The Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it, The Spi­ral of Light and Love, The Way

The Sun stands Still…

And the World holds its breath.

As the shad­ows grow longer,

And nature waits for a sign,

You wait for the moment,

The return of your Star.

You have reached the last of the Four Great Turn­ings in the Astro­log­i­cal year: In Aries, Can­cer, Libra and Capri­corn you encounter the Inte­gral four-fold ques­tions that cir­cum­scribe your jour­ney through the stars. In Aries you won­der, “Who am I?”; in Libra you seek to know, “Who are We?”; in Can­cer you must dis­cov­er, “From Where did I Come?”; and in Capri­corn you seek to know the ulti­mate ques­tion, “What is my Destiny?”

This is the Car­di­nal Cross, the Four Sea­sons of each year and in all your lives. Each depends upon the oth­er, and from these sacred Four Direc­tions you find your way along this Path­way of Per­fec­tion, the Road of Illu­mi­na­tion, the Lumi­nous Rib­bon of Light and Spir­i­tu­al Love that is the Ethe­re­al Essence form­ing all of Creation.

Yes, we often think we are bound to our fate, as we strug­gle against the weight of the past, bur­dened by our errors, our sins and mis­for­tunes, our stum­bles and our fears. And, as the shad­ows fall, as they do right now, we feel bound and cir­cum­scribed by our piti­ful mea­gre form, and fear that our life is fat­ed, with­out essen­tial mer­it in an unfeel­ing, soul­less uni­verse which cares not for our future.

But you must know this: That the Uni­verse is Alive, it is Spir­it, and it is quite sim­ply formed of Life and Love. You have always known this, a deep and abid­ing feel­ing that there is some­thing more about all of this and of you. You and I are part of a Great Jour­ney with an infi­nite host of oth­er beings. From the small­est infin­i­tes­i­mals on up to Heav­en­ly Lords, the entire­ty of this Uni­verse is Spir­it-Life and it sings and thrills with Con­scious­ness. We are, as are all Life-Forms that form this Cos­mos, trav­el­ling through this Cre­ation in a great com­pa­ny, form­ing a Shim­mer­ing Rib­bon of Light that is ever bend­ing towards a Greater Awareness.

We are Beings of Light and Love who in our hearts and minds think of one thing in the end, we hold one thought and feel­ing above all the shad­ows and bur­dens of long ago…we are guid­ed from with­in by a yearn­ing, a cer­tain know­ing that there is a Des­tiny to all of this.

We can feel, even in our dark­est moments, and most cer­tain­ly shin­ing through in our great­est tri­umphs too, that there is a “Leav­en of Light” with­in, a Lumi­nous Sparkling in the heart of one and all, that this Light stretch­es back through ages and ages ago, and it calls to us equal­ly from the Future and from on High. We are all con­nect­ed, back­wards and for­wards upon this Rib­bon of Light and Love, and our Des­tiny is most assured. Our “North Star” is pulling us home­ward, back home to the ONE, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is beyond the bounds of Space-Time.

We should not look back­wards with fear or regrets at all, for we have learned in our over-com­ing, in our count­less tri­als and errors, in our stum­bles and falls, that this is pre­cise­ly how we rose to become what we are; we are what we have become because we fell and then we got up again, and again and again. Much like the sym­bol of Capri­corn, the goat, we climb high­er, and high­er, and higher…

But we did not, and can­not do this alone or for our­selves. We indeed stand upon all our own pri­or lives, this is most cer­tain­ly true. We have made our­selves what we are (self-lumi­nous), yet this is only because of count­less oth­ers whose well-won tri­umphs of Soul and Spir­it helped to light and lift us up too. Our tri­umph is theirs, and theirs is ours. We are made of one anoth­er, and all our feel­ings, thoughts and spir­i­tu­al strengths come from our many lives lived togeth­er; we have become what we are now because we lived for one and for all. Our shared aspi­ra­tions, dreams and life expe­ri­ences are what has lift­ed one anoth­er out of the dark­ness and into the Light.

And know this, Greater ones than us, both in bod­i­ly forms and beyond, have always extend­ed their hearts and hands to help us find our way. For those who have come this way know that they too were helped along this path; and, it is so with us, that we, in turn, will feel our kin­ship with all who fol­low, we will respond with Wis­dom and Love, and we will help those who fol­low, and so on, and so on.

This is the Gold­en Thread of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, this is the Hier­ar­chy of Mas­ters and Pupils, this is the path of Light and Love…and this, this is your Des­tiny. This is the Por­tal of Capri­corn; This is the Path of Mas­tery. This is the Wis­dom of Love.

The Path of Light and Love, The Riv­er of Shin­ing Ones is the road upon which you travel.

For some it is known as the Mid­dle Way, or The Noble Path, or The Red Road.

But most sim­ply and beau­ti­ful­ly, it is sim­ply “Tao”.

It is The Way.

It is from whence you came; and it is the way home.

It is your Destiny.

The Test of Responsibility — The Way of Self-Fulfillment

For almost three years, the plan­et of Real­i­ty and Test­ing, the Plan­et Sat­urn, has been sweep­ing through the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, the Sign of Truth. Look­ing at the world today, and con­sid­er­ing what we have come through in the past few years, one could hard­ly find a more fit­ting title for this recent peri­od than it being, on so many lev­els, from the most inti­mate mat­ters of per­son­al and sex­u­al con­sid­er­a­tions, to the most nation­al, polit­i­cal and geo-polit­i­cal realms, this has tru­ly been a time where we have wit­nessed “The Test of Truth”. The very def­i­n­i­tion of what is know­able, what is fact or fic­tion (like in “alter­na­tive facts”), of what is “tru­ly true” has been the under­ly­ing as well as over­ar­ch­ing theme for our time. It cer­tain­ly seems we have all been mov­ing through a time of great lessons, a tru­ly “teach­ing moment”. But now we must take our next step…

Today we turn to the next oppor­tu­ni­ty, chal­lenge and test from Sat­urn, today the lord of Man­i­fes­ta­tion and Real­i­ty moves into his very own sign of Capri­corn. (The most recent times for Sat­urn in Capri­corn have been: 1988–91, 1959–62, 1929–32…most inter­est­ing times indeed).

Sat­urn is the Avatar of your fun­da­men­tal test or great­est chal­lenge. But most won­der­ful­ly, (for this is how you grow), it is by this chal­lenge and your over­com­ing of it that forms the sub­stance of your spir­i­tu­al growth. As much as Sat­urn indi­cates where you may stum­ble and fall (again and again), it is also the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

For it is by your very stum­bling into error or fail­ures that you learn. You learn, most cer­tain­ly what “not to do”; and by tri­al and error, by wit and will, through love and inspi­ra­tion, you learn to do bet­ter and be bet­ter. Yes, your very fail­ures are the cru­cible to your self-over­com­ing; you lift your­self and one anoth­er up as you bur­nish off the dross of your being to reveal the divine light shin­ing through and through.

We can look at Sat­urn as the teacher or what I would call “The Black­smith”, like in steel-mak­ing, “The Tem­per­er” of your soul, of your Pur­pose and “The Keep­er” of your Path of Self-Fulfillment.

Con­sid­er this: on all the planes of exis­tence, from the Spir­i­tu­al to the Men­tal, from the Emo­tion­al to the Phys­i­cal, the “Laws of Life” oper­ate in much the same fash­ion. And so, with Sat­urn, the teacher, we can see these par­al­lels on each plane as it is on the phys­i­cal: The devel­op­ment of our bones and mus­cles are elicit­ed and stim­u­lat­ed by our exer­tions and phys­i­cal strain­ing, where­in the micro tear­ing of our mus­cles and oth­er fibers leads to their very renewal/rebuilding of our bod­ies into ever stronger forms. We tem­per our bod­ies by push­ing hard­er, we grow by tear­ing down and rebuild­ing. As the adage goes, “you use it or lose it”.

Well, this same prin­ci­ple applies to the oth­er planes upon which you abide. Your emo­tion­al shocks and trau­mas, lead to the devel­op­ment of our greater capac­i­ty to han­dle these chal­lenges in the future. And, most won­der­ful­ly, these very real pains and suf­fer­ings stim­u­late the growth of those spir­i­tu­al feel­ings that make you tru­ly human, your capac­i­ty for com­pas­sion, empa­thy and per­son­al love as well.

The chal­lenges thrown down by Intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, lead to the very devel­op­ment of more com­pre­hen­sive and com­plex con­nec­tions with­in your mind and between one anoth­er. Through men­tal striv­ings and intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, we help one anoth­er to move beyond our more lim­it­ed or nar­row under­stand­ings; we make pos­si­ble for one anoth­er our jour­ney to the Greater Understanding.

And like­wise, the man­i­fold and many-lay­ered spir­i­tu­al chal­lenges you are brought to, the ago­nies and ecstasies of your spir­i­tu­al strug­gles and their even­tu­al over-com­ing, these are the “Spir­i­tu­al Smithies” that devel­op your high­est and finest attrib­ut­es of self-sac­ri­fice and uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

All of these realms, from the phys­i­cal on up to the Spir­i­tu­al, and all of these tests and result­ing growths, can be seen as whol­ly or in part brought to bear in our lives by the move­ment of Sat­urn, mov­ing from Sign to Sign, and through the hous­es of your astro­log­i­cal chart. Sat­urn is the instru­ment of mak­ing real your poten­tials, of mak­ing man­i­fest your Spir­i­tu­al Destiny.

What is our Teacher ask­ing of us now? 

Where­as a plan­et in a Muta­ble Sign (like Gem­i­ni or Sagit­tar­ius) has much to do with mean­ing or under­stand­ing, the Car­di­nal Signs like Can­cer or here with Sat­urn in Capri­corn, are about Iden­ti­ty and Action. The ques­tion or test of Sat­urn in Capri­corn is the Test of Posi­tion, the Test of Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty. It reveals the worth­while­ness of the Hier­ar­chies of any soci­ety and cul­ture, the via­bil­i­ty and strength of a civilization’s Insti­tu­tions whether they be of the fam­i­ly or com­mu­ni­ty, Civ­il or Cor­po­rate, local or national.

Giv­en that we are also in this greater his­tor­i­cal tran­si­tion, of Pluto’s tran­sit through Capri­corn as well, (from 2008 to 2024, we are try­ing to find our way as the very sub­stance of the world order that came into being in the late 1700’s is being bro­ken down and trans­formed. And, as I have men­tioned in numer­ous shows and blog post­ings, we are here to wit­ness this end of an age and, most cer­tain­ly now, to help one anoth­er birth and become The New Age), it would fol­low that Sat­urn mov­ing into Capri­corn will bring about an inten­si­fi­ca­tion of this challenge.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn her­alds a time of Reck­on­ing: You must be true to your­self and to one anoth­er; you must be your truth and so rebuild your world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn asks you to do one thing: Be Respon­si­ble. Respon­si­bil­i­ty is found­ed upon one thing, a right align­ment with your true self, with the Light of Love that guides your heart.

If you want to know how you should be, and where you should go, you will learn much by look­ing back at from whence you came. Fol­low­ing that very prin­ci­ple or rea­son, oppo­site Astro­log­i­cal Signs inform one anoth­er. In Can­cer you find your way to meet the needs of one anoth­er in spon­ta­neous car­ing: As a par­ent, you move with­out thought to meet the needs of your child, as a friend you share and shape one another’s dreams, and with your part­ner you find your way to uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

But Capri­corn calls you to ful­fill the promise of Can­cer, that you take what was spon­ta­neous and pure and fold it into some­thing that will last. You take what was felt as pure and true and embody these ener­gy-forms into last­ing struc­tures of Cus­toms, Tra­di­tions, Laws and Insti­tu­tions. You are called by Sat­urn in Capri­corn to be respon­si­ble to your larg­er social circumstances.

Sat­urn rules Real­i­ty; Sat­urn is also the dark one, reveal­ing your “shad­ows of fear”. The insti­tu­tions of this age are trem­bling, crack­ing and seem­ing­ly fail­ing you…But know this, they were made by our ances­tors and by every one of us. If we wish our vil­lage, town, state and nation to be these larg­er instru­ments of our self-ful­fill­ment, then we must remem­ber what these things are for, to bring them back to their essen­tial spir­i­tu­al foun­da­tions. And then we must be that change with­in our­selves, with­in our own hearts and minds we will make our sal­va­tion, if we are to restore and rebuild our world.

The fault lies not in our things that we have made; and the fault lies not “in our stars”. The fault and solu­tion of our trou­bles lies in our own spir­i­tu­al aware­ness and prac­tice. The solu­tion for our Cri­sis of Civ­i­liza­tion is to be found in each and every human heart; the path of your heal­ing this world must start with our love for one another.

Your first respon­si­bil­i­ty is to your “Self”, to under­stand who and what you are and go out every day and strive to be the very best of that. Then, equal­ly and nat­u­ral­ly, your sec­ond respon­si­bil­i­ty is to care for one anoth­er, to help your part­ner, child, friend and neigh­bor to be the very best that they can be too.

Then you must bring this re-born spir­it into the very fibers of your life, into your most inti­mate rela­tion­ships, and then into your neigh­bor­hoods, your larg­er com­mu­ni­ties and through­out the world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn reminds you that it is time…

You are here for thing: “To be Fulfilled”.

You can­not do this if we do not do that for one and for all.

Extend a help­ing hand to those who fol­low behind you,

For you have been where they strug­gle now.

And look ahead and feel in your heart for those Great Ones who came this way before,

And know this, they will ever extend their help­ing hand to you too.

The Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love was, is and will for­ev­er thrill through One and for All.

For Spir­it is Life; and Life is Spir­it made real.

Forged from many into One, you will reveal the Light that for­ev­er shines.

Togeth­er, we will walk in brighter days,

Togeth­er, we will be the Dawn­ing Light,

Togeth­er, we will be builders of a brand New Age.

Saturn Enters Capricorn – The Test of Responsibility (December 19, 2017 – December 17, 2020)

The Test of Responsibility, The Gift of Self-Fulfillment

Today’s show will con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Sat­urn mov­ing from sign to sign, with a par­tic­u­lar focus upon the present shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn, which will occur on Decem­ber 19^th, 2017 and con­tin­ue until Decem­ber 17, 2020.

Sat­urn is the Avatar of your fun­da­men­tal test or great­est chal­lenge. But most won­der­ful­ly, (for this is how you grow), it is by this chal­lenge and your over­com­ing of it that forms the sub­stance of your spir­i­tu­al growth. As much as Sat­urn indi­cates where you may stum­ble and fall (again and again), it will become the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

We will look at Sat­urn in the Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac, and focus upon this shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn. For hav­ing con­sid­ered for over two years the ques­tion, “What is Truth?”, now you need to bring this Truth into your life. It is not enough to know the truth; you are here to become this Truth.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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 birth place, 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.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er the influ­ence of Sat­urn in your life.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/12/16/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-8-saturn-in-capricorn

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

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th!

Warm regards,

Bill

The Way to Wisdom

Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade in the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, (@29 degrees, 18 min­utes) on Decem­ber 2–3, and will turn direct in Sagit­tar­ius (@13 degrees) on Decem­ber 22. It is that time once again to turn your mind around, to be more inward­ly atten­tive and pen­sive. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­sid­er your per­cep­tions, assump­tions and thoughts; it is time to clear your mind of clut­ter once again.

As always, since every­one else will be sim­i­lar­ly altered in their bal­ance between out­ward atten­tive­ness and inward con­scious­ness, it will be even more impor­tant to care­ful­ly lis­ten to one anoth­er and to com­mu­ni­cate with them more care­ful­ly. Though mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tions hap­pen every day, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade can often fos­ter a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of mis­un­der­stand­ings. The result can be a series of mis­steps and mis­cues that can turn small errors into big­ger and big­ger mis­takes, and it can lead to great dam­age for your rela­tion­ships. The stress of errors builds with­in you, and between one anoth­er, and you (or they) may find your tol­er­ance and com­po­sure erode as you stum­ble into conflict.

Dur­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, you will cer­tain­ly need to adopt a more for­giv­ing atti­tude for your­self (and for one anoth­er), as these mis­steps mul­ti­ply and frus­tra­tions mount. With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, it will be even more impor­tant for you to prac­tice self-for­give­ness, and equal­ly extend your for­give­ness towards others.

Remem­ber, all of this is not the “fault” of Mer­cury, it is mere­ly because most of us do not remem­ber, per­ceive or under­stand what is hap­pen­ing; we tend to car­ry on each day as we did the day before, unaware of the changes that are con­stant­ly unfold­ing through the Ener­gy-Forms of Mercury.

Tru­ly, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should real­ly be under­stood as a pre­cious gift of the spir­it, as it encour­ages you to become ever more self-reflec­tive and self-cor­rec­tive. It is one of the prin­ci­pal means by which you will move towards greater self-mas­tery. You will know this self-mas­tery is real when your growth in Wis­dom is pro­por­tion­al­ly matched by your deep­en­ing sense of Humil­i­ty too. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade brings you an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make improvements/corrections in your con­scious­ness, which is essen­tial to your forg­ing a bet­ter under­stand­ing of your­self and of one another.

The entire ret­ro­grade takes place in the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, so the focus of your renew­al of aware­ness will most cer­tain­ly be upon the very nature of Truth and Under­stand­ing. You will need to re-con­sid­er the ves­sels of mean­ing that shape your beliefs, that form and inform your “facts”. Whether by Reli­gion or Sci­ence, Faith or Rea­son, the real­i­ty you are attempt­ing to nav­i­gate depends upon your lev­el of spir­i­tu­al con­scious­ness, and then you must align your under­stand­ing with those with whom you journey.

Most mis­un­der­stand­ings arise from an incom­plete foun­da­tion of shared prin­ci­ples, foun­da­tions and essen­tial truths. As a result, the very “facts” that each par­ty may hold can­not be aligned or agreed upon. The ques­tions boil down to what is real­ly “real”.

To help to over­come these mutu­al mis­per­cep­tions, fol­low the lead offered in Sagit­tar­ius and expand your per­cep­tion­al frames of ref­er­ence. Look first and fore­most to the Ancient Wis­dom found at the heart of every Reli­gion; and the Log­ic and Rea­son in the vast trea­sury of Philoso­phies and Sci­ences. Be hum­ble, as you walk upon an ancient road; count­less oth­ers have come this way before you. Many ques­tions have been asked, and answered. So, look to the Wise Ones for inspi­ra­tion, guid­ance and peace of mind.

With these ancient cer­tain­ties pro­vid­ing some com­mon base of con­text, it is best to step back and re-con­sid­er the present source of dis­cord. Try to start from some fun­da­men­tal truth or prin­ci­ple and build upon that. Estab­lish com­mon cen­ters and bound­aries to hold your thoughts in con­cert with one anoth­er. Then see where the mis­un­der­stand­ings arise in the areas of your unshared con­sid­er­a­tions. Bring mat­ters to a fuller illu­mi­na­tion by reduc­ing the fog of false assump­tions or false facts.

You are here to help one anoth­er in so many ways. One way is by shin­ing a light upon one another’s blind-spots, those self-cast shad­ows which often ensnare one or both of you in bub­bles of self-con­firm­ing errors of assump­tions. You are here for one anoth­er, and your aware­ness and wis­dom come pre­cise­ly through your pro­vid­ing a lit­tle more light, by illu­mi­nat­ing what is real­ly “real” for one another.

This is pre­cise­ly how you lift your aware­ness for one anoth­er. Remem­ber, the very word “Con­scious­ness” means “Togeth­er-Know­ing”, and it is only by being a light to one anoth­er that you can lift one anoth­er up to a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing. Only togeth­er can you advance upon the Path of Wis­dom, as you dis­pel the shad­ows and fogs of fear and bring one anoth­er clos­er to the ever­last­ing Light.

Give thanks to Mer­cury, the mes­sen­ger of the gods, who reminds you that your jour­ney requires that you con­stant­ly strive to illu­mi­nate the dark spaces in your own mind, and that you can only do this by help­ing one anoth­er too.

Remem­ber to first ques­tion your­self; then ask ques­tions of one another.

Be what you are, be a light for one another.

Remove the shad­ows of fear, those dim-lit echoes of your past misunderstandings.

Bow to the Wise Ones who came this way before.

Fol­low their exam­ple of Humil­i­ty and Grace.

Be open, be hum­ble and you will per­ceive the Light.

And togeth­er you will move along the Path of Wis­dom and Love.