty. If
you choose to follow predilections like those, you'll lose out on
tremendous opportunities to grow wilder and wiser. But let's hope you
make yourself available for a deeper, more provocative kind of beauty -- a
beauty that you could become more skilled at detecting as the year
unfolds.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Let your freak flag fly" was an expression
that arose from the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a
colorful way to say, "Be your most unique and eccentric self; show off
your idiosyncrasies with uninhibited pride." I propose that we revive it for
your use in 2018. I suspect the coming months will be a favorable time
for you to cultivate your quirks and trust your unusual impulses. You
should give yourself maximum freedom to explore pioneering ideas and
maverick inclinations. Paradoxically, doing so will lead to stabilizing and
enduring improvements in your life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I
suggest you start compiling a list entitled, "People, Places, Ideas, and
Things I Didn't Realize Until Now That I Could Fall in Love With." And then
keep adding more and more items to this tally during the next ten
months. To get the project underway in the proper spirit, you should
wander freely and explore jauntily, giving yourself permission to instigate
interesting mischief and brush up against deluxe temptations. For best
results, open your heart and your eyes as wide as you can. One further
clue: Act on the assumption that in 2018 you will be receptive to
inspirational influences and life-transforming teachings that you have
never before been aware of.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 2018, your past will undergo
transformation. Your memories will revise and rearrange themselves.
Bygone events that seemed complete and definitive will shimmy and shift,
requiring new interpretations. The stories you have always told about how
you became who you are will have to be edited, perhaps even rewritten.
While these overhauls may sometimes be disconcerting, they will
ultimately be liberating.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2018, people will be drawn to you even
more than usual. Some will want you to be their rock -- their steady,
stable source of practical truth. Some will ask you to be their tonic -- their
regular, restorative dose of no-nonsense. And others will find in you a
creative catalyst that helps them get out of their ruts and into their
grooves. And what will you receive in return for providing such a stellar
service? First, there'll be many opportunities to deepen and refine your
integrity. To wield that much influence means you'll have to consistently
act with high-minded motivations. And secondly, Taurus, you'll get a
steady supply of appreciation that will prove to be useful as well as
gratifying.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Influences that oppose you will fade as 2018
unfolds. People who have been resistant and uncooperative will at least
partially disengage. To expedite the diminishing effects of these
influences and people, avoid struggling with them. Loosen the grip they
have on your imagination. Any time they leak into your field of awareness,
turn your attention instead to an influence or person that helps and
supports you. Here's another idea about how to collaborate with the
cosmic rhythms to reduce the conflict in your life: Eliminate any
unconscious need you might have for the perversely invigorating energy
provided by adversaries and bugaboos. Find positive new ways to
motivate yourself.
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WHAT'S YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE?
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2018?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part 2 of a
long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming year.
Part 3 will be available next week. Part 1 is still available.
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go here:
http://www.RealAstrology.com
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"Long Term Prediction, Part 2"
You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888.
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The cost for the Expanded Audio Horoscopes is $6 per sign. (You can get
discounts for multiple purchases.)
You can also listen 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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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that in 2018 you will figure out how
to get your obsessions to consistently work for your greatest good. You
will come to understand what you must do to ensure they never drag you
down into manic self-sabotage. The resolute ingenuity you summon to
accomplish this heroic feat will change you forever. You will be reborn into
a more vibrant version of your life. Passions that in the past have drained
and confused you will become efficient sources of fuel for your worthiest
dreams.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Just because you have become accustomed to a
certain trouble doesn't mean you should stop searching for relief from
that trouble. Just because a certain pain no longer knocks you into a
demoralized daze for days at a time doesn't mean it's good for you. Now
here's the good news: In 2018, you can finally track down the practical
magic necessary to accomplish a thorough healing of that trouble and
pain. Make this the year you find a more ultimate cure.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you ever nursed a yearning to speak
Swahili or Chinese or Russian? The coming months will be an excellent
time to get that project underway. Do you fantasize about trying exotic
cuisines and finding new favorite foods? I invite you to act on that
fantasy in 2018. Is there a form of manual labor that would be tonic for
your mental and physical health? Life is giving you a go-ahead to do more
of it. Is there a handicraft or ball game you'd like to become more skilled
at? Get started. Is there a new trick you'd like to learn to do with your
mouth or hands? Now's the time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before the fifteenth century, European nations
confined their sailing to the Mediterranean Sea. The ocean was too rough
for their fragile, unadaptable ships. But around 1450, the Portuguese
developed a new kind of vessel, the caravel. It employed a triangular sail
that enabled it to travel against the wind. Soon, exploratory missions
ventured into the open sea and down along the coast of West Africa.
Eventually, this new technology enabled long westward trips across the
Atlantic. I propose that we make the caravel your symbol of power for
2018, Libra. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will
find or create a resource that enables you to do the metaphorical
equivalent of effectively sailing into the wind.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Aztecs were originally wanderers. They
kept moving from place to place, settling temporarily in areas throughout
the land we now call Mexico. An old prophecy told them that they would
eventually find a permanent home at a site where they saw an eagle
roosting on a cactus as it clutched a snake in its talons. There came a day
in the fourteenth century when members of the tribe spied this very
scene on an island in the middle of a lake. That's where they began to
build the city that in time was the center of their empire. I bring this to
your attention, Scorpio, so it can serve as a metaphor to guide you in
2018. I suspect that you, too, will discover your future power spot -- the
heart of your domain for years to come.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Not every minute of every day, but
when you have had the time, you've been searching for a certain treasure.
With patience and persistence, you have narrowed down its whereabouts
by collecting clues and following your intuition. Now, at last, you know its
exact location. As you arrive, ready to claim it, you tremble with
anticipation. But when you peel away the secrets in which it has been
wrapped, you see that it's not exactly what you expected. Your first
response is disappointment. Nevertheless, you decide to abide in the
presence of the confusing blessing and see what happens. Slowly,
incrementally, you become aware of a new possibility: that you're not
quite ready to understand and use the treasure; that you'll have to grow
new capacities before you'll be ready for it in its fullness.
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Homework: I'd love to see your top five New Year's resolutions. Share by
going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob."
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