Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Sun Enters Sagit­tar­ius and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions (Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24, 2018)

In my eleventh show of 2018, I will speak about the Sun enter­ing the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, and then look at what might mean for you by look­ing at Plan­ets in Sagit­tar­ius as well as the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius on the House cusps. I may also com­ment on recent shifts of Astro­log­i­cal weath­er such as Mer­cury turn­ing retrograde.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/24/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-sun-enters-sagittarius

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

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

“Once upon a time…”

That is how you began to under­stand, and how you will return home some­day. When you became self-aware, when you rose from inno­cence to self-con­scious­ness you became a sto­ry-teller, a keep­er of knowl­edge and a shar­er of wis­dom, and this marked the quick­en­ing of the divine with­in you. This is when you joined that sacred com­pa­ny, a pro­ces­sion of lumi­nous hosts who are con­scious co-cre­ators of Cre­ation too.

We have been sto­ry­tellers for a very, very long time. In sagas and songs, while hunt­ing and gath­er­ing, while plant­i­ng or reap­ing, when sit­ting around the camp­fire or break­ing bread togeth­er. We shared our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, we informed and reformed one anoth­er, and that is how we are the very instru­ments of awak­en­ing for one another.

We told our sto­ries and deep­ened our under­stand­ing of the world and of one anoth­er. We passed on by sounds, sym­bols and signs, in songs and sci­ence, in phi­los­o­phy and com­mon sense too. We dis­cov­ered and re-dis­cov­ered the sto­ry of us, the sto­ry of spirit.

And, most pre­cious­ly and lov­ing­ly, we were able to sip from the cup of Wis­dom offered by those who had come this way long ago. We laughed and cried and shared with one anoth­er, and as we woke up, we moved out of the dark­ness and into that divine space of the Creator…We began to con­scious­ly re-make our­selves and our world too.

Your jour­ney is found­ed upon a path of awak­en­ing, of mov­ing from unself-con­scious aware­ness to ful­ly formed Cos­mic Con­scious­ness. Yes, you have come a very long way, but you have fur­ther to go before you will be wel­comed into the Celes­tial com­pa­ny known as the Mas­ters of Com­pas­sion and Contemplation.

You have just com­plet­ed anoth­er ardu­ous pas­sage through the realm known as Scor­pio, where your mor­tal body and Immor­tal Soul meet in the cru­cible of Union with your beloved. You sought to bridge the seem­ing divide between your­self and one anoth­er. You faced the absolutes with­in and around you, of Dark­ness and Light, of Death and Re-birth and you were left speech­less by the agony and joy of your jour­ney, an Immor­tal who moves through these very mor­tal realms.

When­ev­er (and wher­ev­er in your chart) you find your­self in the realm of Scor­pio, you are able to lift the Veil of Isis and expe­ri­ence a lit­tle more of the mys­tery of Cre­ation. There are no words when you walk this razor’s edge of Life and Death. When you are in the In-Between, when you expe­ri­ence the Void and the Full­ness as One you are left speech­less, and this is how it should be. You stand in the pres­ence of that which is beyond what you can under­stand, and you must bow your head and wait for a greater understanding.

Today you move into the Realm of Sagit­tar­ius, the realm of Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion, and the Real­i­ty-Truth that stands behind them all. These form the Tem­ple of Light, and you will learn from ancient sages and mod­ern-day sci­en­tists, and you will give thanks to great schol­ars and your hum­ble fel­low seek­ers too. You will seek and search in ancient writ­ings and find they are echoed in mod­ern-day texts and tales. What is true does not change, it is only your under­stand­ing which becomes deep­er and more encom­pass­ing, and this will remind you that this gift of wis­dom is forged through the deep­en­ing of your humility.

And some of these truths, the most sacred, will be relayed in sto­ries whis­pered from “mouth to ear”, (for there are some things that may not be writ­ten down even now). From each of these paths you will even­tu­al­ly find your way to the one Eter­nal Path that holds them all. Yes, as you begin to awak­en, as your knowl­edge turns to the “Greater Under­stand­ing”, which is forged by Uncon­di­tion­al Love and held firm by your Cen­tered Will, you will enter that pre­cious realm that illu­mi­nates the fir­ma­ment like a Rib­bon of Light. Yes, you will enter the Inner Sanc­tum, the “holy of holies” formed by the Sages and Seers of the Ancient Wisdom.

For you must know this, you are not the first to come this way, and your civ­i­liza­tion is not the finest nor the high­est that has ever been. There are many great souls who have come this way before, who also strug­gled to lift the shad­ows from their minds and hearts and reach for the light as do you. They found, as you will too, that the truth “out there” was only able to be seen because it was equal­ly with­in their very own nature too.

There is but One Spir­it, One Life, and the One Force bind­ing all to all which is Love. That is why you can and will under­stand, and you will sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff dur­ing your jour­ney to the Light, because your Intu­ition and Mind will align to the truth with­in and around you, for “as Above, so Below”.

Today you begin to find your words and now you can tell your sto­ry. But know this, you must even more impor­tant­ly lis­ten to the count­less sto­ries of many, many oth­ers too. For this is how you refine your under­stand­ing, and how they refine theirs. Each of your dis­cov­er­ies and insights is only made pos­si­ble by your shar­ing, com­par­ing, con­trast­ing, cor­rect­ing and so mak­ing bet­ter your sto­ries with, by and for another.

This is your path of Truth. You can­not be you with­out one another.

You need one anoth­er because you have become who and what you are because of their sto­ries, as they need you because all your sto­ries have made them too.

It is time to gath­er together.

It is time to sing, and dance and break bread together.

It is time to tell our sto­ries to one another.

It is time to be thank­ful for one another.

It is time to remem­ber the Wis­dom of Love.

Peace of Mind

What I like to call “The Dance of the Plan­ets”, is cer­tain­ly evi­dent today! Venus, which has been sail­ing back­wards for over 40 days through Scor­pio, and more recent­ly Libra, turns Direct today; and, with­in hours of that shift Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade for 21 days, until Decem­ber 6^th. It is not often that you will expe­ri­ence a dou­ble-shift of plan­e­tary motions like this, so you would be wise to con­sid­er what these mod­u­la­tions mean for you.

The 42 days of Venus ret­ro­grade were a time to go with­in your­self, a pause to allow you to dig deep into the nature of your expe­ri­ence of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love. Venus is your Avatar of Love and she reminds you that with­in you is a Super­nal Light, which you will equal­ly see as the light shin­ing through the eyes of those who love you too.

With Venus ret­ro­grade, you were offered anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er the true nature and source of your Val­ue, which is that you are a spark of the Divine and your true worth or val­ue is beyond mea­sure; and to see that what is all around you, this radi­ant world of Beau­ty, is shin­ing pre­cise­ly because that same Divine ener­gy sparkles through the entire­ty of Cre­ation; and, to know that what is there with­in you, what you know and feel as the Love of the One, is equal­ly a guide for you as to how you must be with one anoth­er, for you are here quite sim­ply to love one anoth­er as you are loved too.

The les­son of Venus ret­ro­grade reminds you that “true love” is nev­er to be found “out there”, until you have met your beloved with­in you. Until you expe­ri­ence the inner mar­riage of your self with your Self, you can­not tru­ly see or find the love that is all around you too.

Now that Venus is mov­ing for­ward once again, you are ready to relate to your­self and your world with a new-found assur­ance of your own val­ue, which is beyond ques­tion­ing since you are formed by spir­i­tu­al love; and you have a bet­ter under­stand­ing and appre­ci­a­tion for the beau­ty in your world; and, you are more aware that the love you share with one anoth­er is the whole rea­son for this life, for you are tru­ly here for one another.

But today you will equal­ly feel a shud­der, shake (and you will have to roll), as Mer­cury paus­es and turns around one more time this year. Yes, yes it seems that when­ev­er this hap­pens life seems to get even more com­pli­cat­ed, con­fus­ing and frus­trat­ing. Although it seems “the grem­lins are let loose” dur­ing such a time, you should know by now that your fate is in your hands, and it is not Mercury’s pur­pose to mess with your life.

The rea­son life seems to become more chal­leng­ing at times like these is because you have failed to notice the chang­ing con­di­tions of your own mind, and equal­ly failed to appre­ci­ate how the gen­er­al men­tal­i­ty and nature of com­mu­ni­ca­tions have been altered. You are here to “Wake Up” and so you need to pay atten­tion to these shifts of ener­gy-forms and work with them. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is here to help you. It is here to help you to let go of your mis­un­der­stand­ings, doubts and fears which have pre­vent­ed you from liv­ing in the Greater Reality.

On the heels of re-eval­u­at­ing your expe­ri­ence of val­ue, beau­ty and love in Venus Ret­ro­grade, you will now be asked to con­sid­er once more the way in which you think about your­self and your world. That is what Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is for. It is meant to be a time of intro­spec­tion and reflec­tion; it is a pre­cious oppor­tu­ni­ty for review and repair of your per­cep­tions and consciousness.

If we lived in a cul­ture that accept­ed and accom­mo­dat­ed these shifts of spir­i­tu­al ener­gy, then we would all make time to calm­ly go with­in and earnest­ly con­sid­er how we make our real­i­ty through our thoughts. We would be able to bend our thoughts back upon our­selves and be more self-crit­i­cal and self-aware, as we qui­et­ly con­sid­ered and re-cen­tered our mentality.

But we live in a cul­ture that is careen­ing from one cri­sis to anoth­er, and we work hard­er and hard­er, live faster and faster, and there seems no time to catch one’s breath, let alone time to con­tem­plate, step back and con­sid­er what is real­ly hap­pen­ing. We are all “in the moment”, but we are rarely present or pre­pared to make the best of it before the next shock to our equi­lib­ri­um is upon us. But you must remem­ber this, the only thing you can and must con­trol is your­self, and this starts with your mind.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade offers you a time to pause pre­cise­ly because you can­not “go for­ward” eas­i­ly now, because you are sup­posed to “go in” now before you “go out”. You need to reflect and col­lect your thoughts and become clear­er and calmer.

Right Think­ing is some­thing to work for, strive for and it is essen­tial in times like these so that you may sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff in your world. This is tru­ly some­thing that you should do every sin­gle day. A self-aware per­son, a more cen­tered and bal­anced indi­vid­ual, will begin every day with men­tal prepa­ra­tions of attune­ment and align­ment; and then they will hold them­selves in qui­etude and self-obser­va­tion through­out the day; and then they will fin­ish their day with a time for review of what was right or wrong in that day, and so pre­pare to meet the world with a clear­er con­scious­ness tomorrow.

The way to do this, the way to begin to estab­lish your mind in a place of peace, is to anchor your mind upon the firm foun­da­tions of fun­da­men­tal truths. Whether West­ern or East­ern, the Peren­ni­al Truths are the same the world over and they will pro­vide com­fort and guid­ance no mat­ter what is trou­bling you today.

This is the true mean­ing and mes­sage of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Sagit­tar­ius; it is time to return to the bedrock of Truth found in all great teach­ings. Turn away from the noise and chat­ter, away from mere opin­ions and half-truths. Do not enter­tain these nor pass them on. Your mind is your sacred tem­ple for under­stand­ing, and your mind must be clear and not shad­owed by fear.

Return to the sources of Wis­dom, which you feel and know to be true because all these sacred sto­ries of spir­it are there in your heart as they are writ­ten for you in the stars above too.

May Her­mes show you the way out of the darkness.

Let Mer­cury ret­ro­grade release you from fear.

With your Mind tru­ly open, and your heart full of Love.

May you be wise as a ser­pent, and gen­tle as a dove.

The Tem­ple of Truth

At the heart of every teach­ing, like a riv­er of light, there abides an ever-last­ing stream of con­scious­ness, known to the Keep­ers of the Flame, as the Hier­ar­chy of the Shin­ing Ones. These Shin­ing Ones or Devas are the Lords of Med­i­ta­tion and Cos­mic Wisdom.

This is Truth: Cre­ation, all of it, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the Stars and Galax­ies and beyond, all of it, all of “That” is alive and shin­ing. The whole of Cre­ation is self-lumi­nous because it is formed by the One Spir­it, by the Light of Divine Con­scious­ness. This Cre­ation is in turn shaped by the Mind, Love and Will of the innu­mer­able many ones who togeth­er form the radi­ant body of the One.

The very rea­son you can under­stand any­thing at all is because this entire Cre­ation, all that is around you, that which you seek to expe­ri­ence as real and true in your world, this is also the very same Ener­gy-Form that makes you too. That is why you can know and under­stand because, “I am That, I am”.

Through all the King­doms and Hier­ar­chies of Cre­ation it is under­stood that all of it, all of “That”, is part of the One Life, which from the high­est to the low­est is formed, “As above, so below; as inward­ly, so out­ward­ly”. You are here because you are part of the One Life, you are here as a mon­ad of Spir­it, you are the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”. You are here quite sim­ply “to live and learn and grow” into your full Divin­i­ty. This jour­ney of becom­ing requires of you to know who and what you are, and to remem­ber why you are here.

If you wish to lift the “Veil of Isis”, if you wish to remove the scales from your eyes and know the truth of all of “That”, well there are many ways and many paths that will bring you into the “Greater Under­stand­ing”. But there is one cer­tain path of awak­en­ing that begins in your heart and holds you in the warmth of the ever­last­ing light of the One. The gen­tle guid­ance of your high­er self has but one sim­ple but pro­found assur­ance, and the cer­tain path that will lead you out of dark­ness and into the light is sim­ply to fol­low the great injunc­tion, “Know Thyself”.

Today Jupiter returns home, to its very own Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, today Jupiter returns to the sacred Tem­ple of Truth. For over the past twelve months, Jupiter has been mov­ing through the Sign of Scor­pio, what I like to call the space in which we encounter the truth behind all less­er truths: “You are an Immor­tal, but you move through Mor­tal Realms”.

In Scor­pio, you move into that mys­te­ri­ous place of alche­my where two become one, where you let go of the less­er with­in you in order to grow into your great­ness togeth­er. It is in this sacred space that you expe­ri­ence Re-Birth by true sac­ri­fice, and so become even truer to your­self too. But in such a realm of the high­est heights and the deep­est depths, you will find that in this sacred space of Union that you are ren­dered mute, there are no words for what you encounter here.

In Scor­pio you meet the mys­ter­ies of Birth and Life, and so-called Death as you move through count­less Rebirths; you find you are hum­bled and ren­dered speech­less, word­less, by expe­ri­ences that take you beyond your low­er mind of this or that and into the space of Intu­ition­al Know­ing or “Heart-Mind”, which is not teth­ered to dual­i­ty. But, because of this expe­ri­ence, of find­ing your­self in this unfa­mil­iar space there are “no words”, there can be no know­ing of what you have just expe­ri­enced just yet. Instead you face the eter­nal Dual­i­ties pro­pelling down your Path and you ask your­self, “Am I Faith­ful or Fear­ful”, for now you know your Immor­tal­i­ty and Mor­tal­i­ty too, and the greater truth that holds them to one anoth­er, and you will come to know you are here to be both yet beyond them too.

But now, today, you enter the Space of Sagittarius…and here you “will find your words”. Here in the realm of Eter­nal Truths and the Halls of Wis­dom you will stretch your mind and heart to com­pre­hend. You will read a great nov­el or book on phi­los­o­phy; you will lis­ten to wise ones who have equal­ly found their humil­i­ty, and you will mar­vel at mod­ern sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies, and mar­vel even more how they echo what was known thou­sands of years before. You will trav­el in your mind and by your body, and most impor­tant­ly and rev­er­ent­ly, you will lis­ten to that qui­et voice with­in you, as you seek to align what is with­in and around you to move beyond the known into the great unknown…and yet, oh yes, it is also eeri­ly, yet reas­sur­ing­ly, so very famil­iar too.

You will find your words, so you can share your sto­ry with one anoth­er, and they will share theirs with you. You will walk togeth­er, break bread togeth­er and do what we have done for thou­sands and thou­sands of years…you will tell one anoth­er sto­ries. You will drink from the Cup of Wis­dom and add your fair mea­sure too into this Liv­ing Tem­ple of Truth. For this is how it is done.

All that we have, all that is around us in arts and cul­ture, in civ­i­liza­tion and refine­ments, in com­mu­ni­ties and mean­ing­ful­ness is because we have laughed and cried, shared and imag­ined, and built and re-built with one anoth­er time and time again. We owe all of this to our capac­i­ty to learn from one anoth­er, to share and dis­cuss and argue and rea­son with one anoth­er, for this is how we learn to do bet­ter, this is how we become bet­ter, and by this we may dis­cov­er and estab­lish what is tru­ly true.

We find our truth out there, because it is mir­rored most per­fect­ly in our inner sanc­tum of self. Because those very same truths that shape our hearts and minds and love for one anoth­er have formed our world and this uni­verse too. All you are asked to do is open your mind and open your heart and you will see the Light.

Jupiter is mov­ing into Sagittarius…

It is time to tell your sto­ries to one another.

It is time to drink from the Well of Wisdom.

It is time to stand in the Light of the Greater Understanding.

It is time to Live for and by the Truth.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagit­tar­ius (Sun­day Novem­ber 4, 2018)

In my tenth show of 2018 I will talk about this year in Astrol­o­gy and where we are right now. There are two major Uni­ver­sal influ­ences we need to con­sid­er that explain much of what we are expe­ri­enc­ing, and one his­tor­i­cal align­ment that shines a light upon the prin­ci­ple chal­lenge being encoun­tered by the Unit­ed States. If we have time, I will also con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Jupiter enter­ing Sagit­tar­ius on Thurs­day Novem­ber 8^th.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Novem­ber 4^th @ 2 pm EST:

 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/04/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-where-are-we-nowjupiter-enters-sagittarius

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 Novem­ber 4^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.