Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22-23, 2014)

Your Journey is a Spiral Dance of Spirit,

You soar up and you sweep down, you go back and you go forth.

Through the Innumerable Energies and Forms of this Cosmos,

Your Journey is this story of Spirit,

It is the Path of Light that is Consciousness in Motion.

It is the Infinitesimal moving towards Infinities,

It is the Innumerable many who are also the One.

The Cycles of Life, of Day and Night, of Weeks and Months, of Seasons and Years roll on…To every moment, in every turning, in Season after Season, there is a meaning and message for you.

The numbers of your life are Three and Four. There are three modes of expression: Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable which form the three phases of each season during the year; and there are Four Energy-Forms of realization: Fire, Earth, Air and Water which are the four orders of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

These in their Twelve-Fold combinations become the Living Ones, the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac which form and inform you. They mark and give meaning to your journey through your many lives, loves and worlds. In this Luminous Ribbon of Life-Consciousness-Spirit your purpose is simple but profound, you are here to Grow. You are here to discover and unfold your infinite potential, for within you is Pure Love, within you shines a spark of the Divine.

There is a rhythm to this Song of Life:

There is a Time to Begin,

There is a Time to Hold, and

There is a Time to Release.

You begin by moving into a new Formation; You hold as reach your Fulfillment; and then, to grow you must “walk on” and become something more, again. You do this mysteriously and wondrously by “letting go”. You slip beyond what you have so far become by moving through these Transitioning Transformations that form your path of Immanence and Self-Transcendence, for you are Spirit and this is your Journey of the Self-Becoming.

The Seasons of Spirit are turning once more, those Idealistic Visions of Fire must once more yield to the Substantiations that are of Earth, the Fixed Sign that is Leo must yield now to the Mutable Sign of Virgo. 

Through all four of the Mutable signs, as a Season ends and leads you into the next, you must adapt and adjust, you will break apart and recombine and so form yourself into ever more adept expressions of your essential nature. This is your time to experience your self-unfolding nature in the meanings and messages of Virgo.

There is an essential need to experience an “order” to your life and world. That the rhythms formed by the flow and combination of Spirit-Matter creates a resonance of meaning between your inner world and these outer realities. You experience you and your world as aligned with one another, and in the myriad pieces and parts you can ascertain a greater whole within which you and all of these countless lives abide. That when you feel this Truth in Order you reside in your place of Peace, you know and feel that all of “this” makes sense, that Life is good and that your Life is Beautiful too.

Yet the one insistent behind all of “this”, the constant beating Heart of Spirit is Growth, and this driving imperative brings about your need to deal with the necessity of change. There is no order that can remain as it was, for you are unfolding your potential from within as are all the other life-forms around you as well. There is no Static Order, no “Perfection” or final Form…There is Order and Re-Ordering, Forming and Re-Forming, all is in motion, all of this Cosmos is a streaming of Energy-Forms that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit on a Journey from the One to the Many and back to the One.

Behind the many lives and worlds, behind the formations and reformations, throughout the orders and re-orderings, there is the Presence, there is the awareness of awareness, there is “that”…behind and throughout it all there is the One. For you this presence is your Higher Self, your Beloved, who holds you to your path of becoming and the fulfillment of your part in the Greater Good. So that when you are able to align your present circumstance to be in accord with this resonance of Beauty and Truth, you find your place of Peace. It is not found "out there", it is formed by the relationship between the Good that is within you and the Good that you make out there. It is formed by following the Path of Love that flows from within you, and releasing that Love so as to make this World of Beauty around you too.

The message of Virgo is this…

You are here to find Peace within yourself,

You are here to Align yourself,

With the Beauty of your World.

You are here to see the Love within,

And the Beauty that is around you,

And live them as they are,

They are one and the same.

Walk in Beauty,

Live in Love,

Be at Peace.

Mercury Enters Virgo (August 15, 2014)

Skipping swiftly now…

Your Muse of Mindfulness sings another melody,

Time to show your Attention to Detail,

To Raise your Perceptiveness and Discernment too.

Circumspection, Grace and Humility,

That is the Virgo way,

Hermes the Messenger of the Gods,

Sounds the Trumpet of Truth.

Time to Bend your Light of Self-Awareness,

To Refine your Consciousness and Conscience,

For you are here to better yourself,

And to make a better world too.

Mercury dances out of Leo and into his own sign of Virgo. For the next 18 days your Avatar of Perceiving and Communicating is encouraging you to attend to your need for Wholeness, to help you find your way to Peace. Though your own Mercurial disposition will be your ordinary and everyday “Thinking-Way”, that will form, shape and characterize your mentality, you will always find even greater meaningfulness by attuning your own awareness to these shifts that Mercury will offer to you in this experience of the “Mind of the Now”.

Just as in your daily preparations to anticipate and adapt to the physical conditions that you experience in climate change and the weather, you also need to appreciate and integrate your own thoughtful nature by and through these modulations in the flow of Mind-Forms too. This period of Mercury brings an opportunity for one and all to perceive, analyze and communicate with that lensing lucidity that comes through Virgo.

After stretching and performing, after creating and releasing your love by your mind, you have a need now to attend to the improvement of your craft. The Fires of Leo did and do inspire you, but it is in the Earthy times of Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo that you bring your dreams into substantial and sustainable forms of self-realization.

What was an inspiration becomes a method, what was a vision becomes the realization and life of an adept. For out of the chaos of creativity...form, elegance and beauty are formed. There is meaning in the parts as they form into a greater whole, a meaning that is more clearly revealed and celebrated as your attention to detail and the intricate linking of parts to one another is made into this finer work of art, revealed by this life that is you.

You are an apprentice in the world of spirit, ever honing yourself and your works into ever finer degrees of Grace and Beauty.

Let Hermes lead you now upon the Pathway of Perfection.

For you are here for one thing only...

Driven by one Imperative Impulse...

You are here to Grow.

Your are to let go of the lesser, and

To rise into the greater,

With adeptness and by humility.

You are here to be made Whole,

You are here to be at Peace.

You are because of Love,

You are here to be that Love.

Venus Enters Leo (August 12, 2014)

Your Avatar of Beauty and Love,

Light-Bearer, herald of the Dawn,

Dear Venus, here to lead you out from within.

You rise, from the Home Waters of Cancer,

Your heart leaps, and pulls you,

Towards one another now.

For having met your truer “Self”,

The Heart and Root of your Soul,

Your yearning now is clear, to see in one another,

The Truth you did behold.

You found the "Secret of Life",

Binding all of Creation, as One...

The Love is there inside, always.

Always there, waiting, abiding, guiding you

In every life, in time after time…

The Love for yourself, and for one another too.

You feel and know this Love within,

As it is everywhere around you too.

Look, there it is…

In the Fires of Your Star, and

In the Eyes of your Beloved.

Who looks upon you, through and beyond

This mere mortal frame of you, and

Profound but simple words, are heard once more,

“I see you there, I see and feel you there,

I remember who we were,

I understand who we are, and

I love you."

We are for one another,

As we were, are and will ever be,

Time and time again.

Love cannot be sundered,

This Light will never fail.

I Love and am Loved.

I shine like the Sun, we are Stars.

For Love.

By Love,

All is Love.

Full Moon in Aquarius (August 10, 2014)

You are a very special one…

And, you are one of many, many other ones too.

To be a one of kind,

You also must be part of these many also.

You are a dreamer,

Yet your dreams are truly made of one another.

You are the one, you are the many,

Who are all for one,

And one for All.

The Sun will set and your Moon will rise. You will stand, in awe and with wonder, for there you are a being of light between these keepers of the Light. The Guardian of the Day and the Watcher of the Night bow to one another once more. Their Dance of Light and Shadows is the primary and archetypal relationship of meaning for your journey in this most material sphere of spiritual striving.

At each Full Moon you are made aware once more about the paradoxical nature of Spiritual Truths, of the what and how in this pulling and pushing between oppositional forces in your journey. That it is in and by this interplay and dance of light-forms that you will be guided to the Noble Middle Way of Love and Integral Truth. At each moment in this cycle, the Sun holds forth as the fountain-source of Spiritual Forces streaming around and through you. He sets the primary tone of what you are to hold to and be guided by day after day. But it is the loving duty of the Moon to be your interlocutor of these immense energies. She is there to modulate these Solar Forces and all the planetary energies, as she weaves her webs of meaning around and through you on your home here upon the Earth.

Today, the Full moon finds the Sun declaiming the virtues of Leo, and your burning bright desire is your need to be recognized, appreciated and respected for the very special one that you are. But your need for this can be overstretched, and the seeking for approval or the desire to be appreciated make you act in such a manner that is actually contrary or false to your true path and nature. If you too much accommodate to what the audience wishes from you, and shape who you are so as to only give them what they want, you will not contribute the unique gift of your voice and song to the chorus of Life and Spirit.

This is the reminder of which dear Luna brings to you now. She stands opposite to the Sun and holds forth from Aquarius. For you need to remember, that you are not “you” except by the many others who are part of you too. For through countless worlds and lives, and for countless years in this life now, innumerable souls have loved and guided, shaped and formed you into who you are. Your powers and abilities, your goals and your dreams, your sensibilities and your soul are made not just by you alone…Truly you are made by and through this Living Web of Lives, by the Loves of the many, and this is what makes you “you”. What makes you are your companions and friends, your families, your loves and the many lives that have touched you…and you do this for them as well.

One human, alone and with no others, bereft of this web of interrelationships of shared Experiences, Feelings, Thoughts and Dreams, well that is truly unimaginable. You could not be human, you could not become human, you could not think, feel or dream as human without these webs of experience that you call Life…For you are really a “We” as much as you are a “me”.

You are a dreamer, and you are here to dream for one another…Your dreams are made of one another, as what you wish for, what you strive for is to share your lives and loves with one another. It is not the “things” that matter in this material world, it is you, and you and you…it is the Living, Loving Spirit that is the Dream you walk in, the Dreams you Dream are what you create with one another, it is all of this...it is Love, and it is Life.

Tonight…dance in the Light of the Moon.

Be yourself, and be true to one another.

Dream your dream, and dream for one another.

Love yourself, and love one another.

Dance in the Light of the Moon.

Dance, Live and Love.

Dream for one another, 

Love one another.