Weekly H'scopes
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning April 23
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
Grammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
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 my eyes, beam a question out into the ethers, and pluck a few
magnets at random from one of my poetry kits. I just did that for you.
"What are the keys to unlocking the enormous reserves of energy that
are potentially available for Aries folks right now?" I asked. Here's the
message that came: "swooping orgasms & laughing tears." (Or it could
also be arranged this way: "laughing orgasms & swooping tears.")
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Rachael Yanetta, a young English woman, got
a bellyache while working her regular job at the local pub. Despite the
pain, she toughed it out until her shift was over, then went home. Her
distress increased, though, and at 3 a.m. she checked into the hospital. A
little over an hour later, to her shock, she gave birth to her first child,
having been unaware she was pregnant until the very end of her nine-
month term. I predict a comparable sequence for you in the coming days,
Taurus. You'll power through some perplexing anomaly that leads to the
unexpected arrival of a new creation or vital revelation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As I close my eyes and ask my deep self for a
psychic vision that symbolizes your current astrological omens, here's
what I see: You're trying to look relaxed even though you have one foot
on a dock and one foot on a boat as the boat pulls away. How should we
interpret this scene? Here's what I think: It seems likely that at any
minute now you will have to commit yourself to either the dock, the boat,
or the water.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): This would be an excellent time for you to
lead a populist revolt to overthrow the abusive authorities or out-of-touch
elites who have been working their dumb magic for far too long. It would
also be a perfect moment for you to stop cooperating with energy-
draining situations that undermine your autonomy. The Age of Passivity is
ending, thank Goddess. Launching the Age of Awakening may not be easy
or fast, but you will attract extra help and encouragement if you do it
now.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I am not interested in money," said actress
Marilyn Monroe. "I just want to be wonderful." Consider the possibility of
trying out that approach for a while, Leo. I'm not, of course, encouraging
you to be apathetic toward financial matters. But I do think it's an
excellent time to for you to specialize in making yourself more wonderful.
The cosmic signs say that you now have access to unprecedented
reserves of the most profound kind of charm (not the cheap, fake,
manipulative stuff). They also suggest that certain qualities in you that
have previously been merely fine are primed to evolve into being
amazingly marvelous.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I once had a Virgo girlfriend who was
exceedingly well-organized. The capstone of her heroic efforts to keep life
rigorously ordered was her approach to her underwear. Each of her
panties was embroidered with the name of a day of the week. In the large
drawer where they were kept, all the Mondays were in a neat pile at the
upper left-hand corner, followed by the rest of the days in their proper
sequence. She was always able to grab the correct pair, even when she
was half-asleep and the room was dark. If I were going to contact her
now, I'd recommend that she should, for a change, arrange her intimate
items out of order, and maybe wear Monday on Friday, or put Tuesday on
inside-out on Saturday. According to my reading of the omens, this kind
of playful self-trickery would set the right tone for you Virgos; it would
encourage the universe to send you the benevolent interruptions and
interesting interventions you need.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Being understood is not the most essential
thing in life," said actress Jodie Foster. While that may be true for her, I
bet you won't turn it down if a flood of appreciation and
acknowledgement comes your way in the next few weeks. According to
my reading of the astrological omens, you now have the potential to be
better understood than maybe you've been in a long time. I suggest you
take maximum advantage of this good fortune. Make it easy for people to
see you for who you really are.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The famous physicist Robert Oppenheimer
sometimes displayed a disarming humility. "There are children playing in
the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics," he said
once, "because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long
ago." I invite you to consider the possibility that you, too, could learn a
lot from people you regard as beneath you or utterly unlike you. It's one
of those rare phases in your astrological cycle when useful revelations are
likely to arrive from outside your normal frame of reference. (P.S. Animals
might be great teachers as well.)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's a Love Emergency! Am I right?
There's a growing itch in the romantic sphere, and it needs immediate
scratching. I mean it really can't wait for a few more days to pass;
something's got to be done soon. It may be true that this thickening of
the plot has been underway for quite a while, and its growing urgency
may have snuck up on you. It also may be true that the shift will
ultimately be a promising development. But that doesn't mean you can
afford to be casual about it. Take action!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): From an astrological point of view, the
coming weeks will be an excellent time to start a band and record an
album. Your creativity is waxing, your attunement with the right side of
your brain is especially sweet, and you will benefit immensely from
anything you do to become less of a spectator and more of a participant.
To jumpstart the process, go to Wikipedia and click on "random article."
That's the name of your band. Then go to en.wikiquote.org and click on
"random page." The last few words of the last quote on that page will be
your album's title. Finally, go to tinyurl.com/9ydjk and choose a photo to
be your CD cover. Or, if you don't like what's there, click on the link for
"Get more interesting photos for the last 7 days." (My band is Widemouth
Blindcat, our album is "More Time for Dreaming," and our cover art is a
spiral staircase from here: tinyurl.com/c89rt7.)
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You've said enough for the time being. You
have expressed the hell out of yourself and have been thorough in
providing your vision of how the collaborative efforts should unfold. But
now I think you should cultivate the power of silence. Keep your evolving
thoughts to yourself for a while so that they can ripen in your
imagination, and allow the ideas you have already put out there to fully
work their way into the imaginations of others. In early May, it will be time
to jump back in with a new dose of your insight and inspiration. By then,
people should be begging you for more.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As a leading practitioner of magical thinking, I
regard it as my responsibility to serve as a kind of Quality Control Board.
Excessive trust in invisible forces and odd coincidences, after all, can be
as hazardous to your intelligence as blind faith in pure reason. This week,
in fact, I'd rather see you operate like a scientist than a mystic. I hope
you'll evaluate every situation by invoking the powers of unbiased
perceptivity and lucid objectivity. So please don't heed anyone's mumbo-
jumbo, especially if it's fear-based. Reject supernatural explanations if
natural ones make equal sense. Be assured that when superstitious
fantasies pop up, they'll have little to do with what's actually happening.