Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Enters Taurus (May 1, 2013)

It has only been 18 days while Mercury dashed through the sign of Aries, and although he is moving into that much more steadied, focused and wonder-filled sensual realm of Taurus, he is still picking up speed and will only be here for 14 days before diving into that frisson of fractal, distracting diversities found in Gemini...So, you better take advantage of this respite for your body, mind and spirit...you need and deserve this!

The passage of Mercury in Aries was a baptism by Fire, of Idealisms and Enthusiasms that inspired your thoughts and added urgency to your communications...But because you have yet to master this much energy as well as you will, the result is oftentimes conducive to, shall we say, more or less errors of excess and/or recklessness. Thoughts can fly so fast (and the words and actions that then follow) that you certainly could have found yourself wishing for some way to take part or all of it back...

But the Law of the Universe is Fair but Final, once you Create something, for good or ill, whether they be thoughts, feelings, words or works, you own it...and it will come back to you, and you must make your amends...But this is how you learn, to face and understand Cause and Effect...so that over-time you will acquire the Greater Awareness and so become Self-Masterful.

So, take a deep breath, hold it, and now release and relax...it is time to put your Mind and Spirit upon a more stable and tangible footing, it is literally time to get Earthy...Now you need to take a more gentle, easy-going approach to what you think and how you convey it...For this is Mercury in Taurus and you need to tamp down those passionate ideals and shining visions...you need to take your mind into a more real, practical and sustainable space.

Fancy slogans and fiery speeches are all well and good, but now you need to reassure, protect and preserve what is valuable, beautiful and good...

Now you need to follow the Code of the Caretakers, for one another and for your world...

You must abide in the Way of We are all Related, and be guided by the injunction, "First, do no harm".

And then affirm and repeat the great invocation...

"Now our Minds are One!"

Mars Opposition Saturn (April 30-May 1, 2013)

Okay, now this one is hard...as it must and should be...

Whereas the Sun/Saturn opposition you just experienced is about your Infinite Potential becoming realized into the next Self-Determining, (yet ultimately limiting and so must be transcended) Form, this Mars/Saturn opposition is about the Aims and Actions you utilize to Guide and Wield your efforts in order to actually bring into being your New Reality.

Why is it harder? Because you are living in this most material world...and you will constantly have to overcome resistance to make your way. One source of this difficulty, the one that is obvious to you, will be from around yourself certainly, in the very nature of the physical world and from your social circumstances too...Unlike your "other realms", like those you dwell in when you let go of your physical form, as when you sleep, this realm of Earth is the hardest for you to make your "Will Be Done"...But you are here to learn and so you must if you are to fulfill your destiny of being a Master of the Craft, a Dreaming World-Maker Creator.

And so you must learn to adjust your Aims and Actions when you run into these obstacles, delays and reversals "out there". If you cannot get to "there from here", you need to do two things: 1) Reconsider the Goal and see if it is still true and right for you. Perhaps a slight shift can ease your way and open up new possibilities that you would not have imagined with the old intentions guiding you (and that was perhaps the whole reason as to why you were delayed or blocked, the Universe was not in your way, you were!), or 2) If the goal is true or has been re-set the second matter to consider of course is the "How". You may need to adjust the way you are attempting to accomplish the steps to your goal, for either the world has changed or most certainly you have, and the "old ways" are out of sync with the ever-unfolding New Reality you are part of now.

But even more truly, deeply and reassuringly (which is surprising to some), the other "Source" of your delay or impediment may arise wholly from within yourself (even as much as it may seem to come from the world around you)...You will need to take this delay, resistance or block in your progress "out there" and reconsider your journey from the Inside...You will need to consider again who you really are, where you are coming from and so know more truly what and how you need to become That out There...

More than likely the problem that is appearing as some external force of resistance is the mirror of some form of blockage that has its origin from within your own not yet fully realized and integrated powers of Self-Becoming. You will need to step back and consider again the two-fold nature of your journey...There is your Goal and there is The Way...and you must come to understand that they are Inseparable if you are to be the Self-Becoming wonder that you are.

So when you encounter this challenge to your path ahead you must consider again, who am I, what am I here for and where am I going (at least in this particular life, what is my purpose)? Without a clear vision of this, then of course you will stumble and fall into error "out there", chasing what is not right or true for you...and so you will come to see that these annoying delays, obstacles and impediments that seemingly stop you are there because that vision, goal or dream you are chasing is not for you! The Universe is rather forcefully yet helpfully saying to you, Stop being untrue to yourself!

And so must it also follow as regards your means to this dream or goal. It is not enough that you succeed and win the prize because there is no Escape from Divine Law and the Balance Made by the Will of the One and the Many in these worlds...The Law Of Karma is perfect, fair and unrelenting. If you employ the wrong methods and means, if your Actions are not guided and formed by Right Intention that is aligned and true to your Nature and Purpose, you will only reap a bitter reward of "Success without Spirit"...Your prize will be a bright shining object with nothing inside, leaving only bitter fruits and regrets as your painful legacy...and so you must begin again...and you will, and you will become.

The Lord of Forms and Reality (Saturn) now meets your Avatar of Desire and Aspirations (Mars)...

and there are lessons to be learned again.

That you have a Greater Destiny than you can yet imagine...

But you cannot BE until you have learned to be the EVER-BECOMING.

And you cannot be this until you know, truly know...

The Wonder that you are.

A child who came from a Star...

Destined to be a Star...

Among a Glorious Company of Stars!

And the key, The Way?

Is to make your way through your Heart that is True

and your Mind that is Free...and

To always and forever...

Let Thy Will be Done!

Sun Opposition Saturn (April 28, 2013)

 

You need to pause today, to consider how far you have come...and how far away still lies your heart's desire...

You have reached another turning in this year...On one side shines your source of all, the Sun, who is your Avatar of Pure Being and what in truth represents your Infinite Potential waiting to Become. Upon the other side stands Saturn who is never closer than now, your Bounded-Banded Avatar of Reality, who rules your requisite forms of Self-Realization...and your painful but necessary Self-Limitations too.

It is time to bow your head to this mystery, this the challenge of your Self-Becoming...For it is on you and you alone to learn this if you are to fulfill your destiny. You must accept and understand how and how well you have folded and formed your Infinite potential into these particular vessels of your Reality...You need to cast a glance backwards today and see from where you came in these past six months, (or perhaps six or sixty years...or maybe more).

Look back and consider...Did you choose well, did you form by and with Love, have you begun to Understand? For when Saturn and Sun face one another, and you stand there in-between you need know this, that it is a time of reckoning, an accounting will be made...Yet it is most important that you accept and learn from what was well but more from what was less well done by you...

Enjoy your fruits of Success, for every step that you advance on the path will bring you that much closer to the Peace of Mind, Soul and Spirit that you have always dreamed of...But you must truly treasure these other fruits, these precious seeds that you deem a Failure. For in your Center you must remain Free and Present, not bound by regrets. Instead, you must look beyond mere judgments, to see through and understand how it is that you grow...

Though Success is Sweet, the lessons of life and your Self-Becoming are only learned by and through these other fruits, those errors and mistakes you made...Your failures are the true Fountain Source for your eventual Self-Mastery...You can only learn by trial and error, you forge your Wisdom by your Heart and through Humility, and it is only this that will lead to your Greater Understanding.

By learning to choose what is better, by learning to be better, you fulfill your Destiny and earn your next step in your ever-unfolding journey of Self-Fulfillment. Your destiny is to unfold that Luminous Spark of the Divine that lies within you, and each step in that unfoldment requires that you limit yourself in order to fulfill yourself.

It is time to stand at the Crossing Point...

Between the Darkness and the Light.

It is time to reflect upon your past, it is time to reimagine your Future....

You stand ever in the Eternal that is Now...

Making your Destiny...

Boundless, Bounded...

Forever Free.

Full Moon Eclipse in Scorpio- The Buddha (April 25, 2013)

This is the first Eclipse of the year and here is what I wrote in my 2013 General Forecast:

Full Moon Eclipse in Scorpio (April 25) 

The five eclipses of the year begin with the Buddha Moon! The ancient teachings say that Buddha was born on, achieved enlightenment under and left his physical body on the Full Moon in the month of Taurus. This Full Moon is about understanding the dynamic relationship you must experience regarding the question of Value. For in your very being you experience this truth, that you are an immortal in a mortal frame. Values are "eternal" (or timeless), yet their physical manifestation is only for a time. The key teaching of the Buddha concerned this way of understanding the journey you must take as a spark of the Divine...that you must learn the way, in fact become the way of Non-Attachment.

Here is a map of where the Eclipse will be visible. It will be passing over Europe, Africa and Asia mostly.

Held to be one of the most special and sacred Full Moons of the year, this Buddha Moon, celebrated in the Wesak Festival, is so named because The Ancient Teachings hold that Siddhārtha Gautama, who became the Awakened or Enlightened One, was born, transcended and also left his physical form during the Full Moon in the time of Taurus. I wrote about the Spiritual Significance of the Buddha Full Moon in my 2012 posting which you may read here.

Each Full Moon signifies a revelation for you, for what was released as a seed at the New Moon has now reached its culmination or Flowering at the Full. The essence or potential contained within the seed, created when the Sun and Moon formed their Conjunction, has become fully apparent and Manifested in the Fruit or harvest offered to you as the Sun and Moon reach the climax of their cycle every month.

The seed planted in the Taurus New Moon will always seek to remind you of your essential nature, of your true Value as a Spark of the Divine...that you are Spirit moving through many worlds, through many forms and activities in order to fulfill your one true purpose...which is To Grow...to Become a Self-Conscious Divinity who Joyously dances through the Energies and Forms of Creation.

Yet one of the great errors you will have to confront as you move through all your forms of manifestation is Attachment to these forms and so the forgetting of who and what you really are...and so instead of Joy, your true nature, you experience the pain of loss and longing, you look back with regrets and ahead with fears...you end up in a condition of Suffering. You "forget" that there is only the Eternal Now in which you shall abide forever and always...

The Message of the Scorpio Full Moon is the core of the Heart Doctrine as laid forth by the Buddha...It is that the key to your Self, to the Truth of Who and What you are, is found and secured by following the Noble Path, the Middle Way, and you can do this by staying true to that Self who moves through but is not attached to these forms.

You can do this by Knowing Yourself as a Spark of the Mind of the Divine, by Loving Yourself as a Spark of the Love of the Divine, and by Holding Yourself as a Spark of the Will of the Divine...That in your True and ever abiding "I" which lies at the core of you, there is that Self which is "Absolute-Existence-Knowledge-Bliss"...and when you Align your life with this awareness you can and will begin to follow the one true path of Spirit, the path of a Free Being, which is the Path of Light and Love wherein you will abide in a true State of Grace formed by Non-Attachment...A Free Mind, Unconditional Love and a Centered Will.

There is a prayer that is offered up at such moments to celebrate these "Gifts of the Spirit", yet is also a most valuable message to think upon each and every day...It is called The Great Invocation:

 

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light within the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known

Let purpose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.

From the center which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

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

 

Venus Opposition Saturn (April 22, 2013)

Okay, I know it hurts...but that is the way of it sometimes...

You are an Immortal in a mortal frame, a Spirit in this very material world...for you only can grow in this part of your journey because you took this path, that you made this sacrifice, to "fall" into matter so that you might lift it up, and yourself too...You will only grow as you stumble and "fall", to make mistakes and learn, again and again, for this is the Way, this is how you learn to become a fully Conscious Creator...this is the only way you can learn to Wisely, Lovingly and Freely align yourself so as to follow the one True Path of Light...

It is in the Hurt, it is from the Pain and through this Passage of Suffering that you learn to turn away from error and misunderstanding, to turn towards what is better, truer and everlasting...You find your way to see through this shell you thought was Reality, to see beyond these forms and Veils of Matter and to Clear-See through to Spirit, back to Your Self, back to The Way that is anchored in your Heart.

It is never easy and usually painful for most when Venus encounters a "hard" aspect to Saturn. For Venus rules your experience of Value, your appreciation of Beauty, it rules the value of you which springs from your Heart...and this is in fact both your Source and Salvation, your Golden Thread that connects you to one and all...it is this, your spark of the Divine, your Beloved, which you know and celebrate as Love.

Saturn rules Reality, it forms and informs those vehicles of self-realization that provide you with your substance of manifestation within these Worlds of Matter...and yet it is through these very forms of self-determination that you experience the self-deceiving and painfully self-circumscribed limits of your Divine Nature...

What on the one hand forms your self-fulfillment eventually and equally becomes an unendurable self-limitation for you as well...and so, as you continue your spiral journey of the Self-Becoming, you will have to continuously break from these chains of matter, much like a snake shedding its skin, as you seek to move into ever more perfect forms of your Ever-Becoming, in this Wondrous Journey of your Immortal Essence dancing through these Mortal Forms.

When Venus opposes Saturn you have reached a moment of confrontation, between your Ideal of Beauty and the Reality of your life, between your Value of yourself and your outward form, between your Love and your fear of being Unloved. You will either be unkind to yourself, or to another, because you are hurt, because you have lost the way to your love of you...

And in this hour of trial, in this time of Fear, of Judgment and Misunderstanding you must remember what is True and Real, of how this experience of Lack is all part of the Illusion that is Matter...that your Mortal Frame hides your Unconditionally Loving, Immortal Spirit, as it does for your Beloved who stands before you too.

You need to look beyond and beneath these Veils of Matter and remember what draws you to one another, what truly forms your Experience of one another...that you and they are a Spark of the Divine and your true Essence is Love...and it is this Greater Reality which will draw you to one another again and again, it will keep you with one another always...and all you need do is face your fear with Love, for that Fear can only hold you enthralled and entangled in these Veils of Matter if you forget who and what you are...

For your True Self is eternal and these forms of embodiment are necessary but will often veil the Beauty that you are...but if you Believe, if you have Faith then you will remember and you will see through to what is True...

Look in your Magic Mirror of Love that sees beyond these worlds of form...

Behold the Luminous Presence who is you, the Love that you are...

Then turn to your beloved, you will see...

Both of you Veiled, meeting in these Worlds of Matter...

All you need, is to Remember...

Who you are, what is behind and lies beyond...

That you walk together, moving through these forms and veils...

Loving, Luminous Radiant Beings...

Immortal Spirits in Mortal Frames...

Moving towards your Greater Destiny.

Mars Enters Taurus (April 20, 2013)

Your Sentinel of Self has reached his Far-Away...He is your Fearless Friend and Courageous Companion, who lifts and guides you in your outward yearnings, and through him your aims have been stretched beyond what came before. Mars, the Avatar of your Aspiring Nature, your Burning-Bright of tomorrows yet unborn, has forged and formed anew your Dreams and Desires of what you are yet to be...and as you journeyed together in Aries, your heart leapt as you caught a fleeting glance of your greater destiny...

But now, as your Seeking Self begins his Journey of Return, you will feel a mighty shift of Energy and Intent, for Mars with you is crossing into a more Substantial Realm. For the past 40 days you have blazed a trail in the Fires of Aries, (which is in fact Mars own true Home)...But it is only the first of the Twelve Kingdoms...and though with what you begin is most Desired and Necessary to what will eventually Be...It is not enough for you to only Dream and dwell upon your Desires, not when you walk upon this Bright Blue Orb...No, it is not nearly enough if you seek to Become what you are meant to be...

So it is, in these 40 that follow, that you and your Stalwart Steward will turn your Visions into Substantial steps of your becoming...Now you must begin to make Real what were wishes and dreams...Now you will Walk in this most Earthy of Realms, and you will seek and strive, and you will grow, and you will learn...For it is in these Gardens of Taurus that you will become the Creator who is Creating, the Self-Becoming Wonder-Maker of a Greater Reality.

Now you will bring your Inspirations...

Now you will take your Dreams...

And like the Potter, Painter, Dancer and Maker...

With Fortitude and Purpose...

By Love and through Beauty...

You will sing and you will dance...

In your Greater Reality.

Sun Enters Taurus (April 19, 2013)

You have taken those first steps, into your Field of Dreams, releasing your Spirit and letting it soar into this brand New Year...Like all beginnings, you drew upon your faith to fuel your Striving-Seeking, finding your Inspiration in visions of a better world and a better you. You leapt into that Virgin Field of Space that is your Becoming, your one true purpose to know yourself and to make your Presence known...

Tonight, as your bright shining Chariot of Fire yields to his Luminous Companion, as Day gives way to the Mistress of Mysteries and the Night, your next Portal will open and you will turn to altogether new Opportunities and Challenges that lie just beyond, in the next realm of your self-unfoldment that lies before you.

The Seasons of Spirit are turning again, deeper now and steadier than before, resolute and purposeful, for now is the Song that springs from the Earth, it is from the Heart of Creation, from the Source of All to you.

Twelve Stations make up your year, four Portals are of your beginnings, and there are four of endings too...and in between there are these Four who hold their corners true. Taurus is the first of these, who resolutely stands for the Truth of Beauty, who abides in the Source of Unconditional Love.

You are a Creator, a spirit endowed with the measure of all measures...for your Higher Self is a Spark of the Divine...it is Eternal, ever-unfolding and the source of the Self-Becoming Wonder that you are.

For the next thirty days you will sing your Creation Song, you will draw down Forces from the Realms of Inspiration and weave them into many Forms upon your Loom of Spiritual Gold. You will make yourself as you make your world, as you slowly but surely learn to Create as you are made, with Beauty and Love.

You reveal to all as unto yourself that Divinity is the Fountain-Source of you...

You are the Dancer dancing, to your Self-Illumined and wondrous tune...

From Beauty Within, and Surrounded in Love...

You are the Maker of Wonders.

You, the Builder of Worlds.

You are the Creator singing and dancing...

In this your Creation Song.

Sun Conjuncts Mars (April 17, 2013)

It has been over two years, that's how long your Vermillion Sentinel takes to make his rounds. Mars blazes The Way, he is your companion in arms, faithfully patrolling this last perimeter between you and Space, safeguarding the borderlands of your precious Blue World, the home you call Earth. 

Yes, it was over two years ago that you began a new cycle of the Self Asserting, for that is the last time your Star and Mars aligned with one another, to commence a new cycle of Self-Realization. Today they meet again, and the Sun bestows the next necessary Blessing and Guidance for your Journey of Becoming.

For the Sun is your pure potential, it is your "Future in Waiting" that forms and informs all the realties you make for yourself in these worlds. Your one true purpose is To Grow, to bring yourself to that next finer realization in these realms through which you make manifest your ever-unfolding potential.

Mars ever serves the Sun, for he is the Proud Bearer of your Intentions, Desires and Aspirations...and so he takes you outward into your Self-becoming, with Fervent Beliefs and Focused Actions....He is your Prince of Purpose, guided by your Intentions and Attitudes, as you make your way into the world.

Today you need pause as the Sun meets Mars and a New Cycle of Action and Activity will begin. You will write a new chapter in your journey of Self-Realization and it is in this moment, it is within this most special Seeding Time that holds within it the Promise of your Future, of what will be, of what you will become.

It is necessary for you to stop, to be without Motion or Direction or Intention today...and in this space of reverent Quietude, in the empty, stillness of your sacred space...it is there that you must wait for your Solar Gift of Plenitude. The Gift of the Sun will be from where he moves now, from Aries, wherein it is said the Sun is Exalted, and also where Mars is made to Rule.

This is an auspicious moment indeed...A New Beginning is truly at hand...and the Key to it all lies within you, with your Understanding and your Attitude. For whatever Inspiration you are to receive, it is for you and you alone, and that is between you and your higher self.

But what you may do with it, what it may or may not become, that is on you. Because it all depends upon your Consciousness, it rests upon your level of Understanding. You create what will be by the way in which you redeem your past as you imagine your future...and you do this well or not by the manner in which you meet this most fleeting of moments with Right Intention, Right Attitude and Right Conduct...

Because what will be and what will become is formed by how you stand in this Sacred Space, in this Fulcrum of Becoming...and this Space of Freedom and Redemption is found in that ever-unfolding instance of time you call "The Now".

So pause at this beginning...

Take a deep breath and consider,

Is my Intention True...

Is my Attitude Loving...

Is my Conduct Honorable?

Then, let it begin, let it become...

Yes, it is here...

Your New Day has dawned.

Venus Enters Taurus (April 15, 2013)

Slower, steadier...yes that is more to your liking, and much more to Hers...Yes, Venus/Aphrodite has come home again and for the next three weeks your Love of Beauty and the Beauty of Love needs to be Tangible...Sensual...and oh so very Real.

Those ardent feelings, those eager and fervent promises, those bold declarations of Aries will give way now to this most Earthy Realm that is Taurus. While you were in that Aries sojourn, you and Venus wandered there, you were inspired by the Beauty within and without, and you could see in your mind's eye those wondrous dreams of a better world to be, to catch a shining, fleeting glimpse of your Beautiful Garden...

But now that is not nearly enough, no not enough at all. In Taurus you must touch and smell, taste and hear, and see the Beauty of you and your world...You walk in Beauty, barefoot in the Garden of Delights...You need to dig your hands into the rich, warming soil...you must breathe deeply the wondrous aromas of life resurgent...you look up and feel the promise of the Sun rising upon a brand new day, and then receive that parting kiss of glory as he sets, and all is Good...

In every way, through every sense you will seek the pathway that affirms that indeed it is done in Beauty, that Beauty surrounds you...that you are Beauty.

And then, when you turn towards one another...

When you gaze upon the Luminous Beauty that is before you...

It is not enough, no not nearly enough, to tell your beloved how you feel...

For Venus needs more from you now.

When you say those magic words..."I love you",

You must caress them too! 

Welcome, welcome home Venus...

To Beauty, To Love!

Mercury Enters Aries (April 13, 2013)

It has been a long, long time coming...your mind has been on quite a journey since early February, tripping through a dreaming-time, you wondrously wandered through many mansions in your mind, like an "Alice through the Looking-Glass". You were inspired and sought to stretch your understanding, to get your head and heart to more lucidly encompass what is known as The Greater Reality.

And if you were able, even somewhat, to lift the curtain of appearances, what you discovered is not some certainty as to this "Universe" you call home, no not at all...You encountered something much more profound and unknowable by mere intellect alone as you came face to face with what wise ones call the Great Mystery, the Veil of Isis....for only with Great Humility might you discern this ever-present, self-unfolding wonder of Spirit...you caught a glimpse in your Heart-Eye and beheld the reality of your "Multi-Verse"...

Yes it has been most marvelous and confusing, deeply moved even as you and your life may have remained relatively still...you listened for the Songs of Spirit, you heard the Voice of the Silence, and in Reverence and Awe you bowed your head...that's right dear friend, you have been on an extended trip in the land known as Pisces...

So prepare yourself for a most dramatic jolt and shift in your Perceptions and Thoughts, for you are turning a corner and there is Fire sweeping through your Mind! Hermes is leaving those watery depths of Pisces and sweeping into the Enthusiasms, Eagerness and Excitements of Aries...

There is no waiting for Aries, no time to pause and consider...The Vision or Dream or Inspiration arrives, and you must act, Now! You leap into action, boldly going where angels would indeed fear to tread...

Yes, that is why you must pause to consider how to use this wondrous gift of new found energy and confidence...Truly, your Idealism and Enthusiasm are wonderful and inspiring and oh so necessary to this next step in your Self-Unfoldment...but All Energy must be wielded with Understanding, (this is in fact one of the most important lessons you must learn in each and every Sign, how to Master and Wield each one of these wondrous gifts with Wisdom, Grace and Love)....

So here with Mercury in Aries, if you do not pause to consider, "Why must I do this, How am I to do this, and to What end will this lead?" If instead you allow this rush of force to stoke your Impatience, you may stumble as your Self-Assertion slips into Aggression, your Confidence falls into Arrogance and you will end up on a path of reckless disregard which will lead to you to many, many regrets...

The energy is there, to be used by you Wisely or No...

So be Eager yet Patient...

Listen to one another.

Be Enthused yet Humble...

Learn from one another.

Be Bold yet Gentle...

Love one another.