FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning October 29
Copyright 2009 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.comGrammar key: Asterisks equal *italics*
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Behind every face, there are a thousand
faces," says film director Bryan Singer, who worked on two of the X-Men
movies. He deals with professional actors, who specialize in revealing the
myriad faces beneath the surface. But I think his assessment applies to
lots of people, especially you Scorpios -- although it must be said that
you do have mad skills at hiding all the action going on beneath your
surface. This Halloween, I urge you to make a break with tradition and
show five or six of the real you's lurking below your poker face. Costume
suggestion: be inspired by Joseph Campbell's "hero with a thousand
faces."
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): *The Da Vinci Code* author Dan Brown
has a unique way of stimulating his imagination: He dons his gravity boots
and meditates on complex storylines while he's inverted. It's also a good
way to overcome writer's block. "You think differently upside-down," he
says. Do you have an equivalent method for providing gentle shock
therapy to your perspective, Sagittarius? This is a good time to use it. If
you don't already have a creative aid like that, hunt around for one. In the
days ahead, it will come in handy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When Sheelah Ryan won $55 million in the
Florida lottery, she used the money to create an organization dedicated
to helping the disadvantaged. "I guess I've disappointed a lot of people,"
she told a reporter. "I could be traveling all over the world, or have a
beautiful mansion on the ocean, or have a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce.
But that's not my style." She's your role model for the coming weeks,
Capricorn. When good fortune comes to you -- and I'm almost positive it
will -- I recommend that you look for ways to share it. The ironic fact of
the matter is that if you're generous as you tap in to your gift, there'll be
more of the gift.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I did a performance in Santa Fe a few
years ago, a woman in the audience came up to me after the show and
made a sardonic proposal: Would I like to join her twelve-step program for
writers who are overly fond of vivid adjectives and adverbs? With all the
uppity mock politeness I could summon, I told her that I was
preposterously happy with my scintillating addiction to brazen language,
and didn't regard it as a raggedy problem that needed invasive correcting.
Now I'm advising you to be like me and follow your heart when it tells you
to be bigger, bolder, and brasher than ever before. Right now, shiny
intensity is your sacred duty! Halloween costume suggestion: the sun.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I hope you won't merely wander around the
frontier. I hope you'll undertake a meticulous yet expansive exploration of
that virgin territory. Here are some tips on how to proceed: 1. Formulate
specific questions about what you're looking for. 2. Develop a hypothesis
for the experiments you want to carry out. 3. Ignore what doesn't
interest you and pounce only on what stirs your fascination. Halloween
costume suggestion: an alien anthropologist visiting Earth from another
planet; a time-traveler from the future who's doing a documentary on this
historical moment; a religious pilgrim who's keeping a detailed journal.
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 vulnerability in an ally. In other words, Aries, you're not
exactly yourself. But it's one of those rare times when that's a good
thing. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of what you think you
are.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my ideal version of Halloween, we wouldn't
scare ourselves with images of ghoulish skeletons, eyeballs floating in
cauldrons, and hissing, three-headed snakes. Rather, we'd confront more
realistic fears, like the possibility that the effects we have on the world
are different from our intentions . . . or that we have not yet reached our
potential . . . or that people we like might completely misread and
misunderstand us. Then Halloween would serve a more spiritually useful
purpose. It would bring us face-to-face with actual dangers to our psychic
integrity, whereupon we could summon our brilliant courage and exorcize
the hell out of them. Costume suggestion: exorcist. (Begin by exorcising
yourself.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During this phase of your cycle, you'll generate
good fortune if you brainstorm and meditate about your relationship with
work. I urge you to empty your mind of everything you think you know
about the subject. Adopt a fresh and innocent perspective. Here are some
questions to prime your investigations. 1. What's the quality of the
experience you want to have as you earn a living? 2. What gifts do you
want to give to life as you toil at challenging tasks that are interesting to
you? 3. What capacities do you want to develop in yourself while doing
your work? (P.S. For your Halloween costume, why not pretend you're
doing your dream job?)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
witnessed the full range of experiences that life on this planet has to
offer, from war to love and everything in between. During an interview he
gave in Jerusalem in 1994, he said, "I can stand on my balcony and tell
my children, 'Over there I was shelled for the first time, and over there, to
the right, just beneath those trees, I was kissed for the first time.'" I
suspect his words will soon be meaningful for you, Cancerian. It's likely
you'll have a breakthrough or epiphany near a place where you once
suffered disappointment. Halloween costume suggestion: the phoenix.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Gary Smalley says that the sexual nature
of men is like a microwave oven, while women resemble a crockpot, the
device that cooks food at low heat for a long time. Right about now, I'd
advise you Leo men to be like crockpots not only in the bedroom but
everywhere else, too. To spot the subtle opportunities that will be
available, you'll have to be gradual, deliberate, and thorough. Leisurely
foreplay should be your all-purpose metaphor. As for you Leo women: I'm
betting there are ways that you have fallen under the sway of the
microwave meme. If I'm right, it's time to fully re-embrace the spirit of
the crockpot. Halloween costume clues: the tortoise, not the hare; a 400-
page novel, not Twitter; the Pyramid of Khufu, not a sandcastle.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "The more beautiful the bird, the poorer the
singer," wrote L. M. Boyd. "Peacocks scream, macaws screech. Birds of
Paradise croak." Among the most interesting singers, on the other hand,
are birds that are far less spectacular in appearance: the Black-capped
Chickadee, the Willow Thrush, and the White-throated Sparrow. Keep that
in mind as you navigate your way through the coming week's dilemmas.
My personal inclination is to favor inspiring singing over comely
appearance, but you may have a different bias. The important thing is to
recognize the nature of the options before you. Halloween costume
suggestion: Incorporate the themes of plain beauty, secret genius,
disguised power, and open secrets.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At a family planning conference in Beijing, a
researcher from Ghana presented testimony about tribal issues that he
had in part gleaned through interviews with dead ancestors. He said that
spirit mediums had acted as his "translators." When he was met with
skepticism from colleagues, he was defensive. "If I only heard from the
living," he explained, "I wouldn't get a very good balance." His perspective
would be smart for you to adopt right now, Libra. To make the wisest
decisions and take the most righteous action, draw inspiration from what
has passed away as much as from what's alive and in your face. Halloween
costume suggestion: a spirit medium.
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