Astrologer Bill Attride

Venus Enters Pisces (February 25, 2013)

Venus skips into Pisces till March 21 and you feel that greater calling, the need to appreciate your Life as it was, is and will always be...as filled with Imagination, Deeply Intuitive and Spiritually Sublime...your Greater Reality of Beauty and Love.

Your sensibilities have turned again, beyond that just departed Aquarian realm of Humanity, beyond your yearnings for Brotherhood and Sisterhood with your Kith and Kin...Now you seek for the Supernal, for that transcendent communion with Life itself, you yearn to feel your oneness with all of Creation.

Beauty in Pisces moves you beyond your world of words, beyond what you so far have imagined. Colors and Sounds, Shapes and Tastes will make you tremble with anticipation as that cool, calm feeling comes over you, as the Beauty of your Universe unfolds before you as never before...you will Hear Colors, you will See Sounds...

Love in Pisces moves you deeper, into the source of Love itself...it is Soul-Full, it is Compassion, it is Self-Forgetful, it is the Union with the Beloved and you feel the Wind of the Spirit, the Gift that is Grace...it is God-Like, as are you.

For the next three weeks you will walk in realms that you remember, where you have been and will be again...While on Earth there are limits beyond which your physical form does not bend...but now, while in Pisces, Venus will take you to the other side...and you will remember, and you will smile...and you will understand.

That there is but One Truth, One Reality...and It is Love.

Full Moon in Virgo (February 25, 2013)

Twelve times 'round The Wheel of Life, Luna weaves those webs of destiny, she circles in and out, up and down, as she will ever stand between Earth and what for you is the Incomprehensible Infinity, those spaces of Space that surround you. She has but one calling, she is there to look after you, her child and hope, as she weaves and modulates those Awesome energies that sweep over and through you.

For Space is not an emptiness, it is not a mere vessel or container...Space is the Pleroma, it is the Fullness of Spirit and Matter, of Inner and Outer Spaces and endless Hierarchies of Being beyond your Knowing...and they all are but the many, mirroring aspects of the One Life Divine...which is your life too.

These Universal Forms and Energies for you stream forth from the Shining One, the Royal Regent you know as Sun, and then take Form and Meaning, as they stream from and between his Court, those other Lords, those Planetaries who together create the Sacred Songs of Space that ring out, as in a Wondrous and Beautiful Majesty they hold to their appointed places and rounds in your Solar System.

Between them all there stands dear, dear Luna. She stands between those Universal Energies that stream from the Luminous One and his Court, she stands between them all so as to modulate and mediate their gifts for you here on Earth...for she is Mother and will ever protect, nurture and carefully attenuate those awesome offerings for you her children.

She comes once more to her outermost post, out beyond your orbital path and so she is bathed there in the Fullest Light of the Sun. She stands out in that beyond, a Magic Mirror of Solar Force so that you might not lose your way. For in each and every Sign you can go "too far", you may burn so brightly with that Solar Force and forget that there is but one true way, The Way, that Integral Path of Wholeness where all these Twelve are as One. You cannot be in Aries without Libra, you cannot hold in Cancer without Capricorn, and now you must complete the Circle of Life, you must honor and live in Virgo as you move through Pisces too.

So as the Solar Song sings through this time of Pisces, Luna brings you the gift of Balance and Compensation from the chorus that is Virgo. The noblest gifts are to be found here in Pisces, for in this Twelve of the Twelve you stand at the Summa Codex of Life, and you can Intuit and Feel, perhaps even understand and so bow your head before the Great Mystery Revealed...That all are sparks of this Life Divine, that all are held together in the Love which is the Abiding Force that springs from the very Root of Creation itself, and from you too...

But from these lofty Heights of Universal Love, Boundless Joy and Infinite Compassion you may still stumble and fall, yes even here you may forget to maintain that most fundamental Principle...that you are a Sacred Center and there are lines and boundaries you should not cross, (at least not until you are truly ready and understand how, when and why this may be done)...For without this understanding you can give too much, lose too much of yourself for another, and instead of making a sacrifice you stumble and fall into being the very sacrifice itself...and this is not the way, this is not your way to Beauty, Truth and Love.

So the Full Moon in Virgo provides the way of understanding now. That you must Love with Wisdom, experience Joy with Understanding...and to do this you must live a Life that is marked by a Discerning Compassion.

For you must not cast your Pearls (Your Love) before swine...you must Live the Truth of being a Spark of the Divine and bring forth this very same experience by relating in this manner with that wondrous being that stands before you.

Dear Luna is there, riding high and illumined, and she is there to show you the Way...

She offers the Gift of Beauty, because you must make yourself Whole...

She offers the Gift of Truth, because you must understand why you are here...

She offers the Gift of Love, because you must be the Love that you are.

Mercury Turns Retrograde (February 23, 2013)

Here we go again, but don't complain...understand what the universe is offering to you and you will turn frustration into wonders, joy and greater understanding!

I commented upon this in the 2013 General Forecast. Here is what I wrote:

Mercury Retrograde in Pisces (February 23 until March 17) 

The first of three Mercury retrogrades this year and there is something special...all three retrogrades will take place in one of each of the three Water signs, Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio (in that order). It looks like the universe is bringing you an intensive opportunity to work on your Mind/Feeling integration.

This first retrograde is in Pisces, so it is time to pay particular attention to your dreams and imagination in this one. You need to re-consider what you dream of, what you imagine will be and how to make it so. As usual, many issues in your present day life may be put on hold as you go back to finish something left behind.

When planets "turn" retrograde their energies (and influence) actually become stronger and more focused for you. No planet ever goes backwards really, it is all a matter of relative positioning in regards to Earth's orbital path around the Sun and how that corresponds to the other planet's orbital path. In the case of Mercury, he has come around on the "inside track" and is passing Earth as he makes his closest approach to us, and so in terms of Zodiacal positioning he appears to stop, go backwards for 3 weeks and then resume forward motion for the next several months until he catches up with us again...and the next retrograde begins. Three times a year, for 3 weeks each time this regular rhythm repeats. But what you need to know is...what does it mean?

The gift of Mercury retrograde creates a shift in the normal day-to-day processes of your mind and your connectivity, both within and around yourself. Mercury, as Hermes the Messenger governs both the development internally of your nervous system, intelligence and consciousness, and then externally through all the means and ways in which you are networked in your world, all of your powers of receiving/transmitting whether by touch, taste, smell, sound or sight...and perhaps other ways that are awakening with you as well.

When retrograde all of these functions and operations become altered, and if you were perfectly aware of this you would welcome this chance to bend your mind back on itself, for then you would be able to more deeply reflect upon what you have learned, how well you know and what you know, and equally be enabled to revise and renew the various means in which you convey yourself to others.

But for many if not most, this shift of energies is often not even noticed for what it offers, or it is most certainly misunderstood as just annoying, and so many will proceed as if nothing has changed and find that the ordinary becomes extraordinarily difficult, annoying and frustrating. It as if someone has let the "Gremlins" out and perceiving, thinking and communicating become fraught with a host of troubles. Moreover, even if you are aware many if not most of whom you are dealing with are not, so miscommunications, misunderstandings and mishaps mount up...no wonder so many worry about these periods!

Of course a great many of these "problems" arise from the fact that life for most, certainly in our so-called modern world, "goes on" and you really may find it quite inconvenient or impossible to take three weeks off so as to turn your consciousness towards what it should attend to now, to be more pensive, reflective and introspective...but it certainly would help you and the world if you could!

So the question remains, what do you do?

First, to minimize the misunderstandings and frustrations you must understand that you have to be even more attentive now. Honor this shift by taking more time to reflect upon your own mind, upon the ways in which you perceive and reason and make this is an opportunity to revise your thinking upon various matters, to question what you think you know, and review how well you are communicating with your world. Listen more carefully, speak more thoughtfully and be patient with one another, and yourself...and most certainly lean on your sense of humor as the universe reminds you again and again that you just cannot know what you do not yet understand...and you will begin to move closer to true wisdom.

The retrograde in Pisces provides the theme for you in this reflective phase of Mercury. You will need to especially focus upon your most precious and distinctively human powers of Dreaming and Imagination, for these form the true Fountain-Source of your Faith. It is through these powers that you encounter the world as it is, you then Dream of and so Imagine a better world...and then by your now Illumined and Faith-filled Will you are able to continuously, consciously create the future you wish to move into...and it is this which forms the abiding proof of your Faith in yourself as the Dreamer/Creator of this world.

But for these powers to be realized you must free yourself from the shadowed echoes of your past, those fears of what was not to be or failed to be yesterday, last week and a thousand years ago....and you must confront these misbegotten attempts and realize that you have grown wiser now, more inclusive and extensive in your understanding as a Creator...and so you can accept and believe those loving intimations from your Higher Self, and now behold the wonder as you unfold from within what you were meant to become.

You are able to become more of what you were meant to be precisely because you have this ability, to be this ever-unfolding, self-reflective consciousness, and it this which allows you to discern why and how you could be or do better...and then you will make it so.

Let Mercury Retrograde help you to redeem your Past, to become free of fear...

For it is time...

It is time to Dream, it is time to Imagine...

It is time to be Faith-Full...

It is your time to be Full-Filled.

Saturn Turns Retrograde (February 18, 2013)

This turning was commented upon in my 2013 General Forecast:

Saturn Retrograde (February 18 until July 7)

Saturn turns your attention inwards to consider the nature of Union in your world...You have been delving deeply with Saturn in Scorpio, into how you can overcome your pains of separation and join with one another more completely. Now you need to look within to see what is there, what you hold to, or what holds you back from the deeper experiences you profess to desire. The shadows of the past, your fears about rejection or loss have to be faced and released here within yourself, for only then will you find your joy out there.

During any retrograde you are given an opportunity to draw closer to the tests and opportunities your planetary companions offer as their gifts to you. There is no greater teacher than Saturn, and no greater test or opportunity than what he will show you in Scorpio.

Your greatest longing is to be found here, to draw closer to and become one with one another...and there is no greater fear or pain than this, nothing is more painful than to experience the loss of your union...it is almost unbearable. But this is part of your journey as you move from the lesser to the Greater Understanding, from the realms of shadows and half-truths and draw that much closer to your true Self...You can only grow by letting go of what brings you pain and so you will come closer and closer to the Crossing Point...and you will leave behind the darkness and fears as you move into the Light.

Let Saturn help you to face your fears, which are your self-made reflections, formed by those aches and pains of what was but is now lost, or what might have been and yet was not to be...

Understand that these painful laments that echo into your present circumstance can be easily misunderstood and foster hopelessness, loneliness and despair, and so you might turn from the prospect of union, to give up on yourself...but this is not who you are and this is not the message these echoes are meant to carry for you.

Instead you will eventually see and understand that these laments contain the mirrored reminders of the Love that Was, Is and Will always be. That the One True Reality that binds all as one is Love, and it is this fundamental Force which holds all of Creation together in Love.

You will come to understand that the pain or loss you feel from time to time is equally and more truly to be understood as the measure of the Love that was, is and will always be there for you, for this Love is within you as much as it surrounds you too...and so you will eventually live in acceptance, peace and understanding.

Let Saturn teach you to let go of the Illusion that comes from your Mortal Frame, let go of this Maya of Separation...

For all are ones of the One and you are never, ever alone...not ever.

For with you always, forever and ever, forever you walk with your beloved, your own higher Self...

Who wishes only for you to realize the Greatness that awaits you, that lies within you...

That is You, your Self.

Sun Enters Pisces (February 18, 2013)

Three times Four, Four times Three, the heartbeat of your world carries you and all your companions from Alpha to Omega year after year...You have come around once again to this final turn of your annual, upward spiraling, ever unfolding journey through the Stars. At every stage, through every sign you have become more of what you were meant to be.

Through the three phases of each season, in the releases, maximums and transitions of Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable you have sought to master the ways to Start, Hold and Transform your Intention, Value and Will. Through the four qualities of being, through Fire, Earth, Air and Water you have experienced your world through the realms of Vision and Substance, you have shared and connected with one another in Thoughts and Feelings.

Now you stand before the final portal that is Pisces, you return to the Beginning-Ending for all of Life-Consciousness-Spirit, you return to the Waters...You step across this final threshold wherein you will reap the harvest of the year just passed and so prepare for the next advance in your journey of becoming...it has always been so, it is The Way.

Having come through all the preceding signs, you are ready for this final gift of Spirit, this Summa Spiritus, this Summing up of Spirit. It is necessary for you now, so that you can bring together all you have wished, willed, thought and felt through the year...Now you are ready to pull together all these experiences and see the Greater Web of Destiny you have wrought.

For it is you who are the Weaver at the Loom of your Life, you the Creator of what has been, of what is before you now...and what is to yet to come. It is time for you to consider how to more truly bring forth the beauty that you were, are and have yet to become...For this is your final realization and gift of Spirit, you are the Cause of all of this, you are the Dreamer/Maker of your world.

And from where does this Weaving Way come? It is in your very nature...for you are Spirit and your most pure and defining nature is quite simply To Grow. At the very heart of you there beams a spark of the Divine Flame, and it is in fact this one Self that that gives to each and every particle of creation the experience of being one of the ones of the One...it is, quite simply, your experience of self, that pure Intuition-Feeling that sings out "I Am"!

You are always becoming, always unfolding into something more, something greater (and know there can be no end to this)...and at this stage in your journey, in this Human Kingdom of self-realization, this process has become both Conscious and Informed by your Intention...You are becoming ever-more the Self-Conscious Creator of You!

Though called by many names this gift, this power for you is known as your Gift of Dreaming/Imagination/Faith. You encounter the world as it is and you dream of a different world, a better world...and then with Faith and Will you bring you and your world closer, ever closer to that better place...but it takes time, a great deal of time, because you must learn how to do this well, how to do this right...

There is but one thing that holds you back, that limits the dream-making reality you wish to become...and it is known as Fear...and you must eventually come to face and free yourself from its grip.

And so at every ending, in every harvest you must see what you have learned, how far you have come and turn with Faith to what is yet to be and put your fear behind you. For this fear is merely formed from the echoes of those yesterdays stretching their shadows into your today...And you must choose to believe and so make the better you and a better world...and it will be.

This is the Final Gift of Spirit. That you are the Creator-Dreamer-Maker of worlds and you must learn to take your place in the great work of all the Light-Bearers who seek to bring us that much closer to the Light, closer to one another...

It is time to harvest the Meanings of your Life lived this past year...

It is time to plant those Seeds that will become the Stars of a Brighter Future...

It is your time to become...

Mars Trine Saturn (February 15, 2013)

Your aims and intentions get a substantial, steadying lift today as Mars makes a beautiful alignment with Saturn.

Mars is dancing through Pisces now, and he is not altogether moving with certainty or clarity of intention when he travels through those Watery depths, because this is a realm that turns the Planet of Self-Assertion right around...He has to learn how to be self-assertive in non self-centered ways, to learn how you can and must fulfill yourself by sacrificing your very same self...and these lessons, these lessons are not easy...

So it is quite wonderful, that the Teacher, the experienced wise one known as Saturn, has come along to lend a hand...Saturn in Scorpio is here to remind Mars that you must find, secure and maintain the deepest commitment to your core principles and values so that you can discern what you should sacrifice for one another...but to equally know what you must never sacrifice if you are to be true to your Self.

Saturn shows Mars that it is in the very mystery of combination, of two becoming one, that you discern what is more you and what is less you, that you discover what you may let go of and what you can and should hold, share and grow together...and this is only found when you move closer to one another in your Union.

The Mystery is that as you move closer to the other you actually move closer to your own true Self. Your Union with the beloved is exactly what helps you to discern what you must sacrifice so that you become what you were always meant to be, to surrender the lesser you and so recognize, release and realize the Greater...

The Truer you has patiently waited for you to move into the Light...

Today, through Compassionate Passion you can take the next step...

You are the becoming, you are the wonder...

Now step into the Light.

You are the Light.

 

2013 Radio Show Recordings from January and February

What is ahead for 2013? Listen to what the Stars may herald as I discuss the energies around us in 2013...it is going to be a very special year indeed!

Here are the links to three radio shows:

Taria St. John Show, January 2, 2013

Suzane Northrop Show, January 7, 2013

Jaden Sterling Wealth & Wisdom Show, February 6, 2013

You may also wish to read my general forecast which is here.

Venus Square Saturn (February 11, 2013)

Time for another reality check...and you know it is going to hurt...at least just a little (and maybe more than a little). But this is the way, this has always been the way...This is how you grow, for the pain you encounter is the necessary catalyst that will help you to let go of the lesser sense of yourself, so that you might discover the greater within and around you too.

Venus rules your values, your appreciation of beauty and your love for one another. In the end, it all comes down to this one fundamental truth, it all comes down to your relationship to your own worthiness, to your own value of yourself...to your love of self.

Four times a year you need (and you will get) a reality check about your love of self which will equally and proportionally be reflected in the love you have with and for one another. You will look within to take the measure of yourself, then look around and see how well you have given and received of yourself, how well you have loved and are loved in your life.

This time Venus is in Aquarius, and she is seeking to extend your experience of the freedom that is found in and through your all your self-realizing authenticities. To be oneself, to be true to oneself completely, to have the freedom to be truly oneself without limitation...well, that is everything to you with Venus in Aquarius.

But Saturn has a poignant reminder for Venus now...you can only be as free as your connection, communion and devotion to yourself is deep and true...and this deeper relationship with yourself will be and must be equally met and measured in the union you have with one another too.

You cannot be "free" and be alone...for you are only free to the extent that you really understand one another, and that you believe in, support and encourage one another to be more truly "That". For in these deeper commitments to one another you free each other to become more of your selves than you ever could have been without experiencing such deep and abiding love.  

Saturn may bring you to a painful moment here...for you need to look and see whether you have enough love for yourself and for one another too. You may feel a lack or loss of true connection or commitment, perhaps a rejection and/or some form of self-rejection...and this hurts...as it should.

But you need to experience this hurt and see the promise that is there in this pain, to see the pain as the echo or shadowed reflection of the understanding, commitment and love that is yet to be for you...and know that it will, someday...for it is your true nature.

You encounter this pain because you are not yet outwardly what you have within yourself. You would not be in pain if you did not feel this divide, between what is to be and what you have so far been able to become.

The way through, the way to accept and move beyond your pain, is to remember that within you, at the Shining-Burning Bright core of you, there is a spark of the Divine...and this same Luminous Presence is the very heart and soul and source of Love in you and throughout all of Creation too...

And someday you will know, and feel and live this Truth through and through...

And the illusion of loss and separation will be no more.

Someday...

 

 

New Moon in Aquarius (February 9-10, 2013)

She slips between, between you and your Shining One, for it is her time to release and receive anew the Gifts of the Spirit...and it for this very reason that she is placed there between you and your Star, it is for this sacred purpose that she serves you. Yes, dear Luna brings to you what you will need next in your journey...she brings you the gifts of Inspiration, Hope and Meaning. 

At each and every New Moon, the Sun imparts a distinct elixir of Spiritual Meaning...potent, powerful and oftentimes, given your valiant attempts to understand, a little too overwhelming for you. So it is Luna's task and joy to stand between you and these messages, to serve as mediator or interlocutor between you and the messages from this Solar link to the Heart of the Cosmos. For from the depths of the Sun, hidden behind his wondrous Veil of Glory, there radiates outward an ever-resplendent Light that carries Waves of Meaning from the Heart of Creation. This Light, which is much greater and more nuanced than you will ever perceive with just your eyes, is a Beaming Blessing and it is there for your Illumination...but it can often blind as well.

And so Luna, dear, dear Luna offers her veil of protection and carries Earthward these modulated messages from the Heart of Creation...she serves so that you might understand and continue your journey toward the greater Light within and around you too.

Here at the Eleventh New Moon you receive the Felicitous gift of Fellowship, of finding, binding and celebrating your tried and true, your steadfast fellow dreamers...for they are quite simply your Faithful Friends, your constant Companions.

It is at this nearing to the completion of your yearly journey, it is now that you will turn to see what it has all been for. And you will realize that it could not have been done, nor would it have been meaningful, if your journey was by or for you alone. You travel with your fellow Stalwart Seekers, whose dreams are yours as you are in theirs...for you are Soul Seekers who dream and create together, and your lives are bound to one another as you seek to make and live in that better, brighter New World that is to come.

So at this quiet moment, in the darkness that holds the Luminosity that ever beams from the Cosmic Center, you should bow and thank your dear Luna, your New Moon Friend, as you seek to understand and follow the Light that will not go out, not ever.

It is within you, as it is in her and throughout all of Creation too, the radiant splendor that pulses through this Cosmos, the Love of One for one and all.

In this time, and at all times, be with one another...

Be for one another...

Be Friends. 

 

 

Reminder: Astrology Show Live on Wednesday February 6, 1 pm EST / 10 am PST

Join me live on Wednesday February 6 at 1 pm EST/10 am PST when I talk with Jaden Sterling on his show, the Wealth and Wisdom Radio Hour. We will be discussing what's ahead for 2013 as we seek to understand the Energies of Evolution as revealed by the Dance of the Planets.

You are warmly invited to call in and ask questions. If you cannot join us live you can always use the same link below to listen to the show afterwards. Here is the link that will take you to the webcast show on BlogTalk Radio on Wednesday:

http://bit.ly/billattride