Rob Brezsny

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPRICORN (December 22- January 19) Fifteenth-century Italian metalworker Lorenzo Ghiberti worked for 28 years to turn the doors of the Florence Baptistry into a massive work of art. He used bronze to create scenes from the Bible. His fellow artist Michelangelo was so impressed that he said Ghiberti’s doors could have served as […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) In 1933, Sagittarian artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a huge mural in one of the famous Rockefeller buildings in New York City. His patrons didn’t realize he was planning to include a controversial portrait of former Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. When the deed was done, […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) How did humans figure out that a luxurious fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 B.C., 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree, sipping tea. A silk worm’s […]

SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) “My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing,” says Sagittarian actress and activist Jane Fonda. This description may not always be applicable to you, but I think it should be during the coming weeks. You’re primed to thrive on a robust commitment to self-transformation. As you proceed in your […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven was inclined to get deeply absorbed in his work. Even when he took time to attend to the details of daily necessity, he allowed himself to be spontaneously responsive to compelling musical inspirations that suddenly welled up in him. On more than a […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) Sagittarian performance artist Marina Abramovic observes that Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus and Moses “all went to the desert as nobodies and came back as somebodies.” She herself spent a year in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert near Lake Disappointment, leading her to exclaim that the desert is “the most incredible […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO (October 23- November 21) Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbours the precise treasure you need […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO (October 23- November 21) In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO (October 23- November 21) “Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. Consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Are you familiar […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (September 23- October 22) I hope you are embarking on a vigorous new phase of self-redefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and re-imagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (September 23 – October 22) Every time my birthday season comes around, I set aside an entire day to engage in a life review. It lasts for many hours. I begin by visualizing the recent events I’ve experienced, then luxuriously scroll in reverse through my entire past, as if watching a movie […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22) “I just cut my bangs in a gas station bathroom,” confesses a Libran blogger who calls herself MagicLipstick. “An hour ago I shocked myself by making an impulse buy of a perfect cashmere trench coat from a stranger loitering in a parking lot,” testifies another Libran blogger who refers […]