Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
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ELATIONSHIP LOVE SPELLS FOR BEAUTY AND TRUTH RESEARCHERS
This Valentine Season, are you in quest of an Intimate Ally or
a Soul Friend? A Wild Confidante or a Kiss Buddy? A Secret Sharer
who'll listen better than anyone ever or an Amazing Accomplice
with whom you can practice the Art of Liberation? Try these Elationship
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OUR SECRET FREEDOM
Me: the soul of a musician, the stamina of a long-distance runner,
and the psychological expertise of a veterinarian. You: the body
of a feral kickboxer, the eyes of a jet pilot, and the holder
of a PhD in Ingenious Love. In matters of the heart, you always
know exactly when to sweat and when to cry. You like to play in
the sandbox as much as you enjoy working in the trenches -- and
you don't mind getting dirty. Send me an image of your face pressed
against the copy machine, and I'll get started reading your mind.
In the meantime, I'll be here in my lab dreaming up experiments
we can do to tenderly shock ourselves ever-more awake from what
the cynics call "the nightmare of history."
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MYSTIC ACTIVIST SEEKS PRIMORDIAL GOSSIPER
I'm the one! Pick me for your mission impossible! I'm the one!
Pick me to help you storm the kingdom of heaven! Everybody's somebody's
fool; let me be yours! I have no shame and I have no qualms! I
give not until it hurts but until it exalts my libido, and if
you're smart you'll let me teach you the method in that madness!
So electrify me in a sanctuary, you stunning ravisher! Amaze me
in a labyrinth! Undress me on an altar! Engorge me in a way station!
And I'll resurrect you wherever you want!
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SACRED AGENT SEEKS FREAKY CONSORT
Tired of both boringly nice goodie-goodies and menacing lunatics
trying to pass off their pathologies as "sexy"? I'm
the happy medium: a straddler of the mysterious edge where bliss
and struggle overlap, where the difference between light and dark
just ain't that simple. I feel too deeply to pretend that every
question has a correct answer. I cry too easily and love too much.
And you? Are you smart enough to be guided by your sacred dreams
of transgression? Are you free enough to surrender over and over
again to the waters of life? If you've got the courage, I've got
the secrets. I'll be your wild-eyed, smart-mouthed, spread-eagled
muse if you'll be mine.
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FAIRY TALE WITH MARKETING POTENTIAL
Future lottery winner and full-time thrill-designer is hunting
for a brainteasing emancipator to share risky stunts and international
scandals that have lucrative marketing potential. Let's do a reality
TV show that features us hiking through China in our Halloween
costumes as we distribute alms for the poor, or air-drop Anaïs
Nin books on Bible Belt colleges as we ride in a hot-air balloon
over Mississippi and Alabama. In the great tradition of Picasso,
the richest Communist artist who ever lived, we'll become wealthy
pranksters together, poking and prodding the edges of reality.
TO READ THE BEST OF THE LOVE SPELLS, GO HERE: bit.ly/LoveAd
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LOVE PROMPTS FOR THE VALENTINE DAZE
"Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and
to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed.
But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the
need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the
body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body
home and moving toward integration and unity."
- Henri Nouwen
"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside
down and shake all the nonsense out."
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
"We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet
cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like
a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw
stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones."
- Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
"I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant
that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the
light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or
from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from
the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity
of our victorious kisses."
- Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott
"The desire to force love to live only in its most positive
form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough.
Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom.
Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because
we first stopped imagining."
- James Hillman
"Your face is true and your hair is perfect and I love you.
You make boats in my dreams and you speak without words and I
love you. Your fears unnerve me and your questions amuse me and
I love you. I love you not only for who you are, but for the interesting
person I become when I'm with you. I say I love you and love you
and love you until the words become the constant song of your
voice in my head and the original ache of memory in my soul. I
love you more than life and death, more than everything that's
in between the light and the dark. Do you believe me? Try harder.
Do you believe me now? I'm always with you, which is why I know
you will never abandon yourself."
- PRONOIA
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PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW ARE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO SAVE PEOPLE
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning February 11
Copyright 2010 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Happy Valentine Daze, Aquarius! In my search for the counsel
that would be of greatest help to your love life in the coming
months, I decided on this observation by psychologist Albert Ellis:
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
I hope you take that in the spirit in which I'm offering it. It's
not meant to suggest that you will be deprived of love's burning,
churning pleasures; I just want to make sure you know that your
best bet for experiencing burning, churning pleasures is to be
dogged and devoted and disciplined in your cultivation of burning,
churning pleasures.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
In 2010, you will have more cosmic assistance than you've had
in a long time whenever you seek to increase your experience of
pleasure. Do you want to get more sensual joy out of eating and
drinking and dancing and listening to music? This is your year.
Do you want to heighten your perceptiveness and find more beauty
in the world and cultivate new ways to stimulate positive feelings
and liberating emotions? This is your year. Do you want to intensify
your orgasms and have more of them and learn how to use them to
enhance your spiritual power? This is your year. And the coming
weeks will be one of the best times in 2010 to move from charging
up your pleasure to supercharging it. Happy Valentine Daze, Pisces!
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
"Hate leaves ugly scars," wrote author Mignon McLaughlin,
but "love leaves beautiful ones." If I'm reading the
astrological omens correctly, Aries, you're scheduled to receive
at least one of the beautiful kind of scars in the coming months
-- maybe even two or three. In fact, I think they'll be such lovely
booboos that they will markedly add to your overall attractiveness.
Rarely if ever have you been privileged to hurt as good as you
will in 2010 -- thanks to the benevolent jolts of love. Happy
Valentine Daze!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
In my view, 2010 is the year you should expand your world. That
could mean enlarging your circle of allies or building a bigger
web of connections. It might mean broadening your appeal or widening
your frame of reference or opening your mind to possibilities
you've been closed to. It may even involve extending your territory
or increasing the range of your travels. However you choose to
expand, Taurus, I urge you to put love at the heart of your efforts.
Love should be the fuel that motivates you and the reference point
that ensures you're always making smart moves. For inspiration,
memorize this line by poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "I
love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
In your case, Taurus, "thee" should mean the whole world.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Of all the signs of the zodiac, you Geminis are most likely to
thrive if you experiment with new approaches to kissing in the
coming weeks. To whip up your fervor, read incendiary texts like
William Cane's The Art of Kissing. Conspire with an imaginative
partner to conjure up a new kissing game or even a sacred kissing
ritual. And come up with your own interpretations of the following
kiss techniques: the throbbing kiss, the sip kiss, the butterfly
kiss, the tiger kiss, the whispering kiss. Happy Valentine Daze!
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Happy Valentine Daze, Cancerian! After meditating about what
advice would be most valuable for your love life in the coming
months, I decided on this challenge from poet William Butler Yeats:
"True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret
self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self."
In other words, create in your imagination a detailed picture
of your loved ones at their best. Each day, make it a point to
feel joy and gratitude for their most excellent beauty and power
-- as well as the beauty and power that are still ripening and
will one day appear in full bloom.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
A friend of mine has woven her life together with a Leo who doesn't
fully appreciate the ways she expresses her adoration. She asked
me to use my bully pulpit as a horoscope writer to convey a message
to her lover, and I agreed, because I think it's excellent advice
for all of the Leo tribe this Valentine season. Here's what she
said: "Just because somebody doesn't always love you the
way you wish they would, doesn't mean they don't love you the
best they can and with all they have." Are you willing to
consider the possibility that maybe you should take that plea
to heart, Leo? I hope so, because then you'll be able to get some
of the good loving you've closed yourself off from.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! I meditated on what message might
best energize your love life, and what I came up with is a declaration
by author Mignon McLaughlin: "Love unlocks doors and opens
windows that weren't even there before." In other words,
the love you should be most interested in during the coming months
is the kind that opens your eyes to sights that were previously
invisible and that creates new possibilities you've barely imagined.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Happy Valentine Daze, Libra! My astrological hunch is that you'd
benefit from the specific teaching that would come from exploring
a three-way relationship. But wait. Don't jump to conclusions.
Here's the form I think it should take: Fantasize that the merger
of you and your lover or ally has created a third thing that hovers
near you, protecting and guiding the two of you. Call this third
thing an angel. Or call it the soul of your connection or the
inspirational force of your relationship. Or call it the special
work the two of you can accomplish together. And let this magical
presence be the third point of your love triangle.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Happy Valentine Daze, Scorpio! After meditating on what advice
would best serve your love life, I decided to offer you the words
of psychologist Carl Jung: "The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct
acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the
objects it loves." As I see it, my dear, acting on Jung's
wisdom will help you carry out your primary task in the coming
months, which is to bring novel experiences and fresh perspectives
to your most engaging relationship. The best way to accomplish
that is not with non-stop serious talk and intense analysis, but
with a generous dose of playful improvisation and experimental
fun.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
To prepare your Valentine horoscope, I did a lengthy meditation
on your love life. I wish I could offer you a 20-page treatise
on my conclusions, but there's not enough room. So instead I'll
give you the single most important piece of advice I came up with:
The coming week will be an excellent time for you to survey the
history of your love life, starting with the first moment you
ever fell in love. I mean you should actually stream the memories
across your mind's eye as if you were watching a movie. Feel all
the feelings roused by each scene, but also try to maintain some
objectivity about it all. Watch for recurring themes. Be especially
alert for unexpected insights that emerge about the past. And
through it all, be wildly compassionate toward yourself and your
co-stars.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?" wrote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Now I'm offering his words for you
to use as your mantra in the coming months. Your main job, as
I see it, is simply to be a lover of pretty much everything --
to generate, cultivate, and express love in abundance -- and not
to worry about whether your love is reciprocated or how it's regarded.
It's a tall order, I know -- one of the most difficult assignments
I've ever suggested. And yet I think you have the soul power and
the crafty intelligence necessary to accomplish it. Happy Valentine
Daze, Capricorn!
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HOMEWORK:
Send your letters, notes, haikus, rants, dreams, and whoops to
the beloved of your choice, including yourself. It's an old-fashioned
Shout Out, a chance to share your feelings for your snuggle-bunny
/ freaky consort / sweetiekins / co-conspirator. Go to FreeWillAstrology.com
and click on "Email Rob."
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