Rob Brezsny’s Astrology: Oct. 20-26

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Free will astrology for the week of Oct. 20

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even the wisest amongst us are susceptible to being excited about our emotional ache. Even those of us who do lots of internal work could be captivated and entranced by frustrations and vexations and irritants. Our knotty problems make us exciting, even pleasing! They shape our self-image. No ask yourself we are occasionally "intensely, even passionately, connected to suffering," in the words of creator Fyodor Dostoevsky. That's the unhealthy news. The first rate news, Aries, is that in the coming weeks, you may have added vigour to divest your self of disappointment and misery and anxiety that you now not need. i like to recommend you opt for just a few outdated sources of unhappiness and enact a ritual to purge them.

TAURUS (April 20-might also 20): In Norway, you don't name your romantic associate "boyfriend" or "girlfriend." You say *kjaereste*, which is gender impartial and is translated as "dearest." In Sweden, you check with your lover as *älskling*, that means "my beloved one." How about Finland? One time period the Finns use for the adult they love is *kulta*, which ability gold. i'm hoping you'll be impressed by these words to scan with new nicknames and titles for the allies you look after. It's a good time to reinvent the photos you challenge onto every other. i am hoping you are going to refine your assumptions about every different and improve your hopes for each other. Be playful and celebrate as you enhance your empathy.

GEMINI (might also 21-June 20): The band Creedence Clearwater Revival, led with the aid of Gemini musician John Fogerty, executed massive success with their rollicking sound and socially aware lyrics. They offered 33 million records international. In 1970, they were the most suitable-promoting band on this planet, exceeding even the Beatles. And yet, the band endured for just over four years. I foresee the probability of a similar phenomenon to your existence right through the arriving months. something that can also no longer closing invariably will subsequently generate potent, long-term merits. What could it be? Meditate on the chance. Be alert for its coming. Create the circumstances essential for it to thrive.

melanoma (June 21-July 22): Cancerian philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, "i'm unlike anybody I have ever met. i will even undertaking to assert that i'm like no one within the total world. I can be no more suitable, but at the least i am distinct." i beg you to make that your personal affirmation in the coming weeks. It's excessive time to boldly claim how completely exciting you're—to be full of inexpensive delight about the undeniable fact that you've got special features that no person in historical past has ever had. Bonus: The cosmos is additionally granting you permission to brag greater than general about your humility and sensitivity, as well as about your other great traits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo writes, "i will be able to always want myself. always. Darling, I wrote myself a love poem two nights ago. i'm a woman who grows plant life between her tooth. I dance myself out of pain. This trying of myself gets more desirable with age. I host myself to myself. i am total." i like to recommend you adopt Umebinyuo's perspective as you upgrade your relationship with yourself right through the arrival weeks. It's time that you can pledge to supply your self everything you wish a lover would offer you. You're able to claim more of your birthright as an ingenious, diligent self-nurturer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As author David Brooks reminds us, "exposure to genius has the vigor to extend your cognizance. in case you spend loads of time with genius, your mind will turn out to be bigger and broader than in case you spend your time only with run-of-the-mill stuff." i am hoping this approach may be at the desirable of your priority record right through the subsequent four weeks. You will have plentiful alternatives to place a lot of "miraculous stuff into your mind," as Brooks suggests. Uncoincidentally, you're additionally prone to be a prosperous source of notion and illumination your self. i think individuals will appreciate—much more than they constantly do—that being round you're going to make them smarter. I indicate you assist them understand that fact.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Self-aid creator James Clear describes a scenario i beg you to take into account. He speaks of "a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as a lot as a crack displaying in it. Yet on the hundred and first blow, it's going to split in two." Clear adds that "it was now not that ultimate blow that did it—but all that had gone earlier than." You'll thrive by using cultivating that identical patience and determination within the coming weeks, Libra. Proceed with dogged walk in the park that your sustained small efforts will eventually yield mighty effects.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Nobel Prize-profitable poet Odysseus Elytis was speaking like a consummate Scorpio when he pointed out, "What i love is at all times being born. What i love is starting always." Like most Scorpios, he knew an important secret about how to be certain he could savour that excessive rhythm: He had to be skilled within the artwork of metaphorical dying. How else may he be born again and again? each time he rose up anew into the realm like a newbie, it changed into as a result of he had shed historical ideas, previous obsessions, and worn-out hints. I have confidence you've been attending to this transformative work during the past few weeks, Scorpio. able to be born once again? ready to begin anew? To achieve maximum renaissance, get rid of a number of greater things.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "I haven't had satisfactory sleep for years," creator Franz Kafka (1883–1924) as soon as confessed to a chum. It showed in his work, which turned into stunning however gaunt and haunted. He wrote reviews that would be written by means of someone who turned into no longer best sleep-disadvantaged but dream-deprived. The nervousness he might have purged from his device via sleep as a substitute spilled out into the writing he did in waking existence. Anyway, I'm hoping you'll make Kafka your anti-function mannequin as you catch up on the sleep you've missed out on. the coming weeks should be a beautiful time to fall in love with the abnormal, unpredictable, regenerative studies that smartly up out of your subconscious depths whilst you're in bed at nighttime. they'll refresh your imagination in the entire appropriate methods.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "The purpose life works in any respect is that not each person on your tribe is nuts on the identical day," writes author Anne Lamott. i will be able to add that on infrequent occasions, nearly each person for your tribe is performing at excessive ranges of competency and confidence. in keeping with my analysis, now's one of those instances. That's why I inspire you to take impressive measures to marshal your tribe's inventive, constructive efforts. I trust that together which you could collaborate to generate wonders and marvels that aren't invariably plausible. neighborhood synergy is probably at a peak—and may be completely activated if you aid paved the way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I believe your plan for the relaxation of 2021 should still borrow from the mini-manifesto that Aquarian creator Virginia Woolf formulated at age 51: "i will be able to go on adventuring, altering, opening my intellect and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The issue is to free one's self: to let it discover its dimensions, no longer be impeded." Does that sound like enjoyable, Aquarius? it's going to be—although it may also require you to overcome temptations to retreat into extra consolation and inertia.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "any one who isn't embarrassed of who they had been remaining year doubtless isn't getting to know adequate," writes creator and philosopher Alain de Botton. That's too severe a statement for my style. but I trust the gist of his remark. If we don't seem to be continuously outgrowing who we're, we don't seem to be sufficiently alert and alive. fortuitously for you, Pisces, you are actually in a part of swift ripening. at least you should be. The cosmos is conspiring to aid you learn how to turn into a greater brilliant and authentic version of yourself. Please cooperate! are looking for all purchasable updates.

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