The Space of Freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is all you need, just open your heart.

Smile and laugh with one another.

For you are made by love for love.

Just love one another.

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

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

Plu­to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uranus

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

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

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

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

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

Agents of Destruction

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

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

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

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

A New World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

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

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

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