Astrologer Bill Attride

Mercury Turns Retrograde (August 30, 2016)

Here is the third of your four Mercury Retrogrades this year. Beginning at the very end of Virgo, one of the signs that Mercury is said to “rule”, and moving back through about ½ of Virgo until September 21^st-22^nd, Mercury retrograde is always an opportunity to pause and reconsider the most important factor in the quality of your life, the health of your mind.

One of the most important gifts you have secured by moving through the human kingdom is your wondrous faculty of a self-reflective consciousness. You have the ability to develop an ever more objective understanding of yourself and your thought-forms. It is from this wondrous self-correcting consciousness that you can learn the consequential connections between how you think, how you act and the resulting reality you make for yourself. Over time, you learn to choose better, to correct misunderstandings, misconceptions and develop a more inclusive and comprehensive view of the Greater Reality in which you reside.

Mercury retrograde is merely, but wonderfully, this faculty of self-correction/self-improvement working to a higher degree. It is your time to be ever more introspective and contemplative, to review, revise and make more true your inner world view since your mind is bending back upon itself more readily now.

But of course this often does bring about difficulties in the day to day of paying attention to the outer world, for you are more likely to be engaged within and not as aware of what may be happening around you. Moreover, everyone else is so disposed as well. So you may not convey your thoughts/intentions to others as well as you might normally; and they may not be receiving as readily either. And of course the same applies in reverse.

As a consequence, misunderstandings may mount up in both personal and business matters. You have to make use of this wonderful time, yes. But you need to be as mindful of the troubles it may bring in its wake and do what you can to minimize these.

Firstly, mostly, have a sense of humor, for your own distractedness and misperceptions, and be equally forgiving of those around you too. In order limit the negative side effects, do set aside more time in your day for moments of solitude and contemplative spaces in order to make use of retrograde Mercury’s gifts for you. Encourage others by your example to also see the opportunity here to reduce ill-advised thought-forms and help them to engage in more self-critical thinking too.

Mercury retrograde should be a time for the quickening of one your most astounding qualities: You Know…and You Know that you Know!

Let Hermes, the “messenger of the gods”, take you on an inner journey now.

Shift you focus, challenge and change your assumptions.

See what you were “missing”, always be humble.

Experience the wonder of the “Ah-Ha” moment,

And Smile!

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22, 2016)

The Pathway of Perfection

You are the Self-that-is Becoming,

A Self-Luminous Spark of the One Divine Flame.

You journey through many Worlds, Forms and Lives,

Lifting yourself and all these Energy-Forms ever closer to the Fullness

To be found within the Greater Awareness.

Your playground of Consciousness is turning once more,

The “Circle of the Living Ones”, the Zodiac, leaves behind

The Fixed Fire that is Leo and brings you

Into the Blessed Realm,

Into the Sacred Space of Wholeness.

Here now is your time of Grace, Beauty and Virtue,

On bended knee and with great devotion

May you find Peace in your space of Virgo.

For after each Fire Sign, after every time of Inspiration and Idealism, there must come this time…the time in which you experience what is really real. Now those Ideals and Dreams are put to the test of Matter and Form. Just as after your awareness of Presence in the realm of Aries must be followed by your awareness of Value in Taurus, so too must your awareness of Performance in the realm of Leo be followed by your awareness of Peace in Virgo.

You have always desired one thing, to be at Peace. There is no higher realm, no greater value than to be at Peace, both within and without. It is not found here or there, or anywhere whatsoever. It is not a place or even a time, it is beyond these things. To be at Peace is found in a higher State of Consciousness, where inner and outer realms align, where you and your world are one…for a time.

For you and your world are here for one thing, you are Spirit moving through Space-Time, and the one injunction propelling the whole of Creation is Growth. For it is all about the Self-That-Is-Becoming, from the One and to all those encompassed in this great creation formed by all the ones of the One. You and your world are part of a myriad of Energy-Forms that are constantly growing, constantly changing, and so your challenge is clear…How do you find Order and Peace in that?

You find and secure your Peace by aligning and guiding your outer physical world interactions to the intimations of Wisdom found in your Higher Self. As your awareness and conduct becomes more attuned to the Greater Awareness, you make better choices for yourself and for what you bring to your world in Thoughts, Feelings and Deeds. And, if you go against these promptings-knowings of what is “the good”, you end up in a state of Suffering.

The Awareness of Virgo is sharp and clear, it is refined and discerning. This is what you need as you try to separate the wheat from the chafe of your life. As the world changes and you do not adjust proportionately, either by overdoing or underperforming, by doing too much or too little, pain begins to be felt. And if you persist, the pain will eventually increase beyond your bearing. You may fall ill Spiritually, and Mentally and Emotionally and finally suffer Physical illness.

This is not punishment. This is “The Way”, the immutable Law of Cause and Effect, and it is your Salvation. For by this Law the very nature of this universe is formed to help you find your way back to the Light of Love, Beauty and Truth. So the pain and the suffering of Virgo is the way you are encouraged to move away from the lesser, from the selfish to the selfless, from the unloved to the unconditional loving and so into your Greater Understanding. The Way of Virgo is the Path of Healing. It is the way you will find your way to Peace by living as you are in your innermost: Beautiful and Loving, for always remember this, you are a spark of the Divine, and your liberation is waiting on you.

The Way of Virgo is the Path of Healing. It is the Way of Sacrifice.

For you must give up the lesser, you must surrender your ego

If you are to rise into your Divinity.

This has always been the way, and it has been shown to you by those who came before.

The Servants of the Light, the Lonely Watchers of Initiation.

Who Offer Inspiration and hope, yet too must wait,

For you must lift yourself up.

You must learn to choose between the lesser and the Greater,

You must become what you are here to be,

A Fully Conscious Co-Creator of Creation.

Welcome this return to the time of Virgo.

Always and Forever:

Live in Beauty

Walk in Beauty

Made of and by Beauty

May you find your way

To Truth and Light and Love.

May you be at Peace.

Full Moon in Aquarius (August 18, 2016)

You are special…oh yes, yes you are!

You are a one of kind; a distinct, special sparkling gem of the cosmos.

And during this time of Leo, you are reminded to bring forth even more authentically the Quintessence that makes you “you”. Wherever you have Leo in your being, you must dig deep within your soul and bring forth and reveal yourself, your self-luminous essence shining through your wondrous ways of leadership, creativity and love.

But in every month there comes a critical moment, a revelation and balancing of the energies and forms for that time. When the Moon has come to its furthest reaches, beyond this beautiful blue Earth, it stands opposite to the Sun and reveals the counterpointed truth held by the opposite sign. Today/tonight the Sun now roars with the truth of Leo; the Moon lovingly offers the Wisdom that is Aquarius.

The essence that is Leo encourages you to seek recognition, respect and approval. But in your striving for such outward affirmations, you may often go against your own true self to meet what you believe the one before you (or the many) wants or needs from you. Rather than being authentic and fulfilling your true purpose, you become enthralled by the need for those approvals that can take you away from your true nature. You look not within for the song of truth that is in your heart, and instead become waylaid by the need for outward approval and the roar of the crowd.

The Moon in Aquarius reminds you that what you are to bring forth from within yourself is your own special expression of what you share with those with whom you journey. The many of which you are a one, whether it be your family, tribe, culture or humanity as a whole, is formed by a palette of pattern and meanings, of sensibilities, tastes, intentions and truths that you will mix together into your own unique expression of that whole…Yes, you are a unique one, but you are still one of a kind. You must hold these together in your own way to fulfill yourself and be true to one another too.

Truly, we are all made of one another. In this life and through countless lives, we have formed one another, loved and helped one another, shared and shaped one another so that in the end we are all mixed together…I am in you, and you are in me. You travel with your companions, here and now and in life after life, coming in Incarnation Waves to continue your journey of forming a more perfect self and a more perfect union too.

Leo roars that you are here to lead, create and love; Aquarius reminds you that you are made of one another, that you are here to dream of a better tomorrow for each other. Because your dreams are made of one another, your happiness and your fulfillment is truly mine, and mine is yours.

Always remember: We are the “ones that are the self-becoming”,  

We are all for one, and one for All.

We are sparks of the divine, dreaming creation’s song.

As it is written upon the Great Seal of the United States:

“E Pluribus Unum”, Out of many One.

Be true to yourself; and be for one another too.

And all your dreams will come true.