Astrologer Bill Attride

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2018 – Sun Enters Sagittarius and other considerations (Saturday November 24, 2018 @ 2 pm EST)

Astrological Musings – Sun Enters Sagittarius and other considerations (Saturday November 24, 2018)

In my eleventh show of 2018, I will speak about the Sun entering the Sign of Sagittarius, and then look at what might mean for you by looking at Planets in Sagittarius as well as the Sign of Sagittarius on the House cusps. I may also comment on recent shifts of Astrological weather such as Mercury turning retrograde.

As before, I will answer your questions during the show, whether on these topics or some other matter, including personal questions about your astrological chart. If you do wish to ask a personal question, please be ready to provide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Saturday November 24^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/24/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-sun-enters-sagittarius

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

Please join me on Saturday November 24^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 22, 2018)

“Once upon a time…”

That is how you began to understand, and how you will return home someday. When you became self-aware, when you rose from innocence to self-consciousness you became a story-teller, a keeper of knowledge and a sharer of wisdom, and this marked the quickening of the divine within you. This is when you joined that sacred company, a procession of luminous hosts who are conscious co-creators of Creation too.

We have been storytellers for a very, very long time. In sagas and songs, while hunting and gathering, while planting or reaping, when sitting around the campfire or breaking bread together. We shared our experiences with one another, we informed and reformed one another, and that is how we are the very instruments of awakening for one another.

We told our stories and deepened our understanding of the world and of one another. We passed on by sounds, symbols and signs, in songs and science, in philosophy and common sense too. We discovered and re-discovered the story of us, the story of spirit.

And, most preciously and lovingly, we were able to sip from the cup of Wisdom offered by those who had come this way long ago. We laughed and cried and shared with one another, and as we woke up, we moved out of the darkness and into that divine space of the Creator…We began to consciously re-make ourselves and our world too.  

Your journey is founded upon a path of awakening, of moving from unself-conscious awareness to fully formed Cosmic Consciousness. Yes, you have come a very long way, but you have further to go before you will be welcomed into the Celestial company known as the Masters of Compassion and Contemplation.

You have just completed another arduous passage through the realm known as Scorpio, where your mortal body and Immortal Soul meet in the crucible of Union with your beloved. You sought to bridge the seeming divide between yourself and one another. You faced the absolutes within and around you, of Darkness and Light, of Death and Re-birth and you were left speechless by the agony and joy of your journey, an Immortal who moves through these very mortal realms.

Whenever (and wherever in your chart) you find yourself in the realm of Scorpio, you are able to lift the Veil of Isis and experience a little more of the mystery of Creation. There are no words when you walk this razor’s edge of Life and Death. When you are in the In-Between, when you experience the Void and the Fullness as One you are left speechless, and this is how it should be. You stand in the presence of that which is beyond what you can understand, and you must bow your head and wait for a greater understanding.

Today you move into the Realm of Sagittarius, the realm of Philosophy, Science and Religion, and the Reality-Truth that stands behind them all. These form the Temple of Light, and you will learn from ancient sages and modern-day scientists, and you will give thanks to great scholars and your humble fellow seekers too. You will seek and search in ancient writings and find they are echoed in modern-day texts and tales. What is true does not change, it is only your understanding which becomes deeper and more encompassing, and this will remind you that this gift of wisdom is forged through the deepening of your humility.

And some of these truths, the most sacred, will be relayed in stories whispered from “mouth to ear”, (for there are some things that may not be written down even now). From each of these paths you will eventually find your way to the one Eternal Path that holds them all. Yes, as you begin to awaken, as your knowledge turns to the “Greater Understanding”, which is forged by Unconditional Love and held firm by your Centered Will, you will enter that precious realm that illuminates the firmament like a Ribbon of Light. Yes, you will enter the Inner Sanctum, the “holy of holies” formed by the Sages and Seers of the Ancient Wisdom.

For you must know this, you are not the first to come this way, and your civilization is not the finest nor the highest that has ever been. There are many great souls who have come this way before, who also struggled to lift the shadows from their minds and hearts and reach for the light as do you. They found, as you will too, that the truth “out there” was only able to be seen because it was equally within their very own nature too.

There is but One Spirit, One Life, and the One Force binding all to all which is Love. That is why you can and will understand, and you will separate the wheat from the chaff during your journey to the Light, because your Intuition and Mind will align to the truth within and around you, for “as Above, so Below”.  

Today you begin to find your words and now you can tell your story. But know this, you must even more importantly listen to the countless stories of many, many others too. For this is how you refine your understanding, and how they refine theirs. Each of your discoveries and insights is only made possible by your sharing, comparing, contrasting, correcting and so making better your stories with, by and for another.

This is your path of Truth. You cannot be you without one another.

You need one another because you have become who and what you are because of their stories, as they need you because all your stories have made them too.

It is time to gather together.

It is time to sing, and dance and break bread together.

It is time to tell our stories to one another.

It is time to be thankful for one another.

It is time to remember the Wisdom of Love.

Venus Turns Direct (November 16, 2018) Mercury Turns Retrograde (November 16 — December 6, 2018)

Peace of Mind

What I like to call “The Dance of the Planets”, is certainly evident today! Venus, which has been sailing backwards for over 40 days through Scorpio, and more recently Libra, turns Direct today; and, within hours of that shift Mercury turns retrograde for 21 days, until December 6^th. It is not often that you will experience a double-shift of planetary motions like this, so you would be wise to consider what these modulations mean for you.

The 42 days of Venus retrograde were a time to go within yourself, a pause to allow you to dig deep into the nature of your experience of Value, Beauty and Love. Venus is your Avatar of Love and she reminds you that within you is a Supernal Light, which you will equally see as the light shining through the eyes of those who love you too.

With Venus retrograde, you were offered another opportunity to consider the true nature and source of your Value, which is that you are a spark of the Divine and your true worth or value is beyond measure; and to see that what is all around you, this radiant world of Beauty, is shining precisely because that same Divine energy sparkles through the entirety of Creation; and, to know that what is there within you, what you know and feel as the Love of the One, is equally a guide for you as to how you must be with one another, for you are here quite simply to love one another as you are loved too.

The lesson of Venus retrograde reminds you that “true love” is never to be found “out there”, until you have met your beloved within you. Until you experience the inner marriage of your self with your Self, you cannot truly see or find the love that is all around you too.

Now that Venus is moving forward once again, you are ready to relate to yourself and your world with a new-found assurance of your own value, which is beyond questioning since you are formed by spiritual love; and you have a better understanding and appreciation for the beauty in your world; and, you are more aware that the love you share with one another is the whole reason for this life, for you are truly here for one another.

But today you will equally feel a shudder, shake (and you will have to roll), as Mercury pauses and turns around one more time this year. Yes, yes it seems that whenever this happens life seems to get even more complicated, confusing and frustrating. Although it seems “the gremlins are let loose” during such a time, you should know by now that your fate is in your hands, and it is not Mercury’s purpose to mess with your life.

The reason life seems to become more challenging at times like these is because you have failed to notice the changing conditions of your own mind, and equally failed to appreciate how the general mentality and nature of communications have been altered. You are here to “Wake Up” and so you need to pay attention to these shifts of energy-forms and work with them. Mercury retrograde is here to help you. It is here to help you to let go of your misunderstandings, doubts and fears which have prevented you from living in the Greater Reality.

On the heels of re-evaluating your experience of value, beauty and love in Venus Retrograde, you will now be asked to consider once more the way in which you think about yourself and your world. That is what Mercury retrograde is for. It is meant to be a time of introspection and reflection; it is a precious opportunity for review and repair of your perceptions and consciousness.

If we lived in a culture that accepted and accommodated these shifts of spiritual energy, then we would all make time to calmly go within and earnestly consider how we make our reality through our thoughts. We would be able to bend our thoughts back upon ourselves and be more self-critical and self-aware, as we quietly considered and re-centered our mentality.

But we live in a culture that is careening from one crisis to another, and we work harder and harder, live faster and faster, and there seems no time to catch one’s breath, let alone time to contemplate, step back and consider what is really happening. We are all “in the moment”, but we are rarely present or prepared to make the best of it before the next shock to our equilibrium is upon us. But you must remember this, the only thing you can and must control is yourself, and this starts with your mind.

Mercury retrograde offers you a time to pause precisely because you cannot “go forward” easily now, because you are supposed to “go in” now before you “go out”. You need to reflect and collect your thoughts and become clearer and calmer.

Right Thinking is something to work for, strive for and it is essential in times like these so that you may separate the wheat from the chaff in your world. This is truly something that you should do every single day. A self-aware person, a more centered and balanced individual, will begin every day with mental preparations of attunement and alignment; and then they will hold themselves in quietude and self-observation throughout the day; and then they will finish their day with a time for review of what was right or wrong in that day, and so prepare to meet the world with a clearer consciousness tomorrow.

The way to do this, the way to begin to establish your mind in a place of peace, is to anchor your mind upon the firm foundations of fundamental truths. Whether Western or Eastern, the Perennial Truths are the same the world over and they will provide comfort and guidance no matter what is troubling you today.

This is the true meaning and message of Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius; it is time to return to the bedrock of Truth found in all great teachings. Turn away from the noise and chatter, away from mere opinions and half-truths. Do not entertain these nor pass them on. Your mind is your sacred temple for understanding, and your mind must be clear and not shadowed by fear.

Return to the sources of Wisdom, which you feel and know to be true because all these sacred stories of spirit are there in your heart as they are written for you in the stars above too.

May Hermes show you the way out of the darkness.

Let Mercury retrograde release you from fear.

With your Mind truly open, and your heart full of Love.

May you be wise as a serpent, and gentle as a dove.

Jupiter Enters Sagittarius – The Temple of Truth – (November 8, 2018 — December 12, 2019)

The Temple of Truth

At the heart of every teaching, like a river of light, there abides an ever-lasting stream of consciousness, known to the Keepers of the Flame, as the Hierarchy of the Shining Ones. These Shining Ones or Devas are the Lords of Meditation and Cosmic Wisdom.

This is Truth: Creation, all of it, from the most infinitesimal to the Stars and Galaxies and beyond, all of it, all of “That” is alive and shining. The whole of Creation is self-luminous because it is formed by the One Spirit, by the Light of Divine Consciousness. This Creation is in turn shaped by the Mind, Love and Will of the innumerable many ones who together form the radiant body of the One.

The very reason you can understand anything at all is because this entire Creation, all that is around you, that which you seek to experience as real and true in your world, this is also the very same Energy-Form that makes you too. That is why you can know and understand because, “I am That, I am”.

Through all the Kingdoms and Hierarchies of Creation it is understood that all of it, all of “That”, is part of the One Life, which from the highest to the lowest is formed, “As above, so below; as inwardly, so outwardly”. You are here because you are part of the One Life, you are here as a monad of Spirit, you are the “Self-That-Is-Becoming”. You are here quite simply “to live and learn and grow” into your full Divinity. This journey of becoming requires of you to know who and what you are, and to remember why you are here.

If you wish to lift the “Veil of Isis”, if you wish to remove the scales from your eyes and know the truth of all of “That”, well there are many ways and many paths that will bring you into the “Greater Understanding”. But there is one certain path of awakening that begins in your heart and holds you in the warmth of the everlasting light of the One. The gentle guidance of your higher self has but one simple but profound assurance, and the certain path that will lead you out of darkness and into the light is simply to follow the great injunction, “Know Thyself”.

Today Jupiter returns home, to its very own Sign of Sagittarius, today Jupiter returns to the sacred Temple of Truth. For over the past twelve months, Jupiter has been moving through the Sign of Scorpio, what I like to call the space in which we encounter the truth behind all lesser truths: “You are an Immortal, but you move through Mortal Realms”.

In Scorpio, you move into that mysterious place of alchemy where two become one, where you let go of the lesser within you in order to grow into your greatness together. It is in this sacred space that you experience Re-Birth by true sacrifice, and so become even truer to yourself too. But in such a realm of the highest heights and the deepest depths, you will find that in this sacred space of Union that you are rendered mute, there are no words for what you encounter here.

In Scorpio you meet the mysteries of Birth and Life, and so-called Death as you move through countless Rebirths; you find you are humbled and rendered speechless, wordless, by experiences that take you beyond your lower mind of this or that and into the space of Intuitional Knowing or “Heart-Mind”, which is not tethered to duality. But, because of this experience, of finding yourself in this unfamiliar space there are “no words”, there can be no knowing of what you have just experienced just yet. Instead you face the eternal Dualities propelling down your Path and you ask yourself, “Am I Faithful or Fearful”, for now you know your Immortality and Mortality too, and the greater truth that holds them to one another, and you will come to know you are here to be both yet beyond them too.

But now, today, you enter the Space of Sagittarius…and here you “will find your words”. Here in the realm of Eternal Truths and the Halls of Wisdom you will stretch your mind and heart to comprehend. You will read a great novel or book on philosophy; you will listen to wise ones who have equally found their humility, and you will marvel at modern scientific discoveries, and marvel even more how they echo what was known thousands of years before. You will travel in your mind and by your body, and most importantly and reverently, you will listen to that quiet voice within you, as you seek to align what is within and around you to move beyond the known into the great unknown…and yet, oh yes, it is also eerily, yet reassuringly, so very familiar too.

You will find your words, so you can share your story with one another, and they will share theirs with you. You will walk together, break bread together and do what we have done for thousands and thousands of years…you will tell one another stories. You will drink from the Cup of Wisdom and add your fair measure too into this Living Temple of Truth. For this is how it is done.

All that we have, all that is around us in arts and culture, in civilization and refinements, in communities and meaningfulness is because we have laughed and cried, shared and imagined, and built and re-built with one another time and time again. We owe all of this to our capacity to learn from one another, to share and discuss and argue and reason with one another, for this is how we learn to do better, this is how we become better, and by this we may discover and establish what is truly true.

We find our truth out there, because it is mirrored most perfectly in our inner sanctum of self. Because those very same truths that shape our hearts and minds and love for one another have formed our world and this universe too. All you are asked to do is open your mind and open your heart and you will see the Light.

Jupiter is moving into Sagittarius…

It is time to tell your stories to one another.

It is time to drink from the Well of Wisdom.

It is time to stand in the Light of the Greater Understanding.

It is time to Live for and by the Truth.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2018 – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagittarius (Sunday November 4, 2018 @ 2 pm EST)

Astrological Musings – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagittarius (Sunday November 4, 2018)

In my tenth show of 2018 I will talk about this year in Astrology and where we are right now. There are two major Universal influences we need to consider that explain much of what we are experiencing, and one historical alignment that shines a light upon the principle challenge being encountered by the United States. If we have time, I will also consider the significance of Jupiter entering Sagittarius on Thursday November 8^th.

As before, I will answer your questions during the show, whether on these topics or some other matter, including personal questions about your astrological chart. If you do wish to ask a personal question, please be ready to provide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

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: 

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sunday November 4^th @ 2 pm EST:

 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/04/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-where-are-we-nowjupiter-enters-sagittarius

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 November 4^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 23, 2018)

 

At play in the Fields of the One…

It is time to face the Truth. You are on a never-ending journey of Spirit-Life-Consciousness, moving through worlds, forms and lives; it is a journey of unfoldment and self-becoming that takes you from a mere spark of unself-conscious divinity to a fully awakened co-creator of Creation.

But the question remains, who are you? It is natural to look upon oneself and it seems quite simple really; you perceive/experience your body and it is that which defines the content and circumference of your nature. You perceive the truth as, “I am this; and you are that.” But you are here to learn that this is one of the most important illusions you have fallen into by taking on this mortal form.

You are not this body, oh no, you are much more than this…You are a host of energy-forms, a weaving of fields that together form what you know as yourself. And most importantly, and equally, you are making your way through innumerable fields of energy-forms around yourself too. For this is the nature of the One True Reality; it is not composed of discrete things or parts. You are a sparkling field of energy-forms who with innumerable others moves through the luminous “Fields of Life and Love” that is the One.

Reality is a Field, it is “the One”, who is in turn composed and formed by the many lesser wholes ranging from the fields known as atoms and molecules and elements and compounds, to plants, creatures, worlds and stars. All of these are not as you imagine or perceive; all of these are not “things” or “particles” as seen in the Atomistic view. In the Ancient Wisdom as in the New Science, all of reality is formed by systems, a great Hierarchy of Wholes; what is real is not a thing, but instead it is vibrations or waves. Truly, Creation is “the Word” made manifest; this beautiful melody of Light is the Song of Spirit.

Reality is formed by this Hierarchy of wholes. Each lesser whole, (in human terms, one such as yourself), is seemingly discrete for itself, but it abides in, as it is informed and shaped by all the greater and more encompassing wholes (for example of family, friends, communities). These innumerable wholes in every kingdom or realm, like wheels within wheels, ultimately resolves into the holiest of wholes, the One.

That is why, whether approaching this question from “the West” with Quantum Physics, or from “the East” and the Ancient Teachings, Reality is understood as a Field of Wholes that form a complex array of relationships with one another. Or, as I am fond of saying, this entire Creation is the body of The One, and what we are moving through, and what moves through and around us, is the Life and Love of the One, it is the sacred and luminous Song and Dance of Spirit.

Throughout your life-journey you will go through many realms that challenge you to become more complete, to be more whole, to be more the you that is becoming, and none is greater than this space-time you enter by Scorpio. You prepare yourself for this by what you learn in the fields of Libra.

In the space of Libra, wherever that may be in your chart, you learn how to create ever more socially intelligent forms of relationship. You are reminded that whomever is before you is “another you”, so to be with any other you have only one truth to guide your way: “That you are to be as equally fair to them as you would be for yourself; that you must do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. But now comes the time of Scorpio, and the greater challenge and the greater reward is now at hand; now you must utterly break your illusion of being separate and apart from one another, now you two must become one.

Yes, it is in the realm of Scorpio that you confront the greatest illusion and experience the truest of Truths: You are here for one another, you are what you have become because of one another, and you cannot be or become what you are to be unless you love and join with one another.

You have been formed and informed from your first breath, (and in your turn, you have done likewise) by all with whom you journey, from Fathers/Mothers, Aunts/Uncles, Sisters/Brothers, Grandparents, friends and strangers too. Your sense and sensibilities, your thoughts and principles, most of what you call “you”, is the consequence of moving through those spaces, the fields of energy transfers with all with whom you travel. Their sensibilities, feelings, thoughts and truths became yours, and yours theirs.

But here in the realm of Scorpio you must consciously, willingly and lovingly find the way to join with one another in Union. One human being, alone and by itself, is meaningless, impossible to imagine or even be, for we are nothing without one another, and could not become human without our shared shaping and creating of one another. The individual or “I" comes out of the many we or “us”. Though we may believe that “I made me”, it is fundamentally true that “we made we”, and we made every “I” too.

In the space of Scorpio, when two (or the many) are joined in common purpose and intention, when we each surrender the lesser within us so that we might build upon, expand and transform the greater that is within and between us, it is then that we truly move closer to our true nature, we take another step in becoming full awakened humans.

To forge our greater Union, we each contribute what we can and give up what we must. We elicit from one another the quickening of our potentialities, molding, transforming and revealing more of what we are through our combination with one another. We move closer to one another, become more one with one another, and yet we also by this come closer to our true self too. We reach out to one another, only to see the greater truth of who and what we are through one another. That by drawing closer to them, by letting go of the lesser of us we discover our truer self too. Yes, we two become one and yet we are also, each of us, revealed as one of kind too.   

Scorpio is the Realm of Alchemy, it is the space where we let go and grow. In Scorpio you face the Fear of Rejection and Loss, and you learn to be fearless. You learn you are not, nor can you ever be alone or lost. Here in the space of Scorpio we unite, we are re-born through love and sacrifice, and by self-transcendence we free ourselves from fear. We know we move through mortal forms; but our laughter and love, our dancing and songs, this spirit will live on and on forever.

Scorpio is the shining heart of Life-Spirit-Consciousness; it is the space where we break from the shadow, as we dance and play in the Fields of the One.

That is what and who we are…we are Singers, we are Dancers, we are the Creators of one another and we have just begun to shine.

We have made who we are, and it is by and through one another that we will make our truer selves revealed.

We are the ones of the One, dancing and singing our Creation song.

We are all for one, and One for all.

And we will Shine on.

Venus Turns Retrograde (October 4 — November 16, 2018)

Venus, who is your Avatar of Value, Beauty and Love, is turning around once again. She does this about every 19 months or so and remains retrograde for about 40-plus days. This time she will turn retrograde on October 4^th, reach the midpoint of her dance “backwards” as she aligns with the Sun on October 26^th, (where you may be rewarded with a new-found truth about love and beauty), and turn direct on November 16^th. (That date is quite interesting, as it the same day that Mercury turns retrograde once again).

Whenever a planet is retrograde it affords an opportunity for you to re-examine, to go on an inner journey of exploration and discovery; it heralds a time to turn within and to more deeply understand the realm and functions for that planet.

Over the next 42 days, you will be well rewarded if you take more time to re-consider, to pause and reflect upon your own life and recent events, to question the very nature of what is “value” to you, to your loved ones and for one and all.

Spiritually, the everlasting Fountain-Source of Value comes from this one essential truth. That all of Creation is the Love of the One shining through every speck and mote of Creation, for everything in this Universe is “alive”; The One is shining through one and all with the everlasting Light of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

For this retrograde, Venus begins to move backwards through the Sign of Scorpio, the very sign that brings you to the Truth of your indisputable connection with one another, and so equally with this wondrous, beautiful Creation that is all around you (and, you must understand, is you too).

Yes, in Scorpio you must confront “The Great Illusion” which is your experience as being separate from this Ocean of Life; we as “Human” fall into untold error and pain as we move in and out of these mortal frames, because they most definitely seem to create the irrefutable fact that everything is distinct and separate from everything else. And from this error we then create divisions between and among ourselves. We stumble and fall into countless errors of experiencing one another differently, and from misunderstanding and fear we relate to some more as subjects, and others, those we feel are not as us, we may treat them more and more as objects. We divide ourselves from our higher self and we “fall” into error, because we forget who and what we truly are.

But in Scorpio, and with Venus in Scorpio certainly, we are moved by our need and desire to attempt to reach beyond our separate self, to break the bonds of loneliness and fear and connect to that one special other (or attempt to join with several others in some enterprise or group effort)…And what we discover every time, through this Alchemical blending-combining-transforming realm, we encounter in this sacred space the agony and ecstasy of Scorpio, we experience the gift of self-transcendence and re-birth. That by sacrificing what is the lesser within us in order to form the union, and by equally affirming what is the greater and truly shared between us, it is by this death and re-birth that we encounter the greatest Truth…That ever and always at the core of each of us, and equally found in this newly created center that we share in our Union, we encounter that all of Life is One. And, we feel and know that the energy-form that binds together one and all, well that is Love. It is the force that holds all of us and Creation together as we were and are, and as we will ever be. We come back to where we started, as one of the ones of the One, and so we know we are here to love and be loved.

Yes, in this time of soul-searching, where you may understand the pain of loss and the joy of union that the retrograde of Scorpio in Venus holds for you, you will smile and be most grateful for these reminders of your divinity and true nature. You are here to be fearless; you are here to love.

You are immortal, yet you are here in a very mortal realm that requires that you move from life to life, and you will experience the ecstasy of moving beyond your separation from one another to the joy of being one with one another…and all of this, this great song and dance of spirit, it is all for you in order to bring you back, with wisdom and grace and love to the knowing that you were and always will be loved…for you are.

Because that is what you are…

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here quite simply to see the other, any other, as yourself…

Because this is truth and it shines through in the darkest of hours.

It comes from your heart, it is in your soul.

You are a most precious spark of the Divine; and so is the one before you too.

You are here to love and be loved.

There is but one truth; there is the one true way.

Just love one another.

Sun Enters Libra (September 22, 2018)

Out of many, One

There is but One Spirit.
There is but One Life.
There is only One, formed into the many ones.

Your “Illusion of Existence” is formed by your serial progression through Worlds, Forms, and Lives that in each instance appear as separate and distinct from all that surrounds you. But you must understand that these particles of matter, these wondrous bodies that you require upon any mortal plane, are not what you are made of. They are merely what you have formed for yourself out of the one Substance, Spirit-Matter, which is the One Eternal Essence behind all these lesser forms.

Remember, you, and all of Creation, that you are Spirit and as all in this Creation from the most infinitesimal on up to the Planetary Systems and Galaxies and beyond, all of these Energy-Forms are the Living realization forged by the One, the Immortal spark of the Divine. The entire Universe, and you, are a precious part of the One Divine Life, and the illusion of existence is that you are separate from all of this, and that you must find some means of being made connected and whole within yourself and your world.

But this is your illusion, because you are always and forever whole within yourself as you are equally part of these greater fields and energies that surround you too. You are “whole”, you are a whole whose very existence is formed by ever more encompassing fields of Energy-Forms or Wholes that ultimately are experienced as the One, or God or Spirit.

You began your peregrinations in this Cosmic Cycle as an unself-conscious spark of the Divine, a precious Monad of Spirit who went spiraling out into the Cosmos to help form and become that very Cosmos, the living body of the One.

But, you must also remember this…you were not nor would you ever, (or could you ever) be alone. You went forth with countless “brothers and sisters”, a host of many hosts, countless sparks of the Divine, went forth to make this Universe. You and your companions, at this stage of your self-becoming, have journeyed forth to become a fully formed human, to become fully awakened humans by the end of this cosmic cycle.

Today you enter that most special space of Zodiacal Energy-Form, that sacred space that is at the core of your experience of being whole and equally being made by and being part of all these greater wholes too. Today you enter time of the Year that we celebrate the Space of Libra.

For no matter what your Sun Sign, there is some special part of you that is held in and formed by this Energy-Form of Libra. How could you not? For Libra is the Sign of Relationship, and you are most certainly “you”, a sparkling dewdrop of the One Living Spirit because of all these “relations” that are within and around you. You are indeed you precisely because you have been made by all the relationships of your past, present, and those in your future too.

Yes, you are most certainly made of and by one another. In life after life, you are forged and formed by all with whom you have direct and indirect relationships. You are formed by your parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, siblings and friends, classmates and colleagues, by all your loves in this and in countless former lives; yes, you are a host formed by many hosts who in so many small and greater ways help to bring forth and elicit the very special spark of the divine that is your “Quintessence”, the everlasting presence of you.

Yes, you move into what I call “Third Space” in the realm that is Libra. You are a whole unto yourself, you are a field of energy-forms, you are in fact your own little Cosmos, your own “space”. You encounter another, who is just like you, and they are a little Cosmos too. And now, the most precious and delicate and wondrous thing must happen, you together must form a space-field for your encounter, together you must create that Third Space that is your relationship.

You are each a whole, forming one another into a larger whole, a greater Cosmos wherein you will inform, and shape and elicit for one another the very “dance of spirit” that is the Song of Life, Love and Will. It is this Song of Spirit, this Chorus of Life that fills and forms all the spaces of Space. To meet the other and form this space of relationship requires you to reach deep within yourself and equally within them too. It is forged and founded by the essential truth of Spirit, a re-affirmation of what always was and will forever be, “we are all related”.

Here in the “sacred space of we” you meet “the other”, who is just like you. You look into the eyes of the one who is before you and you see it there, shining upon you from the window of their soul, and there in that light is “proof of eternity”, and you are humbled and joy-filled by that feeling, “I know this, I know who you are”.

We do not encounter strangers on Earth, for we have been doing this for a very, very long time. We have loved and lost, fought and made peace, struggled for and against, time and time again. We are all mixed up in one another, so that we can claim no ownership to any feeling, idea or truth. We are made of all these relationships, so that our true experience of consciousness is really from the We and not our limited I. We will meet again and again, so we say not goodbye but fare thee well until our next time…

We are who we are because of what we have been and done for and with one another. We will always be for one another the means of self-becoming, the instrument of awakening, of becoming fully human. We are here to be one for all, and All for One.

Always and forever, be kind to one another, and remember this:

You are here because of one another.

You are here because of Love.

You are here to Love and be Loved.

Just remember, remember who you are and

Love one another.

Namaste.

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22-23, 2018)

The Way of Sacrifice

The integral unfoldment of the Universal Energies, what you know as the Signs of the Zodiac, form a complex Melody of Life, the Song of Spirit that is the Love-filled Heartbeat of Spiritual Awakening for you and your world. The serial ordering of the One Energy, Love, is divided into these Twelve Mansions of Life. The One Spirit is modulated through Four Modes of Being, Fire, Earth, Air and Water; and each of these is apportioned into three Modalities of Activity, Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable. These Four formed by Three, this Threefold Beat of the Four Fundamental Energy-Forms, together resonate as the Heart of your Universe, each Element brought into focus through the three phases of Spirit:

Creation — Preservation — Transformation

For the Three, first come the Initiators, the Cardinal Signs, (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn); then follow the Holders, the Fixed Signs, (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius); and finally, you move through the Signs of Transition or Mutability, (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces).

Of course, you must know and understand, at every moment in the ever-unfolding Life of the One Spirit, in every moment of the Eternal or “The Now”, that all these Twelve Energy-Forms are active in every speck and mote of creation ranging on up through all the orders of beings and life-forms that fill the starry firmament.

But today, here on our Earth, let us acknowledge and celebrate a change in our special corner of Space. Today you move into the Sacred Realm that is Virgo, and you have arrived at another luminous moment of your awakening. Virgo is here to help bring you to a more Integral balance within your Sacred Temple of Body and Heart, of Mind and Spirit.

For you are here for one thing only, you are here to learn how to become a better human being. You are here quite simply to Grow. And to do this, since you “as Human” have become self-aware, you must ever strive to consciously stay upon the path of Righteousness, to keep to the Noble Road of Sacrifice formed by Integration, Adjustment and Healing.

You have come once more through the realm of Fire that is Leo, whose space is there to provide the experiences by which you reveal and shine as “you”. In Cancer you met the Self at the Center, and you anchored yourself in the Waters of your Roots. You drew upon this inspiration to bring forth in Leo some greater part of that truth of you; in Leo you strove to shine and release your Self through various vehicles of self-realization, to find a more perfect role, to act upon a truer stage in the grand theater that is Life. 

But after every performance…there comes “the review”. Yes, you did reach beyond what you were before in the latest “performance”. But you will always feel, (you must know this by now), that you could have done better, that you could have been a better you.

By Virgo, (and we all have Virgo somewhere in our own chart), you are offered the gift of Discernment and Discrimination. This Critical Faculty is precisely what you need to separate the wheat from the chafe of your life. You must begin to take in your harvest now, and so prepare yourself for the challenges that lie before you, and the longer nights that lie ahead.

You can only grow by trial and error, through striving to do better and by learning from your mistakes. Failure and Growth are inseparable; you are here to learn what not to do and how you might become better. By self-correction and adjustment, through humility and service, you will slowly but surely lift yourself and one another a little closer to the fulfillment of your destiny. You will move away from being unable, to becoming ever more capable and ultimately you will be known as an adept; you move from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from being reactive to being masterful and purposeful. This is your pathway to perfection; and this is the Gift of Virgo.

You are an apprentice working on your greatest masterpiece…you. You will need teachers and masters to show you “the way”. The most sacred of these is your own higher self, who elicits the elevation of your understanding through your intuitional faculty. Listen to this loving, kind and gentle voice and you will remain on the path. But also know that each and every encounter you have in your daily life, whether with family or with friends, with colleagues and most importantly with those you think of as a stranger, all of these will also serve you (as you will equally serve them). For it is by these exchanges with one another that you are helped to polish away the misunderstandings that lead you into error. We are here to be a light to one another, and by revealing what is right and what is wrong we can help one another to move towards a greater wholeness.

As you may outwardly or formally at some point be brought to study with a master, you may then necessarily find that you will be called upon to extend yourself to those who look to you. Yes, you the apprentice will become a Master too. Offer them what you can, but most importantly offer yourself with love, give what you will with kindliness, guidance and encouragement. This is also “the way”; it is the Ribbon of Life and Love, the Hierarchy of Compassion that stretches through all the Kingdoms of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

We are here to become what we have within us, the Love of the One which is our true Heart and our abiding strength. We are here to become complete human beings like the “great souls” who have walked this same path that you follow today: Confucius, Krishna, Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Buddha, Christ, and so many more who labored in the shadows and who serve without recognition nor seek it. Their story is repeated now so that we may remember and learn. Their example and teachings are there to remind you that there is a purpose to your life, and it is to become awakened.

You are here to learn to be a better human. You are here to live, love and follow the Noble Middle Path, “The Way of Service and Sacrifice”. This path flows from your innermost sanctum to the Heart of the Universe, and beyond. It is quite simply your true nature, it is Love.

Yes, it is in Virgo that you let go and you grow. To be in the realm of Virgo, to be Virginal, means to make yourself whole, not perfect. You must continually, every day and life after life, give up the lesser and discover and so become the greater within and between you. This is done by Sacrifice. True Sacrifice means you make your life and your actions Sacred, it means you give up the lesser as you align yourself with the greater within and around you. You are at peace, you are one, and you are one with one and All.

What you are made of is Love and what surrounds you is Beauty. To be who you are, to become what you are here to be is your destiny. So, follow the sacred prayer, follow the path of wholeness and love, and repeat the sacred injunction of the Red Road 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

As I walk, I walk with Beauty.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2018 – Mercury Turns Direct, Sun Enters Virgo (Saturday August 18, 2018 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – Mercury Turns Retrograde, Sun Enters Virgo (Saturday August 18, 2018)

In my ninth show of 2018 I will consider the current Astrological indications. Today, Saturday August 18^th, Mercury is turning direct once again. Next week the Sun Enters Virgo on August 22^nd/23^rd and then five days later, on August 27^th, Mars turns Direct. The Winds of Spirit are changing once more, and we will consider what these shifts mean for you and your world.

As before, I will answer your questions during the show, whether on these topics or some other matter, including personal questions about your astrological chart. If you do wish to ask a personal question, please be ready to provide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Saturday August 18^th @ 2 pm EDT:

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/08/18/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-mercury-turns-direct-sun-enters-virgo

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

Please join me on Saturday August 18^th at 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.