Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Square Neptune (November 1, 2011)

Now it is Hermes turn to dance in those mirrored Halls of Wonder...Neptune's Magical Mystery tour is coming to your mind...There is going to be some misperception, and some misunderstanding here...but that is only the sideshow, because this is really for you, it is a gift, an opportunity to grow beyond the boundaries that kept you from the greater truth that is always around that next spiral turn...

Mercury is winding down his diving-deeper, his journey through Scorpio is almost done, and he's closing in but not quite catching Venus before he pivots 'round in November. Your mind has been probing further, to peel back layers of assumption, following a hunch, a feeling to go beyond the ordinary, beyond those merely surface appearances and so reach that underworld, that hidden realm which reveals the deeper reality behind the screen of your day to day. You may have found something greater, had your "Eureka!" moment...

But Neptune adds her Mystical Touch now...And you will find that there is a need to pause and reconsider what you have discovered, and you may feel, yes there is something going on here, an altered state, a shifting of the light...you have a touch of doubt, a greater uncertainty...oh yes, there is even confusion in the air.

And, of course, that is exactly what you need, to question, to wonder...to throw a different light upon the discoveries before you...for this is the way it has always been done, "The Work" that is the making of your Greater Awareness. You move from level to level, to an ever closer comprehension of what "That" is...and you do it by means of this mystic spiral dance of Consciousness, that part of you who is forever seeking to encompass the reality within and without.

"Certainty" sure has a nice ring to it, yes it sounds nice, it is reassuring and a seeming comfortable place to be...but it is greatly over-rated and really unable to hold. Because you are spirit on a quest; your journey is a continuous, unfolding and never-ending expansion of consciousness and there is nothing for it but to keep moving on, into the greater mystery.

You cycle into a new state of awareness, a new understanding, and you set yourself down into your new certainty...and it holds for a time. But a different light is cast, Neptune helps by shifting the shadow-plays, and doubt is born. You move from certainty to questioning...and so you look again, you make adjustments...and all seems well again for a time.

But eventually, and this is good, the adjustments are not enough the shifting shadows are too great, and questioning leads to greater doubts, which leads to deeper confusion...and, finally, the release from the old is found in your Disillusionment. That is precisely what is needed of you, to become freer, to be dis-illusioned and so "lose" your illusions!

This is the necessary path you must walk, into this darkness (for a time)...for it is this mystery, it is this passage that must be made to release the seeds of your new understanding, a re-alignment of your mind...To the "Ah Hah!" of your next Illumination...

Now you take that next spiral turn in your journey from an unself-conscious spark of the divine...

You move that much closer to becoming...the becoming.

Venus Square Neptune (October 31, 2011)

As the veil becomes ever thinner, between this nearer realm and those beyond, you are given another opportunity to dissolve away the lesser and discover something greater, to question what is of value within you and what is of value between us.

Venus is finishing up her sojourn in Scorpio, where your experience of depths and passions, your unions and transformations, have moved you further into the mystery that is found between "I" and "Thou".

To reach that crossing point, to truly form that special "we" has required much of one another; you have sacrificed for each other, giving up the lesser values to create the greater shared. But a danger is always there, that you might go too far, surrender what makes you "you", and so achieve the "we" only to lose yourself.

Neptune in Aquarius provides a way to understand, to form the necessary counterpoint; she offers a gentle reminder that the whole point of moving into a greater, more conscious relationship beyond yourself was really so that you would come that much closer to yourself!

Neptune in Aquarius sings the song of Individuality that is born from, finds its life in and remains faithful through friendship; that the way to yourself is met in fellowship, it is founded and formed by your companions who journey with you, outward and inward on this river of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Neptune reminds you now that the sacrifice required of you was to give up the lesser and not "true to you" values that you might have been attached to...those peripheral values were instead leading you away from your authentic path of self-realization. By moving into Union, by that frictional engagement with the other, you each forced the other to confront the question "what is more me and what is less me?"...and choose.

If you were attempting this with someone whose essential values were not aligned with your own, there is no way it would not end in self-denial and loss. The greater effort you made, the more you sacrificed, the more you would diminish yourself, lose yourself and the other too.

Instead, there must exist a core of shared values that you come together upon, some already present values (and many waiting to be re-discovered), which form that shining silver chord of companionship (forged long ago) that is re-awakened and energized by your return to one another. For this is not the first time, nor the last, and the love that is there is waiting...

Then, with this enduring love, you can each turn from the peripheral, sacrifice those lesser attachments, while you honor the greater within and between you. The mystery is revealed as you each become more yourself in and through one another than you ever could by yourselves alone...

Today, celebrate the mystery of your journey to yourself that is found through the hearts of one another...

Let go of your lesser sense of yourself and discover the greater waiting to be realized in the beauty, majesty and mystery of your transcendent life of being one of the ones of the One.

Love yourself, love one another...and repeat.

Jupiter Trine Pluto (October 28, 2011)

Jove meets Hades and the archetypes are stirring in your soul. Jupiter rules your Truths and Beliefs; Pluto rules Will and the Power of Transformation. This Plutonian power is part of your Tripartite spiritual potential; and this most precious Triple Gift of Spirit is the fountain-source of you becoming more than your conditioning. These gifts of the Spirit, exemplified and carried by Uranus-Neptune-Pluto, create a quickening through planetary initiation, and offer you a steeper and surer path as you journey in Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

It is has been said, passed down from "mouth to ear", that the real unfoldment of your soul's journey, your real and True Evolution, does not proceed from or originate in the physical plane. It does not come from the cell and its mutations, or from some competition of life forms with each other. The Ancient Teachings affirm that your unfoldment, growth and journey from unconscious spark of the Divine to full Divine Consciousness, comes from, originates in and is driven by Spirit and the unfoldment of your essential nature. All these other agents of change and transformation are derivatives of the power that surges through each and every one of the ones of the One.

Today is the second of the three alignments of Jupiter trine Pluto. The first alignment was in early July, and the last will occur in March of 2012. You are always experiencing these gifts of the Spirit bestowed by your planetary companions. Today's offering is here to re-energize the Immortal Bridge between realms temporal and sublime, between what is and what will always be. That shining arch, like a bridge of light, will burn brighter and span the space between your present principles and truths to those ever-present, ever-resurgent Archetypes which underlie the All.

The present truths that you have come to embrace, that give your life meaning, form and guidance, your Laws of Life, your philosophies, beliefs and religion were forged from a mighty golden chain of experience that connects you with every other one who has walked this path of becoming the becoming. The source or core of all those lessons learned and re-learned are the ever-renewing, ever-resurgent Archetypes of Spirit that have been named by some as the "Collective Unconscious".

These seed-forms are ruled by Pluto which serves to create the boundaries, the spaces of space for Spirit, Mind and Matter. In cycle after cycle the great truths are released and become manifested in the Teachings, Philosophies and Religions that form and guide your journey. But over time those forms becomes rigid, truths become dogma and the Ancient Wisdom becomes obscured as the shadows deepen.

It is at such a time as this that Spirit answers, moving to fill the void by a release of renewed Archetypal meaning. Pluto brings to bear those Seed-Forms which burn away the accumulated dross and reveal again the Spirit behind the form.

And, at the most important turning points, in the darkest of hours, a teacher is always sent forth, an Avatar whose task it is to repair the bridge between heaven and earth. And for a time it is a Golden Age once more...but then you forget, as we have forgotten...

Many look now for a sign, for the Emissary...you look for the turning and seek to find your way out of the darkness...you look for the crossing into the light.

It is here, it is now...

Sun Opposition Jupiter (October 28, 2011)

Today is also the climax of the yearly Sun/Jupiter cycle. What began as the promise of new bountifulness in April, and faced necessary adjustments in August, now reaches its moment of revelatory epiphany. This can be a moment (for some) of great extensions and expansions of self realized, a time of fulfillment. But it will also, and more likely be, a moment (for many) that counterposes what was the promised intent versus the less than hoped for accomplished.

The Sun is your pure potential, the fountain-source for your becoming the becoming. Jupiter is your Truth, your principles which shape and guide how you will relate in this world. Quite literally, the Sun opposite Jupiter means that you may feel that you are at odds with yourself today...you literally "don't relate to yourself"! What does that mean?

Your unfoldment of self, your growth and expansion is never ceasing yet it cannot and will not proceed in a "straight" line. Your cycling 'round is more like a spiral dance that swirls and twists, up and down, in and out. You will find yourself in moments that seem remarkable, shining and full of glory and wonder. But these will be followed, as they must be shadowed, by the work you have yet to finish. For though you have come very far it does not take much to realize, as you look around your world...that there is much to be done.

So, today is for looking back at what you hoped to be and accomplish in this latest round of the Sun and Jupiter...and to realize that though progress has been made, within and without, you still have far to go...always.

This moment is here to show you, to help you understand, how much you have become in this half of the Solar Circuit...so much and yet so much still to do. But the other half of the cycle beckons, this spiral turn is not done with you yet. So you do what you must do...

You walk on...

Mercury Square Mars (October 28, 2011)

Are you thinking first, or are you just acting? Or, are you thinking too much, and so failing to act in a timely manner? That is the issue today as Mercury ruling your mind, thoughts and communications and Mars ruling your desires, drives and actions are seemingly at odds with one another.

Mercury in Scorpio is looking to probe beneath the surface and dig up what is hidden; yet Mars in Leo is motivated by what is respectful and respectable. Do you go deeper and risk the exposure of yourself or another, perhaps to be true to yourself yet risk the honor and respect of someone else, or yourself? Or do you act respectfully, with decorum and deference, while inside you churn and chafe over what greater "truth" you have left unsaid?

It is not easy to know what is right or "more right" here. But Mars is the "heavy", the weightier planet in this encounter, and so you should or must act with honor and respectfulness. To find and stay on the path of self-fulfillment you should always follow the golden rule of "First, do no harm".

Without question, your mind and spirit are quickened today so a good approach would be to take even more time to think things through. Do not push yourself or another into hasty decisions or actions. Though exciting, daring or brilliant as they may appear or feel...it could all lead to less by your desire to impress or be appreciated.

Most important and always remember that the most important part of communication is...To Listen...to the other (and to your own higher self).

Retain your enthusiasm, but you need to lose your impatience if you want to display your brilliance today.

New Moon in Scorpio (October 26, 2011)

It is time to cross the divide between I and thou, to push beyond the limits of your mortal shell, to move closer to a realm sublime...Yes it is true, this is when the veil is thinner, when the worlds within worlds, of spaces between, of within and without become translucent. It is now in your journey that you are asked and enabled to take that next step, to move into and beyond, to join in fuller measure with one, two or many others.  

The Eighth Moon of the Astrological year arrives now so to release those seed-forms, those inspirations, new potentials and challenges for Union in the year ahead. Your journey has always been leading to this, to become more than just a one, to become one of the ones of the One. To join together, remaining true to your self...yet discovering, extending, transforming one another in the journey that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

The path of self-unfoldment, of self-discovery and transformation is quickened now by the frictional process of combination with one another. You need to join together, to synergistically multiply one another's potential, to gain and give support to one another. But in doing so you must meet on the field of values and determine what you will cleave to and what you will surrender, what you will honor and what you must sacrifice.

And to the extent that you have entered into such a combination with those whose core values are more like your own, to that same extent you will sacrifice the peripheral values of one another while honoring, expanding and bringing to greater realization the core values that you share. Moreover, that very process of frictional discernment will lead to even greater self-understanding; that by moving closer to one another you will paradoxically come that much closer to your true self.

If instead you have attempted to maintain or enter into a union which does not have those requisite, sacred core values binding you to one another, then there is probably no power on heaven or earth which can hold you together. Instead of honoring and expanding that core you will become entangled in the empty world of peripheral values and the center will not hold.

Or it may be that you had entered together, bonded well and true, but over time having developed differently, you have moved away from those core principles and so must part...for as the Buddha reminds us there is nothing composite that will last...

This is the experience of Scorpio that you move through now....That the Great, Undying and Everlasting Truths and Values are ever present and yet their forms of manifestation must ever change. Your universe is both Changeless and Ever-Changing; and this is the fundamental dilemma you face as a Spirit in this World of Matter. You wish to hold, but must let go, you wish to stay but must walk on....but you will return, you will come this way again...and again.  

Celebrate your new beginning in Scorpio, bow down to the Eternal while dancing your Temporal Tango. It is your spiral dance of Birth, Death and Re-Birth; it is the one true path, your wondrous journey in Life-Consciousness-Spirit...

Dance and sing your Sun-Song...for you are here to witness and co-create this promise, this time of endings and new beginnings...You stand at the threshold, an age is passing and a new world is dawning....again.

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 23, 2011)

You have turned the corner of the Astrological Year, you have rounded 'round and met the other in those airy realms of Libra; you have taken one another by the hand and agreed to the beginning of "I and thou", you have thought it through with one another and come to a mutual understanding or agreement...But it is not enough, not nearly enough, and so it is that following every Cardinal Sign, those eager Signs of Beginnings, comes this Fixed phase of the Four seasonal cycles...And, it is this part of your journey that will take you down into your deepest depths, where you will face the greatest challenges and reap the greatest rewards.

And, it is said, there is no deeper depth, no greater mystery, than the one you will face and reap in your time of Scorpio. You move back into Water here, you move with feeling and emotion, but different than in Cancer which was about finding your center within, of securing yourself to your Self.

Now you are moving out, out to the other (and inward to yourself). You are seeking to connect, to join, to support and be supported, to overcome that greatest pain in your journey, of separation and aloneness (which is, after all, your greatest illusion and comes from your "reality" of being encased in your mortal shell).

You feel the longing to become more than you alone; you seek to be two together who will act as one and so form the greater we. It is here you that you enter those realms of mystery, of moving beyond the world of shadows of separate selves to the greater truth, the hidden (occult) reality. You must move beyond your own bounded space so to form that sacred shared space of "us". This deepest depth excites you and scares you like nothing else; and it requires nothing less than Courage, Faith and Sacrifice.

Courage is first, for you must dare to extend yourself to one another. To express your need and offer to meet their need, takes courage. For you have been here before, you "remember" the pain, that they may say "no", and what we might have won was answered with rejection. Or it might be you who holds back, who dares not enough, who acts out of fear and thereby, in effect, rejects yourself. So from those old memories of failure and loss, you might hold back and miss the promise, you might not create the gift of "we". Courage is there to move you beyond and into the greater...

Faith is needed to create the foundations for your courage; Faith is needed to form that sacred space of "us"; and Faith is that special "gift of the Spirit" that makes it possible for you to move beyond the pain and doubt of those countless attempts and believe, to really believe that maybe this time might be that time. Faith is your spirit extending itself into the space beyond yourself, to give birth to, to co-create the shared space that is waiting for you and the beloved. Your faith is revealed by the extension of your trust and your willingness to take a risk, to put yourself in that space of vulnerability, which is part of the third step you must take to open the way to becoming one with another...

Because as much as Courage and Faith may bring you to the threshold, you will not pass, you cannot find your way, without Sacrifice. For every transition, every step in your journey has required a sacrifice. This word is a most beautiful word for it simply means "To Make Sacred". To make a sacrifice means that you give up the lesser in order that you may honor and so move into the greater. And there is no greater gift than this, to break the illusion of aloneness, to come to closer to the truth that All are One...this fundamental truth will now be reflected in the mirror of you and you who become the "we".  

To move into the union, to be one with another, requires the giving up, (constantly and continuously) of the lesser things in your life...but you will gain so, so much more. For you will find that in this combination, in the conjunction of I and Thou, there comes the power of transformation of yourself and your world. And, wonder of wonders, you will come to know what is truly you and what is not or no longer you. So that in the end, as you move out to meet the other, to join with the other in your created, shared space, as you do this you encounter the deeper gift, the pearl of great price now revealed...you meet your "Self".

You enter Scorpio, the wheel has turned, the days are getting shorter, the light of day is waning, (so that the light within may be more easily found). Turn to that light with Courage, Faith and Sacrifice as you move into your becoming, as you quicken your ascent in the journey that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Sun Trine Neptune (October 21, 2011)

Would you like to slip beyond the bounds of normal space...to touch those realms of supernal light...to reach inward and outward and walk into the wonder, into the dreams that you will make true? Well, then today is your day!

The Sun rules your pure potential that is seeking to be made real; Neptune rules your dreams, your vision...your pathway to illumination. Today the Sun and Neptune align so as to create a shining chord, a luminous bridge from the realms of imagination that will lift and inspire your next step in the endless journey of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Today is a day to appreciate the connectedness of all life...the morning dew that catches your eye and reminds you of...; those soaring, interwoven harmonies of sounds and sights and smells and tastes that makes your skin "tingle"; that special sense of truly sharing, of being one with that special one...

Today is a day to celebrate nature or to go to a art museum or to be with those to whom you matter and who matter to you...Today is a day for being truly one with Spirit...

And you are...

Radio Interview Clip: Gifts of the Spirit from Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

How Uranus, Neptune and Pluto provide the means to quicken our self-unfoldment. The shift of energies in 2011 and beyond that will lead to a new age. The role of Uranus is to open our minds so that we may find new pathways; the role of Neptune is to reaffirm our sacred connection to one another; and then it is Pluto's role to provide the will which creates, maintains and transforms our sacred spaces. All three outer planets are bringing their special gifts to us now.

The major force for our quickening at this time is the alignment from 2012-2015 between Uranus and Pluto, forming their waxing square. This is the next great step in their cycle of transformation which began in the mid-1960's. It is leading to the end of an age and the dawning of a new one in the 2020's.

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Mercury Opposition Jupiter (October 17, 2011)

Hermes is opposite Jove and you need to see how you are working that balance between your Inductive and Deductive powers.

Your never ending efforts to come up with solutions to the problems of life involve the dynamic interplay of these two aspects of your mind. Mercury, ruling Gemini and Virgo, governs your ability to build from the many up to the one, to gather data points, analyze, categorize, contrast, compare and build up the very information from which you eventually develop your theories, concepts and solutions. Jupiter, ruling Sagittarius and Pisces, governs the ability to start from those theories and concepts, to start from that Vision, from the One, and build down to the many, as you attempt to apply any existing solution to the problem you are now faced with.

Ideally, your "lower" and "higher" mind work together, back and forth as in a dance, developing data points, networks and understandings that are dynamic, adaptable and elegant. But sometimes, like today, you hit a "bump"; today you may push too far or too hard, so there is the need to step outside of yourself, to correct or resolve a misunderstanding.

Mercury is in Scorpio now and seeks to go beyond mere appearances to the spaces "in between", to passionately delve deeper, to give or lay down a challenge to the ordinary or expected and thereby reveal some deeper, some yet undiscovered piece of information, and maybe, just maybe, potentially challenge an existing thought-form of your world...but if so, is this discovery enough?

Jupiter in Taurus is holding firm, certain in those Truths and Principles which have stood for ages and ages, that have proven their worth again and again. Those Teachings have been passed down from time immemorial, to be as sentinels, the steady guides to steer your passage from darkness into light.

Jupiter will challenge, or rein in, the doubt and skepticism of Mercury now...and until proven otherwise, Mercury must yield. Until there is more extensive confirmation, until there is more "proof", you must or should wait. Let the fervor or fever subside...

Perhaps your information, discovery or realization will work within, yet may add to or move forward, the existing structure of what is known and knowable. Maybe it will lead to a more substantial change, but for now you must listen to the Ancient Teachings which will always steer you back upon the middle path.

You need to stay upon that steady, humble and balanced path which will lead you to and is based upon the Greater Understanding. This path is founded upon the truth of your journey in Life-Consciousness-Spirit, that the more you come to know, the more you come to realize how much you still need to learn. As always the injunction given at every stage in your journey will always be, "Walk on".

Walk the path of Understanding, walk the Path of Humility.