Astrologer Bill Attride

2022-10-2 Radio Show Transcript — The Pluto Return in the USA chart (10/2/2022)

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Podcasts)

As we move through the last quarter of 2022, I thought it would be helpful to consider once again the integral significance of what is happening in the USA chart at this time. Not only is there the first-ever Pluto return to its Natal position this year, but there is also the ongoing opposition of Neptune to Neptune’s position, and that opposition is only the second time in its history. The combination of these two alignments (along with some other significant alignments) has informed, guided, and shaped this critical year in US history.

What we see is that the four major alignments of the Pluto with itself in the US Chart, the waxing square, the opposition, the waning square and now the return, provide a unique window into one of the more fundamental and consequential shapers of US history.

But as in any chart interpretation, we must begin with what the Natal or birth chart indications hold for each planet, and then consider their cycle of relationship to see the “how and the why” of the circumstances that unfolded in earlier periods, and by these analyses we might better understand their significance for us now. When we consider the three outermost or transformational planets, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, their natal indications and evolutionary influences over time should be very important indeed.

Content of History
But I also need to remind us of this fundamental and unwavering Truth, that “what” happened, and what is happening now, what is the content of the history of United States, or of any country or nation or people, it is that their circumstances, what was their past and is their present, these realities were not created or formed by the planets. Rather, as I understand it, the planets hold the Energy-Forms that inspire, inform, and guide our journey on Earth, but the actual content of what is formed, of what happened and will happen, that reality is made by the complex of energy-forms of we on Earth, forged by the living spirit of us human actors, by our ancestors and by you and me today.

Triad of Spirit
Moreover, though I wish to focus mostly upon Pluto, and also somewhat on Neptune now (or in our next show), we have to remember that for us in our solar system, the three outer planets must always be considered or held together as one. That is because, at least for me, they hold and form the hierarchy of energy-forms of what I call the Triad of Spirit; the outer planets hold as one the Principle behind the power of Spirit, which is the Power of Becoming, (“The Self that is Becoming”), of the mystery and majesty of the whole of Creation, and for us in our solar system, Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus hold as the avatars of the “Three as One”, which are the Will, and the Love and the Mind of the One.

Pluto is the Avatar and vehicle of the Will for us, the Alchemical agent or Energy-Form that brings together any entity or being as “a one” in their sacred space. Each particle of Creation, and each and every being, is formed from the spark of the Divine, by its Monad, and by the will is separated from any other particle or being by the sacred space in which it exists and over which it presides. The emergence of the many ones from the One, proceeds as a series of intersections and combinations of these many fields of the ones to form greater or larger ones, (atoms, molecules, organisms, planets, stars, and galaxies). The little wills of these ones, form the phenomena of attraction and repulsion on the physical plane for the material reality of objects and organisms (as in gravity); and this principle of sacred spaces unfolds hierarchically proceeding downward from the One to all the realms, as we can see the more sublime exercises of the will forming the pushes and pulls on the astral, emotional, mental, and spiritual planes too. As beings become ever more self-aware, like we in our human kingdom of life, the experience of the will leads us to our spiritual awakening, which is that we are to learn to use this gift of the spirit for ever greater self-control or self-mastery, so that it is turned back upon oneself rather than used to trespass, or to dominate and control or violate the space of another.

Neptune is the Avatar and vehicle of Divine Love for us, the Alchemical agent or Energy-Form that is the primal or Root Form of Spirit, which is this, the Unconditional Love of the One. The whole of Creation is formed of the One, the body of the One is Creation, and ranging from the most material of substances to the most sublime and ethereal of Energy-Forms, everything and everyone is formed by Divine Love. By Neptune, Creation is held together by our mutual attractions with and for one another. For at the root of the Truth of Neptune is this, that there is but One Life and there is but One Spirit, and everything is ultimately the Divine Love as the Root Energy-Form of Creation. The great illusion that all forms of Creation are seeking to move beyond is our separation from one another, and that in truth we are one with the One (“as we were in the beginning, so shall we be in the end”). This is why Neptune holds for us the gifts of Compassion and Empathy, of Divine Love and Sacrifice, as it ceaselessly seeks to move us beyond any limited form of our experience and reality so that we might embrace and experience a more complete experience of the One. The gifts of Dreaming and Imagination, of moving beyond a more limited reality-form into a more encompassing one, this is the Neptune journey of Spirit. The danger lies in become ensnared by fantasies and illusions that separate oneself from the greater truth of the One, which will lead to false forms of love, as in narcissism, obsessions, and projections of fear upon another or others.  

Uranus is the Avatar and vehicle of Mind or Individuality for us, the Alchemical agent or Energy-Form that holds the other essential Root Form or Quality of Spirit, which is that everything and everyone is part of the Mind of the One, which means that every single part of Creation is Conscious. From the dimmest forms of awareness to the most sublime contemplations of the hierarchies of the “shining ones”, the quality of Mind is the foundation for that other special essence of Spirit, Individuality. As much as each monad of Spirit has the Energy-Form of Will and is also made by the Energy-Form of Love, each Monad is also endowed with the Spiritual quality of Self-Becoming, of what we call Swabhāva. This essential nature of Creation means that each and every part of Creation is an individual monad, with its own specialness or Quintessence, and that every monad is on a journey of becoming a complete and freed Monad, a Divinely Aware spark of the Divine, another shining one in the body of the One.

Three-in-One
The dynamic of spiritual growth and evolution, held within the Space of the Will by Pluto is propelled by the interplay and dynamic balancing of these second and third qualities in every monad, by Neptune and Uranus, with one being the drive to Oneness by Love for Communality, versus the drive to Individuality by Mind for Independence. In all the realms of Creation, and certainly in our human-made worlds of family, tribe, community, and nation states, the balance between the communalizing and individualizing forces within our monadic natures ever continues to forge the path of spiritual awakening for humanity on this Earth.

So let us now turn and consider the influences that were brought to bear by the birth of the United States and the meanings that are held by Pluto and by Neptune, and the importance of their alignments in the past and now.

Pluto USA
The USA was “born” with the planet Pluto as the rising planet, (the first planet to cross the ascendant or horizon line after birth), placed in the Sign of Capricorn and in the Second House of the chart. I have commented upon the significance of this Natal placement in many previous blog posts and radio shows, but it will certainly help our understanding if we restate it again.

Traditional Mundane Astrology would list the second house as ruling a nation’s wealth, as in taxes, stock shares, bonds, exports, and institutions that deal with monies like banks, trading houses and the like. This is what many observers who hold to the prevailing materialistic view of reality would call the “wealth of a nation”.

And though it is true that this is the conventional measure of the wealth of a nation, I and many others believe we should approach the question with a more meaningful measure, the eternal Value of the Living Spirit, from Love, where the happiness and wellbeing of all life-forms is the standard of measure for value. If we exclude, though we cannot and should not, all other life-forms that abide in a country’s realm, the value of a nation is truly to be found in the wellbeing of the people of that land.

Spiritually, the value of each person or of a people is founded upon their spiritual development, their intellectual rigor, their emotional integrity, and their physical wellbeing, and it is this which creates the true wealth of any community, which is the value they have in one another and determines the value they will make together or with one another. The value of a person, or a people is not fixed; and certainly, with Pluto in the second house of value for the US, it would be by the power of rebirth, renewal, and transformation that the USA would create the wealth of the nation; that this protean experience in the growth of human potential would form the content of US history. To form any truly spiritual union, we make sacrifices for one another, and this is the very means by which we change and grow; we are asked to sacrifice our lesser qualities, our egos, in order to combine with another through our deeper values, and it is by this that we release the power of transformations and renewal for one another. This is essential nature of spirit at the heart of Pluto and Alchemy.

Additionally, the Sign of Capricorn is ruling the USA’s Second House, (and is the Sign that Pluto is in), which indicates that the values of the USA would be rooted in Truths that have “stood the test of time”, what we would call more or less everlasting spiritual truths. That these truths would form the bedrock of value or foundation for the nation, embodied into the Institutions of the nation and enshrined into the laws that protect all sacred unions and the Union of the nation itself.

With Pluto the Avatar of the Will and holder of the Power of Alchemy being in the United States’ Second House, we would expect that the USA would be a Creator of Values by being a transformer of values through the power of Alchemy. At the very inception of the USA, as indicated by this placement, the nation was founded upon a union, a joining by agreement among its members to pledge their lives and sacred honor to one another.

The USA was the first nation to be founded not on race, or religion, or ethnicity or any prior designation; the USA was founded upon a Principle, it was to be a Covenant Nation, a joining, a fusion or Alchemical Nation of Transformation. As it is declared on the seal of the United States, it would be “A new order for the Centuries”. Founded upon a covenant compact, where all were to be equal before and protected by Laws that we agreed to, we would enshrine and protect the Sacred Spaces of our unions and Union.

But that promise of equality and justice was tragically broken from the very outset, and this calamitous history of wrongs forms the great burden of Karma that the United States has yet to address. Rather than a foundation in Spirit and Freedom, the United States was made by the expropriation of lands and genocide of native peoples, and by the enslavement of peoples taken from their homelands and held by terror against their will as the property of others.

For much of US History, the measure of wealth, and the exercise of power which flows from it, has often been narrowly defined so as to exclude the vast majority of people from being as valued as they should; the exercise of power was circumscribed and limited to the few who held power by landed or financial wealth, so that far too many had little consequential power, and were thwarted in their ability to achieve their hopes and dreams.

Progress was made, and then reversed, time and time again. The liberation of the slave population after the Civil War, produced a very brief period of greater self-determination during Reconstruction. That progress was broken by a deal between Democrats and Republicans in 1877 that ended the Federal oversight of the former slave states, who then quickly established a system of law (and terror) that prevented any meaningful progress for almost another 100 years.

So let us look at the three previous alignments of Pluto to itself in the USA chart and see how that may help us understand the present return of Pluto. Though the intervening minor alignments can prove illuminating as well, these major turnings will be most helpful. Again, our focus will remain upon the question of value, principally the essential value of the people and their power to help one another to fulfill their dreams.

Pluto Square Pluto 1848-50
The first major alignment of Pluto to Pluto in the USA chart was the waxing square of 1848 to 1850. Certainly, bringing its influence to bear upon, but only exact after the Mexican War of 1846-1848, the first major alignment of Pluto to itself can be seen as setting in motion the final, fateful steps that led to the Civil War. The growing struggle to limit or extend slavery, was actually the principal reason for which the Mexican War was fought. The real “cause” of the Mexican War were American slaveholders and their political allies, who needed fresh lands to pursue their mono-crop culture, (a system which continuously exhausts the land, requiring new lands). The push by southern states to extend slavery throughout all the newly seized lands of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah led to a compromise which included a much tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

From this moment of choice, “the die was cast”, and just like when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the elements were set that would lead to the Civil War after Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. A struggle between two very different ways of understanding what it means to be human, two very different value systems, most especially in how we value each and every human life, forced the USA to face its first great “crisis of value”. That is what a square aspect presents, it is a turning point, a fork in the road, and the decision requires commitment to one way and a turning away from the other. It was an existential crisis between two wholly incompatible value systems, and only force would decide the issue.

Pluto Opposite Pluto 1936-37
The Opposition is said to be the climax of a cycle of relationship, when a revelation is at hand and the possibility of reaping the reward of good efforts since the waxing square or facing the consequences if intentions and actions were inadequate. In the mid 1930’s, the USA (and the world) were in the greatest economic crisis called the Great Depression. Now that was a crisis in value! The entirety of the economic order for the world came crashing down.

To confront the failure of the “free from regulation” markets of the world, some countries turned to fascism, some to communism, but in the United States President Franklin Roosevelt chose the path of reform and renewal. With programs like the New Deal, like Social Security and Medicare, and new economic regulations and policies, a transformation and renewal of US Value, of the essential worth and value of the general population of people of the US led to an economic growth path that was more equitable and just, and it lasted for over 40 years. From the most concentrated income distribution in 1929, the USA had its most equitable growth in incomes across all percentiles from the late 1940’s until the early 1980’s. The fundamental idea behind all of this was that the essential value of the nation was its people, and they should be given every opportunity to better themselves, and that we should “invest” in one another, and by this spiritual approach to our value we would all benefit.

But beginning with the struggles to make the US society truly more equitable, with the Civil Rights movements and legislation in the late 1950’s and 1960’s, this push for true equality fostered a counter-revolution to what had been the New Deal Liberal paradigm, which is known as Neo-liberalism. The proponents of this theory sought to return the political and economic regulatory environment to the more unfettered capitalism of the late 1800’s. The claim was made that by slashing taxes and reducing regulations, and by returning the vast majority of wealth to the top percentiles, the United States could greatly increase growth for the general economy, and this would lead to a so-called “rising tide that would lift all boats”. And it would be these policies and their proponents who would come to power in the next great turning of Pluto.

Pluto Square Pluto 1982-1983
Just as the Pluto square of 1848 to 1850 was a turning point, so too was the square of 1982/83. But the difference is the 1840’s was a waxing square, which concerns a definite choice about the form or content of what would emerge, it was a crisis of Action. For the 1980’s, the waning square was a response to what was revealed at the opposition of the 1930’s and required that a definite choice must be made the realm of mind, it was a Crisis in Consciousness.

Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign of 1980 promoted the fiction that the troubles facing America stemmed from one source, and he ran on the slogan that “the government is the problem”. The Republican program to dismantle the New Deal sought to reduce or eliminate the general support for welfare and value of all Americans, which had been created by Social Security, Medicare, and by economic regulations, and reforms, and also environmental regulations and other social programs. Overtime, most republicans and many democrats fervently believed in or consented to this “faith”, that by reducing government taxation and regulation, and returning wealth to the few, that this would lead to an economic miracle.

What it has created instead is what we see around us today. The USA has disinvested in its people and physical infrastructure for over 40 years now. In 2022, we have the greatest inequality in wealth that we have ever had, surpassing the previous gap of 1929. We are back at the next great turning of value, but this time it is a beginning, like a New Moon, because this year we are experiencing the Pluto return.

The Pluto Return 2022
At each turning of Pluto for the past 246 years, the USA has faced the task of addressing the fundamental question, “what is the essential value of the nation?” As it was in at the founding moment, so it has been at every turning, in the Civil War, in Roosevelt’s New Deal, and in Reagan’s Neo-Liberal Revolution, the response to Pluto has been to redefine and revalue the value of Americans themselves, of how they see themselves and how they treat one another, and to answer the question, “what is the real Wealth of the Nation?”

But those previous turnings were reactions and responses to what was laid down at the founding of the USA, of the first full cycle of promises kept and those that were not. What we are faced with now is the very real opportunity (and peril) of a new beginning. At a New Moon, or here at a planetary return, the energy-form and what it represents releases a flow of new potential from the root-source. That means, if we can hold in our hearts and mind the true nature as to the source of value of our Covenant Nation, then we may be able to build a more spiritual version of the USA.

For me, I see our present day struggles over “who” is an American, over who gets to decide how we will govern ourselves, all the many confusions, discords and even threats of violence, as confirming that we are exactly in this moment of the new beginning. It is not yet formed; it is emerging and the story of how great or small will be our contribution to the promise of America is yet to be known.

What we cannot know is what is going to happen with Pluto’s return, for we are too close to it, but it is happening through each and every one of us. But if we want to be builders of that better vision and version of America, we must be guided by what is spiritually and undeniably right.

Given what was promised, and what has happened, the return of Pluto for me means we must pledge ourselves once again to this very long journey towards equality and self-fulfillment for one and for all. If we are to restore the promise, but make it better than before, we must acknowledge that our greatest treasure is our people, and that we should endeavor to help each person and every group realize their fullest potential. We must remember that what made every one of us, and in fact drives the entirety of Creation, is that “we are what we are” through the power of combination, forged by the mystery of Alchemy.

To do this work, we must sacrifice for one another to build a better tomorrow. We must let go of our fears and create a space of forgiveness for growth. We can take a small leap of faith, that starts with the understanding of the essential goodness of one another, and that each of us is not just capable of but in fact must change if we are to grow.

We are the wealth of this Nation. And the source and measure of this wealth is our love for one another.

We must remember that we were made from love, and we are simply here to love one another.

Astrological Musings — The Pluto Return in the USA chart (October 2, 2022)

In my seventh show of 2022, we will consider again the significance of the first ever Pluto return to its Natal position for the USA, and also the significance of Neptune making its second ever opposition to its Natal position as well.

If you wish to suggest a subject or topic for a future show, please email me as I would be happy to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

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Sun Enters Libra (September 22, 2022)

“We are all related”

The Ancient Wisdom is founded upon a very simple yet profound understanding of Creation. From the innermost microcosm to the most encompassing macrocosm, throughout all of the hierarchies of Creation, from the most infinitesimal particles such as protons, electrons, neutrons, on up through the elements, molecules, organisms, planets, stars, and the galaxies (and beyond), all of these are the physical manifestations or the body of the One. In effect, the whole of Creation is a living organism, and at the root or heart of every single mote of Creation there is what I call the “Spark of the Divine”, the shining presence of the One; at the heart of everything is a Monad of Spirit-Life-Consciousness. That means every particle of Creation is Divine, because every single one is a precious dewdrop of the One.

The Triad forming each Monad at the root of everything is Spirit-Life-Consciousness, and this means that all of Creation is Spirit, that all of Creation is Alive, and that all of Creation is Conscious. If we were to try to sum up what is behind or holds all these three as One it is quite simply this, that holding and forming the whole of Creation is the Divine Love of the One, which is at the heart of each and every one of us too.

Today we have reached a very special moment in the Astrological year; every year at this time we enter the second half of the Zodiac, and somewhere in your very own chart and forever shaping and guiding your life too, are these meanings and messages known as Libra. Just as everything is formed by a complex interweaving of intra and interrelationships, of greater and lesser Energy-Fields, which by their intersections form what we experience as Spirit-Matter in every particle of Creation, it is equally so that all these particles, molecules, organisms, planets, and stars are formed and shaped by their relationships with one another.

Both inwardly and outwardly, the whole of Creation is a complex web of weavings and combinations of the many Energy-Forms that are the One made manifest. Because of the essential and integral harmony in all the many hierarchies of the One, so that “as above, so below”, we humans are most certainly made human by our complex web of relationships that we create with all of Creation, and especially with one another as humans. These “creations by relationship” are the Sacred Realm of Libra; at this time of the year, and wherever Libra is found in your chart, we honor this Holy Space that we form so that we may live and love and become a better human.

The story of Spirit is Creation; and we as human, as self-aware creators, we are the makers of these sacred spaces of our relationships. Each of us has formed and been formed by our own sacred and individual space, which of course has been shaped and guided since our birth by many influences of the environment, and most especially by our early relationships with Father/Mother, Brother/Sister, and so on. But as we grow, as we begin to become more self-aware it becomes our joy and responsibility to create what I call our “Third Spaces”, the spaces of our relationship with all with whom we journey.

Just as we are a host of a field of energy-forms individually, so too are the relationships that we make. They are “fields of fields” of Energy-Forms, of ideas and actions, of feelings and intuitions and love, that shape, guide, and hold our experiences of one another in this beautiful dance of the Spirit we make with one another. And what is most important for us is to remember is this, that the root principle guiding our experience with one another and all of Creation is Divine Love. We are made of love, and we are here to love one another.

That means that we should understand and continuously strive to make our newly formed space in Libra, the energy-field we are co-creating, that we make this sacred space as mutually meaningful and fulfilling for each of us as possible. For this is the heart and soul of Creation, that we are ones of the One, and we are here to grow; and we can only grow by joining together by love, and so be the very means to helping one another to be and become more than we ever could imagine on our own. We have been made by one another; and we are only here because of one another, and our greatest illusion that we must strive to overcome is our false sense of separation from one another.

We can never be separate as we are all part of one another; we are formed through and by one another. All the thoughts, feelings, and actions that we experience in this space, this spiritual space of our creations, is where we share and struggle, we love and laugh, and strive to be better, and this is what makes us who we are. These experiences live on in us, and we in them, because we create one another, and we cannot be human without these gifts of the spirit that we share with one another.

At the heart of Creation is Alchemy, which is the combining of one energy-form with another; and this Central Fire of Spirit has created all the Realms and Hosts of the Cosmos. Libra is the Realm of Becoming; every relationship holds this truth, that at the heart of Spirit is the desire to grow and become. And the means and driving force of the Human Story of Spirit is forged by all our experiences with one another.

It is here in the realm of Libra that we will grow, it is how we will become better humans, to be fully awakened humans, because we join together for our mutual benefit and in our love for one another.

Libra is the holy place where the promise of our future is made and met.

We came from the One with love.

We came with love, and we are here to love one another.

And that is why we say, "We are all related,

And now Our hearts are one.”

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22, 2022)

Johfra Bosschart- The Vision of Hermes Trismegistus

The Temple of Attunement

The greatest teachers and thinkers have pondered a question throughout the ages, “What do we truly need to be happy?”. That is, what is the most precious gift that supports all the other “gifts of Life and Spirit”? What do the wise ones and teachers answer when asked, “Of all the gifts of the spirit, which is the most sublime?” With one voice they will say that the greatest gift, the most precious quality without which no other thing or any experience can be truly enjoyed is simply this, the greatest gift of all is “to be at peace”.

Then the question remains, where do we find such peace? Again, the Ancient Teachings and the Wisdom Keepers know this too, that there is a special place which offers this most sublime feeling of peace. But it is not somewhere “out there”, you cannot get there by plane, train, or automobile. No, this special place is found within yourself, in your “higher self”, or more truly, it is your higher self.

For the Truth is the whole Universe is formed as an integral Hierarchy, from the most ethereal and Spiritual down to the densest physical planes. What is behind every particle of Creation is a monad of spirit, the spark of the Divine. And this divine part of you is most especially experienced in those precious moments of Unconditional Love and Acceptance, in your acts of Loving Kindness and Devotion, and in that special sense of being in that place of peace because you are at one with the One within you.

At this time of year, and always and forever present somewhere in your very own chart too, you should bow your head and raise your voice in praise for the gifts of grace, service, and humility that flow from the sacred space we enter called Virgo. After the stretching and striving of Leo, after you were inspired by the encounter with your truer “self” in Cancer, you had to follow your heart, to take a chance and Act and Lead and Love, to expand your performances of self-realizations, after all of that there comes this special time, this space of Virgo, for your adjustment, alignment, and attunement.

You are a work in progress, and though your Higher Self never “left” what you call “heaven”, the hierarchy that is Creation means that you are formed by many vehicles, many “bodies”, all of which stand at their very own stations of spiritual development too. What you are here for, and what is the whole purpose behind our human journey, is for you to become a more complete human. And to do this you work with and through all your vehicles, with the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body, and the higher triad of spirit, you work with them all so that you might lift them up and yourself too. And it is by this, what is known as “the Great Work”, it is by this dedication and devotion that you will eventually become a whole and complete human being.

Yes, it is in Virgo that we return to the element of Earth. After we have burned with the fires of Inspiration in Leo, now we must see what works. By Virgo, we have to work on how we can do better, how we can be better, and how we are here to help one another. We move into a time of transition as one season ends and another approaches, and we use the gift of our faculty of discernment so that we might determine what is more worthy and true; we listen to the “voice of the silence” so that we might be guided in our actions to help and to heal; and we follow the path of the lonely ones whose hearts are filled with love and joy because there is no higher purpose or calling except Service and Sacrifice.

In Virgo we enter the “Temple of the Soul” and seek to understand why we must endure these tests and trials that bring us suffering. We are told that these tests are brought to us by the law of cause and effect, so that we are the very instruments of our own spiritual awakening. We accept that our tribulations as the means by which we will eventually let go of a lesser way of being and rise into our glory. We suffer because we do not understand; and by breaking our attachments to the illusionary, we see the way of Light and of Truth. We understand that we are here for one purpose, and that these trials and tribulations forge our understanding, and they lift our hearts and minds, and bring us to our place of peace so that we might abide in the loving presence at the heart of all Creation.

The ancient temples that held and guided the initiates of long ago are no longer here. But the everlasting temple of spirit resides within you. In Virgo you enter your inner temple, the Temple of Attunement, so that you may find your way to the path of Truth and Beauty and be at peace.

The way to Peace is the path to the One, and you will find this path when you hold in your heart this way of Truth:

As I walk, as I walk

The Universe is walking with me

In beauty, it walks before me

In beauty, it walks behind me

In beauty, it walks below me

In beauty, it walks above me

Beauty is on every side

Surrounded by Beauty

Living in Beauty

Loving in Beauty

May you walk in Beauty

May you live in Beauty

For all your days

May you be at Peace

Surrounded by Beauty

It is done.

2022-7-31 Radio Show Transcript — The Hierarchy of Planetary Influences and their Cycles

Transcript of Radio Show: The Hierarchy of Planetary Influences and their Cycles, Jupiter to Pluto (7/31/2022)

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Podcasts)

I thought it could be useful if we stepped back from what we have been doing over the past many shows, that is our looking at just one, two or three of the major planetary cycles, and consider more of the entire hierarchy of planets and their intersecting orbits from Jupiter to Pluto. It is certainly most important to look at the “big three”, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. But by including the fuller range of influences as brought to bear with the addition of Saturn and Jupiter, I believe we will find a deeper appreciation and understanding of what I have called “The Dance of the Planets”.

What I and many Astrologers do is consider the combination of influences from the various categories of planets, and their various interweaving cycles with one another, we take these to form a more complete picture of the influences we experience here on Earth. We certainly look at each planet as having its own realm of meaning and influence, but it is also true that just as we are shaped and formed by our experiences with one another, the planets and their messages are shaped and formed by their interrelationships with one another too.

Now, we can sort or arrange the planets in a number of ways, but what seems most meaningful for our purposes is to arrange them by their individual orbital periods from the longest to the shortest, and then to group them into three types or categories of influence with regards to their orbital relationships and by their synodic cycles, which is the period from one conjunction to the next conjunction with one another.

Starting with the outermost planets, which we will type as LONG WAVE TRANSFORMATIONAL, we have Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus. This grouping gives us the relationship pairings of Neptune with Pluto forming a conjunction roughly every 492 years, then Uranus with Neptune at 171 years, and finally Uranus with Pluto at 127 years. Given their longer synodic cycles, we have observed that they represent or influence Transformational or Evolutionary patterns of human history.

The next set of planetary pairs we call the MID WAVE CRYSTALLIZING, and they are formed by Saturn aligning with these longer Transformational planets. Here we have Saturn with Uranus at 45 years, Saturn with Neptune at 36 years, and Saturn with Pluto at 33 years. This set of combinations concerns the dynamic interrelationship between continuity and change, the necessary struggle between the conserving and preserving nature of Saturn counterpointed to the Spiritual Imperative for Growth and Change held by the outer three planets.

The final set of planetary pairs we call the SHORT WAVE GROWTH set, which is formed by Jupiter with both the Transformational outer three and with the avatar of Order held by Saturn, and these range from Jupiter with Saturn at 20 years, Jupiter with Uranus at 14 years, Jupiter with Neptune at 13 years and Jupiter with Pluto at 12 years.

Long Wave Transformational
Pluto/Neptune
For the Long Wave Transformational pairings, the 492-year cycle of Pluto and Neptune holds the integral relationship between the Will and Unconditional Love, between Boundaries that form our Sacred Spaces and the ultimate Oneness of Spirit and Reality. Each time Pluto and Neptune form a conjunction, one can see the end and beginning of how we form ourselves into our spaces with one another, and those dates are: 83BCE, 411CE, 905, 1398, and 1891.

And then, as they form their series of aspects with one another after each conjunction, we see the waxing square and the Opposition, (also the semi-square and SesquiSquare) and then in reverse order back to the next conjunction, as forming critical moments in the struggle for balance between our exercise of our Will counterpointed to our experience of Love.

Neptune/Uranus
The next pairing by synodic period is the 171-year cycle of Neptune and Uranus, and they hold the integral relationship between Unconditional Love and Freer Minds, or Individuality versus Communality.

The dates for their series of conjunctions or the beginning of their cycle of relationship were: 1478, 1650, 1821 and 1993. And then just like with Pluto/Neptune, the subsequent critical moments in their cycle of relationship shape and form our human experience of how we reconcile our need to be Free yet equally Interdependent upon one another.

Pluto/Uranus
The final pair by synodic period length, and of the purely Transformational group, is the 127-year cycle of Pluto and Uranus, which holds the integral relationship between Will and Freedom, or Sacred Space and Individuality. The dates for their conjunctions were: 1455, 1597, 1710, 1850 and 1965. Again, we can see this playing out over the course of their aspects between one conjunction to the next as providing meaning and guidance for how we must strive to balance our individual Freedom with the necessity to not infringe upon the Sacred Space of another.

Mid Wave Crystallizing
But let us now turn and look at the set of alignments that forge a more focused set of opportunities and challenges in our journey of Spiritual Awakening, and to the two which are presiding over our current situation, and these are the series of alignments of Saturn with the Transformational planets, and the Jupiter pairings with them and Saturn as well.

The set of alignments of Saturn with the three Outer and Transformational planets carries the meanings and messages of our Spiritual Awakening brought about by the Alchemical Transformations when these Evolutionary Forces meet with the Structures and Objective Realms held by Saturn. The result is often discord and clashes with these Evolutionary agents as they interact with the conservative nature of Saturn.

Saturn/Uranus
The first of these is the 45-year cycle of Saturn with Uranus, which holds the dynamic confrontation of what I would call the Principle of Order versus Freer Minds, or we might say Tradition versus Innovation. Their most recent conjunctions were 1852, 1897, 1942 and 1988, and at each conjunction a new impulse was released in this dynamic dance of the old ways and the New.

And here we find ourselves in the last major aspect of that 1988 cycle, which is the waning square, and which is guiding us here in 2021 and 2022. The previous significant moments from that 1988 seeding were the waxing square of 1999-2000, the opposition of 2008-10, and now the waning square of 2021-2022. Whether you look at these turning points through a Political, Economic or Cultural lens, you can certainly see how whatever was released in 1988 came to a crisis or turning point in the year 2000. And that this was followed by the opposition or “Full Moon” revelation of 2008-10; and that was most certainly a climactic moment in which the forces of progress were so clearly revealed and opposed by the forces of fear and darkness, and this struggle played out dramatically in our social and political polarizations of the time.

Which brings us to our moment now, which is the waning square of 2021-22. The waxing square, like 1999-2000, is a turning point or crisis of action; it is a choosing between one action or another, the need to make a commitment to one thing, or one form or action, to one way of being and not another. The waning square is once again a crisis or turning point, but more in the realm of ideas, thoughts, beliefs, or meanings. It takes as it “reference point” whatever was revealed at the “Full Moon”, which here was the opposition 2008-10, which laid out for all to see the differing meanings and messages of that moment. And now, given where we find ourselves in 2021-22, we face a period when we need to choose what we believe, to think through what is true versus false, what is real and what is not real, and so we sort ourselves by the division between our beliefs, our facts, and our truths.

The opportunity (and challenge) of any waning square, like the one we have in 2021 and 2022, is that it brings what is called the “gift of severance”, and it calls upon us, it asks of us, to let go of what we must so that we might continue to grow; it is an opportunity to turn from being held and bound by a negatively rooted past, to turn from the husk of dead spirit and embrace the living spirit of love. All of us need to reject any circumscribed and shadowed way of thinking and being, that we leave behind our more instinctual roots that divide us from one another, because they bind us by fear and not by hope and love.

But in addition to this Saturn/Uranus De-Crystallizing moment we have one more alignment that is shaping our reality and decisions, and it is one of the final set of alignments formed by the Short-Wave Growth grouping, and that is of Jupiter combining with either the Evolutionary or the Saturnian placements.

Short Wave Growth
It seems quite timely or fortuitous, because what we are experiencing is the next alignment of Jupiter with Saturn. Their 20-year cycle articulates the integral relationship between Truth or Meaning (Jupiter) and Order or Manifestation (Saturn). We are at a very important moment in their cycle of relationship because it is the first significant alignment in their cycle following the historic conjunction in Aquarius at the end of 2020.

Jupiter/Saturn
That conjunction Astrologers call The Great Mutation, as it began a new series of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in the Air Signs, signaling the end of the previous 200-year cycle of Earth conjunctions, and the start of a new Airy Cycle of Jupiter and Saturn that will happen for the next 200 years. It was and is a spiritual seed that was planted, and it heralded a turning point; and it was a sign for many that a New Age has begun. And now we have reached a critical moment in the birth of a New Age.

The first significant aspect in any cycle relationship is the waxing semi-square or 45 degrees, and this is what we are experiencing in 2022 into 2023. It was exact on July 21^st, and will repeat on September 21^st, with the final exact alignment be on March 21^st, 2023, but its influence is present during the entirety of this year and into 2023.

Remember, a conjunction is like a New Moon, or very much like the planting of a seed. After that beginning, for the next many days, weeks, months, or years (depending upon the length of the entire cycle), that first phase takes place symbolically “beneath the surface”, like a seed sending down roots and equally sending up tendrils to the surface. For some greater or lesser time, we must wait for the proof that something has begun. And it is at the waxing semi-square that the new life appears visibly above the soil, it becomes apparent that something has indeed “happened”, and we see the first real “test” of this new form of life or being is now to be experienced.

Ideally, it can and should be a time of quickening, of moving forward with greater urgency and exhilaration, with the joy and power of new beginnings. But this can also be a time when doubt or fear can rear up to hold back the new life. We must remember that it is always fear that brings about pain. At this critical moment in the cycle of life, it may be the uncertainty regarding whatever is this new way of being that leads or causes a negative reaction; or it can be the siren song of the past that calls to return or stay in a more familiar time or space, and this too can hold back or limit the growth of new life.

The Living Spirit is the ultimate Root of everything and everyone, and each and every particle of this Universe is shaped and guided by the purpose behind the entirety of Creation, which is to grow; and if we are to grow, if we are to be what we are, which is the living spirit, we must lovingly embrace change. And if we are to grow, we must also move towards ever greater inclusiveness and integration with the whole of Creation, so that we might rise and become an ever more complete human in our Life of the One.

There is no way to know which way anyone will go; but there is no question which way we should go.

We should remember, as it has been said before, “beaten paths are for beaten people”. We are here to make our way to the greater light, to live by a more encompassing love for one another and all of life on this planet. This is the way of Spirit; this is the way of the One.

So, as this New Age begins, we are being asked to decide right now what will be the future that is coming? Will we stand for the future that is ultimately destined to be?

We really have no choice but to follow our hearts and listen to the voice of the silence, to listen for that quiet, still presence that lives in all our hearts and we will do what is loving and kind and true.

It is quite simply the way.

It is the way of Light and Truth and Love.

It is the Way of the One.

Astrological Musings — The Hierarchy of Planetary Influences and their Cycles, Jupiter to Pluto (July 31, 2022)

In my sixth show of 2022, I thought it would be helpful if we step back from our focus upon the particular alignments of today and explain the hierarchy of planetary cycles that form the interweaving Astrological conditions that guide and inform our human history.

If you wish to suggest a subject or topic for a future show, please email me as I would be happy to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

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Here is the link to the show on Sunday July 31^st @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2022/07/31/astrological-musings-the-hierarchy-of-planetary-influences-and-their-cycles

The phone number to call if you wish to ask a question during the live show is: (516) 531‑9638

Please join me on Sunday July 31^st @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be available as a Podcast shortly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Podcasts.

Sun Enters Leo (July 22, 2022)

Leo by Johfra Bosschart

To be seen for who you are…

The Wheel of Life and Meaning has turned, and with it the time to celebrate Cancer gives way to the Heart of the Teachings held by the sign that is Leo. You take from Cancer this most precious truth; that at the center of everything and everyone of us is quite profoundly what lies at the center of Creation, and that is the Light of the One.

What you felt in Cancer, what you know to be true in your heart, is that the spark of the Divine within you is pure and Unconditional Love. This Love is what the Universe was made from, and that is what you are made by. And it is this Feeling-Truth that will inspire you now to bring this Love into your self-realizations formed in Leo, as you stride upon the many stages of your life, as you seek to be who you are by your actions and performances, as you become your own creator, the maker of yourself and your world too.

And, this is most important, as much as you will stretch in Leo to be true to who and what you are, to being witnessed as embodying the living Spirit in all that you do, you must equally know and understand that whoever is before you, that they are illumined by this same Divine Light as you.

This is the heart of the message of Leo; that you are here to shine like a star, to be the very embodiment of the Light and Love of the Divine. The Ancient Wisdom holds that long, long ago, we humans came as sparks of the Divine from a star, and that one fine day, eons from now, our spark of the Divine will become the heart of a very real star too. This is the Journey of Life-Spirit-Consciousness, we are made to shine, and we are here to shine for one another too.

In Cancer, by Water, you find your way to feel the whole of yourself, to be rooted in what, where and who you came from. In Leo, by Fire, you move out through your feelings into the realm of Emotions. The Fire that comes through all of us now, and always somewhere in your very own chart too, is the same as the Creative Spirit of the One, and it moves through you so that you may become yourself in ever more meaningful acts of Leadership, Creativity and Love.

But you must remember that you are here because of and for one another; that you are never alone, nor could you ever be you without the lives you have shared with so many others. In Leo you strive to bring out the best from yourself, and it is by your example that you inspire others to find within themselves the courage and joy to be their better selves too. This is Leo, this is true leadership; and this is what we do for one another. We see one another for who and what we really are, and we know the truth that is held in our heart which is Love.

We need one another. We need to be recognized, respected, and loved for who we are, as we in turn see, respect, and love our fellow humans for who they are. We trust one another because we hold to the same fundamental truth, that we are made by the Love of the One and we are here to Love and shine for one another.

This is the teaching; this is the way of the One.

Be Fearless, be Respectful, be Loving.

This is the way of the Lion.

The way of Leo.

Sun Enters Cancer (June 21, 2022)

Cancer, by Johfra Bosschart

 

The Center that is Everywhere

Today we reach one of the “Four Turnings” of the Zodiacal year. And the question we face in the Sign of Cancer is quite simply this, “Where do we come from”?

Our story is part of the Life of the One, the Story of Creation, which is the story of Spirit-Life-Consciousness. Guiding this unfolding Story of the One is the Zodiac, which is really the fundamental Field of Energy-Forms that form the Design Body of the Universe. This Field of Energy-Forms creates what we understand as the subtle body for all beings in the universe, whether they be an Atom, Molecule, Organism, Planet, Star, Galaxy and ultimately, of course, the One. The Zodiac is the Noumena behind all the Phenomena of Creation, as it is the Field of Meanings behind all manifestations in this Universe, and we can understand it as being like what is known in science as an electro-magnetic field of energy-forms. Seen this way, what we actually experience in our physical forms is like a Hologram, where intersecting energy-forms are aligned and formed into patterns of meaning that create the Matter-Forms that we perceive as substantial and real.

What this means is that contrary to our minds being fixated upon the physical realm, the Zodiac is not something “out there” in some part of outer space, as some have placed it in a band of constellations, that have been arranged or fashioned into a kind of wheel in our local area of the galaxy. Rather, the Zodiac is behind each and every particle of Creation, forming each Spark of the Divine by these 12 Vibrational Energy-Forms into a unique instance of Spirt-Matter, but which is equally indivisible and part of the one Energy-Form of the One. In a very real way, the Zodiac forms the “Master Aura” of the Universe, as it informs, shapes, and guides the development of each realm of being from a single grain of sand on up to the stars.

There is a very real hierarchy in Creation, from the most infinitesimal of particles on up through the planets, stars, and galaxies. For us humans here on Earth, we are each held in our own Auric Field of the Zodiac, which is in turn aligned to the Greater Aura of our Earth, which in turn is aligned with Zodiacal Auric Field of our Solar System, and then to the Zodiacal Field of our Galaxy. Each of these “zodiacs” is part of the One, and all are aligned to and correspond with one another. The ordering of the Universe is part of the One, that One “whose Center is Everywhere, and whose Circumference is Nowhere”, and we are all ones of the One.

What this means for today is that rather than saying that the Sun moves into Cancer today, what we should really understand is that the Energy-Form we call Cancer is being activated/actualized by the Sun at this time of the year. All who are born at this time of the year will have the Cancer Energy-Form as their Root Nature, forming their essential nature and purpose. Yet equally, we should all understand, that somewhere in our own charts, that somewhere in our own constitution, these meanings, stories, and feelings of Cancer are part of what makes us a whole person too.

So, what we wish to know is this, what is the essential nature that we know as Cancer? The answer is Cancer is the energy-form in which we call upon our feelings to help us make our way to the center of ourselves and our world. And equally, that it forms the source or root of our nature by which we move out with our feelings to care for one another too. All water signs deal with this realm of connectedness, with our feelings, with the love that is our center, which is truly the Love of the One.

In Cancer we go inwards to the root of this Love, to experience the care and love of family, to have a sense of where we come from, and what formed us and holds us with a sense of belonging to those who came before. And it is from this center that is Love by which we reach out with our caring for one another too. In Scorpio, we reach outwards to one another, to form our Combinations and Unions with one another, so that we might dance and create in the alchemical spaces of birth, death, and rebirth. And in Pisces we reach out to the beyond, to what is yet to be, to the realms of our higher Spirit, to our Living Faith, to our Dreams and Imagination, and by this spiritual chord of feeling we find our peace in the eternal connection with the ineffable and unknowable that is part of us and behind the whole of Creation too.

By Cancer, we feel and find our way to our center, that very same energy-form “Whose Center is Everywhere, and whose Circumference is Nowhere”. In Cancer we understand that we came from the One, and that the spark of the Divine is our true self, which is Divine Love.

We are here because of love, and we are here to love one another.

Where do we come from?

From love.

2022-6-12 Radio Show Transcript — Where are we now – Pluto, Neptune & Uranus?

Transcript of Radio Show: Where are we now – Pluto, Neptune & Uranus? (6/12/2022)

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Podcasts)

In just over one week, on June 21^st, we will find ourselves at one of the four great Turnings of the Astrological calendar, the Solstice of Cancer. Which makes this is a good time to pause and reconsider what are the major Astrological themes and messages that are being imparted to us by our planetary companions during this year.

As I will often remind my clients and write about in my blog as well as here on the radio show, I believe we should understand the positions of the planets in the Zodiac, and their alignments with one another as they orbit around the Sun, as forming a dynamic spiritual system of illuminations, meanings and inspirations which can help us to better understand ourselves and our journey here on Earth.

The messages and meanings of a particular alignment of one planet to another, or indeed of them all, is formed by our understanding of the spiritual qualities that are held in each sign of the zodiac, combined with the qualities of being that are held by each planet. However, what this cannot determine nor indicate is the actual circumstances of the phenomena in question. The Zodiac and the planets do not form the actual content of any experience or event in question on any level of manifestation, whether we look at the atomic or chemical microcosms in their spirals and vortices of combinations, or at the more complex organic kingdoms, and indeed all the way up to the human kingdom and beyond. Each realm of being, each realm of life, creates and forms its own materials of manifestation, their own realities.

It is in this unfoldment of Spirit, in its multiple dimensions and realms of becoming, it is here we find the great pageantry of Spirit-Life-Consciousness, and that for everything and everyone we can note the birth or beginning of a manifestation, then follow the “Arc of Becoming” in that Energy-Form, and eventually we will come to, in this realm of physical being, the end of that form which many may misunderstand as Death. Because this is Truth, the entire Universe is alive and conscious and ceaselessly becomes the body of the One by means of these dances of Spirit through Space-Time, the whirling dancers of Light who weave the stories of Birth-Life-Death and Re-Birth.

So, what we can obtain through Astrology is a deeper understanding as to the nature of what was born (by examining the natal chart of that Life-Form or Entity), and then equally understand the Arc of its Existence as formed by the cycles of the planets between themselves and by the alignments they make to the chart of that being.

For our purposes as humans, as we seek to understand our human creation, our “self-made selves”, and our experiences in the world, that is to say the world we live and walk through each and every day, all the events and processes of our human lives, the disparate range of opportunities and dangers that we face, the joy or the suffering we encounter, all of this is our very own human reality and creation. We are responsible for this, as it is we who have made our world. Yes indeed, the very great part our reality has been made by us, passed down to us our ancestors, as it is we in turn who our forging our present-day reality on Earth, and at the same time creating the conditions for those who will follow us. As Shakespeare so clearly put it in his play “Julius Caesar”, when Cassius says to Brutus,

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

The whole purpose behind Creation, the essential nature of Spirit, is to be and become, to move from non-being into beingness by unfolding and extending from the spiritual hierarchies into the hierarchies of realities or of manifestations of which we humans are one part. We are here for one thing, to learn to be better humans, to become better creators and to take responsibility for what was passed down to us, and even more carefully with what we will bequeath to our descendants. So let us turn to our review of the major current influences as revealed to us by our companions in the heavens.

I want to stress as I have many times before, that if we look to one planet’s position, or to one planet aligning with a planet in a particular chart, we will fail to understand the full meaning and measure of what has happened or will happen. Though Astrologer’s will focus upon one factor or another as they determine the nature of an entity, or to determine what that entity is experiencing, the only way to truly understand is to try to hold all these indications and influences as being what they are, part of a larger and integral whole. Nevertheless, we will begin as we have done many times before, by considering the meanings and messages of the three outermost planets, Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus.

Pluto
Since 2008 and running until 2024, Pluto has been making its once in every 245 years passage through the sign of Capricorn. As I have noted before, when Pluto (which is the planet that rules the processes of birth-death-rebirth), passes through the sign that rules the forms of Reality and Institutional order, Capricorn, that these periods have been characterized by the ending of a particular Socio-Political system and the rise of a new order in history. Whether we look to the previous passages of 1762 to 1778, (which was the ending leading to the beginning and the birth of our present order), or to 1516 to 1532 or even to 1269 to 1287, each of these times heralded the “end of an age” and the seeding or beginning of a new one.

What happens during such a period is brought about because the solutions that were formed and made into a new Socio-Political order, restructurings which were needed to resolve the problems that the previous age had created, these solutions and restructurings for that previous crisis bring about their very own problems over time. This is because the nature of the solutions of the previous order’s crisis creates over the next 250 years their own series or sets of problems, and the now existing order cannot resolve the inherent contradictions it now faces. The breakdown of the old ordering of institutions ultimately creates a catharsis of transformation, of death and rebirth, leading to actions and reactions that will eventually coalesce into the seeding of a new order in the next passage of Pluto, and that is when Pluto moves through the sign of Aquarius. The last periods for Pluto in Aquarius were from 1778 to 1798 and 1532 to 1553. Though we are going through the ending of an Age, and it is hard as we have seen, given the history of what happened in those previous times with Pluto in Aquarius, we must understand there will be much work to do to bring about our new Order from 2024 onwards.

Pluto is the vessel of the Will, of Power of Control, and as it goes through Capricorn, we have seen the last gasps of the old orders of power and the beginnings of a new understanding about Will and Power rise and emerge from this deconstruction.

But as I noted before, without considering the next outer planet, we will miss a big part of what is happening during each passage of Pluto in Capricorn.

Neptune
In a previous show I noted the integral relationship of the passages of Neptune during the period when Pluto was in Capricorn. Because of the nature of their orbital time periods, it turns out that while Pluto is in Capricorn, Neptune will be in either Pisces or Virgo for much of that time. I find this correspondence to be extremely interesting and helpful in understanding the differences we can see between one period of Pluto in Capricorn and the next.

Whereas Pluto holds as the Avatar of the Will and Power, Neptune holds as the Avatar of Belief and Faith. The influence of Neptune moving through the Signs can be seen as the story of the unfoldment for shifts in Consciousness, because Neptune holds the Dreams and Illuminations, which may soar to the greatest heights of Unconditional Love and yet at other times devolve into Illusions, as to how Reality is conceived, experienced, and lived.

In our period of Pluto in Capricorn from 2008 to 2024, Neptune has been in Pisces from 2011 and remains there until 2026. Whereas in the previous period of 1762 to 1778 it was in Virgo, and then in Pluto’s Capricorn passage from 1516 to 1532 it was in Pisces like in our period. That indicates to me that our time of 2008 to 2024 is much more like the 1500’s than the 1700’s; our time is more Piscean in nature while the 1700’s was more Virgoan. What might that mean?

For me, the periods with Neptune in Virgo would be more about order and structure, more practical and critical with regards to the shifts of faith that were occurring in the 1700’s. Whereas in the 1500’s as now with Neptune in Pisces, I would see that as the most likely to produce the widest swings in matters of belief and faith, of dreams and fears. That is because when Neptune is in Pisces the boundaries between the various realms of life and meaning are more protean and permeable. Certainly, in Europe in the 1500’s, the split of the Catholic church into numerous protestant faiths, along with the rise of a new political economy, was accompanied by extreme expressions of fervent devotion, and tremendous divisions between peoples and faiths as to what constituted truth and what was real.

That struggle over the “phenomenal architecture” of the world, where there is a very real struggle over the very nature of good and evil, of what is right and wrong, between the light and the darkness, well that seems to be prevailing again in our time. Whereas the crisis in the 1700’s presented itself as a struggle about the political order, of the struggle between an order based on the Hierarchy of King and Subjects versus the Right to Self-Determination, in our time as in the 1500’s, it seems that the divisions between individuals and groups has a more extreme quality, in that it is characterized by a fundamental split as to the nature of reality itself. There are so many competing stories of what is true, versus half-truths versus what is seriously delusional that we cannot even agree to listen to one another, and we certainly do not understand one another.

The structure of Will and Power in any construct, is made meaningful, believable, and true by the Faith and Dreams of that time. For the Plutonian Will to work, it must be guided, shaped, and yet equally restrained by the Neptunian message of the Divine, which is ultimately experienced as Unconditional Love. When this balance breaks down, as we see all around us now, we find a world where Institutions fail to fulfill their mission, and the people see the promise of a better world forsaken, and we equally see the authorities charged with the responsibilities to address the needs of the times, failing to do enough of what is right for the common good, or abusing their power for selfish ends. Hope is lost in the fog and confusion of a world that no longer makes sense or works. As William Butler Yeats famously wrote in his poem “The Second Coming”:

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold…The best lack all conviction, while the worst 
Are full of passionate intensity.”

We will see what the next passage of Neptune will bring, when it makes the shift from Pisces into Aries in 2026. Just as Pluto in Aquarius indicates the great work of building a new order will have begun, that re-birth of Pluto will be guided and inspired (as it was in the 1500’s) by Neptune’s movement through Aries.

Uranus
To complete the overview for our present time, we need to bring in the third Avatar of the triad of Spirit, Uranus. It is the purpose of Uranus to hold the Innovative, Creative and Mindful nature of Spirit. As much as Neptune rules and holds the questions of Faith, Uranus brings in the counterpoint of Reason and Critical thinking. Together they hold the Energy-Forms of the Reasoning Mind and the Intuitional Spirit. They can also be seen as the holders of the integral relationship between Individuality (Uranus) and Communality (Neptune). Both these qualities are necessary, but they vary in their intensity and integration, sometimes in balance with one another and sometimes one prevailing as more dominant in different societies and times.

As we have noted often, Uranus’ position during this period seems significant too, as it is moving through the Sign of Taurus from 2018 to 2026. Taurus is the vessel of Value, and from it we eventually come to understand that what stands behind all measures and manifestations of value is the one everlasting Value, Divine Unconditional Love; that everything and every being is a spark of the Divine, and all are precious in the Love that is the One.

What this means as Uranus moves through Taurus is that our understanding and experience of value is being “shook up” by Uranus, which is also known as the ruler of shocks, surprises, and earthquakes. Uranus shakes us and breaks us from our attachments to lesser understandings (in this case with regards to the question of our values and hierarchy of value), not to harm and disturb us but to wake us up, to make us open our eyes with wonder again. Uranus is the liberator, and it helps us to be free from self-made filters that limit our understanding; it brings the gift of an open mind so that we might see once again, “with the eyes of a child”.

I have also noted that Uranus holds a special relationship of correspondence with Neptune (that is like the harmonics of Neptune with Pluto), in that one orbit of Neptune equals two of Uranus. Uranus is in Taurus every 84 years or so, and the last times were, 1935 to 1942, 1851 to 1859 and 1768 to 1775. In world history, and certainly for American history, those years stand out as moments when earthquakes shook the world of ideas for the concepts of value. For our period, the period most like our own is 1851 to 1859, which were the lead up to our Civil War, and that is the last time that Neptune was in Pisces while Uranus was in Taurus, just like now. Once again, we have the alternation of Neptune being in Pisces or Virgo, while Uranus moves through Taurus. Once again, we are at a time that bears a striking resemblance to another time in history, and much the same themes as to how we value one another are before us once again. 

In our present time we are once again faced with the Plutonian realm of Will and Power breaking down institutionally, so that the hierarchy of order and responsibility fails, and individuals and groups assume their own authority to challenge the existing order, to wield their uncentered and so unspiritual power, laying claim to rights that are not rooted in truth, as for example seen in the seditious mob shouting as they stormed the Capitol on January 6^th saying, “this is our house”.

We find that the Neptunian Realm of Faith and Belief, no longer held together by a functioning hierarchy of institutional structures, devolving into each person and group assuming their right to be the determiner of what is true or false, and so our common understanding is broken, and half-truths rooted in fear fuel an atmosphere filled with suspicions, mistrust, and isolation.

Finally, the gift of Uranus, of having the capacity to think “outside the ordinary”, to be a contrarian, devolves into unmoored assertions of fictions as fact, as a veritable tsunami of lies swamps the realm of mind, so that the act of being contrary is not to help free one another’s minds but is used as a battering ram to sow confusion and doubt where nothing is true, and so everything become impossible.

Given where we are, what are we do? I do have hope, as I do know that humans have faced the darkest of hours and still found their way back into the light. Why? Because the Light never left, nor will it ever go out. The Light of the One it is at the heart of each and every one of us. We only need to remember, who and what we are, and then act by and through that understanding. In all that we do, we must remain centered and purposeful with the wisdom that begins with this, that the Universe is formed by Love and is made of Truth.

When we do stand fast and aligned with our spirit, we know that there is truth, and it is love. We know that there is hope because we have faith. We know that our faith is not rooted in a teaching or a book, but it is instead a living faith founded upon the spark of the Divine shining in every one of us. When we listen to that quiet, gentle voice reminding us of who we are, then we will know what to do and how to do it.

We are on the path of Light; and that Light is Love.

Astrological Musings — Where are we now? (June 12, 2022)

In my fifth show of 2022, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at the Astrological conditions that are most relevant for understanding what is unfolding in 2022. Since we are days away from the Cancer Solstice, it is a good time to review the major themes of this year.

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Here is the link to the show on Sunday June 12^th @ 2 pm EDT:

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