Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Enters Scorpio (September 29, 2013)

It is time to leave aside those balanced beaming ways of Air. Hermes, the Avatar of your Mind is turning now, he is here to take you into a deepening, to help you to go beyond appearances and find those greater meanings, the soul-filled knowings that can only be encountered upon more hidden pathways...Even so, this is no small foray for you or for him...

Whereas Mercury might normally skip through a sign in two or three weeks, this time he will delve and dig, seek and search, and take you upon this journey into your hidden spaces for over nine weeks...that is, from now until December 4th or for 66 days you are going into the Catacombs of your Creation.

You are coming out of your Libra space, where Harmony and Equilibrium were treasured above all else, where your Mind sought to honor, preserve and protect your relationships by forging and finding consensus...and this must give way now...for you seek a Higher Prize.

You feel the Desire welling up within you now, to go beyond the Seemingly Beautiful and Accepted notions, to move past the what is commonly comforting, what is the acceptable, agreeable yet ordinary and obvious. You wish to break through this Illusion of Appearances, through the Maya or Veil that obscures, and move closer to what dwells at the Root of your World...You have this greater desire now, you seek for nothing less than "Truth".

But what and how is that to be, how will look beyond your self-cast shadows of assumptions, expectations and fears...and will the other before you do likewise?

If you wish to truly understand, you need to go beyond this world of appearances, beyond the Subjective/Objective, and lift your Consciousness up to a more Subtle Plane of Perception, where you may draw that much closer to the Greater Reality, to the Oneness that thrills through each and every particle of Creation, and so begin to approach the Noumena that stands behind all this Phenomena.

But how do you overcome this Divide that seems unbridgeable, between you the Subject and this Object, or between yourself and the other, how can you truly understand That or Them? What could possibly allow you to reach beyond your Paradigms, Perceptions and Principles, the very means and mechanisms by which you perceive what you hold to be Real, the very Thought-Forms that have made this world in which you abide?

To slip beyond mere Knowing or Knowledge, to move towards the Greater Understanding, this is it, this is your Destiny as a one of the One. And precisely because of who and what you are, you already possess the requisite faculty that will reveal to you what lies beyond your more limited Thought-Forms.

For beyond and behind, and what truly forms the very foundation of your Lower Mind stands this Higher Plane of a more sublime Consciousness. It is the Realm of your Higher or Intuitive Mind or Manas, which is itself informed and guided by the next Realm beyond that, which is your Spiritual Nature. This is the way of it, this is the Hierarchy of Creation, which proceeds from the One into the Two, and to the Third and so becomes the many...

It is from this Intuitive Mind that you can enter into the experience of the thing before you, or experience this joining with another, for it is only by becoming one with one another that you can truly move into that more immanent State of Grace, into your Greater Understanding.

You have felt and experienced this Consciousness in your life before, many, many times before, and your self-unfolding journey will bring it to you more and more as you walk this Noble Way, this Pathway of Perfection...

Your mind will turn now, to the Awareness of a deeper Truth...

Whether by Sympathy, Empathy or Compassion,

This Love that thrills through Creation, is the One Reality.

Forming the Bridge, between one and another...

This truth, of Oneness, stirs your Soul...

The Illusion that is Separation is broken,

Now Hearts and Minds are One.

Venus Squares Mars (September 28, 2013)

Which path shall it be...do you seek Passion or Respect?

For you are always faced by choices in these worlds of form, you are always shown one way or another, which will often present themselves as a fork or turning point upon your path, this wondrous spiral stairway that is your luminous self-unfoldment.

Always accompanying you upon this journey you will have these Sacred Two, as they are bound to each other as much as to you, for they stand upon either side, these your Starry Sentinels, they stand watch upon the Sacred Borders of your Inner and Outer Spaces...

Venus, the Avatar of your Values, of what makes for your experience of Beauty, of how you ascertain what is Worthwhile. It is she who holds your power to attract and create, she holds you in Love and so equally measures the Love that you will share.

Mars is the Avatar of your Actions and Desires, of taking you outwards upon those Glorious fields of Self-Realization. He stands for your Power of Self-Assertion and the pursuit of your Aims, you as the Striver and Seeker, you in your Warrior Way.

In so many ways, Venus will show you what you want and Mars will take you there...but today, well today they are seemingly at odds with one another, and so they pose a question for you...

Venus is diving deeply now, finding her way through Scorpio, and what you want, what you need and must have is the joy and beauty that is found by and felt in Passion. For you need to slip beyond all boundaries, between the I and the Thou, to truly join with and through one another, and experience the mystery of self-transcendence, to let go and become as One.

Mars is holding forth from the Fires of Leo, where what is Honorable is Right, where what is Respected is True...and where you know by your Sacred Heart that you will ever be guided by the Spiritual Flame found in every center of every particle of Creation.

What then is the conflict, and what is your choice?

Somehow, someway the Universe will present to you a turning now, and you will think that you must choose: between following your Passions and sacrificing what you believe to be Respectable, or doing what you think is Honorable and sacrificing your Desire...Will you do what you Know is Right, or will you do what Feels Right? But, of course, you and Spirit are more than this Either/Or...

You (and life) are more complex than this, and you are here in this Matter-World to be Lifting yourself and this Matter too upon wiser ways than living in the Illusion that is Duality...

When faced with these Spiritual Challenges, when your road seems to fork and you face one path or another, you need to look for the other way, to find the path beyond these divides of the Pure and the Passionate...

And you will find this if you keep your Head and Heart together...For the only True path is the Weaving Way, the Way of Spirit, where you understand that division is denial and your only choice is not to choose...You must find your way through this Light of a Greater Understanding, where your Heart will be guided by Reason as much as your Head will be fired by Passion...For it is from their Union that Spiritual balance is reaffirmed and restored, and you will heal yourself and your world too.

For you are a Creator, a Master-Weaver, and all of these threads are True...

And you will learn how to hold them,

You will bring them lovingly together...

As you make your Robe of Glory.

That with your Head and your Heart,

With both the Love of Truth,

And with Truth that is Love.

Being of One Mind and One Heart,

With Honor and Passion,

You will hold to the Path,

Of Wisdom and Love,

The Way.

Sun Enters Libra, Fall Equinox (September 22, 2013)

It is all about the One and the many.

And because this is so, because each and every particle of Creation,

Throughout all of these Wondrous Realms of Spirit and Matter,

From the most Infinitesimal on up to the most Cosmic,

Is of the One...

Because of this, each and every, all of this from the beginning and until the end...

All of this Creation is for you like one great Family.

All are related, all are connected, and all are part of one another...

Because the One is in all, and all are in and of the One.

It is for this reason that a Foundational truth of the Ancient Wisdom that guides the footsteps of all who follow the Noble Path of Spirit is most profoundly, simply and lovingly expressed as,

"We are all Related".

Your Journey is about your Self-Becoming, of developing into a Self-Aware Seeker who is able to travel throughout all of these Realms of Consciousness. For your Destiny is to be a Master Creator, and in your travels through the inner and outer worlds you must continually strive to walk that Integral Path that weaves together your awareness of self and of these worlds in which you abide.

This is why you need to truly know and actually experience this profound Relationship of each and every to one another, and every one of them to the All...For it is not enough to know or believe this, you need to experience this for yourself. To do this, you need to consciously participate and so grow and substantiate this Truth that connects one and all through actual relationships. For this is The Way, this is your path by which you grow and become this Self-Aware Wonder, this Master Weaver of Spirit-Matter.

For what you will experience now is this Lifting of your Awareness by your active participation in Relationships whereby you each move out from your own Sacred Space, you reach out to connect with one another through mutual understanding, through agreements and principles that embody the manner in which you will conduct yourselves with regard to one another. For you must Knowingly establish how you will relate now, of how you will fulfill the Truth of your already related natures by living it outwardly, as you extend your hand and heart to one another and form this newly made, Shared Sacred Space...

In other words, you are Con (Together) Sciousness (Knowing), coming into your Greater Understanding, coming into your Greater Consciousness of how you are a unique instance of the Divine, and yet you are also part of something larger too, and you will find this most wonderfully fulfilled in and through this Integral Experience of establishing this most special of Spaces, the Sacred Space of We.

It is time to turn again...

To welcome this new Season for your Soul.

You look into each other's eyes...

A recognition twinkles there.

You Feel, a welling warmth that stirs,

Hearts leap in Living Proof.

You Feel and Know it too,

An Ancient Truth revealed.

We Are All Related,

And now our Hearts are One. 

Pluto Turns Direct (September 20, 2013)

Three Lords lead to the Infinity that lies beyond...

One is for your Mind, so that you may Know and Understand...

One is for your Heart, so that you may Love and Accept...

One is for your Will, so that you may Unfold and Become...

For Five Months the Avatar of your Will, the Lord Pluto has been moving retrograde, bending those Piercing Rays of Spiritual Insight back upon yourself as you seek to understand your many-layered nature, as you strive for what is necessary for you in this stage of your journey...to move ever closer to Self-Mastery.

You have had another of your annual opportunities to consider the nature, maturity and wisdom of your exercise of your Will as applied to yourself, for what is most important to you as you unfold and become...that you achieve and maintain your own Sacred Space through your turning your Will back upon yourself so as to have ever more enlightened Self-Control.

But Pluto is turning today, focusing his Laser-like gaze and yours upon the Externalities of your Sacred Spaces, to consider how and in what manner you conduct yourself and exercise your will as regards the other countless sacred spaces that surround you. For the next seven months you will find that your opportunities and tests of Will are to be experienced between you and the world around you.

Of course, this division in the exercise of your Will, between Self-Control/Self-Transformation versus the complementary exercise of your Will as regards how you Conduct yourself in the Sacred Space of others is merely for purposes of delineation and analysis...Both of these functions of your Will are Integral to one another, both are constantly engaged and the development of the one is necessary to the other.

This shift in Pluto's direction merely bends the significance of your growth now so that you will strive for greater understanding in these outer realms, to help guide you in your conduct as regards the sacred spaces of all that is around you, (which in fact is the Entire Universe, from the smallest to the greatest), and most especially as regards your fellow human companions as you Forge/Create/Transform your Joint Sacred Spaces (the Sacred Spaces of We)...

For it is in these awesome Crucibles of Union that you find the Fountain-Source of the Power that drives your Social Transformations and your personal or Self-Transformations as well.

Since 2008 and until 2024, Pluto's gifts will be focused through the Lens of Capricorn and your development of your own Sacred Space, the respect you have for the Sacred Spaces of any other, and the transformations of your shared Sacred Spaces will be circumscribed and informed by the Spiritual Lessons of this Sign.

Throughout the Ages, Pluto's time in Capricorn has brought about the Death and Rebirth of Civilizations and Cultures, the breaking down and rebuilding of Hierarchies in realms both Temporal and Secular...But this is truly because it brought about in each of those ages a Transformation of the People who lived through such a time of Transition...

A time like the one you are witness to today...And like 250 years ago, or 500 years ago, an Age will end and a new Age will be born...and it will be because you and yours will experience your very own personal Renewal and Rebirth, for this is the way it was, is and will always be...This is the Journey, this is your Journey of Self-Becoming.

For it is not the Institutions of Government, or of Religion or of Education or any other that have failed and must change. They are but the vehicles and mirrors of your Civilization...No, it is we who have made them and we who broke them...It is then we who must change first, we must open our own Hearts, and change our Minds and focus our Wills so that a New World can be ushered in.

It is you who must be reborn and renewed, restored by the reconnection to the Fundamental Truths that have and will ever guide your Journey from the Beginning until the End...and beyond...

Pluto leads you outward now...

To reconsider the Sacred Spaces that Surround you.

You will be asked to determine anew where you stand...

In these Hierarchies of your World.

You will Acknowledge, that your Rights are Forged,

By how your Fulfill your Sacred Responsibilities.

You must do your Duty...

You are here to Fulfill your Purpose.

And you will Behold the Wonder of Wonders...

For an Age will pass away,

And a New Age will Rise.

And you will smile,

And you will bow your head.

For it is You, You are this Dawn...

You are the New Age...

You are the Dawn.

Let thy Will be Done.

Full Moon in Pisces (September 19, 2013)

Your life is found, forged and bounded by Ancient Portals...

You pass through many doorways, cross over many, many thresholds as you dance and sing, as you glide with your companions in this wondrous, supernal River of Light, this Self-Luminous Stream of Countless Points of Consciousness, as you seek and follow the pathways that mark your Inner and Outer Journeys.

In this realm, within this material plane, you are bound by and to your Star and Companion, to your Sun and Moon, who are the portal ways for these journeys upon your Earth. You enter and exit from these Gateways, and all of the energies that play upon and through you here must come by their leave.

So it is right and holy that you should acknowledge these alignments, when Portal meets Portal and another sacred message is offered up to you...For it is to help you, to remind you of your purpose, of your awesome potential and solemn responsibilities. These Signs and Portents, these Gifts of the Spirit, are there to lift your spirit so that you will remember from where you have come, to explain why you are here...and how you will fulfill your Destiny.

Luna is at her Farther Station, standing opposite to your Star...and so you on Earth find yourself, as the Sun sets and the Moon rises, you find yourself between these two great Portals, able to receive from both Gateways, forming together now as One Greater Portal.

Here then is your Challenge and Opportunity...It is this gift of Lifting your Awareness, so that you might hold them together and bridge the Illusion that is Separation in your Mind, Soul and Spirit...and you will smile, you will bow your head for now you Understand, you will experience, even if but for a moment, the Greater Reality in which you abide.

The Solar Portal pours forth a stream of Light which bears to you the Truths of Virgo, whose Song of Spirit cherishes Reason and Order, where you will ever find your Peace and Healing, bestowed by Walking in Beauty, by living in Love with Simplicity and Grace.

Luna's Portal reflects this Light through Pisces, and her Song is the necessary counterpoint to provide the Balance for and Fulfill the Peace that is Virgo...For Pisces carries the Dream and Vision of the Whole by which you can forge your ordered world. It holds the Faith you find in the Vision of the Macrocosm, of the Greater Whole that is both within you and surrounds you too. It brings to your search for Peace and Order the understanding that it was always there within you, and you had but to open yourself to the light that is you, to the Love in which you will always abide.

This Wind of the Spirit carries for you the Spiritual Meaning behind all of these Manifested Realms, and then your purpose is revealed...That it is for you to weave this Understanding into your actual life, into all the larger and smaller acts of your existence, so that your life is both ordered and meaningful, beautiful and blessed. You see how you are the Dreamer and the Maker, the Vision and the Prize.

You journey from Realms of Infinities into Realms Infinitesimal, as you pull together all the countless strands of your life, and all your countless lives.

Inspired by this vision...

Of Vastness and Simplicity,

You make the choice.

You will live in Beauty Undivided,

As you weave your Robe of Glory.

You are a Master of both Light and Matter,

Now Woven into One.

Venus Conjunct Saturn (September 18, 2013)

It is time to pause, to take a moment and consider...

Are you Worthy...Do you walk in Beauty...Do you live with Love?

Four times a year, Venus who is your Avatar of Value will make a "hard" alignment to the Avatar of Reality, the Lord of Limits and Manifestation, Saturn...and you will need to assess what you have, and what you have made...what you took and what you gave.

Yes, at each corner of your world you must pause before you turn...At each crossing into a New Season you should consider what you may bring with you, and what you must now lay aside. For there is only one rule to your journey, one insistent purpose behind it all...you must grow, you must become, you must unfold the Splendor that abides within.

You are here to release, give form and realize the Spiritual Flame that burns inside of you, which is a Spark of the Divine, and a part of this you know as Love. You draw from this Realm Eternal your Ideals of Truth and Beauty, your Dreaming Forms of what will be, and you make of them something Real for a while. What was but pure Potential becomes fixed into something for a time, and you find in this your Fulfillment, your Worthiness made Manifest, your Beauty Beheld, your Love Bestowed.

But all of this Reality you have made, all that is Formed in this Realm is bound by Time, all of this Spirit-Matter is of a Composite Nature...And so the present Value will diminish, today's Beauty will come undone and this form of Love will fade away...They can only be for so long, for whatever you make, whatever you take, is limited by this Law of Birth and Death, of Creation and Destruction...and so you will look and long for something Lasting in these Worlds filled with this one Constant, Change...

There is such a place, and it is there that you will find your abiding hope for Peace. It is there in your Heart, formed through your Soul, Inspired by and through your Spiritual Source that forms the Core and Essence of what you are...For you must remember that you are Spirit, and you will by your power of Creation become and unfold all that is, all of what you make of yourself and what surrounds you too...

Yes all of that which you have made will only last for a while, and this too you must and will come to accept...For your purpose is not fixed to some Endpoint, to making this or that and then be done...Your Purpose is your Journey, to continue upon your Path of Self-Unfoldment...Your Growth is Never-ending and Eternal and is formed by the Fountain-Source of all of THAT.

For you are the ever-unfolding, ceaselessly changing Creator and Creation too.

You take your delight in these realms you made, these Worlds of Form, where you Sing and Dance your Creation Song.

Today you are Ending...

And you will Begin again.

This is your Spiral Journey, Create-Hold-Release.

You take what you can, your harvest of Beauty and Meaning...

Treasures of Spirit that will not fade,

As you lay aside the rest.

Do not weep, all Suns must set.

Sing your Creation Song,

and Behold those Rising Rays...

Your Dancing brings the Dawn.

Mercury Opposite Uranus (September 15-16, 2013)

How do you raise your awareness?

How are you able to see beyond what you believe in?

How are you able to let go of what you thought to be "The Truth"?

Your Beliefs, Truths and Principles form your Paradigm, they create your Perceptive Faculties and so reveal to you the world as you know it and expect it to be...So, how can you, or will you, see beyond this? After all, you and all with whom you share this have invested much in making this Reality that you abide in, and change could or might well prove to be most uncomfortable for you and them. So, you will naturally defend yourself from, attempt to deflect or dismiss, whatever/whomever seems to threaten this Mind-Matter which you call Home.

Yet, your most fundamental force, founded by your essential nature as a Spark of the Divine creates your one Imperative Principal, a drive that propels your journeys, through all the realms, worlds and forms of manifestation, leading you from Unself-Conscious Awareness to eventual unfoldment into a fully Awakened, Self-Aware Co-Creator...this Spiritual Essence, your Imperative Drive says you are here for one true purpose and that is "To Grow".

So, a more accurate question might be, how could you possibly remain still, holding onto Beliefs and Half-Truths while you, and all the rest of the Universe (which is just like you, in that every Particle of Creation is at its core Spirit too), while you and all of THAT is in Motion, all of Spirit-Matter is ceaselessly unfolding, growing and becoming something more too? So, how could you remain as you were?

Of course you will grow in awareness, you will form and then let go of Paradigms, form truths that become superseded by more Nuanced Truths...for this is how you walk the Path to Wisdom, how you find your way, The Way, back to the supernal Light that gave birth, informs and sustains this Creation.

Within you as around you, there is the One Spirit, and another Avatar of this Spirit is offering you a precious gift today. Because you may cling to what is failing out of fear, to hold onto thought-forms and beliefs that have become less and less meaningful as they become "out of phase" with the ever unfolding Reality within and around you, you will indeed benefit from this offering of one of the Mighty Three that form the Triune Nature of the Divine.

Uranus, the Avatar of Individuality, of Thought that is Free, aligns today with Mercury, your Avatar of your Mind...and your mind, your Assumptions and Principles, your Beliefs and Truths will receive a "shock"...For Uranus is the Awakener, who by shaking you and your world reveals to you what was formerly hidden by your very perspective or point of view, and you will stand there in awe and amazement by the New World revealed...

But this growth is often not easy, for you hold onto what was your world overmuch and overlong, but in the end you let go...and grow. The way can be easier, but you must do your part by approaching yourself and your world with a more openly seeking, humbling and accepting attitude as regards what is "true".

And even more, you must be grateful as to how this New Found Vision or Truth will come to you...For this time, Mercury is forming an Opposition with Uranus and you will find this greater Truth revealed by, from and through an Encounter with another...Not that they will necessarily "have" the Truth any more than you...

More probably it will be your dynamic interplay with one another, of your perspective being challenged by theirs, and theirs by yours, and that through this backing and forth, through rigorous, open and ultimately mutually humbling interplay, that you will both find the "Third Way"...and a greater Truth, a more Subtle and Beautiful Reality will be revealed to you both...and you will Grow.

This is The Way...

From the Beginning,

Until the End.

Spirit-Matter in Motion...

Dancing, Sweeping, Joining, Releasing...

Reaching, Striving, Yearning and Letting Go...

Growing.

From Infinitesimals to Infinity,

All Becoming, Seeking and Returning...

To the One.

Mercury Squares Pluto (September 14, 2013)

There is no "magic", there is only what you do not yet understand...

What you think of as magic, is that which remains outside of your consciousness at this point in your journey. It lies in the beyond, outside the borders of your beliefs, beyond your paradigms and perceptions, in those Shadowed Lands where you are confounded by the Mystery.

Whatever is beyond your current level of comprehension appears as Magical and Wondrous, but it merely because you do not yet understand who or what you are, nor do you perceive the true nature of these realms in which you abide.

To unfold your wondrous potential, to move beyond and keep climbing through these spiraling stages of Reality/Illusion you must expand your awareness into a higher, more inclusive Realm of Being-Knowing. This requires your rightful application of one of your three most precious Spiritual Gifts, your awesome Gift of Will. By a focused Desire, with a passionate Aspiration to lift yourself to a more Awakened State, you are able to pierce through the Maya of your former consciousness and proceed to the next step in your self-unfolding, self-realization.

As you part the Veil of Isis, as you once more raise your level of Consciousness, you lift yourself (and your world) that much higher...For you are a Pilgrim, a Spark of the Divine seeking "The Way", and by your Willing to go Deeper and Higher you steadily and surely draw that much closer to what is known as the Greater Understanding, towards that precious, sublime realm, truly the Kingdom of the Gods...and so find and enter your Place of Peace.

You cannot know what you do not yet perceive, and you will not comprehend without letting go, releasing yourself from these familiar Thought-Forms which brought you thus far but can take you no further...You cannot proceed beyond your self-cast shadows, formed by your more limited assumptions...They have brought you to this place, indeed they have help to form this very Reality for you (because all of this is yours, it is your Spirit-Mind-Matter that has formed this world). This Creation, this Now is your fulfillment but it equally forms the very impediment to your next realm of Thought-Form, and so these old friends, these old Ideas, Beliefs, Truths and Principles can take you no further...

Mercury is the Avatar of your Mind, Pluto the Avatar of the your Will. Their alignment today represents a choice (as always) between using your Will to pierce through Illusion, or to retreat in fear and use your Will to hold yourself (and others) in the more limited but familiar Mind-Maya-Matter...but this regression, this poorer choice, will only delay your passage to the Realms of greater Light and Love.

If you would but realize, that the only true and spiritual exercise of your will is for Self-Control, that this Awesome Gift is for forming, preserving and yet also continuously Transforming your Sacred Space, which also includes this space of your Mind or Consciousness. Understanding this, you would accept that what Mercury/Pluto offers you is a challenge to quicken your growth, it is an opportunity for Self-fullfilling Liberation.

Their alignment is a less than gentle reminder that you must follow your one abiding Injunction that forms the Kernel of your Spiritual Flame...that you are here To Grow. That you must ever seek to challenge your assumptions, to never rest in your quest to understand yourself and your world (which are the same thing), for at every level, in each and every Realm of Manifestation and through all the Worlds that you must travel you have been given this one guiding principle, you must become what you are meant to be, you must Walk On.

If you choose wisely you will engage your Will by turning it and your Mind back upon yourself and your Assumptions, Perceptions and Certainties. You will reengage your mind's most precious faculty of comparing and contrasting points of view, considering and reconsidering, forming and reforming so as to reach the New World that you will make in, by and through your renewed Awareness.

Your Journey is made of many points of Inflection...

There are many paths, and many forks along the way...

And at each juncture you are offered a choice, for this is the only way.

This is how you learn, how you become what you are meant to be...

You must learn to choose what is good, what is truer...what is wise.

For that is the Noble Path, this is The Way of Light and Truth.

Found by Acceptance, filled with Grace and offered with Humility...

You Choose.

Venus Enters Scorpio (September 11, 2013)

Sweet Avatar of Beauty, the Muse of Love slips from her Airy home...

She is moving Deeper now, into those swirling Waters of Passion,

Where you, by her leave and encouragement,

Will ease past, far beyond those ordinary spaces of relationship.

Beyond your I, beyond your Thou's...

The Seas she sails upon, they offer something Greater,

And so you must render more to win this prize.

It is the Mystery of Union, beyond painful Divisions and Divides. It is the Gift, the Promise of Self-Transcendent, Self-Realization. Of becoming more truly oneself by, with and through your Union.

For found in this Realm, in this Sacred Space of We...

Forged by mutual sacrifice, here in this Crucible of Values...

You draw nearer to the Greater Reality.

You can see through, beyond the Great Illusion that is Separation, and feel, even if for just a moment of ecstasy, the sweet bliss of being One for a time.

By Tests, Trials and Rewards you will be led into transformation and rebirth, to that most Holy Land, where lies sparkling the Pearl of Great Price, your Spirit, your Soul...The Spark of the Divine.

Scorpio is where Mars, her Consort and Companion, holds sway...And they, like you and yours, must find the Integral Way. Where one plus one can never merely equal two. For by blending, combining, merging and melding...magic will occur.

Together you seek, you strive, you yearn to cross, to reach beyond and find what is there between what is mine and thine...you make and find that shared sacred space of Value, Beauty and Love...your Sacred Space of Us.

For this is what Venus in Scorpio asks and offers to you now, that you will be able, you must discern, discover and decide, what is more of me and what is less...and what, what do we share. For you must understand...What can I surrender, and what must I not?

You will find within this Frictional Forging, revealed in the to and fro, that you will let go of the lesser and find what is greater...and you will know more what makes you "you", than you ever could before...You move closer to one another, only to discover a Truer You.

This is the Key and the Prize...

For Venus is your Avatar of Value and Beauty.

And what brings you to any Union...

Is what you will share with one another.

And at the core of you and them,

As in all of this Creation...

Is found the Promise, the sweet Dream.

The Force that Binds each to every,

That embraces One and all,

Love.

Mars Squares Saturn (September 9, 2013)

There is no denying it, this one is harder...

But this is how you grow...through Forging/Finding a Greater Understanding...

By passing beyond the divisions and divides which lead to pain, which are the true cause of your suffering...

You must find your way beyond your self-limitations, to let go of the lesser...

You seek the Higher Way, the Way of Compassion and Humility...and you come upon...

The promise, the proffered gifts from those who have walked the path before you. They extend their love and help to you now...but you must choose, you must forge and find your own way as must all who tread the path, you must reach for the Light within in order to see the Light in which you abide.

You will struggle, you will strive and eventually you will find and will follow the One Path of Truth...The Integral Way.

So, when you feel this pain, when you encounter Suffering, you will ask why...

Why must it be this way? Why this pain? Why must I Suffer?

And in the Stillness, in the Sacred Place that is at your Center...and is found in every single Center of all that IS...a kindly, gentle voice will remind you of this one simple truth...

You Suffer, because you do not Understand, you Suffer because you are not yet what you will someday BE...and so you Attract this suffering to break your hold upon the lesser and discover the Greater that is Within and Around you too...For this is how you grow from that unself-conscious Spark of the Divine and slowly but surely assume your Destiny of a fully Illumined Being, a Self-Luminous Co-Creator of Spirit/Matter, to be one of the Anointed, to be Fulfilled.

So do not turn from this Pain...turn into it. See it for what it holds, and how it has this hold upon you...For it is your Destiny to Master all of this, and so move beyond this Suffering into Acceptance, Joy and Unconditional Love...And every blow, every pain is there to "lift" you up as you let go of the lesser and move towards the Greater Understanding....for this is it, this is The Way.

Today, your Pain is sharp and you will and you must pay attention, for this is your opportunity...and yes, though this is one of the "hard ones", it is even more to be treasured for this is how your growth is quickened and your promise more clearly met.

Mars is sweeping through that Regal realm of Leo, inspiring one and all to draw down those Spiritual Fires and extend their hearts of courage into creating, leading and loving actions in order to build better worlds...But Saturn holds forth from the Reality Structures of Scorpio, from those oh so ancient edifices and more recent substantiations.

Saturn is the Avatar of the very Realities your Mars Desires/Actions forged long and not so long ago, those Unions which brought about the Magic of Self-Transformation and Growth...and this Concreted Light, this Spirit formed into Matter, is the Canvas of Life upon which you attempt to extend your present opportunities.

And yet, this hard-won Reality will equally present to you the "Ring Pass Not", the immovable Objectification of those formidable limitations which confront you in the now, for you are a Spirit who is learning self-mastery in this most material of Worlds.

As you face the pain of delay, of endeavors thwarted and goals denied, as stressors and stresses build and the aches of your losses mount...you will wonder why, what is this for?...

The goals you have are what they have been, the way to them remains as it was...whatever could cause such pain? You double down on your efforts, only to feel an equal rise in resistance to your way...and you ask, what is wrong, what do I do now?

You need remember but one truth, and that there is always help if you surrender your ego, if you surrender your pride...and if you would but listen, in a quiet place, in the stillness there you will feel the presence, there will come a stirring in your heart, and a loving voice will remind you, of what you now remember, of course, that there is but one constant in All these worlds...and that is Change.

How could your goal remain forever, how could the path remain unchanged? The answer, as always, is Understanding...that you need to see behind, beneath and beyond what appears to your ordinary ways and means. You need to rise above your everyday certainties and expectancies, to lift your sights from your Determinations and question again "Where you are going", to consider again "What is my path?"

Your partner, your family, your boss or the Universe is not trying to "stop" you, it is merely your Future asking you to let go of the lesser you and to move that much closer to the Light-Bearer, to the Divinity that lights your way within you.

You must grow and change in equal measure to these worlds...

These Realms who are rising with, by and through you.

As you and your Illumined Companions seek to become, and

To lift yourselves and all these Worlds too.

Spirits dancing through Matter...

Matter illumined by Consciousness.

Winging your way back...

Sparks of the Divine...

Heading home to the One.