Astrologer Bill Attride

Saturn in Aquarius (April 26, 2020) Transcript of Radio Show "All for one and one for all"

Transcript of Radio Show "One for all and all for one" (April 26, 2020)

The Tests, Lessons and Opportunities offered by Saturn in the Signs is something I always discuss with my clients, as it is a major indicator for their life’s work. Much the same, the movement of Saturn through the Signs of the Zodiac, which takes about 29 years, provides us with guidance year by year for one and for all of what is the challenge in that time.

For the last couple of years, Saturn was moving through its own sign of Capricorn, and the test and opportunity the world encountered was simply this. How responsible have we been in meeting our need to care for one another? We have moved from a way of life of simple hunters and gathers to a complex social order, with a vast hierarchy of social structures, ranging from the family unit, to our communities and regions, and on up to national and international institutions that we formed to meet one another’s needs. The test of Saturn was how well do we fulfill our various roles in the hierarchies of meeting needs; did we act with wisdom and fulfill our responsibilities to one another. The principal focus of Saturn concerned the forms of our roles and relationships, but now we need to consider the content of our way of life too.

This year, Saturn has begun its two plus year journey through the Sign of Aquarius. What is our test and opportunity now? What I hope you will see is that this test and opportunity of Saturn in Aquarius speaks directly to the essential character of any society and culture, but for us especially with regards to the foundational core of the United States of America. It is by looking to our origins, looking to our “roots”, that we can see what we built our nation upon. We can see how we have been guided and centered upon that which we hold in common, and that this reminder can point the way to what this period of time holds for us, and why I believe it holds out the promise of a re-birth of the dream that is America.

Declaration of Independence
In the Declaration of Independence, the radical nature of what was being established by the founding of our enterprise, that we were establishing a new kind of human order, of creating a new form of human society, was beautifully expressed when Jefferson wrote, “…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

They (and we) were forming a new compact of men (at that time), who in agreement among themselves, decided to unite based upon their common needs and interests, and to mutually support one another, in order to meet one another’s needs in a freely chosen or self-directed manner.

It was, and is, an extraordinary statement for the founding of a nation. Until this moment, all national systems had been founded upon a people’s history as to their location by geographic space, language, ethnicity and cultural heritage. Those groupings were the “English”, the “French”, the “Italian”, and for most of the political constructs over the centuries in those lands and throughout the world, this political order was based on rather fixed hierarchies of the privileged in terms of title and landholdings. Power was in some “thing” that was inherited or seized by force, but certainly did not come from “the people” as a whole.

Origins of Self-Government
So, where did this belief in a freely determined, self-created society come from? The major portion of the early settlers of North America were principally from Europe, from England, Holland, France. Many had left of their own accord in order to be “free” of religious persecution during the 1600’s and 1700’s, as Europe faced wars and repressions by forces for and against Catholic versus Protestant beliefs and practices.

These dissidents had already, for more than a century, experienced through necessity the establishment of self-formed communities of faith, and many of them had for years engaged in lengthy debates about the nature of humanity, about the sources of moral authority, and the balance between personal freedom and social responsibilities.

A new kind of humanity, a new age of humanity, was emerging out of the Protestant revolution of the 1500’s and 1600’s, which then led in the 1700’s to another shift that became known as the “Enlightenment”. English, French and Dutch settlers had been deeply influenced by the rising belief in individual moral authority, severed from the old hierarchical order descending from King or Lord to commoner, and for some, this led them to question all authority based upon something external to humanity itself.

Alexis De Tocqueville
One of the most illuminating works on the foundational nature of the American system was a study by Alexis De Tocqueville in his work, “Democracy in America”, which was published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Historians and social scientists to this very day marvel over his observations and insights regarding “our great experiment”, what was called by our founders a “New Order for the Centuries”. (And, if you have not read De Tocqueville’s observations , you can read it online at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm).

One of the defining features he cited in his work was this: that what was essential to a self-governing, democratic system was the integral balance of individual freedom and social responsibility. He saw and understood that you can only have the true experience of the one when it is shaped and guided by the other (and vice versa). In other words, that individual freedom and social responsibility are necessary to one another, they are part of a greater whole that creates a truly free society.

He observed that Americans formed their society organically, from the local level on up through a range of voluntary organizations of mutual help and support, both secular and sectarian, in realms civil and religious. Rather than a top-down ordering of Regal or Authoritarian control imposed by fiat or Divine Right, the people of America assembled for self-governance because they had to. They were “on their own”, making their New World on a distant shore.

In order to do provide for themselves, they agreed to preserve their self-determination by giving up some “freedom” for the good of the whole, and trusting in that larger whole, which was their collective will, to equally ensure their individual freedoms. This was and is revolutionary, a people governing themselves voluntarily.

Tocqueville noted, "…when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power. As none of them is strong enough to fight alone with advantage, the only guarantee of liberty is for everyone to combine forces.” The citizens of America agreed to form their various levels of civil society for their mutual benefit, to meet one another’s needs and to protect their freedoms.

He noted, and this is essential for understanding the nature of the crisis we face now at the end of this age, that the most critical element of our self-governance would require this balance of Individual Freedom and Social Responsibility, and that it could only work if there was a more or less equitable distribution of the value and wealth within the society.

As de Tocqueville noted, as have many others, the strength of America was to be found in its vibrant social mobility, where unlike the static structures of nobility, privilege and class in Europe, our social mobility would prevent a permanent hierarchy of power and wealth from becoming established. Tocqueville observed that if that equitable order were to be undone, that would be the beginning of the end of true democracy here (or I would argue anywhere).

Inequality 
But look at America now, where a very few have managed to obtain and control the vast majority of the wealth of the nation. And, most importantly for the destruction of real social mobility, they can pass on that wealth to whom they choose. Today, we find, for example, that instead of the top income earners making 5 times what the lowest income workers make, say $100,000 for the top and $20,000 for the bottom, we now have a grossly unequal distribution of income where the top earners make at least if not more than 400 times the bottom, $8,000,000 versus $20,000. And the very top percentiles acquire and secure much of their wealth and power through investments yielding interest and dividends. And by holding that much wealth, the top one percent can influence the economic and political order and shape the laws and regulations in order to reinforce, retain and make even more inequitable the distribution of wealth and power over time.

In fact, the wealth and income inequality in America today rivals that of the late 1920’s. Of all the members in the G-7 nations, America’s economic and social order is the most unequal. Since the great recession of 2008-09, only the richest members of our country have become better off than before, and the vast majority are poorer, and many are struggling to survive.

For the past 40 years, the growth of incomes for the middle and lower economic sectors in the US has fallen far behind that of the upper brackets, and that dream of a middle-class life for many Americans has become broken. For many, they look at their lives and their future, and they know that their lives will be less fortunate than their parents for the very first time in American history. Then they look at their own children and they are filled with sorrow; there is no bright future there, only a life filled with despair. They ask: what has gone wrong; what have they done wrong? The answer is nothing; it is not their fault.

Plutocracy
The truth is America is not a truly functioning Democracy, it has become a Plutocracy, with the overt and covert rule of the extremely rich over the many. This is what is tearing at our social fabric, dividing regions and groups from one another; those regions and groups, that should be combining to right this wrong, are instead being further ripped apart by false narratives and distractions. Our agreement to sacrifice our individual liberty for the common good has been broken. But it is not by some accident of fate or caused by some natural phenomena. It is caused by the very few holding the power to make and shape a system that reinforces their wealth and power.

Saturn in Aquarius
To bring this back to the Astrological world, Saturn moving through Aquarius precisely encapsulates this question as it has done each time it moves through this sign. It shines a light on the question of our Community Spirit, of our Social Consciousness and Conscience, and the degree to which we are holding together by balancing our Individual Freedom and our Social Responsibilities to one another.

The answer has always been the same; each time Saturn has been in Aquarius we have been reminded that we have not been holding together and supporting one another fairly. Today, we have become divided even more than before because the foundations of our democracy have been shattered by the extremes of wealth and want. This is what Saturn in Aquarius is calling for, a return to a truly supportive community which will foster greater opportunity for each and every individual to realize their fuller potential, and which will equally benefit that very community, for it will benefit one and all. We must reaffirm the principle of equal opportunity, to create a social order that is fair and just, and which will be based upon a more equitable sharing in the wealth that we, every one of us, create.

Look at the previous years of Saturn in Aquarius, and you will see this pattern of social and economic reform for over 100 years: 1991-1994 (Clinton), 1962-1964 (JFK), 1932-1935 (FDR), and 1903-1906 (Teddy Roosevelt). In each of these periods, some more and some less, the economic order was re-ordered, power was re-distributed as laws were enacted, policies and mechanisms forged that restored (for a time) a more just and equal society.

But the challenge we face now, with not only Saturn moving through Aquarius, but experiencing for the first time, the return of Pluto to its position in the chart of the United States, means that this reckoning, this realignment or reform will be much more consequential than any we have ever faced. And that is very good because this country, and our compact with one another needs to be reborn.

Path to Restoration
We only need to remember how this great experiment in Democracy and Self-Government began. We have to restore the balance between the Individual and Community Responsibility. Just like our founders, we are beginning to forge a new compact, a new agreement between one another. Like FDR’s New Deal, we will restore our ways and means of meeting one another’s needs by reforming our social order.

Much of this is already happening. People always ask, “where is the New World coming from?” And the answer is, “we are making it now”. At the local, regional and state levels, actions and policies and programs are being created as we help one another through this crisis. We are taking actions, changing our priorities, and being reminded once again about what is truly most important. We had been sacrificing the quality of our life for the mere quantity of our things.

We can see and feel how unequal our world had become. In what kind of world do people who get to “play” for a living are rewarded with luxuries like private planes and multiple homes, while, for example, the healthcare workers on the front lines, like countless EMT’s saving lives day after day now, and they cannot afford to live without a having a second job, and they cannot even afford their very own health insurance, all while they risk their lives every day to save others? What is wrong with us? How did this happen?

This is what a crisis reveals; and this is the power wielded by our greatest fear, the fear of death. That ultimate truth, that we are mortal, and the fear we have for ourselves and loved ones, this shatters our complacency. It is Spirit moving through and around us, it is our manifest Love for one another moving through us now, and that will support and guide us to a rebirth for ourselves, our communities, our country and our world.

The Real Crisis
Yes, we are facing an extreme test of our broken social order; but the very good news is that we made this order and so we can fix it too. But what we must also understand is the largest community on Earth is LIFE itself; and it is formed into a similar order of communities and systems, of intricate and mutually interdependent hierarchies of seemingly countless life-forms. And we know that life depends upon life. And from the microscopic orders to the largest of lifeforms, life has become devastated, life is leaving the planet, and we only need to look in the mirror to see why.

As I have saying for many weeks now with my clients, this pandemic is merely the very tiny tip of an immense iceberg that is crashing into our dear lifeboat in Space, our home planet, our planet Earth. And the ever-growing crisis, of which Covid-19 is but a symptom, is Climate Change. Our work is not merely within our human family. Our greatest responsibility, most certainly, is for us to dedicate ourselves to do everything we can to preserve all life on this planet. For our lives depend upon all those other life-forms.

You are here at the ending of age; and it is terrible, and it is wonderful. You are here at this historic moment, when human civilization and life on planet earth as we have come to know it is threatened. What will you do?

The world is changing; and we are the change makers. We must choose wisely, by first helping one another in this time of fear and loss. But we must understand the solution is not a vaccine for this virus, but a spiritual and social transformation of how we care for another and for our beautiful world too.

When I spoke and wrote years ago about this time being an “end of an Age”, and that the world we knew was going to be ending starting in 2008, my clients asked me
“what does that mean?” I said, “I do not know; all I know is that we will be moving into a New World”.

As we move through it now, it will become clearer to us what things have to change to preserve life and to preserve this planet. We all realize how important this moment is, and in the days and weeks and months and years ahead, we need to be that change that creates a New World.

Here is the radio show link: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/26/saturn-in-aquarius-all-for-one-and-one-for-all

 

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show – Saturn in Aquarius – All for one and one for all (Sunday April 26, 2020 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – Saturn in Aquarius - Community Spirit, “All for one and one for all” (April 26, 2020)

In my eleventh show of 2020, I thought it would be useful to look again at the meaning of Saturn in Aquarius, which began on March 21, 2020. I will talk about this and consider the founding of America, the pivotal moment we face today, and the promise of rebirth.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sunday April 26^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/26/saturn-in-aquarius-all-for-one-and-one-for-all

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

Please join me on Sunday April 26^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Earth Day (April 22, 2020) - Transcript of Radio Show: What is the “what”?

Earth Day 2020

Transcript of Radio Show- What is the “what”? (April 19, 2020)

I just posted about this last night because it just happened this morning, that the Sun has moved into the sign of Taurus. And I titled that posting that I made for today, The “Spiral journey of Spirit-Life-Consciousness”. And, when going through these steps of development in our journey I wrote about “What is the what?”

So, I thought I would continue with that theme in different way, approaching it with something similar but a little different. So, let us take a look:

The way of Aries, looking at the sign of Aries, is about “I am”. It is the first step of life; it is there that you experience the wonder of being self-aware. In Aries you answer the question, “Who are you?”

But we come to Taurus, the way of Taurus says, “I am that”. It is the second step of life; it is here you experience that you are some-thing. In Taurus, you answer the question, “What are you?”

So you could see in some way that these two signs are forming in their combination or unity one of the fundamental truths of your journey in consciousness this dualistic experience of reality there is subjectivity of being aware of yourself or what we call self-awareness but there is objectivity too, as you experience yourself and everything and everyone else as being formed into bodies or vehicles of manifestation.

We see the world split into spirit and matter, but really what you will come to know (and what I like to call the greater reality) is that you will come to understand your oneness of being which is Life or the One.

Life is spirit and matter together; they are inseparable, yet they are the two fundamental aspects of life. Matter forms the lesser realms of Spirit, as Spirit forms the highest realms of Matter. The Truth is that there is but One Life. There is the One Spirit which manifest through innumerable forms from the lowest of the most sublime. Spirit is the one eternal life; and Matter is the countless vessels into which all life flows.

The great mystery is that in all these countless forms or vessels, in each atom, mineral, plant or animal, human or deva, planet and star, through all of them is contained or held is the One True Spirit. There are countless forms, but there is only one life. There is only one spirit flowing through the hierarchies of the Universe, whether those realms be divine, human, animal, or mineral.

In Taurus, you move out of the subjective realm of Aries into objective reality. In Taurus you come into the realm of earth and say, “I am that!”. Taurus is your most physical, sensuous experience of life. You open your eyes and see the beauty all around; you open your lungs and breathe in what we all share. You take another breath and you smell the flowers; you reach down and touch the earth and smile, and you give thanks to the mother of us all for this, for your life and for your body. You look up and see the stars and you watch the moon, planets and all the heavenly bodies whirling overhead and you exclaim, “Ooh, I am so happy, to be surrounded by this beauty, to be a part of this amazing, beautiful, wondrous journey; I'm so grateful to be part of Life.”

In Taurus, you experience life's abundance and beauty; you experience the mystery and majesty of life. You are here in this wonderful place we call our Earth, and you feel and taste and touch and smell the wonders of this garden of delights, and you get to share this abundance of “Spirit that is Life” with all with whom you journey.

But what is it that makes you, you? What do you have that is yours, what gives you the value of you? Well this is the question of Taurus to you. Through the arc of your life, from infancy through youth, into adulthood and onward, your experience of you and your value or worth will rise and fall in so many ways. The enthusiasms and the physical strengths of youth will give way to what you will earn, the gravitas and wisdom, and the aches and pains of your later years. It can seem, depending upon your journey, that your best days are still ahead or far behind you, depending upon how you value you.

What you experience in Taurus is the Value of You. The mystery you seek to unveil in Taurus is how to understand what you have, to experience what you can do, and discover what you are worth. The value of you at any one time is made up of a range of factors: your physical powers, your emotional depths, your intellectual agility, and your spiritual integrity. Throughout any day, week, year of your life, these valuations of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in physical strength and emotional enthusiasms; but maturity will bring both a modulation an eventual waning of these as you age. Likewise, the tempering of your emotional nature, seasoned by the growing depths of your judgment and wisdom, will lift your spirits as other faculties fade.

But the physical life and its enticements and pleasures can also bring difficulties and pain. If you become too attached to one or another gift or strength that you possess, you will find your experience of value to swing wildly up and down. When you are too attached to something within you, or something you have acquired, then you can suffer.

Wise ones know that this is because this way of relating to value and things is not “the way” to be or become what you really are you are. You are Spirit living by and through these wonderful forms or bodies that you have created for yourself. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehicles that are physical, etheric, emotional, mental, and spiritual. But they are held together and bound to one another by the spark of the Divine which is your highest Spirit-Form, your Higher Self. You are in your essence this One Spirit; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form, or life.

This is so, and you need to remember, that at the very heart of you, you remain as you always will be, priceless beyond all measure because you are not a human being at all. Being human is merely the form of your self-realization at this point in your journey. Truly, at your core, you are a spark of the Divine who is on a never-ending journey of the “Self-That-Is-Becoming”. You are a monad, an unfolding Spiritual Fire of Life-Spirit-Consciousness and your true worth or value will be forever beyond any finite measure.

So, no matter what you think you are worth today, or yesterday, or a thousand years from now, remember this, you have no way of comprehending the beauty and glory and worth of you. You are the “Jewel in the Lotus”, you are the kiss of the dew in the morning, and you are the glorious sunset too.

Then you will hear another reminder. The voices of the Ancient Ones will whisper in your heart, “What you know as the resplendent and immortal you, that heaven that is always within you, (for you never left it truly), this essential spark of you is your spiritual heart. And in your heart, you will feel and know that this same light of the Divine is in everything and everyone else too”.

Yes, in every speck and mote of Creation, in every atom and molecule, gas and rock, plant and creature, in the planets and the stars, all of this is Spirit-Life in evolution too. This is what we must understand in Taurus.

In your heart of hearts, in your highest vehicle of Spirit, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite simply, wonderfully, and forever and ever your true measure is beyond measure. In your Higher Self, and throughout all your forms too, there is the one true light of Spirit shining through, so that filling and informing all of you is quite simply Divine Love.

Know this: the value of you is beyond question, you are quite simply Unconditional Love.

So what you will know and feel and celebrate in Taurus is that all of this Creation is Beautiful, all of this is Precious, because all of this is the One Life, and all of this is the Creation of the One, and all of this is the Love of the One for all.

Let us give thanks to the sunrise and the sunset, to the flowers and the trees, to the mountains and the oceans; yes, bow down and give thanks to it all.

Bow down to the divine within you and with all that surrounds you too.

Turn to one another, and you will see that supernal light shining there in one another.

Yes, smile and bow to one another and be filled with the wonder of this.

I am that!

Namaste.

These are the things that we need to be reminded of and hold close to our hearts and guide our steps each and every day. That is why I always say, in troubling times such as we are certainly moving through, there are truths that have been always there from the beginning to guide our steps.

If we hold to these truths and guide our steps accordingly, we will find a better way and we will become better for it. That is what a hard time is for. A crisis should not return as to where we were; it is going to be a vehicle for transformation, for a revelation and new epiphanies, and a New World that is coming.

We are making it; we are making it every single day. And we will not go back, there is no going back, but there is a brighter, better future out there that we are making day after day.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show – What is the “what”? The Test of Taurus (Sunday April 19, 2020 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – What is the “what?” Behind every form, stands the mystery of Value (April 19, 2020)

In my tenth show of 2020, I thought it would informative to look at the next month in the Astrological calendar, the Time of Taurus, which begins today.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sunday April 19^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/19/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-what-is-the-what-the-test-of-taurus

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

Please join me on Sunday April 19^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Taurus (April 19, 2020)

The Spiral Journey – Spirit-Life-Consciousness

After any beginning, after each moment of emergence, after each step you take into the next moment, having moved by your “Power of Presence” in the energy-form we call “Aries”, after that first will come the second, critical moment in your journey.

In each first step you are asked (and you will answer):

“Who are you?”

The question now, and perhaps it is even more mystical and more mysterious than "who" is this challenge:

What are you?

Many wise ones consider this question of life as more profound than the first. Yes, after you consider the “who” of you, there comes the “what”. But that begs the question:

“What is the what?”

Today we move into the realm of Taurus, this is the next step in your journey which is equally your awakening, and you should take some time to consider this essential question:

What is my true self-worth; what is the value of me?

It is a most challenging question. Perhaps more than being aware that you are aware, or experiencing your pure subjectivity, here you are trying to understand the substance of you. You are forming your first relationship, which is to your own true self. What are you are formed of really; what are your “bodies” or vehicles of being; what makes you “you”?

In Taurus, whether it is in terms of your entire being, or more specifically posed in that realm of your chart where Taurus is found, you will need to answer the question, “What is the Value of me?” Which will lead, inevitably, to a series of questions until you reach the “heart question”, which is, “what makes anything have value?”

If you follow this path to its true root source, (and you certainly will someday), you will come to the heart and soul of the question which is, “What makes any of this? What is behind Creation?”

The answer is found by both listening to your higher or intuitive self, and by finding confirmation in the teachings that have been passed down from long, long ago. According to the Ancient Wisdom, all of Creation is the manifestation of the ONE.

The One is the ineffable, known by many names which are but “placeholders” given our limited understanding. The experience of this, of the One, is truly unknowable or beyond our comprehension in our limited human form. But if you stretch your imagination, if you listen to the still, quiet, gentle and loving voice that is there within you, you will feel the truth within and see it all around you too.

You will know it because you see all the patterns and correspondences in the world around you. You will smile as you find the similarities between realms that are infinitely small and immeasurably large. You will know beyond knowing, you will apprehend, that there is something that is ordering and arranging this thing you call the Universe.

What do the teachings, these “Gifts of the Wise Ones” offer? Here is what they have preserved and passed down to help you remember:

There is but One Spirit, and all of Creation is formed by the infinite sparks of this One Divine Light. At the core of the most infinitesimal of things on up to the greatest of Hosts, there at the center of everything is the Monad, the Divine Spark. The One is like a Infinite Sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

All of Creation is the Light of the One.

All the Cardinal Signs partake of this quality, forming the Essence of Spiritual Identity.

From this One, the Second Aspect of Creation comes into being, and that is LIFE. The One became the many, and Life began. Again, from the most infinitesimal to the planets, from the dust of the earth to the fullness that is space, in all the stars and galaxies, this Plenitude of Creation is also ALIVE.

All of Creation is the Life of the One.

All the Fixed Signs embody this quality, the Essence of Spiritual Life.

And, as Spirit now manifested as Life unfolded from the One, it was ever formed and informed by the Third Aspect of Creation, and that is CONSCIOUSNESS. Once again, from the smallest aspect of Creation to the whole of Creation itself, all of this is the Consciousness of the One.

All of Creation is the Mind of the One.

All the Mutable Signs move in this quality, which is the Essence of Spiritual Consciousness.

Here in Taurus you make your first attempt to understand the question of embodiment, the movement of spirit into forms. Spirit and Matter are the two fundamental aspects of life. Spirit is the highest form of Matter; Matter is the least degree of Spirit. Though “separate”, they are really part of the all-encompassing reality of the “One”.

Spirit “animates” Matter; Matter provides the vehicles or bodies of Spirit. These bodies or forms are “Ensouled Matter”, of Matter that is ensouled by Spirit. There are many forms, and many dimensions and realms of forms, but there is only One Spirit.

The hierarchy of forms in the human kingdom (which is much the same as all other kingdoms), can be very simply divided into three: Body, Mind and Spirit. But when you begin to examine more deeply, the forms of being become ever more differentiated.

One ordering would be into Seven: Physical Body or material body, Etheric Body or vital body, Emotional Body divided into lower and higher, Lower Mental Body or mortal mind, Higher Mental Body or divine mind, Buddhic Body or vehicle of illumination, Atmic or Causal Body. But there are even more esoteric teachings that finally understand the division of Creation into a Hierarchy of Spirit-Forms that number Ten, and ultimately are held as Twelve. (Which is quite interesting given that Astrology is one of the keys to the Ancient Wisdom and is also based upon the division of reality into twelve).

For you, these teachings may or may not hold much importance at this time. But what is most important for you is answer the question posed by Taurus, “what is the value of you?”

Throughout your life, you may find that your own hierarchy of value will shift and rearrange, with certain attributes, strengths and talents being more valued in one period, only to find that quite a different set and arrangement prevails at another.

Even day to day, you may feel yourself to be “on top of the world” at one moment only to find yourself shortly later to be quite not “yourself”, with a corresponding loss of value. Materially, this variation of your experience of your value or self-worth is real.

But you must know, or you will know one day, that this is also one of the great illusions that you are here to rise above. In your "holy of holies", in the innermost sanctum of you, (and in all your cells and bodies too), at the center of you is the everlasting spirit that is the One.

From the beginning, unto the very end of this cosmic cycle, you are quite simply beyond any measurement. Yes, you are priceless, a spark of the divine who shines with the light of the Sun of all the suns, a light that will not fade, and will never diminish.

And wise ones have many names for this Light of the One; but truly and most wonderfully you will know it and feel it as Pure and Unconditional Love.

You are loved because you were made by unconditional love. You are made of love and that is why the value of you is immeasurable and perennial.

But then you will know, and you will smile, and you will turn to whomever is before you because you understand this fundamental truth about the nature of value; that all are made of this, all of Creation is the manifestation of Unconditional and Divine Love.

That is why we are here; we are here to be that love that we are.

We only need to act with this truth and wisdom, to feel the warmth in our hearts.

We turn to one another and bow to whomever is before us.

We greet them as our dearly loved ones.

That is why we say, in our thoughts and by our hearts,

"Namaste" (I bow to the Divine in you)

Transcript of Radio Show on April 12, 2020 – A New World Will Rise, a look back and ahead

Transcript of Radio Show on April 12, 2020 - Astrological Musings – A New World Will Rise, a look back and ahead (April 12, 2020)

I called today’s show, which is the 9th show of our 2020 series, a “New World will rise, a look back and ahead”. We need to do that because we are part of an ongoing development in terms of history and human development, of spiritual and cultural and economic development, and that all these things are tied to one another. We can find resonances, if you will, of where planets were at some point in time, and then looking at another time where they are in those same positions.

In this case, what I am doing is looking at the planet Pluto being at the same Zodiacal space, that it is in the same degree in Capricorn, and looking at what was happening when it was there compared to now. And, again doing the same thing with the planet Neptune. Now these are sort of arbitrary choices. Because you would want to examine planetary patterns and planetary alignments and all these other things, and you would want to be consider these too in terms of comparing one period to another. But it just is kind of striking to me, so I thought I would just look at these two for today.

1774-75
For the USA, and again just looking at the USA, (but we could look at other places as well for this) the periods that I found that were parallel to the current year 2020 was 1774 to 1775, and that is formed by Pluto. And, the year of 1857 to 1858, looking at the planet Neptune, looking at American history.

It was in 1774, and many people don't realize this, because they think of the American Revolution as starting in 1776, and that is the most recognizable date. But obviously we were building towards that circumstance of an actual physical war breaking out, (and it actually broke out in 1775). And things were happening in 1774, and before then, that led up to what happened in 1776. In 1774, having had the “Boston Tea Party” right before at the end of 1773, England, the King and the parliament, decided to pass very punishing laws on the colonies for these acts of civil disobedience. They broke with their compact of trade with the colonies, where we were supposed to be governed fairly, and by which we would be represented by people in parliament for our own interests. Instead, here parliament was passing laws to punish the colonies. The colonies, facing these terrible penalties and laws, called “the Intolerable Acts”, decided to meet in this first Continental Congress. They came together, as these separate colonies, and they said to one another, “what do we do for our continent, for our country?”

Basically, they were beginning to form their union, though they maybe wouldn't have understood it as such at that point, but that what was happening. And then, they agreed to boycott the goods from the UK, and in so doing the UK sent forces to Boston, to shut it down, to put it under martial law, and the people of Boston were harassed and abused. Soldiers were being quartered, forced into people’s homes, and all these terrible things happened. And, this eventually led to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the siege of Boston in 1775, and the Revolutionary War became inevitable.

The issue for the colonists was quite simple. They wanted to have the right to self-determination, to have their value as citizens of a country, England, be counted as equal to those who remained in England. So, they chose a path of self-government, breaking with the Lords and Kingly hierarchy and declaring themselves to be, and this was revolutionary, “Free Men” who had a divine right to determine their own future.

And, it was shortly after the American Revolution, that we had the French Revolution, though that was fraught with even greater upheaval and violence. They produced, in the very beginning of their revolution in 1789, the very famous “Declaration of the Rights of Man”, which was a very historic step in the march towards the principle of self-determined government, which is what was emerging in that historical period of the 1700s. The world was moving from feudalism to monarchies in the 1500s and now in the 1700s moving from monarchies to this form of self-government, of parliamentary democracy.

1857-58
Well, we flash forward in our country to address one of the remaining great sins of our country’s origin in 1857-1858. Things were becoming very fraught in our country, over the struggle over slave or free states, and whether or not slavery was going to spread throughout the country or not. And in that period, when Neptune was in the same Zodiacal space or position as it is now, (and this is kind of striking in terms of how we are again dealing with this very same question in our country, of what does it mean to be “American”, and who can who is allowed to come here, and how do we treat fairly and equally or not all peoples, again being the question). The Dred Scott decision, by the Supreme Court, determined that slaves would never be citizens and no matter where they went, they could be seized as property of their former Masters.

And so, this was highlighted in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, where Lincoln most famously stated, “…that a house divided against itself cannot stand.” He was saying that we were two peoples, two different economies, two different cultures, and we were divided from one another, and this division of our country had to be resolved somehow. And, of course, it was resolved in the Civil War of the 1860’s.

Yet, after the Civil War the promise of a better and more just country was thwarted. There was the policy known as Reconstruction, but that reconstruction was blocked eventually. And, a new system of nominal slavery was imposed by the sharecropper system, of basically peonage for the former slaves. It was only, really, during the “second civil war”, as I would call it, in the 1950s and 60s, the civil rights movement, which brought about the legal reforms and pressures upon the former confederacy, mostly the South, which opened the door to greater freedom for the black citizens in the South and of course those in the North too, who had also faced great inequality and segregation. And, still to this day, the work is not done.

But also, in that period, and this is quite interesting, with Neptune being this unifier, and encompassing and bringing everything together in one universal experience, that this same period witnessed the first ever worldwide economic/financial panic that swept across the entire planet. This happened when Neptune was in the same position as today, and it is kind interesting, that we are having this worldwide “pandemic panic”, which is crushing economies around the world here at the same time. It is very much a parallel experience, but also very much is different too.

Our Time
So, what we all want to know is what's coming next, what's our future? What will this world we are going into look like? What is our responsibility now?

We really must face and accept the truth, that as much as we made the wonders of this world, we also made the horrors of the world that is now confronting us.

This pandemic and what may follow, this was and will be our creation. And there is only one question, how do we make a better world for one and all?

Just as in 1774 and 1857, as always, the challenge in any time, is spiritual. Will we reveal what is best in us by following the one true spiritual imperative: “That we are all related”; and what we do to any other we inevitably will be doing to ourselves.

I hold that this is the shining light, that we are on an “Arc of Awakening”, and our path will ever bend towards the truth to see one another as created equal. And that behind all of creation there is “the One”.

We were made by this One True Love; we are simply and most profoundly here to love one another as we are loved.

So, my question is what comes first, what matters most? And, we realize that we must now decide how we will be guided by this absolute spiritual truth, that all life is sacred. Our lives, right now, will be forever measured by our love for one another and our lives will also be measured by how we treat all the life forms on this planet, with whom we share this beautiful world.

What comes first? Life comes first.

What matters most to us who are here now, and for all the generations who will come after us, is that we, from this point forward, act with the understanding that our lives depend upon all the other life forms on this planet. This pandemic, among many other signs, is a warning that we have made a world that is out of balance. If we do not change our way of life, we will be facing ever greater threats in the not very distant future.

The accelerating true global pandemic is Climate Change, of which this pandemic is merely a symptom, and this virus really only threatens us humans. All our plans and actions must be guided by an absolute commitment now to protect and preserve the diverse hierarchies of life that make possible all lives, including our very own.

What is the value of any nation, and of our nation?

I always say, it is the people. As I have said many times in my blog, and on my radio show, and in readings with clients, the value of the community, of a village and town, region or nation, is not in its physical attributes, in its land or water, or other natural resources. Of course, those things matter for life. But the source of value in any human society is the value of each and every human.

And the question will be for that culture or people, for us here now, did you create the best possible conditions to help those humans realize their fullest potential?

Because that's where value comes from; we make it.

Injustice
Historically, this essential understanding of the value of humanity has often been circumscribed and limited, arranged hierarchically in the different social orders throughout history. Whether in a hunting/gathering culture or a pastoral culture or farmers or crafts and trades, and on into this so-called modern world filled with a range of occupations and lifeways.

Though the foundational ideas of our own Declaration of Independence were idealistic and inspirational; wherein we stated, “…that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”, we know that at our founding, and for many years thereafter, these fine ideals were not followed whatsoever.

The vast majority of humans on this continent were considered, for a very long time, to not even be human, and were subjected to genocidal warfare, the Native Americans. And, another huge population of people were considered to be only fit as beasts of burden, as property to be bought and sold by their so-called masters, the black slaves. And we cannot forget that most men without significant property and all women were regarded as not worthy of self-determination or equal rights to the men of property.

Yes, we have come a long way, but our present circumstance lays bare once again how far we have yet to go. Our history of slowly extending legal equality for all has been hard and painful, but the legacy of racism, slavery and genocide still permeates our culture to this day, as we can see in the differing outcomes for different groups, in the kind of health care and lives they can live and hope for. This has to stop; it has to stop now.

Inequality
Over the course of our history we have gone from a mostly agrarian nation to a manufacturing colossus, to a service-based economy. The imbalances that led to the Great Depression were addressed by the New Deal, and led to a period of relatively shared growth from the 1940s onwards in the various percentiles, the divisions of the country, the bottom 20^th, the top 20^th and so on.

But since 1980 that shared prosperity has been broken. Partly it was the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy. But it was also created by those with the means to influence the laws of this nation, the rules of the economy, and they shaped those rules to serve the accumulation of wealth as opposed to having a more fairly shared distribution as we had experienced since the 1940s.

The imbalance in the distribution of wealth in this country is not a natural result. It has been formed by changes in the economy. Yes, as the power of unions faded, as we moved from a manufacturing economy and other things, and no similar organization was able to protect the workers in the growing service sectors (and this is most certainly true for the emerging economy of gig workers). But for many years the vast majority of our citizens have worked harder and harder for less and less of the share in the productivity that they made possible, that they created.

Many feel that there must be something wrong with them, that it's their failure, it's personal instead of being the consequences of a system that is not fair. But this was more as a consequence of policies and laws that accelerated and protected the accumulation of wealth, that favored short-term gains over long-term investments, corporate power of the few outweighing the votes of the many, as congressman and senators wrote the laws that favored their financial backers, and also created laws that apply to everyone but themselves.

Crisis and Opportunity
Yes, a crisis such as we face now reveals the greatest in our culture and the rot and the corruption too. As I have pointed out in previous blog postings and shows, the shift in the 1930s and 1940s led to a very different shift in the 1980s, where the fairness in the USA began to breakdown. So here we are, again, 40 years later, the 1940s the 1980s and now the 2020s, and this crisis is calling once more for a new way of organizing our lives and livelihoods.

But this crisis, this turning, will be much bigger because the stakes are so much higher. More than an economic crisis or a political crisis, we truly face a spiritual and existential crisis. Life on this planet is in crisis, and we have only to look in the mirror to see who is to blame.

The planets, Pluto or Neptune, Uranus or Saturn, they don't cause anything, they just frame the timing of the unfoldment of patterns. And, they provide meaning or context to what is happening, but the content of this moment, the pandemic and what is coming after that we made and is what we will make.

We all have a choice and we must put first what is most important, life! The actions we are taking now, to face this crisis, are the first steps that we are also taking to make the New World.

The old world is broken; the ways we sourced energy, the ways we sourced our food, the way we created shelter and clothing, the way we met our needs for one another, these will and must change. Because most of these ways that got us to here, they will not get us to where we need to go.

Our old ways were destroying life on this planet, the beauty of the divine diversity of this world is rapidly becoming a memory. Without preserving all other life forms, from the most infinitesimal to the most majestic, from the plankton in the oceans and the fishes is in the seas, from the bees and the birds that travel in the air, from the valleys to the mountain tops, life is leaving this planet and we made this happen.  

And that truth is our shame, but that truth can also be our salvation.

We made this happen, and we can do better. And, now that we know, what choice do we have? Now that we live in fear, we are paying attention.

This is the moment; our lives and our world will change, but only we can make a difference in the how. We must choose life; we must choose to love one another and all of life on this planet.

Okay, I know that was quite a lot, but I wanted to try to get it out there for all of us to consider. That we should pause this time to consider this beautiful world we live in, and the beauty that we can behold in one another, and the beauty of nature all around us. That we should be so grateful and thankful for this gift, for this wonder. And our desire should only be to preserve and make it better.

We are not here to use up the world, there is no “Planet B”. We only have this, this lifeboat, this beautiful blue orb spinning through space, a wonderful lifeboat of life. And, we are the ones who can save it if we are not the ones who will destroy it.

I'm sure most of you know these things, think these thoughts, share these thoughts with those that you care for and care about. We all want the world to change, we all want to get back to a better life.

But we're not going to go back, we have to go forward if we’re going to make a better life.

I hope we all take that message to heart. I hope we all do our part now, to make the world a better place, because it's the only thing that matters.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, The End of an Age — A New World Will Rise (Sunday April 12, 2020 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – A New World Will Rise, a look back and ahead (April 12, 2020)

In my ninth show of 2020, I will look at this pivotal moment and how it connects to other moments of great change. This is truly the “end of an Age”, which most certainly means it is equally the rise of a New Age.

For the USA, the periods that parallel our time are, 1774-75 and 1857-58. The years 1774-75, as defined Astrologically by the position of Pluto, formed the seed for the real beginnings of the American Revolution. In 1774, England passed the “Intolerable Acts” as punishment for the Boston Tea Party in 1773, removing self-government from Massachusetts and imposing penalties upon the colonies. This led to outrage throughout the colonies, and they agreed to meet for their mutual self-defense in the First Continental Congress. In effect, the colonies began to form a union, and they agreed upon a boycott of goods from the United Kingdom. This was the match that lit the Revolutionary War, and the battles at Lexington and Concord and the siege of Boston, Massachusetts followed in 1775.

The years 1857-58 defined by Neptune, (when Neptune was in this same Zodiacal position), witnessed the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme court, which determined that slaves and descendants of slaves were never nor would they ever be citizens, i.e. that they would remain the permanent “property” of their masters. It was also defined by the Lincoln/Douglas debates made famous in Lincoln’s declaration that, "a house divided from itself cannot stand”. It was also a defining moment for the emergence of a new reality, of “One World", as the first ever world-wide economic panic in history swept across the planet, (and from which the USA did not really “recover” until the Civil War in the 1860’s).

What will our crisis bring about; and, what will our New World look like? Will we understand our responsibility now; will we grow in wisdom and bow our heads in humility? This is absolutely necessary now; we must face and accept the truth, that we made the wonders and the horrors of the world that is passing. The pandemic, and what follows, this was and will be our creation.

There is only one question now: how will we make a better world for one and for all?

As it was in 1774 and in 1857, the fundamental challenge in our time is Spiritual. In both periods, as always, we shine and reveal what is best when we follow the one True Spiritual Imperative: "We are all related"; and, what we do to any other, we do to ourselves.

Held within this shining Truth is that we are on an "arc of awakening", and our path will ever bend towards the truth to see one another as "created equal”. Behind all of Creation, there is the One. We were made by this one True Love; and we are simply, but most profoundly, here to love one another as we are loved.

We realize that all humans are precious; and our division from one another is truly our greatest peril. Now, we must decide, how will we hold to the one absolute spiritual truth, that all of life is sacred. Our lives will be forever measured by our love for one another; and our lives will also be measured by how we treat all the life-forms with whom we share this beautiful world.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sunday April 12^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/12/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-end-of-an-age-a-new-world-will-rise

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

Please join me on Sunday April 12^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, Saturn 2020 — Leadership & Community (Sunday April 5, 2020 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrological Musings – The Test of Leadership and Community (April 5, 2020)

In my eighth show of 2020, I will look at the charts of Andrew Cuomo and Anthony Fauci, each of whom are setting an example of leadership in this time of crisis. Who are they, what kind of leadership do they show, and why does their example stand out now?

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sunday April 5^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/05/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-saturn-2020-leadership-community

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

Please join me on Sunday April 5^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

Transcript of 2020-3-29 Radio Show—The USA & Pluto, the End of an Age

The USA & Pluto, the End of an Age

Today’s discussion is about the cycling of the planet Pluto through the sign of Capricorn. It goes around the solar system in about 245 years, and into Capricorn on a periodic basis. So, if we look at this , and we are going to talk about why this is so, but if we look at Pluto going through Capricorn which is the thing I've been talking about since the mid 2000’s and Pluto is back in Capricorn starting in 2008.

The last two times before this was 1516 to 1532, a very long time ago, and then more recently 1762 to 1778. That period would raise eyebrows, wow that's when the USA was born, and sure enough the USA chart has Pluto in Capricorn (and we're going to talk about that). And then, our time right now, Pluto went into Capricorn once again in 2008 and it lasts until 2024.

Capricorn
Capricorn is the sign of institutions, of how we take our human needs and how we meet those needs and rather than just always winging it and being spontaneous we create systems within a family certainly, as well as building on that family model in terms of communities and larger organizations, in companies and regions and nations in the world. We create all these instruments of our own that serve ultimately to meet our needs for one another and to one another in significant ways, and those systems are amazing and resilient and purposeful and infused with our intelligence and love and can last for a long time.

But this is the nature of the world, of the physical realm: nothing lasts forever. Things will eventually fall apart and need to be remade and redone and that's what we're encountering when Pluto goes through Capricorn. The institutions we have created are now failing us. Whether it's the individuals in the institutions who have “dropped the ball” or aren't of the caliber we need them to be, that they do not understand their mission and how to carry it out, or because the institution itself has been falling apart for some time. Or, equally because the system it's serving, the needs that are evolving and changing, and how we meet our needs and deal with the changing world, have gone out of phase with the institutions or they have gone out of phase with it, so that institutional form no longer solves the problem.

So I made this shorthand analogy that in the 1500s we moved from, (looking at Europe only but it's true in many places in the world, and it is increasingly becoming more true universally as we go to a one kind of world in our connectivity), we went from feudalism to monarchies, the breaking down of a feudal order and the rise of monarchies. Flashing forward to the 1760s and of course then it's the fall of the monarchies and the rise of parliamentary democracies.

And, of course, that's what's falling now, it's all coming undone, and so in each of these periods not only did the political and cultural, the economic and other systems become transformed because they had to be to meet the changing way we understand and meet our needs, but it also led to or required, or really made a new kind of human person. The people or humans in the 1500s would not be like you and I, and the people of the 1700s, though more like you and I, would still not be you and I; they were not driven by the same visions and goals and dreams and notions of what it means to be human. Yes, there are many things that carry forward and would be understandable, but truly a different kind of character and person was evident then. And we're going through our own change now, a very big one. A new kind of person emerges in each era, a new kind of human type you could argue. And so, in each period, what happened is that the very solutions that were meeting human needs, that were formed in that period, those ways of being become the very limit or obstacle that causes the system to fail. And so, it must make way for the next order in realms spiritual and mental emotional and physical.

Pluto
So why Pluto? Pluto is the will or the avatar of the Will I like to say. It is the third aspect of the divine which is held as a triad by the three outer planets of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Now, of course, they're just timekeepers and placeholders and avatars of this, this is universal energy. This triad of spirit is formed by, in this context, of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto forming us into ever freer minds, ever deeper unconditional love, and ever more truly centered wills. And, that's the third aspect, Pluto the will. And, it is by the will or by Pluto that each entity, and here we are talking about humans, but each entity is formed into its own sacred space and for us humans that is something we have become now more self-aware and ever more conscious about, about our spaces.

Pluto as the avatar of the will rules the processes of transformation, of spirit moving from one form or manifestation to another, which are those most wonderful and magical and mysterious processes of progressions that we see in so many realms, in all the realms. But most intimately for us we experience this process as the mystery and joy and the awe-filled challenge of birth, death and rebirth. It is through combination that really and truly creation exists and unfolds: From the one emerges the many, developing from what are the infinitesimal's I like to say, the monads of spirit, the spark of the divine at the core of everything. These combine to form as we call them and know them as atoms, which combined to form molecules, and into various substances, and into organisms, eventually leading up to the planets and stars and galaxies. All of creation exists because of what is fundamentally known scientifically as chemistry, but it's known in the ancient wisdom as alchemy.

Pluto & USA Chart
Pluto in the USA chart and its opposition to Mercury, this is the key as we are looking at the USA now, and we are a country born with Pluto and its most important relationship is to Mercury. What is happening this year in 2020, and it was building in 2019 but this year 2020 and into 2021, we are having the planet Pluto go over Mercury in the US chart and then over Pluto. And I will talk about when this has happened before in various ways, but this is the big one because it's our Pluto return, so it really stands apart from the other times.

Pluto is in the second house of the USA chart and Mercury is in the 8th house. The 2nd House of a chart is the inherent value of that being which indicates for us as a country that the USA's value or strength is rooted in the ability we have, which all beings, but we especially as a nation have, the essential nature of our value or strength is our ability to combine and transform values, to remake and renew and restore and rebuild. Pluto is the USA's rising planet, it leads us through life, which truly makes the USA an Alchemical Nation.

What is the value, the true value of the USA, (and I would argue really of any human group)? It is the value of its people, it is their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development. It is their resulting capability, each of us, to be alchemists. It is to live and love, to live and work in combination with one another. And it is by this, this forge of union, this alchemical space of combination, that we elicit our own growth, individually and for one another.

This is how spirit grows; it is how we make possible our growth, and it is how we are ceaselessly changing one another and our world.

Mercury & Pluto
Mercury is in the opposite house in the USA chart. Pluto is in Capricorn, Mercury is in Cancer, and we are a Cancer nation. The USA, with the Mercury in the 8th house, is a country that is driven to probe beneath surface appearances. As Pluto rules the sign of Scorpio, and Mercury is in the 8th house which is like the eighth sign of Scorpio, this is the house that deals with going deeper than any place else to discover and to connect and thrive through transformational networks, such as manifested in our transportation, communications and research efforts. The eighth house is the realm of unions; it is the very space of alchemy. So, both the Pluto in the 2nd House of the USA chart, and with mercury the ruler up thought and education and commerce in the 8th house of joint endeavors, the USA will always reveal its strength, its spiritual strength, in the magic and mystery of alchemy, the power of combinations.

We saw this in the beginning as we came together as a people, who had separated ourselves from other times and places and cultures, and we tried to make a New World here. We choose to work together, volunteering to help one another, raising barns together, and in so many other ways, helping one another and reaching out to one another to form these combinations which elicited our great growth.

Breaking free from former boundaries and prejudices and limitations, we changed ourselves and the world. For the USA our true value, our real strength and our most essential truth is most perfectly reflected by our national motto. Those founders knew what they were doing, they were wise men and they were wise women, who understood what they were about. What they inscribed on the seal of the United States was our motto, “E Pluribus Unum”, “Out of many One”.

Mercury opposite Pluto
This opposition of Mercury to Pluto in the USA chart, (the very aspect that is being activated right now by Pluto going over Mercury and then over Pluto), can in its most positive manifestations lead to a mind or consciousness that is more able to probe beyond the limits heretofore accepted. It is by this that the light of awareness is drawn to go ever deeper in an attempt to discern the noumena behind the apparent phenomena of the world.

It is one of the instruments that steers all who have this to constantly strive to follow the path of truth. However, Pluto ruling “the Will” requires a person to have learned to turn that will back upon themselves first and foremost, to use their will for self-mastery. But, when Pluto is developed or exercised without a truly centered will it can often lead to a very dark place, and create an energy-form that becomes driven by fear, by shadows and destructiveness, and that mind or those minds grabbed by this form become obsessive and controlling in their thought. This misuse of the Will creates divisions and self-blinding, and the loss of judgment in reason which can ultimately result in a descent into madness.

Either you're in control or you're out of control, and this is the key for everything, but especially when it comes to controlling our minds. And that's part of the challenge and task we're all undergoing right now, here faced with such great pressures in our lives personally, and regionally and globally. We must keep our minds centered and calm even in the face of the greatest of fears. Because if we don't do that, we will not be able to find a way through this challenge.

Pluto in History of the USA
The historical alignments of Pluto with Mercury and Pluto to itself in the chart of the USA are interesting. The last two times before now was 1933 to 1937, and I wrote about this in my forecast for 2019 because it was building in and you could read that here.

From 1933 to 1937 Pluto was conjunct Mercury and was opposite to Pluto. and that was when we went through a great crisis in America and changed fundamentally the way we organize our work and Commerce, our understanding of Value, and how we treat one another in terms of value and as producers and creators of values. That was the new deal, that was FDR, and it set in motion a kind of economy and culture from the late 1930s and early 1940s that continued all the way up to the end of the 1970s.

But of course, it began to become undone and that “solution” did not work so well, given certain choices that were made in the 1960s and 1970s, and things were falling apart. So, there was a calling to shift or change that way of structuring things, and Pluto wasn't going to “say” which way it's going to go, but it was time. That is when Pluto lined up squaring the USA Pluto and squaring the USA Mercury, which is more of a clash or conflict, and a breaking between one side and another. That was the “Reagan revolution”, where again there was a reset of the economic way of life and it affected culture and everything else.

That carried us forward to this moment now, and so we're in the next iteration. Now Pluto is opposite Mercury and it's going to come to conjunct itself. This is a bigger moment more like the 1930s but perhaps even bigger because this is a Pluto return, so it is fundamental in terms of a reset.

The Choice
During each of these periods though, as well as in our own, we have faced the challenge and a choice. And, the challenge is always:

“Will we be fearful; will we divide from one another and lose our greatest value and strength which is our love for one another? Or will we be inspired by the actions of our heroes and true leaders who call upon us once again, and always, to help one another to pull together, to sacrifice for one another, to love one another?”

This is the only choice before you now; will you help or will you be the problem? Major crises create a break. I always think of crises and consider the Chinese ideogram for “crisis” is made up of two ideograms, Danger and Opportunity. I've always held to the notion that what that means is that if we face a crisis well, then we will rise above that dilemma and find a new way. But if we get frozen in fear, then we fail to rise, and we fall backwards.

Basically, it is our challenge to grow and move to the next level. So, major crises create a break between one form of life and another, whether in an individual or group or a nation, or in our case really the whole world. And it challenges us to break from the old way into another form of life.

There is nothing that focuses anyone's mind, let alone a people or nation or even now today the entire planet, than the one inescapable fact we “immortals in mortal frames” have to face in this or most any extreme crisis, and that of course is the fear of death.

Until the vast majority of people know that their children and their companions and loved ones and colleagues, that their friends and even strangers are safe, we are going to remain far away from any sense of normal in our world.

The world that was will not be the one we return to; there is no returning. The problem we are now encountering was created by the world we had made. People often ask me what planet or alignment caused this crisis, what indicates COVID-19. And, I say nothing in the planets made this; we made this.

Life on Earth
We have made choices good and bad for generations, setting in place a certain engine of growth and development that was wondrous and wonderful in terms of what it provided. But it also created great destruction and pollution and disruption to the natural world, which is now also confronting us.

So, I will always gently remind any questioner that the planets did not cause or create this. The planets can only provide insight with regards to the meaning, and the timing, of any circumstance. But in our human-formed world, which this is, the content of what we face now, and always will be, is ours. We made this world, again with all its wonders and its horrors too.

The good news there is that then we are the ones who can change it; we made it; we can change it. We have more than enough evidence before us now in our biosphere, in all the realms of life on this planet, that the very ways in which we had been meeting our human needs, whether in terms of power or food or shelter and transportation, and also many other ways, that it is those very systems that are now threatening the very complex web in the hierarchy of life on this planet.

And so, we must understand (or remember, because we knew this before) that spiritually and scientifically all higher life forms depend upon the entire range of life forms below it. And life is leaving the planet now at an increasingly rapid rate. That not only makes our world less bright and beautiful, but it is also a direct threat to our own very lives too.

We are going to have to pull together to face and overcome this present crisis, and we will. But those very responses, our amazing creativity, our wondrous inventiveness, our ingenuity harnessed to and always guided by our compassion, and love for one another, will change us and we will enter into a new world in the months and years to come.

The New World
People want to know, when is the new world coming? We are making it now; it’s changing before your eyes and there is no going back. But our most important values and qualities will be reaffirmed secured and renewed by what we do now.

We are going to shine in this moment because we love one another, and we see that love in small and larger acts of sacrifice and saving every day now. We are healing ourselves and our planet and it is from this that we will be the seed humans for a better world for our children and their children too.

Well there's so much to talk about here; I'm almost about to break into tears myself, considering what we're going through. But we're all going through it; and, I know we're all going to be crying a lot and laughing and sharing and helping one another get through this. And, that is what we're here for, we are here for one another. And no one is alone.

So, all of us need to reach out, connect to one another, reach out but don't touch. It's a strange thing we; humans always hold each other. We ache to hold each other, we want to kiss and hold and stroke one another, and we cannot now.

And, that is our love now, in that very inaction in that form of our love now. But we can do so much for one another and we are, and we will continue to do so.

And we long for that day, we will get to that day, when we will not have to pull apart physically, but we can join together and laugh and hold one another again.