Astrologer Bill Attride

2025-5-11 Radio Show Transcript - A New World (Aired May 11, 2025)

Astrological Musings — A New World

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As many of you know, I have been speaking and writing about, well for many years now, about our spiritual journey, and in particular about the United States and World history. By examining the planetary cycles that frame our journey and history over many, many years and centuries, you can see that we and our time in history are part of a greater story of human spiritual awakening. Though no one planetary cycle or series of planetary alignments ever repeats, we are able to discern patterns, themes and meanings that echo down through the ages, and these signs in the heavens may help us to understand the circumstances we are encountering now, and that these eternal truths may also provide some guidance for us as to how to make our way in the world going forward.

Turning Point in History
For many years now, I have been writing and talking, repeating myself over and over again, that we were entering a very critical period in history. I continually said that we were at the end of age, an age that had begun in the 1700’s, and that the world we knew and the way we understood it was going to seemingly fall apart. And indeed, even before 2008, and accelerating ever since, the institutions and order of the United States, and indeed of the whole world, have been tested, and they have cracked, and they are indeed somewhat or very broken. I, like so many others, could not see or predict what exactly would happen, all I knew was that it was time for a particular world order to give way, and that some kind of new order would be coming into existence.

But now the question before us is this, where are we now, right now? Well, I think that most of us would agree that it is not at all clear what is happening, we are faced with so many conflicting and contrary experiences. We cannot see through the fog of broken dreams, half-truths, lies and delusion. We do not know what this is, nor what we are moving into, and we need to understand what kind of world we can and should be creating for one another now.

2025
It feels as if we find ourselves, especially in 2025, to be in some kind of interval, some kind of space, a transition between what was and what will be, a tipping point where the winds are swirling with no clear way ahead. To better understand the way forward, I believe that it is essential to have a review of where we have come from, of how we got here, so as to better understand what we must do to create the better future we all want.

Not the Stars but ourselves, this is what makes History
But we must remember a fundamental and unwavering Truth, that the why and the what that has happened, and what we are facing now, that the content of human history generally, and for the United States specifically, our past and our present, that these realities were not created or formed by the planets. We need to remember that the planets hold the Energy-Forms that inspire, inform, and guide our journey on Earth, but the actual content of what is formed, the choices we made and the actions we took, of what happened and will happen, that it is our reality that we made through the complex combinations of energy-forms that we humans forged on Earth, made by the living spirit of we humans, by our ancestors, and today by you and me. The fault lies not in the stars but in one another for the world we have made, and that gives me hope, because it means we can choose the kind of world we will be making now.

The Triad of Spirit: Pluto, Neptune and Uranus
First, I want to remind us of the importance of the three outer planets as the major inspirers and influencers in our journey in Spirit. I call these three, the “Triad of Spirit”, of Pluto, Neptune and Uranus.  Pluto is the vessel of the Will and shapes and molds every Energy-Form into a definite or defined Container of Spirit, (whether that be a monad, atom, cell, organism, planet, or star). Neptune is the vessel of the Universal Energy-Form of Unconditional Love, which is the Energy-Substance at the root of all, the One made manifest. This Love of the One is the root source of the Spirit-Life-Consciousness for every particle of Creation. And Uranus is the vessel of the Quintessence of Spirit held as Consciousness, because each and every particle of Creation is also an Individual monad, a spark of consciousness on a journey of becoming fully illumined. By this we also know that all of Creation is formed by the innumerable individual sparks of the Divine, every one of which is following their Swabhāva, so as to be and become a unique instance or expression of the One Divine Light.

From these three we can forge a living faith, that we will forever walk the path of awakening in order to fulfill our fundamental purpose and destiny. It is by Uranus and our Higher Mind that we align our Lives with the Path of the Divine, and by Neptune that we feel ourselves and hold one another in Unconditional Love, so that we may remain true and steady, and by Pluto as our will becomes ever more aligned with the Will of the One.

Given our essential nature, that we are all sparks of the Divine, or as I like to say, “ones of the One”, and given this root essence is true for the entirety of Creation, we are here to learn and to be, to be what we are made of, and to simply love one another. And it equally follows that we must approach every life-form in Creation as special, precious and deserving of our love and gratitude as well.

Certainly, throughout our human journey there have been times when we have drawn closer to this foundational truth of love and drifted further away from it too; yes, it has been a long and winding road of love and of loss, a long and challenging journey of becoming what we all will be, a fully awakened, unconditionally loving, one of the One.

Spiritual Truth – We are all created Equal
This foundational truth of spirit, that we are all created “equal”, is woven into the many histories of cultures, communities, faiths and nations. There have been sublime moments in history where the living spirit among humans has reached a relative equality and communal love for one another, in a community, in a people and somewhat even in a nation. Then one might well wonder, if that is so, why are we still faced with such disorder, and crime, and violence between individuals, communities, and nations today.

The very gifts of the spirit, of Will and Sacred Space, of Love and Compassion, of Intelligence and Knowledge, can be and have been twisted by the ancient curse of division, and that formation of otherness is rooted in ignorance, pain and fear. Whenever a human, or a group of humans, looks upon another as the “other”, and makes them into the vessel for the projection of their pain or fear, well that has been the root source of the tragedy and misfortune for much of human history too.

American History of Equality/Inequality
Turning to our own story, we find that in American history, this expansion yet limitation for the range of how equal and unequally we have treated our fellow humans has followed a rather uneven path of extension and contraction. In 1789, in our original Constitution, the very definition of who was granted the right to create and establish the laws, and equally what range of persons would have the protections of “due process” fell far short of what our original Declaration had proposed, “that all men are created equal”.

But of course, what was held up as the founding ideal of the USA was never made real at that time, or even now as we approach our 250^th Birthday. From the moment of “first contact” by Christopher Columbus in 1492, to the final massacre of native people at Wounded Knee in 1890, the near extinction of the native peoples was the first of the broken promises of equality and justice for all.

The other original sin for the USA was the enslavement of African people until 1865, and the denial of their full citizenship by one means or another even down to the present day. The Karmic Question the USA faces today is quite simply this, “How do we make right over 500 years of Genocide; how to we make right over 400 years of Racism?” For we have not made it right, we have not done this sacred work at all.

Here are the significant planetary alignments of Pluto, Neptune and Uranus in the chart of the USA that framed and shaped the advances and retreats in the march to justice and equality to our present moment of destiny.

Framing History: Pluto and Neptune alignments in the USA Chart
1840’s-1850’s
In the late 1840’s, Pluto squared Pluto, and the imposition of Will by one part of the nation upon the other, was defined by the seizure of Mexican territories by war, which heralded the final push by the slaveholding states to make their vision of a United States that would have slavery enshrined in every state, north and south, east and west.  During this period, the slaveholders in the South attempted by their control of the Presidency, Congress and Judiciary, to bring this horror to its fullest realization, which was enshrined in the Dred Scott decision of 1857 by the Supreme court, which declared that a black person could not and would never be free in the United States.

But by the late 1850’s the opposition of Neptune to Neptune, the planet of love and compassion, framed the surge in the abolitionist movement leading to the creation of the Republican party and the election of Abraham Lincoln, leading to the Civil War between the North and the South.

The end of the Civil War and Southern secession was followed by the attempt at reconstruction in the South and the temporary extension of self-determination to millions of newly freed black men. But by 1877, this brief flowering of the greater promise of America was broken by a deal between Southern Democrats and Republicans in the North, with their self-interests focused upon the rise of Industrial Capitalism in the North, and the promise of freedom and equality was firmly broken and not to be met again until the 1960’s.

1890’s
By the 1890’s the concentration of wealth, the rise of labor unions and the stirrings of the progressive movement were heralded by the next turning in our destiny by Neptune squaring its natal position, as a series of measures were enacted that began to reign in the corruption of the federal government by wealthy industrial interests. Equally, this period witnessed the extension of the right to self-determination of the people the United States culminating in 1920 with the right to vote being finally granted to women, the greatest advance in democracy since the Civil War, and then the granting of citizenship to Native Americans in 1924.

1930’s
But these reforms did not contain or constrain the unregulated financial markets and by the late 1920’s the Great Depression struck. Once again, the principal influencers of our history, Neptune and Pluto, had reached critical moments in their cycles too, with Pluto opposing itself, and Neptune making its first return to its natal position. The reforms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal forged a restatement and rebirth for the United States, and this set in motion one of the most sustained periods of general growth of economic well-being in the United States from the 1940’s into the 1970’s.

But in this same period, the resurgence of the unmet promise for the freedom and self-determination of black Americans gave rise to the Civil Rights movement, which via Supreme court rulings and eventually by laws passed in the US Congress, the karmic stain of racial injustice began to be corrected as Pluto and Neptune made alignments once again.

1970’s-1980’s
By the late 1970’s and into the early 1980’s, the United States was at another major turning point, like the 1850’s or the 1930’s, as Pluto squared Pluto and Neptune squared Neptune, and the Keynesian economy was broken by the adoption of a neo-liberalist ideology and the deregulation of markets. This led to a huge surge in financial wealth and power for the few, and the divide between the wealthiest Americans, the 1, 2 or 3 % and the rest of the population exploded. This shift in wealth and power, led to the re-corruption of the US government, much as it had in the late the mid 1800’s and the late 1800’s, with both the Republican and Democratic parties becoming beholden to the siren song of monies in order to fund and secure their hold on the seats of power in the House, Senate and Presidency.

Where we are today is at the end result of that entanglement and corruption of the body politic, where pay to play from the local level to the highest reaches of government has pushed many Americans, on both the left, middle and the right to lose faith in their government and its institutions.

Today
Which brings us to our moment in history, and once again we find these framers of our journey, Pluto and Neptune, are at major historic turning points as well. Pluto has just made its first ever return to its natal position, and Neptune has just made its second opposition to its natal position. That means to me that we are in a period more like the 1850’s and 60’s, but really in some ways this is not comparable to any time, given this is the first return of Pluto ever.

Echoing that earlier time, once again the question, “who is truly a citizen of this country” is being raised once again, of who is or is not protected by the laws of the republic is being asked again.  And equally the promise of a government “for and by the people” has been rendered meaningless when the most basic right of selecting representation is overwhelmed by a cacophony of half-truths and lies, fueled by the tidal wave of uncontested power held by the few with unlimited funds to shape and sway primaries and elections, destroying even the semblance of free and fair elections.

Democracy Broken
And just like in the 1840’s and 50’s, when the wealthy elite of the southern slaveholders, whose “wealth” was held by enslaving other humans, and then in the 1880’s and 90’s and really on up to the 1920’s, when the monopolists and financiers bent and twisted the formation of laws to suit their profits and not the people, we find ourselves once again faced with the challenge of being without the means to have a consequential political influence over our destiny. Why? Because the division between the wealthy and the rest of the population has created an America that is divided between those who can shape the power of the government to serve their ends only, while the vast majority know that their future is being shaped by the rule of the few over the many. We are not in a democracy at this time, we are seeing what it means to live in an oligarchy of the wealthy, and which now seems to be devolving into a Kleptocracy like Russia or Hungary.

As I have noted more than once, from 1980 to 2020 the gross domestic product of the United States rose by 80% in those 40 years, it almost doubled. But the distribution of that growth was far less equal than our previous period from 1940 to 1980.

In the last 40 years, the bottom 20% of the USA population gained 20% more wealth; the middle portion of about 40% of the population gained 50% more wealth; but the top .01% gained 420% more in their wealth. Those top accumulators live in a world that does not even understand, or for the most part probably care, for the rest of us at all.

Here are two graphs of that redistribution of wealth since 1980:

 

 

The Wealth of a Nation
As I have said many, many times, the wealth of a nation is in its people, who are the living spirit and the creators of all and every kind of value. There has been no problem for the United States in creating wealth, which is made by us all, the problem is the unequal and unjust distribution of that wealth made by the people.

In terms of wealth distribution, the United States is one of the worst of all the so-called “advanced societies” and this inequality is even greater when defined and distributed by race and ethnicity. This is the principal reason why the USA has appalling life expectancies and health outcomes compared to many of the advanced nations in the world.

So, the question we face now is how, how do we fix this? How do we reclaim and restore our democracy, how do we restore our ability to not only live but to make a better life for one and for all?

Despite what we see and hear about every day, I believe we are at the beginning of the rebirth of our country. But it will not come, certainly not at first, from one party or another, because both parties have contributed to bringing us to this moment.

And as we watch the events of each day, we see individuals, and groups of individuals, we see organizations and institutions pushing back against the myriad attempts to twist and break the rule of law, to erase the sacred truths that we are made of, the love we are that holds and protects one another, as those who swore an oath and were entrusted to protect and faithfully execute these laws try to replace them with rule by fiat or command.

We must face the forces of fear and darkness with a fierce and loving faith in one another, to speak, to write, to demonstrate and to organize so that we are the change that we wish to create in our world.

A New Covenant
What we must do is build a new “way of being”, we must be the creators of a new covenant with Life and Spirit. Yes, the problem is poverty; yes, wealth inequality is the problem; and they are both made by one another, and they are forged and maintained by a system that is destroying the diversity and sustainability of life on this planet.

We must expand our understanding of the real problem, which is that the very Political-Economic and Social systems that were formed to meet our needs in the 1700’s is killing us. And not only us, because life is leaving the planet at a rate that is growing exponentially. Life on Earth is becoming less diverse, less vibrant, less beautiful, less possible, and we only need to look in the mirror to see the cause.

We must forge our new covenant of spirit with one another based upon universal Equality and Justice. We must reallocate the wealth that we all produce so that every person has what we owe to one another in our human family: Equal Education, Equal Healthcare, Equal Housing, Equal Opportunity, so that every child and adult has an Equal chance to achieve Self-Fulfillment.

This is the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, and no individual can be truly fulfilled, not a single one of us can be truly happy, if so many of our brothers and sisters live in fear and poverty.

We must immediately change the way we produce our Energy, change the ways in which we Source our Food, change the ways we Create our Shelter. We must change our way of living, which has been formed by “destroying in order to create” and instead forge a way of living where we are “Creating to Thrive”.

The choice we face is between Love or Fear, between Truth or Lies.

The choice is ours.

Let it be love.

 

Sun Enters Gemini (May 20, 2025)

Consciousness

Today we enter the third realm of the Zodiac, today we enter the sacred space known as Gemini. Forever somewhere in your chart, and throughout your entire being, and truly ever-present in all the realms and beings of Creation, we honor the third principle of Spirit, the radiant Light of Consciousness.

The Story of Creation is the Journey of the One becoming manifest through all the realms and through all of the beings of the Cosmos. In the center of each one of the One there is the seed of becoming, the monad of the One, the one in all.

All of Creation is Spirit, and yet all of Creation is formed of Matter too, so that Matter is merely the densest form of Spirit, and Spirit is the most ethereal form of Matter, and that during this time of the One made manifest in Creation, all of Creation exists as Spirit-Matter.

But as much as all is Spirit, and all of Creation is Matter too, we also must understand that every particle, atom, being, planet, star and galaxy, that the all of ones in the entirety of Creation are Mind too; all of the Cosmos is Conscious.

Now, there are many forms and levels of consciousness, descending from the supernal realms of what we would call the first circle of Light and Love, the Lords of Space and Time, down to the Devas or Shining Ones, and continuing downward through the kingdoms of Creation and into the densest yet still conscious forms of matter.

The Story of Creation is also this story of the unfolding and expansion of consciousness, as families of monads work their way to ever higher realms of awareness. But there is a critical moment in the journey of all monads, when the greater light of understanding is reached, when they move from mere awareness into self-awareness.

Our cohort of human monads took that next step in that journey of awakening, long, long ago. There are many versions of this story, from partaking of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, or of the light-bringers in the stories of Prometheus or Lucifer, or the ancient story of the beautiful sacrifice of beings known as the Kumaras, whose karmic debt of their enlightenment in a previous age bestowed upon them the honor and duty to pass this light to us long ago.

It is a necessary but bittersweet gift, for it forces each of us into the experience of separation from one another, from other beings and even from the One. But it is the step all must take to become a fully conscious co-Creator of Creation. Before we were unaware and innocent, and we could only be what we instinctively sensed or felt. But through this separation, “I am that, not this”, we were forced into forming conscious connections between one another and the world. We were given the gift of Choice, and so we had to learn good from bad, to what is better and what is worse. We fell into error, and time and time again, we created poorly and suffered from our lack of understanding.

But over countless lives we acquired knowledge, and over many lives we acquired wisdom and humility, and though we seem to rise and again to fall, our journey of awakening has been mastered by some who light the way for the rest of us. We will become ever more conscious and aware by sharing our understandings and points of view with one another, learning from one another, loving one another, and choosing light over darkness, love over fear.

Yes, today, as we enter Gemini, and forever somewhere in your chart, we should give thanks to those ancient ones who passed the “light of understanding” to us. This is also part of the teaching. That we must remember that we are not one and apart, we are made of and by one another, by those who came before us and by our fellow humans now.

We cannot know without one another, because the very nature of self-consciousness depends upon relationships, it is formed by our relationships with the beings and worlds all around us and most especially in our many relationships with our fellow humans.

The very nature of consciousness is hidden in that very word. The word “consciousness” means “Con” or “Together” and “Sciousness” or “Knowing.

Consciousness means “knowing together”.

So, let us give thanks by doing our part.

Let us listen to one another.

Let us share and shape our greater understanding for one another.

Let us be a light to one another, so that we might be the truth that dissolves all misunderstandings and fears.

May the Light of the One be with you and guide you.

As you walk the path of Awakening and Love.

Astrological Musings — A New World (May 11, 2025)

This will be our second show in 2025, and I want to help us understand where we are at this moment, at this end of and age and the birth of a new world. It is through the Ancient Teachings, and the particular gift of Astrology, that we can consider our present moment within the context of the larger story of the spiritual journey of humanity, and understand how we came to this moment, and what we need to do now to meet our moment of destiny with the light of understanding.

After my opening chat, I will turn on my video and answer your questions in the second half of our show.

Reminder, how to use Zoom
The show with have both computer and phone access, with the video turned off and everyone on mute to start. You may either log on with your computer or phone app to Zoom by clicking on the link below or you may dial in with one of the phone numbers below, just as some of you did on the BlogTalk platform.

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Sun Enters Taurus (April 19, 2025)

Today we enter the second space in the Circle of the Living Ones, today we move into the realm we know as Taurus. But you must always remember that Taurus is forever to be found within your own very being, as it is an essential part of every single monad of Creation, which is why you must understand the profound spiritual truth found in this first Earth sign of the Zodiac.

For the past 30 days your attention has been focused upon the nature and quality of your presence, of how you move through the eternal now. Because it is in your bearing, by your demeanor, character and awareness, it is by how you meet each moment with adeptness and grace that you may redeem your past errors and forge your better future. By being present and aware, through your intentional actions, it is by this that you reveal for yourself and to others “who you are”.

But now you must consider something probably even more profound, now you must understand what it is that lies behind or supports your presence; now the question is not “who are you” but “what are you”, what is it that makes you what you are.

This is not a simple question, (but, I would argue, if we look at the root of one and all it truly is so simple). What is “the What” of being human? Well, just like for the entirety of Creation, you are not “a thing”. You are a conscious, living being, formed by a field of Energy-Forms or bodies of Light. The Universe and you are formed by “fields within fields”, created, shaped and realized by a host of alchemical combinations. You and me, and everything are a host, a hierarchy of beings, which the Ancient Wisdom teaches is the One made manifest as Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

You are at your innermost, a spark of the Divine, a monadic triad of Spiritual Life, that is known as Atman-Buddhi-Manas. From this innermost and highest Energy-Form, you by embodiment move into ever more material realms of Mental forms, Emotional Forms, Vital Forms and finally take on a Physical form in the body you experience as “the What” of you. And each of these bodies and realms are also formed into their own hierarchies from the highest to lowest, so that you (and the entirety of Creation) are formed by a “host of hosts”, as fields of spiritual monads with their hierarchies of manifestations.

So, what this means is that the “What” of you, the truth for one and all, is the One or what we feel and know as Divine Unconditional Love. The whole universe is a Creation, made by love and formed by love. You, me, and this Earth, and all the Stars and Galaxies are made by this sacred source of all values and measures.

Yes, this is the truth at the root of you, which is that you are here because of love, and you are here for one reason only, to love one another. The value of you is truly beyond measure, because you are priceless!

Well, you might wonder, why is it that, more often than not, I feel not so very valuable, worthy or priceless at all?!

Because you and I are not what we will be some day. We are not fully formed or perfected humans because our vehicles of self-realization, whether in our physical form, or emotional body, or mental body and even spiritual constitution, are not yet what they can be and will be someday.

In any one life, and throughout your many, many lives, from your youth to old age, the values that make you, the qualities of your being, will wax and wane, as the physical strengths of your youth give way to the gifts of wisdom and judgement of later years. There are days when it all seems so perfect, to be followed by days when you do not feel so very valuable at all.

Yes, you and I are on a journey through many forms and lives, and in each and every life you will learn to become a better human, more attuned and aligned with your higher self. Like those who walked this path long, long ago, you must learn to choose what is more perfect from the less perfect, to be more loving, and less fearful, and this takes many lives.

And because Divine Love is what you are, that you are one of the ones of the One, you will eventually reach that precious moment when you will also arrive at the final step of becoming a complete human.

There you will be greeted by those who came this way before, whose Love and Inspiration for you has never wavered, as you followed the path of Awakening that brought forth fully your essential nature of Unconditional Love, just as they followed this path long, long ago.

Until that beautiful sublime moment comes to you, may you live by the light that you were made to be,

May you be loving and be loved eternally.

Sun Enters Aries – Astrological New Year – The Equinox (March 20, 2025)

The Power of your Presence

Today we begin the Astrological New Year, as we move into the Sign of Aries. At this time every year, and forever part of your essential nature too, we should celebrate the gift of Aries, the wellspring of all.

For the last 30 days, the veil between your mortal being and your spark of the divine gave way, and in your visions, dreams and recollections of what you did and what you did not do, as you walked in the sacred realm of the Twelve Holy Ones, in the time and place we call Pisces, you found hope and forgiveness in spiritual renewal. Pisces brings the gift of closure, as you sift through the harvest of the past year and understand the immutable law that holds everything together in the "Great Work”. That all that was is true and right, as you are the maker of you, and "you will always reap what you sow." In Pisces, you understood the unbreakable bond between the growth of your wisdom and the deepening of your humility. Supported by the grace of forgiveness, you were humbled by the understanding that your sins of omission and commission actually form the diamond body of your character, and it is this foundation for your faith that you will help you in all of your tomorrows. In the Waters of Pisces, you found the way to hold it all, the good and the bad, because of the compassion and love of the One who loves us all.

Now you enter Aries, the first sign in the Circle of the Living Ones, the Avatar or vessel that holds the first foundational truth, rooted in the essential nature of Spirit. What is this truth? The essential nature of Spirit, which forms and forges your quintessence, is the most precious gift of being a Creator. This is the ever-beating heart of the cosmos, it is the “light everlasting,” forming the propelling agency by which you exist here, now, and forever. You are a self-unfolding, self-becoming, self-making spark of the divine. You are here, “to be and become what you are, the Divine made manifest upon this Earth."

Of course this is true of every single particle of Creation, for the entire cosmos is the “One” now made manifest throughout the cosmos. But for you, having achieved the blessing of self-aware consciousness long, long ago, and by moving through these hierarchies and realms of humanity for countless ages, your gift of self-creation has become much more substantial and consequential, more truly divine than ever before. Now you feel and know the law of Karma, you have awareness of the law of cause and effect, of your actions and your reaping of the consequences. And day after day, and life after life, you are personally responsible for you, and for the world you enter, and for the world you have made, and the world you will leave behind.

Now this New Year begins, and the Fire of Aries is upon you. By Aries, you leap forth with the gift of Inspiration, with visions and ideas that come upon you, bending your heart and soul to joyful exhilaration, so that you may celebrate a brand-new day in the ever-renewing joy filling you with light and the power of new beginnings.

In Aries, you rush into action, to be and become whatever you will be. But the first lesson on the path of life is here too. At each portal, and in each sign, you are asked a question, and the one before you, well, it is probably the most profound of all: "Who are you?"

But to answer this question, you must understand what it means to be human, what is this all for, why are you here?

Quite simply, you are here as a spark of the divine in order to learn to be a better human. To discover through inspiration and doubt, by attempts and failures, through success and defeat, you are here to learn by cause and effect how to be fully human, and how to become a wise being who chooses to live by Love and who turns away from fear.

And it all begins here, with the very first step, and then your next step. And then the one after that. Life is a journey, with you ceaselessly moving through what only exists which is the Eternal Now, from moment to moment and from one space to another. Imagine Life as moving through a series of doors, leaving one space as you enter another. Here, at this crossing point you will encounter the everlasting gift and test that is Aries, which offers you the gift of developing your character, of forming your bearing, building your demeanor, forging your awareness of you that you will bring to each precious moment, to each and every opportunity so that you live by love.

As you move through these series of doors, you will find that there is always someone going through just ahead of you. If you are fortunate, that person will hold the door open for you, perhaps lend you a helping hand. But sometimes, the one who is ahead of you is troubled, thoughtless, or angry, and they do not consider who is behind them, and they slam the door in your face.

Now you have your moment, your quintessential test is upon you. What happened just then was that you experienced something negative, something that you may certainly feel you did not deserve nor need at all. But now comes the question, "What will you do?" What will you do with this energy?

It would be easy, almost effortless, to take that negative energy and pass it on to whoever is following you. Take that bad energy that came at you and just get rid of it. That is easy, but your life will not be easy if you do this. You will not grow and change, and you will not be better, and you cannot become better unless you are this change for the better.

Instead, you must stop and realize that you have a choice. You are supposed to choose here. You will realize that the negative energy you received is just an accident of fate, perhaps a negative emotion passed down for many years, and you can be the change, you can be as you are meant to be, a transformer of energy, turning the negative into the positive, and you do that by choosing to take the path not taken as you hold the door open for the one who follows you.

That is it. That is how you change yourself, and it is how you change the world.

You have agency, you can make a choice, and you can be the reason that not only for your life but for the lives of so many others, you can make it be better. For all you know that negative form of energy you transmuted might have been passing down for thousands of years, but it ended with you, as you turned the darkness into light.

This is the gift of Aries, this is the gift of Presence, of “living with loving awareness."

You are here to grow, to be and become, to change yourself and heal your world too.

If we all do this, if we choose to turn the negative into the good, to turn darkness into light, to turn fear into faith and hate into love, well…

Well, that is the whole point after all.

May you be the Love that was the First Step.

May you be a one like the One.

May you shine like the Sun.

That is the way, the only way.

The Way of Light, and of Truth and of Love.

Sun Enters Pisces (February 18, 2025)

The Greatest Gift

“And in the end…”

Today you enter the last month in the Astrological calendar, and always at this time of the year, and forever forming a quintessential part of your nature too, we celebrate the gift of Pisces, which holds one of the most precious jewels in the Circle of the Living Ones.

Truly, all of the signs of the Zodiac are present in everything and at all times, as they form and inform everyone and every particle of Creation. The Zodiac is a fundamental foundation for the whole of Creation, forming what is known as the Design-Body or the master Aura of Creation. It is this Circle of the Living Ones which holds the Twelve Creative Hierarchies that are found throughout all of the realms and dimensions of this Universe.

How does this work? Everything and everyone are formed within their own aura or electro-magnetic field or Zodiac, which is then equally aligned to and informed for us here by the aura or Zodiac of the Earth. And the Earth in turn is aligned and informed by the aura for our Solar System, and then to our Galaxy and so on.

In effect, what we feel within and all around us are these wheels revolving within wheels, vortices of energy-forms dancing within greater vortices. Because Creation is the dance of Spirit-Life-Consciousness, we can understand that what happens here on Earth is aligned, informed and inspired with all that happens “up there”, which is why  we say “as above, so below”, because the whole of Creation is held, shaped and guided by the Lords of Light behind it all, these spiraling vortexes that form the dance of the Zodiac, the dance of Life and Creation.

These twelve creative hierarchies of spirit provide the vehicles for the release of that which is behind the whole of Creation, which is the Will, Love and Mind of the One. And because this is so, no matter where you are, no matter with whom you journey now, you are always and will remain within your holy of holies, because you are held in the divine and unconditional love of the One at the center of us all.

But while all these Lords of Creation are omni present and active, there is an arc to the unfoldment in all the realms and beings of Creation. There are times of inception or beginnings, periods for holdings or culmination, and times for endings or transition; here too is the circle of life, the dawns, the bright noon days and evening times too.

It is here at the last sign of closure that you will reach the greatest source of peace. Much as you have found illumination by the air sign of Gemini, or in the earth sign of Virgo, or through the fire of Sagittarius, here you seek by the “way of water” to be at peace. Because this is the gift that comes from all of the water signs, to connect and to hold all as one. It is through the waters of spirit that you move beyond the bounds of mind, so that you might feel and intuit something more, to listen to the gentle whisperings of the immortal within you, to perceive beyond any limit of ordinary thought or mind, to dream and discover some greater understanding of the meaning and purpose of your life.

What are you? Your soul will answer; you are a being of Light dancing through mortal realms. Why are you here? You are here to follow the everlasting call of spirit, and to become what you are meant to be, a fully conscious co-creator of Creation. Each and every sign that forms and informs you provides part of the answer, but it is here at “the end that is the beginning” you may master the mystery and find the key behind it all.

What you will feel and know is this, that you are made of the Everlasting Light, Divine Eternal Love. This means that your true nature is not fixed nor is it limited, it is ultimately not bound to be fated or unfree. You are spirit dancing through mortal realms, made of Love and Light unfolding through a series of bodies and lives that began at the dawn of Creation.

You are the “ever becoming”, a resplendent spark of the Divine, whose journey through the stars, as you wander and wonder in these Houses of the Holy, means that you will become ever more, forever and ever, a being filled with the Light of a Living Faith that is founded and forged in the Unconditional Love of the One.

But then you might wonder, and ask how this can be true, if I am truly made of this divine love, why must I suffer, why must we suffer, why?

Because you, and the entirety of creation are part of a hierarchy of Creation, with many levels of self-realization; it is a journey of self-becoming through many forms and countless lives, unfolding from less perfect forms to more sublime realizations. Yes, the highest part of you, your Monad of the Divine, is the “perfect” part of you. It holds your quintessence, the most precious and highest part, what is called the jewel in the lotus, the spark of the divine at the head of a hierarchy of energy-forms or bodies that form you and indeed all of creation. It is this Divine Light, this Love that is the Divine, that shines in every particle and mote of Creation, and in your human form it has been formed into a vehicle with a mind and a heart, by intelligence and love, so that you can understand and care for one another and for this Creation too.

You exist in many bodies or dimensions, some of which are more developed, and some are less so. You are a host of forms which can be understood as arranged from the densest to the more ethereal, ranging from your physical energy-forms to your emotional energy-forms, and then mental energy-forms, and finally your Higher Monad or Spiritual Energy-Form. The whole of Creation is this unfoldment of beings, forged by “combinational-transformational” or Alchemy, and for you, each and every one of these “bodies” is part of and forms your own personal journey of becoming. It is like your very own solar system, with your spark of the divine being like a Star.

Eventually, you will become a fully formed human through all these lesser bodies, but they too will be equally uplifted to higher forms by you; and it is by this dance of spirit that you help one another within yourself, as you equally help all those with whom you journey, to remain upon the luminous path of perfection, in this life, and in life after life after life.

The special gift of Pisces, which like all your gifts are held in the Divine that is within you, is this quintessential power by which you redeem your past and forge your future. It is the power of Creation itself. It is the ever-abiding source of true Faith, founded and forged by the light of Unconditional Love. What are you? You are the dreamer, who has made what you are today by what you dreamt and did before. What you will be tomorrow is not fixed or written in the stars. It is your priceless gift of being a dreamer that makes possible the creation of a better future for you, day after day, life after life.

Pisces holds the truth of how to live without fear, by holding to your faith. Your true source of faith is found in your ability to redeem your past and make your future. You are here to learn from your errors of omission or commission, to try, to fail, and to try to do better. The path of becoming involves challenges and suffering, which are necessary for growth and learning. This is the great law of Karma, of spiritual justice, where your actions lead to corresponding outcomes. It is by learning to make ever more loving, caring, and truthful choices that you forge a character of self-mastery and wisdom.

Yes, each sign holds a most special truth, about what makes you, you. The greatest, the most awesome power and responsibility that you have is this, that what you are and how you are and why you are is because you are the “creator of you”. All that you think, and all that you feel, and all that you do, it is this that will make the future you.

You have the gift of choice; you have the power to dream and to create a better you and a better world.  Yes, it is at the end of every day, and at the end of each life's journey, your harvest of understanding forms your seed of the next. Still, you may need some reassurance about your purpose, of how and why you are here. From deep within your soul, and also held in ancient teachings too, you will both feel and know that you are part of a larger cosmic order, your self-awareness forging your faith, of being the creator of you. It is this very self-awareness, this Divine within you, it is this force that creates creation, and you will become more truly a conscious co-creator of Creation.

The Law of Creation is perfect; by divine light you are guided to a loving purpose to help one another to grow in wisdom and by love. The ultimate truth is found here in Pisces, that all beings are part of the light divine and all of life is the body of the One. By living in truth, the unity and interconnectedness within all of creation, you are a one of the One, for you were made by love to be this love.

As it was at the beginning, so too here at another end, “the love you receive is equal to the love you create”.

May the grace of the One be with you now and may the light and love that made you shine forth like the star that you are.

2025-1-26 Radio Show Transcript - The New Year, Part 2

Astrological Musings — The New Year, Part 2

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show or Apple Podcasts, Spotify)

As I noted in our last show, 2025 is quite a transitional year, and I expect that it will probably turn out to be a rather transformational year too. All of the outer planets, from Saturn to Pluto, are transitioning from one sign to the next. That so many planetary shifts are occurring in one year, well that is rather rare indeed.

I discussed these shifts in the show of October 2024, and I will comment on them again in this show, but let us begin with the normal, sort of every year shifts and phenomena before we consider these more significant markers of our time. Let us go through our calendars and mark down these periods so that we are aware of what is happening “up there”.

Eclipses
Let’s begin by noting the Eclipses, Solar and Lunar that will happen in 2025. On March 14^th there will be a Total Lunar Eclipse at 24 Virgo, exact at 1:54 am EDT and visible in the USA. Then on March 29, there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse at 9 Aries, exact at 5:57 am EDT, and mostly visible in Europe. The influence of any Lunar Eclipse is said to prevail until the next Full Moon, but a Solar Eclipse’s influence may highlight that region of the Zodiac until the next Solar Eclipse about six months later. For anyone who has a significant placement around 9 Aries, that planet and that house of the chart will be a more significant element and region until September.

On September 7, there will be a Total Lunar Eclipse around 15 Pisces, exact at 1:09 pm EDT, so not visible in the USA. On September 21, there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse at 29 Virgo, exact at 2:54 pm, mostly visible in New Zealand and the South Pacific. Again, any planet near that degree, and whatever house the eclipse takes place in will be highlighted for the next six months.

Mercury Retrogrades
We will have, as usual, three Mercury retrogrades in 2025. The first begins on March 15, with Mercury retrograding at 9 Aries and turning direct on April 7^th at 27 Pisces. That region of your chart will be one in which you should take advantage of this opportunity to review, reexamine and consider the meaning, purpose and understanding of that part of your chart.

It would seem to be very significant to me that where Mercury turns retrograde on March 15 is the same degree in the Zodiac as the Solar Eclipse on March 29th, the ninth degree of Aries. Often, in natal chart readings for individuals, I sometimes refer to a book of symbols for the 360 degrees of the Zodiac titled “An Astrological Mandala” by Dane Rudhyar. Whether it is the degree of someone’s progressed New Moon or Full Moon, or some significant part of their natal chart, there often can be found some meaningful inspiration in reading that symbol, (or indeed reading the entire series of the 360 degrees as story of the symbolic unfolding of Zodiacal inspirations).

The symbol for 9 Aries is this: “A Crystal Gazer”, and the keynote is stated to be “the development of an inner realization of organic wholeness”, which is explained as a necessary step or new technique in the development of individualized consciousness, which has now been revealed, that special technique is: Concentrated Attention.

Given that we live in a world where our “attention” is the object of so many who seek to attract, hold and extract our attentional being, this seems quite a timely and good reminder that we all need to be masters of what we focus our light of awareness upon, so that we will not be distracted and confused by those who profit from our fragmented and fractured consciousness, but that we will instead use our awareness and our will to hold and center ourselves upon what is important, what is loving and beautiful and true. You are what you think, and you will be the maker of a better future by remaining in the light of understanding, which is deep and true.

The next Mercury retrograde begins on July 18, stopping at 15 Leo and turning direct on August 11 at 4 Leo. Once again, you should use this period for reflection, reexamination and improvement of your mindfulness with regards to the area in your chart between 15 and 4 degrees of Leo.

Finally, on November 9^th, Mercury will turn retrograde at 7 Sagittarius and turn direct on November 29^th at 21 Scorpio. You should pay particular attention to that area of your chart, and take this opportunity to go within, to turn back and consider how you might differently understand this part of your life.

Another part of each of these retrogrades, and for all Mercury retrogrades, is that we should also shape and filter our reexamination of their influence for us as shaped and indicated by the sign (or signs) that Mercury is moving through. So, when it is moving through the signs of Sagittarius and Scorpio in November, you are reminded to weave together the messages and meanings of those two signs during Mercury’s passage through whatever house or houses it is retrograding through in your chart.

Venus
Then we have Venus, which will be turning retrograde this year too, from March 1^st until April 12^th, moving from 11 Aries and turning direct at 25 Pisces. That’s right, we will have from March 15^th to April 7^th, both Mercury and Venus moving retrograde! This seems very important to me, and with the Eclipse in Aries as well, and that Mercury and Venus will be retrograding through Aries and back into Pisces, we are reminded and guided to understand our journey as being framed by this journey from the first sign to the last.

Simply put, it is in Aries that we emerge from the One to begin our journey so as to become a unique spark of the Divine, as we emerge from the ocean of diffused energy-forms and set out on our journey to forge a unique presence, personality and path in this journey of light and love. But in the end, having moved through all of the signs, we realize that we must bring our unique self-consciousness back to the eternal waters of “the One” again, moving from an egoic consciousness to approaching a more self-less and cosmic consciousness over the course of many, many lives.

It also may be significant that Venus reaches the middle of its retrograde, when Venus conjuncts the Sun, on March 22, and Mercury does likewise on March 24, because it is at that these moments in any retrograde when we may receive an answer or message of the deeper meaning of that retrograde, and this just reminds us to pay particular attention to those three days from the 22nd to the 24th this year too.

Mars
Next, we have Mars, which began 2025 in retrograde, having turned around on December 6, 2024, at 6 Leo, and Mars will turn direct on February 23 at 17 Cancer. Mars, which rules actions and desires, aims and aspirations, encourages us when going retrograde to reconsider our goals and the means to reach them. Rather than just acting or reacting, perhaps lacking clear intentions and self-affirming actions, we should realize that before we act outwards we must first go within, so that we might examine and understand our motivation, to refine our intention, and then we will discover and be guided by a more meaningful aspiration and so equally find a better way or means to make our way towards the goals we have set our sights upon.

Jupiter
Jupiter completes an orbit around the Sun in roughly 12 years and so that it spends about a year in each sign of the Zodiac, year after year. Jupiter has been moving through Gemini this year, beginning on May 25, 2024, and will transition into Cancer on June 9, 2025, where it will stay until June 20, 2026. The influence of Jupiter concerns the meanings of your life, your spiritual, religious, scientific and cultural truths that guide and inform your conduct; Jupiter is your moral compass on the Earth. With Jupiter in Cancer, we are guided to shape our understanding for this next year by honoring the roots of our humanity, that we are reminded that our most central need to is to care for one another, and that we will find this as we connect more deeply to the source behind one and all, which is of course Divine and Unconditional Love.

The Four Outer Planets
And now we reach the four outermost planets, and as I mentioned last year in my show in October, we are experiencing something quite special this year, as all four outer planets, that would be Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are transitioning to new signs or have just done so. This shift of all these long-wave makers and shapers of the larger tides of spiritual history, all moving at once, does not happen very often, and it would seem to me that this certainly indicates that we are moving through a year with a great many changes for you and me.

Saturn
Let us begin with the planet of “Reality”, of substantiation and concretization, our maker of form and boundaries between forms, the planet Saturn. In a very meaningful manner, Saturn is the key for manifestation at least for us in our mortal frames or body. And what is quite remarkable all year long is that Saturn is straddling the divide between Pisces and Aries. And being at the end and the beginning of the Zodiac, it sort of holds this message that we are at the “ending of an age” and the start of a new one.

Saturn holds the last test of the Zodiac, it brings us to our final challenge, the “Test of Faith”. Whenever Saturn is in Pisces, we face the ultimate divide between the darkness and the light, and from this challenge or “dark night of the soul”, we can find the light eternal behind one and all so that we might experience our true spiritual nature. This divide can be simply put to you as this, “What does it mean to be fully human?” Are you still a captive of fear, circumscribed by your own self-cast shadows, and so a fear-filled fatalist about your life? Or have you realized that you are a Creator/Dreamer, who can hold to their faith founded upon your immortal spiritual nature? We are here to become fully human, and when you reach in some future life your initiation and apotheosis, you will be a fully conscious Co-creator of Creation. The Gift of Saturn in Pisces is to find your true source of Faith and Hope.

Whenever, Saturn is in Aries, we face the first test of spirit, which is to encounter the truth that we all exist in one space only, the ever-unfolding moment of the “Eternal Now”. Saturn in Aries is the “Test of Presence”, and it is here where the past meets the future, where we can redeem our past and create a more beautiful future by the very quality and nature of our persona or presence to meet that moment, to respond to each encounter in the ever-moving moment of the eternal now in the most appropriate manner, and by this awareness, in this the only space that is, in this precious point of Creation itself, we can and will forge a better future and redeem our past. The Gift of Saturn in Aries is to be an authentic leader and creator, to lead by love and to be a light for others too.

Uranus into Gemini, Neptune into Aries, Pluto in Aquarius
And, as I mentioned in October’s show, the fact that all of the outer planets are at the beginning of a sign, Uranus entering Gemini, Neptune entering Aries, and Pluto at the beginning of Aquarius, this means that they are all, as we Astrologer’s say, in aspect with one another, and to Saturn. They together form quite a beautiful pattern, (and I am not referring here to the lineup of the planets visible in the night sky right now, where after sunset you can see from west to east, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter and Mars arcing across the sky, and yes, Uranus and Neptune too, if you use a telescope).

The pattern that the outer four are forming this year, which is more or less present all year long, is astrologically named a “Sextile/Trine/Sextile”, which in our case is formed by the trine between Pluto in Aquarius to Uranus in Gemini, while Saturn and Neptune in Aries are midway between those two, forming Sextiles to either end of the Trine. 

The overall meaning of this pattern is determined by the trine, with Pluto beginning its 20 year passage through Aquarius, and as I have said before, and as we have witnessed in history in Pluto’s previous times in Aquarius, whether in 1778 to 1798 or 1532 to 1553, we humans will now strive and struggle over the very dreams and ideals of our society and culture. We will attempt to find a new way forward yet honor what is eternally true, because we need to establish a new social order and a new form of community that is anchored in everlasting truth, so that we can preserve and restore this world of beauty. A turning in History is being made now, as we move from a time when our modern world broke down during Pluto in Capricorn to the challenge of building a new world, and this will certainly lead to conflicts over what kind of future we will make for ourselves.

And during these first 7 years of Pluto in Aquarius, we will have the very ruler of Aquarius, Uranus, moving through the sign of Gemini, and for us in this year lining up perfectly with Pluto. Uranus in Gemini herald’s new ideas, new ways of thinking, new forms of understanding and communicating. The previous times of Uranus in Gemini, 1935 to 1942, 1851 to 1859, and 1768 to 1775, each witnessed the revolutionary spirit in mind as manifested in the plethora of new agencies and programs to meet the demands of the Great Depression and WWII, or the schism and clash between two economies, one slave and one free leading up to our Civil War, and in the revolutionary ideas of self-governance that led to our Revolutionary War.

If these previous passages may foretell something of our future, if past is prelude to what we are moving into now, then the combination of Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius is significant indeed. But then we need to add our understanding of the significance of Saturn conjoining with Neptune for this year, what is it about their relationship to one another and how might that influence this larger pattern with Uranus and Pluto?

Given that Saturn is the maker or former of Reality, and Neptune is the avatar of Dreams, their cycle of relationship is between Order and Dreams, of moving from dreaming to realization, to manifestation, to crystallization, to dissolving that form of reality and then back where we are now, to re-dreaming reality again. Their cycle of relationship is about 36 years, with the previous conjunctions of 1989, 1952 and 1917. For us at this time in 2025, this means that the Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Airies holds the moment where we might begin to bring some new dream or set of dreams into reality.

What this could mean, is that the Uranus to Pluto trine will be modulated, perhaps “blessed”, by Neptune forming a sextile to both of them, and equally grounded and made manifest by Saturn’s sextile to Uranus and Pluto too. But this does not inform us as to what will happen as much as that we are at a critical turning.

For, it is equally true that there are many contending dreams and ideas coursing through our individual selves, swirling and stirring our families and communities, bringing excitement, apprehension and disturbances to the many peoples, and cultures across the whole wide world.

What we need to do, individually and together, is to help one another to remember the everlasting truths that have guided our steps, and to know that it is our privilege and our duty to try to live by, in and through the everlasting light of the One.

So, when we ask ourselves and we turn to one another, when we look for the path and what we can do, we need only follow the one immutable truth, there in the fountain-source of Creation, which is to be that love that made us all.

Astrological Musings — The New Year, Part 2 (January 26, 2025)

This will be our first show in 2025, and I will review the minor and major phenomena of the coming year. As I noted in my last show, and it bears repeating today (and throughout the year), this will be quite a year of change as all of the outer planets are transitioning to new signs this year, indicating major shifts of energy-forms that will be experienced by us all. I will also examine the “ordinary” shifts we will experience by the inner planets, including the Lunar and Solar eclipses, Mercury retrogrades, and look at Venus and Mars in retrograde and whatever else might be of interest. 

But before you join me for the show, please read the announcement and guidance below:

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Many of you will remember that in my last show of 2024, almost no one was able to chat with me, as BlogTalk radio had technical issues. It turned out that BlogTalk radio is shutting down in a few days, so I have had to move my old shows to a new site called “Spreaker”, (and the link for all shows from now on will be found there, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many other podcast sites.)

Unfortunately, this service does not include a live, call-in feature, nor is there any show that does both live call-in and the hosting of a podcast like BlogTalk did. So, I have looked into several alternatives. But for the time being, I am going to see if I can use a service that I use most every day, often several times a day, which is Zoom. If today’s show works as well as BlogTalk did, I may continue with this Zoom format, if not, then I will try another method.

GUIDANCE FOR ZOOM
For those of you who are familiar with Zoom (and for those who are not), I will be setting up the show with both computer and phone access, with the video turned off and everyone on mute. You may either log on with your computer or phone app to Zoom by clicking on the link below or you may dial in with one of the phone numbers below, just as some of you did on the BlogTalk platform.

If you use your phone and dial in for the show, Zoom will answer and ask you to input the Meeting ID and press #. It will then ask you to input your Participant ID, (but you do not need to), so just press # again. If the show has started, Zoom will then ask you to input the Passcode and press # once more and you will be in the Zoom. If you have dialed in before the show has started, you will be in a waiting room until the show starts. If you use your computer or the Zoom app to reach the show, you will also need to input the Meeting ID and Passcode to join the meeting.

If you would like to speak with me in the second half of the show, for those on the phone you will need to press *9 to “raise your hand”, (or press *9 again to lower your hand). Those on the computer or Zoom app can choose the “React” menu on the task bar and choose “Raise hand”.

I will click on an individual with their “hand raised” and Zoom will inform you to unmute. For those on the phone, Zoom will tell you to press *6 to do this. For those on a computer or Zoom app, just choose the Audio button and unmute so that we might speak. After we chat, I will mute you and move onto the next individual who has raised their hand.

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Sun Enters Aquarius (January 19, 2025)

One for all, and all for the One

For the past 30 days you have considered the path and purpose of your life. It is in the sign of Capricorn that you meet your destiny, as you take the measure of how masterful you have become, of how well you have been responsible in and fulfilled by your achievements and contributions, revealed in your bearing and by your conduct, shaped and guided into these works of your character. You and “your works” are the self-forged living testament to your spiritual understanding.

After you have reached this summit, once you have done your duty to be your very best, once you have honored, preserved and passed on what your ancestors gave to you, after all your trials and labors, what will your next step be?

Today you leave the realm of Capricorn and enter the space of Aquarius. At this time every year, and wherever Aquarius is found in your chart, you are reminded of what is at the root of every particle of Cosmos, the light everlasting, the spark of the Divine. Behind the whole of Creation is the One, and being a one of the One, your whole nature is divined and defined by the essence of spirit, which is “to be, by self-becoming”.

So, having fulfilled your responsibilities, to your family, to your community, you might indeed wonder, “what comes next, what do I do now?” Ancient teachings and wise ones will gently suggest, and your very own “voice of the silence” will concur, that it is not enough to protect and preserve what was made by your ancestors. The everlasting spirit of your divine monad was not made, nor can it be held fast by what was. You are part of the journey of Spirit, and you are here to reach for the unmet promise, to make for the distant horizon of the unrealized dream of what you and your world are yet to be.

As much as it was not enough to know and tell the Truth in Sagittarius, you had to become and live by that Truth in Capricorn, so too it is not enough to stand for what is right and preserve the ways of our ancestors in Capricorn. Because you are here to grow beyond what has been, to be the maker of a better you and to make a better world, for you, for your children and all who will come after you too.

You are here to reach beyond what was established and secured by your own efforts, and also by all those who came before you. Aquarius is the space where we dream of what might be, of who we might become, and how we will create and make a better life for ourselves and for one another too.

Because, after all, behind all the what’s and why’s of what it means to be human, it all comes down to this…why are you here?

You are here for one sublime purpose; you are on this beautiful Earth to become a better human. You are on the path of awakening, and it will eventually lead to your self-fulfillment as a fully conscious co-creator of Creation, what is known as a “freed monad”, where you will no longer be utterly bound to the law of karma.

You are on a path that leads to true freedom, and your purpose is to free yourself. But this is also true about the way in which you will become free. You cannot be truly free without being the means to free one another. Because your self-fulfillment and your freedom can only be realized by means of and through one another. This is the one true path of the living spirit; we are all part of a bright shining community of light and love.

This is the Truth of Aquarius; that you are only what you are because you are part of a great company, a sacred fellowship, a band of brothers and sisters who are seeking to create a better future. You are here to help one another to be the very means by which your dreams come true, your happiness made real in them, and theirs in you.

This is the spark of the divine held by Aquarius. That you are part of a great human fellowship, a great family of souls. The dream of humanity can only be fulfilled through one another, because you are forever inextricably made by and for one another, by your fellowships and friendships, by your dreaming and doing and loving one another.

You are here for one reason, to become a better human.
You are on a path of awakening that leads to true freedom.
Your purpose is to free yourself, as you equally do this for one another too.

We will be what we dream, and we will become what we were destined to be.

Because we are “One for all, and all for the One”.

Happy New Year!