Earth Day 2020

Tran­script of Radio Show- What is the “what”? (April 19, 2020)

I just post­ed about this last night because it just hap­pened this morn­ing, that the Sun has moved into the sign of Tau­rus. And I titled that post­ing that I made for today, The “Spi­ral jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness”. And, when going through these steps of devel­op­ment in our jour­ney I wrote about “What is the what?”

So, I thought I would con­tin­ue with that theme in dif­fer­ent way, approach­ing it with some­thing sim­i­lar but a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. So, let us take a look:

The way of Aries, look­ing at the sign of Aries, is about “I am”. It is the first step of life; it is there that you expe­ri­ence the won­der of being self-aware. In Aries you answer the ques­tion, “Who are you?”

But we come to Tau­rus, the way of Tau­rus says, “I am that”. It is the sec­ond step of life; it is here you expe­ri­ence that you are some-thing. In Tau­rus, you answer the ques­tion, “What are you?”

So you could see in some way that these two signs are form­ing in their com­bi­na­tion or uni­ty one of the fun­da­men­tal truths of your jour­ney in con­scious­ness this dual­is­tic expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty there is sub­jec­tiv­i­ty of being aware of your­self or what we call self-aware­ness but there is objec­tiv­i­ty too, as you expe­ri­ence your­self and every­thing and every­one else as being formed into bod­ies or vehi­cles of manifestation.

We see the world split into spir­it and mat­ter, but real­ly what you will come to know (and what I like to call the greater real­i­ty) is that you will come to under­stand your one­ness of being which is Life or the One.

Life is spir­it and mat­ter togeth­er; they are insep­a­ra­ble, yet they are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Mat­ter forms the less­er realms of Spir­it, as Spir­it forms the high­est realms of Mat­ter. The Truth is that there is but One Life. There is the One Spir­it which man­i­fest through innu­mer­able forms from the low­est of the most sub­lime. Spir­it is the one eter­nal life; and Mat­ter is the count­less ves­sels into which all life flows.

The great mys­tery is that in all these count­less forms or ves­sels, in each atom, min­er­al, plant or ani­mal, human or deva, plan­et and star, through all of them is con­tained or held is the One True Spir­it. There are count­less forms, but there is only one life. There is only one spir­it flow­ing through the hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, whether those realms be divine, human, ani­mal, or mineral.

In Tau­rus, you move out of the sub­jec­tive realm of Aries into objec­tive real­i­ty. In Tau­rus you come into the realm of earth and say, “I am that!”. Tau­rus is your most phys­i­cal, sen­su­ous expe­ri­ence of life. You open your eyes and see the beau­ty all around; you open your lungs and breathe in what we all share. You take anoth­er breath and you smell the flow­ers; you reach down and touch the earth and smile, and you give thanks to the moth­er of us all for this, for your life and for your body. You look up and see the stars and you watch the moon, plan­ets and all the heav­en­ly bod­ies whirling over­head and you exclaim, “Ooh, I am so hap­py, to be sur­round­ed by this beau­ty, to be a part of this amaz­ing, beau­ti­ful, won­drous jour­ney; I’m so grate­ful to be part of Life.”

In Tau­rus, you expe­ri­ence life’s abun­dance and beau­ty; you expe­ri­ence the mys­tery and majesty of life. You are here in this won­der­ful place we call our Earth, and you feel and taste and touch and smell the won­ders of this gar­den of delights, and you get to share this abun­dance of “Spir­it that is Life” with all with whom you journey.

But what is it that makes you, you? What do you have that is yours, what gives you the val­ue of you? Well this is the ques­tion of Tau­rus to you. Through the arc of your life, from infan­cy through youth, into adult­hood and onward, your expe­ri­ence of you and your val­ue or worth will rise and fall in so many ways. The enthu­si­asms and the phys­i­cal strengths of youth will give way to what you will earn, the grav­i­tas and wis­dom, and the aches and pains of your lat­er years. It can seem, depend­ing upon your jour­ney, that your best days are still ahead or far behind you, depend­ing upon how you val­ue you.

What you expe­ri­ence in Tau­rus is the Val­ue of You. The mys­tery you seek to unveil in Tau­rus is how to under­stand what you have, to expe­ri­ence what you can do, and dis­cov­er what you are worth. The val­ue of you at any one time is made up of a range of fac­tors: your phys­i­cal pow­ers, your emo­tion­al depths, your intel­lec­tu­al agili­ty, and your spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Through­out any day, week, year of your life, these val­u­a­tions of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in phys­i­cal strength and emo­tion­al enthu­si­asms; but matu­ri­ty will bring both a mod­u­la­tion an even­tu­al wan­ing of these as you age. Like­wise, the tem­per­ing of your emo­tion­al nature, sea­soned by the grow­ing depths of your judg­ment and wis­dom, will lift your spir­its as oth­er fac­ul­ties fade.

But the phys­i­cal life and its entice­ments and plea­sures can also bring dif­fi­cul­ties and pain. If you become too attached to one or anoth­er gift or strength that you pos­sess, you will find your expe­ri­ence of val­ue to swing wild­ly up and down. When you are too attached to some­thing with­in you, or some­thing you have acquired, then you can suffer.

Wise ones know that this is because this way of relat­ing to val­ue and things is not “the way” to be or become what you real­ly are you are. You are Spir­it liv­ing by and through these won­der­ful forms or bod­ies that you have cre­at­ed for your­self. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehi­cles that are phys­i­cal, ether­ic, emo­tion­al, men­tal, and spir­i­tu­al. But they are held togeth­er and bound to one anoth­er by the spark of the Divine which is your high­est Spir­it-Form, your High­er Self. You are in your essence this One Spir­it; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form, or life.

This is so, and you need to remem­ber, that at the very heart of you, you remain as you always will be, price­less beyond all mea­sure because you are not a human being at all. Being human is mere­ly the form of your self-real­iza­tion at this point in your jour­ney. Tru­ly, at your core, you are a spark of the Divine who is on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”. You are a mon­ad, an unfold­ing Spir­i­tu­al Fire of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness and your true worth or val­ue will be for­ev­er beyond any finite measure.

So, no mat­ter what you think you are worth today, or yes­ter­day, or a thou­sand years from now, remem­ber this, you have no way of com­pre­hend­ing the beau­ty and glo­ry and worth of you. You are the “Jew­el in the Lotus”, you are the kiss of the dew in the morn­ing, and you are the glo­ri­ous sun­set too.

Then you will hear anoth­er reminder. The voic­es of the Ancient Ones will whis­per in your heart, “What you know as the resplen­dent and immor­tal you, that heav­en that is always with­in you, (for you nev­er left it tru­ly), this essen­tial spark of you is your spir­i­tu­al heart. And in your heart, you will feel and know that this same light of the Divine is in every­thing and every­one else too”.

Yes, in every speck and mote of Cre­ation, in every atom and mol­e­cule, gas and rock, plant and crea­ture, in the plan­ets and the stars, all of this is Spir­it-Life in evo­lu­tion too. This is what we must under­stand in Taurus.

In your heart of hearts, in your high­est vehi­cle of Spir­it, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite sim­ply, won­der­ful­ly, and for­ev­er and ever your true mea­sure is beyond mea­sure. In your High­er Self, and through­out all your forms too, there is the one true light of Spir­it shin­ing through, so that fill­ing and inform­ing all of you is quite sim­ply Divine Love.

Know this: the val­ue of you is beyond ques­tion, you are quite sim­ply Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So what you will know and feel and cel­e­brate in Tau­rus is that all of this Cre­ation is Beau­ti­ful, all of this is Pre­cious, because all of this is the One Life, and all of this is the Cre­ation of the One, and all of this is the Love of the One for all.

Let us give thanks to the sun­rise and the sun­set, to the flow­ers and the trees, to the moun­tains and the oceans; yes, bow down and give thanks to it all.

Bow down to the divine with­in you and with all that sur­rounds you too.

Turn to one anoth­er, and you will see that super­nal light shin­ing there in one another.

Yes, smile and bow to one anoth­er and be filled with the won­der of this.

I am that!

Namaste.

These are the things that we need to be remind­ed of and hold close to our hearts and guide our steps each and every day. That is why I always say, in trou­bling times such as we are cer­tain­ly mov­ing through, there are truths that have been always there from the begin­ning to guide our steps.

If we hold to these truths and guide our steps accord­ing­ly, we will find a bet­ter way and we will become bet­ter for it. That is what a hard time is for. A cri­sis should not return as to where we were; it is going to be a vehi­cle for trans­for­ma­tion, for a rev­e­la­tion and new epipha­nies, and a New World that is coming.

We are mak­ing it; we are mak­ing it every sin­gle day. And we will not go back, there is no going back, but there is a brighter, bet­ter future out there that we are mak­ing day after day.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – What is the “what?” Behind every form, stands the mys­tery of Val­ue (April 19, 2020)

In my tenth show of 2020, I thought it would infor­ma­tive to look at the next month in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, the Time of Tau­rus, which begins today.

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 April 19^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/19/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-what-is-the-what-the-test-of-taurus

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

The Spi­ral Jour­ney – Spirit-Life-Consciousness

After any begin­ning, after each moment of emer­gence, after each step you take into the next moment, hav­ing moved by your “Pow­er of Pres­ence” in the ener­gy-form we call “Aries”, after that first will come the sec­ond, crit­i­cal moment in your journey.

In each first step you are asked (and you will answer):

“Who are you?”

The ques­tion now, and per­haps it is even more mys­ti­cal and more mys­te­ri­ous than “who” is this challenge:

What are you?

Many wise ones con­sid­er this ques­tion of life as more pro­found than the first. Yes, after you con­sid­er the “who” of you, there comes the “what”. But that begs the question:

“What is the what?”

Today we move into the realm of Tau­rus, this is the next step in your jour­ney which is equal­ly your awak­en­ing, and you should take some time to con­sid­er this essen­tial question:

What is my true self-worth; what is the val­ue of me?

It is a most chal­leng­ing ques­tion. Per­haps more than being aware that you are aware, or expe­ri­enc­ing your pure sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, here you are try­ing to under­stand the sub­stance of you. You are form­ing your first rela­tion­ship, which is to your own true self. What are you are formed of real­ly; what are your “bod­ies” or vehi­cles of being; what makes you “you”?

In Tau­rus, whether it is in terms of your entire being, or more specif­i­cal­ly posed in that realm of your chart where Tau­rus is found, you will need to answer the ques­tion, “What is the Val­ue of me?” Which will lead, inevitably, to a series of ques­tions until you reach the “heart ques­tion”, which is, “what makes any­thing have value?”

If you fol­low this path to its true root source, (and you cer­tain­ly will some­day), you will come to the heart and soul of the ques­tion which is, “What makes any of this? What is behind Creation?”

The answer is found by both lis­ten­ing to your high­er or intu­itive self, and by find­ing con­fir­ma­tion in the teach­ings that have been passed down from long, long ago. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the ONE.

The One is the inef­fa­ble, known by many names which are but “place­hold­ers” giv­en our lim­it­ed under­stand­ing. The expe­ri­ence of this, of the One, is tru­ly unknow­able or beyond our com­pre­hen­sion in our lim­it­ed human form. But if you stretch your imag­i­na­tion, if you lis­ten to the still, qui­et, gen­tle and lov­ing voice that is there with­in you, you will feel the truth with­in and see it all around you too.

You will know it because you see all the pat­terns and cor­re­spon­dences in the world around you. You will smile as you find the sim­i­lar­i­ties between realms that are infi­nite­ly small and immea­sur­ably large. You will know beyond know­ing, you will appre­hend, that there is some­thing that is order­ing and arrang­ing this thing you call the Universe.

What do the teach­ings, these “Gifts of the Wise Ones” offer? Here is what they have pre­served and passed down to help you remember:

There is but One Spir­it, and all of Cre­ation is formed by the infi­nite sparks of this One Divine Light. At the core of the most infin­i­tes­i­mal of things on up to the great­est of Hosts, there at the cen­ter of every­thing is the Mon­ad, the Divine Spark. The One is like a Infi­nite Sphere, whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

All of Cre­ation is the Light of the One.

All the Car­di­nal Signs par­take of this qual­i­ty, form­ing the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Identity.

From this One, the Sec­ond Aspect of Cre­ation comes into being, and that is LIFE. The One became the many, and Life began. Again, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the plan­ets, from the dust of the earth to the full­ness that is space, in all the stars and galax­ies, this Plen­i­tude of Cre­ation is also ALIVE.

All of Cre­ation is the Life of the One.

All the Fixed Signs embody this qual­i­ty, the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Life.

And, as Spir­it now man­i­fest­ed as Life unfold­ed from the One, it was ever formed and informed by the Third Aspect of Cre­ation, and that is CONSCIOUSNESS. Once again, from the small­est aspect of Cre­ation to the whole of Cre­ation itself, all of this is the Con­scious­ness of the One.

All of Cre­ation is the Mind of the One.

All the Muta­ble Signs move in this qual­i­ty, which is the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Consciousness.

Here in Tau­rus you make your first attempt to under­stand the ques­tion of embod­i­ment, the move­ment of spir­it into forms. Spir­it and Mat­ter are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Spir­it is the high­est form of Mat­ter; Mat­ter is the least degree of Spir­it. Though “sep­a­rate”, they are real­ly part of the all-encom­pass­ing real­i­ty of the “One”.

Spir­it “ani­mates” Mat­ter; Mat­ter pro­vides the vehi­cles or bod­ies of Spir­it. These bod­ies or forms are “Ensouled Mat­ter”, of Mat­ter that is ensouled by Spir­it. There are many forms, and many dimen­sions and realms of forms, but there is only One Spirit.

The hier­ar­chy of forms in the human king­dom (which is much the same as all oth­er king­doms), can be very sim­ply divid­ed into three: Body, Mind and Spir­it. But when you begin to exam­ine more deeply, the forms of being become ever more differentiated.

One order­ing would be into Sev­en: Phys­i­cal Body or mate­r­i­al body, Ether­ic Body or vital body, Emo­tion­al Body divid­ed into low­er and high­er, Low­er Men­tal Body or mor­tal mind, High­er Men­tal Body or divine mind, Bud­dhic Body or vehi­cle of illu­mi­na­tion, Atmic or Causal Body. But there are even more eso­teric teach­ings that final­ly under­stand the divi­sion of Cre­ation into a Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Forms that num­ber Ten, and ulti­mate­ly are held as Twelve. (Which is quite inter­est­ing giv­en that Astrol­o­gy is one of the keys to the Ancient Wis­dom and is also based upon the divi­sion of real­i­ty into twelve).

For you, these teach­ings may or may not hold much impor­tance at this time. But what is most impor­tant for you is answer the ques­tion posed by Tau­rus, “what is the val­ue of you?”

Through­out your life, you may find that your own hier­ar­chy of val­ue will shift and rearrange, with cer­tain attrib­ut­es, strengths and tal­ents being more val­ued in one peri­od, only to find that quite a dif­fer­ent set and arrange­ment pre­vails at another.

Even day to day, you may feel your­self to be “on top of the world” at one moment only to find your­self short­ly lat­er to be quite not “your­self”, with a cor­re­spond­ing loss of val­ue. Mate­ri­al­ly, this vari­a­tion of your expe­ri­ence of your val­ue or self-worth is real.

But you must know, or you will know one day, that this is also one of the great illu­sions that you are here to rise above. In your “holy of holies”, in the inner­most sanc­tum of you, (and in all your cells and bod­ies too), at the cen­ter of you is the ever­last­ing spir­it that is the One.

From the begin­ning, unto the very end of this cos­mic cycle, you are quite sim­ply beyond any mea­sure­ment. Yes, you are price­less, a spark of the divine who shines with the light of the Sun of all the suns, a light that will not fade, and will nev­er diminish.

And wise ones have many names for this Light of the One; but tru­ly and most won­der­ful­ly you will know it and feel it as Pure and Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are loved because you were made by uncon­di­tion­al love. You are made of love and that is why the val­ue of you is immea­sur­able and perennial.

But then you will know, and you will smile, and you will turn to whomev­er is before you because you under­stand this fun­da­men­tal truth about the nature of val­ue; that all are made of this, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of Uncon­di­tion­al and Divine Love.

That is why we are here; we are here to be that love that we are.

We only need to act with this truth and wis­dom, to feel the warmth in our hearts.

We turn to one anoth­er and bow to whomev­er is before us.

We greet them as our dear­ly loved ones.

That is why we say, in our thoughts and by our hearts,

“Namaste” (I bow to the Divine in you)

Tran­script of Radio Show on April 12, 2020 — Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – A New World Will Rise, a look back and ahead (April 12, 2020)

I called today’s show, which is the 9th show of our 2020 series, a “New World will rise, a look back and ahead”. We need to do that because we are part of an ongo­ing devel­op­ment in terms of his­to­ry and human devel­op­ment, of spir­i­tu­al and cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, and that all these things are tied to one anoth­er. We can find res­o­nances, if you will, of where plan­ets were at some point in time, and then look­ing at anoth­er time where they are in those same positions.

In this case, what I am doing is look­ing at the plan­et Plu­to being at the same Zodi­a­cal space, that it is in the same degree in Capri­corn, and look­ing at what was hap­pen­ing when it was there com­pared to now. And, again doing the same thing with the plan­et Nep­tune. Now these are sort of arbi­trary choic­es. Because you would want to exam­ine plan­e­tary pat­terns and plan­e­tary align­ments and all these oth­er things, and you would want to be con­sid­er these too in terms of com­par­ing one peri­od to anoth­er. But it just is kind of strik­ing to me, so I thought I would just look at these two for today.

1774–75
For the USA, and again just look­ing at the USA, (but we could look at oth­er places as well for this) the peri­ods that I found that were par­al­lel to the cur­rent year 2020 was 1774 to 1775, and that is formed by Plu­to. And, the year of 1857 to 1858, look­ing at the plan­et Nep­tune, look­ing at Amer­i­can history.

It was in 1774, and many peo­ple don’t real­ize this, because they think of the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion as start­ing in 1776, and that is the most rec­og­niz­able date. But obvi­ous­ly we were build­ing towards that cir­cum­stance of an actu­al phys­i­cal war break­ing out, (and it actu­al­ly broke out in 1775). And things were hap­pen­ing in 1774, and before then, that led up to what hap­pened in 1776. In 1774, hav­ing had the “Boston Tea Par­ty” right before at the end of 1773, Eng­land, the King and the par­lia­ment, decid­ed to pass very pun­ish­ing laws on the colonies for these acts of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. They broke with their com­pact of trade with the colonies, where we were sup­posed to be gov­erned fair­ly, and by which we would be rep­re­sent­ed by peo­ple in par­lia­ment for our own inter­ests. Instead, here par­lia­ment was pass­ing laws to pun­ish the colonies. The colonies, fac­ing these ter­ri­ble penal­ties and laws, called “the Intol­er­a­ble Acts”, decid­ed to meet in this first Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress. They came togeth­er, as these sep­a­rate colonies, and they said to one anoth­er, “what do we do for our con­ti­nent, for our country?”

Basi­cal­ly, they were begin­ning to form their union, though they maybe would­n’t have under­stood it as such at that point, but that what was hap­pen­ing. And then, they agreed to boy­cott the goods from the UK, and in so doing the UK sent forces to Boston, to shut it down, to put it under mar­tial law, and the peo­ple of Boston were harassed and abused. Sol­diers were being quar­tered, forced into people’s homes, and all these ter­ri­ble things hap­pened. And, this even­tu­al­ly led to the bat­tles of Lex­ing­ton and Con­cord, and the siege of Boston in 1775, and the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War became inevitable.

The issue for the colonists was quite sim­ple. They want­ed to have the right to self-deter­mi­na­tion, to have their val­ue as cit­i­zens of a coun­try, Eng­land, be count­ed as equal to those who remained in Eng­land. So, they chose a path of self-gov­ern­ment, break­ing with the Lords and King­ly hier­ar­chy and declar­ing them­selves to be, and this was rev­o­lu­tion­ary, “Free Men” who had a divine right to deter­mine their own future.

And, it was short­ly after the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, that we had the French Rev­o­lu­tion, though that was fraught with even greater upheaval and vio­lence. They pro­duced, in the very begin­ning of their rev­o­lu­tion in 1789, the very famous “Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Man”, which was a very his­toric step in the march towards the prin­ci­ple of self-deter­mined gov­ern­ment, which is what was emerg­ing in that his­tor­i­cal peri­od of the 1700s. The world was mov­ing from feu­dal­ism to monar­chies in the 1500s and now in the 1700s mov­ing from monar­chies to this form of self-gov­ern­ment, of par­lia­men­tary democracy.

1857–58
Well, we flash for­ward in our coun­try to address one of the remain­ing great sins of our country’s ori­gin in 1857–1858. Things were becom­ing very fraught in our coun­try, over the strug­gle over slave or free states, and whether or not slav­ery was going to spread through­out the coun­try or not. And in that peri­od, when Nep­tune was in the same Zodi­a­cal space or posi­tion as it is now, (and this is kind of strik­ing in terms of how we are again deal­ing with this very same ques­tion in our coun­try, of what does it mean to be “Amer­i­can”, and who can who is allowed to come here, and how do we treat fair­ly and equal­ly or not all peo­ples, again being the ques­tion). The Dred Scott deci­sion, by the Supreme Court, deter­mined that slaves would nev­er be cit­i­zens and no mat­ter where they went, they could be seized as prop­er­ty of their for­mer Masters.

And so, this was high­light­ed in the Lin­coln-Dou­glas debates, where Lin­coln most famous­ly stat­ed, “…that a house divid­ed against itself can­not stand.” He was say­ing that we were two peo­ples, two dif­fer­ent economies, two dif­fer­ent cul­tures, and we were divid­ed from one anoth­er, and this divi­sion of our coun­try had to be resolved some­how. And, of course, it was resolved in the Civ­il War of the 1860’s.

Yet, after the Civ­il War the promise of a bet­ter and more just coun­try was thwart­ed. There was the pol­i­cy known as Recon­struc­tion, but that recon­struc­tion was blocked even­tu­al­ly. And, a new sys­tem of nom­i­nal slav­ery was imposed by the share­crop­per sys­tem, of basi­cal­ly peon­age for the for­mer slaves. It was only, real­ly, dur­ing the “sec­ond civ­il war”, as I would call it, in the 1950s and 60s, the civ­il rights move­ment, which brought about the legal reforms and pres­sures upon the for­mer con­fed­er­a­cy, most­ly the South, which opened the door to greater free­dom for the black cit­i­zens in the South and of course those in the North too, who had also faced great inequal­i­ty and seg­re­ga­tion. And, still to this day, the work is not done.

But also, in that peri­od, and this is quite inter­est­ing, with Nep­tune being this uni­fi­er, and encom­pass­ing and bring­ing every­thing togeth­er in one uni­ver­sal expe­ri­ence, that this same peri­od wit­nessed the first ever world­wide economic/financial pan­ic that swept across the entire plan­et. This hap­pened when Nep­tune was in the same posi­tion as today, and it is kind inter­est­ing, that we are hav­ing this world­wide “pan­dem­ic pan­ic”, which is crush­ing economies around the world here at the same time. It is very much a par­al­lel expe­ri­ence, but also very much is dif­fer­ent too.

Our Time
So, what we all want to know is what’s com­ing next, what’s our future? What will this world we are going into look like? What is our respon­si­bil­i­ty now?

We real­ly must face and accept the truth, that as much as we made the won­ders of this world, we also made the hor­rors of the world that is now con­fronting us.

This pan­dem­ic and what may fol­low, this was and will be our cre­ation. And there is only one ques­tion, how do we make a bet­ter world for one and all?

Just as in 1774 and 1857, as always, the chal­lenge in any time, is spir­i­tu­al. Will we reveal what is best in us by fol­low­ing the one true spir­i­tu­al imper­a­tive: “That we are all relat­ed”; and what we do to any oth­er we inevitably will be doing to ourselves.

I hold that this is the shin­ing light, that we are on an “Arc of Awak­en­ing”, and our path will ever bend towards the truth to see one anoth­er as cre­at­ed equal. And that behind all of cre­ation there is “the One”.

We were made by this One True Love; we are sim­ply and most pro­found­ly here to love one anoth­er as we are loved.

So, my ques­tion is what comes first, what mat­ters most? And, we real­ize that we must now decide how we will be guid­ed by this absolute spir­i­tu­al truth, that all life is sacred. Our lives, right now, will be for­ev­er mea­sured by our love for one anoth­er and our lives will also be mea­sured by how we treat all the life forms on this plan­et, with whom we share this beau­ti­ful world.

What comes first? Life comes first. 

What mat­ters most to us who are here now, and for all the gen­er­a­tions who will come after us, is that we, from this point for­ward, act with the under­stand­ing that our lives depend upon all the oth­er life forms on this plan­et. This pan­dem­ic, among many oth­er signs, is a warn­ing that we have made a world that is out of bal­ance. If we do not change our way of life, we will be fac­ing ever greater threats in the not very dis­tant future.

The accel­er­at­ing true glob­al pan­dem­ic is Cli­mate Change, of which this pan­dem­ic is mere­ly a symp­tom, and this virus real­ly only threat­ens us humans. All our plans and actions must be guid­ed by an absolute com­mit­ment now to pro­tect and pre­serve the diverse hier­ar­chies of life that make pos­si­ble all lives, includ­ing our very own.

What is the val­ue of any nation, and of our nation?

I always say, it is the peo­ple. As I have said many times in my blog, and on my radio show, and in read­ings with clients, the val­ue of the com­mu­ni­ty, of a vil­lage and town, region or nation, is not in its phys­i­cal attrib­ut­es, in its land or water, or oth­er nat­ur­al resources. Of course, those things mat­ter for life. But the source of val­ue in any human soci­ety is the val­ue of each and every human.

And the ques­tion will be for that cul­ture or peo­ple, for us here now, did you cre­ate the best pos­si­ble con­di­tions to help those humans real­ize their fullest potential?

Because that’s where val­ue comes from; we make it.

Injus­tice
His­tor­i­cal­ly, this essen­tial under­stand­ing of the val­ue of human­i­ty has often been cir­cum­scribed and lim­it­ed, arranged hier­ar­chi­cal­ly in the dif­fer­ent social orders through­out his­to­ry. Whether in a hunting/gathering cul­ture or a pas­toral cul­ture or farm­ers or crafts and trades, and on into this so-called mod­ern world filled with a range of occu­pa­tions and lifeways.

Though the foun­da­tion­al ideas of our own Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence were ide­al­is­tic and inspi­ra­tional; where­in we stat­ed, “…that we hold these truths to be self-evi­dent, that all men are cre­at­ed equal”, we know that at our found­ing, and for many years there­after, these fine ideals were not fol­lowed whatsoever.

The vast major­i­ty of humans on this con­ti­nent were con­sid­ered, for a very long time, to not even be human, and were sub­ject­ed to geno­ci­dal war­fare, the Native Amer­i­cans. And, anoth­er huge pop­u­la­tion of peo­ple were con­sid­ered to be only fit as beasts of bur­den, as prop­er­ty to be bought and sold by their so-called mas­ters, the black slaves. And we can­not for­get that most men with­out sig­nif­i­cant prop­er­ty and all women were regard­ed as not wor­thy of self-deter­mi­na­tion or equal rights to the men of property.

Yes, we have come a long way, but our present cir­cum­stance lays bare once again how far we have yet to go. Our his­to­ry of slow­ly extend­ing legal equal­i­ty for all has been hard and painful, but the lega­cy of racism, slav­ery and geno­cide still per­me­ates our cul­ture to this day, as we can see in the dif­fer­ing out­comes for dif­fer­ent groups, in the kind of health care and lives they can live and hope for. This has to stop; it has to stop now.

Inequal­i­ty
Over the course of our his­to­ry we have gone from a most­ly agrar­i­an nation to a man­u­fac­tur­ing colos­sus, to a ser­vice-based econ­o­my. The imbal­ances that led to the Great Depres­sion were addressed by the New Deal, and led to a peri­od of rel­a­tive­ly shared growth from the 1940s onwards in the var­i­ous per­centiles, the divi­sions of the coun­try, the bot­tom 20^th, the top 20^th and so on.

But since 1980 that shared pros­per­i­ty has been bro­ken. Part­ly it was the shift from a man­u­fac­tur­ing to a ser­vice econ­o­my. But it was also cre­at­ed by those with the means to influ­ence the laws of this nation, the rules of the econ­o­my, and they shaped those rules to serve the accu­mu­la­tion of wealth as opposed to hav­ing a more fair­ly shared dis­tri­b­u­tion as we had expe­ri­enced since the 1940s.

The imbal­ance in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth in this coun­try is not a nat­ur­al result. It has been formed by changes in the econ­o­my. Yes, as the pow­er of unions fad­ed, as we moved from a man­u­fac­tur­ing econ­o­my and oth­er things, and no sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tion was able to pro­tect the work­ers in the grow­ing ser­vice sec­tors (and this is most cer­tain­ly true for the emerg­ing econ­o­my of gig work­ers). But for many years the vast major­i­ty of our cit­i­zens have worked hard­er and hard­er for less and less of the share in the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty that they made pos­si­ble, that they created.

Many feel that there must be some­thing wrong with them, that it’s their fail­ure, it’s per­son­al instead of being the con­se­quences of a sys­tem that is not fair. But this was more as a con­se­quence of poli­cies and laws that accel­er­at­ed and pro­tect­ed the accu­mu­la­tion of wealth, that favored short-term gains over long-term invest­ments, cor­po­rate pow­er of the few out­weigh­ing the votes of the many, as con­gress­man and sen­a­tors wrote the laws that favored their finan­cial back­ers, and also cre­at­ed laws that apply to every­one but themselves.

Cri­sis and Opportunity
Yes, a cri­sis such as we face now reveals the great­est in our cul­ture and the rot and the cor­rup­tion too. As I have point­ed out in pre­vi­ous blog post­ings and shows, the shift in the 1930s and 1940s led to a very dif­fer­ent shift in the 1980s, where the fair­ness in the USA began to break­down. So here we are, again, 40 years lat­er, the 1940s the 1980s and now the 2020s, and this cri­sis is call­ing once more for a new way of orga­niz­ing our lives and livelihoods.

But this cri­sis, this turn­ing, will be much big­ger because the stakes are so much high­er. More than an eco­nom­ic cri­sis or a polit­i­cal cri­sis, we tru­ly face a spir­i­tu­al and exis­ten­tial cri­sis. Life on this plan­et is in cri­sis, and we have only to look in the mir­ror to see who is to blame.

The plan­ets, Plu­to or Nep­tune, Uranus or Sat­urn, they don’t cause any­thing, they just frame the tim­ing of the unfold­ment of pat­terns. And, they pro­vide mean­ing or con­text to what is hap­pen­ing, but the con­tent of this moment, the pan­dem­ic and what is com­ing after that we made and is what we will make.

We all have a choice and we must put first what is most impor­tant, life! The actions we are tak­ing now, to face this cri­sis, are the first steps that we are also tak­ing to make the New World.

The old world is bro­ken; the ways we sourced ener­gy, the ways we sourced our food, the way we cre­at­ed shel­ter and cloth­ing, the way we met our needs for one anoth­er, these will and must change. Because most of these ways that got us to here, they will not get us to where we need to go.

Our old ways were destroy­ing life on this plan­et, the beau­ty of the divine diver­si­ty of this world is rapid­ly becom­ing a mem­o­ry. With­out pre­serv­ing all oth­er life forms, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the most majes­tic, from the plank­ton in the oceans and the fish­es is in the seas, from the bees and the birds that trav­el in the air, from the val­leys to the moun­tain tops, life is leav­ing this plan­et and we made this happen.

And that truth is our shame, but that truth can also be our salvation.

We made this hap­pen, and we can do bet­ter. And, now that we know, what choice do we have? Now that we live in fear, we are pay­ing attention.

This is the moment; our lives and our world will change, but only we can make a dif­fer­ence in the how. We must choose life; we must choose to love one anoth­er and all of life on this planet.

Okay, I know that was quite a lot, but I want­ed to try to get it out there for all of us to con­sid­er. That we should pause this time to con­sid­er this beau­ti­ful world we live in, and the beau­ty that we can behold in one anoth­er, and the beau­ty of nature all around us. That we should be so grate­ful and thank­ful for this gift, for this won­der. And our desire should only be to pre­serve and make it better.

We are not here to use up the world, there is no “Plan­et B”. We only have this, this lifeboat, this beau­ti­ful blue orb spin­ning through space, a won­der­ful lifeboat of life. And, we are the ones who can save it if we are not the ones who will destroy it.

I’m sure most of you know these things, think these thoughts, share these thoughts with those that you care for and care about. We all want the world to change, we all want to get back to a bet­ter life.

But we’re not going to go back, we have to go for­ward if we’re going to make a bet­ter life.

I hope we all take that mes­sage to heart. I hope we all do our part now, to make the world a bet­ter place, because it’s the only thing that matters.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – A New World Will Rise, a look back and ahead (April 12, 2020)

In my ninth show of 2020, I will look at this piv­otal moment and how it con­nects to oth­er moments of great change. This is tru­ly the “end of an Age”, which most cer­tain­ly means it is equal­ly the rise of a New Age.

For the USA, the peri­ods that par­al­lel our time are, 1774–75 and 1857–58. The years 1774–75, as defined Astro­log­i­cal­ly by the posi­tion of Plu­to, formed the seed for the real begin­nings of the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion. In 1774, Eng­land passed the “Intol­er­a­ble Acts” as pun­ish­ment for the Boston Tea Par­ty in 1773, remov­ing self-gov­ern­ment from Mass­a­chu­setts and impos­ing penal­ties upon the colonies. This led to out­rage through­out the colonies, and they agreed to meet for their mutu­al self-defense in the First Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress. In effect, the colonies began to form a union, and they agreed upon a boy­cott of goods from the Unit­ed King­dom. This was the match that lit the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War, and the bat­tles at Lex­ing­ton and Con­cord and the siege of Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts fol­lowed in 1775.

The years 1857–58 defined by Nep­tune, (when Nep­tune was in this same Zodi­a­cal posi­tion), wit­nessed the Dred Scott deci­sion by the Supreme court, which deter­mined that slaves and descen­dants of slaves were nev­er nor would they ever be cit­i­zens, i.e. that they would remain the per­ma­nent “prop­er­ty” of their mas­ters. It was also defined by the Lincoln/Douglas debates made famous in Lincoln’s dec­la­ra­tion that, “a house divid­ed from itself can­not stand”. It was also a defin­ing moment for the emer­gence of a new real­i­ty, of “One World”, as the first ever world-wide eco­nom­ic pan­ic in his­to­ry swept across the plan­et, (and from which the USA did not real­ly “recov­er” until the Civ­il War in the 1860’s).

What will our cri­sis bring about; and, what will our New World look like? Will we under­stand our respon­si­bil­i­ty now; will we grow in wis­dom and bow our heads in humil­i­ty? This is absolute­ly nec­es­sary now; we must face and accept the truth, that we made the won­ders and the hor­rors of the world that is pass­ing. The pan­dem­ic, and what fol­lows, this was and will be our creation.

There is only one ques­tion now: how will we make a bet­ter world for one and for all?

As it was in 1774 and in 1857, the fun­da­men­tal chal­lenge in our time is Spir­i­tu­al. In both peri­ods, as always, we shine and reveal what is best when we fol­low the one True Spir­i­tu­al Imper­a­tive: “We are all relat­ed”; and, what we do to any oth­er, we do to ourselves.

Held with­in this shin­ing Truth is that we are on an “arc of awak­en­ing”, and our path will ever bend towards the truth to see one anoth­er as “cre­at­ed equal”. Behind all of Cre­ation, there is the One. We were made by this one True Love; and we are sim­ply, but most pro­found­ly, here to love one anoth­er as we are loved.

We real­ize that all humans are pre­cious; and our divi­sion from one anoth­er is tru­ly our great­est per­il. Now, we must decide, how will we hold to the one absolute spir­i­tu­al truth, that all of life is sacred. Our lives will be for­ev­er mea­sured by our love for one anoth­er; and our lives will also be mea­sured by how we treat all the life-forms with whom we share this beau­ti­ful world.

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

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 April 12^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/12/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-end-of-an-age-a-new-world-will-rise

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