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Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 11/18/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. My wish for you, Aries, is that you will have many such days in the coming weeks. In fact, I hope that you will be blessed over and over again with the hair-...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the messy facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It’s when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 11/4/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There was a time when wetlands were considered dismal and unproductive. At best they were thought to be a waste of space, and at worst stinky breeding grounds for insect pests. For over 200 years, many marshes, bogs, and swamps were filled with dirt and transformed into pl...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Bresny

Published: 10/28/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19):You may be as flooded with briny emotion as a Pisces on a meandering binge. You might be as embedded in a labyrinth of your own creation as the Geminis who verge on being too clever for their own good. You may be as cagey a listener as a Scorpio who’s searching for a hidden...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 10/21/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,” writes Guy Murchie in his book The Seven Mysteries of Life. Microbes with short life cycles live there in abundance, “eating, breathing, excreting, floating, swimming, competing, reproducing.” Next time you look up at a pu...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 10/14/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You say you not only want to be loved, but that you also want to love? Then learn the fantasies and symbols and beliefs that hold people’s lives together. Be interested in feeling the crushing weight and deep comfort of their web of memories. Every now and then, dive in an...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Stephen Mallarmé wrote the following in a letter to a friend: “I don’t know which of my internal climates I should explore in order to find you and meet you.” I love that passage. It alludes to one of the central facts about the nature of reality: The quality of y...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Ron Brezsny

Published: 9/23/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jonathan Lee Riches is renowned for filing numerous lawsuits in U.S courts. Some of his targets are actual living people, like Martha Stewart, George W. Bush, and Steve Jobs. But he has also gone after defendants like Nostradamus, Che Guevara, the Eiffel Tower, the ex-...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 9/16/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I don’t think I’m being unduly optimistic when I speculate that you’re on the verge of achieving a ringing victory over your bad self. What makes me so confident that this development is in the works? Well, in recent weeks you have been dealing more forthrightly and intel...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 9/9/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your assignment is to get angry in the most unique, brilliant, and constructive way possible. Merely being annoyed and muttering generic curses will definitely not be sufficient. Nor will it work for you to get consumed in knee-jerk rage or to be peeved about the same old...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 8/19/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you weren’t listened to very attentively as a child. Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn’t like, hugged only three times a year, and fed food you were allergic to. I suppose it’s even possible that your parents were psychotic drug dealers who kept you chain...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 8/12/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I started producing some good work within 10 years of launching my writing career, but I didn’t hit my stride until the 18th year. From what I hear, many other skills require a long training period as well. According to an Aikido adept I know, for example, a practitioner m...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 8/5/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I expect that you will soon stumble upon a key secret to your next masterpiece. And I’ll be surprised if you don’t discover a healing agent that will be effective in correcting an old mistake. In fact, Aries, I prophesy that in the coming week, you will have a sense that y...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 7/29/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you a gelatinous pool of longing yet? Are you a perfumed garden of madly blooming purple explosions? Are you throbbing and gooey and half-nauseous with that delicious sickness some people called love? If not, I don’t know what to tell you. By all astrological reckoning...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 7/22/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Storm chasers are people who love traveling around the continent in pursuit of wild weather. Nothing feeds their lust for life more than getting up close and personal with a tornado or supercell thunderstorm. Many of them are meteorologists who are curious about the way st...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 7/15/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19):I fear you’re on the verge of slipping into a state of mind that wants everything and is therefore in danger of getting nothing. I worry that you’ll be lusting for such total control over so much wild sweetness that you won’t actually formulate a foolproof plan to commune w...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology: Rob Brezsny

Published: 7/8/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Miracle of miracles: A pointless pain in the butt will soon stop bugging you. Meanwhile, an annoying itch in your heart is subsiding, and may even disappear. As a result of these happy developments, you will be able to concentrate on a much more interesting and provocative...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology: Rob Brezsny

Published: 7/1/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time to diversify your energy sources, Aries. It’s as if you’ve grown too dependent on oil — metaphorically speaking — and have neglected to develop relationships with wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas, and other mans of generating power. What if in the future — met...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By By Rob Brezsny

Published: 6/24/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Reality TV personality Spencer Pratt used to be skeptical about the power of prayer. But his wife Heidi, herself a devout believer, urged him to keep his mind open. Then, as an experiment, Spencer asked God to help him and Heidi get a double date with teen pop star Miley C...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 6/17/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you secretly afraid of feeling secure? Do you equate stability with being bored and lazy? Do you suspect that your restless pioneer spirit makes you unfit for the slow, meticulous work of building sturdy foundations? If so, there’s hope ...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 6/10/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): So you’re trying to tell me that the way out is the way in. Is that right? And that the “wrong” answer just might be the right answer? And that success, if it makes an appearance, will most likely happen by accident? I don’t know, Aries. I...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 6/3/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m betting that in a couple of months the fates will give you license to play with boisterous gambles and exhilarating risks. But at this particular moment I recommend that you confine yourself to tame gambles and sensible risks. I realize that may be a bit deflating to y...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 5/27/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): While reading a crime report in the online version of Northern California’s Arcata Eye newspaper, I came across this entry: “A dreadlocked man attacked a lamp post on the Plaza with his mighty fists, punching it while yelling and, in the memorable description of a witness,...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 5/20/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The fleas infesting dogs’ skin have greater leaping power than the fleas on cats. Why do you think that is, Aries? Maybe you should use your waxing brainpower to get to the bottom of this great mystery. Just kidding! While it is true that in the coming weeks you will have ...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 5/6/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When they pray, Muslims face the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Every mosque around the world typically has a niche that shows the precise direction of that holy place. Recently, however, worshipers have discovered that many of the older mosques in M...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 4/29/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little,” said the writer Sydney Smith. While this is always good advice, it’s especially apt for you right now. You’re in a phase when giant leaps of faith are irrelevant, and fast, massive accompl...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 4/22/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Astrology and Tarot cards are my favorite divinatory tools, but I also get a lot of use out of magnetic poetry kits. These are boxes full of evocative words and symbols in the form of refrigerator magnets. Sometimes after analyzing your astrological omens, I'll close m...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 4/15/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of the casualties of the recession has been grooming and primping. Many people are devoting less time and money to maintaining their appearance at peak levels. Make-up sales are down, and I’ve definitely been seeing more unkempt — or should I say raw and unadorned? — p...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 4/8/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your role model for the coming week is George Garratt, a British guy who legally changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. Like him, I hope you will be extravagant as you re-imagine your self-image .....[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 4/1/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’s plain old everyday lightning, which travels about five miles, and then there are superbolts — strokes of lightning that are a hundred times stronger than a normal flash and that can travel more than 100 miles. In the coming weeks, Aries, your power levels could be ...[MORE]