Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 21, 2016)

The Way of Understanding

The Way of Wisdom, Humility and Love

The Wheel of Life-Consciousness-Spirit turns once more.

Time to move out of the Waters of the Deep,

The Space of Union that is Scorpio.

Time to draw back your bow of Intention, and take aim by the Clarity of Fire,

To look for Truth in the Wisdom Ways of Sagittarius.

You have felt the joy of Union; and you have felt the agony of Separation too.

It is time to step back, to widen your perspective and points of view…

It is time to drink from that Ancient Well of Wisdom, and add your precious drops too.

Now you wish for one thing only, now you yearn to “understand”. You need the essence, the elixir of meaning from those heartfelt “meetings and partings”. You smiled in the joys of finding common purpose, of sharing your life or your work with one another, and becoming even more who you are through joining with one another.

Or, you experienced the awful pain of being broken apart as you found your common grounds were not so common after all. What defined you and they now made clear, at least for now, that you were too different from one another; your paths may have crossed, only to separate once again.

What did you learn about yourself (and of them)? What are you supposed to make from those awesome heights of ecstasy and these painful depths of despair…exactly where do you go from here?

You need to harvest the meaning from these experiences, so you can understand the Quintessence of Truth behind them. You aspire to see how these gleanings of meaning may provide some insight about yourself and your destiny, and likewise offer a Providential pointing to the greater destiny of “I and Thou” and your larger world too. Whether you came together as one; or fell apart into separations (for a time), you need this now. You must understand what this means, the how’s and why’s of what happened in that mysterious and Alchemical space of union.

Know this, it was exactly in this frictional crucible of value and meaning, of Unions made and Unions lost, it is exactly through this that you will discern what is you and what is less you. This is “the way”, you find yourself in and through one another. That by going out to meet, understand and join with them you also discovered "you", that this is the way you come that much closer to your own true self too.

But now there is this urgent need to understand what happened, to extend yourself into a more encompassing framework of meaning. You wish to know how to be yourself, and for them to be themselves too, and so remain true to the path of light and love. Because you do need one another, we all need one another to become who we are meant to be. This is the Spiritual Dance of Life, the One and the many, and out of the many we return to the One.

So, you look for answers, you seek in the Halls of Wisdom and you look within your own mindful heart too. You look to the gifts of your Ancestors, from the Teachers, Sages and Seers who came this way before. They too struggled to understand, and their gifts remain a Light in the Darkness, and will help you to dispel the shadows of Ignorance and Evil in the world. By Philosophy, Religion, Science and Art, their Reasoning and Faith are the hard-won Quintessence of their spiritual struggles for the Greater Awareness, and their Lives, Love and Reason the most precious gift offered for one and all.

Yet the pathways of Truth are equally found within, because the same spiritual light behind all that is “out there”, is equally what makes you, you. Your own Wisdom Well, your Higher Self, will gently whisper integral affirmations, aligning what you inwardly intuit with what you outwardly know by experience, and so you take another step on the path of Truth too. You will offer yourself and your dewdrops of understanding, adding your experiences to the Well of Wisdom shared by one and all.

But because you are unique, each of you will come to the Greater Awareness upon different paths, so that even in your seeking for truth and understanding, you will come together but also at times pull apart over what is “the truth”. But through Reason and by Love, by combining and refining, through inner Inspirations and outward confirmations, you will come to know the most important Truth behind all the lesser truths you hold, that before me is another, just like me, and my only way forward is to love them as I love myself.

You started as One, one with one another, and you will through all your individuations, differentiations and resonations as a unique spark of the Divine, you will end as many but One again. In your journeys through Worlds, Forms and Lives you are will always be a special spark of the divine, and you will bring forth your individuality and differences that make you distinct. But this will also bring about your separations from one another too, at least for a time. But forever and always you must remember the fundamental Truth, that you are made by and for one another. You must strive to hold together “I and Thou”, to both honor the individuality in one another yet tenderly discover, nurture and abide in the Greater Awareness and Reality which is your Love for one another.

Your Journey is the story of Consciousness, of the self that is the Self-Becoming.

As you draw ever closer to Wisdom you will find that you will also become more humble too. For this is truth, the more you understand, truly understand, the more encompassing, nuanced and loving your truths will become. Your Wisdom will grow as your Humility grows too. There is an integral alignment between your Mind and Heart, and in this Journey of Self-Becoming, no matter how high or far you have come, you must ever “Walk On” to greater Wisdom, as you equally deepen your affections for one another.

You shall be inspired by the great ones lovingly show you “the way”. They did not come to tell you what you do, for you must walk your own path towards Understanding. But by their example, they showed you who you really are. By their Illumination held in the Greater Awareness, and by their lives filled with Grace and Humility, you see true Wisdom and feel what is holding together one and all, Unconditional Love.

Where is the answer, where is the Pearl of Great Price?

It is there in your heart, and found in all hearts too…

There you will find Peace in the Gift of Wisdom.

There you will find Grace in a Life of Humility.

There you will truly Live with Unconditional Love.

Full Moon in Taurus (November 14, 2016)

A Call for Understanding, Tolerance and Peace

There is something happening here; What it is ain’t exactly clear…. (“For What It's Worth” by Buffalo Springfield)

Today is another Full Moon, the Full Moon in Taurus. Though many will write about how special this “Super Moon” is, (it is only a few hundred kilometers closer than other recent Perigee Full Moons), the important point or Truth is that each Full Moon brings a Revelation for you. A Full Moon illustrates the integral relationship between 2 of the 12 signs of the Zodiac. During this time of the year, we will have the Sun in Scorpio and the Full Moon is in Taurus.

This Full Moon should be viewed and understood as the counterpoint to the “Buddha Full Moon”, when the Sun is in Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio, occurring in April or May. That Spring Full Moon in Scorpio is a reminder that though your spiritual journey requires you to move through many Worlds, Forms and Lives, you are not these vehicles, and you will have to let each one of them go. You are an Immortal working through mortal forms and there is nothing in this Material Realm that will last forever. This lesson of The Buddha reminds you about your true nature: You are Spirit moving through Time and Space, a Spark of the Divine, essentially Pure Consciousness evolving into a greater awareness by dancing through these forms, but you are ultimately beyond any one form. The Buddha taught that in order to free yourself from suffering, you must practice the Art of Non-Attachment.

But here in the Time of Scorpio, you are reminded of the integral and opposite Truth by the Full Moon in Taurus: That each form of manifestation, every speck and mote of creation, all things, all creatures great and small, all beings on any world, on up to the planets themselves, and the stars and galaxies too, that all of these are the living body of the ONE. Each and every dew-drop of Creation has value beyond measure, for each is a beautiful and precious realization of Spirit too. Every form is also “Divine”, every form is valuable, and each is beautiful and worth preserving for as long as they may last.

Held together, these two Signs speak to your never-ending journey in Consciousness: That you are to hold on and to let go, to preserve, protect and endure for as long as you can, and then you are to let go and allow yourself to become something more too. You and all of Creation are like a River, thrilling and flowing through Worlds, Forms and Lives so that in time you will be them All, you will have experienced all forms of Life-Consciousness-Spirit as you draw ever closer to being outwardly what you are forever inwardly, you are a sparking dewdrop of the One Divine Light.

You are here because of Love, the Love of the One. You are made by and all of your forms are because of this Divine Love. Your value, is beyond measure for you are a spark of the Divine…and so is everything and everyone else too. Hence the fundamental Truth found in all Teachings:

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…for they are you!

And what you do unto the least of these, you do unto me, The One”.

You are here to care for one another, to help one another grow…and because you are Spirit, you will grow, and so you will change and this growth/change will often come because many are suffering in the old reality. But the very changes that are bringing about the New World will cause pain and suffering too…and you, by your Love for yourself and for one another equally, you are here to help heal this pain and suffering for one another. You must fulfill your responsibility to be true to yourself, which will equally guide you to be faithful to one another and to all of life too.

Now of course there is change…and then there is CHANGE. You are going through a very challenging time now, and it has been foreseen and expected. For this is not the first time, nor will it be the last. Ages come and ages go, and there are many intersecting cycles that beat out these rhythms of the Journey of Spirit and of human lives too. The changes that you and the world are experiencing now have not been seen or felt since the mid-1700’s, and before that the early 1500’s. You are witnessing the End of an Age and the Birth of a New World. In fact, you are here to be that change, but that is hard for many (if not most) to master, but you must try.

Many things and ways will endure, and many shall pass away. Why is this so? Whenever the planet Pluto sweeps through the Sign of Capricorn, we will experience a catharsis in the realm of Capricorn, the Sign that governs Institutions, Traditions, Responsibilities, really the entire Hierarchy of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…or more simply put what we know as “Reality”. Look at what happened before:

500 years ago, it was the end of Feudalism and the rise of Monarchies as the Reformation swept Europe and a new Cultural-Political-Economic order came into being. 250 years ago, it was the end of Monarchies and the rise of Democracies in the American and French Revolutions, and again a new Cultural-Political-Economic order came to be. These changes shook their world and our ancestors. They too lived through a time when the world was “turned upside down”.

Now we are experiencing this immense shift once again, from 2008 until (at least) 2024, the world we have called our reality is crumbling all around us. We are literally halfway through this process of transfiguration, and it is really getting serious now. We see our institutions fracturing and failing; we allocate the blame for our sufferings to these failures of “government”, “education”, “religion”, all these things that we have made are failing and we just want them to work again. We believe the “fix” is “out there”, that it is somehow external to us, separate and embodied in these reality structures…

But, of course, that is just projecting on our part, and it is certainly not fulfilling our purpose which is to take responsibility for ourselves, for all life-forms and habitats…and for our beautiful home called Earth. No, the change cannot happen “out there”, until it happens “in here”, in each of our hearts and minds. Those “things”, whether government, education or religion, they are not things in themselves, they are made by you and me…they are made of, by and for us. We are the Living Spirit that makes things come to life, we make them work (or not work). If we want them to be as they should, or we want them to change as they must, then it will come from “below”, from each one of us remembering who and what we are…we made this, and we will re-make this…for we are the problem and the solution too.

The good news…we have done this before, we became the new human of the 1500’s, we became the new human of the 1700’s…and now, now we will rise again to the call of our Divinity, for we are here because this is our time, we are here to end an age and begin another. We are like a relay racer, passing the baton of spirit to our descendants, who are counting on us to return to the one eternal “Source of Truth”, to listen to that quietly firm, calming voice in our hearts which will guide us to Think and Feel and Act with Love. We must turn to one another first…and Listen, Share and Care for one another…for we are here to Love one another first, last and always.

Remember who and what you are...Love.

Affirm this in how you care for yourself and for one another too.

Do not indulge/engage in the creation of more fear, discord or blame, (there is quite enough of that already).

Be an example of Kindness, Consideration and Mercy.

Stand up to hate and division, for "evil" is just the twisted fruits of ignorance and misunderstanding, (for they know not what they do).

Shine the Light of Truth which is the Light of Love whenever and wherever you can.

Take Responsibility and so Fulfill your Destiny, and behold the New World Rising...

Remain Centered, and hold in your Heart the message of 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.