Tran­script of Radio Show: The USA and the 2020 Elec­tion – Biden & Trump

Biden Chart Analysis

The Human­is­tic approach to Astrol­o­gy, starts with the con­sid­er­a­tion of any chart by approach­ing it Holis­ti­cal­ly, to seek to under­stand the chart by first dis­cern­ing what pat­tern the plan­ets form with one anoth­er. The pat­tern of Joe Biden’s chart is called a Loco­mo­tive or Open-Angle Pat­tern. The plan­ets are spread around the wheel fill­ing in about two-thirds of space and leav­ing one-third emp­ty. The Loco­mo­tive type holds to a tem­pera­ment that is inher­ent­ly open to growth and tran­scen­dence. It can lead to a spir­i­tu­al or even mys­ti­cal qual­i­ty, and it indi­cates the abil­i­ty to move beyond the ordi­nary and con­ven­tion­al, so that the indi­vid­ual is open to wider and deep­er appre­ci­a­tions through what are called transper­son­al expe­ri­ences. The Loco­mo­tive type is high­ly moti­vat­ed and may feel that they have a mis­sion in life. But with the trine Aspect as the basis for the pat­tern, their tem­pera­ment can be very flow­ing and inspi­ra­tional, draw­ing peo­ple onto their path.

The lead­ing edge of the open angle pat­tern is a key indi­ca­tor, and for Biden it is the Moon. Not only is the Moon in Tau­rus lead­ing Biden, but it is also the ris­ing body for his chart. Those fac­tors, plus the pre­pon­der­ance of water place­ments in Biden’s chart, makes him a true sen­si­tive. He feels very deeply and is high­ly intu­itive and com­pas­sion­ate. Not only does he feel his joys and pains more than most, but he has such empa­thy and com­pas­sion that he tru­ly feels the pain and joy of oth­ers too.

The three most impor­tant place­ments in any chart, are the Sun, Moon and Ris­ing Sign. For Joe Biden, his Sun is in Scor­pio and it is placed in his 12^th house. Scor­pio is a Water Sign and is known for its pas­sion and deter­mi­na­tion. Scorpio’s are known for their pen­e­trat­ing insight, and they have a pro­nounced abil­i­ty to see through the appear­ances of things and uncov­er that which is hid­den from most. Scor­pio rules Unions, the process­es I call Alchem­i­cal, and that we know as Birth-Death-Rebirth.

Yes, the mir­a­cle of the birth of a child, and the agony of los­ing loved ones will mark Joe Biden’s life…and it has. He has earned his empa­thy and com­pas­sion with great loss­es, espe­cial­ly in 1972 of his first wife and his daugh­ter, Nelia and Nao­mi in a car acci­dent, (but luck­i­ly his sons Beau and Hunter sur­vived). He lat­er loss Beau to brain can­cer in 2015. We Astrologers like to tell Scor­pios that they are the strongest sign; we do not always have the heart to tell them why they will need that strength.

Biden’s Sun is in his 12^th house, which often leads a soul into peri­ods of deep intro­spec­tion and equal­ly seems to ask that indi­vid­ual to make some great sac­ri­fices in their life. Biden does not seek the lime­light for his own sat­is­fac­tion, as he prefers to work behind the cur­tain. Through his Sun trin­ing his Jupiter, Biden will appear to be for­tu­nate or lucky in his life to many, but what they are real­ly wit­ness­ing is the return of his very gen­er­ous spir­it of giv­ing to many, many others

Biden’s Moon is in Tau­rus in the 5^th house. This means he expe­ri­ences the ten­sion between time­less val­ues (Tau­rus), and the equal­ly ephemer­al nature of our mor­tal forms and lives (Scor­pio). With both his lights in Fixed Signs, Biden will be pur­pose­ful and con­stant, (as much as Trump is change­able and unsta­ble). With the Moon in the house of recre­ation, play and chil­dren, Biden will enjoy life, recre­ations, and chil­dren. The Moon in Tau­rus fos­ters a sta­ble, con­stant, and calm emo­tion­al nature.

Biden’s third essen­tial qual­i­ty is the Ris­ing Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. Biden will appear to be very direct and open, prone to telling it “like it is”, (some­times more so than he should). We often joke that when Sagit­tar­ius is ris­ing the per­son often opens their mouth only to change their foot! Sagit­tar­ius is the sign of the sto­ry­teller, and Biden is well known for his jovi­al­i­ty com­bined with his frank­ness. It can endear him to many, and it can make oth­ers cringe as he makes yet anoth­er faux pas. But fun­da­men­tal­ly, he sees him­self as some­one who is here to dis­cov­er and share the truth, and he will be direct and forth­right about it.

Where­as Trump has his Sun con­junct Uranus (and oppo­site to his Moon), Biden has his Sun oppo­site to Uranus. The dif­fer­ence is that for him­self (the Sun), Trump is an icon­o­clast, a break­er of norms; he is the shock­er and dis­rupter. But, with both his “lights” influ­enced by Uranus he is inher­ent­ly unsta­ble, there is no place of stability.

Biden is shocked by oth­ers, but is him­self very sta­ble, so he is chal­lenged to find con­struc­tive ways to respond to those who are not sta­ble. For­tu­nate­ly, he also has Venus con­junct his Sun, and with both Sun and Venus being in a trine to his Jupiter, he is both gen­tle and lov­ing (Venus) and guid­ed by good will and a strong moral pur­pose (Jupiter).

The plan­e­tary ruler for Scor­pio is Mars (though Astrologers will also look to Plu­to as well). For Biden, his Mars is also in Scor­pio, and it is in his 11^th House. Mars in Scor­pio makes for a pas­sion­ate war­rior, some­one you would want on your side, but you would be wise to walk away from if they are opposed to you. Mars in the 11^th house fights for social jus­tice, for pre­serv­ing and advanc­ing the hopes and dreams of others.

The Plan­et that is high­est in a chart, (often in the 10^th house) is also sig­nif­i­cant. For Trump it is Uranus, the plan­et of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom. For Biden, it is Nep­tune, the plan­et of Dreams, Com­pas­sion and Sac­ri­fice. Since the 10^th house is your “pub­lic life” or “office”, Trump with Uranus in his 10^th house would want to be free to do what­ev­er he wants to do; Trump is born to be an auto­crat. For Biden, he would see his career as a call­ing with Nep­tune, he would be inspired by a dream and be will­ing to sac­ri­fice him­self for the cause.

But he not a star­ry-eyed ide­al­ist, he is a very (as we astrologers like to say) watery per­son, with his Sun, Venus, Mer­cury and Mars in Scor­pio, and his Jupiter in Can­cer. Biden is sen­si­tive and real­is­tic, and he is moti­vat­ed to care for and nur­ture oth­ers. He may wish he were less sen­si­tive, but tru­ly Biden’s sen­si­tiv­i­ty is his strength.

Trump Chart Analysis:

I always begin to exam­ine a chart by look­ing at it holis­ti­cal­ly. After all, an astro­log­i­cal chart is a Sky Map, a pic­ture of the plan­e­tary posi­tions, as seen from a spe­cif­ic place on the Earth, on a cer­tain day and time. What we should do first is take a step back and look for the over­all mes­sage of the chart. When we do this what emerges is the pat­tern of the chart, and it reveals the first indi­ca­tion of the type of per­son we are examining.

Don­ald Trump’s pat­tern is called a Bowl or Hemi­spher­ic shape, with all plan­ets lin­ing up on one side of the chart, and the oth­er half remain­ing open or emp­ty. The bowl pat­tern implies a great degree of self-con­tain­ment, but often desir­ing recog­ni­tion; here we find a soul that is moved or affect­ed more by exter­nal cir­cum­stances than by inter­nal fac­tors. Because of this pat­tern, Trump frames his life by a strong sense of mis­sion, a sense that he pos­sess­es some­thing (the filled bowl), but that he equal­ly lacks or needs some­thing, (the emp­ty space). He will be dri­ven, pur­pose­ful and feel that he has a des­tiny to ful­fill. Because the pat­tern is fun­da­men­tal­ly based on the oppo­si­tion, the tem­pera­ment formed is dual­is­tic; Trump will have an “all or noth­ing” psy­chol­o­gy, he will see the world as divid­ed in two, into “us and them”.

The crit­i­cal or high focus part of the Bowl pat­tern is formed by the lead­ing plan­et or edge of the bowl. In Trump’s chart, that lead­ing plan­et is Uranus in his 10^th house of career, pub­lic life, and pur­pose. Uranus is the “Awak­en­er” and brings about change through shocks and upsets. Not only is it his lead­ing plan­et, but it is also the upper­most plan­et in his chart, and most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, it is next to his Sun and oppo­site to his Moon. If you want to under­stand a very great deal about Trump, you only need to under­stand this influ­ence of Uranus and these oth­er two fea­tures: that his Sun is in Gem­i­ni, his Moon is in Sagit­tar­ius, and he has Uranus con­junct his Sun and oppo­site to his Moon.

Gem­i­ni is an Air Sign, known for its intel­li­gence, curios­i­ty, adapt­abil­i­ty, and rest­less­ness. Gem­i­ni rules the mind in its capac­i­ty to con­sid­er things from more than one point of view or per­spec­tive, to per­ceive the world through mul­ti­ple “lens­es”, to assume mul­ti­ple posi­tions in order to con­sid­er which view or views seems most mean­ing­ful, reveal­ing or excep­tion­al. When applied in right ways, Gem­i­ni is our fac­ul­ty of Intelligence.

Gem­in­is love to “stir things up”. They can hold one posi­tion and then swing to the oppo­site posi­tion with­out skip­ping a beat. Gem­in­is are often “high-strung, ner­vous types” with a con­stant need to take in and push out infor­ma­tion. Their avid­i­ty and thirst for infor­ma­tion, and their insis­tent need to share these mul­ti­ple thoughts can push the enve­lope of rea­son to that razor’s edge that lies between genius and insan­i­ty. Keep­ing up with and fol­low­ing the stream of con­scious­ness of some Gem­in­is can be fas­ci­nat­ing, but some­times frus­trat­ing and fruit­less; often­times with Trump, it will be pointless.

Being born at the Full Moon, Trump has his Moon in the oppo­site Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. The Moon rules the emo­tion­al life, the emo­tion­al needs, the ingrained and uncon­scious habit pat­terns of reactions/interactions and will reveal how a per­son will act or react with­out think­ing. (And though we humans like to think of our­selves as mind­ful, intel­li­gent and self-aware, we actu­al­ly live a great deal of our lives on “autopi­lot”, so that when some­thing hap­pens, we will often react with­out much thought at all).

The Moon in Sagit­tar­ius is very free-wheel­ing, open and out­spo­ken, so that it leads to a per­son who will feel and speak with lit­tle or no restraint. There is basi­cal­ly no fil­ter at all. What­ev­er is in their feel­ing-think­ing in that moment is what you are going to get.

The oppo­si­tion of the Sun and Moon, (the two prin­ci­ple indi­ca­tors of our Male and Female natures), will cre­ate a crit­i­cal con­flict and imbal­ance between the Thoughts and Feel­ings for Trump. The result will be a pulling and push­ing with­in him­self, often lead­ing to wider (and wilder) swings between cold intel­lect and emo­tion­al­i­ty. If the spir­i­tu­al-psy­cho­log­i­cal work of accept­ing and inte­grat­ing his male/female halves is not achieved, he will be sub­ject to extreme rest­less­ness, impul­sive­ness, and impatience.

This com­bi­na­tion of Gem­i­ni and Sagit­tar­ius could be har­nessed and bal­anced if oth­er fac­tors in his chart were to bring in some restraint and ground­ing. There are some fac­tors in his chart that could help Trump. How­ev­er, the prin­ci­ple plan­et affect­ing both his Sun and Moon is the plan­et that rules the “earth­quakes of life”, Uranus.

The con­junc­tion of the Sun with Uranus means that Trump will stand out, and nev­er blend in. His life will be unusu­al, full of excep­tion­al moments that break through bound­aries. Born to rebel, he would have been inde­pen­dent and defi­ant as a child, and he would have devel­oped a view of him­self as not sub­ject to nor­mal rules or expec­ta­tions. He can exhib­it bril­liance and flash­es of great insight, but he will at times be equal­ly unable to restrain him­self from dis­trac­tions and errat­ic behaviors.

Again, even this chal­leng­ing set of fac­tors could have been com­bined with ground­ing ele­ments to mod­u­late and sta­bi­lize his nature. But in Trump’s chart the ener­gies of insta­bil­i­ty (and chaos) are mag­ni­fied by Uranus because it is also in oppo­si­tion to his Moon. Trump will look upon feel­ings (and women) with great dis­trust because they are for him so unpre­dictable and unknow­able. He will be dis­mis­sive of and not in touch with his feel­ing nature. The result is that Trump will swing wild­ly between his rest­less intel­lect and inse­cure emo­tions. His thoughts will lack real empa­thy and com­pas­sion; and his emo­tions will be unin­formed by rea­son. Trump will be capa­ble of some moments of bril­liance, but he will lack empa­thy; he will put on a dis­play of sen­ti­ment, but he is tru­ly uncar­ing. Trump will remain divid­ed with­in him­self; he has remained through­out his life a very unset­tled and unsta­ble individual.

Many com­men­ta­tors have assumed that Trump’s demeanor is pure­ly an act, and that he employs his “prin­ci­ples of chaos” as a strat­e­gy, shock­ing his adver­saries to achieve his ends. What his chart reveals is that this is no act. Trump is unsta­ble by nature. He is sim­ply unpre­dictable because he can­not con­trol himself.

The plan­e­tary ruler for Gem­i­ni is Mer­cury, which for Trump is in the sign of Can­cer. Though he will con­sid­er him­self to be a man of rea­son, pos­sess­ing a great range of ideas and knowl­edge, and that he comes to his facts and opin­ions via his supe­ri­or intel­lect, much of his think­ing and deci­sion-mak­ing is uncon­scious­ly influ­enced by his emo­tions. He will believe that he is being “rea­son­able” when he in fact he is often being blind­ed by his emo­tion­al biases.

But much more trou­bling is that he also has his Mer­cury squar­ing his Nep­tune, the plan­et of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion. Nep­tune is also, when mis­ap­plied or mis­un­der­stood, the plan­et that rules fan­tasies, delu­sions, and decep­tions. Mer­cury squar­ing Nep­tune, if you can mas­ter your­self, can be won­der­ful and make you a great sto­ry­teller, it is gift for painters and poets, allow­ing one to slip beyond the bound­aries of real­i­ty for inspiration.

But when com­bined with the inher­ent insta­bil­i­ty of his chart, Mer­cury square Nep­tune means that Trump will say any­thing, and mean noth­ing. He will make some­thing up and turn around and say the oppo­site. And then he will prob­a­bly turn around again and say some third thing. He will employ “smoke and mir­rors”; he will claim to speak plain­ly and accuse oth­ers of being untruth­ful. He will sow doubt and con­fu­sion, he will often promise and not deliv­er. He is prob­a­bly not to be believed or trust­ed much of the time.

One of the more chal­leng­ing aspects a per­son may have in their chart is a hard con­tact between Venus and Sat­urn. Trump has his Sat­urn con­junct Venus, which means he expe­ri­enced only con­di­tion­al forms of love as a child. Rather than being loved tru­ly, he was exposed to “love” that was giv­en or with­held as a tool for reward or pun­ish­ment. This is not love, this is the abu­sive pow­er wield­ed by an author­i­tar­i­an par­ent, most like­ly his father. More­over, when Sat­urn makes this hard aspect to Venus, the child is exposed to the deval­u­a­tion of women by their father.

With­out sig­nif­i­cant help to heal this wound, Trump would have no true expe­ri­ence of healthy “self-love”, nor would he be capa­ble of gen­uine­ly lov­ing anoth­er. He would need oth­ers to love and admire him to fill the aching hole in his soul. But he would be unable to show real love to anoth­er. Trump can only take from oth­ers; he has no love to offer. He would be ungen­er­ous, unchar­i­ta­ble and treat oth­ers as “objects”, as he can be the only “sub­ject” in any relationship.

This aspect in a chart may indi­cate and form the con­di­tions for devel­op­ing “nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­der”. It has been not­ed that many of the actions and over-reac­tions that Trump has dis­played in his pub­lic life seem to con­form to the clas­sic behav­iors asso­ci­at­ed with what is called nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty disorder.

In short, these delin­eations from Trump’s chart point to an indi­vid­ual who appears fun­da­men­tal­ly unsta­ble, often untruth­ful, and with a heart that is bro­ken and inca­pable of love.

2020 for Biden and Trump 

When con­sid­er­ing the astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions in anyone’s chart for a year, I will look first to their pro­gres­sions and then look at their major tran­sits. What is remark­able about the two can­di­dates for office this year, is that they are at the same stage in the pro­gressed Sun/Moon cycle. They both are in a “New Moon” phase, (Biden’s was in May 2019, in Aquar­ius and in his 3^rd House, Trump was Sep­tem­ber 2019, in Vir­go and in his 1^st house). That is quite a coin­ci­dence. A seed has been plant­ed for them both and is now ger­mi­nat­ing; for Biden it is focused upon ques­tions of Rea­son and Intel­li­gence, and for Trump it high­lights Per­son­al­i­ty and Presence.

What is also inter­est­ing is that the Plan­et Plu­to is lin­ing up in both their charts. For Biden, he has Plu­to mak­ing a sesqui­quadrate (90 plus 45-degree aspect) to his Sat­urn in 2020 and 2021. The mes­sage is that he is fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in work­ing to trans­form his per­son­al under­stand­ing of real­i­ty to deal with the dis­rup­tive changes in the world. What he will need to do is to work steadi­ly and patient­ly towards progress and trans­for­ma­tion with­in him­self, and that way he can also meet the need of the times.

For Trump, as I have point­ed out for some time now, he is fac­ing sev­er­al chal­lenges from Plu­to. I have called these tran­sits his “test of pow­er”. Plu­to is still Incon­junct his Sun, (from 2019 through 2020), and he also has Plu­to Oppo­site his Sat­urn in 2020. It is quite inter­est­ing, that the mir­ror of this tran­sit, Sun Incon­junct Sun, hap­pened for Trump in 1991 and 1992, when he went through his first and then his sec­ond bank­rupt­cy, and it hap­pened again with Plu­to oppo­site his Sun in 2004–2005 and his third bankruptcy.

The Plu­to to Sun tran­sit is forc­ing Trump to ques­tion his sense and source of pow­er. A nor­mal per­son might become dis­en­chant­ed with their posi­tion. For Trump, he is once again being con­front­ed with his (lack) of under­stand­ing as to the nature of pow­er and author­i­ty. He is expe­ri­enc­ing, time and again, that he does not have the pow­er he thinks or thought he had (or should have). An ordi­nary per­son might just let it go or walk away from their role which is no longer work­ing for them.

Plu­to oppo­site Trump’s Sat­urn for 2020 is per­haps as chal­leng­ing, if not more chal­leng­ing as Plu­to to his Sun. Sat­urn is the plan­et of real­i­ty and con­sti­tutes for an indi­vid­ual what you think will or can­not change. But Plu­to brings trans­for­ma­tion, it brings death (and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of rebirth), and Trump is faced with events and cir­cum­stances that keep show­ing him that his real­i­ty is not what he thought it was. For Trump, he can no longer run on a strong econ­o­my, he can­not force peo­ple to ignore the pan­dem­ic that is killing their fam­i­ly and friends. He is unable to address the divi­sions with­in the coun­try because his source of pow­er comes from play­ing one side against the oth­er, and the greater Real­i­ty of America’s reck­on­ing with it past is some­thing that he can­not under­stand or allow.

But he does not have the pow­er, not per­son­al­ly as he would see or under­stand it. Our Con­sti­tu­tion is based on rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­er­nance; the peo­ple have the pow­er. Lead­ers are here to lead by inspi­ra­tion, by set­ting an exam­ple; they serve and sac­ri­fice for the greater good. Giv­en Trumps’ nature, he is not fit to lead. In our sys­tem a leader’s pow­er comes from the con­sent of the gov­erned, and Trump has lost most of the peo­ple because he has sought to rule by fear and divi­sion. Now his lack of sup­port, and his loss of pow­er reveals that his only hold over his sup­posed polit­i­cal allies is through fear, and this is forc­ing a real­i­ty check that he can­not grasp.

This point is real­ly being brought to bear with anoth­er dou­ble-tran­sit to Trump’s chart, Uranus squar­ing his Plu­to, and Uranus semi-square his Sun. This is formed by the fact that in Trump’s chart, he has his own Sun semi-square to Plu­to. This natal aspect indi­cates that Trump was fat­ed from birth to learn the les­son about the Will (Plu­to) and the Self (Sun). We must all learn this fun­da­men­tal les­son, that Pow­er does not come from the Self; Pow­er flows through the self to the extent that one has achieved self-mas­tery and equal­ly respects the sacred cen­ter of every oth­er. Then, what­ev­er pow­er comes to and through that per­son will be deter­mined by what­ev­er posi­tion they hold. Whether you are the head of a fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty, com­pa­ny or coun­try, the pow­er you wield is not yours, it is only to be used to serve the source of pow­er, and nev­er yourself.

Plu­to teach­es that the only thing you are here to mas­ter in this life, the only thing you are here to con­trol, is your­self. Trump does not under­stand that his lack of self-con­trol, his dis­re­spect and den­i­gra­tion of oth­er sources of pow­er, reveals that he is inca­pable of man­ag­ing him­self let along lead­ing a nation. Unfor­tu­nate­ly for Amer­i­ca, it has brought us to a very per­ilous and painful peri­od, and many, many lives have and will be lost that could have been saved.

Look­ing to Biden, anoth­er major tran­sit in Joe’s chart is Nep­tune mov­ing into his 4^th house. Giv­en that Nep­tune is in Biden’s 10^th house of pur­pose and mis­sion, and the 4^th house is the source of your roots and foun­da­tions, this will be quite an impor­tant time in Biden’s life. Nep­tune is the “Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent”, as it dis­solves the bound­aries between lay­ers and realms to reveal the Uni­ty of the Uni­verse. What this means for Biden is that he is being asked to dis­solve or let go of his old sense of ances­tral and cul­tur­al roots and move into a more Uni­ver­sal sense of being Cen­tered in a greater under­stand­ing. Expe­ri­ences will help Biden to cre­ate a wider and more inclu­sive foun­da­tion; this year is a time when Biden will reimag­ine and go deep­er into the truth of what lies at the root of one and all, and then draw upon that to chan­nel these feel­ings in his pub­lic life.

And final­ly, it is quite inter­est­ing that both Trump and Biden have Uranus squar­ing their Pluto’s in 2020. How­ev­er, since their Birth Charts indi­cate very dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences of the test of Plu­to, (Trump has the dif­fi­cult semi-square of his Sun to Plu­to; Biden has the very sup­port­ive trine of his Sun to Plu­to), each has had a very dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence of Plu­to in their life; each has faced the test of the Will and Self-Con­trol in quite dif­fer­ent ways; and, they will react to this chal­lenge very dif­fer­ent­ly as well.

Giv­en that any­one with these zodi­a­cal degrees of Plu­to is going through this, this tran­sit of Uranus squar­ing Plu­to is very much a gen­er­a­tional expe­ri­ence. For all who were born in the ear­ly to mid-1940s, it will be a peri­od when what they have built up by their use of their will is test­ed and dis­rupt­ed. Sud­den changes brought about by Uranus will take the form of social and eco­nom­ic upheavals that are beyond anyone’s con­trol, forc­ing all to con­sid­er how and what to pre­serve, but also to face what must change in their pri­vate and pub­lic lives. Some will be able to rise to the occa­sion, some will cope as best as they can, and some will cer­tain­ly fail.

For Trump, giv­en his tem­pera­ment and nature, this square to his Plu­to will just inten­si­fy his frus­tra­tion and his defen­sive reac­tion and impulse will be to be even more extreme in his attempts to manip­u­late oth­ers and use his pow­ers in self-serv­ing ways in order to pre­serve what he has. Giv­en the oth­er major tran­sits he is faced with, it does not seem like­ly that he will pre­vail as events will shat­ter the illu­sion that he is in control.

For Biden, giv­en his pos­i­tive Sun/Pluto arrange­ment, he is more in touch with the les­son of Plu­to, that the only con­trol you will ever have is Self-Con­trol or Self-Mas­tery. He will choose a response rather than react to events. He will not try to con­trol, manip­u­late and divide; he will seek to remain self-mas­ter­ful and encour­age oth­ers to do the same. He will under­stand that real pow­er comes from indi­vid­u­als join­ing into asso­ci­a­tions, and groups join­ing with oth­er groups to main­tain and secure their com­mon pur­pose. He will remain cen­tered with­in him­self, and serve the source of his pub­lic pow­er, the people.

True pow­er comes from the peo­ple; and when a peo­ple are unit­ed, when they find their com­mon pur­pos­es and equal­ly cel­e­brate their diver­si­ty, when they are strong, sen­si­tive, and cen­tered in their wills so that they will nev­er tres­pass upon any oth­er, they will nev­er be defeated.

Let Amer­i­ca be what it was meant to be, “Out of many, we are one!”

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The USA and the 2020 Elec­tion – Biden & Trump (July 12, 2020)

In my sev­en­teenth show of 2020, I will look at the USA and the Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion. I will com­pare the charts of Joe Biden and Don­ald Trump and con­sid­er the astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions in each of their charts.

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 July 12^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/07/12/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-usa-and-the-2020-election

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 July 12^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

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.