Tran­script of Radio Show: 2020 Half-Year Review – Where are we now?

I thought it would be use­ful as we reach the mid­dle of 2020, to look back at what we have expe­ri­enced and learned about our world and our­selves. I am sure all of you will agree that this year will stand out in the time­line of his­to­ry. We have wit­nessed a series of events and crises that shat­tered many old cer­tain­ties into what they were, half-truths and illusions.

Being a stu­dent of his­to­ry and human­i­ty, and guid­ed by the Ancient Wis­dom and Astrol­o­gy, I choose to look at our present sit­u­a­tion as a chap­ter in a very long sto­ry, a brief moment in the cir­cuitous path humans have fol­lowed for many years. We humans have always strug­gled to lift our aware­ness, and our way of liv­ing, from dark­ness into the light, from fear and self­ish­ness to love and selflessness.

For me and for those who fol­low the many teach­ings that are root­ed in the Ancient Wis­dom, this present time was expect­ed to be a crit­i­cal junc­ture, a turn­ing for human­i­ty and the plan­et. But it was not “des­tined” to be this way; the exact con­tent of our chal­lenge was not pre-deter­mined. No, we humans are the creators/destroyers on the plan­et now, and we humans made choic­es long ago, and run­ning up to this very day, and it is those choic­es and those actions that have made “what” we are faced with. As I have said before, the stars and plan­ets did not bring about the Pan­dem­ic; if you want to know what the cause of that is, we only need to look in the mir­ror. And of course, that is even more true with regards to our inhu­man­i­ty to our fel­low humans.

But make no mis­take, the tim­ing of the cri­sis, and the deep­er themes that are being addressed here, the plan­ets can very much help us under­stand why now, and what it is for.

I feel like a very bro­ken record some­times, but what is true remains true. Though we often get cap­ti­vat­ed and even enthralled by the phe­nom­e­na of the events in this world, if you real­ly want to know what is going on, you need to move beyond the play of shad­ows and lights, you must seek for the noume­na that encom­pass­es and explains our more lim­it­ed real­i­ty. So, as before I will begin with Pluto.

The End of an Age
Pluto’s jour­ney around our Sun takes about 245 years. As Plu­to trav­els through each sign, it sig­nals a trans­for­ma­tion­al restruc­tur­ing of the ener­gy-forms for that Sign. From 2008 to 2024, Plu­to is mov­ing through the Sign of Capri­corn, which in Mun­dane or World­ly Astrol­o­gy rules the Insti­tu­tion­al order for any enti­ty. What does this mean; why does it happen?

If we con­sid­er Pluto’s pre­vi­ous pas­sages, 1762–1778 and 1516–1532 and even before 1269–1287, each of those peri­ods marked the end of a “way of life” and the emer­gence of a new way. A new way of what? Well, we are con­cerned with us, with we humans, so it is all about meet­ing human needs. We have for many thou­sands of years, cre­at­ed insti­tu­tion­al­ized struc­tures and roles with­in those struc­tures to meet our needs for water, food, shel­ter, cloth­ing, etc.

But behind all of Cre­ation is the one dri­ving prin­ci­ple of Spir­it, and that prin­ci­ple is for all of Cre­ation to become, to grow, to expand, to move into new forms and new realms; and if all of Cre­ation is here to grow, it will also cease­less­ly change too.

This is why and what hap­pens when Plu­to moves through Capri­corn; the Insti­tu­tions that were formed in the pre­vi­ous peri­od of Plu­to in Capri­corn (which for us was 1762–1778, and the fol­low­ing Aquar­i­an Peri­od of 1778–1798) are no longer ade­quate to meet­ing the changes in the nature of the world. The very “prob­lems” that the old hier­ar­chy of real­i­ty-forms solved, the very ways and means by which those Insti­tu­tions met human needs, those crys­tal­lized forms have become the very obsta­cle to meet­ing our needs now. The old order got us to here, but it can­not take us to there.

Not only do the means to meet our needs have to change because the con­di­tions of the world have changed (and much of that before but cer­tain­ly dra­mat­i­cal­ly now, those changes in the nature of the world have been caused by us), but we are also dif­fer­ent humans. The humans of the 1500s, became the quite dif­fer­ent humans of the 1700s, and we here in the 2000s are a vast­ly dif­fer­ent type of human than either of those. We can see ele­ments of each still liv­ing on in us, but what we dream of, what we aspire to, what we want would be hard­ly under­stand­able to some­one from the 1700s and even less so to some­one from the 1500s.

What hap­pens in each peri­od, (and we cer­tain­ly are expe­ri­enc­ing this dra­mat­i­cal­ly this year), is that the insti­tu­tion­al order becomes increas­ing­ly unable to ful­fill its func­tion to meet our needs. Increas­ing­ly from 2008 onwards, in a whole range of insti­tu­tions, whether local, region­al, state, nation­al, or cor­po­rate enti­ties, here and around the world, the very instru­ments we made to make pos­si­ble our lives and liveli­hoods, that were cre­at­ed to meet our needs have become less and less viable to the point of becom­ing hope­less fail­ures fuel­ing mount­ing crises. The sys­tems fail us; the hold­ers of author­i­ty and pow­er fail us; and we real­ize that the way we wish to live is becom­ing more impos­si­ble to have, or is already lost.

More and more, in all spheres of our soci­ety and cul­tures, peo­ple have become dis­ap­point­ed, con­fused, bit­ter, angry, and fear­ful, as the world that was no longer works. Some retreat or wish to turn back to an imag­ined “gold­en era”; some want to cre­ate a brand new world. Some will fix their aims and actions upon tear­ing it all down, while oth­ers seek to reform and make viable what is fail­ing, and many oth­ers look to the mak­ing and dawn­ing of a brand-new way.

At times of great crises, at the end of an age which we are in, you will see in stark relief the three pri­mal forces weav­ing the warp and woof of the uni­verse: The Cre­ators, The Pre­servers, and the Destroy­ers. It has always been so; it will always be so.

In sim­ple terms, and look­ing to Europe and the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, we could say the polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al order and type of human in the 1500s was the move from Feu­dal­ism to Monar­chies; and the orders of insti­tu­tions we cre­at­ed in the 1700s was the move from Monar­chies to Par­lia­men­tary Democ­ra­cies and a world of Nation States. That very sys­tem is what is fail­ing now, and the solu­tions it was built upon to meet our needs is what is destroy­ing the beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chies of life-forms, bring­ing our world to its next great extinc­tion event. Only this time a life-form on this plan­et is to blame, us. And, since we depend upon all those so-called less­er life-forms for our lives, we face the prospect of cre­at­ing our own extinc­tion as well.

For­tu­nate­ly, but I say that with great irony, humil­i­ty, and sad­ness, we have cre­at­ed the per­fect storm in this world-wide pan­dem­ic of Covid-19. Because we are self-aware, because we know that we live in mor­tal bod­ies, noth­ing grabs the atten­tion of humans more than the immi­nent prospect of death. Moth­er nature has our atten­tion now! Once again, our insti­tu­tions have seem­ing­ly failed us; and our lead­ers have aban­doned their posts. Once again, we face not a choice but a cer­tain­ty; we must change our ways, or our ways will con­tin­ue to destroy us.

But the change we must make is not to find a cure for Covid-19, (though that is cer­tain­ly a neces­si­ty). This pan­dem­ic is just the lat­est warn­ing sign of a world out of bal­ance, a del­i­cate bal­ance that we have mas­sive­ly dis­rupt­ed and broken.

The Pan­dem­ic is a warn­ing. Yes, and one of its sig­na­ture fea­tures is that many will suc­cumb because they can­not breathe. But if we con­tin­ue to destroy the life-forms that sus­tain our abil­i­ty to breathe, from the small­est of life-forms in the oceans to the trees in the forests, we will face a world where no one can breathe.

And the same goes for how we live sus­tain­ably in meet­ing our needs for water, food, shel­ter, cloth­ing, well, lit­er­al­ly every­thing is or should be addressed and our ways changed. Or the world we will leave for those who come after us will be more and more unliv­able. That is just the plain truth; and the truth is we did this. How did we do this?

We through our intel­li­gence and crafti­ness, fig­ured out how to release the pow­er of ener­gy-forms that had been stored and locked away for mil­lions of years, in coal, oil, gas and nuclear. And we unleashed it all in the blink of an eye in geo­log­i­cal terms, so that now some 200+ years lat­er we see what we missed. We did not think of con­se­quences; we had intel­li­gence, but we lacked Wis­dom; we had ambi­tion, but we lacked Humil­i­ty. And now we are being hum­bled. The les­son we have re-learned is that we all need to become hum­bler and wis­er; we need to be more lov­ing towards our plan­et and towards one anoth­er too.

Our Blind Spot: Social Jus­tice – Nep­tune and Compassion
Yes, we have divid­ed our­selves, sep­a­rat­ed our­selves from the nat­ur­al world, from our fel­low life-forms on this plan­et; and we have equal­ly divid­ed our­selves from one anoth­er too. The same blind spot that is at the root of the pan­dem­ic and cli­mate change is also the cause of our inhu­man­i­ty to our fel­low humans. That root cause is our fail­ure to con­sid­er each one of us as part of every oth­er. The truth is that all humans for one anoth­er, and tru­ly all humans with all life-forms on this plan­et, we are all part of the Fam­i­ly of Earth. And for this con­sid­er­a­tion, we can turn to the next plan­et, (of the three out­er plan­ets rul­ing long-wave devel­op­ments), the plan­et Neptune.

Nep­tune orbits around the Sun every 164 years, spend­ing a lit­tle over 13 years in each Sign. Astrol­o­gy holds that Nep­tune rules the Sign of Pisces, and Nep­tune is in Pisces now from 2011 to 2026. I like to say that Nep­tune rules the Spir­i­tu­al Truth of One­ness, “that there is but One Life, that there is but One Spir­it”. For each of us per­son­al­ly and col­lec­tive­ly it rules our Dreams, it is our most sig­na­ture spir­i­tu­al gift, the Gift of Imag­i­na­tion. How­ev­er, when we are not aligned with­in our­selves, when we lack self-con­trol and fun­da­men­tal truth to guide us, those Nep­tun­ian ener­gy-forms, those mean­ings, and mes­sages can be mis­un­der­stood or mis­ap­plied. That is why Nep­tune is also said to rule our illu­sions, delu­sions, and night­mares too.

The crises in our soci­ety with regards to injus­tice, inequal­i­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty, inequal­i­ty of edu­ca­tion, inequal­i­ty in health­care, and the basic denial for many to have true free­dom and hap­pi­ness, all of these are the man­i­fest signs of a great Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis here and around the world. For me, all crises ulti­mate­ly can be under­stood as spir­i­tu­al. But that means they are also the sig­nal for an epiphany, that we are expe­ri­enc­ing a leav­en­ing of Con­scious­ness, we are here at the dawn of a Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing too.

When we look back to the most recent time of Neptune’s stay in Pisces from 1848–1862, we can dis­cern some pat­terns that are strik­ing­ly famil­iar to our own. Both peri­ods wit­nessed the growth of spir­i­tu­al move­ments brought about by the dis­solv­ing of bound­aries with­in var­i­ous forms of social, cul­tur­al, artis­tic, and spir­i­tu­al realms; and for many, per­son­al expe­ri­ences of the veil between worlds becom­ing thin­ner and more per­me­able became much more evident.

There is now as there was then, a grow­ing aware­ness of the injus­tices of the age, and an earnest seek­ing for a new vision and prac­tices to make a more per­fect, equal, and just world. For what is our real pur­pose here any­ways? Many wise ones over the course of cen­turies have pon­dered this. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom it sim­ply can be said to this:

What is our Purpose
What is our pur­pose on Earth? It is that every human is here to become a whole or com­plete human. Like the entire­ty of Cre­ation, we humans are ever becom­ing some­thing more, reach­ing inward­ly and out­ward­ly to under­stand and ful­fill our full poten­tial. We advance over time to a greater under­stand­ing of our­selves and of our world too, for they can­not be sep­a­rat­ed or under­stood as sep­a­rate after all. As it is said, “As above, so below”. So, whether you move deep­er into the heart of your­self, or you move fur­ther out­ward­ly to unveil the mys­ter­ies of the Uni­verse, you will find the same Truth in both realms. Whether you fol­low the path of Faith, or peel back the veil of the cos­mos by Rea­son and Sci­ence, you will come to the same under­stand­ing. All these roads lead to the same, to the One.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, the Truth that will set you free will also make you under­stand that all you ever want­ed or need­ed was to be loved, and when you awak­en you will know that you always were! Because that is what you are made of, that is what you were made for. You were made from Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and you are here to live by Uncon­di­tion­al love. All the wise ones know this; all the wise ones live this way too. Fol­low the exam­ples of the Teach­ers; they came to show us the way.

To that end, and in truth, the real promised land we are striv­ing to reach can­not be found or made “out there”. First, it is and must be made in each of us, in each one’s heart and mind. Yet equal­ly, because we are human, because we are made by the qual­i­ty and char­ac­ter of our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, we are also the means for one anoth­er to become ful­ly con­scious and liv­ing embod­i­ments of the uncon­di­tion­al love that resides in each individual’s spark of the Divine. You can be self-awak­ened, but your Con­scious­ness is formed by all with whom you jour­ney. Again, there is no sep­a­ra­tion; that is the Illu­sion we must con­stant­ly dis­solve by our love.

What we face now is what we have always faced; we are here to under­stand our jour­ney and the route we have tak­en so far. What we must do is what is stay mind­ful and alert; take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what we do next. We can­not change the past; and we can­not know the future, because it is still being formed by us here and now.

The only place you can be the liv­ing spir­it is in the “Eter­nal Now”. The three great Avatars point the way, Uranus, Nep­tune, and Pluto.

By Uranus, we are here to move increas­ing­ly towards ever Freer Minds. We are to expand our under­stand­ing by free­ing our­selves from unrea­son and fear. We form our aware­ness and con­scious­ness togeth­er, as that very word Con­scious­ness means “Know­ing-Togeth­er”.

By Nep­tune, we are to live by Uncon­di­tion­al Love. We are to feel and know that who­ev­er is before me is my rela­tion, “That we are all relat­ed”. There­fore, with­out Equal­i­ty and with­out Jus­tice there is no true Love.

And by Plu­to, we are to use our Will to stay Cen­tered in our Sacred Space; and to know equal­ly that we are nev­er to vio­late the Sacred Space of any oth­er. As it is said, “Thou shall not Tres­pass”, for what­ev­er you do to any oth­er, you do to your­self, and to the One.

May the Light of Truth, Love and Under­stand­ing guide our path to the dawn­ing of this New Age.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – 2020 Half-Year Review – Where are we now? (June 28, 2020)

In my six­teenth show of 2020, I want to look at where we are now, the halfway point in our cal­en­dar year. Cer­tain­ly, a lot has hap­pened in 2020; and the mean­ings and mes­sages in the heav­ens keep rever­ber­at­ing and com­bin­ing, form­ing a com­plex sym­pho­ny of pain and growth, of loss and love. Though these crises and chal­lenges impact all the realms of our lives, fun­da­men­tal­ly they should always be under­stood as what they are, that a great Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis is fac­ing human­i­ty at this time. The chal­lenges of Cli­mate Change (Pan­dem­ic) and the strug­gle for Social Jus­tice (Genocide/Racism) are part of the exis­ten­tial chal­lenge fac­ing all humans on Earth. The chal­lenges we face are very pro­found and yet equal­ly so clear and sim­ple. What we must ask our­selves is this: How will we live with one anoth­er; and how will we live with all the oth­er life­forms on this planet.

Life hangs in the bal­ance now; the future for human­i­ty and for many life-forms will be decid­ed in the next few years. What world will we leave for those who come after us; will we be hon­ored or cursed? That is the question.

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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day June 28^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/06/28/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2020-half-year-review

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 June 28th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

In Aries you ask, “Who am I?”; in Tau­rus you ask, “What am I?”; in Gem­i­ni you ask, “How do I Know?” And now in the time of Can­cer, you ask your­self, “Where do I come from?”

The “four cor­ners” of the year, and of your life, are held by the Car­di­nal Signs of Aries, Can­cer, Libra, and Capri­corn. These are the signs of begin­nings, and they are espe­cial­ly sacred as they are the por­tals and path­ways to your enlight­en­ment or Initiation.

In your own chart, the four car­di­nal signs point the way, much like a com­pass, reveal­ing through their polar­i­ties the four direc­tions of life as you estab­lish and secure your sense of Iden­ti­ty. As posit­ed by these equinox­es and sol­stices, you will expe­ri­ence the subject/object and inner/outer ways of being through Aries to Libra as in “Who am I, who are you”; and, by Can­cer to Capri­corn, as in “Where did I come from, where am I going”?

Today we enter one of these four sacred por­tals again, today we enter the realm of Feel­ing, as we seek to find our way to our true cen­ter by the Way of Can­cer. For there is only so much you know and can under­stand by your intel­lect; there is only so much that will be encom­passed by your present knowl­edge, by your con­cepts and cat­e­gories of thought. Beyond these defined, deter­mined data points and cat­e­gories of real­i­ty there lies what is always beyond; out there beyond the known, there you meet “the mys­tery”. Yes, out there, and equal­ly with­in your very own self too, you encounter the won­ders of the unknown, what is beyond “know­ing”; both in here and out there, you will expe­ri­ence the beau­ty and majesty of the All.

Some­where in your chart, there you will find this spe­cial realm that is the Sign of Can­cer. This is the space you enter now, the realm of feel­ings, of intu­itions and inti­ma­tions of what is beyond your con­scious know­ing. We can­not, yet, ful­ly under­stand what we sense with­in and around us; these impres­sions, sen­si­bil­i­ties and mes­sages are part of what remains beyond our thoughts and rea­son. We expe­ri­ence this abil­i­ty as our “sixth sense”, where we appre­hend by our intu­ition­al sense what is beyond the finite realm of con­scious understanding.

Yes, now in Can­cer we will move into our feel­ings, through sen­sa­tions that take us beyond def­i­nite bor­ders and bound­aries. We have entered into a realm where real­i­ty is felt as more encom­pass­ing, as it con­nects us deeply with­in and then out­ward­ly with every­one and every­thing, from the small­est of par­ti­cles to the great­est of stel­lar bod­ies of unimag­in­able size. In the end, when we feel the full­ness of our con­nec­tions with all that is, we will feel our true kin­ship with the entire­ty of Creation.

But first, before we reach upwards and out­ward, to the One and to the many, some­thing we will most cer­tain­ly con­sid­er in the time of Pisces, we feel the pull, and we must turn and con­sid­er the prin­ci­ple mat­ter of Can­cer, which is our first mys­tery, where do we come from? Before we can imag­ine or expe­ri­ence what is “out there”, we need to feel what is at the root of us; we need to under­stand what lies at the foun­da­tion and cen­ter of our journey.

Though we expe­ri­ence our­selves as body, mind and spir­it, (and so many sub­di­vi­sions with­in those realms), we also feel the truth, we all feel the need to have all these “parts” of us some­how yoked togeth­er, to hold all these parts as one. We are formed by a beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chy, made of fields of ener­gy-forms; we are some­how also held togeth­er as just a one. What is this sense of one, where does it come from, where do we come from?

It seems, at first, so clear and present to us. We come from Mother/Father, that is where we are from. But then the sense of your­self begins to grow out­ward­ly and inward­ly too. We are shaped and formed by a hier­ar­chy of rela­tions, both near at hand and far away in space and time as well. Yes, it starts with Mother/Father, Grandmother/Grandfather, Aunts and Uncles, Sis­ters and Broth­ers. You first feel your roots by your most inti­mate fam­i­ly mem­bers, by your fam­i­ly her­itage, and your first cir­cle of life-meanings.

But then your cir­cle widens and deep­ens, the mean­ings become more nuanced yet more strik­ing too, as you expe­ri­ence some of these as even more sig­nif­i­cant than some in the first cir­cle of kin­ship. You see that your source of feel­ing whole, of being cen­tered with­in your­self, is forged by ever more encom­pass­ing and affirm­ing inti­ma­cies and shared affec­tions with friends, col­leagues and most sur­pris­ing­ly but won­der­ful­ly in the mag­i­cal shar­ing with so-called total strangers too. Yes, you will through­out your jour­ney prune or alter some of the first or “giv­en” roots of you, as you choose to align with oth­er mean­ings and sen­si­bil­i­ties that feel more cen­tered and truer to your jour­ney of becoming.

But it is not mere­ly in the here and now that you will find the true cen­ter of you, for your roots con­tin­ue to grow both in space and through time. You will feel how your sense of cen­ter arch­es back before this life, to your ances­tors, to many cul­tures and art forms and teach­ings that frame your feel­ings of mean­ing in the present today.

Tru­ly, your work of cen­ter­ing, of find­ing your­self at your cen­ter will nev­er end. For it is very much part of the inces­sant force that binds the uni­verse togeth­er as one, as it is true for all Life and Spirit:

You are here to grow; you are here to change.

So, it equal­ly fol­lows, that as much as you alter your­self and your world out­ward­ly, so will you renew, extend, and deep­en the roots of you too. And, as you go deep­er, you will also rise.

As you lift your­self up, as your roots go deep­er, you will come to even greater intu­itions as to the nature of you and your world. You will feel the con­nec­tions to your fel­low humans, to all crea­tures great and small, and you will feel the truth that all of it, the plan­ets, stars and galax­ies too, that all Life is held as one by the One. You will under­stand that your root is the same, that all roots come togeth­er in the One whose “Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”.

Yes, you will feel and know the truth of the Ancients, which is that we are one fam­i­ly, “We are all Relat­ed”. We are all ones of the One, and we are here quite sim­ply to feel this truth and to love one anoth­er. This is what you will find at the core of you; there you will feel the truth, that what is at the cen­ter of you is the source of one and all:

Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The time of Can­cer is here; let us cel­e­brate the Fam­i­ly of Spir­it. Let us bow to our Mother/Father who is in heav­en, and who is equal­ly in our own very hearts too.

But this is a most spe­cial entrance of the Sun mov­ing into Can­cer, (June 20 at 5:44 pm EDT). That is because only a few hours lat­er, there will be a New Moon Eclipse of the Sun (June 21 at 2:41 am EDT).

Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the most impor­tant cer­e­monies for Ini­ti­a­tion take place at the Spring and Fall Equinox­es, and the Sum­mer and Win­ter Sol­stices. They each hold their own spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance, all are holy. An Ini­ti­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny is timed with the New Moon, so that the Ini­ti­ate is car­ried through the planes and spheres for the 14 days of the wax­ing Moon.

When the New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse, as is this one, those Ini­ti­a­tions are said to be high­ly sig­nif­i­cant. The great­est Ini­ti­a­tions of all are set at a Total Solar Eclipse, with the cer­e­mo­ny held direct­ly beneath the path of Eclipse on Earth.

This is no ordi­nary turn­ing of the sea­sons. We are in a very spe­cial time.

May the light of truth, love and under­stand­ing guide our steps.

Tran­script of Radio Show: A House Divid­ed – Equality-Justice-Freedom

Plan­e­tary Cycles
There are no rep­e­ti­tions in the cycling of the plan­ets, with their var­ied cycles and inter­sec­tions with one anoth­er, they weave a nev­er-end­ing, ever evolv­ing cho­rus of har­monies and melodies. But there are repeat­ed pat­terns that car­ry res­o­nances with themes and mes­sages that echo down the ages. We can see reflect­ed in times past the uni­ver­sal themes of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, and by look­ing back and com­par­ing to our present day, we can see how these sim­i­lar times are con­nect­ed and form a larg­er sto­ry in our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney through the stars.

One har­mon­ic that I have not­ed before is the plan­et Nep­tune as it makes its once every 164 years pas­sage through the Sign of Pisces. We are in such a Pis­cean time now, from 2011 to 2026. Nep­tune rules the Spir­i­tu­al Truth of One­ness, “that there is but One Life, that there is but One Spir­it”, and per­son­al­ly and col­lec­tive­ly it rules our Dreams, but when mis­un­der­stood or mis­ap­plied it also rules our illu­sions, delu­sions and night­mares too. We can gain some greater under­stand­ing about our time by look­ing to its pre­vi­ous pas­sage in Pisces which was from 1848 to 1862. You will see that the themes and ener­gies of that pri­or pas­sage has more than a pass­ing mean­ing­ful­ness for our present circumstances.

For the Unit­ed States, the 1850’s was a time in which we were hurtling towards and crashed into the great­est con­flict we have ever faced to date, when two very dif­fer­ent economies, two dis­parate cul­tures, and two incom­pat­i­ble real­i­ties col­lid­ed in our Civ­il War. The pain and the promise of that peri­od, trag­i­cal­ly, did not remove or resolve our orig­i­nal sin of Slav­ery (or even address our first sin of Genocide).

As I have repeat­ed­ly writ­ten and said for many years now, we are at the end of an age, which is equal­ly the begin­ning of a New World, just as we were dur­ing the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War in the 1770’s. But we are also once again being con­front­ed with the dream and the night­mare that is Amer­i­ca now. And the same fun­da­men­tal ques­tion that was raised in the 1850’s is laid before us once again between 2011 and 2026. Will we close the gap between our dreams and our real­i­ty? Will be turn from fear and hatred; will we become what we pledged and promised our­selves to be in the 1770’s, which was to be a “New Order for the Centuries”?

The Bro­ken Promise
It was then, in our Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, that we stat­ed that our found­ing prin­ci­ple for the estab­lish­ment of our nation, would be these immor­tal words:

“We hold these truths to be self-evi­dent, that all men are cre­at­ed equal, that they are endowed by their Cre­ator with cer­tain unalien­able Rights, that among these are Life, Lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness. That to secure these rights, Gov­ern­ments are insti­tut­ed among Men, deriv­ing their just pow­ers from the con­sent of the governed”.

Yet, at the very begin­ning of our self-gov­er­nance, when we agreed to help one anoth­er to pur­sue our Hap­pi­ness (that we would be the means for one anoth­er to achieve self-ful­fill­ment, for that is hap­pi­ness), we broke our pledge to do this with a great por­tion of our peo­ple who would be denied these rights. And we con­demned them to servi­tude, to being less­er men and women, to be slaves who could be owned, bought, and sold as property.

1858 and 2020 – A House Divided
As I have pre­vi­ous­ly spo­ken and writ­ten, the region of space through which Nep­tune is mov­ing in 2020 and 2021 par­al­lels the peri­od of 1858–59. In that ear­li­er peri­od, the nature and con­se­quence of the orig­i­nal sin of slav­ery was laid before the Unit­ed States by Abra­ham Lin­coln. It was 162 years ago this month, exact­ly in June 1858, when Lin­coln not­ed the fun­da­men­tal divi­sion in our coun­try, and that divi­sion very much shad­ows us in our present cri­sis, when he offered up a warn­ing about incom­pat­i­ble beliefs and prac­tices with­in any soci­ety or cul­ture, in his famous para­phras­ing of the Bible, in which he said:

“…a house divid­ed against itself can­not stand. I believe this gov­ern­ment can­not endure per­ma­nent­ly half slave and half free. I do not expect the union to be dis­solved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divid­ed. It will either become all one thing or all the oth­er. Either the oppo­nents of slav­ery will arrest the fur­ther spread of it and place it where the pub­lic mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ulti­mate extinc­tion or its advo­cates will push it for­ward till it shall become law­ful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”

Lin­coln was mak­ing a social and polit­i­cal (but tru­ly spir­i­tu­al state­ment), with regards to the incom­pat­i­bil­i­ty between two vast­ly dif­fer­ent con­cep­tions of what it means to be human. Are we all equal, or are some less than equal? These total­ly oppo­site con­cep­tions of human­i­ty would shape and form two com­plete­ly incom­pat­i­ble forms of soci­ety, econ­o­my, and cul­ture. But for me, (I know or feel this to be true), Lin­coln was aware and inspired by a deep­er under­stand­ing about this metaphor, and that this sym­bol of a “house divid­ed” is tru­ly and fun­da­men­tal­ly a spir­i­tu­al state­ment regard­ing the human con­di­tion, and speaks to the chal­lenge of our jour­ney of awak­en­ing that is true for every human being.

For make no mis­take, the mul­ti­ple crises we are fac­ing, in the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic and the Cli­mate Cri­sis from which it comes, but equal­ly the crises in our soci­ety with regards to injus­tice, inequal­i­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty, inequal­i­ty of edu­ca­tion, inequal­i­ty in health­care, and the basic denial for many to have true free­dom and hap­pi­ness, these are all indica­tive of a great Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis here and around the world.

What is our Purpose
What is our pur­pose on Earth? It is quite sim­ply for each and every human to become a whole or com­plete human. We humans are a “work in progress”; and that long jour­ney of awak­en­ing has wit­nessed our strug­gle to move from a bare­ly self-aware con­scious­ness to an ever more ful­ly formed cos­mic con­scious­ness. To that end, and in truth, the real promised land we are striv­ing to reach can­not be found or made “out there”. Instead, it is and must be made in each of us. And because we are human, because we are made by the qual­i­ty and char­ac­ter of our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, that we are here to lift one anoth­er up, that we do this with and through one anoth­er, we are the means for one anoth­er to become ful­ly con­scious and liv­ing embod­i­ments of the uncon­di­tion­al love that resides in each individual’s spark of the Divine.

The path to get there is long and twist­ing, and we have fall­en many times in the long march of human his­to­ry. As Mar­tin Luther King so aching­ly said in his I have a Dream Speech, “I have a dream that my four lit­tle chil­dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the col­or of their skin but by the con­tent of their character.”

As a stu­dent of his­to­ry and Theos­o­phy, I do believe that there is an inces­sant bend­ing of light and truth that draws us towards the source of one and all. We can­not know when, but at some point, in any one human’s jour­ney, an indi­vid­ual will seek and find the Truth; they will come to what is known in Bud­dhism as “The Heart Doc­trine”, or in Chris­tian­i­ty into the “Con­scious­ness of the Christ Force”. It will hap­pen when they hear the qui­et, lov­ing, and gen­tle voice which inte­grates and makes pos­si­ble the tri­umph of Light over Dark­ness, of love over fear.

Undi­vid­ed – The Awakening
Yes, it is when you lis­ten to your own beloved, to your own lumi­nous High­er Self, it is then that you will come into the pres­ence of the King­dom of Heav­en that is with­in you, and you will know the Truth that is Love. Only then, will you see that who­ev­er is before me is my broth­er or sis­ter, my father or moth­er, my dear­est com­pan­ion and friend. And only then will you not see gen­der, or race, or eth­nic­i­ty, or creed or any oth­er divider from one anoth­er. Only when your house is undi­vid­ed with­in your­self will you stop divid­ing you and your world into “us and them”.

Then it must cer­tain­ly fol­low, that it is only when a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of any peo­ple wake up, so that they see, feel and under­stand their true nature togeth­er, when they become col­lec­tive­ly undi­vid­ed and turn away from divi­sion, of mak­ing some “oth­ers” less than them, it is only when their hearts lead the way that they will make it equal­ly so in the man­ner in which they live on this plan­et, and with all crea­tures great and small.

That is why any group’s strug­gle is a strug­gle for all of us. Again, from Mar­tin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech, he not­ed the evi­dence of our com­mon human­i­ty and our shared strug­gle for jus­tice, as he stat­ed, “for many of our white broth­ers, as evi­denced by their pres­ence here today, have come to real­ize that their des­tiny is tied up with our des­tiny, and they have come to real­ize that their free­dom is inex­tri­ca­bly bound to our free­dom. We can­not walk alone.”

What King and so many have known is this, that no one is free, no one can achieve self-ful­fill­ment or true hap­pi­ness unless all live togeth­er with the same and equal oppor­tu­ni­ties, period.

How to live Spiritually
But what does this mean, how do you live in the Now, how do you live Spir­i­tu­al­ly; how do you not only heal your mind and your heart but go out and live right­eous­ly too? How do we make right over 500 years of Geno­cide; how to we make right over 400 years of Racism?

This is not about fix­ing “polic­ing”; it is not enough to shift or real­lo­cate some resources and retrain the forces that are the very prod­uct of injus­tice and inequal­i­ty. The change we face now goes much deep­er than that. We live in a soci­ety, in a world, where the extremes of wealth and pover­ty, the whol­ly dis­tort­ed rela­tion­ships not just to one anoth­er but to all life on this plan­et have become so over­whelm­ing­ly tox­ic that the via­bil­i­ty of life on this plan­et is in per­il. Human life hangs in the bal­ance because of what we have done to one anoth­er and to our plan­et; all crea­tures great and small are equal­ly imper­iled by our way of life.

A New Covenant
What we must do is build a new “way of being” forged upon a new covenant with Life and Spir­it. Yes, the prob­lem is pover­ty; yes, wealth inequal­i­ty is the prob­lem; and they are both made by one anoth­er, and they are forged and main­tained by a sys­tem that is destroy­ing the diver­si­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of life on this plan­et. The very Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic and Social sys­tem that was formed to meet our needs in the 1700’s is killing us. And not only us, as life is leav­ing the plan­et at a rate that is grow­ing expo­nen­tial­ly. Life on Earth is becom­ing less diverse, less vibrant, less beau­ti­ful, less pos­si­ble, and we only need to look in the mir­ror to see the cause.

What must we do? We must forge our new covenant of spir­it with one anoth­er based upon uni­ver­sal Equal­i­ty and Jus­tice. We must real­lo­cate the wealth we all pro­duce so that every per­son has what we owe to one anoth­er in our human fam­i­ly: Equal Edu­ca­tion, Equal Health­care, Equal Hous­ing, Equal Oppor­tu­ni­ty, so that every child and adult has an Equal chance to achieve Self-Ful­fill­ment. For not one of us can be tru­ly ful­filled, not one of us can be tru­ly hap­py, if so many of our broth­ers and sis­ters live in fear and poverty.

We must imme­di­ate­ly change the way we pro­duce our Ener­gy, change the ways in which we Source our Food, change the ways we Cre­ate our Shel­ter. We must change our way of liv­ing, which has been by “Destroy­ing to Sur­vive” and return to Lov­ing Ways where we are “Cre­at­ing to Thrive”.

The hour is late, and there is no excuse if you care about your chil­dren, and your children’s chil­dren, and for the many gen­er­a­tions yet to come. This is about their future; this is about the world you are mak­ing for them. If you will not sac­ri­fice now, then when? If you will not change for your own chil­dren, then who? If you will not lis­ten to rea­son, will you at least lis­ten to your heart?

The choice before us all is what it has always been.

The choice we face is between Love or Fear, between Truth or Lies.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – A House Divid­ed – Equal­i­ty-Jus­tice-Free­dom (June 14, 2020)

In my fif­teenth show of 2020, I will again con­sid­er the Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis we face. The Pan­dem­ic and the strug­gle for Social Jus­tice are part of the exis­ten­tial chal­lenge fac­ing the entire plan­et. We are here to bear wit­ness to the end of an Age and to be the cre­ators of a New Age. We are here to be part of a great Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing for human­i­ty all around the world.

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

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day June 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

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