Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
December 23, 2020
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I wish you joyous and mysterious eruptions of profound gratification and
gratitude.
I wish you fluid insights and "ah-ha!" revelations that lead to cathartic
integrations on a regular basis.
I wish you the ripening of lucky trends you've worked hard to earn,
resulting in the kind of healing that allows your generosity to flow.
I wish you captivating yet relaxing adventures that enable you to weave
together diverse threads of your experience, inspiring you to feel at home
in the world and fall in love with life again and again.
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A PREVIEW OF YOUR DESTINY IN 2021
Want to get a head start on your future? This week my EXPANDED AUDIO
HOROSCOPES offer you a sneak-peek at some major themes I think you'll
be working and playing with in 2021.
Start dreaming and scheming about who you're going to be in the new year.
Enlist my help as you energize your quest to become your best self.
To access the Expanded Audio Horoscopes, go to https://RealAstrology.com
Register and/or log in through the main page, and then click on the link
"This week (Dec. 22, 2020)."
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is $1.99 per minute.
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Beginning with next week's EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, I will devote
three consecutive weeks to an in-depth discussion of your long-range
outlook for the coming year.
Part One of my BIG-PICTURE FORECASTS FOR 2021 will be available
beginning Tuesday, December 29.
Part Two will be available on Tuesday, January 5.
Part Three will be available on Tuesday, January 12.
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ORACLE OF THE JUPITER-SATURN CONJUNCTION
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in zero degrees of Aquarius on the
Solstice deserves our excited and reverential meditation. What inquiries
and messages might it suggest?
1. What are our noblest ideals? Can we refine and deepen our noblest
ideals? How can we express those ideals in practical ways that remake the
world to be fair and just for all people?
2. How can we build collective and community power to accomplish goals
that include but also transcend our self-interests?
3. How can we revise our theories about the nature of reality so as to
more vividly grasp the interconnectedness of all life?
4. How can we expand our vision of the best possible future for humanity
as well as for all the living things with which we share the planet? Let's
be brave and playful enough to imagine what utopia would look and feel
like.
5. What is the best way we can use our own unique gifts to make the world
a better place? What might be our own special way of contributing to
greater social justice? How can we personally contribute to reversing
ecocide and healing the environment?
6. What can we do to expand our awareness and deepen our comprehension
of the fundamental transformations that are sweeping across the planet?
What can we do to deepen and expand our capacity to adjust creatively to
those transformations?
7. How can we practically embody our vision of paradise-on-earth?
8. How might our personal lives become loving and well-crafted channels
for divine energies?
9. The definitions of what it means to be human are changing. How will we
personally deal with those changing definitions?
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Thanks to astrologer Greg Bogart for inspiring some of these thoughts.
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YOUR HOLIEST DESIRE
I invite you to devote five minutes to visualizing the fulfillment of your
holiest desire, followed by five minutes of visualizing the fulfillment of a
loved one's holiest desire.
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NEW ROSES
The phrase "new roses" can serve as an antidote to neurosis -- as a kind
of magical spell. You might invoke it when you're in danger of getting
undermined by either your own neurosis or someone else's.
If you notice, for instance, that your subconscious mind is spiraling down
into a sour fantasy stirred up by one of your habitual fears, you could
mutter a cheerful round of "new roses, new roses, new roses."
If your allies slip into the same compulsive behavior that they tend to get
stuck in whenever stress overflows, you could chant "new roses, new
roses, new roses" in a tuneful, affectionate tone.
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RADICAL AMAZEMENT
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement . . . get up in the
morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible. Never treat life
casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologian and civil rights activist
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YOUR HEART BREAKS REGULARLY
"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the
world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break;
its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more
wonders."
-Andrew Harvey, *The Return of the Mother*
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REAL LISTENING
Abraham Maslow's definition of *real* listening: to listen "without
presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating,
approving or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without
rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions
of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all."
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THE FORCES OF GOOD
Do you have an unconscious belief that the forces of evil are loud,
vigorous, and strong, while good is quiet, gentle, and passive? Gather
evidence that contradicts this irrational prejudice.
Are you secretly suspicious of joy because you think it's inevitably rooted
in wishful thinking and a willful ignorance about the true nature of
reality? Expose these suspicions as superstitions that aren't grounded in
any objective data you can actually prove.
Do you fear that when you're in the presence of love and beauty you tend to
become softheaded, whereas you're likely to feel smart and powerful when
you're sneering at the ugliness around you?
As an antidote, for a given amount of time, say a week or a month or a
year, act as if the following hypothesis were true: that you're more likely
to grow smarter when you're in the presence of love and beauty.
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MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:
American Ingenuity Awards, which showcase revolutionary breakthroughs
in the arts and sciences, education and social progress.
https://tinyurl.com/pe7bhyu
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Being Nice Versus Being Good
https://tinyurl.com/brx6bgf
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We're closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new
story for our relationship with the Earth, one that goes beyond science and
religion. Here's a start: The universe is not a random assemblage of dead
matter and empty space, but is alive, intelligent, and continually
evolving.
Not only is the world alive, it is alive in us. "We bear the universe in our
beings," said Thomas Berry, "as the universe bears us in its being." In
Berry’s view, we are the eyes, the minds, and the hearts that the cosmos
is evolving so that it can come to know itself ever more perfectly through
us.
https://tinyurl.com/knqyqd9
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For a lot more pronoiac resources and ideas, read my book *Pronoia Is the
Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You
with Blessings*
Available at Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/PronoiaBN
Available at Amazon: https://bit.ly/Pronoia
A free preview of the book is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/PronoiaPreview
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Please tell me your own nominations for PRONOIA RESOURCES:
Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
December 24
Copyright 2020 by Rob Brezsny
https://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The birds known as red knots breed every
year in the Arctic regions. Then they fly south—*way* south—down to the
southern edge of South America, more than 9,000 miles away. A few
months later they make the return trip to the far north. In 1995,
ornithologists managed to put a monitoring band on one red knot's leg,
making it possible to periodically get a read on his adventures over the
subsequent years. The bird's nickname is Moonbird, because he has
traveled so many miles in the course of his life that it's equivalent to a
jaunt to the moon. He's known as "the toughest four ounces on the planet."
I nominate him to be your magical creature in 2021. I suspect you will
have stamina, hardiness, persistence, and determination like his.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An Aquarian park ranger named Roy
Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times in the course of his 71
years on the planet. (That's a world record.) None of the electrostatic
surges killed him, although they did leave a few burns. After studying
your astrological potentials for 2021, I've concluded that you may be the
recipient, on a regular basis, of a much more pleasurable and rewarding
kind of lightning strike: the metaphorical kind. I advise you to prepare
yourself to be alert for more epiphanies than usual: exciting insights,
inspiring revelations, and useful ideas.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Coral reefs are in danger all over the
world. These "rainforests of the sea" are being decimated by ocean
acidification, toxic runoff from rivers, rising temperatures, and careless
tourists. Why should we care? Because they're beautiful! And also because
they're hotbeds of biodiversity, providing homes for 25 percent of all
marine species. They also furnish protection for shorelines from erosion
and storm damage, and are prime spots to harvest seafood. So I'm pleased
people are finding ways to help reefs survive and recover. For example, a
group in Thailand is having success using superglue to re-attach broken-
off pieces to the main reefs. I hope this vignette inspires you to engage in
metaphorically similar restorative and rejuvenating activities, Pisces. In
2021, you will have an enhanced power to heal.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your capacity for pioneering feats and
impressive accomplishments will be at a peak in 2021. So you could
become the best human ever at balancing a ladder on your chin or typing
with your nose or running long-distance while holding an egg on a spoon
with your mouth. But I'd prefer it if you channeled your triumphal energy
into more useful innovations and victories. How about making dramatic
strides in fulfilling your most important goal? Or ascending to an
unprecedented new level of inspiring people with your passionate
idealism? Or setting a record for most illusions shed?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ark Encounter is a fundamentalist Christian
theme park in Kentucky. Its main attraction is a giant replica of Noah's
Ark. Constructed mostly from spruce and pine trees, it's one of the
world's largest wooden structures. Even though I don't believe that there
was in fact such a boat in ancient times, I do admire how its builder, Ken
Ham, has been so fiercely devoted to making his fantasies real. I encourage
you to cultivate an equally zealous commitment to manifesting your own
visions and dreams in 2021.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From 1961 until 1989, a concrete barrier
divided the city of Berlin. Communist East Berlin lay on the east side of
the Berlin Wall, and capitalist West Berlin on the west. It was an iconic
symbol of the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. More than
100,000 people tried to escape from east to west, but just 5,000
succeeded. The standoff ended in 1989, during the peaceful revolutions
that swept through Eastern Europe. In subsequent months, the Berlin Wall
was slowly demolished. Today, tiny fragments of the wall are marketed as
medicines for asthma, headaches, narcolepsy, and ulcers. Now I will
propose that in 2021, you adopt the demolished Berlin Wall as your
metaphor of power. May it inspire you to be gleeful and forceful as you
dismantle psychological obstacles and impediments.
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START EXPLORING YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE
This week my EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES offer you a teaser, sneak-
peek look of some major themes you'll be working and playing with in
2021.
Who do you want to be in the coming year? What do you want to do? Where
do you want to go? Your destiny is more wide-open than you might
imagine. You have a lot of power to shape the flow of events.
I hope to inspire you to take advantage of the possibilities!
The cost is $6, with a discount for multiple purchases.
To get your sneak peek of some of 2021's major themes:
1. Go to https://RealAstrology.com
2. Register and/or log in
3. Then click on the link "This week (Dec. 22, 2020)."
They are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The year 2021 will contain 525,600
minutes. But I suspect you might enjoy the subjective sensation of having
far more than 525,600 minutes at your disposal. That's because I think
you'll be living a fuller life than usual, with greater intensity and more
focus. It may sometimes seem to you as if you are drawing greater riches
out of the daily rhythm—accomplishing more, seeing further, diving down
deeper to capitalize on the privilege of being here on planet earth. Be
grateful for this blessing—which is also a big responsibility!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Our lives are filled with puzzles and enigmas and
riddles. We all harbor aspects of ourselves that we don't understand. I
hope that in 2021, you will be on a mission to learn more about these
parts of yourself. One of your superpowers will be a capacity to uncover
secrets and solve mysteries. Bonus: I suspect you'll be able to make
exceptional progress in getting to the root of confusing quandaries that
have undermined you—and then fixing the problems so they no longer
undermine you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When actor Gene Wilder was eight years old,
his mother began to have heart-related health issues. The doctor that
treated her suggested he could help her out if he would try to make her
laugh. From then on, Wilder cultivated an ability to tell jokes and got
interested in becoming an actor. Ultimately he appeared in 22 films and
was nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globe Awards. I foresee a
comparable development in your life in 2021: A challenging situation will
inspire you in ways that generate a major blessing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In my astrological opinion, love won't be
predictable in 2021. It won't be easily definable or comparable to what
you're experienced before. But I also suspect that love will be delightfully
enigmatic. It will be unexpectedly educational and fervently fertile and
oddly comfortable. Your assignment, as I understand it, will be to shed
your certainties about what love is and is not so that the wild, fresh
challenges and opportunities of love can stream into your life in their
wildest, freshest state.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Until 1893, Hawaii was a sovereign nation.
In January of that year, a group of wealthy foreigners, mostly Americans,
overthrew the existing government with the help of the US military. They
established a fake temporary "republic" that excluded native Hawaiians
from positions of power. Their goal, which was to be annexed by the
United States, was fulfilled in July 1898. I propose that you use this sad
series of events as a motivational story in 2021. Make it your goal to
resist all efforts to be colonized and occupied. Commit yourself
passionately to preserving your sovereignty and independence. Be a tower
of power that can't be owned.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2021, you may be smarter than you
have ever been. Not necessarily wiser, too, although I have reason to hope
that you will leverage your smartness to also deepen your wisdom. But as
I was saying, your intelligence could very well soar beyond its previous
heights. Your ability to speak articulately, stir up original thoughts, and
solve knotty riddles should be at a peak. Is there any potential downside to
this outbreak of brilliance? Only one that I can imagine: It's possible that
your brain will be working with such dominant efficiency that it will
drown out messages from your heart. And that would be a shame. In order
to do what I referred to earlier— leverage your smartness to deepen your
wisdom—you'll need to be receptive to your heart's messages.
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Homework: Make a bold positive prediction for your life in 2021.
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