The Pow­er of Presence

Hap­py New Year!

Today marks the begin­ning of the Astro­log­i­cal Year. Today you turn a cor­ner and enter a new space, and the ques­tion the uni­verse has for you now is quite sim­ply this:

Who are you?

Some­where in your chart, whether it is your Sun or Moon, your Venus or Mars, or maybe it is just on a cusp of one of your twelve hous­es, but some­how and some­where your “being”, your nature is mod­u­lat­ed by and attuned to this expe­ri­ence informed by Aries. For the next 30 days you should take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er what the mean­ing of Aries holds for you in your life.

Wher­ev­er you have Aries, that is where you begin your jour­ney to know your­self, that is where you take up the task once more of expe­ri­enc­ing what I call “the pow­er of your Pres­ence”.

It is in Aries that you start the jour­ney to the truth of being your­self in the only place where you are free to be and to become. For it is in Aries that you expe­ri­ence the mys­tery of liv­ing in what we take for grant­ed, the ever-unfold­ing real­i­ty of the “Eter­nal Now”. The only place you can tru­ly be is in the “here and the now”, your being­ness is of this Place and Peri­od, in what we call Space-Time.

It is only in the Eter­nal Now that you are free to be and become what you are meant to be. Here at the razors edge, where the past is redeemed and the future is forged, here you are the liv­ing Spir­it who is striv­ing to become a more com­plete human. Aries requires you to be aware of this most pre­cious gift of your self-aware­ness, this place and time defined by your aware­ness of you and that vehi­cle you are form­ing that reveals you to your world…your Per­sona. This per­sona is what you lead with, it is made man­i­fest by your bear­ing, it is revealed in your demeanor, and is formed by the qual­i­ties of your char­ac­ter, it is quite sim­ply the essen­tial ener­gy-form of you.

The pow­er of new begin­nings, this is the joy and pas­sion of Aries. To have a flash of insight, to be inspired by a new vision, to believe and strive to be a bet­ter you and to make a bet­ter world, this is the core of Aries. But it rais­es a very big question…what exact­ly or who exact­ly are you?

Yes, before you can take the very next step, you must con­sid­er from what and whence you came. Then equal­ly you must turn and look ahead, and you must imag­ine what will be the next space and time you wish to be forg­ing too. For what you have done, in this life and so many oth­ers, form “the where and the what” you are com­ing from, espe­cial­ly in terms of your assets and strengths. But this past equal­ly forges the lim­its upon your­self as formed by your doubts and fears as well. And so, you must take the mea­sure of you, you must assess what you are attempt­ing to accom­plish, and see whether you have the apti­tude and atti­tude that will bring you to the end that you desire.

No mat­ter where you have come from, and no mat­ter where you are going, in Aries the most impor­tant deter­mi­na­tion of what will be, of what will hap­pen is, “you”. How you meet the moment, how you move your­self through this field of the now is the thing you are chal­lenged to master.

Your degree of devel­op­ment, your spir­i­tu­al matu­ri­ty, is revealed at the very first by your demeanor and by your atti­tude, by the sen­si­bil­i­ty of how you bring to bear exact­ly what is need­ed from you to meet each moment as best as you can, as best as you should. You must nei­ther be “Over-Bear­ing or Under-Whelm­ing”. You only have this one pre­cious oppor­tu­ni­ty, this one and only chance in “the now” to make the future that will be, and you want to get it right.

This is where you move from your past into your future, here in the “Eter­nal Now”. This encounter is a del­i­cate inte­gral bal­ance formed by your aware­ness of you, revealed by this essen­tial nature of you or your “pres­ence”, which is the inte­gral fusion of your inten­tion and under­stand­ing, blend­ed with what you have appre­hend­ed about this space that you are enter­ing. The ques­tion is, how aware are you of what you are encoun­ter­ing, and what ver­sion of you should you bring?

You are bring­ing “you” into this space, but what does this moment of Space-Time need from you? You must sense, you must appre­hend in the first moment what is need­ed here. Did you enter a dull space and so real­ize, “Ah, let me bring my live­ly self into here”; or, did you enter an over­ly excit­ed space and under­stand, “Oh, let me bring my calm­ing self into here”? This is how and where you reveal your spir­i­tu­al aware­ness and the matu­ri­ty of your char­ac­ter. Quite sim­ply, are you con­tribut­ing to the advance­ment of spir­it, or not? Are you a part of the solu­tion, or are you a part of the problem?

Aries rules this under­stand­ing, that you are being your­self through these var­i­ous per­sonas, as you bring to bear the best of you as required to cre­ate the most mean­ing­ful way to be in the “eter­nal now”, and this is how you forge a bet­ter future. As you become more self-aware, and equal­ly per­cep­tive of your sur­round­ings, you refine these vehi­cles of your “self”, these approach­es of you that are most appro­pri­ate to every moment of your life.

Even­tu­al­ly, as one reach­es the most refined of lev­els of spir­i­tu­al aware­ness you become what is known as “an Adept”, a human of grace, beau­ty and kind­li­ness. You are ful­ly awake, free from fear, guid­ed by the abid­ing Truth that holds all of Life as One.

You are a shin­ing one, infused with the light of Uncon­di­tion­al Love and with a Pres­ence that is forever­more “Wel­com­ing and Welcome”.

Yes, it is by Aries that you set out to be you, to set a shin­ing exam­ple of what makes you “you”, you start the jour­ney of becom­ing a bet­ter you.

It is in Aries, wher­ev­er that is found in you, it is here that you will inspire oth­ers to fol­low your exam­ple which is to be guid­ed by the Love of the One that shines in one and all.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Cur­rent con­di­tions and Trump (March 16, 2019)

In my fifth show of 2019 I will make some obser­va­tions on major Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tors for our cur­rent peri­od. I will also take a clos­er look at the sig­nif­i­cance of the tran­sits in Don­ald Trump’s chart.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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 birth place, 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 Sat­ur­day March 16^th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/03/16/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019-current-conditions-and-trumps-chart

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day March 16^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Today begins one of the three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades for 2019, (the oth­er two being from July 7^th to July 31^st, and from Octo­ber 31^st to Novem­ber 20^th). The oppor­tu­ni­ty pre­sent­ed by Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is often­times lost in the seem­ing stum­bles, errors and break­downs in “com­mu­ni­ca­tions” that seem to accom­pa­ny its ret­ro­grade peri­ods. For many peo­ple, Mer­cury in ret­ro­grade is often expe­ri­enced as just a more annoy­ing and frus­trat­ing peri­od in a world that is already filled with enough anx­i­ety, doubts and fear.

But you must remem­ber, that the rea­son you are here, the pur­pose of your life, is to become an ever more self-aware and con­scious co-cre­ator in the sto­ry of Spir­it, this sto­ry that is Cre­ation. To that end, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should be approached with grat­i­tude, grace and humil­i­ty. It is a spe­cial time, one that is meant to take you “out of the ordi­nary”, away from the every­day jum­ble of mul­ti­ple inputs and out­puts, to move you apart from the nev­er-end­ing dai­ly chal­lenges of your life.

It is a “time to pause”, and to con­sid­er your life and world from a more objec­tive and self-aware per­spec­tive. And, just like Mer­cury, you should use this time to turn around, to slow down, and re-con­sid­er how well your under­stand­ing of your­self and your world match­es with what you are encoun­ter­ing in the world around you.

The entire Mer­cury ret­ro­grade will take place in the sign of Pisces. You will find that the ques­tions you encounter now will bring your atten­tion to one of the ulti­mate ques­tions of your life:

“Do you live in Faith­ful­ness, or are you held by Fearfulness?”

It is in Pisces that you come to know the truth of your spir­i­tu­al nature, of being a Cre­ator whose Imag­i­na­tion and Dreams cre­ate your Des­tiny. Hence the promise (and warn­ing for you) is this fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al truth:

The dreams you dream, will become the thoughts that you think; and, those thoughts will inform and form your actions; and it is by this that you con­tin­ue to make and remake you and your world.

Use the next three weeks to pon­der and con­sid­er what it is you wish for, to tru­ly know the dreams you have for your­self and for one anoth­er too. Then com­pare these to what you see in your­self and in your world. Now under­stand this, with con­sid­er­a­tion for what you are tru­ly respon­si­ble for, the dif­fer­ence between the Dream and your Real­i­ty will be formed by your doubts, anx­i­eties and fears.

The promised land your heart and soul yearn for is to be found by stand­ing in the Light of Love and Truth that form your High­er Self, your Spir­i­tu­al Con­scious­ness. It is by fac­ing and over­com­ing these fears of your less­er self, the shad­owy echoes of your past stum­bles and falls, it is by under­stand­ing and let­ting go of these shades that you will be able to make your dreams come true.

But here again the mes­sage of Pisces reminds you what you must do in order to tru­ly let go and grow. What is required of you for your­self, and what you must cer­tain­ly hold as you deal with one anoth­er, is to be guid­ed by com­pas­sion and for­give­ness. For how could you become bet­ter unless you give your­self per­mis­sion and so cre­ate a space to grow into the bet­ter you? And how could those around you do like­wise if you do not give them this gift of com­pas­sion, for­give­ness and grace as well?

This is the goal of your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, this is how you grow:

To be Faith­ful and Fear­less, to Love and to Forgive.

Take some time with Mer­cury to clear your mind and heart of regrets and fear. For­give your­self and for­give one anoth­er for any painful thoughts, words and deeds.

Cre­ate a space for new Life and Love by approach­ing one anoth­er with Love and Compassion.

This is the gift of Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade in Pisces.

It is the gift of True Under­stand­ing and Love.

This is the Wis­dom of Love.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year ­Part 4 – More Obser­va­tions on cur­rent con­di­tions and a look at Pisces in a chart (Feb­ru­ary 23, 2019)

In my fourth show of 2019 I will make some more obser­va­tions on the Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tors for our cur­rent peri­od. I will also con­sid­er the influ­ence of Pisces in any Astro­log­i­cal chart.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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 birth place, 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 Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 23^rd @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/02/23/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-2019-part‑4

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 23^rd at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The Gift of Imag­i­na­tion, The Pow­er of Faith

Always remem­ber this: You have all the signs as part of you, from Aries to Pisces, from Fire through Water, in Air or by Earth, some­where there is a part of you that is illu­mined by each of these twelve. Each sign holds spe­cif­ic gifts and chal­lenges for you. But per­haps none is more poignant, pow­er­ful and inspir­ing as the last. Today you enter once again the realm that holds them all, today you return to Pisces.

Here you come to the end­ings of things; here you gath­er togeth­er the fruit of your labors in all those pre­vi­ous chap­ters of your jour­ney. And it is from this har­vest, from your tri­umphs and even more from your so-called fail­ures, it is here that you find and forge the lessons, mean­ings and seeds that you will plant in your nev­er-end­ing sto­ry of you.

Yes, it is here in Pisces, it is here you come to the end, and equal­ly you will find the promise of all your future endeav­ors too. Here you look back and you look ahead, because this is how it is done, you must see the whole of it, the whole of you, the mean­ing behind the mir­rors of real­i­ty and so make bet­ter the future for you and your world. Here you look up at the cos­mos and take in the won­der of it all. Here you ask the ques­tion of questions:

“Where did we come from; Why are we here; Where are we going?”

In the begin­ning, before Space-Time, there was the One.
Here, in the “Now”, we are the many, who are the body of the One in Space-Time.
At the “end”, of every Cos­mic Cycle, we many return to be “one with the One” again.

This is the of pulse of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.
This is what is known as the Days and Nights of Brahma.
For there was no begin­ning, and there can be no end.
There is only the path of Becom­ing and Awak­en­ing for all “ones of the One”.

This is the Jour­ney of Spir­it, this is your path,
Formed by ever expand­ing fields of Con­scious­ness and Creativity.
You move from unself-con­scious Sparks of the Divine, fields of Ener­gy-Forms truly,
To becom­ing a ful­ly Awak­ened Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

It is said that our present form of life, this “human-phase” of our jour­ney, is most spe­cial. But why is that; what does it mean to be human? Through each step, from an infin­i­tes­i­mal being on up through all the King­doms of Spir­it-Forms, why is this human form con­sid­ered by crea­tures not yet human, and by beings above this human form, why is this expe­ri­ence of human so treasured?

We are told that it is spe­cial because here, pre­cise­ly in this form of self-aware con­scious­ness equal­ly stretch­ing itself inward­ly and out­ward­ly to the divine, that we become illu­mi­nat­ed, we wake up through our very divin­i­ty and become “the self-re-made” by our price­less gift of Imag­i­na­tion. This is the Gift of Pisces.

What makes us human, and what will bring us into our apoth­e­o­sis as ful­ly awak­ened humans, is that we are dream­ers. We encounter our world “as it is”, and then we dream of a bet­ter one for us and all those who come after. And then we try to “make it so.”

But we are imper­fect; so that spilling into our dreams of the divine comes the errors of our past, our doubts and our fears, our appre­hen­sions and mis­per­cep­tions, and these become part of our cre­ation too. That is why we have the world that we have, made in the image of our­selves, a world of light, love and of beau­ty, but also of dark­ness, fear and pain.

It is here in Pisces that you feel the pain and yet hold to the promise of your com­pound nature, that you are sub­lime yet mor­tal, filled with promise and uncon­di­tion­al love, but some­times weighed down by fear and regret. But out of these dark echoes of the past you make the very forge for your dia­mond heart of com­pas­sion and under­stand­ing too. Yes, it is here in Pisces you that reveal your divin­i­ty in your very humanity.

You learn to for­give your­self as you must equal­ly for­give one anoth­er; to cre­ate the sacred space for your own growth you must sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er too. You see in them your­self, their joy and their pain yours. You stretch your heart and soul and feel the whole of this, com­pas­sion not just for anoth­er human, but for all of life, for all of this won­drous Cre­ation that makes your life pos­si­ble too.

You see Cre­ation as it is, a Rib­bon of Souls who are all one with one anoth­er, a Rain­bow of Light and Love, and that all of Cre­ation is alive and held togeth­er. You know and feel that this is me and I am that. It is beyond words, and you bow your head and bend your knee.

Yes, you real­ize that though at times you will stum­ble and fall, that you will be touched by fear again, you feel in your heart and you know in your soul that you have noth­ing to fear.

You are one of the ones of the One.

Yes, it is the Gift of Pisces to Dream, and the Pow­er it bestows is equal to this. Because you have become self-aware, and because you are part of a host of count­less great souls who form the Con­scious­ness of Cre­ation, you real­ize that you and they are the Path of Light.

You are the Liv­ing embod­i­ment of the Pow­er of Faith; that Faith is the Love of the One.

There is but one way, there is only one path,

Just Love one another.