Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Enters Aquarius (January 19, 2022)

Aquarius - Johfra-Bosschart

One for all, all for One

What is our purpose; why are we here; and where are we going?

According to the Ancient Wisdom, which is found at the root and core of all the great religions and metaphysical systems, the Ancient Teachings tell us that we are here simply for one purpose; we are here to strive and grow through trial and error, to learn from our mistakes and by our successes too, and over the span of many years, and through many, many lives, we will become a better, fuller human being, a being full of Light and Love.

The stories or meanings that are held in the twelve signs of the Zodiac, what I like to call “the Circle of the Living Ones”, help us to find our way in this journey. They inform and help us to understand that we are shaped and guided by these holders of the Archetypes, as they form the Greater Story of Life for every human, in each life, and in every life after life, until there comes that day when we will have mastered them all. Each life, each story, and each sign, leads to the next, as we work to form that more perfect story of our true self, which is to be “one of the ones of the One”.

Today we leave the sign of Capricorn and enter the penultimate sign of the Zodiac; today we begin our sojourn in the realm of Aquarius. During this time each year, and somewhere in your chart throughout your life, you need to understand this story of Spirit, this holder of the dream of humanity and your future.

In Capricorn, you write your story of responsibility; you find fulfillment in your achievements, as you shoulder the burden of your duties and obligations and take your rightful place as an integral builder of the Hierarchy of Life that supports and upholds one with each other, and indeed with all the Kingdoms of Life that form the One. In Capricorn, we bring and form our reality into what is the very best of us so that we may preserve, protect, and pass down the great treasures of our civilizations and cultures.

But now you must turn again and fix your sights upon the far horizon; now you must consider the dreams of what might yet be. For as much as it was not enough to know and tell the Truth in Sagittarius, you had to be and live by that Truth in Capricorn; it is not enough to stand for what is right and preserve the ways of our Ancestors in Capricorn, you must also make a better world for you and your children, and all those who will come after you too.

As much as Capricorn is that part of you that honors what was and preserves what you must, Aquarius reminds you that this is not enough, that you are not done, and a better world is the dream that is shared by one and by all. Whereas some might say that what we have is good or is good enough, the voice of Aquarius in you says, “but can we not do better, can we not be better”? Well, of course we can, and we will if we stay true to our dream of the good, of the life we can create that is filled with true happiness.

For that is what you want for yourself, and it is what you want for those you love, and really for everyone, to experience the joy of happiness. But what is “Happiness”?

I believe that the shining truth of the human spirit is that your Happiness is quite simply the experience of self-fulfillment; it is the capacity and ability to dream and to strive, so that you might be and become what you were meant to be. And because this is so, because your heart fills with joy when you sing your own special song in the “Symphony of Spirit”, you must also know that it is equally true that you can only be truly happy when those you love and care for are happy too.

Your happiness comes from your own self-fulfillment, that is true. But you cannot experience this for yourself alone, for you are not you without so many others. You have been formed, shaped, and guided by one another since the beginning of time, and just as your nature and character is made with one another, your happiness is also part of one another too.

True Happiness is a social experience, for when you see your comrade, friend, or lover’s joy in their self-fulfillment, does it not bring that most special smile to your heart too? How could you possibly be fulfilled if others are not; how could you be truly happy, if you do not care for one another? You feel your own happiness in the smiles and laughter of your fellow companions; yes, it is their happiness that is yours, and your happiness is theirs.

This is the light of Aquarius; that we are part of a sacred fellowship, a band of brothers and sisters who seek to create the very best world for ourselves, for our children and all those who may follow us. We are dreamers, who made one another and this world.

We are here to become better humans, and we do this when we make it possible for each and every human to fulfill their potential, to realize their dreams and make a better world for one and for all.

Yes, Aquarius is the story of Humanity. We are the one and the many, we are the same and yet individuals too, with beauty in the truth of our diversity and differences. We are here to love one another as we love ourselves, with conviction and compassion, with passion and acceptance.

We are the means to one another’s becoming what we could not have imagined by ourselves.

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

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

2022-1-9 Radio Show Transcript — 2022 Forecast – Part 2, Neptune, Our Spiritual Crisis

Alchemical Tree of Life

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Today we will continue our look at 2022 with a special emphasis on the influence of Neptune in the coming year, both generally and with special attention to its message for the USA. Neptune has been moving through Pisces since 2011 and will not move into the first sign of Aries until 2026.

But before we look at Neptune on its own, I want to point out an interesting correspondence between Pluto’s transit through Capricorn and the transit of Neptune through Pisces. What we will find is that in every other passage of Pluto through Capricorn, Neptune will be passing through either Virgo or the opposite sign of Pisces for much of that period. And this correlation has been true for literally thousands of years.

Pluto/Neptune Cycles
Astronomically, this is due to the ratio of their respective orbital durations. The relationship cycle of these two planets, from Conjunction to Conjunction is about 491 years, and it is one of the “Master Cycle” indicators for Mundane Astrology. Interestingly, Pluto completes a circuit in roughly 245 years, while Neptune’s orbit is roughly 164 years. This means that 3 revolutions of Neptune around the Sun equals about 491 years, and 2 revolutions of Pluto equals about 491 years.

For our purposes, what this ratio of their relationship or of their harmonic resonance means is that when Neptune goes one and one-half times around the Sun it will equal just one orbital revolution for Pluto. And that is why each time Pluto is going through Capricorn, Neptune spends part of that time either moving through Virgo or through Pisces. I find this correspondence in their relationship very interesting and informative.

Pluto in Capricorn – Neptune in Virgo or Pisces
As I have noted many times, the passage of Pluto in Capricorn heralds the end of an institutional order and the birth of a new one. But given its relationship with Neptune, which is that Neptune is passing through Virgo or Pisces while Pluto is in Capricorn, we should expect that the nature of each Pluto shift or transition would be different or alternate in some meaningful way each time. If we look at this influence of Neptune blended with Pluto, it can help us to better understand what is similar yet different about our time in the 2000’s to the formative one for the USA in the 1770’s.

Given that the present-day passage of Pluto in Capricorn has Neptune in Pisces, our current period of institutional breakdown and re-ordering corresponds with that of the 1500’s more than the Capricorn/Virgo pattern at the founding of the USA. The question for us is how we might understand and so distinguish and define these differences?

With Pluto as the Avatar of the Power of Alchemy or the shaper of Spirit-Matter, and the wielder of the Will, and Neptune as the Avatar of our Fields of Dream and Imagination or the vessel of our Hopes or Fears, the type or kind of re-shaping and re-forming in these two different passages of Pluto in Capricorn can be discerned by the very different influences emanating through Neptune in Virgo versus Pisces.

Neptune in Virgo or Pisces
What I believe we can see is that the protean transformations of the Neptune in Pisces period, gives birth to a re-dreaming of the dream; and this in a fashion sets up or leads to the next Pluto in Capricorn with Neptune in Virgo, where that period brings this dream into the reshaping and reordering of life for that period. So, we would see that the 1500’s “re-dreaming of dreams” created the conditions for the 1700’s, and the USA being a “New Order for the Centuries”.

I find it is critically and interesting to note, that at the mid-point in Neptune’s cycle from that alignment, we see that 1770’s dream and reality-making facing its greatest test when Neptune went through Pisces in the 1850’s and 1860’s during the USA Civil War.

What this means to me is that with Neptune’s return to Pisces while Pluto is in Capricorn now, we are being challenged to reform or fashion anew the reality-form we made in the 1770’s, and we will do this by being inspired, as were those dreamers of the 1500’s, by a new vision of who or what we can be.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1500’s
In the period of the 1500’s, with Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces, the entire European ordering of life was turned upside down. From the Divine Right of Kings and the Ordering of Faith hierarchically arranged from Pope to Priest to the people, in what became known as the Reformation, turned that social order and way of meaning completely around. Faith became personal, it emanated from the personal experience of the “Word of God”, as the bible was now available in the common tongue. Faith became Individual, and no longer mediated by the priesthood and Pope. And over time the growing sense emerged that humans should order their lives around the sanctity of the individual conscience, and this informed and shaped the need to organize our institutions towards self-rule and democracy.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1770’s
When Neptune was in Virgo in the 1770’s, the dreams of that Plutonian ending of an age and reordering were focused through the critiquing, defining, and refining lens of Virgo. That is because when Neptune is in Virgo, we are asked to reimagine how we order our world, how we find our order of life within ourselves, in how we manage our lives, and how we form our institutions to meet our needs. And I would argue that with Neptune in Pisces, like in the 1500’s, and as it is now for us today, we experience the wonder and confusion of redreaming our very dreams, we are forced to go beyond our old paradigms of faith and fear so that we can find a new faith to guide our lives and refashion our institutions.

Where are we today?
Where we find ourselves today is in another shift in what I call our “Bubbles of Belief”, and we have come to a time when the very notion of what is true, or a fact is not so very clear. Rather than the mediation of Truth and Fact being determined and filtered by hierarchies of authority in the various realms of Science, Economics, Culture or Politics, we find that our shaping by the individualistic paradigm that was founded in the 1500’s has led to our moment where by the magic of interconnectivity to immense databases of information, each person can fashion and formulate their own version of reality from a veritable cornucopia of data that they have gathered from innumerable sources, but which, of course, vary greatly in their reliability. Without some means to sort fact from fiction, or truth from lies, we are at the mercy of the storms whipped up by those who profit from outrage and fear. Unfortunately, what we have created is a veritable chaotic cacophony of truths and half-truths, revelations and falsehoods, wisdom, and nonsense. How did this happen, and what does it mean for our future?

Bubble of Belief, Circles of Reality
As I have previously noted, we humans exist in what we have fashioned for ourselves, what I call our “Bubbles of Belief” which form our “Circles of Reality”. The role of Neptune is central to this experience because it holds the forms of reality, because it frames the lenses that we see as our reality. The Greater Reality behind it all, which will be known as and will be someday understood and experienced to be, is simply and profoundly called “the One”.

Why? Because the Foundation Source of Spiritual Truth is this: All of Creation is the Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit of the One. But to experience the One, for even a brief instant, would produce for most ordinary persons a shock that would shatter their being; it would quite simply be an encounter with what would appear to be pure Chaos! The One is beyond our comprehension, beyond our limited frameworks of principles, ideas, laws, or concepts. But this One is the Ultimate Reality. To us, as we look out into immensity of all of Creation it is truly chaotic; for those who have reached a higher consciousness it is truly sublime.

Neptune - Avatar of Meaning and Dreaming
Neptune forms our patterns of Consciousness and our means of Perception. It is the Avatar that will lead to our greater understanding. It is our Spiritual Source for Imagination, and the power of our Dreaming into Reality of whatever we imagine will become. Yet, here lies the great danger too, because by Neptune we can experience the exhilaration, the intoxication, of being “touched by the Gods”, so that we can imagine and dream the most wonderful forms of being, but we may equally stumble into illusions and nightmares too.

So, this would seem rather paradoxical; how could it be that the very instrument responsible for our journey in awakening, this Divine gift of our power of Imagination and Dreaming, how can this also be the same instrument or source of our delusions and confusion too?

Neptune holds the gift of Clairvoyance or Clear-Seeing, and Astrologers will often call the way of Neptune is that it operates as a “Universal Solvent”. It dissolves the boundaries and borders between thoughts and things, between dimensions and realms, and so enables us to see truth of the ultimate connection of everything and everyone, which is why it is also called the Avatar of Compassion and Unconditional Love.

The Challenge of Awakening
But here we face the challenge of journey in awakening, the opportunity and danger we face in moving from one Circle of Belief and into another. When we are undergoing any opportunity to let go of our former assumptions and limited perceptions with the assistance of Neptune, we may encounter the risk that we will become too untethered from a reasonable reality, by a Circle of Belief that served to keep us centered upon some essential truths within ourselves, and that equally formed our common understandings between one another.

Here we encounter the “razor’s edge” on our journey of awakening, the bright shining line between love and fear, between Illumination and Madness. When letting go of former certainties, and becoming untethered from an old Bubble of Belief, one may lose the common understanding shared with others as to the nature of reality. By this an individual or group or even an entire people or nation, may become enamored and entranced by energy-forms that are unfamiliar, yet seemingly offer the promise of a greater truth, of a special knowing.

Illumination or Intoxication
This experience of a special vision can be quite wonderful, and perhaps it is does hold a greater measure of the light of truth and even of wisdom, and so it might be that a lesser or greater awakening is at hand. But it is equally possible, and this is sadly found in far too many periods in human history, that those certainties of a greater truth imparted by those captivating visions, are really refractions and shadows formed by unhealthy desires and self-formed fears, forged in hearts that have turned from the light of love, creating illusionary notions of what is good and true. This peril of delusion and separation is most especially true when the siren song of Neptune’s revelation is not anchored in one’s heart by love, and so it may instead become shaped and twisted by fear. As always, the fault lies not in the stars, or in Neptune, but in our spiritual development as to our fortunes and fate.

Throughout many periods in human history, panics and manias, conspiracies and divisions have erupted. But the periods when Neptune is moving through Pisces, as it is now from 2011 to 2026 or like in 1848 to 1862, are particularly strong in this protean capacity to dissolve the boundaries between reality and illusion.

We have moved from a world in the 1500’s where the ordering of Truth versus Fiction was determined by and mediated through a descending hierarchy of authority, from Pope to King to Commoner, and instead we have created a world where every person is a pope or king, their own maker of fact, reason, and truth.

Unfortunately, the necessary level of spiritual development that is required to wield such godlike powers, where one would see a people or humanity guided by Wisdom and acting with Humility, well that is surely lacking in most if not all the various sectors and realms of our society now, from the uppermost and powerful down to the powerless.

Spiritual Crisis of Today – Chaos of all Realities
We live in disconnected Bubbles of Belief; we do not share the same assumptions about our world, about how we can discern what is right and what is wrong, or how we are to understand and treat one another. We are lost in the Ocean of Neptune, in the Chaos of all realities, and so for many souls there is no reality whatsoever, there is only confusion and despair. We are having what is known as an Epistemological Crisis, a crisis of how we know what we know, of how we can determine fact from fiction, or the truth from all the half-truths and lies; we find ourselves in a great Spiritual Crisis.

What can you do?
What can we do; what can you do? As always (and forever), I will gently advise one and all that the Truth has been known from the beginning of our journey in awakening, because it forms the very fabric of the Universe, as it is equally the very spiritual substance of you and me too, of course.

What we need to do individually, and then when we gather as friends, neighbors, colleagues and loved ones, is to return to the sources of truth found in all the great teachings, because we need to be guided by the Wisdom of the Wise Ones, our elder brothers and sisters, whose shining examples of Love and Compassion has shown us “the way” throughout the ages.

You cannot find your way by yourself, and so you must on the one hand look to the examples of those who left these treasures of truth for you, both in how to know the truth as well as the Truths themselves. And you most certainly cannot create your own understanding of your world because you are shaped and formed by all with who you have direct and indirect contact. You must choose wisely where you look for answers and avoid those individuals and groups whose certainties have created the very extremes between the dark and the light that make for our peril now.

As I said many times, and most recently in June of 2021:

The way of Truth has always been the Path of Love. For all those who follow the path of the Ancient Wisdom, and equally the many who understand and follow the great teachers whose messages are the “Heart Doctrine” of all religious traditions, we must begin and remain upon the Shining Path of Unconditional Love.

This will often be exceedingly difficult, seemingly impossible, when we encounter the cold meanness, and the dark hatred that seems to splash across our computer screens or onto our streets every day. But we must remain centered and true to the one path of the Masters. No matter who is before you, no matter how much what they do or say is disturbing or even repugnant to you, you must remember this and hold yourself to the path of Spirit and the clear Light of Truth. Whatever you do, and whomever you encounter, you must follow your Higher Self and:

“Love One Another”

Love is the way; it is the only way. It is the Way of Peace and Understanding. This is the Truth of Neptune, for Neptune is the Way of Unconditional Love. It is the Light at the Core of you and of all Creation.

So, what I would advise each and every one of us today is this, to remember this:

The Light of Truth is within you, and you can obtain and secure it by an Open and Questioning Mind, that is held from excesses by Unconditional Love, and together with your Reason and Compassion, you remain centered in your higher spiritual nature by your Centered Will.

Democracy
Self-government, what we call Democracy, requires that each member of that society to be guided with reason, held by love, and unbent by the passions and fears of those whose reason and love has been broken or forsaken. Whenever you encounter those who are narrow of mind and heart, you must understand that they are acting from a space of fear, and the only way to reach them is by your Reason, Love and Will.

Remember the teachings, and follow the Masters, so that you remain on the path where you are Wise and Gentle and Steadfast. Remember the oath you took long ago and stay true to your Destiny. Remember the Great Invocation and say:

From the point of light within the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known

Let purpose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.

From the center which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

Astrological Musings – 2022 - A look ahead, the 2022 Forecast – Part 2, Neptune (January 9, 2022)

Earth & Neptune - Sacred Geometry

In my first show of 2022, we will continue to examine the larger Astrological trends for 2022. Today I would like to look to the role of Neptune in general, and to also consider the special message it has for the USA this year. We have come to this moment, this most critical moment in our history, and what we are encountering can best be described as an Epistemological Crisis, or more accurately, a Spiritual Crisis. We do not know how to understand the world we have made, because we do not share a common understanding of it or of one another.

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

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Here is the link to the show on Sunday January 9^th @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2022/01/09/astrological-musings-2022-forecast-part-2-neptune

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Please join me on Sunday January 9^th @ 2 pm EST as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

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

Happy New Year! (January 1, 2022)

2021-12-19 Radio Show Transcript — Astrological Musings – 2022 - A look ahead, the 2022 Forecast – Part 1 (December 19, 2021)

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As we say goodbye to 2021 and prepare for 2022, I thought it would be helpful to look out to the year ahead and see what the Astrological indications are for the opportunities and challenges that lie on the path before for us.

Mundane Astrology
Much of Astrology and many Astrologers focus their attention upon what we call person-centered Astrology, which is based upon the examination of the progressions and transits occurring in the charts of their clients year after year. But when we step back and look at Worldly or what is called Mundane Astrology, we consider the larger forces shaping cultures, corporations, nations, and the world.

To do this, Astrologers consider two general types of indications:

• We look at the general planetary alignments, which are the movement of the planets through the signs of the Zodiac, and we also consider the significant angular separations that the planets form with one another over time, which Astrologers call the planetary aspects between the orbital paths of the planets.
• And secondly, Astrologers observe the Planets orbiting through the Solar System and note the aspects they form to the natal planets in any one or any number of charts of say a nation, a corporation, or any other entity. In addition to this we will often consider the charts of the leaders of these organizations or other significant actors on the world stage as well.

You would certainly think, given the conditions that we are witnessing around the world right now, that the general indications of the Worldly or Mundane placements and aspects would be very noticeable, stressful, and significant. But this is not the case, at least not at first glance. Yes, as is true for many things in this world, things are often not what they seem.

In Mundane Astrology, Astrologers focus upon the most significant long-term or long-wave cycles of the planets through the signs of the Zodiac. What we find this year is that from Saturn on out to Pluto, all the planets remain in the same sign in 2022 as they were in 2021. Saturn is moving through Aquarius, Uranus through Taurus, Neptune through Pisces, and Pluto remains in Capricorn. And whereas last year, Saturn was making a Square to Uranus, there is no major aspect between these outer planets in 2022. Does that mean that nothing significant is shown by these placements? Well of course not!

Pluto in Capricorn
As I have continuously noted since the mid 2000’s, we are moving through a period in our history which I (and others) have called the “End of an Age”. Principally, I see this as being indicated by the passage of Pluto (the planet of the Will and Transformation) moving through Capricorn (the sign of Reality and Institutions). If we look to Pluto’s previous cycling through this sign, (1762-1778 and 1516-1532) and compare it to our own period from 2008 to 2024, we can see that the Cultural-Economic-Political order that had been in place since the end of the prior passage of Pluto in Capricorn falls apart and a new order begins to emerge. 

Why is this so; why does this happen? Quite simply, every Cultural-Economic-Political order is formed for one purpose; we create a hierarchy of institutions to address or meet our human needs. But over time, the nature of these needs and the ways in which they are met evolve and change to such an extent that the old system begins to fail. Eventually we reach a crisis, like now, and from the undoing of the old order a new one is formed or rises from its ashes.

Pluto and the Will
Pluto rules the Will; it is the vehicle of the spiritual gift as to how we form our boundaries with one another, of how we create and preserve our sacred space within ourselves. It holds the spiritual principle that we must relate to others by respecting their sacred space as much as we preserve our own. This Truth must guide us as to how we must work to create our shared spaces that are founded upon the understanding that we are the means to one another’s self-fulfillment or “Happiness”, and to do this we form our Unions or Shared Sacred Spaces, in which we join, grow, and transform one another and our world. Pluto holds the capacity for “Agency”, to hold ourselves in self-mastery, with the ability to say, “yes or “no”, to join in mutual understanding or to separate from one another when we do not.

Alchemy
Pluto is the Avatar that holds the root driving energy-form of Creation, which we know as Alchemy, and it is by this Spiritual Energy-Form which makes manifests all that is; it is “prime mover” behind the whole of Creation. The Cosmos began as the One becoming the many, and those many went forth in a spiritual journey of becoming, moving through a hierarchy of combinations from the physical to the spiritual, from chemistry to alchemy, and this progression of combinations by these many ones, it is this which creates how we, all the divine Sparks of the One transform one another, becoming ever more complex and interrelated, so that they and we form a veritable River of Creation that is the body of the One or the Cosmos. 

We humans exercise our will in numerous ways. As our nature became ever more aware and complex, we formed and expressed our power of the will through a hierarchy of vehicles/institutions to meet our needs for one another, from the family to the tribal group, to larger communities, to various state and corporate structures of our modern world on up to nations and world institutions. All these instruments of our will are made by us to care for one another; we are only able to be and become what we are because we make possible our fulfillment through one another. But if “life is spirit and spirit is life”, and spirit’s purpose is to grow and change, so it must follow that we and our vehicles of self-realization must change too. Any institutional order is formed for a particular time, to meet the needs of that time as best as it can. But it will not and cannot last forever, and so we have watched our communities, cultures and civilizations rise and fall throughout human history.

In many periods of Pluto’s 245-year orbit, we will find examples of the right use of the Will and of Power, and the misuse of it too. Today, as our institutional order that was formed in the 1700s comes undone, we see how the very instruments of our fulfillment, of how we meet our basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, and security, and so much more, how these very means of our living have become the obstacles and perils for life on this planet for us, and for many other life-forms too. The very solutions we created to meet our needs have become the obstacles and perils to our continued existence.

We find ourselves now at the end of Pluto’s passage through Capricorn, as it will begin to move into and out of Aquarius during 2023, before remaining there to stay at the end of 2024 (and continue until 2044). We might like to think (or hope) that the ending of this tumultuous period in Capricorn would lead to a time of rebuilding and peace in Aquarius. But if the previous two passages provide some illumination with regards to this, history seems to indicate that our time of ending will lead to a period of challenges in the 2020’s, 2030’s and 2040’s as we attempt to create the New World.

We can take comfort from this fact, that at least our hearts and minds will not be focused upon what we have watched fall apart. No, instead we will lift our hearts and minds as we will be looking to the far horizon, as we focus our love, faith and hope to build the future and forge a path of light and love of what we may yet become.

Pluto and the USA
As I mentioned earlier, the other approach of Mundane Astrology is to examine the planetary aspects formed by the orbiting planets to the natal planets in the chart of some entity. For some time now we have witnessed the passage of Pluto in Capricorn through the chart of the United States as it made a series of alignments: the opposition to Venus in 2009 and 2010, the opposition to Jupiter in 2011, the opposition to the Sun in 2014 and 2015, a square to Saturn in 2015, and the opposition to Mercury in 2020. Truly we have witnessed a significant and powerful series of challenges from 2008 until now.

But 2022 is the final transit of Pluto in Capricorn to the USA chart, and it is perhaps the most consequential. Because this is the year that Pluto will return, (for the very first time) to its natal position in the chart of the United States; this year we will experience the Pluto return for the United States.

I have spoken and written about this for some time now, and I believe we can understand much of the promise for and peril of the United States by looking at Pluto’s role once again. As I have written repeatedly, this Cosmos, the story of Creation, is formed and powered by what we know as Chemistry (physically) or Alchemy (spiritually), and this Fountain Source or Primal Energy for Creation ceaselessly unfolds as the prime mover or the Self-Becoming energy that forges the innumerable combinations and transformations of the hierarchy of Energy-Forms of the One Spirit. Whether by atoms combining with atoms to form larger atoms, molecules with molecules, organisms with organisms, on up to the planets, stars, and galaxies, what drives Creation is the Protean Power that is Alchemy, which is the magic and the mystery of combination.

This secret to Creation, of Birth, Death and Rebirth, is held by the Sign of Scorpio and the Planet Pluto for us. The position of Pluto in the chart of the USA is integral to our understanding of who and what we are. Pluto is in the second house of Value, and it holds the secret of where our true value comes from, of how we are to make value, preserve value or destroy value as a nation.

Alchemy and Community
For humans, this power of Alchemy is most clearly seen in our partnerships, collaborations, joint ventures, enterprises, communities, cultures, and nations. To form any union, we must make a sacrifice which elicits our change and growth; we let go of our lesser qualities to combine with one another by our deeper values, and by this we move into a greater reality. We forge our own growth and make possible our greater and shared qualities through combination. When properly guided by love and understanding, we give up for one another what we must, but we hold onto the core of who we are, sacrificing our ego but lifting our hearts and minds together.

The USA was founded as a Union, as a sacred compact, an agreement made by individuals who sought to free themselves from tyranny and pledged to one another, and they swore an oath, that established “a new order for the centuries”. They determined and declared that they would create a new kind of society and govern themselves by mutual consent. Their ideals and intentions stated in our Declaration resonate to this day, “that all men are created equal”.

Now of course it is true throughout our history, that humans have always joined together, to hunt and to gather and to grow foodstuffs, and to make the necessities for life like clothing and shelter, to join in groups for mutual protection, and so they formed themselves into families, into bands of families, and into tribes, and they created villages, cities, nations, and empires. The nature and quality of those combinations has varied widely, with a range of agency or “free will” for the individuals within those socio-cultural orders. No matter how free or equal, even in what we may look to as “freer” societies of mutual consent, there was ever to be found injustices and inequalities, of power wielded by the few over the many, of people bound and enslaved to the wills of others.

“Out of many, One”
The Way of America has been an attempt to form a new order for the ages, that as our motto states, “Out of many, One”. But as in any individual being, or group of beings, there are three “directions” that must be forged into the “one way” to make a whole person or a whole society, to make a One; there are three ways to connect within and without to forge wholeness and well-being. From Astrology we take this understanding from the three Water Signs, to find our center from Cancer, by forging connection to one another in Scorpio, and to reach for the sublime by Pisces.

The Water Signs
From Cancer we go down and back, to our origins and roots, to who and where we came from (family, culture, faith), and we establish that which centers us within ourselves and with our fellow members. It is the story we tell about who we are.

By Scorpio we go out to form our unions with one another, our joining in personal, professional, social collaborations by which we make possible our self-fulfillments through one another. We create the share sacred spaces governed by our mutual agreements (shaped by morals that guide our conduct, protected by the laws that embody our truth) and by this we become the means to one another’s fulfillment. It is the way in which we show our love for one another.

To Pisces, as we reach up and out, to that which we hold as our belief in a greater order, and our faith about what we will be and become as we follow the ever-rising spiritual imperative to become what we dream. We find the faith to believe in something greater than ourselves, and that this is equally the gift that makes us who we are. It is the luminous path by which we can be greater than we are.

These three ways of Water, of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, these ways of being and becoming a better human, is true for every individual. But this means that these three are also the key to any community, society, or culture. And for the USA, we find ourselves at another great turning in the tides of history for these ways of being have become diminished and are in danger of being broken.

Broken Connections
What we are witnessing at the present time for the USA is an ending. Why? We have become separated from our origin story; so, we do not know where we came from. We have lost the capacity to create our shared sacred spaces because we cannot find a way to overcome the differences that divide us; so, we will not sacrifice for one another. We have lost our faith in the American dream of a better life for one and for all; so, we cannot imagine a world that will be better than what came before.

Now, of course, the story that we told of America had to change. Our origin story was incomplete to begin with, as it left out so many who are part of the heart of the American journey; and, we have changed in so many ways that we need to share our stories with one another so that we might create a new common story.

Likewise, our way of joining with one another, (which should be guided by our morals and laws), is no longer protected by being centered in a common story, so our unions have been ever more diminished and hollowed out, allowing those with influence and power to take advantage of our broken social compact. The values that we create with one another, that are for one another, our social wealth, is stolen by the few for their own private benefit. Our power through combination is lost, and we have retreated into isolation and despair.

It is by these broken roots and severed connections, that we have lost faith in our future. We have wandered off the path of faith because we do not know where we came from, or how we can join with one another. We do not have a common story, nor an equitably shared space for self-fulfillment, nor a faith in a future that is better than before. We find ourselves at the end of our days, and we are confused and scared, and our fears darken the horizon.

America - A New Beginning
Yes, Pluto is returning; the Lord of Birth-Death-Rebirth is here. Pluto is ringing the bell of truth, that what was our American Journey of Value for the past 240 years is over. Pluto says that we must let go of the past that is past, and the only way forward is for there to be a renewal and restoration of our true source of value. For we have never lived fully by the truths we declared to be “the Truth”, and we must take up the challenge of being better than we were once again, which really is the quintessential core of the American Story. We believe that we can be better, and we can be again if we understand that we are for another the means for this bright future.

We must remember the true source of all value, shining at the heart of Creation, and in every particle and being in this Cosmos. At the center of it all is the One True Spirit, and we know, and we feel this gift of Spirit for what it is, which is quite simply and purely that behind all of Creation we feel the splendor that is Unconditional Love.

We must write a new story that lifts our minds and heals our hearts; we must forge deeper unions with one another by knowing that we are the instruments for one another’s happiness, and by this we will restore our faith in a future that is worthy of those who will follow us.

The Way Forward
The only way we can go forward is by truly understanding how we got here. We need to share our stories and listen to one another. We must acknowledge the good efforts and sacrifices of so many who made this nation a little better than before. But we also need to acknowledge the great inequities and injustices that exist among our people too, and to understand that much of this is not an accident, no it is not, because it is the result of deliberate policies and actions that broke our promises to one another. It is the product of fear, from those who profit by dividing us from the truth one way or another. But we must put away these falsehoods now and choose love over fear.

The divisions of well-being by race and ethnicity, the staggering differences in income and wealth, the disproportionate circumstances of security and safety among various groups, all these differences are no accident but the result of our failure to live by the truth that we are here to love one another.

This is going to be hard. It is going to require resolve and kindness, dedication, and compassion, it is going to require passion, intelligence, and forgiveness. Building a better future is going to ask each of us to let go of our fears and believe in one another, to support one another, for we are the wealth of this nation, and the future is ours if we will keep faith and have the courage to believe in one another’s essential goodness and courage to live and love as we were meant to be.

The answer is to live by the Light of Love, where you see the one before you as you see yourself, essentially the same, but also different too. That we must celebrate and embrace the Truth that our real strength comes from our alikeness and difference, combined; we need to be the Truth of our motto, “out of many, One”.

The way has always been thus, to see the light of the Universe shining from the other as it is in you. And you will know the answer is quite simply what it has always been,

You are here to love one another as you love yourself, there is no other way, and this is what you were made to do.

May the Light of Truth, Love and Understanding guide us now and forevermore.

Sun Enters Capricorn – The Solstice (December 21, 2022)

Johfra Bosschart - Zodiac-Paintings - Capricorn

The Pathway to Perfection 

The Sun stands still. That is what the word solstice means. In ancient times, people stopped whatever they were doing, as they watched and waited. Would the darkness prevail or would the light return? Would their hopes be dashed, or their faith restored? They waited for a sign, for the promise of light and love to return to Earth.

We have reached another turning in the Astrological calendar. Four moments each year when we seek to understand the great turnings, and we know and understand them as the Four Questions of life, “Who am I, and who are you, where do I come from, and where am I going”. These are the noble “Four Directions”, the “Four Corners of Life”, and you should at this most sacred time of the year consider them all as you consider the path that you are on today.

Yes, you are at a turning point, and the only question is, “which way should I go, what path is right for me, what is my Destiny?”

The hidden message behind the realm of Capricorn is often said to be that “Character is Destiny”. But for those who understand the true purpose behind our lives, we can reverse this phrase and say equally that our “Destiny is Character”.

The truism that “Character is Destiny” is an ancient and holy understanding about the journey of the human spirit. More recently, it was attributed to the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus who lived between 540-480 BC. His keenest observation, which is very much in keeping with one of his contemporaries, the Buddha, is that “…Everything flows, everything is in constant flux and movement, nothing is abiding. Therefore, we cannot step twice into the same river. When I step into the river for the second time, neither I nor the river are the same…”. This is a restatement of the Ancient Wisdom, that behind all of Creation is the eternal Spirit which ever strives to be and become, moving in and out of forms, the protean spirit of Spiritual Alchemy behind the mystery of Creation.

But what Heraclitus also said was that “our character is our fate", that our character or our level of development creates the kind of life we will live and so forms our destiny. With regards to the Ancient Wisdom, what this means is to the extent you have become more self-masterful, that you have achieved a greater understanding of your own true self and so equally of the world around you, then to that extent your life becomes more aligned with your true spiritual nature.

By the gift of self-awareness, by this precious gift that makes possible the evolution and “development of character”, we see that an individual is no longer subject to being seized and driven by uncontrolled passions from within, nor are they captured by the dissipating attractions from the world around them. By this rising light of consciousness, an individual on the path of awakening is no longer the pawn of “the fates”, no longer held in chains by the perfectly equitable but mindless action/reaction of the ordinary life. Instead, they have become a member in a great company of souls, they have become another self-directed aspirant on the Pathway of Perfection.

But this is also why those who have come in any life to that turning point or portal that divides the more fated from those of freer wills, and who by making this choice to take the steeper path of self-quickening, so that their life and purpose becomes ever more firmly focused upon self-mastery and wisdom, which will bend their life increasingly towards a path of selfless service, compassion, and love, that it is by this loving choice of faith over fear that they will truly understand that our “Destiny is Character”. But what does that mean?

Humans have discussed, debated, and argued as to what is our destiny, of what is the true purpose and meaning behind our life here on Earth, of what purpose are we made for or destined to be. For those who study the great works of Ancient Wisdom, or equally observe the great souls in action, they understand and know that our purpose and destiny is quite simple, really; we are here for one purpose, which is “to become a better human”, and eventually become a complete human.

How do we do this? By using all our faculties of body, feeling, mind and spirit; by learning through trial and error, by striving and failing and trying again. It is by this slow, steady climb up what we might imagine is the mountain that is life, it is by this that we will slowly raise ourselves up as we learn what not to do and so how to be better.

This is the lesson and gift of Capricorn, that the most precious moments in this life, and in all your lives, are when you “failed”; when you tried and fell short, but you did not surrender. The spirit within you did not dim; it grew stronger, more determined, more purposeful so that in the end you did master that craft, you did acquire that strength, you did find a way to not only know the Truth (as in Sagittarius), but you also felt a burning light in your heart that your true purpose was to live by Truth, and in fact to be this Truth.

But what you have also learned is that every obstacle you overcame, and in each challenge well met, is that your victory over fate and your development of a freer will, was something that you did not do on your own or by yourself. No, you are part of a never-ending Hierarchy, like a Ribbon of Light in Space and through Time, formed by all the souls above and all the souls below you, both here today and in the far, far distant past. Yes, you stand upon the everlasting foundations built by all your ancestors, by all of humankind, and your purpose now is to add to that foundation for those who will come after you.

Our Destiny is Character, as we are for one another both pupil and teacher, and in every encounter with all whom you meet in this or in any life, is that you are to understand that your experiences with one another are the very means by which each of you will forge a greater wisdom that is revealed by your compassion and love for one another.

At this time of the year, and wherever Capricorn is found in your chart, you are reminded that what you are today, and what you will be tomorrow is no accident. You are the Master Builder, you are the pilgrim and the seeker, the teacher and the pupil, the child and the wise one too. And all that you do, from the simplest of tasks, to the greatest contributions and services you offer, all of it was part of a “master plan” to bring you closer to your Destiny.

That is why, at this time of year we give thanks to our ancestors; we bow are heads and bend our knee and pledge to one another that the Light will not go out, not on our watch, not in our time. We will keep the promise, that we will take care of one another, and we will continue to follow the path of Light that is the Hierarchy of Love and Compassion.

At this sacred hour, in this moment when the light returns once more, we say:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light within the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known

Let purpose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.

From the center which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

Astrological Musings – 2022 - A look ahead, the 2022 Forecast – Part 1 (December 19, 2021)

In my twelfth show of 2021, we will take our first look at 2022, and what lies ahead Astrologically. Today I would like to begin with a look at the role of Pluto generally and with regards to the Pluto return in the chart of the USA.

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

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Here is the link to the show on Sunday December 19^th @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/12/19/astrological-musings-2022--a-look-ahead-the-2022-forecast-part-1

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 December 19^th @ 2 pm EST as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

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

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 21, 2021)

Johfra Bosschart - Zodiac-Paintings - Sagittarius

The Path of Awakening

From the depths of experience, we encounter the Jewels of Meaning.
And from these Truths we have met, we weave our Stories of one another.

Yes, we encounter the truth in Scorpio, but in Sagittarius we tell our stories to one another.
And that is how we forge the path, so that we may live with meaning and purpose in our lives.

At this time of the year, and somewhere in your very own chart, you enter the Realm of Truth that is Sagittarius. Since we humans became human thousands of years ago, that is when we “woke up” and became self-aware, we have sought to experience “The Why” of our journey with one another.

When we woke, we wondered, why is the sky “blue”; why does the Sun rise and set; why do I ask why; and why am I? Which of course led us to heart of "why", why is anything?

Yes, we sought and will ever seek to know the why of our journey. Why...because we have felt the joy of love and the agony of loss, we have witnessed the miracle of birth and faced the mystery of what comes after death. We are aware, and we know that we do not know…and so we wonder, and we seek, and we strive to understand.

We have been on a very long journey of Awakening. After countless ages of simple awareness, the Light of Self-Awareness was bestowed upon us by those who had received this gift of awakening long, long before our time. We honor these elder brothers and sisters, whose names echo down through the ages, Prometheus, Quetzalcoatl, Aditi, Isis, Lucifer, Odin… We are the heirs to a great fortune, and we honor their gifts by keeping the flame of Truth alive.

We do this as we have always done this, by being what we are. We are Storytellers. In songs and symbols, in petroglyphs and pictures, in architecture and statues, in poetry and prose, in the Temples of Truth that are Science, Religion and Art, we tell the stories that have come down to us and add our own to these greatest of gifts, this Treasure of Truth.

The greatest of Truths, the Eternals of Light and Meaning, have been shared with us by the Sages and Seers whose task it was to preserve the “Gifts from the Gods”. These are the wisest of the Wise Ones, the Teachers who we know and honor and revere, Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zoroaster, and Pythagoras and so many more. There are the known Truthtellers; but many more loved and labored to lift the Torch of Understanding, and we give thanks for their great service, for those who persevered, preserved, protected, and served to extend the Light that is Love.

And each one of us is here to do the very same thing. We are storytellers, one and all. And we made and will remake one another throughout our many lives by sharing our stories with one another. This is how it was done, and this is what you must do too. You must share with one another, listen to one another, and help one another find your way to the Greater Understanding.

What the great ones found is what you will find too, that Truth is omnipresent and everlasting, as it forms the very substance and meaning of the Universe. That is why you can perceive it, that is why you can know. Because what you see out there in the stars above is the very same truth that shines in your own heart too.

This is what is meant by “As above, so below”, because in the heart of every particle of creation, there is shining the undying Light of the One. This is the One Truth from which all others come, that “Spirit is Life; Life is Spirit, and all of this is held by the Love of the One.”

And so, it is known in the Ancient Wisdom that as there is but one Spirit, so there is but one Life. That is why the Truth is there for every one of us, for it is in One and all. If you have ears that are willing to listen, and eyes that are open to see, you will understand. You need only to weave together, and hold together, your heart and your mind and find peace.

You need to gather together, to really look into one another’s eyes, and you will smile.

You will see, shining back from those windows of the soul, the blazing truth that we are for one another the answer to the question, “Why”?

Why are you here?

You are here for one another; you are here to love one another.

Do this and you will remember who you are.

And your heart will be at peace.

2021-11-14 Radio Show Transcript —The Field of Energy-Forms, the Cosmic Builders, and the Oneness of Creation, Part 2 Patterns of Meaning (November 14, 2021)

Transcript of Radio Show: The Field of Energy-Forms, the Cosmic Builders, and the Oneness of Creation, Part 2 Patterns of Meaning

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

I thought it would be helpful to continue our discussion from October 3, 2021, where we examined the constitution of the Cosmos. I think it is very important that we go further into this today, so that we might find a deeper appreciation of the gift of understanding that this approach to the nature of reality provides.

Cosmos – A Hierarchy of Energy-Fields
What we have found is that when we see the Cosmos as formed by a hierarchy of Energy-Fields, we can better understand that what we know as our bodies (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual), should really be seen for what they truly are, as Energy-Fields that by significant resonances and alignments manifest as Forms; and, how in turn these fields, by their intra and interrelationships, create a hierarchy of Meaning-Filled Patterns that indeed constitute what we experience as Reality or Life. Because of this essential nature of the Cosmos, we can experience the Universe as Meaningful, because it is made by and is full of patterns, meanings, and truths, from the densest of material to the most ethereal of energy-forms, in what I like to call the “Song of Spirit”. That Song of Spirit, the Master Chords of Patterns and Meanings are held by the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. 

As I noted then, the modern-era models and the data we collect based upon our modern tools of perception, as well as the Wisdom passed down to us in the Ancient Teachings, both of these approaches, whether by Science or by Spirit hold that the ultimate nature of Reality, the Noumena behind the Phenomena we perceive can best be understood as Fields of Energy, and these Fields create the Energy-Forms or Bodies that we perceive as the physical reality that is made by a Hierarchy of Atomic Particles, Atoms, Molecules, Matter, Life-Forms, Planets and Stars.

Patterns of Meaning – The Design Bodies of Creation
But what we also need to understand is that these Fields of Energy-Forms are shaped and guided by Patterns that are interrelated within each type of Energy-Form, and between them and other Energy-Forms too. These internal and external patterns are the Web of Designs and Meanings, what the Ancient Wisdom calls “the Design Bodies” that form, shape and hold Creation together as it is, and create the Story of Spirit, The Life of the One.

These patterns range from the physical “Laws of Energy-Forms” which guides their combinations-transformations (what we call Chemistry in the physical sciences, or Alchemy in the spiritual sciences), and which we humans have arranged and labeled in a Hierarchy from the micro or sub-atomic up to the galactic structures of the Universe. We have discerned and described this materialized world as being formed and arranged by these patterns of the physical laws that hold and guide their manifestation and meaning.

And equally, what we consider as the realm of Living Energy-Forms, (though in the Ancient Wisdom we hold that everything in the Universe is Alive and Conscious in some form), we have arranged our understanding of these Life-Forms into a hierarchy guided by the Patterns or Laws of the Biological, from the most archaic of life-forms, to the most complex of Living-Beings. And we see and understand that those life-forms are shaped and guided by their chemical-biological Patterns of Interrelationships within each form, and between those forms of life and other forms of life, and which we understand as being shaped and guided by the pattern of meanings held by DNA.

Patterns of Consciousness
Moreover, as we look at ever more complex forms of life, we see how these Patterns of Life move beyond the merely physical, chemical, and cellular combinations and interrelationships, into an ever-widening web of the Phenomena of Mind, of Patterns of Consciousness, of Feelings and Thought-Forms and Awareness deepening and expanding within and between the Hierarchies of Life. Though these exist according to the Ancient Wisdom in all the realms of being, they become ever more pronounced and luminous as we move into more complex orders of Creation.

When we come to the relatively advanced forms of life, like our Human Kingdom, the multiple Patterns of Meaning that shape and guide our journey range from the physical, to the emotional, to the mental and to the spiritual Energy-Forms and their Patterns. As I noted last time, we humans are part of a Hierarchy of Life-Forms in this Universe, and we are not so very different from many life-forms with whom we share this precious planet, because we are all held and shaped by these Fields of Relationships that we create within and between one another and all other lives on this planet. Indeed, we see how very much the Patterns of these other Kingdoms of Life, and our Patterns of Human Life, are deeply interwoven and interdependent with one another. And we can certainly acknowledge given the Covid-19 experience and the existential crisis posed by Climate Change, that we are much more interdependent than we might have thought.

Yes, we can now see how we bear a singular responsibility for both the Crisis of Climate Change and the Covid-19 pandemic (which is just another manifestation of Climate Change). Why or how could a single species on a planet, that is teaming with a host of life-forms, be so powerful as to effect such a change for the entire planet?

The reason is that we humans, given our special abilities for self-aware, self-development, have developed these Influential Fields of Patterns in our Emotional-Mental-Spiritual Energy-Bodies to such a degree, to such a consequential power, that we have been able to reshape ourselves and in consequence our world in vaster, deeper, and infinitely more complex ways than any other life-form.

Paradigms of Belief
The combination of these three Pattern Shapers, the Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Fields that we make with and through one another in our Human Interrelationships, these three form our Consciousness, our Paradigms of Belief and Reality-Forms that shape and guide our Actions and Behaviors, and forge our Wants, Desires and Fears; and it is by these Patterns of Feeling, Thinking and Believing that we have made our Human Reality for thousands of years. Steadily, and now increasingly, we have been changing ourselves and our world. But it does appear to many of us, that we have forged these developments without wisdom or humility, and we have failed to understand the costs and consequences for ourselves and this planet until it was too late.

First Humans – Hunters/Gatherers for almost 200,000 years
For tens of thousands of years, we humans lived in a certain Pattern of Meaning; we were what we call “Hunter-Gatherers”, and our Design Body Patterns, our patterns of Emotion, Mind and Spirit, were closely aligned with the natural world around us. According to our latest Genetic discoveries and Archaeological findings, modern Humans evolved into our present form around 200,000 years ago. And for all but the last 12,000 years we lived by aligning our Patterns with the Natural World around us, creating what many have come to see as a mostly symbiotic and balanced relationship with the other realms of life.

The Great Turning – Settlements 12, 000 years ago
Whether by happenstance, or some climate shift, or some other yet as undiscovered reason, we were able to settle down and begin to grow grains, and then domesticate animals around 12,000 years ago…and everything began to change, for us and for the Natural world around us. We began to change our own Patterns of Meaning and Interrelationships with one another, and we can see this by comparing our way of life to the few remaining groups of Hunter-Gatherers that live at the margins of our Human-Remade World. We moved away from an Egalitarian society grounded in sharing equitably, and into a Hierarchical order defined by possessions and power. And we began to significantly alter the delicate balance in the ecosystems for the land and wildlife to meet our ever-changing and growing needs for the next many thousands of years. But a most important change was still ahead, and it was because of this shift in our Consciousness that we find ourselves with our existential crisis today.

Our self-framing and self-shaping by our Patterns of Meaning and Consciousness is the most significant factor in creating and determining the path we have followed, and they will also determine the path that we make that lies ahead. Throughout our journey, that is since we “woke up”, we have been sharing our stories with one another, for we are Storytellers one and all, and our observations, experiences, knowledge, and wisdom have formed the Web of Consciousness that we weave around and between one another. These individual and collective stories form our Patterns of Belief and forge the Path that we are on. We are very much what we think and feel, and we make our reality accordingly, whether for good or for ill.

The Scientific Revolution – 500 years ago, the 1500’s
The last and most significant change in our Patterns of Meaning, in our Emotional, Mental and Spiritual formations of Reality, led us to a new Way of Belief and Life and it happened just over 500 years ago. We once again experienced a shift in our Consciousness that fundamentally altered how we understand ourselves and our relationship to the rest of Creation. Our Patterns of Meaning and Consciousness shifted, our Purpose and Motivation went from preserving the Wisdom and Knowledge of the Ancients to acquiring practical Knowledge of the material world. This Epistemological Shift has been named The Scientific Revolution.

For most of our journey, we have revered what was handed down by our forebears, holding that the first teachings and our ancestral knowledge was the Truth, and in some fashion absolute and final. For generations upon generations, change was incremental and mostly accidental, as all the solutions and answers to life were embodied in our customs and crafts or found via the mediation of the religious orders, so that a person whether from 2,000 years or 1,000 years or 500 years ago, would have found much that was familiar in one another’s lives and customs. But this would certainly not be true if they came into our world today, for we have made a very different world now.

This shift began around 500 years ago, and it created an approach to the world that is critical and questioning. Rather than assuming what was handed down was true, we began to examine reality for ourselves. We measured, and evaluated and tested our findings, constantly refining and improving and retesting our findings so that we could continuously increase our knowledge of how the Universe works. This was not done to merely satisfy our curiosity. Rather, we sought to know so that we could harness these discoveries and make use of them to meet our needs. And as we acquired more capabilities, we created ever more complex needs and wants that we sought to satisfy, and then we did it again. We went from mostly very simple lives to create a world of astounding complexity. We went from over 400 million humans to a current population of just under 8 billion now!

Our Crisis – The Next Turning
But now we find ourselves with a range of challenges that we have brought upon ourselves. For in our rush for the Energy and Materials to create and sustain our modern lives, the modern world that our Science and Technologies have made possible, we have changed the delicate balance of the various ecosystems that make up the rich and beautiful hierarchy of life-forms on this planet. As the increasing loss of diversity of species accelerates, we can truly see now that our world is becoming less beautiful, less vibrant, less meaningful because quite literally, “life is leaving the planet”.

At this critical moment, when the future of the planet and the prospects for humanity are in great peril, we must hope and expect that our Patterns of Meaning, our complex Web of Feelings, Thoughts and Spiritual Intimations, that our most special Gift of the Imagination will help us to find a way to solve our self-made crises and avoid the calamities that are hurtling towards us.

Confusion Reigns
But at this critical moment, we are faced with another crisis of our own making, we face a Crisis of Consciousness itself. Because of our technologies, because of our means to spread information and misinformation without limits, we find ourselves today in a veritable “Ocean of Cacophonies”, with clashing “storms of stories” and meanings without context or foundation, where competing opinions and dueling facts stream out of our many devices, and we cannot find our way to what is reasonable let alone what is true. We are lost because our storytelling and stories are broken, and we can neither find our way home nor see a path to a better future. What are we to do?

Yes, if I were some sort of outside/alien observer of humanity at this time, I would say the general condition of our species right now is that we are confused and uncertain. It is rather telling, that at this time we are experiencing the passage of Neptune through the Sign of Pisces, which always represents a time when the boundaries between the various realms of Spirit and Matter become more permeable and unfixed. Whenever I have a client experiencing a major transit of Neptune in their chart, I always point out that they are going through a time of mystery and confusion. They will often say yes, they are confused, and it is distressing and scary. But I gently remind them that the universe is not out “to get them”, and that the reason we must go through periods of confusion is to make it possible for us to grow! They look at me as if I am somewhat out of my mind, but I explain that we become attached to the way things are, to the way we are, and even though those ways may now be hurting us (or others) we hold to them, not because of our faith but because we are fearful. So it is Spirit, in this case Neptune, that comes along to make that old reality appear as it is, an illusion, a moment in time that is passing, and that we are being given this opportunity to let go and grow.

Our Time, Like the 1500’s
That is what is happening now, and it is on a global scale because we are so interconnected by our new technologies, so the entire world can virtually participate in the most uplifting inspirations of the human spirit and our darkest fears too. Neptune was in Pisces before, from 1848 to 1862, and 1685 to 1698, and 1521 to 1535. Our shift from 2011 to 2026 is most similar to and perhaps as consequential as that dawn of the Scientific Revolution in the 1500’s. Not only was Neptune in Pisces during that period, but the planet Pluto was also passing through Capricorn as well. That is exactly what we are experiencing now, Neptune in Pisces with Pluto in Capricorn. We are at the Dawn of a New Age, but we cannot yet see what that New World might be.

Remember, whenever Pluto is in Capricorn it indicates the End of an Institutional Age, when the structures we have created to meet our needs break down because they can no longer meet our needs, that is why the world as we knew it falls apart around us. And Neptune meanwhile is dissolving those boundaries between Patterns of Meaning, so that our Understanding of the World and of one another is clouded and confused.

The Way Ahead
What we can know is that our ancestors found a way through their time of breakdown and confusion, and they built a New World. They did it not by denying Science or their Faith, but by finding a way to hold them together. That is “The Way”.

We will find our way when we let go of what we must but hold onto that which is everlasting. We must tell one another our stories, share our hopes and our fears, find new meanings and ways to meet one another’s needs. We must turn to one another with love and listen and try to find a way to meet one another in a newly created shared space of understanding.

We can do this if we remain on the Path of Love and Light, by holding together our Hearts and our Minds.

At the Dawn of the Scientific Age, Descartes famously declared as part of the new Patterns of Meaning, this defining phrase for being human: “I think, therefore I am”.

But I would differ with this claim of what it means to be human, and in accordance with the Ancient Teachings and all the great Religions, I believe we would be truer to affirm, “I love, therefore I am”!

We are here for one thing, To Love One Another.

And we do this when we listen to one another, share with one another, and care for one another.

This is the Way.

And this is the way we will make a New World.

Astrological Musings – The Zodiac - The Field of Energy-Forms, the Cosmic Builders, and the Oneness of Creation, Part 2 – Patterns of Meaning (November 14, 2021)

Astrological Musings – The Zodiac- The Field of Energy-Forms, the Cosmic Builders, and the Oneness of Creation
Part 2 – Patterns of Meaning (November 14, 2021)

In my eleventh show of 2021, I want to continue our previous talk about how approaching the fundamental nature of the Universe as a “Field of Fields of Energy-Forms” can help us better understand ourselves and what is happening in our world right now. In this Part 2, I want to examine how these Fields form patterns of interactions, which make for patterns or structures of meaning, and it is these Design Bodies or patterns that create and shape the Cosmos. What we need to understand is how our human patterns of meaning are shaping us and our future at this time.

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

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Here is the link to the show on Sunday November 14^th @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/11/14/astrological-musings-the-zodiac--patterns-of-meaning

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

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