Brezsny's Astrology May 24-30, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 17-23, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is there a difference in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multi-million-dollar violins created by master craftsmen in the 1700s? In research done at the Eighth International Violin ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 10-16, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants – and gotten away with ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 3-9, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): On the one hand, you’re facing a sticky dilemma that you may never be able to change no matter how hard you try. On the other hand, you are engaged with ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 26-May 2, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “True life is lived when tiny changes occur,” said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It’s rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of time. That’s why it’s delusional ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 19-25, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That’s the bad news. The ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 5-11, 2012
Brezsny's Astrology April 5-11, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Please study this testimony: “Born in a rancid, bat-infested cave at the base of the smoldering Sangay Volcano, I was raised by the half-bear demon princess Arcastia. At the age of ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 29-April 4, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few months after America invaded Iraq in 2003, soldier Brian Wheeler wrote the following to help us imagine what it was like over there: “Go to the worst crime-infested place ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 15-21, 2012
Brezsny's Astrology March 15-21, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind, and the shocking truth about the relationship between ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 8-14, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Controlled hysteria is what is required,” said playwright Arthur Miller in speaking about his creative process. “To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It’s agony. But everyone has agony. ...
Brezsny's Astrology Mar. 1-7, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): At one point in his book The Divine Comedy, the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise. American poet T.S. Eliot describes the scene: “The people ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 23-29, 2012
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 23-29, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you, once-exciting ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 16-22, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What do you typically do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. Without exaggeration, you could say they are ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 9-12, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or conquest,” said author George Eliot. I believe the same is true even about intimate bonds that have not been legally consecrated. Each ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 2-8, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you ...
Brezsny's Astrology Jan 26-Feb 1, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. ...
Brezsny's Astrology Jan. 19-25, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Macy’s ad I saw in the newspaper had a blaring headline: “Find Your Magic 2.0.” The items that were being touted to help us discover our upgraded and more deluxe ...
Brezsny's Astrology Jan 12-18, 2012
Brezsny's Astrology Jan 12-18, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Sanskrit word tapasya is translated as “heat,” but in the yogic tradition it means “essential energy.” It refers to the practice of managing your life force so that it can ...
Brezsny's Astrology Dec. 29, 2011-Jan. 4, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only 5 percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an ...
Brezsny's Astrology Dec. 22-28,2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the fictional world of the wizard Harry Potter, muggles are people who have no magical powers. Because of their deficiency, certain sights may be literally invisible to them, and certain ...
Brezsny's Astrology Dec 15-21, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jim Moran (1908-1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his colorful career, he led a bull through a china shop ...
Brezsny's Astrology Dec. 8-14, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life? To answer that question is your first assignment. It’s OK if you can’t decide between the three or four most ...
Brezsny's Astrology Dec 1-7, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This would be an excellent week to head down to Pucon, Chile and hire a daredevil to fly you in a helicopter into the caldera of the active Villarrica volcano, whereupon ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov 23-30, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing,” said rocket scientist Werner von Braun. I think it’s an excellent time for you to plunge ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov 17-22, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov 10-16, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The title of this week’s movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and The Most Feeling Machine In The World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov 3-9, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s Malcolm Gladwell, writing in The Tipping Point: “We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen ...
Brezsny's Astrology Oct 27-Nov 2, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice of the Wild. “It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, ...
Brezsny's Astrology Oct 20-26, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you have been resisting the command to go deeper, now is the time to surrender. If you have been hoping that the pesky little voice in your head will shut ...
Brezsny's Astrology Sept. 29-Oct 5, 2011
Brezsny's Astrology Sept. 29-Oct 5, 2011
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’ve got a challenging assignment for you. In accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to cultivate a special kind of receptivity – a rigorously innocent openness to ...
Brezsny's Astrology September 22-28, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have a simple philosophy,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a self-described hedonist who lived till the age of 96. “Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” That’s not ...
Brezsny's Astrology September 15-21, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “An awakened Aries would rather err on the side of making a daring, improvisational mistake than cuddle up with passionless peace,” writes astrologer Hunter Reynolds. “He or she knows that creative ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 25-31, 2011
Brezsny's Astrology August 25-31, 2011
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that in the coming weeks, you will be able to extract an unexpected perk or benefit from one of your less glamorous responsibilities. I also predict that you will ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 18-24, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time magazine asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough why he started writing a biography of Pablo Picasso but never finished it. McCullough said it was because the famous artist turned out ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 11-17, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Dr. Larry Dossey thinks we shouldn’t just automatically dismiss the voices that speak to us in the privacy of our own heads. Some of them may actually have wise counsel, or ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 4-10, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with ...
Brezsny's Astrology July 28-August 3, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I love how the poet Rachel Loden describes her impressions of Daniel Borzutzky’s The Book of Interfering Bodies. She says that reading it is like “chancing upon a secret lake full ...
Brezsny's Astrology July 14-20, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days you have permission from the universe to dwell less on what needs to be resisted, protested, flushed out, and overcome. Instead you have license to concentrate on ...
Brezsny's Astrology July 7-13, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and ...
Brezsny's Astrology June 30-July 6, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one ...
Brezsny's Astrology June 16-22, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The film Tuck Everlasting tells the story of a family that becomes immortal after drinking from a magical spring. The two parents and their two sons hide their gift from the ...
Brezsny's Astrology June 9-15, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have a poetic license, as well as astrological permission, to be extra cute in the coming week. I mean you have a divine mandate to exceed the usual levels of ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 26-June 1, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon anti-hero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals – except the weasel.” I normally don’t share that sentiment. My ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 19-25, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today I received this email: “Dear Chosen One: My name is Boopsky, also known as ‘The Impossible.’ I rule a small kingdom that exists in a secret place – an island ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 12-18, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The 16th-century English writer John Heywood was a prolific creator of epigrams. I know of at least 20 of his proverbs that are still invoked, including “Haste makes waste,” “Out of ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 5-11, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine this scene, as described by Seattle-based video artist Michael Douglas. “Sometimes a tree falls down in a field of cows, and the cows walk over to it and stare at ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 28- May 4, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 21-27, 2011
Brezsny's Astrology April 21-27, 2011
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises? Will you follow through on your rousing start? Will you ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 14-20, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her blog, Jane at janebook.tumblr.com answers questions from readers. A recent query went like this: “Who would win in a steel cage match, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?” Jane ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 7-13, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When he was three years old, actor Charlie Sheen got a hernia from yelling too much and too loud. I definitely don’t encourage you to be like that. However, I do ...
