Nep­tune in the USA Chart, the tran­sit of Nep­tune and the shap­ing of Pol­i­tics and Par­ty Evo­lu­tion in the USA 

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In my fifth show of 2024, I want to return to anoth­er theme I have addressed over the past many years which is the impor­tance of Nep­tune in the chart of the USA, and how Neptune’s tran­sits to the USA chart dis­tin­guish, define, and con­nect the shifts in pol­i­tics and polit­i­cal par­ties in the USA.

Of course, the real devel­op­ment and evo­lu­tion of polit­i­cal par­ties is forged by humans, by our shift­ing life­ways, cul­tures, and eco­nom­ic lives. But just as we are guid­ed and shaped indi­vid­u­al­ly by the “dance of the plan­ets”, these “time­keep­ers” of our solar sys­tem can pro­vide insights as to the nature and tim­ing of the shifts in our polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions too.

First­ly, we must remem­ber that Neptune’s influ­ence is very impor­tant in the USA chart. The place­ment of Nep­tune in the chart of the USA is quite promi­nent as it is at the very high­est point, at the top of the chart, in the 9th house of Under­stand­ing. Nep­tune in a Mun­dane chart is the ves­sel for the dreams of a nation. A prin­ci­pal found­ing myth of the Unit­ed States is the sense of being a quin­tes­sen­tial­ly excep­tion­al nation, a “first of its kind”. The nation­al seal of the USA declares that it is a Novus ordo seclo­rum (a “New order of the ages”).

Unlike pre­vi­ous nation states, the USA came into being as a covenant nation, with the goal of unit­ing and hold­ing togeth­er dis­parate peo­ples from around the world, and that which would bind us togeth­er was not our race, or cul­ture or creed; no, we would pledge our alle­giance to an idea, to an Ide­al. That for the first time we would be a nation where the Law itself would be King, and we would cre­ate a social order for those who are seek­ing to live a freer life, and that we would be a shin­ing exam­ple of Free­dom and Tol­er­ance, in a com­mu­ni­ty of Fel­low­ship. The USA would be a new soci­ety, formed by a belief in one another’s self-ful­fill­ment as being made pos­si­ble through one anoth­er, and by our self-gov­ern­ment, where­in we would care for one anoth­er; and we affirmed in our Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, that “We Mutu­al­ly Pledge To Each Oth­er Our Lives, Our For­tunes, And Our Sacred Hon­or”, and that we would strive to cre­ate a space of free­dom and jus­tice for one and for all.

The record of the polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions or par­ties in the USA has been defined by his­to­ri­ans into (so far) sev­en dis­tinct peri­ods: The First Par­ty Sys­tem from 1792 to 1824, Sec­ond Par­ty Sys­tem from 1828 to 1854, Third Par­ty Sys­tem from 1854 to 1896, Fourth Par­ty Sys­tem from 1896 to 1932, Fifth Par­ty Sys­tem from 1932 to 1980, Sixth Par­ty Sys­tem from 1980 to 2016, and the Sev­enth Par­ty Sys­tem from 2016 to (who knows).

A polit­i­cal order will be informed and shaped by the dreams of a peo­ple, and these dreams and their evo­lu­tion can be seen to be held and shaped by Neptune’s orbit. What we will find is that as Nep­tune cir­cles around the solar sys­tem every 160 years or so, it will make sig­nif­i­cant align­ments with ele­ments in the USA chart that cor­re­spond to these shifts in the polit­i­cal cul­ture and shape the polit­i­cal par­ty struc­ture of the USA. The shifts in polit­i­cal align­ments can be under­stood and timed by the divi­sions of this cycle, whether a com­plete cycle of about 160 years, or of about 80 years or about 40 years. In an ear­li­er show in 2021, I also not­ed how the two pre­em­i­nent par­ties that emerged in the USA, the Demo­c­rat and Repub­li­can Par­ties, have sig­nif­i­cant Nep­tune place­ments too, and we saw that their evo­lu­tion is deeply affect­ed by Neptune’s orbit as well.

An inter­est­ing side note to all of this is the fact that the founders believed (and desired) that the USA would not have par­ty or par­ti­san pol­i­tics at all. But as we can cer­tain­ly see in our his­to­ry, and most cer­tain­ly in our present-day divi­sions, oh my good­ness, were they mistaken!!

The ear­ly par­ty devel­op­ments in the USA were shaped by a divide and dis­agree­ments over the bal­ance between a stronger or weak­er Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, framed as Fed­er­al­ism ver­sus State Rights, and this theme has cer­tain­ly been dif­fer­en­tial­ly expe­ri­enced in some form as a con­stant dynam­ic through­out the par­ty sys­tems in the USA. Let’s begin after the ini­tial par­ty sys­tem and with the sec­ond par­ty order of the 1820’s.

1820’s to 1850’s, Sec­ond Par­ty System
By the 1820’s and last­ing into the 1850’s the pri­ma­ry par­ty divi­sion was in the USA was between the ear­ly Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty and the Whig Par­ty. The Democ­rats stood for indi­vid­ual rights and state rights and the pri­ma­cy of the Pres­i­den­cy (exec­u­tive branch) over the oth­er branch­es of gov­ern­ment and were against the bank­ing indus­try and specif­i­cal­ly opposed to a cen­tral bank US bank, high tar­iffs, and also opposed to pro­grams that favored indus­try at the expense of farm­ers. They were the par­ty of the so-called com­mon man.

The Whigs stood for the suprema­cy of Con­gress over the Exec­u­tive branch, and they sup­port­ed poli­cies of mod­ern­iza­tion and eco­nom­ic pro­tec­tion­ism for devel­op­ing Amer­i­can indus­tries by tar­iffs and oth­er mea­sures. They were the par­ty of indus­try, busi­ness and banking.

Over time the grow­ing dis­par­i­ty of an indus­tri­al­iz­ing North cen­tered upon “Free Labor”, and the slave-hold­ing econ­o­my con­trolled by large plan­ta­tion own­ers in the South became more and more dif­fi­cult to rec­on­cile. The USA was being shaped by two mod­els of cre­at­ing val­ue, two visions of Amer­i­ca and those divi­sions became more and more of an exis­ten­tial threat to the nation­al union itself. In fact, the Whig party’s attempt to deal with the issue led to its demise and the rise of a new par­ty, the Repub­li­can Par­ty in 1854.

1854 to 1890, Third Par­ty System
For our pur­pos­es, what we need to exam­ine is what was hap­pen­ing at this time with Nep­tune in the USA chart? You may remem­ber my numer­ous obser­va­tions for the past many years of Nep­tune being in the same sign now, from 2011 to 2026, as it was from 1848 to 1862, each peri­od being a time when Nep­tune was, and is now once again in its own sign of Pisces.

In fact, it was exact­ly from 1851 to 1854 that Nep­tune squared the USA Uranus, and then squared the USA ascen­dant. And when did that hap­pen in our own time? The exact same Nep­tune square to Uranus and the ascen­dant occurred from 2015 to 2018, and just as the ear­ly peri­od brought a new Par­ty Sys­tem, our peri­od is the begin­ning of what some his­to­ri­ans are now call­ing the Sev­enth Par­ty System.

Remem­ber, it is one of the pur­pos­es of Nep­tune to dis­solve the bound­aries between real­i­ty forms so that they may com­bine, trans­form and become some­thing else. With the ascen­dant rul­ing Iden­ti­ty or Pres­ence, and Uranus rul­ing Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom, the USA was expe­ri­enc­ing a most sig­nif­i­cant shift in its very pres­ence or iden­ti­ty, and of its expe­ri­ence of free­dom in the 1850’s. The dream of Free­dom, that not some but all men should be free, and that any human could not be some­one else’s prop­er­ty, well that was the point of the Civ­il War exactly.

Now in our time today, some­thing like that, hold­ing themes of that ear­li­er peri­od, has been hap­pen­ing once more between 2015 and 2018. And just as in the 1800’s, the ves­sels of hold­ing the dreams and aspi­ra­tions of the peo­ple of the USA, the polit­i­cal instru­ments which wield the pow­er to affirm or deny those dreams were changed then as they are chang­ing now. It is like an echo of what came before, but the under­ly­ing truth is there for all to see.

Again, the ques­tion the USA faces is this: are all humans equal, deserv­ing of equal appre­ci­a­tion and oppor­tu­ni­ty, or will we break apart into our blood and soil tribes, and see some humans as less than us? Let us come back to our tran­si­tion lat­er and con­sid­er the oth­er shifts of the polit­i­cal par­ty sys­tem first.

So, begin­ning in 1854 and last­ing until the next shift in the 1890’s, the Repub­li­can par­ty became and remained the dom­i­nant par­ty of the USA, and was, as it named itself, “the Grand Old Par­ty”. It was formed as a coali­tion of busi­ness­men, shop own­ers, skilled crafts­men, clerks, and pro­fes­sion­als, com­ing as it did out of the Old Whig par­ty and adding to that coali­tion many new­ly enfran­chised African Amer­i­cans. It was the vehi­cle for a restate­ment of the USA, the instru­ment for Lincoln’s restora­tion and renew­al of the dream of America.

The Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty became a minor­i­ty and oppo­si­tion­al par­ty. It was a most­ly con­ser­v­a­tive and agrar­i­an coali­tion, with south­ern democ­rats estab­lish­ing a sys­tem of repres­sion in the Jim Crow south to deny black self-deter­mi­na­tion. The Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty con­tin­ued to be fun­da­men­tal­ly a State’s Rights coali­tion but based upon the oppo­si­tion to enlarge­ment of civ­il rights. In addi­tion, west­ern farm­ers and con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments in the north­ern states helped to broad­en the Democ­rats abil­i­ty to at times hold the Sen­ate or House.

But dur­ing the 1870’s and 1880’s, the nation was rapid­ly becom­ing an indus­tri­al pow­er, and dreams and the chal­lenges of the peo­ple were chang­ing too. In the 1890’s this change in the char­ac­ter of the USA led to a shift in the polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions and solu­tions to meet the dreams of the nation, and it was this evo­lu­tion of the socio-polit­i­cal order that brought about the Fourth Par­ty Sys­tem, from 1896 to 1932.

1896 to 1932, Fourth Par­ty System
But where was Nep­tune dur­ing this shift from the Third to the Fourth Par­ty Sys­tem dur­ing 1893 to 1896, and what did that sig­ni­fy? Nep­tune in this peri­od was mov­ing into the 7^th house of the USA chart and it was mak­ing a square to itself too. Inter­est­ing­ly, we will find the exact same con­di­tion, but reversed, with Nep­tune enter­ing the 1^st house and squar­ing itself was in place dur­ing the shift from the Fifth to the Sixth Par­ty sys­tem from 1976 to 1980. In both peri­ods, with Nep­tune squar­ing itself, it was a time for peo­ple of the USA to ques­tion the nature of their dreams, because their cir­cum­stances had changed.

What was the shift in the late 1890’s? The GOP con­sol­i­dat­ed its hold over the polit­i­cal sys­tem, effec­tive­ly main­tain­ing pre­em­i­nence almost with­out inter­rup­tion until FDR’s elec­tion in 1932. The social and polit­i­cal issues were dri­ven by the con­se­quences of indus­tri­al­iza­tion and finan­cial accu­mu­la­tion lead­ing to pro­grams and laws to reform the polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic sys­tems, hence the term for this peri­od, cer­tain­ly in the late 1800’s and ear­ly 1900’s as “the pro­gres­sive era”, with reforms of the labor sys­tem, a Fed­er­al Income Tax, the direct elec­tion of sen­a­tors and even­tu­al­ly suf­frage for women.

But with Nep­tune mov­ing into the 7^th house, which rules inter­na­tion­al rela­tion­ships in a Nation’s chart, it also marked the peri­od of the USA’s delu­sion that it could and should spread and share its vision of democ­ra­cy by impos­ing it, by becom­ing an expan­sion­ary colo­nial pow­er, and it seized the Span­ish hold­ings in the Span­ish Amer­i­ca War, includ­ing Cuba, Puer­to Rico and the Philip­pines, claim­ing to be bring­ing “democ­ra­cy” to these oth­er lands.

1932 to 1976, Fifth Par­ty System
The next major shift in the Polit­i­cal Par­ty Sys­tem, the Fifth Par­ty Sys­tem, emerged out of the wreck­age caused by the fail­ure of unrestrained/unregulated cap­i­tal­ism in the 1920’s, which brought about the dis­as­ter of the Great Depres­sion, and what emerged from this was a fun­da­men­tal reset of the polit­i­cal order and the par­ty system.

This would prove to be one of the major realign­ments of the par­ty sys­tem, as big as the 1850’s had been, and as we will see, as con­se­quen­tial as our own time too. The Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty became the par­ty of so-called “big gov­ern­ment”, based on the belief and prac­tice that the gov­ern­ment of the peo­ple should work to bring about change in coop­er­a­tion with the pri­vate sec­tor, forg­ing an alliance between work­ers, cor­po­ra­tions and the gov­ern­ment in order to restore eco­nom­ic growth and to pro­mote the gen­er­al wel­fare of the peo­ple. The com­po­si­tion of the par­ties was trans­formed, with black vot­ers mov­ing into the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty, and white, south­ern and con­ser­v­a­tive vot­ers mov­ing into the Repub­li­can par­ty, espe­cial­ly after the push for broad­er civ­il rights in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Both par­ties had more lib­er­al and more con­ser­v­a­tive mem­bers, and as a result there were peri­ods of agree­ment by mod­er­ates in each par­ty which per­mit­ted the pas­sage of very sig­nif­i­cant laws and changes to the polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic order dur­ing this period.

But as a reac­tion to the eco­nom­ic malaise brought on by the unfund­ed Viet­nam War, and the tur­moil and social changes that fol­lowed upon civ­il rights and women’s move­ments, the par­ties became more and more polar­ized over the vision for the future of the USA.

But again, what we need to know is what was Nep­tune doing to inau­gu­rate this Firth Par­ty Sys­tem in the 1930’s, and then see what sig­naled its end. Nep­tune in the 1930’s was halfway between where it was in the 1850’s to where it would return in 2015 to 2017, it was in the sign of Vir­go (not Pisces) but squar­ing Uranus and squar­ing the ascen­dant once again. Yes, it seems to me from these three exam­ples, the 1850’s, the 1930’s and the present day, that the larg­er, more con­se­quen­tial shifts of the polit­i­cal order and of the par­ty sys­tem seem tied to or influ­enced by Nep­tune in this align­ment with the USA chart, when Nep­tune is either in Vir­go or Pisces, and squar­ing the plan­et Uranus in the 7^th house. Why might this be so?

I would argue that the prin­ci­pal rea­son could be from Nep­tune form­ing this square to Uranus. Why would that mat­ter? Well, for one, Uranus is the ruler of the USA Moon in Aquar­ius, and the Moon in a nation’s chart rules “the peo­ple,” the ordi­nary cit­i­zens who make up what we call the com­mon peo­ple. And with Nep­tune bring­ing its dis­solv­ing, trans­form­ing, illu­mi­nat­ing and delu­sion­al influ­ence to bear on the very plan­et of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom, well it would cer­tain­ly cre­ate a time when those notions and real­i­ties of what it means to be free, what it means to be an indi­vid­ual in the USA cultural/political order would be trans­formed and made into some­thing else dur­ing each such pas­sage of Nep­tune to Uranus.

But even more for the USA, the plan­et Uranus is in the 7^th house, the house of rela­tion­ships or the realm which prin­ci­pal­ly rules the rela­tion­ships that the USA has with the rest of the world. But the 7^th house is also an indi­ca­tor of the “peo­ple as a whole”, or the social con­scious­ness of the peo­ple. With Uranus here, one of the abid­ing fac­tors shap­ing the social con­scious­ness for the USA is our myth and expe­ri­ence of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and free­dom. So, when we have the plan­et of “Com­mu­nal­i­ty” or the sim­ple truth that we are all made and held by our com­mu­ni­ties, and fol­low­ing from that is the neces­si­ty to sac­ri­fice some of our inde­pen­dence and free­dom to one anoth­er, well that would mean when Nep­tune is squar­ing the plan­et of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Inde­pen­dence, that this can lead to some won­der­ful dis­cov­er­ies and epipha­nies about these two truths, about Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Com­mu­nal­i­ty, of how they tru­ly are inte­gral to one anoth­er, and can only exist in a bal­anced and mutu­al inter­de­pen­dence upon one anoth­er.  But we have also seen how they can become twist­ed or bro­ken from one anoth­er so that Neptune’s influ­ence may lead to mis­guid­ed or delu­sion­al expe­ri­ences of being sub­merged into a herd iden­ti­ty, or into the oppo­site extreme of the so-called “lone wolf” or excep­tion­al indi­vid­ual claim­ing to be above the ordi­nary, and above the law, the very law we agreed to shape and guide our lives, and so pro­tect the indi­vid­ual and the com­mu­ni­ty too.

1980 to 2016, Sixth Par­ty System
The end of the New Deal Fifth Par­ty Sys­tem order and the move­ment into an increas­ing­ly more acri­mo­nious and polar­ized form of pol­i­tics was firm­ly real­ized by 1980. Where was Nep­tune then? Not sur­pris­ing­ly, it was exact­ly posi­tioned oppo­site to where it had been in the late 1890’s, in the USA 1^st house instead of the 7^th house, and once again squar­ing its own posi­tion in the USA chart.

What had hap­pened in the USA that brought about this shift in the par­ty sys­tem? Through­out the USA a large nation­wide major­i­ty of rur­al and work­ing-class whites became the base of the Repub­li­can Par­ty, while the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty was increas­ing­ly made up of a coali­tion of black Amer­i­cans, Lati­nos, and most­ly white urban pro­gres­sives. Where pre­vi­ous­ly, the col­lege-edu­cat­ed vot­ers had been drawn to the Repub­li­can par­ty, hav­ing a high­er edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment was increas­ing­ly a defin­ing fea­ture of Demo­c­ra­t­ic sup­port. These shifts, tak­en togeth­er formed the Sixth Par­ty Sys­tem that began with Regan’s Pres­i­den­cy of the 1980’s.

Astro­log­i­cal­ly, with Nep­tune in the 1^st house, the dissolving/transforming effects were to be seen in the very “Pres­ence” of the USA, of how it would see itself and project itself into the world. The dream of Amer­i­ca and the nation­al myth of Amer­i­ca, like Reagan’s theme of “Morn­ing in Amer­i­ca”, became the basis for a resur­gence of a par­tic­u­lar mus­cu­lar and inter­ven­tion­ist role the world. Domes­ti­cal­ly, the Repub­li­can gospel, now firm­ly steeped in the rise of the neo-lib­er­al agen­da, began a many decades long project to dis­able and dis­man­tle the pro­grams and insti­tu­tions of the New Deal order, to attempt to return the USA to the ear­ly 1900’s, of mak­ing the busi­ness of Amer­i­ca to be just about mak­ing more mon­ey, as in “Greed is Good”, which required the con­stant chip­ping away or removal of reg­u­la­tions that had forged bal­ance growth, and had pro­duced the tremen­dous rise of the gen­er­al wel­fare of the peo­ple from the late 1930’s until the 1970’s.

But dur­ing this peri­od the focus of the Repub­li­can par­ty shift­ed, and there was ever more empha­sis on cul­tur­al con­ser­vatism, with oppo­si­tion to abor­tion, and gay mar­riage and trans­gen­der rights. Instead of being for free trade the par­ty became more and more opposed to eco­nom­ic glob­al­iza­tion and also to immi­gra­tion from non-Euro­pean coun­tries. Dis­agree­ments over posi­tions and poli­cies with the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty became more and more polar­ized, and the need to pre­serve or cre­ate real pro­grams and solu­tions to the prob­lems of the peo­ple were stymied and denied.

But the removal of the eco­nom­ic and finan­cial safe­guards put into place after the Great Depres­sion of the 1930’s inevitably led to the con­spic­u­ous decou­pling of eco­nom­ic real­i­ty and finan­cial con­duct, and so in 2008, the USA plunged itself, and the rest of the world, into what we real­ly should call the Sec­ond Great Depression.

The strug­gle to recov­er from that self-made dis­as­ter shat­tered what­ev­er had remained of the coop­er­a­tive neces­si­ty incum­bent on both par­ties, both Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can, and with­out good faith in one anoth­er and with their vot­ing mem­bers, the belief in the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the USA gov­ern­ment work­ing con­sis­tent­ly and togeth­er for the com­mon good became more and more a fan­ta­sy. Pol­i­tics became a cold war, then a hot­ter war, with char­ac­ter assas­si­na­tions and gotchas, and moral cow­ardice wrapped in the man­tle of moral con­vic­tion defin­ing the polit­i­cal and even cul­tur­al order.

The loss of faith in one anoth­er, and in the insti­tu­tions of the Amer­i­can life, the rad­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent beliefs about what the USA stood for cer­tain­ly seemed to echo a sim­i­lar time in the USA when two very dif­fer­ent Ideals of human­i­ty faced off before. Just as in the 1850’s, and now again in 2015 to 2017, Nep­tune was once again form­ing a square to the USA ascen­dant, while also squar­ing Uranus in the 7^th house.

Back in the 1850’s, the Repub­li­can Par­ty was the vehi­cle for the elim­i­na­tion of the insti­tu­tion of slav­ery, and that noble cause became their sig­na­ture achieve­ment. But now in the 2000 teens, we are wit­ness­ing a very dif­fer­ent Repub­li­can Par­ty indeed.

2016 to when, “Sev­enth Par­ty System”
We are today in a more sur­re­al con­di­tion per­haps than any oth­er time in our his­to­ry. His­to­ri­ans do not yet agree if there is indeed a Sev­enth Par­ty Sys­tem in place. Prin­ci­pal­ly that is because what we have in the Repub­li­can Par­ty is not like any­thing we might rec­og­nize as a par­ty at all. As I stat­ed ear­li­er, the ques­tion the USA faces today is again the same as in the 1850’s, which is are all humans equal, deserv­ing of equal appre­ci­a­tion and oppor­tu­ni­ty, or will we break apart as we have been doing for some time now, into trib­al group­ings based on creed or race or per­son­al­i­ties, where we look not to the law but to some strong leader to defend us against whomev­er is “the oth­er”, and to see some humans as less than us?

No par­ty has ever been nor will ever be per­fect, for we are all, indi­vid­u­al­ly and col­lec­tive­ly, “works in progress”. But nev­er in our his­to­ry has a par­ty turned away from the “rule of law”, threat­en­ing to use the law to favor some and per­se­cute others.

I per­son­al­ly do not think we have begun a Sev­enth Par­ty Sys­tem, and that we are in this strange, one would say very Nep­tun­ian and tran­si­tion­al space where the future hangs in the bal­ance. One par­ty has aban­doned the very sub­stance of what it means to be a par­ty, which is to have a plat­form, to have posi­tions, and poli­cies and plans that will meet the hopes and dreams of the Amer­i­can peo­ple as a whole.

Instead, there is an orga­ni­za­tion where mem­ber­ship means that one must bend the knee to the will of one man and his needs, to assuage his fears and per­se­cute his so-called ene­mies, a non-demo­c­ra­t­ic author­i­tar­i­an vehi­cle for end­ing the rule of law and sub­sti­tut­ing the will and whim of their leader.

I do not believe that it is mere­ly a sim­ple major­i­ty, but rather a vast major­i­ty of the peo­ple of the USA do not want to live under this form of mis­rule. The plan­ets can­not tell us what we are to do, nor can they force us to choose. What they can do, and what we must do, is to look at our­selves and our com­mu­ni­ties, and our gov­ern­ment and ask our­selves, what is the dream for the USA now, and how might we be able to get there together.

The ques­tion before us now is this, will we remain a peo­ple who bow to no king or strong­man but con­tin­ue to pre­serve and live under this gift of self-gov­ern­ment, to the rule of law that pro­tects us from tyran­ny, and to live in a repub­lic that was made by the love and sac­ri­fice of those who came before us.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Nep­tune in the USA Chart, the tran­sit of Nep­tune and the shap­ing of Pol­i­tics and Par­ty Evo­lu­tion in the USA 

In my fifth show of 2024, I want to return to anoth­er theme I have addressed over the past many years, which is the impor­tance of Nep­tune in the USA chart, and how sig­nif­i­cant align­ments of Nep­tune to the USA chart can dis­tin­guish and con­nect the shifts of pol­i­tics and polit­i­cal par­ties in US History.

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 June 9^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

Who, What, and now Why…

Today we move into the third realm of the Holy Twelve, and it is here that you meet the majesty and mys­tery that is the Gate of Awak­en­ing, the emer­gence of Intel­li­gence and the path to Self-Real­iza­tion. As the Ancient Wis­dom holds, all of Cre­ation is essen­tial­ly Spir­it, and so the “all” that is the Uni­verse, rang­ing from atoms to organ­isms, to plan­ets and stars and beyond, all of “that” is alive and con­scious as the one real­i­ty of the One.

But it is equal­ly true that there will come a time for each spark of the Divine, for each and every mon­ad of Spir­it in their nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of becom­ing, there is a quin­tes­sen­tial moment where that divine mon­ad moves from being mere­ly con­scious and becomes aware of being a self, to becom­ing self-aware.

This great moment in our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney is what we cel­e­brate at this time every year, as it is also for­ev­er some­where in your own chart too, for now we enter the por­tal and realm known as Gem­i­ni. This gift of self-aware­ness is re-told in many sto­ries through­out the ages of the world, whether it is of Prometheus bring­ing “fire” to humankind, or the “eat­ing of the fruit” from the tree of knowl­edge, or in ancient sto­ries from around the world, of when we were vis­it­ed by beings who impart­ed this gift of self-aware­ness to us.

Why, why are these sto­ries found every­where, and why are they so important?

Because it is by this move­ment into self-aware­ness and intel­li­gence that you were able to begin to become a more con­scious co-cre­ator of your­self. You became aware of time, of remem­ber­ing what came before, and how that shaped what you face now. And, and you became capa­ble of mak­ing a choice, of choos­ing the many pos­si­ble ways of view­ing an expe­ri­ence, of com­par­ing and fold­ing in what you knew from before to bet­ter under­stand what is before you now. And by learn­ing from your mis­takes, you were able to build bet­ter ways of being, so that you could meet the eter­nal now with ever more mean­ing, dis­cre­tion, deter­mi­na­tion, and faith in your capac­i­ty to grow and to change.

We became freer, and no longer bound to mere bio­log­i­cal process­es of evo­lu­tion­ary devel­op­ment; we took our most fate­ful step filled with the promise of our divin­i­ty becom­ing real­ized, but this step came with a cost as well. Because we lost our inno­cence, we lost our organ­ic con­nec­tion to one anoth­er and to the entire­ty of cre­ation. We were torn away from our essen­tial expe­ri­ence of one­ness with life, and we sub­sti­tut­ed our search for mean­ing and con­nec­tion out­ward­ly (and inward­ly) through our intel­lect and intel­li­gence, so that we could build our subjective/objective expe­ri­ences, of mem­o­ry, mean­ing, facts, and truths. Yes, to move for­ward as self-cre­ators we had to rebuild our rela­tion­ship with “the All”, and by each and every expe­ri­ence we made from that moment for­ward we tried to find our way back to the under­ly­ing real­i­ty of the One in all.

That is why this same gift of self-con­scious­ness is also seen and expe­ri­enced to this day as a loss or “fall” too. We lost our inno­cence, our immer­sion in nature and all beings with whom we jour­ney. Because of this loss, our inher­ent endow­ment of nat­ur­al wis­dom became more ten­u­ous, and though we grew and devel­oped our world by and through these tem­ples of knowl­edge, we often lacked a com­men­su­rate bal­ance of wis­dom and humil­i­ty. We flew clos­er to the sun, but we often fell into dark­ness by our seem­ing sep­a­ra­tion from the rest of cre­ation too.

But of course, these errors of com­mis­sion and our sins of omis­sion, these are made by our self-cast shad­ows, by fears forged by mere intel­lec­tu­al­ism, where thought is divorced from empa­thy, com­pas­sion, and love. So, yes, in our more iso­lat­ed thought-forms, held by the illu­sion of so-called pure rea­son, we felt apart and often lost our way.

But we were nev­er alone, nor will we ever be. When we lis­ten for the wind of the spir­it, to the whis­pers of our high­er self, we can remem­ber to feel and to use our intu­ition to slip beyond the lim­its of sim­ple rea­son; and we can use our rea­son to dis­tin­guish between our illu­mi­na­tions and illu­sions too. We can use this gift of self-aware­ness to quick­en our spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing, while we find in our hearts, in our soul, and by the love of our high­er self the truth that we were not lost at all, nor could we ever be.

We are blessed to think and to feel, to be rea­son­able and com­pas­sion­ate, to be cer­tain yet for­ev­er-ques­tion­ing of our cer­tain­ty. We are made to grow into our full­ness of being of what we are, “ones of the One”, by using this gift of Gem­i­ni to be curi­ous, adapt­able, by delight­ing in our inge­nu­ity, by our capac­i­ty to hold more than one point of view or idea, to move con­stant­ly through the realms of thought by “the­sis, antithe­sis, and syn­the­sis”, striv­ing, search­ing for the answer to the ques­tion “why”.

Long, long ago we were giv­en a gift so that we might ques­tion, well, every­thing. To wan­der and won­der and to ques­tion, “the what and the why and the how” of it all.

Today, and for­ev­er in your essen­tial nature, let us cel­e­brate this gift of Gem­i­ni, the gift of self-aware know­ing, and of our becom­ing a more con­scious­ly car­ing, co-cre­ator of Creation.

Min­er­va by Abbott_Handerson_Thayer-1929

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Order and Dis­or­der – Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Com­mu­nal­i­ty, and our Moral Crisis

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

I thought it would be help­ful to pull back again and to assume a “big pic­ture” view of this moment in human his­to­ry. As many of you know, I like to focus upon the long-wave or the prin­ci­pal dri­vers of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney by under­stand­ing the place­ments, pat­terns and mean­ings that are formed by the three out­er plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune, and Pluto.

As I have not­ed in numer­ous shows and post­ings, our present-day cir­cum­stances car­ry the echoes of ear­li­er his­tor­i­cal peri­ods, most notably the ear­ly to mid-1500’s and the late-1700’s. In both of those eras, a sim­i­lar series of place­ments and align­ments were hap­pen­ing that are very much like our own peri­od. And both of those peri­ods, like our own, were remark­able as to how they rep­re­sent­ed the end­ing of both a spir­i­tu­al-cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic ordering.

But always remem­ber that the plan­ets only hold the Ener­gy-Forms that inspire, inform, and guide our jour­ney on Earth, but the actu­al con­tent of what is formed, of what hap­pened and will hap­pen, that real­i­ty is made by us, by the com­plex of ener­gy-forms we humans weave upon this Earth, forged by the liv­ing spir­it of we human actors, so what we are faced with, both our dan­gers and our oppor­tu­ni­ties, this was made by our ances­tors and by you and me today. The chal­lenges we face today, we made, and there­in lies our true hope, for we can be the ones to make it bet­ter, we can make a bet­ter future if we try.

Tri­ad of Spirit
The three out­er plan­ets must always be con­sid­ered or held togeth­er as one. That is because they hold and form the hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms of what I call the Tri­ad of Spir­it. It is these three out­er plan­ets that hold as one the prin­ci­ple behind the pow­er of Spir­it, which is the “Pow­er of Becom­ing” held in each mon­ad of spir­it. This is the essen­tial nature of every­thing, of what is known as Swab­hā­va, which is that every ener­gy-form or par­ti­cle of cre­ation is formed by “the self that is becom­ing”. Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to are for us the avatars of the “Three as One”, which we know as the Mind, Love and Will of the One.

Uranus is the Avatar and vehi­cle of Mind or Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty for us, the alchem­i­cal agent or Ener­gy-Form that holds one of the essen­tial root forms or qual­i­ties of spir­it, which is that every­thing and every­one is part of the Mind of the One. This means that every sin­gle part of Cre­ation is Alive and Con­scious. From the dimmest forms of aware­ness to the most sub­lime con­tem­pla­tions of the hier­ar­chies of the “shin­ing ones”, the qual­i­ty of Mind is the foun­da­tion for one essen­tial qual­i­ty of Spir­it, that each par­ti­cle of Spir­it is formed as an Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, each one of us is a unique spark of the Divine.

Nep­tune is the Avatar and vehi­cle of Divine Love for us, the alchem­i­cal agent or Ener­gy-Form which is the pri­mal or root form of spir­it which we expe­ri­ence as the uncon­di­tion­al love of the One. The whole of Cre­ation is formed of the One, the body of the One is Cre­ation, rang­ing from the most mate­r­i­al of sub­stances to the most sub­lime and ethe­re­al of Ener­gy-Forms, every­thing and every­one is formed through and by Divine Love. Through Nep­tune we are held togeth­er by our mutu­al attrac­tions with and for one anoth­er, bring­ing us the gifts of love, empa­thy, and com­pas­sion. The essen­tial qual­i­ty of Nep­tune is the coun­ter­bal­ance to that of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Uranus, it is the equal­ly pow­er­ful essen­tial qual­i­ty of Spir­it, which is Com­mu­nal­i­ty, which is that each one of us is held in ever greater cir­cles of fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty, and fel­low­ship too, with our ulti­mate real­i­ty is that we are all held togeth­er as one in the One.

Plu­to is the Avatar and vehi­cle of the Will for us, which is the Alchem­i­cal agent or Ener­gy-Form that forges the expe­ri­ence for any being as “a one”, sep­a­rate in their own sacred space. Each par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, and each and every being, is formed from a spark of the Divine, by its Mon­ad, and it is by the will that it is formed as sep­a­rate from any oth­er par­ti­cle or being and held in the sacred space in which it exists and over which it pre­sides. As beings become ever more self-aware, like we in our human king­dom of life, the expe­ri­ence of the will leads us to our spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing, which is that we are to learn to use this gift of the spir­it for ever greater self-con­trol or self-mas­tery, so that the will is turned back upon one­self rather than being used to tres­pass, or to dom­i­nate and con­trol or vio­late the space of anoth­er. Instead, we are here to join togeth­er in shared sacred spaces, our rela­tion­ships, that we have cre­at­ed in order to love, work, and live with one another.

The Three-in-One
Our dynam­ic and pro­tean lives formed by spir­i­tu­al growth and evo­lu­tion, held with­in the Space of the Will by Plu­to is pro­pelled by the inter­play and dynam­i­cal­ly shift­ing bal­ance between Nep­tune and Uranus, with one being the dri­ve to One­ness by Love for Com­mu­nal­i­ty, ver­sus the dri­ve to Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty by Mind for Inde­pen­dence. In our human-made worlds of fam­i­ly, tribe, com­mu­ni­ty, and nation states, the bal­ance between the com­mu­nal­iz­ing and indi­vid­u­al­iz­ing forces with­in our monadic natures cre­ates our jour­ney through the var­i­ous life­ways, cul­tures, and civ­i­liza­tions as we walk the path of spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing for human­i­ty on this Earth.

Indi­vid­ual vs. Community
For us humans, this ten­sion between the Indi­vid­ual and their Com­mu­ni­ty has waxed and waned with­in any group­ing, cul­ture, and civ­i­liza­tion as well as between them. For exam­ple, when we look at the var­i­ous forms of lifestyle or life ways, like the Hunter/Gatherer, of the Farmer/Craftsperson or in our soci­ety for exam­ple of Rural/Suburban/Urban, we will see dif­fer­ing mix­tures and bal­ances of the rela­tion­ship between how much free­dom an indi­vid­ual may expe­ri­ence, and how much lim­i­ta­tion of their free­dom they do accept in order to live with oth­ers and in their communities.

It is most cer­tain­ly true that we would not be human with­out one anoth­er. We are a social species, and with­out fam­i­ly, com­pan­ion­ship, and com­mu­ni­ty we would not be able to live at all. Some form of com­mu­ni­ty is essen­tial for all human beings, for their shared sense of belong­ing to some­thing larg­er and more encom­pass­ing, and because that very com­mu­ni­ty pro­vides the care one needs in the ear­li­est years of life, and over the lifes­pan cre­ates the con­text of mean­ings, val­ues and beliefs which form each indi­vid­ual in that com­mu­ni­ty. As I like to say, we are more of a “we than an I”.

A Moral Order
To forge and main­tain these com­mu­ni­ties, this dynam­ic and inte­gral bal­ance of our Indi­vid­ual and Com­mu­nal natures leads to a con­stel­la­tion of mean­ing, a sense of what is right and good in our con­duct with one anoth­er, form­ing our moral com­pass of how we should live for our­selves and for oth­ers too.

This Moral Order, and the bal­ance of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Com­mu­nal­i­ty wax­es and wanes with­in any sys­tem, and over the arc of his­to­ry for any sys­tem. As the beliefs behind the order evolve, and the struc­tures of rela­tion­ships evolve with them, there are peri­ods of more gen­er­al agree­ment and accep­tance for the group, com­mu­ni­ty, or cul­ture with this moral order.

But in times of cri­sis or change as we most cer­tain­ly face today, these com­mon­ly accept­ed norms of con­duct, of what is moral and right, of the bal­ance of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and com­mu­nal­i­ty, may bend and break down as dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als, mem­bers and groups pull apart to form their own par­tic­u­lar sub-group or groups. It may lead to peri­ods of great con­fu­sion and con­flict, espe­cial­ly when a divide occurs with­in a group or nation, and the res­o­lu­tion to a restored moral order may only be secured through some great con­flict, as in our very own Civ­il War in the 1860’s.

1500’s, 1700’s and Now
As I have not­ed many times before and since 2008, we are wit­ness­es to the “end of an age” lead­ing to the birth of a new one. We are going through the break­ing down of an old Moral Order, and the neces­si­ty of build­ing a new one. Prin­ci­pal­ly I have attrib­uted the tim­ing of this trans­for­ma­tion to the pas­sage of Plu­to through Capri­corn as the end of the age, and then its move into Aquar­ius as the strug­gle to estab­lish a new order, which is what we are now expe­ri­enc­ing from 2024 until 2044. If we look at the major shifts in pre­vi­ous peri­ods in his­to­ry, we will see that there are sig­nif­i­cant insights for our time as well.

1500’s
Over 500 years ago, the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn was from 1516 to 1532, and the sub­se­quent strug­gle to cre­ate a New Order with Plu­to in Aquar­ius was from 1532 to 1553. In Europe, his­to­ri­ans date this peri­od to the end of late Mid­dle Ages and feu­dal­ism, and to the so-called rise or expan­sion of West­ern civ­i­liza­tion. With the fall of the one Catholic order after Mar­tin Luther’s the­ses, the break­ing of the par­a­digm of a divine immutable order of the uni­verse fueled by sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies, this led to a great dis­rup­tion in the order­ing of the moral, eco­nom­ic, cul­tur­al, and polit­i­cal orders in Europe. The attempt by the Catholic King­doms to main­tain their pow­er led to dev­as­tat­ing wars between them and those who broke away to form Protes­tant realms. The old order, with its feu­dal sys­tem based on land­ed pow­er and the one Catholic Church was giv­ing way to the rise of absolute mon­archs accom­pa­nied by a new eco­nom­ic order empow­er­ing a grow­ing mer­can­tile class. But I believe that per­haps one of the most trag­ic Plu­ton­ian expe­ri­ences of death and rebirth in this peri­od, was the Span­ish con­quest of the Aztec and Incan empires in North and South America.

1700’s
The most recent pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn was from 1762 to 1778, and the sub­se­quent strug­gle to cre­ate a New Order with Plu­to in Aquar­ius from 1778 to 1798. His­to­ri­ans char­ac­ter­ize this peri­od as age of Enlight­en­ment and the age Rev­o­lu­tions, with the rise of the sci­en­tif­ic method of inquiry, the rise of lib­er­al ide­ol­o­gy, and with it the Amer­i­can colonies engag­ing in our Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War against the King­dom of Great Britain, and the over­throw of the Monar­chy in the French Rev­o­lu­tion. The world was turned upside down again, the old moral order ques­tioned and thrown down and the lib­er­al order that spread from this time became a norm for many peoples.

Though both these Plu­ton­ic peri­ods of trans­for­ma­tion rep­re­sent­ed the end of an age and the start of a new one, the Nep­tun­ian influ­ence for each peri­od was quite dif­fer­ent. And I believe this will help us to under­stand which peri­od is more like our own and what that might mean for us.

Plu­to in Capri­corn and Aquar­ius – Nep­tune in Virgo/Libra or Pisces/Aries
On its own, Plu­to in Capri­corn is the end of an age, and Plu­to in Aquar­ius her­alds the birth of a new insti­tu­tion­al order. But when we weave into that expe­ri­ence the influ­ence of Nep­tune, we can see how dif­fer­ent each Plu­to pas­sage will be. Giv­en the ratio of their orbital peri­ods, it turns out that Nep­tune will be pass­ing through either Vir­go or Pisces, and then move onto Libra or Aries when­ev­er Plu­to is in Capri­corn and then moves into Aquarius.

With Plu­to as the Avatar of the Pow­er of Alche­my or the shaper of Spir­it-Mat­ter, and the wield­er of the Will, and Nep­tune as the Avatar of our Fields of Dream and Imag­i­na­tion or the ves­sel of our Hopes or Fears, the type or kind of re-shap­ing and re-form­ing by the pas­sages of Plu­to in Capricorn/Aquarius can be dis­cerned by the very dif­fer­ent influ­ences ema­nat­ing through Nep­tune mov­ing through Vir­go then Libra ver­sus Nep­tune mov­ing through Pisces then Aries.

Nep­tune in Pisces-Aries or Virgo-Libra
What I believe we will see is that the pro­tean trans­for­ma­tions of the Nep­tune in Pisces peri­od, gives birth to a re-dream­ing of the dream, lead­ing to a very bold restate­ment of a new Moral Order or Iden­ti­ty as the new Age emerges when Nep­tune goes through Aries. This is what occurred in the 1500’s and is sim­i­lar to what we are expe­ri­enc­ing today. Let’s com­pare the place­ments of Plu­to and Nep­tune in the 1500’s to that of the 1700’s.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1500’s
In the peri­od of the 1500’s, with Plu­to in Capri­corn and then Aquar­ius, and Nep­tune in Pisces and then Aries, the entire Euro­pean order­ing of life was turned upside down. The moral struc­ture of the social order was defined by faith, from the Divine Right of Kings and with the order­ing of belief hier­ar­chi­cal­ly arranged from Pope to Priest to the peo­ple. This world was smashed by the Ref­or­ma­tion, which turned that social order and way of mean­ing com­plete­ly around. Faith became per­son­al, it emanat­ed from the per­son­al expe­ri­ence of the “Word of God”, as the bible was now avail­able in the com­mon tongue. Faith became Indi­vid­ual, and no longer medi­at­ed by the priest­hood and Pope. And over time a grow­ing sense emerged that humans should order their lives around the sanc­ti­ty of the indi­vid­ual con­science, and this informed and shaped the need to orga­nize our insti­tu­tions towards self-rule and democracy.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1770’s
When Nep­tune was in Vir­go and then Libra in the 1770’s, the dreams of that Plu­ton­ian end­ing of an age and reorder­ing were focused through the cri­tiquing, defin­ing, and refin­ing lens of Vir­go. That is because when Nep­tune is in Vir­go, we are asked to reimag­ine how we order our world, how we find our order of life with­in our­selves, and then in the Libra peri­od we move from this with a renewed sense of self into the attempt to forge a new space of rela­tion­ship for our mutu­al benefit.

Rather than the strug­gles over Faith and Belief as in the 1500’s, the strug­gles in the 1700’s were over the Ideals about polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic rights, it was about prin­ci­ples, rights, and the rule of law. I believe we might want to approach every Virgo/Libra time of a Plu­to trans­for­ma­tion as the result of, maybe the refine­ment and com­ple­tion of what began in the pre­vi­ous Pisces/Aries peri­od that came before. That is in the Pisces/Aries phase would be the pri­ma­ry peri­od of rad­i­cal change, as we expe­ri­ence the dis­solv­ing of an old order and the begin­ning of a com­plete­ly new order, and that this leads to the refine­ment or adjust­ment and restate­ment of the new moral order in the Virgo/Libra phase.

Our Time
If that is so, what can we under­stand about our own peri­od, and by com­par­ing our peri­od with the 1500’s rather than the 1700’s? What I believe that means is that we are expe­ri­enc­ing a shift that is much more fun­da­men­tal, much more rad­i­cal, requir­ing us to make a much big­ger shift in our beliefs and in our moral order. The par­a­digm that has more or less been the dom­i­nant order­ing of mean­ing since the 1500’s, which over­threw and led to the fall of a more faith-based cul­ture and moral­i­ty and the rise of a sys­tem where sci­ence and rea­son became the new faith, that moral uni­verse is cer­tain­ly chang­ing if not ending.

Just as our ances­tors in the 1500’s faced a rad­i­cal epis­te­mo­log­i­cal cri­sis, a cri­sis of how they knew and how they under­stood what is true about their world, so do we now too. As has been quite evi­dent to most of us, and cer­tain­ly since Nep­tune entered Pisces in 2010, our agree­ments about what is fact ver­sus fic­tion, what is true ver­sus false have become very dif­fi­cult to dis­cern for even the most rea­son­able as well as the most intu­itive among us.

And when the foun­da­tions for know­ing what is right or wrong, of dis­cern­ing truth from false­hood fail you, when you can­not know for cer­tain about so many things, when doubt over­whelms hope, it is then that you find your­self in a world where your moral foun­da­tions and prac­tices are bend­ing, fail­ing, and falling, and you find your­self in a world where seem­ing­ly any­thing is pos­si­ble, and noth­ing is true.

How can you know right from wrong, truth from fic­tion? Rather than the medi­a­tion of truth and fact being adju­di­cat­ed by some trust­ed hier­ar­chy of author­i­ties, whether that be in the realms of Faith, Sci­ence, Cul­ture or Pol­i­tics, we find our­selves cap­tured by our indi­vid­u­al­is­tic par­a­digm that emerged in the 1500’s. Because of this “indi­vid­u­al­is­tic dilem­ma”, which is now fueled and accel­er­at­ed by the dig­i­tal alche­my of our inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty to immense data­bas­es of data and infor­ma­tion, (but unfor­tu­nate­ly for the most part not of Wis­dom or Humil­i­ty), we find that many peo­ple believe that they can fash­ion and for­mu­late their own ver­sion of real­i­ty from a self-curat­ed menu of data and points of view, which they have gath­ered from self-select­ed sources, and the vast major­i­ty of these so-called facts have not been rig­or­ous­ly test­ed and vet­ted by knowl­edge­able and trust­ed sources.

And with­out the means to sort facts from fic­tions, the truth from half-truths and lies, we are at the mer­cy of the storms whipped up by those who prof­it from out­rage and fear. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, what we have cre­at­ed is a chaot­ic cacoph­o­ny of truths and half-truths, of rev­e­la­tions and delu­sions, of wis­dom and nonsense.

What can you do?
What can we do; what can you do?

We must begin with the heart of Cre­ation, which is that the entire­ty of the Uni­verse is the One. Truth is not to be found over here or over there; Truth is eter­nal and omnipresent, and it is what forms every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, includ­ing the stars and plan­ets and you and me. The Truth is with­in us as much as we are held in a ver­i­ta­ble ocean of truth that is the cos­mos itself. And it is this immutable real­i­ty that makes truth knowable.

What this means is that whether you go inwards to lis­ten to the qui­et, still voice of your high­er intu­itive self, or you choose to go out­ward­ly to observe and learn from realms rang­ing from the most ethe­re­al to the most sub­stan­tial, you will come to truth. You may (or should) turn to those who came before you, to the seers and teach­ers through­out the ages, who left pearls of wis­dom and truth to guide your steps, and you equal­ly should look to those who live by this light as they pre­serve these gifts by their con­duct and ser­vice here today.

But for your­self, as in every life, you must hone your own spir­i­tu­al intu­ition and under­stand­ing by doing what we have done since the dawn of our awak­en­ing, you must share what you have observed and under­stood with oth­ers; and, most impor­tant­ly, you must equal­ly let them share what they have dis­cov­ered with you. You can­not find the way by your­self because you are made of one anoth­er, and you need one anoth­er to lift the veil of mis­un­der­stand­ing, to hone your dis­cern­ment by tem­per­ing your under­stand­ing in the cru­cible of shar­ing, con­trast­ing, and renewing.

You must remain where you tru­ly are, with­in your own spir­i­tu­al tem­ple, for it is by your Tri­ad of Spir­it that you will stay on the roy­al mid­dle path of Truth.

So, by Uranus use your high­er mind to free your­self from more lim­it­ed per­spec­tives so that you may per­ceive the indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, com­plex­i­ty, and diver­si­ty in all the realms of life that form the cosmos.

By Nep­tune, open your heart to “the greater under­stand­ing”, as you feel what your mind can­not yet per­ceive, so that your love remains cen­tered in the Uncon­di­tion­al love by which all things are made.

By Plu­to, remain cen­tered in your will, so that you may main­tain your integri­ty and self-con­trol, like the dia­mond body of spir­it that shines in your spark of the Divine.

As I have said before, the Light of Truth is with­in you, and you can obtain and secure it by an Open and Ques­tion­ing Mind, that is held from excess­es by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, and togeth­er with your Rea­son and Com­pas­sion, you remain firm­ly cen­tered in your high­er spir­i­tu­al nature by your Cen­tered Will.

I know that is a restate­ment of what I say all the time, but I think it deserves repeat­ing giv­en the time we are in right now. I know it is a very trou­bling time, with trou­bles far and wide and near at hand, and all of us are try­ing to find our way through this to make the right choice or a bet­ter choice, to turn away from fear and turn towards kind­ness and love.

You know that what we do and how we treat oth­ers mat­ters, and we real­ize that those indi­vid­u­als who are trou­bled, who are per­haps bring­ing about harm to them­selves and to oth­ers, that most of that is because of fear. Peo­ple who are not in con­trol of them­selves, because they are not being guid­ed by their high­er nature, it is because of this that they cause harm.

If we can approach one anoth­er with under­stand­ing and open­ness, with­out judg­ment, but with under­stand­ing and com­pas­sion, we might be able to melt that fear away. We can hope to open one anoth­er’s hearts, so that we can have these deep con­ver­sa­tions and con­nec­tions which may hope­ful­ly build and cre­ate the new moral order that we all are here to make hap­pen for one another.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Order and Dis­or­der – Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Com­mu­nal­i­ty, and our Moral Crisis

In my fourth show of 2024, I want to return to a theme I have addressed over the past many years, which is how sim­i­lar our time is to two pre­vi­ous peri­ods in his­to­ry, the ear­ly 1500’s and the late 1700’s. We are at the end of an age and the begin­ning of a new one. What kind of end and begin­ning might it be?

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 Sun­day April 28^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2024/04/28/astrological-musings-order-and-disorder-april-28–2024

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

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.