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About Bill Attride

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

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2018 – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagittarius (Sunday November 4, 2018 @ 2 pm EST)

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagit­tar­ius (Sun­day Novem­ber 4, 2018)

In my tenth show of 2018 I will talk about this year in Astrol­o­gy and where we are right now. There are two major Uni­ver­sal influ­ences we need to con­sid­er that explain much of what we are expe­ri­enc­ing, and one his­tor­i­cal align­ment that shines a light upon the prin­ci­ple chal­lenge being encoun­tered by the Unit­ed States. If we have time, I will also con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Jupiter enter­ing Sagit­tar­ius on Thurs­day Novem­ber 8th.

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:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Novem­ber 4th @ 2 pm EST:

 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/04/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-where-are-we-nowjupiter-enters-sagittarius

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 Novem­ber 4th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 23, 2018)

At play in the Fields of the One…

It is time to face the Truth. You are on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, mov­ing through worlds, forms and lives; it is a jour­ney of unfold­ment and self-becom­ing that takes you from a mere spark of unself-con­scious divin­i­ty to a ful­ly awak­ened co-cre­ator of Creation.

But the ques­tion remains, who are you? It is nat­ur­al to look upon one­self and it seems quite sim­ple real­ly; you perceive/experience your body and it is that which defines the con­tent and cir­cum­fer­ence of your nature. You per­ceive the truth as, “I am this; and you are that.” But you are here to learn that this is one of the most impor­tant illu­sions you have fall­en into by tak­ing on this mor­tal form.

You are not this body, oh no, you are much more than this…You are a host of ener­gy-forms, a weav­ing of fields that togeth­er form what you know as your­self. And most impor­tant­ly, and equal­ly, you are mak­ing your way through innu­mer­able fields of ener­gy-forms around your­self too. For this is the nature of the One True Real­i­ty; it is not com­posed of dis­crete things or parts. You are a sparkling field of ener­gy-forms who with innu­mer­able oth­ers moves through the lumi­nous “Fields of Life and Love” that is the One.

Real­i­ty is a Field, it is “the One”, who is in turn com­posed and formed by the many less­er wholes rang­ing from the fields known as atoms and mol­e­cules and ele­ments and com­pounds, to plants, crea­tures, worlds and stars. All of these are not as you imag­ine or per­ceive; all of these are not “things” or “par­ti­cles” as seen in the Atom­istic view. In the Ancient Wis­dom as in the New Sci­ence, all of real­i­ty is formed by sys­tems, a great Hier­ar­chy of Wholes; what is real is not a thing, but instead it is vibra­tions or waves. Tru­ly, Cre­ation is “the Word” made man­i­fest; this beau­ti­ful melody of Light is the Song of Spirit.

Real­i­ty is formed by this Hier­ar­chy of wholes. Each less­er whole, (in human terms, one such as your­self), is seem­ing­ly dis­crete for itself, but it abides in, as it is informed and shaped by all the greater and more encom­pass­ing wholes (for exam­ple of fam­i­ly, friends, com­mu­ni­ties). These innu­mer­able wholes in every king­dom or realm, like wheels with­in wheels, ulti­mate­ly resolves into the holi­est of wholes, the One.

That is why, whether approach­ing this ques­tion from “the West” with Quan­tum Physics, or from “the East” and the Ancient Teach­ings, Real­i­ty is under­stood as a Field of Wholes that form a com­plex array of rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. Or, as I am fond of say­ing, this entire Cre­ation is the body of The One, and what we are mov­ing through, and what moves through and around us, is the Life and Love of the One, it is the sacred and lumi­nous Song and Dance of Spirit.

Through­out your life-jour­ney you will go through many realms that chal­lenge you to become more com­plete, to be more whole, to be more the you that is becom­ing, and none is greater than this space-time you enter by Scor­pio. You pre­pare your­self for this by what you learn in the fields of Libra.

In the space of Libra, wher­ev­er that may be in your chart, you learn how to cre­ate ever more social­ly intel­li­gent forms of rela­tion­ship. You are remind­ed that whomev­er is before you is “anoth­er you”, so to be with any oth­er you have only one truth to guide your way: “That you are to be as equal­ly fair to them as you would be for your­self; that you must do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”. But now comes the time of Scor­pio, and the greater chal­lenge and the greater reward is now at hand; now you must utter­ly break your illu­sion of being sep­a­rate and apart from one anoth­er, now you two must become one.

Yes, it is in the realm of Scor­pio that you con­front the great­est illu­sion and expe­ri­ence the truest of Truths: You are here for one anoth­er, you are what you have become because of one anoth­er, and you can­not be or become what you are to be unless you love and join with one another.

You have been formed and informed from your first breath, (and in your turn, you have done like­wise) by all with whom you jour­ney, from Fathers/Mothers, Aunts/Uncles, Sisters/Brothers, Grand­par­ents, friends and strangers too. Your sense and sen­si­bil­i­ties, your thoughts and prin­ci­ples, most of what you call “you”, is the con­se­quence of mov­ing through those spaces, the fields of ener­gy trans­fers with all with whom you trav­el. Their sen­si­bil­i­ties, feel­ings, thoughts and truths became yours, and yours theirs.

But here in the realm of Scor­pio you must con­scious­ly, will­ing­ly and lov­ing­ly find the way to join with one anoth­er in Union. One human being, alone and by itself, is mean­ing­less, impos­si­ble to imag­ine or even be, for we are noth­ing with­out one anoth­er, and could not become human with­out our shared shap­ing and cre­at­ing of one anoth­er. The indi­vid­ual or “I” comes out of the many we or “us”. Though we may believe that “I made me”, it is fun­da­men­tal­ly true that “we made we”, and we made every “I” too.

In the space of Scor­pio, when two (or the many) are joined in com­mon pur­pose and inten­tion, when we each sur­ren­der the less­er with­in us so that we might build upon, expand and trans­form the greater that is with­in and between us, it is then that we tru­ly move clos­er to our true nature, we take anoth­er step in becom­ing full awak­ened humans.

To forge our greater Union, we each con­tribute what we can and give up what we must. We elic­it from one anoth­er the quick­en­ing of our poten­tial­i­ties, mold­ing, trans­form­ing and reveal­ing more of what we are through our com­bi­na­tion with one anoth­er. We move clos­er to one anoth­er, become more one with one anoth­er, and yet we also by this come clos­er to our true self too. We reach out to one anoth­er, only to see the greater truth of who and what we are through one anoth­er. That by draw­ing clos­er to them, by let­ting go of the less­er of us we dis­cov­er our truer self too. Yes, we two become one and yet we are also, each of us, revealed as one of kind too.

Scor­pio is the Realm of Alche­my, it is the space where we let go and grow. In Scor­pio you face the Fear of Rejec­tion and Loss, and you learn to be fear­less. You learn you are not, nor can you ever be alone or lost. Here in the space of Scor­pio we unite, we are re-born through love and sac­ri­fice, and by self-tran­scen­dence we free our­selves from fear. We know we move through mor­tal forms; but our laugh­ter and love, our danc­ing and songs, this spir­it will live on and on forever.

Scor­pio is the shin­ing heart of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness; it is the space where we break from the shad­ow, as we dance and play in the Fields of the One.

That is what and who we are…we are Singers, we are Dancers, we are the Cre­ators of one anoth­er and we have just begun to shine.

We have made who we are, and it is by and through one anoth­er that we will make our truer selves revealed.

We are the ones of the One, danc­ing and singing our Cre­ation song.

We are all for one, and One for all.

And we will Shine on.

Venus Turns Retrograde (October 4 — November 16, 2018)

Venus, who is your Avatar of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, is turn­ing around once again. She does this about every 19 months or so and remains ret­ro­grade for about 40-plus days. This time she will turn ret­ro­grade on Octo­ber 4th, reach the mid­point of her dance “back­wards” as she aligns with the Sun on Octo­ber 26th, (where you may be reward­ed with a new-found truth about love and beau­ty), and turn direct on Novem­ber 16th. (That date is quite inter­est­ing, as it the same day that Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade once again).

When­ev­er a plan­et is ret­ro­grade it affords an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to re-exam­ine, to go on an inner jour­ney of explo­ration and dis­cov­ery; it her­alds a time to turn with­in and to more deeply under­stand the realm and func­tions for that planet.

Over the next 42 days, you will be well reward­ed if you take more time to re-con­sid­er, to pause and reflect upon your own life and recent events, to ques­tion the very nature of what is “val­ue” to you, to your loved ones and for one and all.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, the ever­last­ing Foun­tain-Source of Val­ue comes from this one essen­tial truth. That all of Cre­ation is the Love of the One shin­ing through every speck and mote of Cre­ation, for every­thing in this Uni­verse is “alive”; The One is shin­ing through one and all with the ever­last­ing Light of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

For this ret­ro­grade, Venus begins to move back­wards through the Sign of Scor­pio, the very sign that brings you to the Truth of your indis­putable con­nec­tion with one anoth­er, and so equal­ly with this won­drous, beau­ti­ful Cre­ation that is all around you (and, you must under­stand, is you too).

Yes, in Scor­pio you must con­front “The Great Illu­sion” which is your expe­ri­ence as being sep­a­rate from this Ocean of Life; we as “Human” fall into untold error and pain as we move in and out of these mor­tal frames, because they most def­i­nite­ly seem to cre­ate the irrefutable fact that every­thing is dis­tinct and sep­a­rate from every­thing else. And from this error we then cre­ate divi­sions between and among our­selves. We stum­ble and fall into count­less errors of expe­ri­enc­ing one anoth­er dif­fer­ent­ly, and from mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear we relate to some more as sub­jects, and oth­ers, those we feel are not as us, we may treat them more and more as objects. We divide our­selves from our high­er self and we “fall” into error, because we for­get who and what we tru­ly are.

But in Scor­pio, and with Venus in Scor­pio cer­tain­ly, we are moved by our need and desire to attempt to reach beyond our sep­a­rate self, to break the bonds of lone­li­ness and fear and con­nect to that one spe­cial oth­er (or attempt to join with sev­er­al oth­ers in some enter­prise or group effort)…And what we dis­cov­er every time, through this Alchem­i­cal blend­ing-com­bin­ing-trans­form­ing realm, we encounter in this sacred space the agony and ecsta­sy of Scor­pio, we expe­ri­ence the gift of self-tran­scen­dence and re-birth. That by sac­ri­fic­ing what is the less­er with­in us in order to form the union, and by equal­ly affirm­ing what is the greater and tru­ly shared between us, it is by this death and re-birth that we encounter the great­est Truth…That ever and always at the core of each of us, and equal­ly found in this new­ly cre­at­ed cen­ter that we share in our Union, we encounter that all of Life is One. And, we feel and know that the ener­gy-form that binds togeth­er one and all, well that is Love. It is the force that holds all of us and Cre­ation togeth­er as we were and are, and as we will ever be. We come back to where we start­ed, as one of the ones of the One, and so we know we are here to love and be loved.

Yes, in this time of soul-search­ing, where you may under­stand the pain of loss and the joy of union that the ret­ro­grade of Scor­pio in Venus holds for you, you will smile and be most grate­ful for these reminders of your divin­i­ty and true nature. You are here to be fear­less; you are here to love.

You are immor­tal, yet you are here in a very mor­tal realm that requires that you move from life to life, and you will expe­ri­ence the ecsta­sy of mov­ing beyond your sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er to the joy of being one with one another…and all of this, this great song and dance of spir­it, it is all for you in order to bring you back, with wis­dom and grace and love to the know­ing that you were and always will be loved…for you are.

Because that is what you are…

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here quite sim­ply to see the oth­er, any oth­er, as yourself…

Because this is truth and it shines through in the dark­est of hours.

It comes from your heart, it is in your soul.

You are a most pre­cious spark of the Divine; and so is the one before you too.

You are here to love and be loved.

There is but one truth; there is the one true way.

Just love one another.

Sun Enters Libra (September 22, 2018)

Libra2018

Out of many, One

There is but One Spirit.
There is but One Life.
There is only One, formed into the many ones.

Your “Illu­sion of Exis­tence” is formed by your ser­i­al pro­gres­sion through Worlds, Forms, and Lives that in each instance appear as sep­a­rate and dis­tinct from all that sur­rounds you. But you must under­stand that these par­ti­cles of mat­ter, these won­drous bod­ies that you require upon any mor­tal plane, are not what you are made of. They are mere­ly what you have formed for your­self out of the one Sub­stance, Spir­it-Mat­ter, which is the One Eter­nal Essence behind all these less­er forms.

Remem­ber, you, and all of Cre­ation, that you are Spir­it and as all in this Cre­ation from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal on up to the Plan­e­tary Sys­tems and Galax­ies and beyond, all of these Ener­gy-Forms are the Liv­ing real­iza­tion forged by the One, the Immor­tal spark of the Divine. The entire Uni­verse, and you, are a pre­cious part of the One Divine Life, and the illu­sion of exis­tence is that you are sep­a­rate from all of this, and that you must find some means of being made con­nect­ed and whole with­in your­self and your world.

But this is your illu­sion, because you are always and for­ev­er whole with­in your­self as you are equal­ly part of these greater fields and ener­gies that sur­round you too. You are “whole”, you are a whole whose very exis­tence is formed by ever more encom­pass­ing fields of Ener­gy-Forms or Wholes that ulti­mate­ly are expe­ri­enced as the One, or God or Spirit.

You began your pere­gri­na­tions in this Cos­mic Cycle as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine, a pre­cious Mon­ad of Spir­it who went spi­ral­ing out into the Cos­mos to help form and become that very Cos­mos, the liv­ing body of the One.

But, you must also remem­ber this…you were not nor would you ever, (or could you ever) be alone. You went forth with count­less “broth­ers and sis­ters”, a host of many hosts, count­less sparks of the Divine, went forth to make this Uni­verse. You and your com­pan­ions, at this stage of your self-becom­ing, have jour­neyed forth to become a ful­ly formed human, to become ful­ly awak­ened humans by the end of this cos­mic cycle.

Today you enter that most spe­cial space of Zodi­a­cal Ener­gy-Form, that sacred space that is at the core of your expe­ri­ence of being whole and equal­ly being made by and being part of all these greater wholes too. Today you enter time of the Year that we cel­e­brate the Space of Libra.

For no mat­ter what your Sun Sign, there is some spe­cial part of you that is held in and formed by this Ener­gy-Form of Libra. How could you not? For Libra is the Sign of Rela­tion­ship, and you are most cer­tain­ly “you”, a sparkling dew­drop of the One Liv­ing Spir­it because of all these “rela­tions” that are with­in and around you. You are indeed you pre­cise­ly because you have been made by all the rela­tion­ships of your past, present, and those in your future too.

Yes, you are most cer­tain­ly made of and by one anoth­er. In life after life, you are forged and formed by all with whom you have direct and indi­rect rela­tion­ships. You are formed by your par­ents, grand­par­ents, uncles and aunts, sib­lings and friends, class­mates and col­leagues, by all your loves in this and in count­less for­mer lives; yes, you are a host formed by many hosts who in so many small and greater ways help to bring forth and elic­it the very spe­cial spark of the divine that is your “Quin­tes­sence”, the ever­last­ing pres­ence of you.

Yes, you move into what I call “Third Space” in the realm that is Libra. You are a whole unto your­self, you are a field of ener­gy-forms, you are in fact your own lit­tle Cos­mos, your own “space”. You encounter anoth­er, who is just like you, and they are a lit­tle Cos­mos too. And now, the most pre­cious and del­i­cate and won­drous thing must hap­pen, you togeth­er must form a space-field for your encounter, togeth­er you must cre­ate that Third Space that is your relationship.

You are each a whole, form­ing one anoth­er into a larg­er whole, a greater Cos­mos where­in you will inform, and shape and elic­it for one anoth­er the very “dance of spir­it” that is the Song of Life, Love and Will. It is this Song of Spir­it, this Cho­rus of Life that fills and forms all the spaces of Space. To meet the oth­er and form this space of rela­tion­ship requires you to reach deep with­in your­self and equal­ly with­in them too. It is forged and found­ed by the essen­tial truth of Spir­it, a re-affir­ma­tion of what always was and will for­ev­er be, “we are all related”.

Here in the “sacred space of we” you meet “the oth­er”, who is just like you. You look into the eyes of the one who is before you and you see it there, shin­ing upon you from the win­dow of their soul, and there in that light is “proof of eter­ni­ty”, and you are hum­bled and joy-filled by that feel­ing, “I know this, I know who you are”.

We do not encounter strangers on Earth, for we have been doing this for a very, very long time. We have loved and lost, fought and made peace, strug­gled for and against, time and time again. We are all mixed up in one anoth­er, so that we can claim no own­er­ship to any feel­ing, idea or truth. We are made of all these rela­tion­ships, so that our true expe­ri­ence of con­scious­ness is real­ly from the We and not our lim­it­ed I. We will meet again and again, so we say not good­bye but fare thee well until our next time…

We are who we are because of what we have been and done for and with one anoth­er. We will always be for one anoth­er the means of self-becom­ing, the instru­ment of awak­en­ing, of becom­ing ful­ly human. We are here to be one for all, and All for One.

Always and for­ev­er, be kind to one anoth­er, and remem­ber this:

You are here because of one another.

You are here because of Love.

You are here to Love and be Loved.

Just remem­ber, remem­ber who you are and

Love one another.

Namaste.

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22–23, 2018)

The Way of Sacrifice

The inte­gral unfold­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Ener­gies, what you know as the Signs of the Zodi­ac, form a com­plex Melody of Life, the Song of Spir­it that is the Love-filled Heart­beat of Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing for you and your world. The ser­i­al order­ing of the One Ener­gy, Love, is divid­ed into these Twelve Man­sions of Life. The One Spir­it is mod­u­lat­ed through Four Modes of Being, Fire, Earth, Air and Water; and each of these is appor­tioned into three Modal­i­ties of Activ­i­ty, Car­di­nal, Fixed and Muta­ble. These Four formed by Three, this Three­fold Beat of the Four Fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Forms, togeth­er res­onate as the Heart of your Uni­verse, each Ele­ment brought into focus through the three phas­es of Spirit:

Cre­ation — Preser­va­tion — Transformation

For the Three, first come the Ini­tia­tors, the Car­di­nal Signs, (Aries, Can­cer, Libra and Capri­corn); then fol­low the Hold­ers, the Fixed Signs, (Tau­rus, Leo, Scor­pio and Aquar­ius); and final­ly, you move through the Signs of Tran­si­tion or Muta­bil­i­ty, (Gem­i­ni, Vir­go, Sagit­tar­ius and Pisces).

Of course, you must know and under­stand, at every moment in the ever-unfold­ing Life of the One Spir­it, in every moment of the Eter­nal or “The Now”, that all these Twelve Ener­gy-Forms are active in every speck and mote of cre­ation rang­ing on up through all the orders of beings and life-forms that fill the star­ry firmament.

But today, here on our Earth, let us acknowl­edge and cel­e­brate a change in our spe­cial cor­ner of Space. Today you move into the Sacred Realm that is Vir­go, and you have arrived at anoth­er lumi­nous moment of your awak­en­ing. Vir­go is here to help bring you to a more Inte­gral bal­ance with­in your Sacred Tem­ple of Body and Heart, of Mind and Spirit.

For you are here for one thing only, you are here to learn how to become a bet­ter human being. You are here quite sim­ply to Grow. And to do this, since you “as Human” have become self-aware, you must ever strive to con­scious­ly stay upon the path of Right­eous­ness, to keep to the Noble Road of Sac­ri­fice formed by Inte­gra­tion, Adjust­ment and Healing.

You have come once more through the realm of Fire that is Leo, whose space is there to pro­vide the expe­ri­ences by which you reveal and shine as “you”. In Can­cer you met the Self at the Cen­ter, and you anchored your­self in the Waters of your Roots. You drew upon this inspi­ra­tion to bring forth in Leo some greater part of that truth of you; in Leo you strove to shine and release your Self through var­i­ous vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion, to find a more per­fect role, to act upon a truer stage in the grand the­ater that is Life.

But after every performance…there comes “the review”. Yes, you did reach beyond what you were before in the lat­est “per­for­mance”. But you will always feel, (you must know this by now), that you could have done bet­ter, that you could have been a bet­ter you.

By Vir­go, (and we all have Vir­go some­where in our own chart), you are offered the gift of Dis­cern­ment and Dis­crim­i­na­tion. This Crit­i­cal Fac­ul­ty is pre­cise­ly what you need to sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff of your life. You must begin to take in your har­vest now, and so pre­pare your­self for the chal­lenges that lie before you, and the longer nights that lie ahead.

You can only grow by tri­al and error, through striv­ing to do bet­ter and by learn­ing from your mis­takes. Fail­ure and Growth are insep­a­ra­ble; you are here to learn what not to do and how you might become bet­ter. By self-cor­rec­tion and adjust­ment, through humil­i­ty and ser­vice, you will slow­ly but sure­ly lift your­self and one anoth­er a lit­tle clos­er to the ful­fill­ment of your des­tiny. You will move away from being unable, to becom­ing ever more capa­ble and ulti­mate­ly you will be known as an adept; you move from the ordi­nary to the extra­or­di­nary, from being reac­tive to being mas­ter­ful and pur­pose­ful. This is your path­way to per­fec­tion; and this is the Gift of Virgo.

You are an appren­tice work­ing on your great­est masterpiece…you. You will need teach­ers and mas­ters to show you “the way”. The most sacred of these is your own high­er self, who elic­its the ele­va­tion of your under­stand­ing through your intu­ition­al fac­ul­ty. Lis­ten to this lov­ing, kind and gen­tle voice and you will remain on the path. But also know that each and every encounter you have in your dai­ly life, whether with fam­i­ly or with friends, with col­leagues and most impor­tant­ly with those you think of as a stranger, all of these will also serve you (as you will equal­ly serve them). For it is by these exchanges with one anoth­er that you are helped to pol­ish away the mis­un­der­stand­ings that lead you into error. We are here to be a light to one anoth­er, and by reveal­ing what is right and what is wrong we can help one anoth­er to move towards a greater wholeness.

As you may out­ward­ly or for­mal­ly at some point be brought to study with a mas­ter, you may then nec­es­sar­i­ly find that you will be called upon to extend your­self to those who look to you. Yes, you the appren­tice will become a Mas­ter too. Offer them what you can, but most impor­tant­ly offer your­self with love, give what you will with kind­li­ness, guid­ance and encour­age­ment. This is also “the way”; it is the Rib­bon of Life and Love, the Hier­ar­chy of Com­pas­sion that stretch­es through all the King­doms of Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

We are here to become what we have with­in us, the Love of the One which is our true Heart and our abid­ing strength. We are here to become com­plete human beings like the “great souls” who have walked this same path that you fol­low today: Con­fu­cius, Krish­na, Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras, Bud­dha, Christ, and so many more who labored in the shad­ows and who serve with­out recog­ni­tion nor seek it. Their sto­ry is repeat­ed now so that we may remem­ber and learn. Their exam­ple and teach­ings are there to remind you that there is a pur­pose to your life, and it is to become awakened.

You are here to learn to be a bet­ter human. You are here to live, love and fol­low the Noble Mid­dle Path, “The Way of Ser­vice and Sac­ri­fice”. This path flows from your inner­most sanc­tum to the Heart of the Uni­verse, and beyond. It is quite sim­ply your true nature, it is Love.

Yes, it is in Vir­go that you let go and you grow. To be in the realm of Vir­go, to be Vir­ginal, means to make your­self whole, not per­fect. You must con­tin­u­al­ly, every day and life after life, give up the less­er and dis­cov­er and so become the greater with­in and between you. This is done by Sac­ri­fice. True Sac­ri­fice means you make your life and your actions Sacred, it means you give up the less­er as you align your­self with the greater with­in and around you. You are at peace, you are one, and you are one with one and All.

What you are made of is Love and what sur­rounds you is Beau­ty. To be who you are, to become what you are here to be is your des­tiny. So, fol­low the sacred prayer, fol­low the path of whole­ness and love, and repeat the sacred injunc­tion of the Red Road of Truth:

As I walk, as I walk

The Uni­verse is walk­ing with me

In beau­ty it walks before me

In beau­ty it walks behind me

In beau­ty it walks below me

In beau­ty it walks above me

Beau­ty is on every side

As I walk, I walk with Beauty.