Astrologer Bill Attride

Sun Enters Libra – The Equinox (September 23, 2019)

The Space of Freedom

The whole of Creation can be understood as a hierarchy of Spirit-Matter, ranging inwardly and outwardly into a seemingly infinite series of relationships, formed by a host of beings from the many infinitesimals on up through ever larger spirit-life forms, to finally encompass the stars and galaxies (and what lies beyond). All are spiritual monads; all are embraced in a great hierarchy of relationships with one another, and ultimately all these many ones are held together into the one life that is the One.

Just as “no-thing” can be understood without this fundamental reality of relationship of all to each other, you too cannot be “you” without one another. From the beginning of each life, you are formed and informed, shaped and supported, guided and inspired, as you are loved, and you share your love with countless members of your family, friends, neighbors and so-called “strangers”.

It is one of the most challenging illusions you must rise above, this sense of being separate and apart from anyone (or anything for that matter). It would seem obvious to you (and to me), that we are most certainly distinct and separate from each other. We occupy a definite physical space defined by bodies, our wondrous vehicle of matter.

But you probably know, or you have intuitively felt, that you extend far beyond your physical body, as these many energy-forms that are you radiate outward and far beyond your more limited physical space. In a very real sense, we are all connected by these energy-forms to one another in a quite extensive, (and some would say), infinite manner. Reality is not made of discrete “things” as we seemingly experience them; Reality is more clearly understood as a Field of many fields. It is formed by vibrations and waves of a hierarchy of energy-forms, what I like to call the Song of Spirit.

Yes, we are connected to one another in a host of ways, from the most ethereal to the more recognizable physical encounters we meet with every day. All these encounters, from the most casual and transient to the most intimate and abiding, is what we consider now when we seek to understand the meaning of purpose behind the Sign of Libra.

When you first meet another, you are in “your” space; they are in “their” space. As you begin your experience of one another, you are creating something altogether original, something brand new. You are forming your shared space, what I call “Third Space” or “our space”, which is the field of energy-forms that we have made into our relationship.

This is so very important, as one human being alone cannot even be or become human. It is by and through our relationships that we elicit the quickening of our spiritual growth and awakening. We are here for one another because we are the very way for each other to lift ourselves towards ever higher Reason, Love and Self-Mastery.

Forming and guiding our interactions with one another, so that we might forge our space of Freedom and Self-fulfillment, we hold to these very three:

By Reason, we are enlightened to form our relationship based upon our rational understanding of how we wish to be treated by them, and that this should equally guide us in how we should respond in turn; that we should treat any other as we wish to be treated. We aspire to be fairly treated and to be equal with one another; to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

By Love, we are embraced by that warmth of feeling, which forms as soon as we look into the eyes of the other. We see it there, shining from the windows of the soul, we see the same essential “awareness” we have. It is the presence of “the One”, in them as in us. This is the Heart and source of Love; for all Love comes from the spiritual spark of the Divine, from the One in all of us, holding us together by Love.

By Self-Mastery, or the Will, we are held by Spirit to respect and honor the holy space within which each of us abides. We are to use our will by turning it back upon ourselves, so that we may acquire ever greater self-control, as we equally treat with the utmost reverence the sacred space of the other. The self at the center must never be profaned; you shall not trespass upon one another.

Libra is the crucible of Spirit; by moving into relationship, you move into the Greater Awareness. Wherever you find Libra in your chart, there you will find the way to the quickening of your spirit. For you are made of one another, from the beginning and through all eternity.

You do not encounter strangers here on the Earth, as you have been on this journey for a very long time. That is why, again and again, you will meet so many souls and each and every time, you will look them in the eye and see it there again, the proof, a sign, the recognition.

So, you will smile, and they will smile too…

“Hello dear friend, I have missed you! I am so very happy to be with you once more.”

That is all there is, the knowing that we are all related.

This is all you need, just open your heart.

Smile and laugh with one another.

For you are made by love for love.

Just love one another.

Astrological Musings – Where are we now? Astrological themes for 2019

I thought it might be useful to offer the (more or less) transcript of my latest radio show (September 14, 2019):

As we approach the turning of another season, not to mention being at another Full Moon today, I thought it would be useful to step back from the noise and confusion of the everyday to consider again the major astrological themes that our shaping our world now.

Pluto

First among these I would argue is the movement of Pluto through the sign of Capricorn, from 2008 into 2024. As I have been noting since before 2008, this passage of Pluto has accompanied the last several transformations from one kind of Spiritual/Cultural/Economic and Political order into another.

During the last such period in the 1700's, in what I would call the "Crisis of Kingdoms", most vividly experienced through the American and French Revolutions, the world that had been was torn apart by what was emerging from within it. That older system of Meaning and Form was superseded by a new Spiritual-Social-Economic order that we have come to know and experience as our “reality” in the present day "Modern World". Our Order is a world of Nation-States which have mostly, to varying degrees, held to some form of representative government that has now encompassed the world. It is this very Nation-State model, our world order, which is coming undone here from 2008 to 2024.

If we look back once again, to the previous period of Pluto in Capricorn in the early 1500’s, the world experienced another Catharsis of Becoming, that some have called a "Crisis of Faith", (named "The Reformation"). There had been, more or less, a world formed around the One Catholic Church and a Feudal Political/Economic Order, with accompanying Ideologies and World Views that formed and supported that system. Again, as in the period of the 1700’s, spiritual/cultural and economic developments emerged in that system that shattered that old way of being as the new order emerged from within it.

It was out of that disorder in the 1500’s that there arose the centralized Kingdoms or Monarchies, and with them there was created a new expression of what it meant to be human and a new Religious, Political, Economic and Cultural world came into being too.

Really, I would argue, it is the imperative of Spirit, the fundamental Energy-Form, which drives this one shining imperative for all of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…that is, it and we, and all life-forms are here for one thing only, to unfold our spiritual potential. We are here to be and become more and more fulfilled…which means we and all our vehicles or forms of self-realization must grow and change too.

What you and I must accept and understand is that what we are going through is not a unique experience, not at all. It is in truth a necessary moment in "The Way of Spirit”. It is how this Journey of Spirit will manifest again and again, because it is formed by the one Truth that resides at the core of Spirit, and so at the core of you, which is "to grow".

As I have repeatedly stated, this Driving Force of History arises in and streams forth from every Mind and Heart and Soul, it comes from you and I and everyone. We are the Living Spirit, and you and your companions are the Dreamer/Makers of all of this. This is the world that we humans made, and it is now our time to pass on the best of what was as we take up the challenge to re-make this world together.

This process of transformation is embodied in and executed through three major types of historical characters: The Preservers, the Creators and the Destroyers. There are those whose tasks may bend toward trying to preserve and pass down those elements of Wisdom, Beauty, and Love that have (and will always stand) these tests of time. There are other agents whose role is to be the bringer of new Ways and Means that will address the very limits and self-made problems that arose out of the passing order. And, there is a role for those who are here to tear down the old ways, who are the agents of Catharsis and Negation, and they too serve by disrupting the old order to make way for a new.

Uranus

Accelerating this End of an Age is another major “Wind of the Spirit”, carried by the Avatar of Awakening, the Planet Uranus. From 2018/19 until 2026, Uranus is moving through Taurus. As before, we can get some understanding of this influence by casting our view back to its previous passages through the Sign of Value.

The previous times for Uranus in Taurus were 1935-1942, 1851-59 and 1768-75. In each of those periods, Uranus as The Awakener accompanied significant shocks and conflicts, leading to the upheaval in the hierarchies of fundamental values, as differing value systems within and between cultures, broke apart the glue that hold societies together. When there is loss of a strong consensus, when we lack a significant agreement on commonly accepted values and virtues, it is then that the “center cannot hold” because it seemingly (or actually) does not exist.

Looking to the United States, the most recent passage was in the late 1930’s which led up to the “War of Democracies versus Fascism” or World War II; in the 1850’s Americans struggled over the fundamental nature of our country and it led to our defining conflict, “The Civil War” from 1860-65, and the 1760’s-70’s witnessed the breakdown between the American colonies and England, leading to the “The Revolutionary War”.

Given those three previous passages, we must be prepared for great changes, as we witness the breaking of our old value hierarchy as we equally have a profound opportunity to create a new commonly held value system.

I would argue that to do this we need, each of us individually and together in our communities, to remember and rely upon the eternal truths found in the Perennial Teachings or Ancient Wisdom. By holding to this bedrock of spirit, we can be Loving, strong and centered so that we may respond to this challenge with faith and not in fear.

Agents of Destruction

Yes, it is quite a moment we find ourselves in, and the parallels between what is happening here in the USA and what is happening in the UK (and the world for that matter), are quite simply uncanny. The very so-called “mother of modern democracy”, The United Kingdom, and her “child”, the United States of America, are facing fundamental challenges to their Political-Economic and Cultural integrity. Both are being led now by very similar men, both who happen to be Geminis. It certainly seems we are in some kind of historical rhyming that is no accident.

I would most certainly characterize both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as being or using their Gemini gift of contrariness and their multiple, conflicting points of view as instruments of extreme disruption. Their aim is to divide, to disrupt the political-social order so as to rule by confusion and fear, as they forge their power through myriad splits of “us versus them”.

By proposing a series of multiple and contradictory assumptions, by splitting reality into many mirrors of inchoate meaning, they are agents of disruption who seek to destabilize the rules and customs of the old order as they throw out half-truths and falsehoods that undermine the normal governing consensus and shared reality.

They seek to divide rather than unite and are quite extraordinary examples of cathartic/iconoclastic agents who are breaking down the old established order. They are not builders but destroyers. They serve by exposing the weakness and contradictions of the old order. But they are not capable of creating a new world or paradigm, because their very power arises from the contradictions of the old, and it will fail and fall as a new world rises.

A New World

Each of us must find our way, to do our part in this world that is passing away. Though this world we made is undergoing great changes, there are fundamental truths that will always remain. The Eternal Values of the Ancient Wisdom, which have guided our footsteps since the beginning, these Treasures of Truth, are the most precious gifts from all our ancestors. It was their duty to protect and pass down to us these building blocks of Wisdom and Love, and these Songs of the Spirit are equally to be found in your own heart and higher spirit too. It is now your duty and privilege to stand in this light and build a better world.

You happen to be here, at this crucial hour. What an honor and privilege this is; what a responsibility you bear. You have earned this; you are here in this ending that is a beginning, you are here to be “Torchbearers of the Light”.

This is no error or happenstance; you are exactly where you are supposed to be. You are part of a greater plan, and all those choices you made long ago have brought you and I to this moment now.

Always remember, that behind each culture, in the Diamond Heart of every Civilization, in the heart of all Religions, in all the Philosophies and Sciences of every age, the Shining Ones hold the Archetypes of Eternity.

By moving beyond the old divisions, by striving to preserve what is ever-present in the realms of Wisdom, Beauty and Love, and by listening to the Light of Truth within your heart, through you and your companions a new world will rise once again.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2019 – Where are we now? (Saturday September 14, 2019 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – Where are we now? Astrological themes for 2019 – The USA and the UK (September 14, 2019)

In my Twelfth show of 2019, we will look at where we are now with regards to the major Astrological themes for 2019, with reference to the striking similarities in the conditions prevailing in the USA and the UK.

As before, I will answer your questions during the show, whether on this topic or some other matter, including personal questions about your astrological chart. If you do wish to ask a personal question, please be ready to provide at least your birth date and birthplace, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to suggest a subject or topic for a future show, please email me as I would be happy to hear from you. My email is: [email protected].

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio: 

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Here is the link to the show on Saturday September 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/09/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019-where-are-we-now-the-usa-the-uk

The phone number to call if you wish to ask a question during the live show is: (516) 531-9638.

Please join me on Saturday September 14^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.