FREE WILL
ASTROLOGY
BY R O B B R E Z S N Y
ARIES (March 21-April 19): At a recent party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to
have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t
choose to engage him, but mused to myself, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce?
My five-year-long illness? The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” But after that initial
reaction, my thoughts turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth
of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced, and performing my music for excited audiences. I
bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon have experiences that refine and deepen your
passion through pleasure rather than hardship.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s the Frank and Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus — prime time to solicit insight
about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. 1. Ask a person who loves and respects
you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. 2. Consult a trustworthy
advisor who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. 3. Have an imaginary conver-
sation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could
summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. 4. Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or
meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many of my readers regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years,
they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and art-making. But I
suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on
developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more
deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones
are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need
a boost of ingenuity?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants more of you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and
receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dis-
pensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But
here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s
necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and
wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure
what your answers will be.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of
you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various
characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that
craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s
a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now
is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to
work together in service of common goals.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pike’s Peak is a 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to
the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular
occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams
decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. Wearing
kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you
to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a
peanut up there with your nose, too.
I Saw You
I T ’ S F R E E T O P L AC E A N I S AW YO U ! E M A I L : I S AW YO U @ E U G E N E W E E K LY.C O M
I S AW YOU
JF- FOUND YOUR DIS-GUARDED IPOD.
MAN TURNED FROG TURNED MAN.
CALENDAR MAN!
Wanted you to know I’m rockin’ out to your
jams and you’re as cool as a walrus wear-
ing a bowler hat.
oh R, i am the luckiest girl alive! out of any
other in this universe you want to marry ME
:-) I love you sweetheart. I can’t wait to be
your Mrs C :-)
Let us, with hearts intermingled,
explore millions of galaxies together!
I HEARD YOU
To the angry, sweaty college boy yelling at
his friends over brunch in an establish-
ment near campus, learn to use your
inside voice. Also, women don’t like any of
the gestures or cat-calling lines you were
discussing. Read a book, and remember,
your parents are watching.
I SAW YOU
You weren’t bearded and you were also
polite and held the door for me walking into
Hop Valley. I smiled and thanked you but
didn’t want to walk over to your table and
interrupt you and your bearded friends.
Your dog was adorable. Hopefully, we’ll
bump into one another on trivia night or this
Saturday.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular
self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself.
Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver,
heart, and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an
especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you
give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God
or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant!
That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on
the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner.
A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to
ace? At what game would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and
your genetic make-up? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature
on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing as-
pects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will
be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers
to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal
unused treasure from a greedy monster — and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking
hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also
conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy
godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.
HOMEWORK: What is the best gift you could give your best ally right now? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a
rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or
the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you
grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of
your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next ten months should bring you the best chance ever to figure
out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the
gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way towards the rewards of the future?
I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accom-
plish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather
than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.
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