Astrologer Bill Attride

Venus Square Pluto & Sun Square Pluto (March 31, 2013)

The Winds of Spirit continue to blow and this time you will be Squaring the Circle, reflectively shaping your Uranian Threesome from Thursday...The Great Alignment of this decade is brought to bear in this most personal of ways as Pluto proffers his mighty Will, he serves you in your never-ending journey of the Self Becoming, to elicit a greater quickening of your experience of Love and Self.

Your Double Gift begins as dear Aphrodite is drawn into Pluto's realm, for it is Pluto along with his two Shining Sentinels that form the Three Pillars at the foundations of your world, the Triune Root of Spirit. These Foundations Three are the Gifts of The Spirit brought to you by the outermost planets: A Free Mind (Uranus), Unconditional Love (Neptune) and a Centered Will (Pluto).

No power is unessential to this task, for you to become the Creator that you are (and are yet to be), but Pluto, the Lord of Will and Sacred Space, is one of the most challenging to be sure. There is no greater lesson than this, to learn how to master and wield your Sacred Will so as to form your own essential sacred space, while always and forever preserving and protecting the sacred spaces of all others too...So important is this gift that it is included in all the Sacred Teachings found throughout the ages...Thou shalt not Trespass upon one another!

Venus, your Beauty and Love, is now facing the challenge of Boundary and Will that Pluto must bestow. For as much as you must come to understand that your true Value is the Spark of the Divine within you, that your eternal and boundless Love is the Measureless Measure within, the Pearl of Great Price...It is equally true that you must Lovingly hold this spark within a Sacred Space that is your very own, for it is by Forming and Abiding in this Righteous Center of Loving Space that your Inner Flame may become steady and sure.

If you fail to form this Secure Spiritual Space of You, then other Willing Beings may force themselves upon you, have their way with you, and for a time you will lose your way upon your path, your one True Path of The Self Unfolding. Or, if you through some misbegotten, fear-based abuse of your power of will attempt to force your value upon another, or attempt to force them to some twisted form of bondage (not love) to yourself, then again you will lose your way as well. The underworld is not the Hell you think it to be, for you make your own heaven and hell here on Earth today, and for your future too. You may fall if you fail, into the "pit" of Pluto, into that so called Underworld of Shadows and Fear...and only Understanding, Love and Will can set you free.

Instead the message of Pluto is awesome and clear, You must protect and preserve your Sacred Space as much as you must respect and honor every other Sacred Space you encounter in your journey. For you must Love one another as you Love yourself...and you will come to know that this is true because at the core of every particle resides that same One Self, and so every single particle of creation, every single being in Creation resides in their own Sacred Space too!   

Pluto squaring Venus will ask of you to turn this awesome power back on yourself, to become stronger as a Center of Spiritual Will and Love within, and equally and at the same time, and always with Love, you must turn this power outward to protect those who are weaker as you seek to correct the misuses of will wherever you can...for none will be truly free while another suffers still.

Pluto's attention will then turn, he turns and brings to bear his focused intention upon that most Royal Player in your Company of Stars, the Avatar of Self you know as Light Bringer, The Daymaker and you and he must face this lesson of Sacred Space and Will too.

At the very core of you is this Spark of the Divine, just as at the heart of your Sun burns this very same Limitless Light...The source of this burning bright is your experience of what makes you "you", it is the watcher watching over the outer you, it is that presence "on high" who is your unbroken link to the boundless wonder that encompasses all of Creation, that which is nameless, unknowable and unfathomable, the all knowing All, the Immortal Self.

Yet even here the lessons of Will must be mastered and won. For from this Seat of your Self the as yet by you unimagined and awesome universal powers that form and hold this Universe spill forth, the very powers of Creation awaiting release form the very core of every sacred center. These powers must be gathered and they must be harnessed, so that directed by your Higher Mind, inspired by your Loving Heart and then focused by your Steadied Will the one, true and noble path of growth, goodness and grace may prevail.  

Pluto leans in upon you now, bends upon the Sun your Avatar and upon your own self too and reminds you that your sacred center is there to help and guide you, to lift you up and inspire you...

Because you are not your Higher Self alone, you like all of Creation are a Hierarchical Being and it is for this Human side of you, the One that is Becoming, that is day by day, life by life striving to learn and abide these lessons of Will and Sacred Space, it is for this human part of you that this lesson is bestowed...for it is only then, after many trials and tribulations, only when you have passed through these crucibles of Sacred Will, only when you have by your own efforts lifted your human self up will you and your beloved reach the Promised Land.

You must turn your power back upon yourself, your Divine Power must be focused and reflected back upon yourself so that you may achieve Self-Control, for that is the only control that is Spiritual, true and Lasting...the only battle for the Spiritual Warrior ever lies within.

It is not for any other to mold you or make you, nor are you to make another, even for the best of reasons, never are you to make another into something. For to do so would be to break their will and only delay their eventual re-birth and redemption. Instead, find your way to your own centered space and be as an example and give your loving support to others when it is asked for, always. 

Finding absolute fulfillment and freedom through Self-Mastery, neither imposed upon nor imposing your will upon another, you will reach the calm center that lies within, and abide there with the watcher who is waiting to welcome you home. 

This is the test and promise of Pluto and the Sun. That you will only become what you are meant to be when you grow into this Self-Mastery, when you learn to recognize, accept and take up your awesome responsibility as the Creator of your own Destiny. 

May the Winds of the Spirit blow away your fears...

May the Flame within you Burn ever brighter...

May you and your Beloved find one another, and

Take that next step into the Promised Land.

Venus Conjunct Sun & Venus Conjunct Uranus & Sun Conjunct Uranus (March 28, 2013)

Triplici Coniunctio!

Today you will experience a triple play coursing through your life, three of your starry companions are aligning with one another...First, Venus will align with the Sun, then Venus will conjunct Uranus, and finally the Sun will make the same alignment to Uranus...You cannot see this because of the Sun's Glory, but you will most certainly feel this beautiful dance of Spirit!

Venus "conjuncts" the Sun in one of two ways. Last year you enjoyed the passage of Venus over the face of the Sun, for at that time she was between the Earth and the Sun. This time she is on the "far side" of the Sun, and though this is called a "conjunction", I would argue that it is more like a Venus Full Moon for you!

Venus and the Sun are in Aries now, while you on Earth move through Libra, and herein lies the message of what this alignment means for you. This Solar Infusion of Aries spirit in Venus is necessary and good, it serves to reinforce the fundamental principle that your experience of Value and Beauty must begin with you, for without abiding and unconditional self-love there can be no truly healthy relationship with anything or anyone else.

Yet this Venus "full moon" is balanced by its counterpoint truth that resides in Libra, that without a meaningful relationship to the beloved, to one and to many others, to the universe in fact, without this...well, what point would your existence have? You find and secure the value within yourself in order to seek and find it around you and in one another too...You are here to realize that, as in all of Spirit and Matter (for they are also but mirrors of one another too), all are part of the One Self and that One Self is present in us all.

Part two of your dance brings Venus over Uranus and there is electricity dancing through the Fire of Aries now! Uranus brings his message of Individuation to your experience of Value, Beauty and Love.

Too often, arising out of the doubts and fears that echo from your past, you may slip into error regarding your true nature...that you are, though it is as yet unrecognized by you, that you are a fountain-source of wonder, of immeasurable, ever-unfolding value and love within yourself. You may, out of fear and doubt, seek to hold or bind value to yourself, hold something or someone to yourself and so protect and preserve what you have, only to end up, of course, losing it, them or yourself, at least for a while...You fall into error as you again forget that the one great constant of this Universe, and the one great source of Hope too, is Growth and Change.

Uranus is here to remind you about your experience of Love, that the core principle of your journey is to develop true unconditional recognition, celebration and support for the spiritual journey of your beloved. When you are able to love another as yourself truly, then you can forge a space of self-realization that is truly free, free for one another because it is founded upon unconditional love...and it is in this special space that you can in fact find your way to your truer self...that you can be more of who you are with one another than you ever could outside of this relationship...for it is that very loving recognition of the special uniqueness of the beloved's spirit that creates the conditions to help the greater release of their spirit with and through yours too.

Finally, The Sun, the source of Self aligns with Uranus, the power of Individuality. To whatever extent you have made choices that have bound you to conditions which were not or are no longer true for you...these will now become beyond bearing.

Being in this physical world, you must take your pure potential and pour yourself into many forms and vehicles. These forms, while providing you with your experience of self-realization, are by their very nature also limiting too. It is necessary this limitation, and often for you at the time quite welcomed...But over time, these roles and relationships, these forms of manifestation in family and in work, with friends and with loved ones can become very limiting. Why? Because you and the Universe are continually unfolding and becoming so much more...and the forms must evolve too or your spirit will suffer...

This is such at time, it is a time of Quickening...a time to break free and reset the forms of your self-fulfillment. But True Freedom cannot be imposed by you upon another, nor can it seized from one and given to another...The key to the Spiritual Self-Fulfillment and Freedom is not about dividing the "Pie of Self-Fulfillment" differently...it is about Growing our Space of Self-Realization together...That is your Goal today, as it should be each and every day!

Thrice blessed you are today, three times the bells of Spirit will ring out...

To Love thyself so as to love one another...

To Love the other as oneself...

To be Free, to be oneself...

May it be, may you become...

Let it be so.

 

Venus Enters Aries (March 21, 2013)

Your Love has come back...to you!

Aphrodite enters Aries and a new cycle begins in your experience of living with beauty, in your living by love. For over three weeks while Venus moved through Pisces, you touched the sublime in your world and in one another...you dissolved those boundaries between I and Thou and felt, even for a moment, your oneness with yourself, your beloved and the worlds around and beyond you too...

But now you return to the source, you must come back and begin again, to restore yourself and drink from your well, that ever-renewing, boundless fountain-source of self-affirming Love...For the force that holds the whole of this Universe as One, that very same force flows from within this Divine Center that is found in your own true heart.

Before you can ever hope to appreciate anything as it truly is, or most certainly love anyone as they truly deserve to be loved, you must first have experienced this...You must learn to experience the Love of yourself...Unconditionally. For this is the way of it, whatever or whomever you meet out there is a reflection of what you have understood and accepted about your own true self...

You are learning, slowly but surely, that it all comes down to this, to your knowing acceptance that you are a wondrous spark of the Divine and your value is beyond any measurement (because you will unfold from within yourself forever the Divinity that is there), and the Love you have is as boundless as the Universe you call home (because the Divine that is within you is the very abiding presence found in every Force and Particle of Creation...for there is but One Self).

Celebrate this renewal of your Way of Beauty, your Way of Love...

That surrounded by Beauty you turn and see as in a mirror the Beauty of your Soul...

That embraced by your Beloved you now see in their eyes that same Eternal Light, the unbounded love of the Divine that abides in your heart as well...

Begin in Beauty, Live in Love...

Venus, the Light-Bearer...bringing you home.

Sun Enters Aries, The Spring Equinox (March 20, 2013)

Happy Astrological New Year!

You have finished yet another chapter of your life. Your world, your Earth, has completed another spiraling dance through those Realms of Life and Spirit known as the Zodiac...And now it is Time...it is Your time...It is time to turn to the next page in your Book of Life-Consciousness-Spirit and see what adventures, discoveries, hopes and dreams await you and yours...

A new day dawns and the world that you have prepared awaits...It is full of possibilities, brimming over with the joy of New Beginnings...A Wondrous, Verdant field for your Self-Becoming...But there is a question you must ask and answer, a Righteous Key so that you might enter well this Holy Space of Self-Realization...You must turn and face the Mirror that is Life and answer The Question of Questions: "Who Are You"?

Aries is the sign of the word made flesh, of reincarnation, or more accurately re-embodiment. You enter these Virgin Fields of the Self That is Becoming and the question that you must face squarely is, what do you bring into this Holy Space? Are you Aware of Your Self, do you have the knowing about your Way of Being?

When you move into any space, as you sally forth into this world, when you open each and every of those endless doors of your life the question that must be answered is what did you present to the world: were you happy or sad, serious or silly, caring or careless. Did you bring to bear exactly what was needed from you, at that time, in that space? For this is your most important awareness, of the "Presence" that you abide in as you move through all the scenes of your life.

For you must understand, EVERYTHING comes from this. Your Omega is contained in these Alpha moments, with how you bring to bear the various qualities you possess as you make your way through your world. It is from these first acts that you form the nature of your world...you build the world by the intention, attitude and demeanor that flow out and create your reality, that form your experience of you in the world.

This is the first and the most important step, for all else will follow from this your causal body in action...Through every first act you set in motion a chain of causation, of Karma, that will flow down through many years, and echo on from life to life...Yes, Everything Counts...but First things count the Most.

So, as this New Year Dawns and you greet the Rising Sun...

Always remember you are the Maker of the world that you now enter.

You are the sower of seeds and the reaper of the harvest to come...

And it is at this Crossing Point between the Darkness and the Light, it is in this moment, like that of the Eternal Now where your Spirit resides, that you are free to begin again and to make a better you and a better world.

This New Year begins with you.

It begins with Right Attitude and Right Action...

May you be Loving and Kind,

May you be Graceful and Wise.

To each and every...

Happy New Year!

Mercury Turns Direct (March 17, 2013)

Had enough...of miscues, missteps and those wheels spinning round and round??

Then you should be singing a different tune starting today as your good friend, the Merry Prankster, better known as Mercury the Messenger of the Gods, reverses course and brings your three week backwards journey, that magical mystery tour of your inner depths, your grand tour of Mysteries, Wonders and Wondering has finished (for now).

It is always meant to be of service to you, these retrograde circuits...they offer a chance to go back and provide you with an opportunity to repair and renew your heart, mind and spirit...but it can be just plain annoying when everything, you know, just everything seems to go off the rails.

So Hail and Farewell Prankster, who pointed out and poked those glaring holes in your pretensions to being oh so wise...you needed that, to be reminded that the extent of your Wisdom will always be measured and defined by the depths of your Humility.

So take up the reins of your life again...it is time to prepare for new projects, new endeavors and the becoming that you will always be, you the self-unfolding creative wonder that you are.

You have gone within, you have reflected, corrected and reset...Freer from fear, from doubts and anxieties, you carry a Greater Understanding now...and so you are ready.

You will go forward into this brand new day...

You the self-unfolding, self-reflective wonder of your world...

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

It is time to be, time to become...

To be the Dreamer-Maker...

It is your time.

Mars Enters Aries (March 11-12, 2013)

In the First Circle beyond your world, he marches 'round ever standing guard, he watches over your borderlands...He is protector, defender, the one who will not yield...He is the Prince of Self-Realization...and now he returns to his most familiar, the Realm of Aries welcomes home its very own.

For the next 40 days, Mars moves through a most special place for him and you. He has not been here for almost two years, for that is how long he takes to dance through those Mansions of Life, the Wheel of Wonder known as the Zodiac.

Mars rules your Desires, Aims and Aspirations...for once you have discerned what you need or want, it is Mars who takes up the call, it is Mars who gets you there. Mars is back in Fire now, and you thrill with Resurgent Idealism...You burn that much brighter with boundless Enthusiasms...and you move with greater longings, urgency and a newfound Vigor.

Whereas in the past weeks you felt the need to pause, to hold, to restrain yourself and turn your actions inward, to be strong enough to make your rightful Sacrifice of Self...Now you feel the urge to move outward again, to push ahead, to charge headlong into your self-realizing strivings of Mind, Life and Love...you need, you must...and you leap into the fray.

Yet, as is true with any shift of energies, but especially with this Mars in Aries move, there is a need for Greater Understanding...You feel this mighty resurgence of Energy and Drive now, but such forces and forms need proper Motivation, steady Guidance and Focused Purpose...For as with any use of great power there comes great Responsibility too.

So let you Spirit soar with renewed Enthusiasms, feel those Fires of Desire that burn so brightly now...but remember to be Patient with yourself and with one another too.

Be guided by your "Burning Brights", your wondrously Idealistic Dreams...but remember that you are on Earth and that you do not want the pursuit of the Perfect to become the obstacle to what is truly Good and Beautiful too.

Aim for what you know to be your Truth, go for your Heart's Desire...but remember that your way is but one melody in this Chorus of Creation, and though you will play your part, you must allow others to find their way too.

Rejoice and raise your Banner, the Self Awakening...

Spiritual Fires are moving now...

It is time, it is time...

It is time to sing your Song of Songs!

New Moon in Pisces (March 11, 2013)

One last kiss before the year is done, one more meeting of Dear Luna and Mighty Sol...Their dance of Light and Shadows plays across your Opalescent Orb, caressing, informing, guiding...inspiring you as you walk upon this wondrous pathway of Light...They meet one more time, to begin again...one more time, before you begin again...

All New Moons are beginnings, but the final New Moon of the Astrological Year carries a very special meaning and significance for you...For this is the time each year that you bring in your Spiritual Harvest, this your time for Reckoning and Reward.

It is a time of closure, for seeking the meaning behind the forms, for bringing all these myriad threads of your life just lived together, to see what you have made, to look upon what you faced and formed in the year just past...

You look upon this mirror of your life, to see what type of Magic Cloak of Life you wear, it is the outer form, the Veil of Manifestation you made and moved in, of many shapes and countless colors...It is time to see what you have made of yourself in life this year, and to consider what lies ahead...

Though every New Moon is a Alpha moment, a fresh infusion of Spiritual Hope and Meaning, the New Moon of Pisces is an Omega moment too...For as it is said, "As it was in The Beginning, so shall it be in The End"...Star Stuff you are, and to the Stars you will return, it is your destiny. The Source of All, the Power of Creation, is also with you, but you must learn to use it Wisely, Carefully...Lovingly.

So it is time once more to bow your head and ask for Forgiveness, Guidance and Inspiration.

Forgive yourself for the errors of this past year...you can only learn through the missteps and corrections that you make, Forgive Yourself...and Grow.

Listen in the Silence, your Higher Self, always there to lead you to a better way and place...Believe and Know, You will never walk alone.

Look up, and gaze with Wonder and Joy, for you are a Star in an Ocean of Light and Love...Let your Heart be filled by the Wonder of Creation.

You are the Alpha, and you are the Omega...

You are the Light.

Who must ever follow the Ancient Injunction...

Walk on...Look up...

Be the Light.

Mercury Conjunct Sun (March 4, 2013)

Nine days in...pensive, introspective, reflective...seeking, searching, wondering...

Nine days you have been turning back upon yourself, trying to catch a reflection of yourself in your mirrored Mind-ways. Your higher mind, your Higher Self all the while attempting to lift you free of your old attachments...

You are never alone and help is offered as you try to pierce these shadowed forms that are the echoes from your past, that can and do hold you in thrall...they are your fears (who like you wish to live on), but cannot, they will not...unless you give in, again...

But now you are here to choose...there is an answer is offered. For Mercury has come back, he passes over and aligns with the Sun, whose burning, bright light can dispel these shadows and reveal a better way of Belief, a truer path of Dreaming...and a clearer more lucid Mind flashes free from shadows and fear....

Today, an answer, your answer is offered up...and in the stillness and silence, in the temple of your Higher Self you can see with greater clarity your way ahead...

It is not time yet to Act, but it is time to Believe...

A seed has been planted, but you must wait a little longer...

This New Understanding must be cared for tenderly, lovingly...

And a New day will dawn.

For now, be still, be grateful...

For now, just let it be.