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FR** WILL ASTROLOGY
Week of March 4
Copyright 2004 by Rob Brezsny
www.beautyandtruth.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you ever feel an urge to kiss trees? Do
animals sometimes talk to you? Can you predict the future by divining the
way corn flakes float in the last puddle of milk in your bowl? Do you have
a special fascination with chocolate roosters, statues of pro wrestlers,
and conspiracy theories? Have you ever fantasized of being a transsexual
spy? Are there patterns that resemble constellations on the soles of your
feet? If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, you're most
likely an extraterrestrial who has amnesia or is in disguise. The
upcoming week will be fantastic because events will remind you of life on
your home planet. If you answered no to four or more questions, you're
probably not an alien, but for maximum comfort you should act like one
this week.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The world's largest private bank,
Citigroup, has agreed to stop financing projects that damage sensitive
ecosystems. It has promised to invest more in projects that use renewable
energy and to pursue policies that protect indigenous people. How did this
impossible dream come to pass? The humble but dogged environmental
group, Rainforest Action Network, creatively pestered Citigroup for
years until the corporation gave into its demands. I see a comparable
David-over-Goliath victory in your future, Taurus, so keep plugging
away at your quixotic quest. For inspiration, recall Margaret Mead's
words: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the
sun is rising about a minute earlier each morning and setting a minute
later every evening. As a result, you're drinking in about 15 minutes
more sunlight every week. The psychological effect of this steady influx
has been slowly growing, and, in concert with certain astrological
influences, will soon reach critical mass. As a result, you will become
sun-like: a luminous beacon of warmth. Everything you shine upon will
look brighter, and your own beauty will be highly visible, too. It will be a
perfect time, therefore, to make a dramatic move that helps you pursue
your dreams harder and smarter.
QUANTUM FLUX (also known as CANCER) (June 21-July 22): Many
people have come to feel that nature is boring, notes educator Thomas
Poplawski. Writing in "Renewal" magazine, he fingers TV's hyperactive
imagery as the cause. In becoming addicted to this alternative reality, the
mass audience has become numb to the more slow-paced entertainment
value of trees and mountains and streams and clouds. Have you been
contaminated? Has your capacity for patient observation and reverent
objectivity been damaged? If so, this is a perfect astrological moment to
seek the cure. I urge you to wander out into the wild places and stay there
until you see how interesting they are.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you eventually become a millionaire
philanthropist at some later date, it will probably be because of the
forces you set in motion during the next three weeks. If, in the 22nd
century, there arises a religious cult that worships you as a sex god or
love goddess, it will be because of a seed you germinate very soon. Finally,
Leo, if you are ultimately destined to discover the key to eternal youth, it
will have a lot to do with the spacious new question you begin to ask now.
These are days of awe and mystery.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In order to live, you've got to be a demolisher.
You take plants and animals that were once alive and rip them apart with
your teeth, then disintegrate them in your digestive system. Your body is
literally on fire inside, burning up oxygen you suck into your lungs. You
didn't actually cut down the trees used to make your house and furniture,
but you colluded with their demise. Then there's the psychological
liquidation you've done: killing off old beliefs you've outgrown, for
instance. I'm not trying to make you feel guilty, Virgo -- just pointing
out that you have a lot of experience with positive expressions of
destruction. Can you think of other forms this magic takes? It's your
specialty these days.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's a perfect time to launch an uprising
against God. Due to a favorable alignment of your sign, the "rebel goddess"
asteroid Lilith, and Cruithne, Earth's "second moon," you have special
leeway with the Supreme Being. It's almost certain that you won't be
punished if you bitch and complain to Him about the injustices he has
allowed to fester in your life. In fact, expressing your angry protest may
even get things changed for the better. Sometimes the squeaky wheel
really does get the grease, even in divine matters.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some branches of Eastern religions teach the
doctrine "Kill out desire." In their view, yearning for earthly pleasures
is at the root of all human suffering. The Western religion of materialism
takes the opposite tack, asserting that the meaning of life is to be found in
enjoying earthly pleasures. Its message is "Feed your raw longings like a
French foie gras farmer cramming eight pounds of maize down a goose's
gullet every day." We here at Free Will Astrology walk a middle path. We
believe there are many degrading desires that enslave you and a few
sacred desires that liberate you. Your mission in the coming weeks,
Scorpio, is to identify the sacred kind and pursue them with your wild
heart unleashed.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your power this week will come
primarily from decisions not made, words not spoken, actions not taken,
and spaces not filled. Everything you need will arrive if you have created
enough emptiness. Everything you love will thrive if it has the freedom to
do and be nothing. To ensure that you never succumb to the pressure of
Type A bullies who think every moment has to be filled with ambitious
commotion, steal away often to stare dreamily out the window and listen to
the sound of silence.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It's time for a check-in, Capricorn. What
progress have you been making in your work on this year's major
assignments? As I suggested last December, you're most likely to attract
good fortune in 2004 if you regularly break out of your comfort zone and
go wandering in unfamiliar places. You'll discover fresh secrets about
how to feel happy and healthy whenever you dip into an experimental
mode and try things you've never tried before. Alas, I fear many of you
have yet to make a whole-hearted commitment to this thrilling quest. But
if you *have* been waffling, it's the perfect week to dive in. And if you did
take the plunge a while ago, you'll harvest a big reward any day now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Since 1994, Mexico's Zapatistas have
evolved from a small guerrilla army fighting for the rights of indigenous
people to an international cultural force whose battles are mostly waged
with symbols and words. The Zapatista leader, who goes by the pseudonym
Subcomandante Marcos, always appears in public wearing a mask.
Periodically, his old mask wears out and he has to replace it with a fresh
one. Rumor has it that he has gone through ten in ten years. I think this
would be a good standard for all of us to live up to: to molt our persona, or
social mask, once a year. It's about that time for you, Aquarius.
Considering how much your inner world has transformed, it wouldn't
make sense for you to keep your same old game face much longer.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Normally I endorse the proverb that says,
"You can't cross a chasm in two short jumps." In your current state of
grace, however, you just may be able to find a loophole in that cosmic law.
The massive amounts of dumb luck that have been surging your way seem
to be on the verge of mutating into out-and-out miracles. You could be the
first anti-hero in your family line to turbo-charge a quantum leap of
faith in mid-leap.
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HOMEWORK: I dare you to unleash the smart animal within you that has
been restricted because of the actions of the dumb animal in you. Tell me
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