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About Bill Attride

Providing Astrological advice for over 30 years. Readings by appointment. Combining Metaphysical and Psychological Insights to guide individuals to greater self-fulfillment. Mr. Attride is known for his unique integration of the spiritual and the psychological dimensions of Astrology. Mr. Attride has been featured in articles in such diverse publications as New Woman Magazine, Avenue Magazine and the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Consultations in person, by phone, Skype or Zoom. Sessions are recorded for the client as an mp3 file delivered digitally. Natal delineations, life progressions and transit timeline analysis, Astrocartography/relocation Astrology, relationship Astrology, Mundane/Financial analysis, Chart Rectification. $300 per hour session. Special introduction of 2 sessions for $400 (1.5 and 1 hour).

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 21, 2024)

The Sto­ry of Us

For the last 30 days you have wan­dered and won­dered in the forges of Cre­ation, the realm we call Scor­pio. It is dur­ing this time every year, and for­ev­er some­where in your very own chart too, where you feel the heights and depths of being human; that you are a spark of the divine who is inspired by the expe­ri­ence of joy-filled births, only to stum­ble and fall into the ago­nies of loss­es that seem unbear­able. For this is what you are, an immor­tal who is wing­ing your way through mor­tal realms. And it is pre­cise­ly this expe­ri­ence of immor­tal­i­ty and mor­tal­i­ty, it is by walk­ing upon this razor’s edge that you become the com­pas­sion­ate co-cre­ator of Cre­ation, a shin­ing one, a Deva, whose light is the ever­last­ing Love of the One.

But while you are in these realms of death and rebirth, there sim­ply is no way to tru­ly com­pre­hend or under­stand those heights and the great depths of spir­i­tu­al alche­my, which is the very forge that will one day make you free, which will some­day bring you to a place of peace and under­stand­ing. But while in this expe­ri­ence, because this sacred space of Cre­ation is a realm of water, all you can do is feel the joys and endure the pains as you wait for what will come after, when you will enter the realm of the wise ones, the tem­ples of accep­tance and under­stand­ing, and the balm of peace you seek will be found at last.

Today we enter the realm of Sagit­tar­ius, and for the next 30 days, and always and for­ev­er being a quin­tes­sen­tial part of your divine spir­i­tu­al nature too, you will work with what was intu­it­ed in Scor­pio and bring that com­plex range of feel­ings and inti­ma­tions into the light of con­scious­ness and under­stand­ing, you will move through the “tem­ples of truth”, into the realm of the wis­dom-keep­ers, those who are the guardians of the Eter­nal in Light and Love.

Yes, “the truth” is out there, as it is the very spir­it of the One behind every part of the count­less dimen­sions, hier­ar­chies and realms of the Uni­verse. It is Truth which forms the warp and weft of the entire uni­verse, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal ener­gy-fields to the largest of realms, from mon­ads and atoms to the stars and galax­ies of Cre­ation; the One is in all, and all of “that” is the One.

And that is equal­ly why, “the truth” is with­in you too. For that is pre­cise­ly how and why you can per­ceive these fields of ener­gy-forms that hold, sur­round, and pen­e­trate the entire uni­verse, because those very same gov­ern­ing tem­plates of cre­ation are what makes you and me too. You and I are made of these sto­ries of Cre­ation, and more to the point, what makes us human is that we are sto­ry­tellers, and our sto­ries are the liv­ing spir­it of our jour­ney in the fields of the One.

All of your expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er are these sto­ries of our human life, start­ing with moth­er-father, broth­er-sis­ter, class­mates, friends, loved ones, and strangers too, all of these con­nec­tions, exchanges, dis­cov­er­ies, chal­lenges and delights, all of these have formed the sto­ry of you and of them as well.

But in your expe­ri­ence of your­self, your egoic self-con­scious­ness seems to lead you to the obvi­ous “truth” that you are a “one”, that you are a whol­ly sep­a­rate being or indi­vid­ual. But if you step back and see what has tru­ly hap­pened to make any human, you will find that we have, for­ev­er and ever, made one anoth­er for one anoth­er, so that you and I are much more of a “we” than an I. Our sto­ries live on in one anoth­er, and we are inex­tri­ca­bly part of one anoth­er forever.

Not only do we make our­selves and seek to under­stand our world through our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, by our inti­mate expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, but we extend this col­lec­tive shap­ing of our human­ness by the many sto­ries we have cre­at­ed and embod­ied into the world we have made. Whether by song or in dance, by sculp­ture or paint­ing, in our fic­tion and non-fic­tion, by plays and poet­ry, and through phi­los­o­phy, spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, sci­ence and even­tu­al­ly held in the sacred halls of wis­dom too, we have and will always be find­ing our way on this path of Light by being the sto­ry­tellers for our part in Creation.

And this is why it is so impor­tant for us to share our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, so that we might com­pare our find­ings, sto­ries, truths, and beliefs. We can help one anoth­er to dis­cern the truth from our half-truths, the real­i­ty from the illu­sion, and we will see that we can only become human as long as we treat one anoth­er with open­ness and love. Only togeth­er can we dis­cern what is truer from the less true, by shar­ing with one anoth­er, by com­par­ing, con­trast­ing, cor­rect­ing, and affirm­ing what is clos­er to the light of the Love Divine, the light of the One shin­ing through us all.

And as we enter this realm of Wis­dom and Truth, we must equal­ly give thanks to the great­est of us, those who walked these paths of sto­ry­telling long, long ago. For truth was there at the begin­ning and it has been held in trust for all the ages in our jour­ney. We remem­ber and we name them to this very day, from Prometheus, Quet­zal­coatl, Adi­ti, Isis, Lucifer, and Odin, to Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, and Pythago­ras, to all those we know and to the many more who worked with­out recog­ni­tion, it is to these shin­ing ones that we give thanks for the Light that you brought into our world.

Yes, at this time in the year, let us give thanks, but also keep faith with their Lov­ing Light. Let us tell our sto­ries to one anoth­er, and may we lis­ten and learn from each oth­er. May we be guid­ed by our own true heart to stay upon the noble path and fol­low the Ways of the Wise Ones. With humil­i­ty and hope, let us repeat the Great Invo­ca­tion that is the sto­ry behind all our sto­ries as we walk the path of Light:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

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

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 22, 2024)

The Heart of Creation

You have made ready your ves­sel of cre­ation, the space we call rela­tion­ship. It is in this sacred space that we become who we are through one anoth­er. Because we have been made into who we are “by all our rela­tions”, that is by, and through, and with every­one we have encoun­tered in this life now, and through our many, many lives before as well. As I will often say, you and I are more of a “we” than an “I”, because it is by all our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, our laugh­ter and our tears, our sto­ries and our strug­gles, our stand­ing up for our­selves but equal­ly find­ing a way to be there for one anoth­er, all of these “sto­ries of liv­ing” are the mak­er of our dia­mond body of spir­it, the heart of our spir­i­tu­al con­sti­tu­tion from life to life to life. We are the mak­ers of one another.

But of course, this is “the way” that Cre­ation came to be, because the whole Uni­verse is formed by col­lec­tions of inter­con­nect­ed ener­gy-fields, mon­ads and atoms, organ­isms and plan­ets, stars and galax­ies, and you and me, and that all of “that” is cease­less­ly blend­ing, elic­it­ing, shap­ing and form­ing each oth­er, and all of them togeth­er form the liv­ing body of the One Spir­it. This is how Cre­ation con­tin­u­al­ly unfolds or becomes what it will be.

This is the root foun­da­tion of the wis­dom teach­ings, that from the very first day of this Man­van­tara until the end of this great cos­mic cycle eons from now, all that is and all that will be is forged in our sacred rela­tion­ships that form the One, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.

This is the truth held by Libra, and for the last 30 days you have worked to under­stand your­self, because you must begin with this. Before you can go out you must go in, you need to know your­self. It is only then that you can work to bring any and all of your rela­tion­ships to a bet­ter form of mutu­al under­stand­ing and ben­e­fit. Yes, you had to make ready the space of meet­ing, and you have pre­pared your­selves for the chal­lenge and the won­der of what can hap­pen now, in the most spe­cial place of all, in the forge of Cre­ation itself.

For the next 30 days, and for­ev­er in every moment of Cre­ation, and also some­where in your very own chart too, you will expe­ri­ence the gift of Scor­pio which holds the ever-renew­ing spir­i­tu­al fire we know as Alche­my, which is the spir­i­tu­al agency of “com­bi­na­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion”. Just as any atom com­bin­ing with anoth­er atom pro­duces a new and greater atom, and any mol­e­cule with any mol­e­cule does like­wise, so too with our human king­dom, we make our way along the arc of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney by com­bin­ing with one anoth­er, shar­ing with one anoth­er, strength­en­ing one anoth­er in and through our fam­i­lies, friend­ships, asso­ci­a­tions, and of course, in our most sacred and inti­mate loves in life after life.

In any union, you must be pre­pared, because there can be no com­bi­na­tion with­out change, there can­not be growth with­out sac­ri­fice. In this sacred space, here in the heart of cre­ation, you will feel and find the truth, that the great work of union can only be mas­tered by love and through sac­ri­fice. Yes, there will be joy, but there will be pain too, but that is only because you are giv­ing up some­thing that you felt was impor­tant to the old you.

But if the union is good, and if you are to grow, you must give up these less­er things to make way for your union, and so hon­or the greater real­i­ty you will make for one anoth­er. This is how you grow; this is how you become what you are meant to be.

This is the heart of the sto­ry of Spir­it, in the begin­ning and in every moment of Cre­ation the whole pur­pose of your being is to become what you will be, a con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation. It is here, in the beat­ing heart of Spir­it, in the deep­est depths of Scor­pio, that you will meet and ful­fill the truth of your nature, which is that we are spir­its danc­ing through realms of mat­ter, we are “Immor­tals in Mor­tal Frames”.

But this also means that in Scor­pio you will face the truth, and you will also feel the pain, that noth­ing in these mor­tal realms will be for­ev­er, and there will come a time when you must part, when you or they must move on, and as much as your joy was great, your loss will be hard and deep. But this is the way of Cre­ation too, that we are spir­its danc­ing through these mate­r­i­al worlds, and we will return again and again to live and laugh and love.

So, look into one another’s eyes, and see shin­ing there that splen­did, spe­cial some­thing that is unfor­get­table and for­ev­er, for each of us is a quin­tes­sen­tial one of a kind, and that spe­cial spark is for you who they real­ly are. So, you may know by this sign, that their light divine will shine bright­ly when you meet once more in anoth­er time and place. Yes, the truth of Scor­pio is that there is noth­ing to fear, because there is only one source and pur­pose to Cre­ation, and that is you are to be for one anoth­er the way to your mutu­al ful­fill­ment, to love and be loved again and again. We are made of love, and we are here to love, and we will always be togeth­er again.

So, let us smile, our sad­ness tem­pered by the spark of the divine, and our true nature revealed as uncon­di­tion­al love. When it comes to that time when we must say good­bye, let us turn to one anoth­er, and sim­ply say “fare thee well my dear one, until we meet again.”

Yes, we are immor­tals danc­ing through mor­tal realms, and we have noth­ing to fear.

We are made of the Light Divine, and our immor­tal­i­ty is made of love.

2024-10-13 Radio Show Transcript — The Winds of Spirit are shifting, 2025 and beyond

The Winds of Spir­it are shift­ing, so what lies ahead in 2025?

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

In our last show we took a look at the US Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates. Today, I thought we should pull back from our “here and now”, so that we might look fur­ther out in time to the larg­er shapers, influ­encers and guides of our present, to con­sid­er the spir­i­tu­al forges of our future, the out­er plan­e­tary changes that are arriv­ing in 2025 and beyond.

It is cer­tain­ly evi­dent that the “winds of spir­it” are chang­ing next year, as the plan­e­tary shifts in both sign posi­tions and their align­ments with one anoth­er are, well, they are quite remark­able. It is not com­mon to have more than one or two out­er plan­ets change sign posi­tions in the same year. But in 2025, we are going to expe­ri­ence all of the out­er plan­ets tran­si­tion­ing from one sign to anoth­er. That is just sim­ply not some­thing that hap­pens nor­mal­ly, and it cer­tain­ly means that some great changes are before us now.

Here are the Astrol­o­gy Sign shifts in our plan­e­tary brethren dur­ing 2025 into 2026:

Plu­to com­pletes its tran­si­tion from Capri­corn, where it has been since 2008 into Aquar­ius, where it will remain until 2044.

Nep­tune, tran­si­tion­ing from Pisces where it has been since 2011 into Aries, where it will remain until 2039.

Uranus, tran­si­tion­ing from Tau­rus where it has been since 2018 into Gem­i­ni, where it will remain until 2033.

Sat­urn, tran­si­tion­ing from Pisces where it has been since 2023 into Aries, where it will remain until 2028.

That is quite an unprece­dent­ed series of shifts for these lords of time and space, and I will go through them to explain the mean­ing for each of them, and also con­sid­er their inter­re­la­tion­ship with one anoth­er too.

PLUTO
The move of Plu­to from Capri­corn to Aquar­ius seems most con­se­quen­tial to me. From 2008 until now, we have wit­nessed Pluto’s influ­ence chal­leng­ing the insti­tu­tion­al order of our world. Whether in the root insti­tu­tions of fam­i­ly struc­tures, or in com­mu­ni­ties, and on up to cor­po­ra­tions and nations, the world order that began when Plu­to was last in the sign of Aries, from 1823 to 1853 had reached its lim­it of integri­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. After this strug­gle to main­tain, reform and/or tear down this order of real­i­ty, we are left with two more peri­ods of Pluto’s orbit before we will tru­ly cre­ate and enter our next new world.

Yes, we will have Plu­to in Aquar­ius from 2025 to 2044, which can be likened to what hap­pened before from 1778 to 1798, and in the cycle before that from 1532 to 1553. It is the pur­pose of this phase in Aquar­ius for the world to work through and strug­gle over the ideals and dreams of the future, to work towards a new social order, a new form of com­mu­ni­ty. These chal­lenges of build­ing a new world will lead to con­flicts over what kind of future human­i­ty will make for itself.

With Plu­to rul­ing the Will and the root pow­er of Alche­my, the strug­gle in Capri­corn over the old order is one kind of bat­tle, with the choice between to tear down or to pre­serve what had been the order since 1823. But now we will enter in Aquar­ius the strug­gle over the kind of future we wish to be part of, what kind of soci­ety and cul­ture do we yearn for and seek to estab­lish, and this will be the main issue over the next 20 years. It is not insignif­i­cant for us that the last time Plu­to was in Aquar­ius, the sign of social con­scious­ness and con­science, humans expe­ri­enced the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion and the French Rev­o­lu­tion, where there was a fun­da­men­tal restate­ment of what it means to be in a human soci­ety. In the Unit­ed States we stat­ed that “All Men are Cre­at­ed Equal”, and in France, there was the “Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Man and of the Cit­i­zen”. The lib­er­al sys­tem of cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal order was found­ed in this peri­od, and what we are now faced with is quite sim­ply our attempt to begin to estab­lish a new kind or type of soci­ety and insti­tu­tion­al order, which is as yet unknown and unnamed.

But then, there is one more final phase, which is Plu­to in Pisces, and that will be from 2044 to 2068, which we can liken to what hap­pened from 1798 to 1823. This is the final phase of Plu­to, and we will turn to the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of our faith in one anoth­er and face our fear of the unknown, and we will reach the final strug­gle to cre­ate a new world order, as we restore our faith and enter a new world of Will when Plu­to enters Aries in 2068. What will hap­pen dur­ing this final phase of Plu­to in Pisces?

Well, what hap­pened in that pre­vi­ous final phase of Plu­to from 1798 to 1823? It was for Europe, the attempt by Napolean Bona­parte to impose this new lib­er­al order by means of force, a lib­er­al Empire achieved through wars in West­ern Europe, East­ern Europe, Africa, and final­ly but dis­as­trous­ly, and quite right­ly too, giv­en his very anti-lib­er­al pur­suit of impos­ing free­dom upon oth­ers, end­ing in his self-defeat by his attempt to “lib­er­ate” Rus­sia by conquest.

Per­haps we, and our descen­dants, will learn from these lessons of his­to­ry, and much will depend upon what kind of world we will begin to cre­ate from 2024 to 2044.

NEPTUNE
Since 2011, the bound­aries between all realms or dimen­sions have become much more per­me­able and translu­cent as Nep­tune moved through the realm that it rules, Pisces. The gen­er­al per­cep­tions of what it real, the agree­ments and under­stand­ings about real­i­ty among and between humans became very hard to deter­mine and hold togeth­er, as the lines between facts and fic­tions, between truths, half-truths and lies, dis­solved to such an extent that we now live in a world where “any­thing is pos­si­ble, and noth­ing is true”. Indi­vid­u­als, groups and whole soci­eties have tak­en it upon them­selves to be the arbiters of fact and fic­tion, and illu­sions and delu­sions have per­me­at­ed the minds and hearts of many.

Now, as Nep­tune enters the sign of Aries, we will begin a new cycle of Nep­tune that will con­tin­ue until 2039 when it enters Tau­rus. What might this mean for us? Will the chaos and con­fu­sion of our recent pass give way to cer­tain­ty and progress, or might that fire of Aries lead to extremes of pas­sions and stri­dent bat­tles over what is tru­ly true?

If we look at our time of Nep­tune in Pisces from 2011 to 2026 and com­pare it to the pre­vi­ous pas­sage on Nep­tune in Pisces from 1847 to 1862, we will find res­o­nances with our time. And per­haps we can then look at the pre­vi­ous pas­sage of Nep­tune in Aries from 1862 to 1875 and see how that might give us some indi­ca­tion for what lies ahead.

The 1847 pas­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces began with a series of “rev­o­lu­tions” in Europe in 1848, which were most­ly con­tained or reversed, not unlike in our own peri­od with the so-called “Arab Spring” rev­o­lu­tions of 2011, which also were turned back by reac­tionary forces, and the promise of more pow­er of and for “the peo­ple” failed to real­ize its poten­tial. Dur­ing the 1850’s in the USA, we expe­ri­enced the ris­ing strug­gle over abo­li­tion, of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties bat­tling for and against slav­ery as in “bloody Kansas” and oth­er scenes of strug­gle, ulti­mate­ly cul­mi­nat­ing in our Civ­il War. So, what did the entry of Nep­tune into Aries bring?

The pas­sage of Nep­tune in Aries from 1862 to 1875 was con­se­quen­tial for much of the world. Aries is the spir­i­tu­al ves­sel or seed for the new and the renewed, it cer­tain­ly seems to have sig­naled that around the world. In Japan, the Mei­ji Restora­tion brought about the con­sol­i­da­tion of Japan under impe­r­i­al rule, and pro­pelled Japan upon the path towards moder­ni­ty, turn­ing it from a feu­dal king­dom into a for­mi­da­ble indus­tri­al pow­er in a mat­ter of decades. In the Amer­i­c­as, the Civ­il War was won by the north, and as Lin­coln declared, a rebirth or renew­al of the dream of the Unit­ed States had begun. In Europe, Ger­many uni­fied as a coun­try after the Fran­co-Pruss­ian War, and around the world the march towards indus­tri­al­iza­tion led to the pro­lif­er­a­tion of labor unions, to the strug­gle for fair pay and bet­ter con­di­tions of work in the ever-expand­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­ters around the world, and these devel­op­ments also sparked the move of vast major­i­ty of peo­ple away from liv­ing in an agrar­i­an and rur­al lifestyle and into the rise of major cities and urban culture.

We can­not know, but per­haps we might be able to imag­ine what our post-indus­tri­al world is about to move into, what seeds of the new or renew­al we might see in our Nep­tune in Aries pas­sage from now until 2039. Most evi­dent to me, of course, is that we will be faced with the task of trans­form­ing the means of meet­ing our needs into a sus­tain­able future for us, and tru­ly for all oth­er life-forms that are the light and the love of our dear plan­et. For what we have come to know, and it real­ly is part of the eter­nal jour­ney of spir­it in all the sparks of the divine, in all their lives, realms and worlds that fill the cos­mos, we have come to the truth that every part of cre­ation is relat­ed to every oth­er part. That it is by our wis­dom and humil­i­ty and love for all of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness that we must find our way to being tru­ly human, to live by love for all of Cre­ation, and that this is the one true path of spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing and redemption.

I would like to note here some­thing that I have men­tioned before, with regards to the nature of the rela­tion­ship of the orbits of Plu­to and Nep­tune with one anoth­er. In every pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn, Nep­tune is either in Vir­go, or Nep­tune is in Pisces, as it is now. And this is also true for Plu­to in Aquar­ius as well, that either Nep­tune is in Libra, or as it will be in our time, Nep­tune will be in Aries. That means that if we con­sid­er the mean­ings formed by Plu­to and Nep­tune togeth­er, our peri­od of 2024 to 2044 will be more like the mid 1500’s than the late 1700’s. And that peri­od of the mid-1500’s is con­sid­ered by his­to­ri­ans, espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing Europe but also in oth­er places around the world, that it was the time when the world as we know it now, what we call the mod­ern world, first began to take form. I believe that this means that what we are mov­ing into now is the end of what we have known as our “mod­ern world”, and that we are going to mov­ing into a very dif­fer­ent type of world indeed, what should be a tru­ly “new world”.

URANUS
Let us now bring into this mix the influ­ence of Uranus, which I like to call “The Awak­en­er”. Since 2018, Uranus has been mov­ing through the sign of Tau­rus, which it did also from 1935 to 1942, and 1851 to 1859, and 1768 to 1775. Uranus holds the prin­ci­ple of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, with its influ­ence being brought to bear in a man­ner so that a more con­fined or lim­it­ed form of real­iza­tion can be tran­scend­ed. Because the essen­tial pur­pose behind cre­ation, at the core of spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment is the insis­tent, irre­sistible imper­a­tive which is “to be and become”, forged by the unique spark of the divine that resides in every speck and mote of Cre­ation. For all of Cre­ation, for all that is which is Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, the third prin­ci­ple of Cre­ation holds us, one and all, to the path of becom­ing a tru­ly unique or quin­tes­sen­tial form of expres­sion of the One True Light.

With regards to Uranus’ pas­sage through Tau­rus, it was for us at this time, as it did in the late 1930’s, and the 1850’s, and the ear­ly 1770’s, it was the pur­pose of Uranus to elic­it and her­ald a rev­o­lu­tion in the hier­ar­chies of val­ue, in how we humans val­ue one anoth­er, as well as how we val­ue the world around us. Now Uranus’ pas­sage through Gem­i­ni will bring an elic­i­ta­tion of trans­for­ma­tion and change to the are­na of mind and thought, to all the innu­mer­able ways we con­nect with­in and around our­selves, trans­form­ing how and what we think, what we believe, which will form and shape our inten­tions and actions for the next 7 years.

Uranus will move into Gem­i­ni, begin­ning in 2025, though it will go back and forth into Tau­rus dur­ing the year, to final­ly remain in Gem­i­ni from 2026 until 2033. The most recent pre­vi­ous pas­sages in Gem­i­ni are 1942 to 1949, 1859 to 1866, and 1775 to 1782. It is sure­ly not­ed by many of you, I am sure, that those three peri­ods for the USA, and for the world gen­er­al­ly, were very con­se­quen­tial. After all, great world events shat­tered and rearranged the world in these peri­ods, as in World War II, our Civ­il War and our Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War. That does not mean that we are fat­ed to expe­ri­ence anoth­er great dis­rup­tion in our time, for I do believe we are capa­ble of respond­ing to the ener­gy-forms with­in and around us in a man­ner of our own choosing.

But we would be ignor­ing the lessons of his­to­ry, and of our present self-made human con­di­tions, to be so blind­ly self-assured as to assume that we are more advanced and aware than our ances­tors, and that we will not, as they did, face some great dis­rup­tion again. We can hope, and we should make every effort to turn towards one anoth­er with under­stand­ing and love and try to heal and restore our­selves and our plan­et, to work with these plan­e­tary influ­ences in the most pos­i­tive way that we can.

But to do so, we must remem­ber these very con­di­tions that we face now, it is we who have made them, some by inten­tion but many were not, and main­ly because of a lack of under­stand­ing and humil­i­ty with regard to how we have fueled our mod­ern life through an unsus­tain­able means of liv­ing. Now, with vast pop­u­la­tions being uproot­ed by the forces we have unleashed, the cri­sis we call “cli­mate change” has forged a tsuna­mi of dis­cord and fear that is ris­ing among a vast major­i­ty of humans.

But it was those very crises that accom­pa­nied Uranus in the 1700’s, the 1800’s and the 1900’s, it was by those chal­lenges that test­ed sys­tems and shat­tered old ways of think­ing, it was this that pro­duced or led to a new con­scious­ness, to new thoughts and bet­ter under­stand­ings. And that is what will hap­pen to us as well. Uranus in Gem­i­ni is pre­cise­ly the time for think­ing beyond our old assump­tions, to show that our true intel­li­gence is found by free­ing our minds from the self-cast shad­ows of cer­tain­ties and fears that divide us from with­in, and equal­ly divide us from one anoth­er too.

SATURN
Final­ly, we have Sat­urn, which just like Nep­tune is spend­ing 2025 going back and forth between the end of Pisces and the begin­ning of Aries, and this sets up some­thing that is quite remark­able for this piv­otal year, and I do believe, may pro­vide some greater mea­sure of hope for how we will meet our moment of des­tiny. All the out­er plan­ets, from Plu­to to Sat­urn, all of them will be form­ing a beau­ti­ful pat­tern of inter­re­la­tion­ship with each oth­er dur­ing 2025. All of the out­er plan­ets will be aligned in one third of space, 120 degrees of the Zodi­ac, from the per­spec­tive of Earth, from Plu­to at the begin­ning of Aquar­ius at one end, to Uranus at the begin­ning of Gem­i­ni at the oth­er, and exact­ly mid­way between them, we will have Sat­urn and Nep­tune at the begin­ning of Aries.

This is some­thing spe­cial, and the Astro­log­i­cal name for it is a Sex­tile-Trine-Sex­tile, with our exam­ple being the Trine or 120 degrees between Plu­to and Uranus, which is anchored and made man­i­fest through the Sex­tile of 60 degrees of Plu­to to Saturn/Neptune on one side, and by the Sex­tile of Uranus to Saturn/Neptune on the oth­er side.

The defin­ing Trine of Uranus to Plu­to rep­re­sents a par­tic­u­lar moment in their 127-year cycle of rela­tion­ship, which I see as hold­ing the lessons and spir­i­tu­al ten­son between Free­dom and Free Think­ing (Uranus) ver­sus Sacred Space and Willpow­er (Plu­to). Their last cycle began at their con­junc­tion in 1965 to 1968 and reached a crit­i­cal turn­ing point at their wax­ing square in 2012 to 2015. This Trine, this moment now, can or should be a moment where we may find some way or ways of hold­ing these two prin­ci­ples togeth­er, of humans find­ing a bal­ance between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Union, so that we have even Freer Minds and also pre­serve our Sacred Spaces.

And the spe­cif­ic space or place of acti­va­tion and anchor­ing of this very spe­cial moment is being formed by the begin­ning of this new Sat­urn-Nep­tune cycle, which is released by their con­junc­tion dur­ing 2025 into ear­ly 2026. Their cycle of rela­tion­ship is 36 years, with their pre­vi­ous con­junc­tions being 1989, 1952–53, 1917, and 1882. I call their cycle of rela­tion­ship as being the dance of spir­it that holds or weaves togeth­er Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) and Dreams (Nep­tune).

The Saturn/Neptune con­junc­tion in Aries rep­re­sents a moment where real­i­ty is infused with a new dream, and it can and should be equal­ly a time when a dream that seemed beyond reach becomes a real­i­ty. What this means, I believe, is that the Uranus to Plu­to trine will be mod­u­lat­ed, per­haps “blessed”, by Nep­tune form­ing a sex­tile to both of them, and equal­ly ground­ed and made man­i­fest by Saturn’s sex­tile to Uranus and Plu­to too.

The “winds of the spir­it” are chang­ing this year, and the very real chal­lenges we face, whether they be envi­ron­men­tal, tech­no­log­i­cal, or even epis­te­mo­log­i­cal, or in truth and in sum, all of these spir­i­tu­al chal­lenges have as their root cause that they were all made by us humans…and there­in lies our hope, and I believe it is where can find our faith.

The future is not writ­ten or fore­or­dained, for we are each of us forg­ing some part of it each and every moment, and we do this in that space where we only exist through­out our entire jour­ney, which is in the “eter­nal now”. The past is behind us, the future not yet made. At each moment in the eter­nal now we must be alert to what might be need­ed from us to redeem our past and make a bet­ter future too.

This is the mes­sage and les­son of Aries, the sign of new begin­nings, the sign of the eter­nal now.

What mat­ters is what you and I do next. This is the liv­ing source of our faith and of our hopes ful­filled, because we can choose, it is our choice as to how we will face and meet the next moment, and the next, and the next, and what we must do is be ful­ly present in each moment, guid­ed by car­ing inten­tions and lov­ing actions.

This is the way of spir­it; this is the way of the One.

Astrological Musings — The Winds of Spirit are shifting, so what lies ahead in 2025?

This will be our sev­enth show in 2024. Today I want to return to a broad­er view of the plan­e­tary for­ma­tions, to con­sid­er the longer cycles that are shap­ing our present cir­cum­stances because we are about to enter a peri­od of major tran­si­tions and changes in the heav­ens. Yes, 2025 is going to be a con­se­quen­tial year and I do believe that these many shifts mean that we are going to be mov­ing into a very dif­fer­ent type of world indeed.

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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Please join me on Sun­day Octo­ber 13th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

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Sun Enters Libra (September 22, 2024)

The One and the Many, the Lumi­nous Bridge of Creation…Relationship

Today we reach one of the four fun­da­men­tal turn­ings in the Zodi­a­cal cal­en­dar, one sea­son ends, and anoth­er begins. These four gate­ways of spir­it hold the four direc­tions of life which frame our jour­ney through the stars, and so we ask, time and time again, “where did I come from, where am I going, who am I, and who are you”?

We are told that we are all part of and came from the One. We humans are one of a host of mon­ads singing our songs of spir­it upon count­less worlds and in many lives. Our des­tiny is to some­day reach our human apoth­e­o­sis, when we become ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ators of cre­ation, formed and guid­ed by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, join­ing the great com­pa­ny of shin­ing ones or Devas in the life divine.

At the cen­ter of every part of cre­ation is a mon­ad of spir­it; in every atom, mol­e­cule, organ­ism, plan­et, star and galaxy, there is the spark of the Divine, because the whole of cre­ation is the One made man­i­fest, all made by Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love. At the heart of every part of cre­ation is a mon­ad which is formed by Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and this is why all of cre­ation is Spir­it, and all of cre­ation is Alive, and all of cre­ation is Conscious.

In each and every life we seek to under­stand who we are to be in this life, to dis­cov­er what is quin­tes­sen­tial to us as a unique spark of the Divine, so that we might sing our true song in the cho­rus of spir­it. And in each and every life we meet one anoth­er, again and again, because it is also true that we will find our true self through one anoth­er, because we are made by one anoth­er from the begin­ning unto the end. Whether in the infin­i­tes­i­mal worlds of mon­ads and atoms, or in the divine heart of stars, it is also true for us humans as well; it is the truth that all of cre­ation is forged, formed, and trans­formed through the agency and pow­er of rela­tion­ships, and so it so with one anoth­er as humans and with all the innu­mer­able hosts of Cre­ation too.

For the next 30 days, and always and for­ev­er an essen­tial part of your very own being too, we cel­e­brate the realm that is Libra. It is here, in the forge of Spir­it, that you meet the great truth that what makes you, and what makes all of cre­ation too, is the won­der that is the mag­ic and mys­tery of relationship.

It is most cer­tain­ly true, that we have been shaped and informed by all our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, by moth­er and father, by sis­ter and broth­er, by aunt and uncle, by our friends, by our col­leagues, by a pass­ing stranger, and our dear­est loves ones too. And just as we have been shaped by them, so have we been an essen­tial source of their form­ing, shap­ing, and becom­ing who they are meant to be as well. Tru­ly, we are all made by and held in a vast web of ener­gy-forms, and the most con­se­quen­tial and essen­tial part of these ener­gy-forms are these past and present rela­tion­ships between with one anoth­er, so that we are tru­ly insep­a­ra­ble from one anoth­er for­ev­er and ever.

This is why rela­tion­ships are the Forge of Cre­ation. You exist with­in your own sacred space, and the oth­er before you, they are like­wise in their sacred space, and then togeth­er we cre­ate what I call “Third Space”, which is the space that is your rela­tion­ship. It is here where the mag­ic of cre­ative com­bi­na­tion can lead you both to a bet­ter, high­er and truer expe­ri­ence of being and becom­ing what you are meant to be.

Guid­ing your actions and reac­tions with one anoth­er, you must under­stand that who­ev­er is before you, they are just like you, anoth­er spark of the Divine on this jour­ney of awak­en­ing, made by and here to become ful­ly human through love. You must do every­thing you can, and they must also like­wise, to endeav­or to make this new and sacred space a beau­ti­ful shar­ing and blend­ing by which you and they can be even more what you are meant to be than you could ever be with­out one another.

In order to cre­ate, main­tain and grow this expe­ri­ence with one anoth­er, you are to be guid­ed by what you are, to give from your heart what is at the root of Cre­ation, to live by uncon­di­tion­al love for your­self and for them. But no mat­ter what place in this jour­ney of awak­en­ing you are, you and they are not per­fect, and you and they will make mis­takes, you will give too lit­tle or take too much, you will tres­pass upon one another’s sacred space, and expe­ri­ence pain and loss. But this too is part of your jour­ney. You are here to learn what to be, and what not to be, and you are meant to help one anoth­er to reveal these errors of omis­sion or com­mis­sion, so that you may turn away from pain and back to love.

And so, as a prin­ci­pal part of your jour­ney to per­fec­tion, you must for­give your­self as you equal­ly must for­give them. By this lov­ing for­give­ness you renew your shared sacred space for heal­ing and growth. Yes, by humil­i­ty, grace and for­give­ness, as you try and fail, and try again, you will help one anoth­er to stay upon the one true path, which is the wis­dom way of love.

Yes, we are the means to one another’s per­fec­tion, we are the instru­ments of our renew­al and the reward of hap­pi­ness and peace, and this will always hap­pen when we stay true to our nature, and remem­ber we are here because of love, and our only com­mand­ment is to love and be that love.

As it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be for­ev­er and ever,

Love one another.