Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Trine Pluto (April 29, 2012)

Today, your Infinite Potential resides within your Perfect Space, your Spark of the Divine embodied by your Loving Will...Poised and balanced, you move to create a more perfect world within and without...

It is said, "Where there's a will, there's a way"...Or, better, as it is passed down from "mouth to ear" through the Ancient Teachings, "Through your Will you will make your Way"...

The Sun represents your Center, the source of your ever-unfolding potential waiting to be realized and so released by you in your journey from unself-conscious spark of the Divine to fully awakened Co-Creator of this Cosmos. To bring out this potential requires the ever-unfolding creation of a Sacred Space to hold the wonder that is you.

Pluto, the Lord of Will and Boundaries, is the final arbiter in this system for this unfoldment of your potential...For although that potential is truly boundless it must take place within and so unfold (as it develops, expands and transforms) in your Sacred Space.

Of course your space is Sacred, but so are all of the "spaces of Space" around you...because all of Space, which is a Fullness not an emptiness, a true Pleroma, is equally Ensouled by a magnificent host of Shining Ones, a multitude of ever-unfolding conscious beings, who, like you, are ever striving to move toward their Greater Understanding too.

That is why one of the greatest precepts or Laws of this Cosmos is the inviolability of these infinite Sacred Spaces within which each and every spark of the Divine resides. As it is said in many ways, in all lands and in all ancient teachings, "Thou shall not Trespass"...

You as a spark of the Divine, a being endowed with a Will to Become, must ever strive to create your world within a space that is sacred and secure...but you must do this as you equally relate to the spaces around you with reverence and love...for what surrounds you are the sacred spaces of your fellow sparks of the Divine.

Today is a day that you are reminded that your Spark of the Divine, the Monad or core of you, and your Divine Will, that which is ever at work to define your sacred space, find their most perfect expression when you understand the precept that the only control you need or are indeed permitted to express is Self-Control....all else is folly, dangerous and leads to darkness.

Today you celebrate, because your ever-expanding, luminous creation is one of the countless songs that fill the spaces of Space with the Light Divine.

Today your will, in an ever growing alignment with the Divine Will, preserves, protects and expands your sacred space of self-realization in a more conscious harmony with the sacred Space that surrounds you.

Today you find your Path in that most Ancient Invocation to be ever observed as you wing your Way to the Greater Understanding, that forever and always...

"Let Thy Will be Done"!

Mercury Square Pluto (April 25, 2012)

Remember...Your Life is not about "winning"...Life, your Journey, from form to form, from life to life, from world to world, your journey is about the unfoldment of your Consciousness...It is about you moving into the Greater Understanding...That is why you came before, that is why you are here now...and why you must keep coming back...It is all so you can become, to unfold from within yourself, what you are meant to be...And you will do this, more and more, as you come into a more inclusive awareness, for that is the key to this Greater Understanding...

But now, in the heat of the moment, when you or some other have "truth" (or an agenda) on your side, well then all Understanding is put aside...it all comes down to Will and Power...it all comes down to being Right and Righteous...

That is certainly the issue when Mercury Squares Pluto....Communications can turn into a "zero-sum" game, there will seem to be a winner, and a loser...but nobody really "wins", nobody moves that way into the Greater Understanding...because when force trumps Understanding there is an equal diminishment of Spirituality, Reason and Truth.

The Power of the Will, the Power of Pluto is best employed when it is turned back upon oneself in order to dig deeper, to question, to reexamine and so renew oneself. In this context, when applied to Mercury, it gives you an opportunity to dive deeper into your assumptions and those self-made "facts" and see behind those shadowed data-points. Pluto provides the laser-like power to go beyond the Phenomena, the appearances of things, and seek out the Noumena, that which stands behind your apparent reality, what is the underlying cause or thing-in-itself.

Rather than seeking to bend another's thoughts to your own, or submit to their entreaties or demands, instead of this you must stand in the Center and try and understand what is really the issue, what is really the point of this encounter.

You will find that your real task is to master your own mind, which is no easy challenge...especially given the distracting times we move through. Your mind seems to be forever dashing about and chasing after itself, propelled to flit from one perception after another, one stimulus or idea after another...and you find that there is no peace, no center...All that information, all of that sophistication and being so "au courant" leads you away from your true self and to a lack of real understanding.

You need to use this gift of Will to still those swirling, whirling dervishes in your mind...You need to move into the Silence which is a Fullness, into the Sacred Space wherein waits your Higher Self...Who has always been there, patiently abiding...whispering, inspiring, encouraging you all the while to do the Good.

You have questions...you will have your answers...

But it is not "out there"...

Be Still

Be Centered

Be comforted for you are never alone...

Wait...and the beloved will come...

And you will Understand.

 

Sun Trine Mars (April 23, 2102)

You are moving forward now...and with a greater purpose!

The Sun (the ever-unfolding potential within you) and Mars (your aspirations and actions) align favorably again today. Having received your insight about where you are going (and how you might get there) back on March 3, you are ready to put into motion your heart's desire.

The Sun is moving through Taurus now, providing a strong, steady purposefulness so you can create, improve and preserve your most important values. Today you arrive at this perfect alignment with Mars in Virgo, which helps to shape your present quest for value by adding a more discerning sensibility.

Sometimes the quest for value becomes simply about more value, for more of more, which will always lead to physical wastefulness as well as spiritual poverty. You have a need to establish a hierarchy of value in your world, of what is good and how much is good...By doing this, you learn to live in harmony, creating an order within and an order without that is in balance with yourself and your world...You are then said to walk the path of Grace, you "Live and Walk in Beauty".

Mars in Virgo provides the means to discern, develop and apply this sensibility of a meaningful order in your life as you align your Values and Actions with your higher self. You can create a Hierarchy of Value and a Living-Way that is worthwhile...You can enjoy the values that you create, consume and share because you are living a life that is right and true.

Celebrate your Spiritual Abundance...Ever-Unfolding, behold the Boundless Beauty.

Find your Fullness in Simplicity....your Value measured by your Grace.

And may you follow the one true noble path...

May you Walk in Beauty forever and ever...

Mercury Conjunct Uranus (April 22, 2012)

You've been here before...oh yes you were, just a month ago...and, you recall now, that this seems eerily familiar somehow...Yes, there was another time three weeks before too! That's right, Mercury's peregrinations took your Mind over Uranus not once, not twice, but with today's circle squared, Mercury has aligned with Uranus for a magical tripartite touch of Enlightenment! You have received a mighty dose of Intuitive Insight from your Higher Mind, your Higher Manas!

Mercury unassisted provides you with your observing/processing, categorizing/rationalizing, and communicating functions. What is so highly treasured (and so inappropriately "measured") as Intelligence is said to be ruled by your dear friend Hermes...

But what happens when all your information, all your data points, theories and knowledge fail you? What if the choices you have before you (the ones you have inevitably created by your particular (and self-limited) point of view), those Gordian Knotted dilemmas you now confront made by the "givens" of your paradigm, seem to be so far beyond your capacity or capability to resolve? What if your so-called "Intelligence", as it must, inevitably lets you down?

That is precisely when the Spirit answers...it moves to bridge your Void of Understanding by eliciting your Higher Consciousness, a whiff of your Godliness to come (your future state of Cosmic Consciousness), and Illumines your self-thrown shadowed realms with a Greater Understanding.

That is because your most marvelous gift of self-awareness, your self-reflective thinking, and with it your capacity to go beyond the bounds of your lower or conditioned mind, is brought to you by the felicitous conjoining of Mercury with these greater gifts bestowed by your Higher Self, by your Monad, by your Spiritual Spark of the Divine....

This Higher Self is the one who abides, watches and waits in the heart of you. It works with and through Uranus (and Neptune too) to bring you into a greater alignment with the Transcendent Awareness that pervades the Cosmos. It is that awareness that connects each and every, every one of the ones...so that All of Creation is forever embraced, loved and resides within the One.

Even for just a moment, a whisper or brush with this Greater Awareness, illumines the darkness and self-cast shadows within your mind...and behold, you are no longer so confused...you understand, you accept...and so you grow...higher now, closer to the One...The present problems disappear...into the Maya from which they arose...You try to hold, to stay is this sublime state...And you will one day...but that is for another day...

For now, it is enough, you have your answer...Your journey continues and new decisions and dilemmas await you on your path...And just as before, when the darkness gathers and there seems to be no hope or salvation...Your constant companion, your divine and golden chord will vibrate again and bring you into the holy of holies where all is as it will be, for it is the ever-becoming.

Put aside your troubled mind...Let go of your assumptions....Go to sleep and ask for help...it will come! For you are never alone...

Celebrate the mystery as your Earth-bound Mind touches the Divine within you....

Bow your head in Reverence for the Wisdom, Understanding and Acceptance of the One...

For all is well and you are that much closer to your home...

This is your journey...and it is Good.

New Moon in Taurus (April 21, 2012)

The Moon is said to be the interlocutor or mediator between Heaven and Earth. All the energies and rays that pulse through our Solar System must make their way to Earth through Luna. The most important of these energetic pathways are the ones traced by the Magisterial dance enacted by the monthly cycle of the Sun and the Moon.

Every month the Moon completes one revolution around the Earth, weaving from inside the circle that the Earth traces around the Sun, to outside of that orbit and back again...creating a series of smaller monthly circles along the line of the larger yearly circle of the Earth around the Sun. You see this dance traced across the sky as the Moon waxes and wanes from month to month.

There are four principal moments in this month long cycle: The New Moon (a time of beginnings) where a release of new energy is brought about by the Solar/Lunar alignment. The First Quarter or Waxing Square (a time of decision, to commit), where the Moon crosses the orbital path that the Earth makes around the Sun (what you would call a "half-moon"), which you will see clearly as the Sun sets and the Moon rides high in the sky above. The Full Moon (a time of revelation) which occurs when the Moon is opposite to the Sun with the Earth in-between, most dramatically seen as the Sun sets in the West and the Moon rises in the East. The Last Quarter or Waning Square (another time of decision, to let go), where the Moon crosses back over the orbital path of Earth, most beautifully displayed when just before the Sun rises you see the Moon riding high above (but "facing" the opposite direction from the First Quarter).

And finally back to the Next New Moon...but you asked, "Where is the New Moon, how can I see it?" Well, you cannot because your view of the Moon is lost within the Sun's glory. (Except, perhaps, twice a year there is the possibility of "seeing" the New Moon when the Earth, Moon and Sun align exactly in what is called a Solar Eclipse.)

A New Moon is a "shadowed" event, it happens in the dark (or better yet, lost in the glorious radiance of the Sun). For several days after a New Moon you will watch the Sun set and there is no Moon in the sky...but on the third or fourth night you will see it as the thin crescent shape after the Sun has set...and it is then that you know, it is then that you have your confirmation, that yes indeed something new has begun.

Today begins the next cycle of the Sun and Moon, today and tonight, and for the next several nights, you must journey without the Moon to indicate where you are in your monthly cycle, of your beginnings, decisions and revelations.

Today is the second New Moon of the Astrological Year, the New Moon of Taurus. You have come through the originating impulses of Aries, those Fiery Enthusiasms, your Visions and Ideals...Now they need to become Real.

You need to move deeper, into Earth energies now...to bring your Spirit into forms...to manifest the Values that you hold dear...to taste, touch, smell, hear and see the Beauty that is your world.

It is the Taurus New Moon...Your Time to Dance the Dance that Celebrates the Beauty of Spirit, of Spirit moving through your marvelous, wondrous vessels of Substance...It is your time for making the Greater Reality...it is your time to experience the wonder that is your Holy of Holies, the power of Creation.

Tonight, as you look out into the Starry Heavens above, know that in these seemingly darker times a new Light has been released for you...

Because Spirit is ever moving to bring Light and Love to fill the spaces of Space...

So, today, and tomorrow, and for all the days to follow may you be comforted, may you be blessed...

For you are Spirit and you Walk in Beauty!

Sun Enters Taurus (April 19, 2012)

The wheel of life turns...and you turn too, so as to face a New Sun rising in the East...And you know, that it is time, it is time to take yourself deeper...time to go within and consider your next step in this, your journey of discovery.

You have been through a time of Fire...of Inspirations and Visions, of enthusiasms and plans for your future...but now you must understand what you have within you to make it become True.

Now you must move from considering "Who You Are" to "What You Have". Now you must come into the wondrous realm of Earth, you must touch and smell, taste and hear, and you will see what is of value in yourself and around you too.

Now you come back to Earth, you come around the wheel into your time of Taurus. Those visions, those plans...they are exciting and grand, but here you walk upon a material plane and you must take your ethereal into the Real.

You are a creator possessing power, power determined by your self-knowledge. You possess the power to make a world, to create your life after your own fashion. What you have, what you hold, is the value of yourself...and what you make, what you create, is the value that you give.

This is the journey of Taurus, the journey into the heart of you, into what makes you "You". This is your journey to secure your value, to measure what you have and what you can create. This is your journey to the Fountain-Source of you...and what will be revealed is your true self-worth.

And the wonder of that revelation...

What you hold and what you will give...

Is beyond the power of any instrument or imagination to measure...

For you are Spirit whose journey is ever unfolding...

And what you make is the never-ending story of Creation.

Mercury Enters Aries (April 16, 2012)

Okay...now you're moving! Mercury has come 'round again and re-enters Aries for the next 3 weeks...You've been dreaming and drifting, reviewing and recollecting...Now it is time for Action!

While in the Piscean seas your mind was swept along, through those many layered dimensions of the Greater Mystery...now your mind is fervent, focused and filled with the Fires of Presence.

You take your delight in enthusiasms and eagerness, in your flashes of brilliant insight and impetuous idealism. There's no time to wait, it's Thought-Action, immediate and independent. One-minded, striving to excel...yes indeed, your mind is on Fire!

It's your competitive spirit that drives your mind into high zeal....there is no hesitating for you, right?...But of course, by now, you know what you must do, you know the path you follow and whose footsteps you seek to match...you need to slow down, you need to stay centered and not go off without true understanding.

Yes, use that enthusiastic energy...but lose your impatient attitude!

Be bright and bold...but be wise too, and not so eager to claim your way as the truth!

Your mind is on fire, but let your spirit keep you calm so that you may show intelligence too!

Be wise, be gentle...and always, always...listen and learn...

Remember, always remember, that the most important sign of true wisdom...is humility.

 

 

Sun Opposition Saturn (April 15, 2012)

A Reckoning is at hand...You face the Light (and your Shadow)...It is your time to look back, and your time to look ahead. What have you done with your last six months; where should you go for the next six? It is Time to Stop, to pause in this moment between the Infinite and Finite, to treasure this chance to understand...because you need to consider...You need to take stock and consider your experience of Reality-Making thus far...You need to better understand the nature and relationship between your infinite potential and your limited reality.

Today you have reached the turning in this year's experience of you becoming You, of your reality-making, of you moving from your seed-form to harvest-home...Today you stand in the middle, between the Sun and Saturn, between the Light Everlasting and the Ring-Pass-Not found in those shadows that are Saturn's bounded bands.

The Sun represents all that you can ever become, your pure potential waiting to be unfolded by you. To do this, on this material plane, you must embody yourself into some "Thing" and so fulfill yourself by forming and filling some vessel of beingness. But by so doing you also become limited to that thing, bound to what you have made...you have left the worlds of dreams and fallen into matter (Saturn). Whether it be a job or a relationship or any "thing" at all, you have made it for yourself, from yourself and it is therefore limited by your level of understanding.

Now you need to look at that form of self-manifestation and compare it to your original intent. How adequate is your reality-making to your dreaming? How does this real compare to your ideal? Have you chosen well, have you performed (acted in a role and upon a stage) that is right, true and meaningful for you?

Well, unless you are a Buddha, you will and must answer that, "this "thing" is not what I intended, this reality is not what I dreamed". Of course it is not, how could it be?...For you are still learning to be a co-creator of this Universe...

But do not be troubled...This is your journey and you must continue to strive, to draw closer to the greater reality that is within you (ever-waiting for you to release it in a more perfect form). To do this, you must learn from what you have done before, to understand what was right, and what could have been better...That is what this moment is for...to pause, to consider and to learn to become better.

Then, you can turn and face the Light and the Darkness and have that greater faith, the knowing belief that propels you to be a more perfect Creator...

You will become what is within you...You will unfold more perfectly the beauty that is within and make it the Reality around you too. You can accept these limits, those shadowed bounded bands of Saturn, because you understand that they are the very instrument of your learning, of how you unfold from potential to being, of how you become the becoming...

Stand now between the Darkness and the Light...

Between What is and What will be...

Stand at the crossing...as you move from the Darkness into the Light.

Mars Turns Direct (April 13, 2012)

 

 

Eighty-two days (and nights)...that's how long you have travelled on that dim-lit path, your world within, for 82 long, long days...This is how you have been there...Bending back, returning, reviewing, reclaiming, restoring...so that you might better understand and move to fulfill...you and your heart's desire...

For almost 12 weeks, you have journeyed through the re-consideration of what matters to you, of what you truly desire, and of how you might obtain it. You have had this opportunity to go back and make sure that the aims you have and the actions that you employ ring true...to make sure that you are on your path and walking it well...

Now you are at the next turning...for Mars is turning Direct!

This is your time to move ahead, your time to aim a little higher...and so move your aspirations into a greater reality. Having done your retrospective and brought your inner and outer worlds into a better alignment, now you are ready to move through the world with a greater integration...and integrity.

Your bearing, demeanor and presence are clearer so that your authentic self is apparent to all. You can be yourself because you move through the world with a newfound purposefulness and a deeper Virtuosity...

Programs, plans and activities that have seemed on hold, caught within the doldrums of your journey, for a time outwardly directionless because that was the point of this pause...now they all can become engaged and carried out. Your physical renewal, emotional connectedness, mental clarity and spiritual intent align to inform and light your path ahead.

Right thinking is your Fountain-Source for Right Action...

Right Action leads to Righteous results...

The path of self-mastery is your one true way forward...

This is your journey, dharma to karma...

You on the path of Truth.

Pluto Turns Retrograde (April 10, 2012)

Pluto, Lord of Will and the Collective Unconscious, the Lord of the Underworld, is going deeper still...For the next five months you are offered this opportunity to do a little digging into your very own personal, subterranean depths...

That's right, it is time to turn around, grab a lamp and take that circuitous pathway through the catacombs of your inner world. Pluto, one of the three aspects of the Divine within you (Uranus/Mind, Neptune/Love and Pluto/Will) is the Lord and Maker of Boundaries...

Within your space, centered upon your spiritual core (the monad within) you mark off and define the boundaries of your life so as to define your sacred space as you separate yourself from all the other sacred spaces that surround you. Your sacred space and exercise of your free will is circumscribed by your level of consciousness. The more spiritually aware you become, the more you become free-willed and your life less "fated". (And, the more ignorant and unaware you remain, the more your life will seem to just happen to you....because you remain unaware of what you have set in motion...of how you have bounded yourself by your unconsciousness).

Through the countless lives of your unfoldment, as well as earlier in this current life, you have taken many steps, set many things in motion by your will, some with greater awareness but some with less...and so you have also created shadows within your sacred space. Within those shadows lie energies that are trapped, unproductive if not destructive to you and to others...they are whirls of energy, of spirit-matter that loop around within and around you (they are what modern science call "emotional complexes", "compulsions", "phobias", "neuroses", etc.)

Now with Pluto turning, you have an opportunity to dig into those bounded but unproductive spaces within your space, to lift up your awareness a little higher and so make freer your spirit...You can release yourself from this level of purgatory, of self-bondage, from this level of limited consciousness...as you walk the pathway that leads you to the Greater Understanding.

The goal, of course, is to reach the end of this human part of your journey, to create the sacred space of you that is clear, unshadowed, luminous and fully conscious. The goal is to pass through that portal where the exemplars and teachers gone before you, to become a shining one endowed with Cosmic Consciousness, to be as Krishna, Buddha, Christ and many, many others.

But for now, at this turning, what is required is the next little step, the next journey within so as to clear and clean your sacred space and make it a more fitting home for the being who lives there...

Let Pluto take you down, into your pit of the shadows that you yourself have made...and take comfort in that knowledge...that you made these shadows...and you can unmake them as well...

Your goal is before you...Three core principles to fulfill your destiny...

A Free Mind...Unconditional Love...Centered Will...

Now...Take your next step...