Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Enters Aries—The Equinox (March 19, 2016)

Happy Astrological New Year!

The Circle of Life begins once more…

You are always surrounded by, yet equally journey through,

The Twelve Mansions of Life-Consciousness-Spirit,

The Living Waters of Life known to you as “the Zodiac”.

These Energy-Forms both form and inform you,

As in each World, Body and Life you unfold from within yourself

The Divine Spark which is your Fountain Source of Light and Truth,

Your precious Spiritual Essence…for this is what makes you “you”.

 

In each life you weave together a unique combination of these Twelve Rays.

For it is by and through any one life, and then through a series of many, many lives

That you will come to learn and to master each one of these Spiritual Gifts.

It is through these Twelve-Fold infinite combinations that you learn to become

The “Self-Masterful”, a Freed Monad who is no longer bound by the Laws of Karma.

 

This is your Destiny, to be a unique, precious melody in the Song of Spirit.

For you are a one, but you also one of many, many ones,

Who form in their infinite totality, through the many realms, worlds and lives

The resplendent Spiritual Life, Mind and Love of the One.

 

But, as in all things, there must be a first step.

Here at the first portal of Aries, you pass from the mystery of Infinity

Into your Dawn of Self-Determination, and so into Self-Limitation too.

For you can be anything given time, but in any one time you must be some-thing.

Here, and at all beginnings, you must take a stand…

 

Now you must answer the most important and profound of questions:

“Who are you?”

This is always the beginning, the Involution of Spirit into Matter is where you start.

Here at this most awesome portal of Potentiality you must pause and consider.

You must approach each and every moment of your life with great care,

For each action sets in motion what is to follow, for many years and even lives to come.

And far more than this, how you treat one another is filled with consequences too,

For you form yourselves through one another, and

Your lives and Karma are intertwined and so made of one another.

These actions/reactions will follow you for this life, and

On through countless worlds, forms and lives to come as well.

 

So, pause and consider carefully, for the Law is the Law,

And what you sow you shall reap.

You are the dreamer-maker-creator; your past is done,

And what will be you cannot know…

The only moment that matters is here,

Here you face the Eternal Now.

So, you must lead with your very best,

For your life…and for theirs too.

The whole of Creation hangs in the balance, and it all comes down to this:

You must do your part, listen to your heart.

You will try to do a little better,

You will rise a little higher, because

You are here today, you are here now,

It is your time to be a better “you”.

 

You must strive to do what is right by you and for others,

To be neither over-whelming, or under-whelming.

To bring to bear in whatever situation you enter what is needed from you.

To offer whatever of you would be most welcoming and welcomed.

You are here to bring light and dispel the darkness,

To bring clarity to confusion, calmness instead of chaos,

To be yourself truly and let others be themselves too.

Right Thinking, Right Bearing and so Right Action,

This is you, this is being your Aries Truth.

 

The question at every step in your journey will always be,

“Who are you?”

And you will find your answer by knowing this:

From where did you come?

The Divine.

Why you are here?

To Love.

And, by knowing this,

You will turn to the Light, you will be the Light too.

 

Because you know this is your Destiny,

You are the Self-that-is-Becoming.

You are one of the ones of the One.

Your approach to this life and to one another

Must follow from this Feeling-Knowing-Being:

That before you, in every form of life you encounter…

There is the Mystery, there is “That”, there is a one, and so,

There am I too.

 

You will lead with Kindness,

You will act with Courage,

You will Love with all your heart.

Because this is who you are.

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here to Love.

 

Podcast—2016 Forecast--Part Three

Podcast—2016, Part Three

Saturn Neptune Cycle in Personal Terms

To conclude the discussion regarding the Saturn/Neptune square for now, I wish to consider the implications of this aspect for individuals, groups and society in general.

The cycle of Saturn and Neptune, lasting about 36 years, concerns the involutionary/evolutionary integration of our structures of Reality (Saturn) with one of the three wondrous powers that account for our spiritual gift of self-unfoldment, that particular experience being the process of Illumination as we exercise our Intuitional nature through our Dreaming/Imagination (Neptune).

The Saturn/Neptune cycle commences with the release of a new impulse at their conjunction and then unfolds over the next 36 years through phases of at times more graceful and then more challenging articulations of integration (or lack thereof) with one another.

For us, from November 2015 into September 2016, we are seeking to understand (again) one of the more challenging moments in their cycle. Whereas the Conjunction (0°) and certainly the Sextile (60°) and Trine (120°) can be experienced more elegantly, the Opposition (180°) and the Waxing or Waning Square (90°) are often more associated with frictions, fractions and schisms. We are encountering the challenge of the Waning Square this year.

Both the Waxing and Waning Squares can be understood as times of Crisis, where this cycle relationship of Dreams and Reality has arrived at a critical moment of decision, and we need, or are forced, to face the dilemmas inwardly and outwardly regarding whatever we encounter at this turning. Given the choices met at the Waning Square, there are really two possible outcomes:

1) We can rise to the challenge (through Love), face the situation openly and wisely, and so lift ourselves up to a higher level of functioning. We can choose to face ourselves and our world and make this present difficulty into an opportunity to grow beyond our former self-limitations, (those very self-limitations being what actually brought us to this very crisis), because we resolve, because we are inspired, to move beyond or through the old dichotomies and assumptions, and this brings us into a higher level of understanding and action….or,

2) We fall back (frozen by fear), and cling to the shells of false-meaning (and discard the kernels of truth). We seek refuge in the rigidity of comfortable certainties as we deny the “living spirit". We deny our own true self as we fail to hear the Song of Spirit which is seeking to help us break free, to help us move beyond what have become the dogmas and pharisaical practices that have brought us to our self-doubts and despair.

The particular question posed by Saturn and Neptune for each of us this year can be found by their respective position in Astrological Signs. Saturn is moving through Sagittarius, while Neptune is moving through Pisces. Saturn, the Teacher/Tester and holder of Reality and Institutions, is bringing us to examine our relationship to Truth, to the Sciences, Philosophy and Religion. Whereas Neptune, the Universal Solvent, Dissolver of Boundaries, Agent of Universal Love and Compassion is in its very own sign, and calling us to anchor ourselves in the greater Reality in which we truly abide. That underlying or True Reality is this: That we are all sparks of the Divine, we are all related to one another and we all abide in the Love of the One. And, it is this Love of and by the One which holds us all together forever and ever. And so, there is but one path forward (always), and that is to Love one another. If whatever we feel, or think or do does not follow from this fundamental Truth, then it will come to nothing in the end.

With Neptune being the outermost planet, and being part of the Spiritual Triad of our spiritual quickening, we should look to it as taking the lead in the elicitation that will move us along the path of our spiritual evolution. It will help us to dispel any notions which seek to divide or separate us, counter any actions which seek to make some greater and others less, and instead lead us out from within and inspire us to act with even greater compassion, understanding and love for one another.

But if any individual or group face this crisis and see only danger and betrayal, it is because they hold to a fear-based reality of what they believe was lost. They fall into the fractured mirrors of madness that are the inverse of the "Wisdom that is Love", and into the pain of Neptunian Delusion and Self-Deception. They will make of themselves martyrs and heroes, as they blame some "other" for what they see as broken promises and deception. They become the "enthralled", driven by their self-cast fears of Saturn, and so become deceived into falsehoods of superior/inferior, whether in terms of beliefs, politics or personal behaviors. They will seek to divide, allocate blame and act against the greater good, and so ultimately bring great pain to themselves (but also many others) by this false faith formed from discord and fear.

The one True path remains the same, year after year, and life after life…and it will bring you, if you remain true to who you really are, out of all such darkness and fear. The song of spiritual self-awakening is what you must listen for, the kindliness, gentleness and love is what your soul lives from, by and for. Your higher-self, your Spark of the Divine, is forever singing these Psalms of Love.

The quiet, steady and loving flame of the One will always remind you to resist those inner and outer voices of fear, doubt, hatred and insecurity. Instead, you will smile as you remember your true nature. You are here to Dream of a Greater Reality, to Love every other as you love yourself…And so it will come to pass, you will move steadily and surely out of these shadows and into the realm of Light.

In the next podcast, I will move on to consider another waning square that is defining this year for us, the square of Jupiter and Saturn.

Here is Part Three of the 2016 Forecast, Saturn and Neptune Personally

 

Podcast—2016 Forecast--Part Two

Podcast—2016, Part Two

Saturn Neptune Cycle

Continuing from Part One, in today’s podcast I consider the contribution of the Third level in this tripartite Hierarchy of Planetary forces, the intersection of Jupiter’s orbit with the four previous planets of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The influence of Jupiter, the ruler of Truths, Philosophy, Science and Religion is to bestow the various meanings for our journey from unself-conscious sparks of the divine to our eventual awakening as fully conscious co-creators of Creation.

These four modulations of Jupiter are: Jupiter/Saturn forming Truth and Order or how we bring Meaning into Manifestation. Jupiter/Uranus forming Truth and Freer Minds or how we bring Understanding into our mutual Liberation. Jupiter/Neptune forming Truth and Universal Love or how we come to understand the Truth of our Oneness. And, Jupiter/Pluto forming Truth and Will or how we Live in Truth in our Sacred Spaces.

Then I will consider one of the signature alignments of this year (actually from Fall 2015 through Fall 2016), the Saturn/Neptune waning square. Their relationship articulates the ways and means by which we seek to integrate our Reality and our Dreams, of how we see the alignment or disconnects between our Visions of our life and the Physical facts of our experience. Their Synodic cycle (from Conjunction to Conjunction,  like a New Moon to New Moon), is about 36 years.

The conjunction of Saturn with Neptune forms the release of a new statement or instance of Dreams becoming Reality. This new impulse is then re-examined, choices are faced and we are tested at the waxing square about 9 years later. The fulfillment and/or so-called failure of this effort is then experienced at their opposition 9 years later (which is like a Full Moon), when Saturn is on one side of Earth and Neptune upon the other side. The waning square 9 years later, where we are this year, presents another moment of choice, but this time the development of Dreams becoming Reality (or Reality denying Dreams), requires a “letting go” in order to grow. For at each waning square, of whatever planetary pair we are considering, we are challenged to face our assumptions, thought-forms and ideals that have brought us to this point. We are given an opportunity to see what must be transcended or released so that we can continue to grow on this path of fulfillment, and/or to change direction altogether to a better path if what has been so far realized is not true to our dreams.

The particular focus of this Saturn/Neptune square can be ascertained by referencing their Astrological Sign placements as they square one another. Neptune is in its own sign of Pisces, (which we last experienced from 1848-8162), and is carrying the message of our most precious gift of the Imagination and the power of our Dreams as the source of our Reality-Making. That the Power of our Faith can be found in our Spiritual Nature, that we are in Truth the creators of our reality.

Saturn is in Sagittarius, (the time before this was 1985-1988), and our determinations of what is really True, of what is correct or right as articulated by our Science, Law, Religion and Philosophy is being shaped/challenged in this waning square by our understanding through Neptune. Neptune is challenging Saturnian rigidity and dogma by this “Living Spirit” of Neptune in Pisces, and that through this Greater Understanding we can re-experience that “we are one” in Truth.

We are one in Spirit, and so in all things we should be guided by the fundamental warning that the Great Illusion of any age is the error of Separation. That if we allow ourselves to be divided from one another, if we make some of us into something less, then this will lead to the division by those who wield a position of the superior, who will then bring harm to those they consider to be lesser. By this we will reap only bitter fruits, as we bring about fear, pain and suffering through injustice… and we will fall from grace, as we fail to fulfill our humanity and our spiritual promise.

But really, truly, we are all one in Spirit…and so the Universal Teachings, the Ancient Wisdom behind all lesser teachings shines forth again in the right alignment of Sagittarius and Pisces in the Great Law or Truth:

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you….for before you is another who is as you, you are the same, and what you do to the least of any of these you do to the One.”

There is no other way than the One Way, “Love one another”.

Here is Part Two of the 2016 Forecast, the Cycle of Saturn and Neptune

Podcast—2016 Forecast--Part One

Podcast—2016 Forecast Overview

Part One: The Hierarchy of Planetary Forces

The following series of podcasts will examine the major Astrological factors influencing our lives and world during 2016. Today’s podcast, Part One, is a brief introduction to the Tri-Partite Hierarchy of Planetary forces of the major planets: Firstly, you have Pluto, Neptune and Uranus. Secondly, comes these three interrelating with Saturn. Thirdly, you have these four interrelating with Jupiter.

The First level in this Hierarchy is formed by Pluto, Neptune and Uranus which together comprise the Long-Wave or Substantial Spiritual Evolutionary forces for our planetary system. Each moving through the signs, and forming significant aspects to one another create the rhythmic pulses of Spiritual quickening for our journey.

These Lords of Spiritual Evolution combine to form three Planetary pairs of meaning: Neptune/Pluto forming the relationship of Unconditional Love versus Sacred Space or Love and Will. Uranus/Neptune forming the relationship between Individuality versus Community or Freer Minds and Unconditional Love. And, Uranus/Pluto forming the relationship between Individuality versus Sacred Space or Freer Minds and Will. These long-range evolutionary cycles range from about 500 to 130 years.

The Second level in this Hierarchy combines these outer three with the modulations formed by their respective intersections with the planet Saturn. Here you experience the interplay of the Evolutionary Forces of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto with the Structures or Objective Realms of Saturn, which will often unfold seemingly through “discords” or “clashes” of the transformational planets with the conserving/crystallizing forces of Saturn. These three are: Saturn/Uranus forming Order and Free Minds or Tradition versus Innovation. Saturn/Neptune forming Order and Dreams or Tradition versus Compassion. And, Saturn/Pluto forming Order and Will or Tradition versus Sacred Space. These mid-range crystallizing cycles range from about 45 to over 30 years.

The Third level in this Hierarchy combines these four with the modulations created by their respective intersections with the planet Jupiter. Here you experience the interplay of the Evolutionary and Crystallizing Forces with the Expansionary/Exploring Forces of Jupiter. These four pairs are: Jupiter/Saturn forming Truth and Order or Meaning and Manifestation. Jupiter/Uranus forming Truth and Freer Minds or Meaning and Liberation. Jupiter/Neptune forming Truth and Universal Love or Meaning and Oneness. And, Jupiter/Pluto forming Truth and Will or Meaning and Sacred Space. These shorter wave growth cycles range from 20 to 12 years.

Today’s podcast will begin the discussion of this tripartite hierarchy, as we begin to try and understand these gifts of the spirit for 2016. The major influences we will look at for this year will be: 1) The waning square of Saturn with Neptune, 2) the waning square of Jupiter with Saturn, and 3) the waning trine of Saturn with Uranus. But we will need to look at all these three (and more) within the context of the greater alignment that has and still defines our period. This fundamental elicitation of Spirit marks our time as the “end of an age” and the “dawn of a new age”, being heralded by Uranus in Aries forming a waxing square to Pluto in Capricorn. 

We have not been witness to changes such as these for over 240 years, not since the 1760's to the 1770's, and before that from 1516 to 1532. Much like those individuals, cultures and countries in their time, we too now face the awesome responsibility of re-making ourselves and our precious world for the better, to love not hate, to unite not divide, and so build bridges of understanding, compassion and love for one and all. 

Here is Part One of the 2016 Forecast