Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Enters Sagittarius (November 27, 2014)

Your Avatar of Mindfulness is moving on…

Time for you to leave, for now, this spiral dance of Elements,

That took you back and forth, by Thought and through Feelings,

Between realms of Air and of Water…

and then Air and Water once again.

Yes, it is time to consider you and your journey,

To see yourself and your world as well,

Through the Facet that is Fire.

Move your mind into this Realm of Understanding.

For it is by Right Thinking, and by Right Living,

Through Truth, and by Unconditional Love,

That you become At One…Attuned.

Yes, it is time to Seek, See and Be,

Through the Loving Lucidity,

That is Mercury in Sagittarius.

Mercury, your messenger of the Gods is moving quickly now. Sweeping into Fire for the next three weeks, and you should take advantage of this quickening in the World of Mind and Thought.

This shift of Mind can help you understand and share what could only be Felt or Intuited as you encountered those deepest of mysteries, your Unions and Losses, that were met in the realm of Scorpio.

For it is often true, as you grow, as you seek to become what you are meant to be, as you seek to understand the mystery that is yourself and your world, (which division, your “Fall”, is really this illusion in time, your separation/divide into two, your experience of time as the past, present and future within the One Reality)…It is most certainly true that you will begin to perceive or sense the Greater Reality in which you abide, and you will intuit, and you will feel a Greater Awareness too. But you cannot yet “Name” it, you cannot yet describe or share what you felt…not yet.

Yet it will come, the Higher Self will lift you up as you stretch yourself to understand…and the mists will part, and the light will become steadier, and the words will form in your mind and on your tongue…and you will draw a little closer to the Ancient Wisdom which is in you as much as it is and forms the worlds around you too…and you will be able to share.

You will listen to the stories that have been passed down, you will hear the ancient truths and remember once more…why, what, whither...for nothing changes, really. The forms will have shifted, but the Light and Love behind those forms will hold and hold you to the path and to the truth.

And, you will tell your story too...for you must, that is why you are here. For your Song of Spirit is needed, you are here to bring yet another precious melody into the Chorus of Creation, to this Journey of the Divine that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Mercury moves into Sagittarius…

And so shall you.

You will dip your cup into the Well of Wisdom,

To Explain your story to yourself…

To Accept and Understand.

And you will add your Story to this Ancient Well,

So that your Song may be added.

For now you remember,

You are here to help one another,

You are here together,

To Live the Wisdom of Love.

Sun Enters Sagittarius & New Moon in Sagittarius (November 21-22, 2014)

The Greater Awareness

You have come very far…

Through many worlds,

By wondrous forms,

In countless lives.

There was no “beginning”,

There will be no “end”,

For yours is the Journey of Spirit.

You are The Self that is Becoming,

A Spark of the one Divine Flame,

And there is but one injunction:

To Grow.

You are here to Learn,

To Be and Become.

And in this present form, you are here to learn to be fully human.

What is that?

Look to those who have “gone before”,

To them who lifted the veil of Isis, for

Their lives are an example to you.

They are known in many times and places, through many cultures and creeds.

Some are very familiar to you,

Most have worked and do strive without being recognized.

But all belong to the Ancient Order,

The luminous Circle of Cosmic Consciousness.

They are known as Masters…for they have achieved Full Human Consciousness,

They have become the Self-Mastered.

They are your Teachers and Helpers…for most have stayed behind,

To help you and those that still remain.

Their path is your future, 

They did not come to start any “religion”,

They came to show you the truth, “the way”.

You are here to Present,

You are here To BE,

You will BECOME, and

You will AWAKEN.

Today you celebrate the Ninth moment in your Twelve-Fold Journey around the Circle of Life, around the Living Ones who are known to you as the Zodiac. All of these energies are part of you, all of them live through you, for you are the Microcosm of this Macrocosm, you are a precious spark in this Cosmos. You are here to understand, master and live by all of these Energy-Life-Forms (Signs) as you become fully human, as you become fully conscious too.

You have passed once more through the month of Scorpio, where you felt the Joy of Union, or the agony of Loss, and from one or both of these Feelings you began to sense, to intuitively perceive, the great rhythms of Living and Loving, of Holding and Releasing that are part of your journey through these Spaces of Space.

But now, in this time of Fire, while you walk in the space that is Sagittarius, you are called to take what was felt within, and what you felt between you too, and bring this feeling out and into your knowing, into the realm of Belief, into your Ideals and Understanding. For it is here that you become the teller of tales, by your sharing in stories, and by this you come to your greater understanding, you come to the revelation that you know as truth…You move into the Temple that is Truth…and you must know, yes you must trust this, that you are in fact a living Temple of this truth.

For the Truth is not to be found “out there”, it is not held by only one or a few…it is to be found, it is stirred and awakened, and honored and sung, by the heart and soul of one and all. The Truths that live on and on, in World after World, in Form after Form, in Life after Life, these Living Truths are in all of us, in you and me, in our ancestors and in the Stars too. For the Great Illusion and Deception is separation…The Greater Awareness is held in the core of one and all, for in truth we are all just ones of the One. There is but one Spirit, there is but one Life, and there is but one simple Truth…and that is Love.

Your story and the telling of all of our stories is how you and me and we all come to know who we are, and to discover why we are here...and to imagine and dream and believe that we are the ones, that we are the co-creators of this Creation.

Just as those who came before you, who have walked this path of the Greater Awareness too, just as they freed themselves from fear as they learned to be or live this Truth, you must share what you have learned of yourself and of one another. You have faced your darkness, but you have chosen, again and again, to turn towards the light. You have turned away from Fear and Doubt, and you have turned towards one another because of who you are, and you choose Love because you Understand.

For that is the Core of Truth,

This is the essence of the Greater Awareness.

We are all of One Life,

We are all of One Spirit,

We are all related, and

We are here to Love.

Venus Enters Sagittarius (November 16, 2014)

Your brightly shining one,

She is singing now…

Of Ancient songs, of the far, far away.

She regales you with distant times and foreign shores,

Of Kingdoms and Empires,

Telling tales of Treasures and Ancient Truths.

She lifts a little more, the Veil of Isis,

Whose hidden ways and passages,

Will lead you beyond the mysteries…

To the Illumined Realms,

To that Blessing Way.

You will find your path,

To your Place of Peace,

Which was always there with you,

Of course it was, for here it is…

It was always there with you, here

In your Heart of hearts.

Your Avatar of Love and Beauty rises from the Waters once more, she rises from the depths of Scorpio where you soared to the joys of union, or fell into the despair of your sundering. Your Avatar of Hearts, who leads you ever onward, she led you to the Veil between the “I and Thou”, and she offered you another chance of finding yourself in and through one another. That you were to learn, that by letting go of the lesser, by the Frictional Burnishing off of what is the lesser of you, you actually discovered, that in coming closer to your beloved…you actually came that much closer to your own true self too. 

Or, or the Union came apart. Your attempt to leap across that divide did fail, and you find yourself in your loss and pains, swirling in “what might have beens”, and you are left with these seemingly empty remains. But there is always growth, and often the greater in the losses, and you will find, in the dawning of the new day, you will find it there, that there is always the power of the present, the Love of the One, who will bring to you the ever-renewing hope of your re-birth.

Whichever way you came, whether through the pathway of Joy or Pain, Venus will offer something precious to you now…And, and because you will experience both, for all will rise and fall, (and all will rise again), you will need this help along your way, you will need to find your better way, for it is a long and circuitous path, to find your way in this Journey of Light that is the Self-that-is-becoming.

Venus Sings to you now of your need to Understand, to find the measure of your Joy and your Pain, to see your truth as part of Truth…for your way is found as you connect your life and loves with the Wisdom and Teachings of the Ages. Venus lifts you up, to look beyond your place and time, beyond your more self-circumscribed explanations…you are here to grow, and you have to let go of the dogmas of destruction founded by those who live by fear.

You need to see the commonalities, the connections between this and that, between I and Thou, and to bridge the divides that seem to be there between time and space, between religions, cultures and clans…

You need only one Principle to guide you…and that is Love. To know that in the end, you and I, that us and them, that we are all of one Spirit, that we are all in fact just "ones of the One", who together make up this wondrous Journey of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

Venus is here, to show you “The Way”,

For you are here to grow.

To Learn and to Know that what is right and true…

Is what is shared and found to be true for one and for all.

You are here to Grow into Wisdom,

You are here to Know and to Live,

The Wisdom of Love.

Mars Square Uranus (November 12, 2014)

Your Avatar of Aspirations and Actions,

Encounters the Avatar of your Individuation.

Your Desires will be stirred,

Your Aims will be Elevated.

For what you seek,

Your one true Desire,

Is to be who you truly are.

What, what do you need?

You need to be Free.

Yet, to be truly free,

You must free one another.

True Freedom is formed in the “Sacred Spaces” you forge between one another, in those Sacred Realms where I and Thou encounter each other to form the “We”. In this created space, in this "Space of We", each soul must strive to acknowledge the Truth and Individuality of the other. Each and every “I and Thou” must forge their sacred shared space so as to abide by the one presiding principle of a true and Spiritual relationship.

That condition, this Law of Freedom and Individuation, is that you must seek to form this “Space of We” so as to help one another to be more of who you are, to be true to one another as individual spirits in your shared space. Your togetherness in honoring your individualities in this shared sacred space is what forms the very substance and support of your freedom to be yourself.

You want nothing more, you need nothing more, than for your beloved to become more of who they are with you. And you, you need nothing more than for them to give you this same spiritual space of self-realization too. You do not wish to limit your specialness, your quintessence or individuality; you want your experience of one another to celebrate and expand this very specialness. This is what you feel in the heart of one another, this is the sparkle of spirit you see in their eyes…it is truly this that you love about one another.

Freedom is this Social Space of self-fulfillment. To be apart and alone, that is not some perfect realization of what it means to be free…it is just quite poorly and sadly the state of being alone…it is only the shadow-side of some twisted notion of being free. Being apart or alone may be an attempt to be free “from” something…But what your soul seeks, what your heart desires, what your Higher Self knows is the Way and the Truth is found in this freedom made by one another “To Be” and “To Become” for one another by Love.

Ultimately, being with and for one another, having joined in this Space of Freedom, in these Sacred Shared Spaces that release and celebrate your Individuality, you each can become whatever you wish and dream because of your love for one another.

Your dreams are made of this…

To be Yourself,

To be Free.

To Love,

And be Loved.

To be Free.

Mars Conjunct Pluto in Capricorn (November 10, 2014)

Your Desires meet,

With your Will.

Your Aims and Actions,

Lensed by a Powerful Pairing.

Your Guiding Intentions,

Focus upon the Purposeful.

For you have Responsibilities,

That you must Fulfill.

As you make your Way,

To a more Sacred Realm.

Mars, your Avatar of the Self-in-Action, meets with Pluto, your Avatar and Maker of Sacred Space. When your Desire meets with your Will, the unreachable becomes attainable, the impossible falls away.

The combination of Mars and Pluto forms one of the most potent forces of Spiritual strength or power that you will ever wield…but for this very reason, this gift must be treated with great respect, held with sincere reverence, and exercised with the utmost humility.

All these powers that flow from you…they come from the core of Spirit that abides within you. These powers are not “for you” as the limited I or me. You are not here to ask what Spirit, or God or whatever you may name “that” can “do for you”…You are here to serve Nature, to love your Mother-Father, to live for and with Spirit or God! Ask how you may serve, and you will be lifted up and spiritually rewarded.

Your ever-growing Wisdom and Spiritual Strength are for this Universe that you and all the heavenly hosts are creating…for you all are in fact this very “Creation”. Your gifts and powers are for the good of one and all, and any exercise of them for merely yourself, any inherently selfish use of Spiritual power is in truth what is known as “black magic”. When you use Universal Energy for personal and selfish reasons, you diminish the light, and you contribute to darkness. You have turned away from Truth, and you have left the realm of Kindness, Consideration and Love.

You are here to discover and discern by trial and error, to master yourself through the fundamental principle of Cause and Effect, the Master Keeper known as Karma. You will learn to choose to do what is good, why? Because quite purely and simply it produces good. Any Intention/Action that helps to grow the greater good, which helps the many and not the few, that is when you push back the darkness and extend the Light of Spirit. That is when you follow the path of Truth, that is when you walk “the way”...that is when you are the Life of Wisdom and you live by Love.

You are here to be responsible for and to one another…

This is the Lesson and Truth of Capricorn.

You are here to honor and keep to the path,

To build upon the great efforts of those who came before.

You are here to protect, preserve and act,

To honor the source of one and all.

You must use your power to Create, not destroy.

You will learn to act with Power and by Love…

For it is the Way, it is the only path,

That will take you Home.

Mercury Re-Enters Scorpio (November 8, 2014)

Mercury returns to the watery depths of Scorpio, and your final step, (for now) of this Air-Water-Air-Water dance is at hand. Three times Mercury has moved from an Air sign to Water, then retrograded back into Air and then forward again into Water. In February/March, in May/June and here in September/November, you have had a Triptych of Truth, a gift of grace from your starry companions wheeling above. For this is "the Way", these spiraling ribbons of light and love both inspire and form your integral journey in Spirit.

All these Energy-Forms, of Fire, Earth, Air and Water sweep in, through and around you. But even more than this, their unique Blending-Combining-Weaving make you into “you”, a complete human. You are not one thing or another; you are a unique instance of Creation. You are a microcosm, a wondrous reflection of the Macrocosm or Cosmos. You are a “host in miniature” of the Heavenly Host, of the entirety of Creation which surrounds you. And so you are here to know and feel that the wonders of heaven which are “out there”, that they also and will ever abide within you too...for “I am That, I am”…Yes, yes you are.

Now and until November 27, your mind is lensing through the desires, passions and fears that are faced in the realm that is Scorpio. You wish to bridge the seeming divide between yourself and your beloved. You need to pierce beyond the shadows that fall between I and Thou, and forge that precious bond of Union that actually releases your Spirit to soar even higher. But to do this you must face down the shadows of your past rejections and hurts. For if these take hold of your mind and heart, and so sway your intentions and actions, then you will act through these shadowed energy-forms and bring about the very losses you are desperately trying to avoid.

You need to draw down the Higher side of Scorpio, to know that you are Spirit, that you are Love and Loved, and that you have nothing to fear. Then you will show your strength which is your Love by acting Fearlessly…That by leading with your lovingness, by your openness and vulnerability which are the signs of your Spiritual Strength, that by this you will create the opportunity to heal the breach between you. You will open your mind and your heart and so create the space where I and Thou can enter in. And you will move into that wondrous experience and mystery where you two can become one with one another. 

Let Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, take you to the place of your deepest longing now.

It is time to pierce beyond the Losses and Shadows,

To move beyond those pains and regrets,

Which held you apart from one another.

It is time to Lead with your Faith,

It is time to Live in your Truth,

It is time, to let go of fear.

It is time,

To Love.

Full Moon in Taurus (November 6, 2014)

Your Spiritual Journey,

Is all about Holding on…

and Letting go.

You will visit countless worlds of manifestation,

You will pass through many wondrous hierarchies of form,

You will live many lives moving through each form…

But even so, you will ever and forever always journey on.

For you seek for the Transcendent,

The promise of Permanence,

You yearn to experience an eternal you,

Behind all these constantly changing worlds, forms and lives.

The Taurus Full Moon in this month of Scorpio is the necessary compliment to the Scorpio Full Moon of six months ago. It was during that Month of Taurus, it was then that you were reminded to bow your head and give thanks to the Hierarchy of Love and Wisdom that lights your path. The great lessons embodied in the Life and Teachings of the Buddha are honored at that time. One of the most important of these is this: that the nature of you is that you are a host of energies and forms that is constantly developing, changing, growing into something more…and that there is nothing “permanent” in your “human” form.

But it is equally true that one abiding constant that you will find in your many lives, throughout your many journeys, is held for you in what are known as the Perennial Truths, the Ancient Wisdom Teachings. These gifts of the Spirit become real for you by and through those who have come this way before, the many compassionate wise ones who will ever show and help you in the next step, who loving offer their help so that you may find “the way”…but you, of course, must walk this sacred path yourself.

Here in the Light of the Taurus Moon you are given another loving gift of Wisdom. Just as you need to accept the ephemeral nature of your bodily lives and forms while moving through the time that is Taurus, you equally need some reassurance as you journey now through the Joys and Pains of Scorpio. For as you encounter your heartfelt leaps and falls, as you find Union and Separation, as you experience Death and Rebirth, that through it all you will find yourself making your way to the abiding loving presence behind it all. 

For what you must leave behind is your fear…that you are alone, that you are separate, and the presiding nature of things is that nothing lasts. The Great Illusion is this separation, and the Abiding Truth is that all of this, the entirety of Creation is of, by and for the One. All these Worlds, Forms and Lives form the radiant robe of Glory of the Divine which is found at the center of every speck and mote of Creation. All of "this" is The Divine, whose Center is Everywhere and whose Circumference is nowhere.

At the center of each and every mote and particle of Creation is a spark of this Divine, each like you a Self-Unfolding, Self-Becoming Presence of Consciousness. That presence, that Awareness of Awareness, is your constant companion through all the Worlds, Forms and Lives. And you will come to know this and feel this in many, many ways in your journey. But behind it all, the essence of it truly, is that you are one with the One, and you journey in the embrace of a Pure and Unconditional Love...and you will come to know and live that you are this Love.

You are here to grow…

To move from form to form,

To Be, and Not to be.

To be a One, and to be Many.

To be Love, and be Loved.

As it was invoked six months ago at the Buddha Full Moon, it is quite right and fitting to bow your head in the light of the Full Moon today and tonight, and be grateful. To give thanks to those who have gone ahead, and bow your head and offer up once again 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.