Your Mysterious, Endlessly Interesting Life
Your Improbably Powerful Self
HOW COULD YOU NOT FEEL THRILLED?
You are alive in your mysterious, endlessly interesting life, and you are imbued with the fantastically potent power of awareness.
You can perceive a hummingbird hovering at a fuchsia blossom and the light that left a distant star before your ancestors had language, only now arriving in your eyes. You can exult in a lover’s sigh and the taste of ripe peach, the memory of your sixth birthday and a plan you’re hatching for next fall.
All of it streams through the impossible miracle of your attention, this radiance you carry everywhere without ever being able to explain it. How could you not feel thrilled?
You are living on a planet that’s always surprising: a wet blue miracle hurtling through the dark at 67,000 miles per hour while you sit drinking your favorite beverage.
You’re living at a time when so many things are changing that you can’t help being fascinated: empires wobbling, old certainties dissolving, new visions being born in basements and gardens and the secret laboratories of people’s imaginations. You get to witness it. You can participate if you want. How could you not feel thrilled?
You have some intriguing project to look forward to, or some challenging but interesting work you’re in the midst of, or some mind-bending riddle you’re trying to solve with all your heart.
Maybe it’s a book you’re writing or a wound you’re healing or a friendship you’re rebuilding or a melody you can almost hear but haven’t yet captured. Maybe it’s a question so big you will need the rest of your life to answer it.
Whatever it is, it tugs at you. It calls you forward. It refuses to let you sink into numbness. How could you not feel thrilled?
You are wearing a wild, pulsing, improbable body that breathes 25,000 times a day without you ever having to think about it, that knits your skin back together when you cut it, that converts bread and apples into thoughts and laughter.
Your heart has been beating since before you were born and has never once taken a vacation. Trillions of cells are conspiring at this very moment to keep you here, alert, reading these words. You are a collaboration of sun and earth and fresh water. How could you not feel thrilled?
You’re playing the most enigmatic game in the history of the universe, also known as your life on Earth, and you love asking questions about what it all means. Why am I here? What are my gifts? Who are these other dreaming creatures I love, and where did we all come from, and where are we going?
The questions don’t torment you so much as enchant you. You can’t prove it, but you suspect that the questions themselves are a kind of nourishment, and that to live inside the Great Glorious Mystery and keep wondering is its own reward.
Big bonus: There are people who have decided, against all odds, to walk beside you: the friend who knows your complicated stories and offers support; the stranger who held the door; the elder whose face has become a map of everything they’ve survived; the child or animal that looks at you as though you know something worth knowing.
You get to love them. You have the immense privilege of being confounded by them, and forgiven by them, and changed by them. You’re not playing this game alone. How could you not feel thrilled?
You never know what’s going to happen next. Tomorrow could bring a phone call that rearranges your whole understanding of who you are. A book could fall open to the one sentence you’ve needed for years. A song could come on the radio and crack you wide open.
The plot isn’t finished. The twists are still coming. It’s as if you’re one of the heroes in an epic movie that is inexhaustibly entertaining, and you don’t have the script. How could you not feel thrilled?
Even the hard parts feed the thrill. The grief that proves how much you loved and the confusion that comes right before a breakthrough.
You’re not promised comfort, but you’re promised meaning, and meaning is the more electrifying gift. The shadows in the story make the light beautiful.
So here you are: aware, alive, embodied, accompanied, questioning, surprised, mortal, and far more powerful than you usually let yourself believe. You woke up this morning inside a vast, intriguing enigma that has no bottom and no edges, and you are equipped to relish it.
How could you not feel thrilled?
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This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I suspect will be important for you during the coming months.
What areas of your life are likely to receive unexpected assistance and divine inspiration? Where are you likely to find the most interesting success? How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms? What questions should you be asking?
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HOW DO I LOVE YOU?
I love your renegade soul—the insurgent flame in you that refuses to be tamed by small definitions and safe harbors. And I love your ever-deepening eyes, which have learned to hold more light precisely because they’ve been willing to hold more darkness.
I love how unflinchingly you peer into the heart of your own darkness—not as a penitent seeking punishment, not as a tourist seeking thrills, but as a cartographer making creative maps of difficult territory so others might find their way.
I love how you’re making yourself more and more receptive to truths in their wild states, before they’ve been groomed and domesticated. You meet truth the way a naturalist meets a rare creature in the field: with stillness, reverence, and the discipline not to grab.
I love how you can lose yourself completely in passion, but never once shirk your commitment to the good and the true.
I admire the way you never bear a grudge against the mountains that stand in your way. You don’t curse them or petition the sky for their removal or waste yourself in futile assault. You study their contours with curiosity and tenderness, and then you find the path around.
And I love your patient, stubborn, luminous devotion to deciphering the code you left for yourself before you came into this life. These are the clues you planted in your own nature and the instructions hidden in your longings. You keep reading, decoding, and honoring the Big Self who loved you enough to leave a trail.
Listen to my spoken-word song, “Glory in the Highest”:
The lyrics begin like this:
Thousands of things go right for you every day, beginning the moment you wake up. Through some magic you don’t fully understand, you’re still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you’ve been unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that’s just right for your body’s needs, as it was before you fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to perfect.
The interesting gift of these vivid hues is furthermore made possible by an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates nuclear explosions in order to convert its own body into light and heat and energy for your personal use.
Read more of “Glory in the Highest” freewillastrology.com/beauty
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FREE WILL ASTROLOY
Week of June 18
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Eastern monarch butterflies migrate annually from the American Midwest to central Mexico. The individuals who start the journey from Nebraska or Wisconsin die long before they reach the oyamel fir trees of Mexico. So do their children and their grandchildren. Their great-grandchildren finish the trip, though they have never been to the destination. Somehow they know where to go, navigating thousands of miles to trees they’ve never seen. Let’s apply this as a metaphor for you, Gemini. I suspect you are carrying navigational wisdom you didn’t realize you possessed. Inherited knowledge, encoded deep in your secret places, is ready to guide you. So pay attention to inexplicable certainties. Trust the directions that arrive without logical explanation.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A large earthquake doesn’t relieve stress evenly along a fault. Instead, it creates zones where stress is reduced and others where stress increases, making future ruptures more likely. So the stress is redistributed, but not uniformly. According to my reading of the omens, Cancerian, you recently experienced a metaphorical shake-up. I suggest you identify where stress has grown and where it has dissipated. Your next moves should account for this new distribution of pressure. Some areas of your life are now more vulnerable, while others have become more stable. Read the landscape accurately before proceeding.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Songbirds like zebra finches practice their melodies while asleep. Their vocal muscles move in ways that mirror daytime singing. These replay patterns help young birds learn their songs and adults maintain and refine their tunes over time. I suspect that you are engaged in a similar type of learning, Leo. You are enhancing skills and uncovering insights while asleep and dreaming. Bonus! Even when awake, you’re absorbing clues on a subconscious level. Your deeper intelligence is gathering information you will need for your upcoming breakthroughs. Hooray for mysterious help!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Architects who design concert halls know that perfect sound isn’t achieved through perfect smoothness. The best acoustics come from strategic irregularities, textured walls, and angled surfaces that distribute vibrations in pleasing ways. Too much uniformity creates dead zones and echoes; too much chaos creates muddle. Pleasing resonance arises from organized complexity. In my estimation, Virgo, your life is currently too smooth in some areas and too haphazard in others. You may need more strategic irregularity. Consider introducing productive unpredictability into relationships that have become too routine. Add inventive structure to efforts that have become shapeless. Don’t aim for either total order or complete randomness. What will generate maximum beauty?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you ever been ambushed by unexpected bursts of gratification emerging from subtle miracles? Maybe a loved one finally grasps a truth you’ve been trying to convey for eons. Or you feel balanced in a situation that once made you feel lopsided. Or you grasp, with shivers of awe, that you got uncanny spiritual guidance at a key crossroads. I foresee at least three such blessings for you in the coming weeks. To ensure you recognize them, don’t get distracted in the pursuit of splashy bonanzas and gaudy prizes. Be nimbly alert for subtle breakthroughs.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Emily Dickinson rarely left her family home but bequeathed us a marvelous body of lyrical work as she roamed through vast inner worlds. Sci-fi novelist Octavia Butler rose early to write before long shifts at low‑paid jobs, imagining visionary futures during her limited hours to be creative. Lucille Clifton raised six children while shaping poems of distilled, luminous insight, showing us how to summon fierce originality from a life crowded with responsibilities. Moral of the story: Buoyant power can flourish even when circumstances are limited. This lesson may be relevant for you in the coming weeks. If conditions seem imperfect or incomplete, trust that your resilience and adaptability can compensate for external obstacles. I have faith in your ability to generate useful beauty.
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What will be the story of your life during the coming months? How can you exert your free will to create the adventures that will bring out the best in you, even as you find graceful ways to cooperate with the tides of destiny?
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Our tongues are primed to heal astonishingly fast thanks to dense blood vessels, saliva’s repair proteins, and a rapid immune response. Wounds that would take more patience elsewhere can heal here in days. I suspect that your psyche now possesses your tongue’s high level of healing power. So I hope you will launch a phase of accelerated repair. Call on every possible form of therapeutic assistance, please!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is an ideal time to clear out old romantic karma from the past. Please consider performing a DIY ritual to release painful memories, leftover grudges, and long-standing hurts that keep tugging at your intimate connections. The coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to discard rigid beliefs about gender and dismantle anything that blocks you from experiencing full-bodied sensual and sexual delight. Expect to be freed from at least some energies that have limited your ability to explore fun and vigorous ways of savoring your desires.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suggest you adopt a new honorary title like “Charm Weaver” or “Emissary of Radiance” or “Beauty Whisperer.” Why? Because I hope it will help inspire you to stir up delightful play and lyrical mystery wherever you wander. For instance: Infuse your conversations with sparkling harmony and sly, graceful humor. Burst into whimsical songs, fling out extravagant compliments, pose clever questions that spark fresh ideas, and call attention to systems and relationships in your world that are functioning wonderfully well. Many perks will flow your way as you do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is there a dream from childhood that you’re ready to revive on a higher octave? Think of something you longed for before the world told you to be boringly realistic: an art you wanted to practice, a way you wanted to live, or the kind of person you hoped to become. The question isn’t “Can I go back and do it exactly the same?” but “What is the mature, wiser, present-day version of that dream?” You might write in your journal: “The childhood dream I’m ready to lift to a higher octave is ______,” and then add, “If I took one concrete step toward it, what would it be?”
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries mathematician Paul Erdős lived without a permanent address, traveling the world to collaborate with other mathematicians. He owned little, claiming “property is a nuisance.” His life was structured around doing mathematics and helping others do mathematics. He published over 1,500 papers, more than any mathematician in history. Was his minimalism a form of deprivation? I prefer to think it was liberation from everything that didn’t serve his purpose. What would your life be like if you eliminated things that don’t serve your deepest purposes, Aries? In the coming weeks, you have permission to be ruthless about your priorities. What are you maintaining out of habit rather than conviction? What burdens masquerade as responsibilities?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A friend told me about the creative writing class he took with renowned poet Brenda Hillman. “I recall being in class,” he says, “and having the thought, wow, this teacher works far harder at teaching than I do at learning.” Dear Taurus, please don’t indulge in a similar laziness anytime soon. Your educational opportunities are currently richer than usual. To extract the full benefit, you must match the verve and vigor of your teachers. (PS: The teachers may or may not think of themselves as teachers. They could even be animals, rainstorms, or ancestors.)
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One of the most beautiful, uplifting pieces I have ever read. Thank you, Rob.
This is so perfectly articulated that I had to look away and weep a little.