FREE WILL ASTROLOGY - 7th Jan 10

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Week beginning January 7

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): " You are what you love, not what loves you, " says the

character Charlie Kaufman in the film, *Adaptation.* (Kaufman is played by Nicolas Cage,

who has three planets in Capricorn.) I urge you to work hard to make that perspective

your own, Capricorn.

Ideally, it will become a permanent addition to your philosophy of life. But please at

least try to install it as your primary words to live by for the next three weeks. To do

so will smooth out a distortion in your energy field, making it easier for people to love

you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect you have to go down into the underworld for a

while. But you have a choice about how it will play out.

You shouldn't wait for some random goblin to come along and pull you down into the

miserable abyss. Instead, be proactive. Shop around for a more useful abyss -- a

womb-like pit with half-decent accommodations and a good learning environment -- and go

there under your own power.

That way you won't have to slog your way through musty fogs and creepy pests and slimy

muck. You'll keep your suffering to a minimum and attract adventures that are more

intriguing than demoralizing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When my acupuncturist pushes a needle into my chest, my feet

sometimes twitch involuntarily. A jab in my earlobe can cause my hand to leap off the

table; when she pokes the bridge of my nose, my liver may throb. The lesson for me is

that parts of the body are linked in ways that aren't obvious. I invite you to expand

this principle as you use it to evaluate the interconnections between different areas of

your life. How do your attitudes about love affect your ability to attract money? (And

vice versa.) Are there any ways in which your capacity for happiness is affected by your

political views? How do your judgments about other people impact your physical health?

More than even you farseeing Pisceans imagine, everything's linked to everything.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my reading of the astrological omens, it'll be a

hair-on-fire kind of week for you -- and yet also a heart- in-repose kind of week. In

other words, you have the potential to be fierce

*and* relaxed, vigorously ambitious *and* sublimely poised. In fact, this might be one of

those rare times when you can be both a justice- dispensing warrior and an

enlightenment-seeking magician. Want to turn water into wine when the pressure's on? Find

the pearl of great price in the heat of the battle? Feats like these are quite possible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Can you pull off a mid-course correction while hurtling through

the air across a chasm during a leap of faith? If anyone is capable of such a feat, you

are. However, I'd prefer it if that wasn't necessary. I'd rather see you prepare a little

better, like by procuring the help you'd need to create a safety net or sturdy bridge

that will stretch across the chasm. Or by getting one of those jet packs to strap across

your back and allow you to fly. Or by taking as much guesswork as possible out of the

details about how you're going to get from the edge of one cliff to the edge on the other

side.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): This is one of those rare times when you can get abundant access

to insider secrets, unauthorized information, taboo knowledge, and forbidden wisdom.

Proceed carefully. As much as I'm an advocate of you getting to the whole truth and

nothing but the truth, it's also my duty to remind you that it could be disruptive to

find out all of the truth in one big swoop. You should ask yourself if you're fully

prepared to change what needs to be changed once the previously hidden stuff emerges. If

you're not, it might be better to wait until you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Which metropolitan areas in America have the most brainpower?

Not the best sports teams or the richest businessmen or the most powerful politicians,

but the smartest people? " The Daily Beast " did a study and declared that the top two were

the Raleigh- Durham area in North Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. Now it so

happens that those are the two places where I've spent much of my adult life. It doesn't

mean I'm brilliant, but it does suggest I have an instinct for knowing where the

brilliant people congregate. And I'm quite sure that they have been a very good influence

on me. My recommendation to you in 2010, Cancerian, is to cultivate this knack. Gravitate

toward genius.

Surround yourself with deep thinkers and innovative dreamers. Hang out in the vicinity of

brainstorms.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): " The more you complain, " says an old adage, " the longer God lets

you live. " If that's true, I hope you will be adding many years to your lifespan in the

coming week. Would you like to live to the age of 100? There are many rich and colorful

opportunities for you to lodge protests right now. You have cosmic permission to rouse a

ruckus in the name of improving the way everything works. But try to concentrate on

constructive criticism that really helps transform what's stuck. The Divine Wow is more

likely to give credit for that approach than for mere narcissistic grousing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A reader calling herself Rebellioness collaborated with me to

come up with five revolutionized approaches to the art of rebellion. I present them here

for your use, as they identify the kinds of behavior that will be most nurturing for you

to cultivate in the coming weeks. 1. Experimenting with uppity, mischievous optimism. 2.

Invoking insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity. 3. Indulging in an

insolent refusal to be chronically fearful. 4. Pursuing a cheeky ambition to be as

wide-awake as a dissident young messiah. 5. Bringing reckless levels of creative

intelligence to all expressions of love.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I want to tell you about Harj, a character in

Coupland's novel *Generation A.* He's an enterprising young Sri Lankan man who sells

" celebrity room tones " over the Internet. Each hour-long recording purports to convey the

sound of the silence that pervades the homes of luminaries like Mick Jagger and Cameron

when they're not there. I think that you Libras are now primed to learn from Harj's

example. Like him, you have the power to capitalize on nothingness and absence and

emptiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A guy I know broke up with his girlfriend recently. He used a

time-honored strategy: making it sound as if he wasn't worthy of her. " It's like you're a

grandmaster at a chess tournament, " he told her, " while I just got my first checkerboard

and am still figuring out how to play checkers. " He was implying that she was much more

skillful than he was in the arts of relationship. I have a feeling that there's a

situation like this in your world, Scorpio -- an alliance in which the two parties are at

different levels of maturity. I'm not necessarily saying you should sever the connection.

But you should at least acknowledge the gap and decide what to do about it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a million years, I would never authorize you to unleash

your naked greed and give it unconditional license to careen through the world gobbling

and acquiring and appropriating. However, due to an odd blip in the astrological

configurations, I am at liberty to give you permission to unleash your discerning,

elegant greed and grant it a temporary dispensation to sample more than usual of anything

that captivates your ravenous imagination.

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