Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
January 30, 2019
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See a pretty version of this newsletter: https://bit.ly/YourTreasures
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I've gathered together all of the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote
for you in the past few weeks, and bundled them in one place. Go here to
read a compendium of your forecasts for 2019:
https://bit.ly/YourGloriousStory2019
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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 2019.
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:
https://freewillastrology.sparkns.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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YOUR 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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THE BEGINNING
Years ago, on a bleak January morning, I unexpectedly found my fortune.
While waiting in the food stamp office for my monthly allotment, I
grabbed the local newspaper and turned to its help wanted section.
"Horoscope columnist needed, $15 a week," it said.
My first reaction was "feh." As a proud practitioner of the art of
astrology, I'd always disliked horoscope columns for how they pandered
to the superstitious instincts in people.
But on second thought, I mused, why not try to revolutionize the genre,
So I dashed off 12 poetic horoscopes and submitted them. Success! So
began my surprising career.
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Ah! But here's an important caveat: I wrote my Free Will Astrology column
for 17 years before it earned me enough money to rise above the poverty
line. I'm glad I stuck with it!
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"Follow your bliss and the money will come." I believed that quixotic
slogan from the moment I first heard it many years ago. And I continued
to cling to it even during those long lean eons when I was following my
bliss like a madman and cooking my twice-a-day rice and beans on a hot
plate in my one-room shack.
Now, at last, having graduated to more sumptuous digs and a more varied
diet, I've acquired the wisdom to know that my beloved slogan is
incomplete. It should read, "Follow your bliss and the money will come--
although it might take 10 or 15 or, hell, even 20 years."
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HAVING NO PROBLEMS MAY BE DANGEROUS
It may actually be dangerous to have nothing to worry about, no
problems to solve, no friction to heat you up. That state can stimulate an
unconscious yearning for any old dumb trouble that might stir up some
excitement.
"We should feel excited about the problems we confront and our ability to
deal with them," said Robert A. Wilson. "Solving problems is one of the
highest and most sensual of all our brain functions."
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A MILLION FORMS OF MEDITATION? A BILLION?
Many spiritual teachers say you're most likely to succeed at meditation if
you sit quietly in a sanctuary. They believe you need to retreat from the
world in order to develop compassionate objectivity about life.
The 18th-century Zen Buddhist teacher Hakuin Ekaku had a different
view. "Meditation in the midst of activity is a billion times superior to
meditation in stillness" was his motto.
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"The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for
yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible
practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other's
vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it,
empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A
radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care."
— Johanna Hedva, *Sick Woman Theory*
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
For more about the good news stories below, plus links to the articles
that provide full evidence, go here: https://tinyurl.com/ya8kb4rh
1. The Kofan people of Sinangoe, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a
landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River,
nullifying 52 mining concessions and freeing up more than 32,000
hectares of primary rainforest.
2. Following China's ban on ivory last year, 90% of Chinese support it,
ivory demand has dropped by almost half, and poaching rates are falling in
places like Kenya.
3. The population of wild tigers in Nepal was found to have nearly doubled
in the last nine years, thanks to efforts by conservationists and increased
funding for protected areas.
4. Deforestation in Indonesia fell by 60%, as a result of a ban on clearing
peatlands, new educational campaigns, and better law enforcement.
5. The United Nations said that the ozone hole would be fully healed over
the Arctic and the northern hemisphere by the 2030s, and in the rest of
the world by 2060.
6. $10 billion (the largest amount ever for ocean conservation) was
committed in Bali this year for the protection of 14 million square
kilometers of the world's oceans.
7. In California, the world's smallest fox was removed from the
Endangered Species List, the fastest recovery of any mammal under the
Endangered Species Act.
8. In 2018, after more than ten years of debate, 140 nations agreed to
begin negotiations on a historic "Paris Agreement for the Ocean," the
first-ever international treaty to stop overfishing and protect life in the
high seas.
9. Niger revealed that it has planted 200 million new trees in three
decades, the largest positive transformation of the environment in African
history.
(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 31
Copyright 2019 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com/horoscopes/
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Start a new trend that
will serve your noble goals for years to come. MARCH: Passion comes back
into fashion with a tickle and a shiver and a whoosh. APRIL: As you
expand and deepen your explorations, call on the metaphorical equivalents
of both a telescope and a microscope. MAY: This is the beginning of the
end of what you love to complain about. Hooray! JUNE: You'll have an
abundance of good reasons to celebrate the fact that you are the least
normal sign in the zodiac. Celebrate your idiosyncrasies!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You'll have a knack for
enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner
you and the outer you will become more unified. MARCH: You'll discover
two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself
available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom. MAY:
What are the gaps in your education? Make plans to mitigate your most
pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body's ready to tell you secrets
that your mind has not yet figured out. Listen well.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes
for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You'll be invited to make a pivotal
transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life
goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don't waste time and
energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it
yourself. APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good. Enjoy the
uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It'll be a favorable phase to upgrade
your personal finances. Think richer thoughts. Experiment with new ideas
about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you
burn. Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave
behind.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You have access to a
semi-awkward magic that will serve you well if you don't complain about
its semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout and influence, your
crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that. The
universe will then work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean
messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY:
You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the
greatest good. JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don't be a fanatic.
Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive
quest for perfection.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes
for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your
best possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is even stronger
than usual. MARCH: High integrity and ethical rigor are crucial to your
success — and so is a longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you
make the best use of your likability? MAY: Cheerfully dismantle an old
system or structure to make way for a sparkling new system or structure.
JUNE: Beginner's luck will be yours if you choose the right place to begin.
What's a bit intimidating but very exciting?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism
peaks at the same time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toasted
ice? Succulent fire? Earthy marvels? Homey strangeness? All of that is
within reach. APRIL: Sow the seeds of the most interesting success you
can envision. Your fantasy of what's possible should thrill your
imagination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty. MAY: Deadline time.
Be as decisive and forthright as an Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as
systematic as a Capricorn. JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature
ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow.
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VISUALIZE YOUR BEST POSSIBLE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about your
upcoming adventures in 2019?
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 https://freewillastrology.sparkns.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.
The cost is $6 per sign, with discounts for bulk purchases.
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"The best part about your audio horoscopes is that they pat me on the
head and kick me in the ass at the same time." - Rita L., San Diego
"Your audio oracles go beyond helping me find the truth -- they inspire
me to find the WILD truth." - Patrick K., Montreal
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for
the next five months. FEBRUARY: There's a general amnesty in all matters
regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness. MARCH:
Drop fixed ideas you might have about what's possible and what's not. Be
keenly open to unexpected healings. APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers.
Pluck goodies that have been off-limits. Consider the value of ignoring
certain taboos. MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your
ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred
truths.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes
for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Master the Zen of constructive
anger. Express your complaints in a holy cause. MARCH: You finally get a
message you've been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL:
Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract. Come to a more
complete agreement. MAY: Don't let your preconceptions inhibit you from
having a wildly good time. JUNE: Start your own club, band, organization,
or business. Or reinvent and reinvigorate your current one.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes
for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic
adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past.
MARCH: You'll be offered interesting, productive problems. Welcome
them! APRIL: Can you explore what's experimental and fraught with
interesting uncertainty even as you stay well-grounded? Yes! MAY: You
can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust
you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season's model of
success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion. JUNE: Wild
cards and X-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don't
be shy about using them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: The world may finally be
ready to respond favorably to the power you've been storing up. MARCH:
Everything you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to be too
limited. So expand your expectations and capacities! APRIL: Extremism
and obsession can be useful in moderation. MAY: Invisible means of
support will become visible. Be alert for half-hidden help. JUNE: Good
questions: What do other people find valuable about you? How can you
enhance what's valuable about you?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You'll have the need and
opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocus-pocus. For best
results, upgrade your magical powers. MARCH: Make sure the Turning
Point happens in your power spot or on your home turf. APRIL: You should
be willing to go anywhere, ask any question, and even risk your pride if
necessary so as to coax your most important relationships into living up
to their potentials. MAY: If at first you don't succeed, change the
definition of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation
and compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly ahead in service to
your single-minded vision.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style
horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: A new phase of your
education will begin when you acknowledge how much you have to learn.
MARCH: Initiate diplomatic discussions about the Things That Never Get
Talked About. APRIL: Revise your ideas about your dream home and your
dream community. MAY: You have the power to find healing for your
oldest lovesickness. If you do find it, intimacy will enter a new Golden
Age. JUNE: Solicit an ally's ingenuity to help you improvise a partial
solution to a complex problem.
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Homework: What's the kind of joy you're not getting enough of? How
could you get more of it? FreeWillAstrology.com
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