Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JANUARY 11, 2012
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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 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?
This week, my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES feature Part 3 of the
long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in 2012.
Part 1 and Part 2 of your Year-End Predictions, which I offered
the last two weeks, are also still available.
To listen to your BIG PICTURE horoscopes online, go to RealAstrology.com.
Register and/or sign in.
The cost is $6 per sign. There are discounts for the purchase
of multiple tokens.
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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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
AT LEAST SOME OF TRENDY PESSIMISM IS BASED ON A LIE
Read the newspapers, and you'll think that war is worse than ever.
But as the book "Winning the War on War" shows, the
reality is just the opposite. We are in the midst of a decline
in armed conflict that is extraordinary in human history. Global
peacekeeping efforts are working; large-scale looting, sexual
assault, and genocidal atrocities are being stopped. 2010 had
one of the lowest death rates from war.
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MAYBE YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF SOME TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP YOU
FEEL BETTER MORE OFTEN
There are smart people out there who are studying the art of happiness.
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THIS PLANET'S BEAUTY WAS WORTH BEING BORN FOR
A full sky aurora over Norway.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120103.html
(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 12
Copyright 2012 by Rob Brezsny
FreeWillAstrology.com
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Last summer, before the football season started, sportswriter
Eric Branch wrote about a rookie running back that San Francisco
49er fans were becoming increasingly excited about. The newbie
had made some big plays in exhibition games. Would he continue
performing at a high level when the regular season began? Were
the growing expectations justified? After a careful analysis,
Branch concluded that the signs were promising, but not yet definitive:
"It's OK to go mildly berserk," he informed the fans.
That's the same message I'm delivering to you right now, Capricorn.
The early stages of your new possibility are encouraging. It's
OK to go mildly berserk, but it's not yet time to go totally bonkers.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
In summer, the pickleweed plant thrives in the saltwater marshes
around San Francisco Bay. In many places, bright orange patches
of the dodder plant intermingle with the pickleweed's sprightly
jade green, creating festive displays that suggest nature is having
a party. But there's a secret buried in this scene. The dodder's
webby filaments are actually parasites that suck nutrients from
the pickleweed. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius,
I'll ask you if a situation like that exists in your own life.
Is there a pretty picture that hides an imbalance in the give-and-take
of energy? It's not necessarily a bad thing -- after all, the
pickleweed grows abundantly even with its freeloader hanging all
over it -- but it's important to be conscious of what's going
on.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
"That in a person which cannot be domesticated is not his
evil but his goodness," said the writer Antonio Porchia.
I invite you to keep that challenging thought close to your heart
in the coming days, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, it is
an excellent moment to tune in to your wildest goodness -- to
describe it to yourself, to cherish it as the great treasure it
is, to foster it and celebrate it and express it like a spring
river overflowing its banks.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
The Sanskrit word tapasya is translated as "heat,"
but in the yogic tradition it means "essential energy."
It refers to the practice of managing your life force so that
it can be directed to the highest possible purposes, thereby furthering
your evolution as a spiritual being. Do you have any techniques
for accomplishing that -- either through yoga or any other techniques?
This would be a good year to redouble your commitment to that
work. In the coming months, the world will just keep increasing
its output of trivial, energy-wasting temptations. You'll need
to be pretty fierce if you want to continue the work of transforming
yourself into the Aries you were born to be: focused, direct,
energetic, and full of initiative.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
"Live out of your imagination, not your history,"
says Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People. While that's always true, it will be especially crucial
for you to remember in 2012. This is the year you can transcend
stale traditions, Taurus -- a time when you can escape your outworn
habits, reprogram your conditioned responses, and dissolve old
karma. You will be getting unparalleled opportunities to render
the past irrelevant. And the key to unlocking all the magic will
be your freewheeling yet highly disciplined imagination. Call
on it often to show you the way toward the future.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Comedian Steven Wright says his nephew has HDADD, or High Definition
Attention Deficit Disorder. "He can barely pay attention,
but when he does it's unbelievably clear." I'm predicting
something like that for you in the coming week, Gemini. You will
encounter more things that are dull than are interesting, but
those few that fascinate you will awaken an intense focus that
allows you to see into the heart of reality.
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LET'S IMAGINE WHAT BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIES
MIGHT COME YOUR WAY IN 2012
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 2012?
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.
The cost is $6 per sign on the Web (discounts with the purchase
of multiple tokens), or $1.99 per minute by phone.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
As I contemplate the most desirable fate you could create for
yourself, I'm reminded of a lyric from one of my songs: "We
are searching for the answers / so we can destroy them and dream
up better questions." Here's what I'm implying by that, Cancerian:
This is not the right time for you to push for comprehensive formulas
and definitive solutions. Rather, it's a favorable moment to draw
up the incisive inquiries that will frame your quest for comprehensive
formulas and definitive solutions. That quest is due to begin
in two weeks. For now, raise your curiosity levels, intensify
your receptivity, and make yourself highly magnetic to core truths.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
"A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must
think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource,"
said author Jorge Luis Borges. "All that happens to us, including
our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is
given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our
art." I agree that this advice isn't just for writers, but
for everyone. And it so happens that you are now in an astrological
phase when adopting such an approach would bring you abundant
wisdom and provide maximum healing. So get started, Leo: Wander
through your memories, reinterpreting the difficult experiences
as rich raw material that you can use to beautify your soul and
intensify your lust for life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
"Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner
of your eye," said the poet William Stafford. "If you
look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little
to one side it is there." As I contemplate your life in the
immediate future, Virgo, I'm convinced that his definition of
poetry will be useful for you to apply to just about everything.
In fact, I think it's an apt description of all the important
phenomena you'll need to know about. Better start practicing your
sideways vision.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
A Swedish man named Richard Handl decided to conduct a scientific
experiment in his kitchen. Would it be possible to split atoms
using a homemade apparatus? He wanted to see if he could generate
atomic reactions with the radioactive elements radium, americium,
and uranium. But before he got too far into the process, the police
intervened and ended his risky fairy-tale. I bring this to your
attention, Libra, as an example of how not to proceed in the coming
weeks. It will be a good time for you to experiment around
the house -- refining your relationship with your roommates, moving
the furniture around, and in general rearranging the domestic
chemistry -- but please avoid trying stuff as crazy as Handl's.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
In 1878, Thomas Edison perfected the phonograph, a machine that
could record sounds and play them back. There had been some primitive
prototypes before, but his version was a major improvement. And
what were the first sounds to be immortalized on Edison's phonograph?
The rush of the wind in the trees? A dramatic reading of the Song
of Songs? The cries of a newborn infant? Nope. Edison recited
the nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb." When you
make your own breakthrough in communication sometime soon, Scorpio,
I hope you deliver a more profound and succulent message.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
I suspect you may soon find yourself in a situation similar
to the one that 19th-century American President Abraham Lincoln
was in when he said the following: "If this is coffee, please
bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
In other words, Sagittarius, you may not be picky about what you
want, but whatever it is, you'll prefer it to be authentic, pure,
and distinctly itself. Adulterations and hodgepodges won't satisfy
you, and they won't be useful. Hold out for the Real Thing.
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HOMEWORK:
How could you change yourself in order to get more of the love
you want? Testify by going to RealAstrology.com
and clicking on "Email Rob."
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