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Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 2/3/2010

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” So said the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and now I’m conveying the message to you. I hope it will serve as a spur in the wake of your recent triumph. Will...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 1/27/2010

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shakespeare got modest respect while he was alive, but his reputation as a brilliant bard didn’t gel right away. It wasn’t until almost 50 years after he died that anyone thought his life and work were notable enough to write about. By then, all his colleagues and compatri...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 1/20/2010

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Philosopher David Pearce is committed to the abolition of suffering. While he acknowledges that we’ve got a long way to go before accomplishing that goal, he believes it’s possible, mostly with the help of technology. (More at http://bit.ly/8oTsCV.) More than two millennia...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 1/13/2010

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Earth’s north magnetic pole is not the same as the geographic North Pole. If you take out a compass to orient yourself toward due north, the compass arrow will actually point toward a spot in the frigid wilds of Canada. But what’s really odd is that the north magnetic ...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 12/30/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of my favorite landscape painters makes a livable wage from selling her art. She has had many gallery showings and has garnered much critical acclaim. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she feels obligated to keep churning out more landscape paintings — even wh...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 12/22/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What influences do you really, really need to say goodbye to? The next six months will provide you with ample motivation and opportunity to finally bid those farewells. What long-term cycle really, really needs to be drawn to a close, no more hemming and hawing, all loose ...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 12/16/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I don't understand why the astronomers responsible for naming new-found objects are so devoid of flair. Here's a prime example: They found a blazar, or blazing quasi-stellar object, in a faraway galaxy. It's powered by a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion times larg...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 12/9/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Indignation is one of the most rewarding of emotions,” writes Theodore Dalrymple, “as well as one that automatically gives meaning to life ... There is nothing like irritation to get the juices circulating and the mind working.” Of all the ideas that have made me irritabl...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Bresny

Published: 12/2/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname “mad pantheist.” Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: “I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, th...[MORE]

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

Published: 11/25/2009

Types: Columns

ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of the greatest superpowers a human being can have is the ability to change herself in accordance with her intentions. Let’s say you’re tired of feeling shame about something there’s no good reason to feel shame about, and you decide to do whatever it takes to dissolve...[MORE]

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]