Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
DECEMBER 28, 2011
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE
with my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES for the Coming Year.
RealAstrology.com
What new influences will be headed your way in 2012? What fresh
resources will you be able to draw on? How can you conspire with
life to create the best possible future for yourself?
Beginning this week, and for the next two weeks as well, I'm
exploring the BIG PICTURE of your life in my Expanded Audio Horoscopes.
If you slip into a philosophical, visionary mood at the end of
each year, you might appreciate my perspectives on your long-term
outlook.
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.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts available for bulk
purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone. Each forecast is 7-9
minutes long.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
OUTBREAKS OF PRONOIA IN NATURE
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YOU KNOW HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO BE IN BEAUTIFUL PLACES?
The most beautiful college libraries in the world
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(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 December 29
Copyright 2011 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus, the goddess
of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for the first
time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying
to cover her private parts with her hand and thigh-length hair.
Her attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover
her up. Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests
it's actually quite sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we
humans can't bear the confrontation with sublime beauty, we must
always keep it partly hidden. Your assignment in the coming year,
Capricorn, is to overcome this inhibition. I invite you to retrain
yourself so that you can thrive in the presence of intense, amazing,
and transformative beauty.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
The coming months will be an excellent time to take an inventory
of your life to determine whether there are any ways in which
you act like a slave. Do you find it hard to defeat an addiction
that saps your energy and weakens your ability to live the life
you want? Are there institutions that you help sustain even though
they cause harm to you and others? Is it hard for you to change
or end your relationships with people who are no damn good for
you? Are you trapped in a role or behavior that is at odds with
your high ideals? Discover what these oppressors are, Aquarius
-- and then summon all your intelligence and willpower to escape
them.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
California engineer Ron Patrick put a jet engine in his silver
VW Beetle. Now he's got a 1,450-horsepower vehicle -- but it's
not legal for him to drive on public highways. In the coming year,
Pisces, I suspect you'll be tempted to try something similar:
create a dynamic tool with a modest appearance or a turbo-charged
source of energy in a deceptively small package. But if you do,
please make sure that you can actually use it to improve your
ability to get around and make your life better.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only five percent
of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop.
When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for
us to receive just seven percent of the net profits. I encourage
you to push for a much bigger share than that for the work you
do in 2012. It will be an excellent time to raise the levels of
respect you have for your own gifts, skills, and products -- and
to ask for that increased respect, as well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
For much of the 19th century, aluminum was regarded as a precious
metal more valuable than gold. It was even used for the capstone
of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1884. The reason for
this curiosity? Until the 1890s, it was difficult and expensive
to extract aluminum from its ore. Then a new technology was developed
that made the process very cheap. In 2012, Taurus, I'm predicting
a metaphorically similar progression in your own life. A goodie
or an asset will become more freely available to you because of
your increased ability to separate it from the slag it's mixed
with.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
The coming year will be a good time for you to consider investigating
the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Devotees of this religion
call themselves Pastafarians. Their main dogma is the wisdom of
rejecting all dogma. Having such a light-hearted approach to spiritual
matters would be quite healthy for you to experiment with. For
extra credit, you could draw inspiration from a church member
named Niko Alm. He convinced authorities to allow him to wear
a pasta strainer on his head for his driver's license photo. Having
a jaunty approach to official requirements and formal necessities
will also serve you well.
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EXPLORING YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
Would you like some inspiration as you muse and wonder about
your upcoming adventures in 2012?
In this week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I offer you Part One
of a long-term, in-depth exploration of your destiny in the coming
months.
Part Two and Part Three will be available in the next two weeks.
Access them online at RealAstrology.com.
Register and sign in.
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts are available for
bulk purchases), or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is an ambitious work
that deviates from formulaic approaches to film-making. Some observers
hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while others approved.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott compared the movie to
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, one of America's great works
of literature. Here's what Scott wrote: "Mr. Malick might
have been well advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip
to the afterlife and given us a delicate chronicle of a young
man's struggle with his father and himself. And perhaps Melville
should have suppressed his philosophizing impulses and written
a lively tale of a whaling voyage." Using this as a template,
Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be
like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring,
expansive vision.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
I love the way they celebrate the New Year in Stonehaven, Scotland.
A procession of revelers swings big flaming baskets around on
the ends of long chains. I recommend that you carry out a comparable
ritual as you barge into 2012, Leo. Symbolically speaking, it
would set the perfect tone. The coming months should be a kind
of extended fire festival for you -- a time when you faithfully
stoke the blaze in your belly, the radiance in your eyes, and
the brilliance in your heart. Are you ready to bring all the heat
and light you can to the next phase of your master plan? I hope
so. Burn, baby, burn.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Historian David McCullough wrote The Greater Journey,
a book telling the stories of ambitious young American artists
who relocated to Paris between 1830 and 1900. They had to move
away because their home country had no museums or art schools
at that time. You Virgos may want to consider seeking a similar
enlargement of your possibilities in the coming months. As you
seek out the resources that will help you follow your dreams,
be prepared to look beyond what you already know and what's immediately
available.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Professional basketball player Ron Artest petitioned the court
to let him change his name to "Metta World Peace." "Metta"
is a Buddhist term that signifies loving-kindness and benevolence.
When the new moniker finally became official, Metta World Peace
sealed a radical shift away from his old way of doing things,
symbolized by the time he leaped into the stands in the middle
of a game to punch a fan in the head. The coming months will be
an excellent time for you Libras to initiate a rite of passage
that will expedite an equally dramatic transformation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Many of the questions we had as children never got resolved
or answered to our satisfaction. They still remain marinating
in the back of our minds. Meanwhile, fresh queries keep welling
up within us as the years go by. After a while, we've got a huge
collection of enigmas, riddles, and conundrums. Some of us regard
this as a tangled problem that weighs us down, while others see
it as a sparkly delight that keeps making life more and more interesting.
Where do you stand on the issue, Scorpio? If you're in the latter
group, you will be fully open to the experiences that will be
flowing your way in 2012. And that means you will be blessed with
a host of sumptuous and catalytic new questions.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The first half of 2012 will be an excellent time to for you
to exorcize any prejudices you might be harboring toward anyone
who lives or thinks differently from you. You'll be able to see
your own irrational biases with exceptional clarity, and are also
likely to have exceptional success at scouring yourself free of
them. This will give you access to new reserves of psychic energy
you didn't even realize you were shut off from. (P.S. I'm not
saying you possess more intolerance or narrow-mindedness than
any of the rest of us. It's just that this is your time to deal
brilliantly with your share of it.)
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HOMEWORK:
Make a guess about what kind of person you'll be and what you'll
be doing on January 1, 2017. Testify by going to RealAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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