Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JANUARY 13, 2010
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DREAM AND SCHEME ABOUT YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
with my 3-part EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2010? 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 2010. Part
1 and Part 2 of your Year-End Predictions, which I offered the
last two weeks, are also still available.
To find out more about how to listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes
online, go to RealAstrology.com.
You can also listen over the phone by calling 1-877-873-4888
or 1-900-950-7700
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web, or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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"Do you have the nerve -- do you have the gall and the chutzpah
and the courage -- to gaze into the abyss of happiness?"
- PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia
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The revised and expanded version of my book PRONOIA IS THE
ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA is available at Amazon: bit.ly/Pronoia
Below is an excerpt. To read the whole text, go here: bit.ly/8ixsHS
To hear the audio version, go here: bit.ly/50kIBp
GAZING INTO THE ABYSS OF HAPPINESS
More and more creative people find they do their best work when
they're feeling healthy and secure. We know writers who no longer
need to be drunk or in agony in order to shed the numbness of
their daily routine and tap into the full powers of their imagination.
We have filmmaker friends whose best work flows not from the depths
of alienated self-doubt but rather from the heights of well-earned
bliss. Singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey is the patron saint of this
new breed. "When I'm contented, I'm more open to receiving
a lot of inspiration," she has testified. "I'm most
creative when I feel safe and happy."
At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we've retired the archetype of the
tormented genius. We have zero attraction to books and movies
and songs by depressed jerks whose work is celebrated but whose
lives are a mess. Stories about supposedly interesting creeps
don't rouse our perverse fascination because we've broken our
addiction to perverse fascination. When hearing about illustrious
creators who brag that they feel most stimulated when they're
angry or miserable, we unleash the Official Beauty and Truth Lab
Histrionic Yawn . . . .
READ THE REST: bit.ly/8ixsHS
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW ARE CARRYING OUT MIRACULOUS FEATS
The 10 Most Generous Moments of the Decade
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WHOEVER OR WHATEVER CREATED ALL THIS IS DEFINITELY AN ARTIST
Earth as Art
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HELP IS AVAILABLE EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert Moss
After escaping from slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman helped organize
the Underground Railroad and personally led 300 slaves to freedom.
Few history books note that she relied on her dreams to provide
specific information about where to find safe houses, helpers,
and passages through dangerous territory.
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A COMPENDIUM OF ALL THE PRONOIA RESOURCES
pronoiaresources.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 14
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
The number of bacteria per square inch on a toilet seat averages
about 50. Meanwhile, your telephone harbors over 25,000 germs
per square inch and the top of your desk has about 21,000. I'd
like you to use this as a metaphor that you can apply more universally.
According to my analysis, you see, you are over-emphasizing the
risks and problems in one particular area of your life and underestimating
them elsewhere. Spend some time this week correcting the misdiagnoses.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
One of my readers, Judd, shared his vision of how to cope with
the blahs of January. Given your astrological omens, I'd say his
strategy perfectly embodies the approach you should take right
now. Please study his testimony below, and come up with your own
ingenious variation. "On the coldest of days, my friends
and I celebrate 'scrufting,' the art of enjoying the great outdoors
with indoor furniture, while listening to loud indie-rock and
adorned in our grungiest slop-ware. Aided by Samuel Smith's Oatmeal
Stout, we curse and laugh at the constraints of winter by playing
our favorite summer sports like Frisbee, hacky-sack, and soccer."
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
It's graduation time. Not in any officially recognized sense,
maybe, but still: You have completed your study of a certain subject
in the school of life. At a later date, maybe you will resume
studying this subject on a higher level, but for now you've absorbed
all you can. I suggest you give yourself a kind of final exam.
(Be sure to grade it yourself.) You might also want to carry out
a fun ritual to acknowledge the completion of this chapter of
your story. It will free up your mind and heart to begin the next
chapter.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
The Earth's north magnetic pole is not the same as the geographic
North Pole. If you take out a compass to orient yourself toward
due north, the compass arrow will actually point toward a spot
in the frigid wilds of Canada. But what's really odd is that the
north magnetic pole has been on the move since 1904 -- scientists
don't know exactly why -- and has dramatically sped up in recent
years. According to National Geographic, it's now zooming
toward Siberia at the rate of almost 40 miles per year. I suspect
that your own metaphorical version of magnetic north will also
be changing in 2010, Aries. By January 2011, the homing signal
you depend on to locate your place in reality may have migrated
significantly. This is a good time to start tracking the shift.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them
vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous," wrote
W. Somerset Maugham. "On the contrary, it makes them, for
the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind." I think the trajectory
of your journey during the last 12 months tends to confirm his
theory, Taurus. According to my analysis, you set new benchmarks
for your personal best in 2009, while at the same time becoming
a wiser, riper human being. Congrats! Now get out there and capitalize
on the grace you've earned. Be as organized as possible as you
share the fruits of your progress.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
The Onion, which describes itself as "America's
Finest News Source," ran a feature on the inventor Thomas
Edison. He "changed the face of modern life in 1879,"
said the report, "when he devised the groundbreaking new
process of taking ideas pioneered by other scientists and marketing
them as his own." The tone was mocking, of course, but I'm
perfectly sincere when I urge you to imitate Edison in the coming
weeks. Given the current astrological omens, you'd be wise to
take advantage of the breakthroughs of others and make good use
of resources created by others. Just be sure that you give credit
where credit is due, and you'll actually be doing everyone a service.
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LET'S IMAGINE WHAT BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIES
MIGHT COME YOUR WAY IN 2010
Listen to my Expanded Audio Horoscopes for the Coming Year.
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about
your upcoming adventures in 2010?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part 3
of a long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming
year.
Part 1 and Part 2 are still available.
Find out how to access them online at RealAstrology.com.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web, or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
A Scorpio is willing and maybe even eager to share secrets with
you. Can you marshal just the right amount of self-protection
-- not too much, not too little -- to trust a little more and
go deeper? As for Virgo: That under-self-confident person would
really benefit from getting more appreciation from you. Don't
be stingy. Meanwhile, I think you're suffering from a misunderstanding
about an Aquarius. It will be in your selfish interest to clear
it up. A few more tips: Don't give up on Pisces. There's more
to come when the coast is clearer. Browse but don't buy yet with
a Leo. And make business, but not love or war, with a Capricorn.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
I like it best when the creek that runs near my home is wide
and deep. It gets that way at high tide, when the moon shepherds
in a surge of water from the bay. As I gaze out at the swollen
cascade, I feel full and fertile; everything's right with the
world. Inevitably, though, the tide goes out and the flow turns
meek and narrow. Then my mood is less likely to soar. A slight
melancholy may creep in. But I've learned to love that state,
too -- to derive a quiet joy from surveying the muddy banks where
the water once ran, the muck imprinted with tracks of egrets and
ducks. Besides, I know it's only a matter of time before the tide
shifts and the cascade returns. Enjoy your own personal version
of the low-tide phase, Leo. High tide will be coming back your
way soon.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
If you asked me to make you a mix tape that would be conducive
for making love to, I wouldn't be in the least surprised. These
long January nights are ideal times for you Virgos to be unleashing
your dormant passion and sharing volcanic pleasure and exploring
the frontier where delight overlaps with wonder. In the compilation
of tunes I'd create for you, I'd probably have stuff like "Teardrop"
by Massive Attack, "Breathe Me" by Sia, "Supermassive
Black Hole" by Muse, and "6 Underground" by the
Sneaker Pimps. But I think it's a better idea for you to assemble
your own soundtrack. Tell me about it if you do. I'm at Truthrooster@gmail.com.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
The world's tallest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela. It
was named after Jimmie Angel, an American who was the first person
to fly a plane over it in 1933. Recently, Venezuela's president
suggested that this place should be officially renamed Kerepakupai
meru, which is what the indigenous Pemon Indians have always
called it. The coming weeks happen to be a favorable time for
you to consider making a comparable move, Libra: restoring a natural
wonder to its original innocence; rehabilitating the truth about
a beautiful resource; returning an old glory to its pristine state.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
In the first half of 2010, your calling will be calling to you
more loudly and insistently than it has in years. It will whisper
to you seductively while you're falling asleep. It will clang
like a salvation bell during your mid-morning breaks. It will
soothe you with its serpentine tones and it will agitate you with
its rippling commands to spring into action. How will you respond
to these summonses from your supreme inner authority? This week
will be a good test.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
"You can have it all," says fashion designer Luella
Bartley. "It's just really hard work." That's my oracle
for you, Sagittarius -- not just for this week, but for the next
three months as well. According to my reading of the astrological
omens, the cosmos will indeed permit you to have your cake and
eat it, too, as long as you're willing to manage your life with
more discipline, master the crucial little details everyone else
neglects, and always give back at least as much as you're given.
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HOMEWORK:
What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage in
2010? For inspiration, read "Liberate Your Imagination"
here: bit.ly/Liberate
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WANT TO GET YOUR CHART DONE?
I'm not doing personal charts, but I highly recommend my astrological
colleague, RO LOUGHRAN. Her approach closely matches my own. In
our many discussions about astrology over the years, we've had
a major influence on each other's work.
Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained
intuition, emotional warmth, and
a high
degree of technical proficiency
in horoscope interpretation; she
is skilled
at exploring the mysteries of your
life's purpose and nurturing your
connection with your own inner
wisdom.
Ro is based in California, but
can do phone consultations and
otherwise
work with you regardless of geographic
boundaries.
Ro's website is at YourSoulJourney.com
She can also be reached at roloughran@comcast.net
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