Astrologer Bill Attride

2024-1-7 Radio Show Transcript — 2024 Preview, a look ahead

Alchemist Heating a Pot, by David Teniers the Younger

Astrological Musings — 2024 Preview, a look ahead

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Podcasts)

As we move into 2024, it is time for us to consider what Astrological conditions will prevail during this year and beyond. The major planetary alignment of this year includes the first major aspect of Saturn to Pluto since their last conjunction in January 2020, which is a semi-square that is exact in May, September, and January of 2025. 2024 will also be the final year of Pluto’s transition from the sign of Capricorn to Aquarius, and it will the final full year for both Neptune in Pisces before it transitions to Aries, and final full year for Uranus in Taurus before it transitions to Gemini. Those shifts indicate that we will certainly be in a much different world by 2025 and beyond.

This year will also have the usual repeating phenomena of the Solar and Lunar eclipses, three Mercury in retrogrades, and Jupiter changing signs. I will do another show soon where we will look at some of the major national and leadership charts to see what we might understand about the year ahead from that perspective as well.

Saturn semi-square Pluto
The most important aspect in the heavens this year is the first alignment of Saturn with Pluto since their conjunction or “new moon” of January 2020. The cycle of Saturn and Pluto, from conjunction to conjunction, lasts from between 33 to 38 years, and it concerns the integral balance between Order (Saturn) and Will (Pluto), or Structure and Sacred Space, or Spirit materialized and the Alchemical force that is behind the entirety of Creation. In Mundane or Worldly Astrology, this cycle informs the birth/death/rebirth of new political, economic, and social structures. Often the cycle begins with the ending of some kind of order, a breakdown and then a rebuilding of the ways of the exercise of power through structure, of the ways in which order and disorder and reorder echo down the ages.

The most recent conjunctions have been:

The first of the 20^th century occurred in 1914, with World War I which we could see as the penultimate war in the history of colonization. The subsequent semi-square of 1918 brought the end of that war but also the great Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. The conjunction of 1947-48, saw the real beginnings of decolonization, with the partition of India and Pakistan, the emergence of China finally free from foreign control, but also the establishment of the state of Israel. The subsequent semi-square in 1951 saw the Korean War, and many other South Asian and African wars of post-colonial struggles; the Saturn/Pluto conjunction of 1982-83 saw Israel invade Lebanon, (which it did not completely leave until 2000), but also the “birth” of the internet, and a number of military governments being replaced by civilian ones in as in Argentina and Turkey. The subsequent semi-square in 1988 saw the first internet virus, and the beginning of the end to the Iron Curtain and cold war as the Soviet Union tried to open up its economic system and Hungary opened up to travel between the east and the west.

Now we have our most recent conjunction of 2020, and we have certainly experienced the structures and systems around the world being overmatched and overwhelmed by a world-wide pandemic. We have been made aware how our system of meeting human needs by means of an intricate global trade structure has been proven to be vulnerable and lacking in resiliency. The very way in which we have become interconnected and interdependent, both materially and virtually, has overwhelmed and thrown into disrepute the governing institutions within and between nations, as what had been assumed to be a universal liberal political and economic order has been battered and sometimes shattered by forces of reaction and revolution, by extremists on the right and the left. What we are seeing around the world is a global experience of Millennial movements, whose adherents either want to return their world to a mythic “golden age”, or to a final judgement in which their followers will be spared and exalted.

What this year’s semi-square may hold for us, there is truly no way to know for certain. All we can know is that the essential interdependencies and interconnectivities of the natural world, the beautiful yet vulnerable hierarchy of nature’s ecosystems, combined with the effects of our economic world driven by infinite consumption on a finite planet are growing not fading. We will certainly experience ever greater waves of disturbances, mass migrations of peoples fleeing climate disasters and institutional failures, and this inescapable reality is being brought to bear as the primary and existential challenge facing humanity is the threat of climate change, a transformation of our world that we have created, and which is becoming ever weirder and wilder.

The Outer Planets
But we must always remember that the planetary indications from Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are still the major shapers for any period of history. We have looked at them recently, and we will look at them again in a later show, but we need to remember that we are at the cusp of three major transitions. Pluto is moving into Aquarius in 2024 until 2044, Neptune is beginning its move into Aries next year until 2039, and Uranus is beginning its move into Gemini next year until 2033. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was 1778 to 1798, the same time as the American and French Revolutions and Napoleon Bonaparte. The last time Neptune was in the sign of Aries was 1862 to 1875, encompassing the US Civil War and Reconstruction. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was 1935 to 1942, the first half of the Second World War. As much as we may have been frustrated by the rigidity between groups and factions over the past many years, these shifts of the major planets will mean that we are going to see a rearrangement/realignment of issues and peoples from 2025 onwards.

With so many outer planets moving into new signs, the combinational or energetic spiritual vibrations will create new opportunities (and new solutions) to our present-day challenges. But they will also necessarily give rise to new problems too. It is upon each one of us to understand the meanings and messages of the planets, but most especially remember the fundamental truths and wisdom that should guide our thoughts and shape our actions year after year. If we can remain centered by the everlasting truths, then we will be able to respond much better to these planetary influences and not react with fear.

Eclipses
Normally every year we will have two Solar and two Lunar eclipses, and this is also true for 2024, with a Lunar eclipse on March 25, a Solar eclipse on April 8, a Lunar eclipse on September 18, and a Solar eclipse on October 2.

Solar eclipses are more significant, and their influence can be expected to last until the next Solar eclipse around six months later, until the next Solar eclipse. The Lunar eclipses are understood to influence the next 30 days, until the next full Moon.

Solar and Lunar eclipses happen when the orbital position of the Earth around the Sun, and the orbital position of the Moon around Earth match up so that either the Moon creates a shadow by blocking out the Sun (at the New Moon), or the Earth creates a shadow that falls upon the Moon when it is full.

The March 25^th penumbral lunar eclipse, which means the Moon only enters the penumbra of the Earth’s shadow and just dims, happens around 3 am EDT at 5 degrees and 7 minutes in Libra, and weather permitting it will be visible in the USA. If you have any planet or chart angle around this degree, it will be important to consider its meaning for the next month or so.

The April 8^th total solar eclipse is exact at 2:20 pm EDT at 19 degrees and 24 minutes of Aries, and the eclipse path of totality will sweep across the USA from the southwest to the northeast. If you have any planet or chart angle around this degree, it will be very important to consider its meaning to you for the next six months, and the area of your chart it falls in will be highlighted for that same period.

The path of totality will sweep from Mexico and into Texas, then up through Arkansas and Missouri into Southern Illinois, and into Indiana and Ohio, then on into western New York and through northern Vermont and New Hampshire, through Maine before finally ending in the eastern provinces of Canada.
Here is a map of the April Eclipse Path:

I had actually mentioned this eclipse in 2017, because in August of that year we had another total eclipse sweep across the USA from the northwest to the southeast, starting in Oregon and arching through the Midwest and intersecting the 2024 eclipse in southern Illinois and moving further southeast to exit in South Carolina. 

It seems rather significant to me, and I am sure to many others, that the USA will have experienced two total Solar eclipses, 7 years apart, that form a perfect “X” centered just east of the continental center of the USA, and actually right on the median spot for population of the USA. Here is a map of the two Eclipse paths:

The September 17^th partial lunar eclipse, which means the Moon enters most of the full shadow of the Earth, but a small crescent appears on one side, is exact at 10:34 pm at 25 degrees and 41 minutes of Pisces, and weather permitting will be visible in the USA. If you have any planet or chart angle around this degree, it will be important to consider its meaning for the next month.

Finally, the October 2 annular solar eclipse, which means the Moon is a little too far away from the Earth, so that a small ring of sunlight, which is called the “annulus”, is seen around the Moon and is exact at 2:49 pm EDT at 10 degrees and 4 minutes of Libra. It begins in the Central Pacific and arches down to South America passing through southern Chile and Argentina. If you have a significant planet of chart angle around 10 degrees of Libra, you will experience this area of your life becoming more consequential for the next six months.
Here is a map of the October Eclipse path:

Mercury Retrogrades
Let us now consider the Mercury retrogrades for 2024. Usually, we will have three Mercury retrogrades in a year, and that is true for 2024. Of course, we did begin this New Year with Mercury turning direct on January 1, as it had been retrograding since December 13^th.

The meaning and message of each retrograde period will be indicated by what sign or signs Mercury is moving backwards through, and for each of us individually by what house or houses of your chart it is moving through as well.

No matter what, the Mercury retrograde period presents an opportunity for everyone to become more reflective and pensive, more drawn to and more able to take advantage of this time of introspection, so as to help clear up poor thinking or communication by self-critical analysis. In so doing, your manner of observing, thinking, and communicating with one another is improved and uplifted.

But each period also requires that we remember that the “weather” has changed for one and all, and although everyone is affected by this shift of energy-forms, many do not know what is happening or how to manage it. That is why we experience a rise in miscommunications and a surge of misunderstandings in the world generally. In each encounter between one person and another, the general condition for all minds means that either one or both individuals are not receiving as well as they might think, nor are they transmitting as well as they should.

So, during these periods we should use this time for mindful, thoughtful self-renewal, but when engaged in communications with others we must strive to listen or read more carefully and speak or write more clearly.

The first Mercury retrograde of 2024 begins on April 1^st and ends on April 25^th, with Mercury moving from 27 degrees of Aries back to 16 degrees of Aries. Whatever area of your chart this involves, by which I mean whatever house or house it is moving through and what planets it may contact, you will find it important or necessary to review and revise your thoughts about this area of your life. For one and all, since this retrograde is in Aries, behind the issues being addressed will be the Aries experience of being more mindful of your “presence”, by your attitude and demeanor, so that you can meet each moment of the eternal now in the most meaningful manner.

The second Mercury retrograde begins early on August 5^th for the USA east coast, but in the late evening of the 4^th for the rest of the USA, moving from 4 degrees of Virgo back to 21 degrees of Leo when it turns direct on August 28th. Again, whatever area of your chart this involves you will need to review and revise your understanding of that. For one and for all, since this retrograde involves both Virgo and Leo, it will encompass and link both sign’s meanings. For the Virgo phase, a time to reflect and amend the “order” of one’s life, to strive to maintain or bring into greater integration all the parts of your life, and during the Leo phase to reflect on the meaning of respect for oneself and for one another.

The third and final Mercury retrograde begins on November 25, and ends on December 15^th, moving from 23 degrees Sagittarius back to 6 degrees Sagittarius. As before, whatever area of your chart this involves, you should use these three weeks to reflect and revise your understanding of that. For one and all, the retrograde through Sagittarius will provide a period to question the hierarchy of truths and beliefs that form and guide your understanding and actions.

Jupiter
The planet Jupiter is the largest in our solar system and completes an orbit of the Sun roughly every 12 years. That means Jupiter will spend about one year in each sign. Since May 16, 2023, Jupiter has been in the sign of Taurus. It will enter Gemini on May 25, 2024, and remain there until it moves into Cancer on June 9, 2025.

Jupiter is the pathway to and the vessel of Truth, whether those truths be Spiritual or Metaphysical or Scientific or Cultural. Whatever sign your Jupiter is in your chart, it will indicate the type of truths you will guide your life by, and the pathway you will follow to reach a greater understanding. But just as there are many paths that will lead us to our eventual awakening, we should be open each year to the various forms of truth that Jupiter will hold for us as it moves through the signs.

When Jupiter is in Taurus, it will foster a purposeful and persistent search for the truth. Those who have Jupiter in Taurus will hold to a firm belief in Teachings and Values that are Eternal. Any individual with Jupiter in Taurus has an underlying optimism and faith in humanity, or really in all of life or Spirit. Most individuals with Jupiter in Taurus have an abiding belief that humanity is on a continuous and upward path that will lead to the fulfillment of some form of a Divine Plan. During this past year and until May 25^th, humanity has been influenced by Jupiter to follow a path to Truth that is founded and forged by Everlasting Value, which is of course Divine Love.

When Jupiter is in Gemini, it will foster a path of development that is formed by an insatiable curiosity and constant exchange of information. Any individual with Jupiter in Gemini will be more able to take the often-times chaotic multiplicities of inputs from the universe and be more capable of organizing and giving them coherent meanings, whereas for many for others they might experience this surge of energy as noise or even chaos.

During the upcoming period of Jupiter in Gemini, humanity will be influenced to follow a path to Truth that is filled with insatiable curiosity and wonder. The injunction with Jupiter in Gemini is that no matter what level of understanding you have achieved, in order to remain true to your spiritual nature you must follow the eternal Voice of the Silence which whispers, “Walk On!” Those who claim to have all the answers will be seen for who they truly are, they know nothing.

Moreover, 2024 will be the first of the four major alignments that Jupiter will make with Saturn during their cycle of 20 years, which is the waxing square. The beginning of their last cycle in December of 2020 was historic, as it was the start of a new 200-year cycle of Jupiter and Saturn conjunctions in the Air signs, starting with Aquarius. The previous conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn were: 1980-81, 1961, 1940-41 and 1921. And the moments like our own of previous waxing squares were: 1986, 1965, 1945 and 1926.

What was released at the end of 2020 has reached a critical turning point. The opportunity is put before us to choose which way we will go now, either to rise with courage and faith, or to fall backwards because of fear.

The waxing square presents us with a challenge, whether we should choose one way or the other, or whether we can find a way to hold together two very different energy-forms, to find a way to blend two very different messages and ways of acting in order to meet this moment of the challenges laid before us, (and we must always remember that those real challenges are what we forged in the past by our prior actions and inactions).

The question posed by the square is in our case between Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Gemini. If we can find a way to hold them together, we will find the wisdom that is there on the middle path of spirit. If we choose to hold to one and deny the other, then we will likely fail to make the most of the choices we need to make. 

Since Saturn is the “slower” moving planet in this pairing, we should consider that its meaning and message should shape and guide the expression of Jupiter as we face whatever challenge is before us. Saturn in Pisces reminds you of your ultimate test, which is that the only thing you have to fear is fear itself. That means if are you still a captive of fear, circumscribed by your own self-cast shadows and a fear-filled fatalist about your life, if this is so you will be unable to pierce through the cacophony of Jupiter in Gemini, with those countless points of views and distractions will lead you into a morass of half-truths and confusion.

But if you have begun to understand that you are a Creator/Dreamer, who has a living faith that is founded upon your Immortal spiritual nature, then you will know that you have nothing to fear whatsoever. Anchored by your higher self, you will be able to discern fact from fiction, truth from half-truths, and you will know in your heart and in your mind what you must do. You will see through the shadows and fog, and the bright shining light that is there within every one of us, the light sublime, Divine Unconditional Love, will inspire your thoughts and guide your steps as you meet the choices that 2024 will bring.

May the Light of Truth, Love and Understanding be with you all, now and forever more.

May it be.

Bill Attride : 2024 Astrological Forecast -- The Suzane Northrop Show

This month, Suzane welcomes a special guest, Bill Attride to discuss the possibilities for 2024.

Bill is known for his unique integration of the spiritual and the psychological dimensions of Astrology. He has been featured in articles in such diverse publications as New Woman Magazine, Avenue Magazine and the Sunday Business section of The New York Times.

Bill is a brilliant astrologer who can shed further light on what to expect in 2024. Suzane had Bill on as her guest for the first show of the last several years; he got great reviews each time, so he is returning for Suzane's first show of 2024!

Join me tonight on Suzane's BlogTalk radio show at 6 pm EST.

Here is the link to her show: 

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/suzanenorthrop/2024/01/15/bill-attride-2024-astrological-forecast--the-suzane-northrop-show

 

Astrological Musings — 2024 Preview, a look ahead (January 7, 2024)

In my first show of 2024, we will consider the planetary indications for 2024 (and beyond).

Among the more significant factors we will look at are the Solar and Lunar Eclipses and Mercury in retrograde periods. Jupiter will be moving into Gemini and squaring Saturn, which is their first major aspect since their conjunction in 2020. And Saturn will be making its first significant alignment with Pluto since their conjunction in 2020 too.

2024 is also the final year of Pluto’s transitioning from Capricorn into Aquarius, and 2024 will be the last year before Uranus begins to move into Gemini and the last year before Neptune begins to move into Aries. If we have time, I might begin to address the 2024 major influences in the USA chart as well.

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 January 7^th @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2024/01/07/astrological-musings-2024-preview-a-look-ahead

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 January 7^th @ 2 pm EST as we look at the current astrological indications and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be available as a Podcast shortly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Podcasts.

Happy New Year! (January 1, 2024)

Sun Enters Capricorn – The Solstice (December 21, 2023)

The Path of Wisdom

The Sun “stands still”, and the whole world waits. As the shadows grow longer and as the light of our world grows fainter by the day, we look for a sign, we wait for a signal, because we need to know that life and light will prevail, and that our pathway will become bright and beautiful once more. For the next few days, the Sun will set at the same point on the horizon, as the word “solstice” literally means “sun stands still”. But on the third or fourth day, around December 25^th every year, the Sun will begin to set further and further to the north, and the days will grow longer…and “the Light” of our world will return once more.

Today we begin our time in the realm of Capricorn, and at this time of year, and also somewhere in your very own chart too, we should bow our heads and get down upon our knees and give thanks and praise to the Eternal, which is the everlasting light of the Divine that shines in and through every one of us and equally throughout all the realms of Creation too.

Yes, the light divine is there in the Sun, but it is also found within every speck and mote of Creation, from the most infinitesimal of parts of the universe on up to the countless galaxies, because what forms every monad of the cosmos is the eternal light of the One, which we humans feel and experience as the unconditional Love that made all of this and forms us too.

You have spent the last 30 days in the fiery realm of Sagittarius, where you found the meanings of your life, where you shared your story and found the stories and truths of the universe, and more personally understood “the what and the why” of you as well. But having understood this truth of who and what you are, you should also know that it is not enough to simply know the truth, no that is not nearly enough. You are the living spirit, and your purpose is to align yourself with your higher self, so that you become, day after day and in life after life, an ever more perfect embodiment of everlasting truth too.

This is the realm of Capricorn, and this fourth “portal of identity” holds the key to your destiny. The four portal points are: “who am I, who are you, where did I come from, where am I going?” Yes, it is here at the fourth turning that you must seek to understand the meaning of your life, to know your purpose and your path. But truly where you are going is bound forever to where you began, because it is your origin and your essential nature which form the path that you are on. And what is this seed? It is that you began as a unique, luminous spark of the Divine, a monad winging its way through creation. Your destiny is to be the quintessence of your spark of the divine, which is exemplified by you becoming an ever more conscious co-creator of Creation.

Then long, long ago you moved into the realm of beings who have reached self-awareness, and you became consciously responsible for your thoughts and deeds. You became more capable and responsible for your development, and equally and most importantly, you understood that because you are human, you are also responsible for the development of one another too. You do not journey alone, and you could not be human without one another as you have each become part of one another in life after life. Yes, the only way you became a better human was by shaping, informing, and loving one another too.

By word and by deed, you have made what you are today. Day by day and life after life, you have learned from your past mistakes, and that by failing and falling and rising again, by learning what not to do and how to do better, you have become a better you. This is the fundamental truth found in “The Law of Karma”. Quite simply and equitably it holds the entirety of Creation by the universal law of “cause and effect”, so that “whatever you sow, so shall you reap”.

But think what this truly means. Your life is not “fated” because it is made by you; it is forged in the crucible of how you lived and live your life. Whatever is before you today, that is determined by what you set in motion before; and the future that you will meet tomorrow, that is being made by your conduct today. The awareness forged in Capricorn is that you are responsible for what you were and what you will become. Though many will say that the measure of self-worth is found in fame or fortune or power. But what we find by Capricorn is that the true purpose of your life is to remain true to oneself, to hold to the path of Self-Fulfillment; the worth of you is forged by being a better you day after day.

As much as Sagittarius is the sign of the search for and sharing of the Truth, Capricorn’s realm is where the truth is made real by your becoming and being this truth, so that truth is lived. The climb to self-mastery is arduous but rewarding because the end result is that you will become a sage, a truly wise one.

How will you know that you are moving towards your fulfillment? The truly wise are not proud or boastful, they do not claim to have all the answers or perfection. They will always offer their support and guidance to those who ask for it, but they will give their help with kindliness and gentleness, with the compassion born of what they know you have endured and what still lies before you. They will always extend a loving, helping hand because they are what you will be one day. Yes, as much as we are to be lovers of wisdom, the wise know the heart of the teaching, which is the wisdom of love.

Yes, you have made you. And you are what you are as revealed by your motivations and your intentions, in the manner of your bearing or what we understand as “Character”, which is the emotional and the intellectual, the moral and the spiritual stature that you embody. You stand revealed by your understanding and moral compass, and from these qualities and by your shining example of fulfilling your responsibilities, you will take your place in the Hierarchy of Light and Love, as you weave your path into the paths of each and every one of us, and to the One who holds us all.

As the world waits today for a sign that the everlasting light will not fade away, we gather together and pledge to one another our devotion to the source of one and all:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light within the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds,

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts,

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known

Let purpose guide our wills,

The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.

From the center which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out,

And may it seal the door,

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 22, 2023)

 Jake Baddeley

The Story of Creation

Today you enter the realm of Sagittarius, and at this time of the year, and ever present somewhere in your very own chart too, you seek to understand who we are and why we are here. You look within for answers, and outwardly to the worlds around you, and most importantly you share with one another too.

We do this because it is how we became human. We are made by our relationships, we are formed by shared experiences and realities, and we have told our stories which shaped and formed what it means to be human continuously. It is in Sagittarius that we hold our wealth of experiences. Whether by petroglyphs, pottery, or paintings, or by song, opera, dance, or by fictions and non-fictions, or through spirituality, philosophy, math, science, numbers, in all these ways of weaving our story we have shared our knowledge and wisdom. We are what we made of ourselves, and this is our human story.

You have just left the time and space of Scorpio. It is there that you experience the forge of Spirit, which is that all of Creation is formed and driven by the power of Alchemy, which is the mystery and majesty of combination. Yes, all that is, from the most infinitesimal to the most celestial, all of this is Spirit arranged into the numerous hierarchies of the manifest, from the densest to the most ethereal, and all of “that” is in a constant state of unfolding, combining, and transforming.

What we experience for ourselves, and all that we perceive in the worlds around us, is what I like to call “the dance of spirit” through the many forms of matter. This is the fundamental Story of Creation, that from the One came each and every monad of spirit ceaselessly moving many forms or temples of manifestation. And for each particle of Spirit, for every spark of the Divine, they must leave any matter-form once it has outlived and served its purpose. What we witness in all the hierarchies of Creation is a series of forms and lives one after the other, which we experience as the ever-unfolding path of birth, death, and rebirth forever and ever.

Yes, it is in Scorpio that you “meet the truth”, that you are an Immortal in a mortal body. And that your life will be lived bound to this reality: if you have Joy, you will experience Pain, and if you have Love, you will experience Loss. This is the gift of becoming self-aware, so that in any moment when you find yourself with such a pain or loss, but also when you experience an unimaginable joy too, you are moved into an altered space, to a realm beyond words. You have to wait for your feeling to become an intuition, and that intuition to become a thought, and that thought to become part of your story, and then your story can become part of the knowledge and wisdom of the world too.

Now you enter the realm of Sagittarius; here are found the Temples of Truth. Because your journey is part of the human journey, and many, many souls have come this way before. Yes, the truth of much has been discovered (and rediscovered) and is held in the great teachings of the ages. The greatest sages that we know such as Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zoroaster, Pythagoras and so many others known (and so many more who are not), held high the lamp of truth for us to find our way.

But what these known and unknown “keepers of the flame” found is what you will find too, that Truth is omnipresent and everlasting. Why, because it forms the very substance and meaning of the Universe. The truth is out there, and it is within you too, as it forms the warp and weft of the entire universe. That is why you can perceive it, that is why you can know the truth. Because what you see out there in the stars above is the same truth that shines in your very own heart too.

At the root of it all, is the Divine Light of the One, the same light that is your higher self, and who forever guides your journey of awakening. From life to life, the path you follow is forged by you as you listen to the Eternal Light within yourself as you see it equally shining all around you too…yes, the whole of the Universe is “shining” with the Light of the One.

It is by reaching within, and equally by reaching out to one another, it is by this weaving of your story and by all these stories of Creation, it is by this that you will slowly but surely move forward with Love and Humility to Wisdom and Peace.

This is the gift of Sagittarius.

This is the Story of Creation.

2023-10-29 Radio Show Transcript — The Pulse of Life and the Astrological Cycles of Order and Disorder

Astrological Musings — The Pulse of Life and the Astrological Cycles of Order and Disorder (October 29, 2023)

(If you wish to listen to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Podcasts)

I thought it would be helpful after my last show to pull back once again and take in a larger perspective so that we might see how the planets are shaping and informing the circumstances of our past, present, and future. As you know by now, I find that what is most significant for our understanding of these influences is formed by two factors, the zodiacal positions of the major outer planets, combined with their intersecting series of alignments or aspects, and it this sign/aspect combination which shapes and forms the energies and influences in any particular period.

The dance of the planets, what we might also call the Pulse of Life, is formed on the deepest levels by Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus because they, both individually and through their combinations with one another, create the long wave influences that inform and shape the rise and fall of peoples, cultures, and civilizations throughout history. I will review where we are now as understood by this patternmaking today, but I also want to speak about another indicator that some mundane astrologers use to understand the tides of history over the centuries. I believe you may find the Cyclic Index intuitively instructive and helpful in understanding where we have come from and what may lie ahead for us all.

Pluto
We begin, as usual, with the Long-Wave planets Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus, by looking at both their individual positions and by their cycles of relationship with one another. Pluto has begun the transition from the sign of Capricorn, (where it has been since 2008), into the sign of Aquarius where it will remain from 2024 to 2044. If we look at its previous passage in Aquarius from 1778-1798, we can certainly note that it was a very eventful time in the world indeed, encompassing in the Western hemisphere both the American and French Revolutions which led to the continental wide wars of Napoleon Bonaparte.

When we look at the past historical periods of Pluto in Capricorn, it consistently heralds the time when a particular institutional order for society, (the institutions of family, community, economic, and political), begin to fundamentally break down. Why is that? It is because these structures formed to meet human needs were established in the late 1700’s and 1800’s. This institutional order was made to fit and to meet the needs of that time. But now we and the world have changed so very much that these systems and structures can no longer meet our needs, they are inadequate. Sometimes it is they, and their products or services, that have become the very source of some of our problems today.

With the advent of Pluto in Aquarius, we might hope and believe that our world would move away from the turbulence of recent memory and back to a more integrative and peaceful time. But if history is any guide, we are probably going to be faced with some very great challenges indeed, just as our ancestors did in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. We do not merely emerge from a broken system into a fully functional paradigm of meaning and order.

Why? Because while it is certainly hard to maintain an orderly life as an institutional order unravels, and it is painful and hard to let go of what you knew and counted on…yes, it is hard to say goodbye. But if you think that the passing of an age takes fortitude and strength, I think we will find that a greater courage and vision will be needed to build our New World as Pluto moves into Aquarius. It is always harder to build than to destroy. But at least we can take comfort from the truth that we will be moving forward with the hope for a better tomorrow, and not living with regret for what is lost or escaping into delusions of a world that never was.

Neptune
Meanwhile, Neptune is finishing its journey through Pisces, which is from 2011 to 2025-26, (with its previous passages being from 1848-1862 and 1685-1698, and the one I believe that is very much like our own, because it was also a time with Pluto in Capricorn, and that was 1521-1535). With Neptune in Pisces, the veil between our worlds and between one another has become so very permeable that we find ourselves in a veritable sea of illuminations and illusions, with visions of the greater community of spirit colliding with divisions formed by fears founded in half-truths and lies. What we will find is that as Neptune moves into Aries from 2026 to 2039, we will see a new vision of the world and of ourselves begin to unfold, as we move away from doubts into certainties, from a sea of confusion into a call to take up our mission to build the “new world”. And this will bring a welcome relief to many, but it is certainly not an indicator of “peace in our time”. No, the fight over the future will certainly break the old order and realign peoples and nations as it has done before, in fact as it did so in the previous periods of 1862-1875, during and after our Civil War, and from 1698-1712, which witnessed a European Wide War over the Spanish Succession, and from 1535-1548, with an existential struggle between the Catholic and Protestant orders in Europe, and again it is this period is the one most like our time when Pluto was in Aquarius as it will be now.

Uranus
And thirdly, we have Uranus moving through the sign of Taurus now from 2018 to 2026, (with previous passages being 1935-1942 and 1851-1859), and it is historically significant that each of these Uranian passages, modulated through Taurus which is the sign of Value, accompanied major dislocations, disruptions, and upheavals for the experience of value in each of those periods (and I would certainly think we would all agree in our time too).

Cycles of Relationship
What is also very instructive and special about our time, and also significant in forming the Cyclic Index Indicator that we are going to examine next, is that we have had all three outer planets form their conjunctions with one another over the past century. That is all of them began a new cycle of relationship in the last 130 years or so.

Neptune/Pluto
The most important marker of periods roughly every 500 years is the Neptune/Pluto cycle. Their last conjunction took place in 1891-92 in Gemini, and it really is a better moment to mark the beginning of the so-called millennium than the year 2000. The previous conjunctions were 1398, which also heralded the start of Neptune/Pluto series of conjunctions in Gemini, whereas the previous conjunctions were in Taurus in 905, 411, then 84 BCE, and the “great one” of 578 BCE, which is when all three outer planets formed a grand triple conjunction in Taurus, and as I have noted before corresponded to the time of Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zoroaster and Pythagoras and many others who “sowed the seeds” for the quickening of our civilization.

This is the fundamental cyclic relationship governing our history, the root cycle formed by the relationship between Spiritual Will (Pluto) and Unconditional Love (Neptune), or how the universal substance-energy which is the Divine Light or Love is shaped by the many hosts of willing beings in our solar system, and for us by we humans. Pluto brings about transformations for the very structuring of societies and cultures, and Neptune provides the dreams, visions and inspirations that are informing these transformations of the containers of reality shaped by Pluto.

Their cycle, like any cycle, will go through various stages from conjunction to the next conjunction, formed by the waxing semi-square, to the sextile (where we have been since the 1950’s) to the square, to the trine and finally to the opposition and then back again to the next conjunction. Perhaps in a later show, we can examine this series of aspects for the previous cycle from 1398 to 1891, and then compare it to our own so far, and also fold in the relevant cycle relationships of the next two pairs.

Uranus/Neptune
The second of the big three cycles begins at the conjunction of Uranus with Neptune, and their cycle is about 170 years. Their last conjunction was in 1993 in the sign of Capricorn. The previous conjunctions were 1821 also in Capricorn, 1650 in Sagittarius and 1478 in Scorpio. This is the cycle of relationship formed by the relationship between Freer Mind (Uranus) and Unconditional Love (Neptune), manifesting culturally and spiritually as the interweaving balance between Individuality and Communality. The combination of Uranus and Neptune reveals the ongoing dynamic relationship between Reason and Faith, Science and Spirituality, and one could see their dynamic dance as forming what we might call the worldview or paradigm (or paradigms) of an age. A new paradigm of meaning was formed and guided the world starting in 1821; that one has ended now and a new one is unfolding, and it is slowly revealing itself and becoming more evident now that we are 30 years from their last conjunction in 1993.

Uranus/Pluto
And then we have the third major cycle which begins at a Uranus/Pluto conjunction, and their cycle of relationship is on average about 125 years. Their most recent conjunction was in 1965-66 in Virgo. The previous conjunctions were 1850 in Aries, 1710 in Leo and 1598 in Aries. Their combination forms the relationship cycle between the Spiritual Will and Freer Mind, and we can see that in history it forms an indicator of a radical change, at times revolutionary or sometimes reactionary, and often both! Whereas the Neptune/Pluto combination provides the overall structuring and restructuring of a 500-year period, the Uranus/Pluto combination creates more bursts or breaks in the energy and form of a people or culture, whether that is being made by a new idea forcing its way into an old structure to break it apart, or by a reaction to new ideas that meets with the Will of the old regime as a counterrevolution with conservatism fighting to restore or maintain an old order.

Cyclic Indicator Index
Now after this review of the three outer planets and where we are now, I want to include this other technique for evaluating what we might call the balance of energies, of expansion and contraction, of greater integration or disintegration as shown by what is called the Cyclic Index Indicator.

What the Cyclic Indicator reveals is a general index of the state of planetary influences, and it is created by adding up each planet’s position relative to the others. What we do is add the degree separating each planet from another, 10 degrees, 90 degrees on up to 180 degrees, so that by this method we are getting a final summation number that shows how spread apart or close together the planets are from another.

For example, for the outermost planets, we take Uranus and see how many degrees it is from Neptune and note that, and then how many degrees from Pluto and then add that together to form one value. Then we do the same for the separation of Neptune to Pluto, and that becomes another number. We add those all together to get the complete Long-Wave Number for that moment.

Then we do the same for the three combinations of Saturn with Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Finally, we add Jupiter to the mix by determining how far it is from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. What we have created by all those additions of the separations of planets to each other is what mundane astrologers call the Cyclic Index.

What we will find is that in periods of time when the overall spacing of the planets is growing, that they are each more spread apart from one another in the Zodiac, that those periods coincide with historical conditions that are more positive, more conducive to growth, more integrated with one another. And when the spread between all the outer planets is declining, we seem to move into historical periods of more disorder, of greater disintegration and loss.

Intuitively it makes sense, that when there are more points of connectivity that can inform and balance out one another, a greater potential for the integration of the whole is made possible. And when the planets “clump” together, there is a greater imbalance and lower level of integration and greater instability.

Let’s examine then what it shows for recent historical periods (and here I will just note the most significant events in any period), and then let us take a look at our own moment and what the Cyclic Index shows for our future. Historically, the index can reach its lowest levels when the planets are most concentrated or closer together (and therefore potentially more unstable), and this will happen when the three outer planets reach their conjunctions with one another. In fact, with two of those outer conjunctions occurring in the 1960’s and the 1990’s for us, this alone can account for how challenging our time has been. But the planets can also be spaced apart for some time, and then the index moves less up or down, and then it will eventually return to a more challenging period when they move closer to one another producing sharper swings in the index.

Cyclic Index Periods
Looking at the 20^th century, the Cyclic Index had been climbing since the 1880’s and 1890’s, but turns downward from 1901 to 1907, then it rises again and then plummets downwards from 1913 to 1919, or the First World War.

It turns upwards until the late 1920’s, moves down into 1932 which saw the Great Depression, moves up somewhat until 1938-39, and then plummets down again, (and far worse than in 1913-1919), to reach a bottom point in 1944 where it begins to climb again. This is the period of World War II.

It turns down again in 1951-52, reaching the bottom around 1956. This is the Korean War and other Cold War clashes. It then rises from the mid 1950’s until around 1964-65, when it turns down again until 1970-71. This was the Vietnam War.

It rises up once more, then turns and plummets quite strongly from 1976 to 1983. This was the period characterized by both inflation and stagnation in the US economy, termed Stagflation, principally created in the real world by the unfunded debts of the Vietnam war and other political-economic struggles.

Then the index rose from 1983 to 1990, then it turned downward until 1997. Though the USA and much of the world was benefiting in the 1990’s from the end of the Cold War due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, throughout the world regions were facing disruption and chaos in such events as the First Gulf War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Congo Wars, and many others.

The index turned upward around 1997-98 and continued to climb until 2003. This was the beginning of the War on Terror, with the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the beginning of the Iraq War.

The index turned down again in 2003 until 2010. This period saw the Iraq war fuel a rise in Islamic terror driven by Sunni/Shite struggles for power, (which would eventually lead to the rise of ISIS), and the mortgage debt bubble bursting forcing the USA, (and the much of the world), into what many have called “the second great depression”.

The Index rose from 2010 through 2014, which saw the slow recovery of the USA economy but equally the rise of the Tea Party movement and a rising battle over the political structure in the USA between majoritarian versus minority control for the states and federal governmental structures.

The Index has fallen from 2014 to, well, to just now in 2023-24, as it has slowly begun to turn upwards at this point. As in the past, the turning upward of the index does not appear to be evident until a year or more afterwards, (just like when it turns downwards, it takes time for that to be fully appreciated as well).

The Index will continue upward from 2024-25 until 2030-31. Does this mean we can expect that our general conditions will improve? Though the Index is one among many factors to consider, we can at least hope that its general indication for the tenor of the times may promise an improving world condition over the next many years ahead.

Moreover, whereas earlier in the 1800’s and 1900’s there were larger swings in the index and deeper dips, the index is now moving into a more constrained up and down pattern as we move through the rest of the 21^st century. Perhaps this too promises a stronger likelihood of integration and balance for the future.

But of course, these methods of trying to understand our world, as revealed by the individual planets, and by the planetary pairings, along with the Cyclic Index, do not and cannot reveal the content of our lives and the reality we face. That content, our lives, and our world is made by us, and what we create or destroy depends upon how we understand and respond to so many influences and energy-forms that we are experiencing and that we are also creating too.

If we choose the path of Light and Love, if we choose to understand, and forgive we can move forward, as we take and make the very best from these avatars of spirit that hold the story of Creation for us.

Let us live and learn to dedicate our lives to do what we came here to do, which is quite simply yet profoundly to do one thing, we came to learn how to be a better human, and how to live on this planet with understanding and love.

Astrological Musings — The Pulse of Life and the Astrological Cycles of Order and Disorder

Astrological Musings — The Pulse of Life, Astrological Cycles of Order and Disorder and the Astrological Cyclic Index

In my sixth show of 2023, I thought it would be helpful to pull back once again to take a look at the “big picture”, that is to look at the major planetary influences and their historical significance for us. Along with the usual big three of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, I also want to include something we have not considered before, which is the general index of planetary influences which mundane astrologers call the Cyclic Index. What might it indicate for our period, and how does our period compare to those of earlier historical moments? What do we mean or understand as Order and Disorder. Tune in and find out.

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].

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Sun Enters Scorpio (October 23, 2023)

The Forge of Creation

Today we enter the realm of Scorpio. For the next 30 days, and forever present and ever active somewhere in your own chart too, we bow our heads to the source of all meanings, to the seed of all truths. Yes, it is in Scorpio, the deepest realm in the Circle of the Living Ones, it is here where we meet the mystery and find revealed the majesty of Creation; it is here, behind one and all, that we stand in the everlasting light that forms the beating heart of Spirit.

In the time and place of Libra, you make yourself ready for this moment of consummation. You form the spaces of your relationships, with your family, friends, colleagues, loved ones, and strangers too. Libra is the vessel, the space that you make where you will meet one another. And it is there that the magic can happen, formed by consideration and love, you shape the vessel of your creation, this space of relationship, guided and formed according to what you offer and what you ask of each other.

But Scorpio is the experience, the process, the magic itself that is the science of Chemistry, the mystery that is Alchemy. Because the source of Creation, the protean force which fuels the stars, and you and me, is the combining, fusing, and joining of one with another. How any monad actually combines with any another, whether that be an atom with an atom, a molecule with a molecule, or a being with a being, ranging all the way up to the greatest hosts of Creation, this is the Forge of Creation, this is Scorpio’s realm.

From the mightiest to the miniscule, the whole of the Cosmos is the story of the One made manifest by all of the greater and lesser ones becoming what and who they are by and through joining with one another, in the mystery of combination, by the magic of Alchemy; the story of the Cosmos is forged in the sacred crucible of Union.

For us humans, with our hearts and minds to guide us, we endeavor to create our unions with understanding, with wisdom and care, with courage and humility. We know that it is here that the “magic” may happen, where through our joining with one another we will let go of that which is lesser within ourselves, and so discover the greater that is within us and between us too. Yes, here in the forge of creation, we know that in order to grow we must sacrifice something in order to make room for the magic of growth to appear.

The only thing we need to overcome, as always, is our fear. What if we reach out to them and they say no; what if we make a sacrifice and our union fails; what if…

In every sign, in every realm of life, there is opportunity and there is danger. We make our way upon the path of awakening by living in faith and turning away from our fear. In Scorpio, the root of our fear, the root of all fears, is met to be mastered. At some point, in every life, we face the irrefutable fact of our journey, that we are “Immortals in mortal frames”, and that all that we are and have will one day be no longer. Yes, the truth that is the root and fountain source of our need to understand, all our spiritual teachings, our religions, our philosophies, and sciences, all of our needing to know comes from this inescapable fact that our existence in this form and in this time will end.

And so here in Scorpio, we face our fear and find our faith. We feel the truth as much if not more than we know it or understand it, that will come later (in Sagittarius). We feel the truth by our very experience of self-transcendence in the forge of Spirit, in the mystery of Union, because we feel the illusion of our material forms as just that, an illusion. We feel the truth and we see it in one another’s eyes, in those precious moments when we join with one another and find ourselves more deeply than ever before through one another. It is then that we see the light, the eternal shining in each other’s eyes, the Light of the One, and we feel it through and through, and so we hold one another and forge our Faith that we are Immortals who are dancing through these mortal realms, and we have absolutely nothing to fear, because, because, we are made of this One, we are made and are remade by our everlasting Love.

So, turn to one another and join in celebration of Scorpio’s time, in that today we have one another and every moment we are here is precious. Let us join hands and lift one another to our greater life and create a more beautiful ray of everlasting light.

And when that time comes, for our paths to bend apart from one another again, let us not say goodbye, let us not weep and mourn, but in gratitude in grace face our parting with glad sadness. Let us feel the truth that stands behind the whole of Creation, made in the forge of Spirit, and lovingly say to one other “fare thee well my dearest one, until we meet again…may our love be as love must, may it be evermore, as we stand together in the light that will not fade away”.

May the Light of Truth, Love and Understanding be with you always.

Sun Enters Libra – The Equinox (September 23, 2023)

The Way of Being a Better You

Today we enter the second half of the Zodiac, and you can feel it in the air. The days and nights are equal, that magical play of lights and shadows is shifting once again, and so we should dance and sing and celebrate this new spiritual season. We should lift our hearts and bow our heads as we move through the gateway of the Equinox and into the sacred Sign of Libra.  

At this time every year, and forever also found somewhere in your own chart too, we need this gift of the spirit, perhaps more than ever, so that we may guide our steps upon the path of light, as we lift our hearts and minds, and turn to one another. Because now we enter this most special space, the space we made between I and thou, our luminous bridge of creation, our beautiful relationships.

But you must understand this essential truth, that we not only make this space that we live, work, and play in, but this space of relationship is also what made us into who we are too. We are here because of one another, and we are made by one another. Your experience of you would not be, and we could not become who we are meant to be, without this space where creation lives and where our dreams come true.

Since the beginning of our human journey, we have been formed and informed by all our relations, by our mother/father, by brother/sister, by our friends, by our colleagues, by strangers and by our dearest loved ones. Most of what we think and feel as ours, as our own creation, is truly made by our interrelationships with one another, and by this combining of our minds and hearts we have lifted one another up to our mutual self-fulfillment. It is in this special, sacred space of relationship that we create with one another; it is here we that we share and shape one another by our words and deeds, and so we move out of the illusion of our seeming separation from one another because we are made of one another, and we are truly inseparable.

Throughout the arc of each life, from the springtime of youth, through the summer of adulthood and into the fall of our later years, we are held in a hierarchy of relationships by those who care for us and those for whom we care. We meet one another in the space of relationship, to give and receive what we need from one another according to the nature and quality of our relationship. We form patterns of action and reaction, responding to one another, by giving and receiving, so as to foster our mutual growth and self-realization through sharing with one another.

But over time our patterns may become too fixed and determined, and if we are not attentive, we may move away from a truly living, adaptable relationship into one of ever more rigid reactions to one another. We may grow together, but we can also grow apart. We may deepen our understanding of one another or lose our way in a house of mirrors of misunderstandings.

This time and place of Libra reminds us that our relationships are just like us, and that they too are “living beings” of spiritual space filled and formed by energy-forms of our making, and we must tend to them just as much as we tend to ourselves. Just as we need to renew and refresh our own self, we need to equally help our spaces of relationship to grow and change too.

Use this time in Libra to reexamine all your relationships, as you will find the help you need now to break from old patterns of reaction and choose new responses to meeting one another’s needs.

Use the gift of Libra to grow into your better selves through one another, because, after all, we are the path, we are the way, to one another’s self-fulfillment.

Every one of us, and indeed all of the beings in this cosmos, are held together as the One Body, and the One Mind, and the One Spirit of Creation.

It is by Libra that we know and feel this essential truth of our spiritual nature, “that we are all related”.

We are here because of love. We are made by our love.

There is but one truth.

Love one another.