Today Uranus moves into Tau­rus. This is what I wrote in my 2018 Fore­cast about this impor­tant shift of Uranus from Aries into Taurus:

Uranus in Tau­rus – Trans­for­ma­tion of Value
Uranus in Tau­rus, (2018–2026) will bring star­tling trans­for­ma­tions to the realm of Val­ues. The pre­vi­ous times for Uranus in Tau­rus were 1935–1942, 1851–59 and 1768–75. Those peri­ods were char­ac­ter­ized by upheavals and rapid changes in Soci­ety and Cul­ture and brought about new order­ings of Eco­nom­ic and Polit­i­cal struc­tures. These Uran­ian shocks and turn­ings break old iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, lead­ing to rev­o­lu­tion­ary break­throughs in Ideas and Tech­nol­o­gy, in Soci­ety and Cul­ture. Uranus leads us beyond our self-cre­at­ed Sat­urn­ian bound­aries, and in Tau­rus it cre­ates a new Fab­ric of Mean­ing. Uranus in Tau­rus will ush­er in a new Val­ue Hier­ar­chy, and a so new kind of Human too. The self-lim­it­ing attach­ments to out­worn ways and val­ues are bro­ken, and a new way of being emerges.

One crit­i­cal obser­va­tion of Uranus’ three pre­vi­ous pas­sages through Tau­rus should be appar­ent to those who study his­to­ry. Each of these pri­or peri­ods were fol­lowed in US his­to­ry by our great­est con­flicts, World War II, The Civ­il War, and The War of Independence.

The past is nev­er a per­fect pre­dic­tor of the future, noth­ing ever remains the same in these very com­plex, inter­pen­e­trat­ing cycles of the plan­ets, and we should under­stand that no pat­tern can ever tru­ly “repeat”. But there are most cer­tain­ly revealed here res­o­nances or rhymes. These Signs and Plan­ets hold the forms and mean­ings that can reveal to us the heart­beat of spir­i­tu­al growth in our self-trans­for­ma­tion­al jour­ney. These “Songs of Spir­it” echo down through the cor­ri­dors of his­to­ry and they should give us pause now to con­sid­er what may lie ahead.

Per­haps it is in the very nature of Uranus, which is to break up the old orders of Val­ue held by Tau­rus, which lead to these great con­flicts between peo­ples and cul­tures, both with­in and between nations. The his­tor­i­cal record would cer­tain­ly seem to indi­cate that this is so for the USA. But does this mean that our future is fat­ed; that we are mere­ly wit­ness­ing now the begin­ning of the next great world-wide conflict?

I for one do not believe that his­to­ry “repeats”. The human king­dom is on an ever-ris­ing path of spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing. There is with­in all of us an abid­ing faith and hope that we will find “the way” to more per­fect­ly align our­selves with our divine essence, and that we will remain true to our high­er self who lov­ing­ly calls to us to remem­ber from whence we came, and why we are here for one another.

We are on a Jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it; we are here on Earth for one rea­son, we are here to learn to be ful­ly human. We are to become ever more cen­tered in our Spir­i­tu­al Essence and Truth to live with a Freer Mind, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and a right­eous­ly Cen­tered Will. It is by this self-made path that we will rise above our ear­li­er errors that were found­ed in mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear. These dark echoes, flash­ing for­ward into our present cir­cum­stances, remind us that we have fall­en before.

We need not repeat our past mis­takes; we can take these gifts of the spir­it, offered at this time by Uranus in Tau­rus, to break our iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with the mis­shapen husks of val­ue and reveal the deep­er truth of beau­ty, grace and love that shines through our world and in one anoth­er. We are lumi­nous beings; let us shine for one anoth­er. Let us love one another.

It is our ever-unfold­ing real­iza­tion that we are part of a greater sto­ry, the sto­ry of spir­it, the jour­ney of the Divine to become ful­ly man­i­fest in our world and in one anoth­er. We will heal the mis­un­der­stand­ings between one anoth­er and come to the truth that all our errors, all our pains and suf­fer­ings, have come from this great­est illu­sion, the illu­sion that we are sep­a­rate from one anoth­er (and from this cre­ation too). We, and all of Cre­ation, are one in Spir­it. We are here to be Cre­ators and to live our lives in Love, Beau­ty and Truth.

For each of you, look to where you have the Sign of Tau­rus in your own chart, (and equal­ly, if you have any plan­ets there, that will make this an even more sig­nif­i­cant pas­sage for you). It is in this realm of Tau­rus that you expe­ri­ence and reveal your deep­est expe­ri­ence of Val­ue and Beauty.

Under­stand that as Uranus moves through Tau­rus it will elic­it from you the neces­si­ty that is at the heart of Spir­it. If Spir­it is Life; and Life is Spir­it, then we are here quite sim­ply to grow. You are here to become a ful­ly awak­ened human and you must be open to Change. Let go of the less­er, more cir­cum­scribed reach­es of your aes­thet­ic, moral and spir­i­tu­al val­ues. It is in your essen­tial nature to become more than what you were, to lift your­self and human­i­ty clos­er to the Divine which is shin­ing there with­in you.

A new human­i­ty is com­ing; but it is upon one and all to lov­ing­ly make this so.

Let us shine together!

I thought it would be help­ful to have the tran­script from my radio show. If you want to lis­ten the pod­cast, here is the link to that: Pod­cast on the Full Moon.

Today we will con­sid­er the mean­ing of the Full Moon in Scor­pio which is also known as the Bud­dha Full Moon. The rea­son for this name comes from the sto­ry of the Bud­dha, who was said to have been born in the month of Tau­rus at the Full Moon of Scor­pio, and who after much striv­ing achieved enlight­en­ment or Cos­mic Con­scious­ness at anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio, and final­ly, when his work was done, laid aside his phys­i­cal vehi­cle at yet anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio. The essence of these Teach­ings of the Bud­dha is won­der­ful­ly illus­trat­ed for us in this dynam­ic inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the Sun in Tau­rus and the Moon in Scorpio.

The Lunar Cycle

The cycle of the Sun and Moon, (from New Moon, to Wax­ing Square, to Full Moon, to Wan­ing Square, to the next New Moon), forms the arche­typ­al pat­tern of all the plan­e­tary cycles we expe­ri­ence here on Earth. Through reflec­tion and cor­re­spond­ing appli­ca­tion, we can obtain a deep­er under­stand­ing about our jour­ney offered by this lan­guage of the stars. I have often called these plan­e­tary cycles “a dance of the plan­ets”, and it is like the weav­ing of mean­ing­ful­ness offered by the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chies of our broth­ers and sis­ters, the beau­ti­ful plan­e­tary hier­ar­chy that is our home among the stars.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac hold the arche­typ­al myths and mean­ings to guide our jour­ney. The reflec­tive com­par­i­son of signs that are oppo­site to one anoth­er, helps to inform and illu­mi­nate the mean­ings of them both. Life or Spir­it is formed by this jour­ney through the Signs, each res­onat­ing with its own mes­sages, but these indi­vid­ual mean­ings can only be tru­ly under­stood by con­sid­er­ing each one in their rela­tion­ship with its oppo­site, and then ulti­mate­ly with every oth­er sign too. Each Sign is formed and informed by the oth­er, as we do much the same in our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er here on Earth too. Think of it this way, almost all your thoughts, sen­si­bil­i­ties, tastes and truths that you hold as your own, they were brought to you, woven into you, through the intri­cate web of life that you have shared with all with whom you trav­el now, and by the count­less hosts who came this way before us in our col­lec­tive jour­ney in Spirit.

Taurus/Scorpio

We are now in the time of Tau­rus, and it is the most earthy or mate­ri­al­iz­ing moment in the Zodi­ac. This is the time that you rel­ish, cel­e­brate and enjoy your own phys­i­cal expe­ri­ences, which for you is most cer­tain­ly being in your human body. But the Full Moon of Scor­pio posits the oth­er side of this, noth­ing in this world is per­ma­nent. All things are born, live and pass on. The Ques­tion of the Taurus/Scorpio is: How do you do this, how do you cope with the joys of being alive and the ever-present threat that it all will end some­day? This ques­tion, tru­ly, is the source of all Reli­gions, Phi­los­o­phy and Sci­ence. We know that we are alive; and we know that we are going to die.

But you should know, that you are rel­a­tive­ly Immor­tal, as you are at your core a unique mon­ad of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. This inner­most of you is what you would call the Self, which is the aware­ness that per­vades all of Cre­ation, and this is in fact at the core of one and All. For all of Cre­ation, from atoms, through min­er­als, onto plants, ani­mals, humans and beyond, all of Cre­ation is alive and conscious.

This Self or Atman is your spir­i­tu­al self who is direct­ing, guid­ing and inspir­ing and lift­ing your low­er vehi­cles upward, as you move from World to World, and through Form after Form, and into each Life after Life. In all these forms you are a com­pos­ite, formed into bod­ies of var­i­ous degrees of sub­stance. You descend and extend down from the most sub­lime realms into the low­er men­tal realms, down into the emo­tion­al realms and final­ly arrive in your phys­i­cal form that you enjoy so much now, the human body.

As you move into these realms of the mate­r­i­al, you are here quite sim­ply to learn to be a bet­ter human, to be a com­plete human, to mas­ter your­self and your pow­ers of cre­ation. But you will, time and time again, become too enam­ored by and attached to some par­tic­u­lar expe­ri­ence, you will wish to pro­long and main­tain some thing. And because this is so, you will expe­ri­ence pain.

For this is the tick­et you punched in com­ing to Earth, you walk in mor­tal forms and upon a mor­tal world. This is the deal on Earth, if you expe­ri­ence joy you will also have pain, if you find love you will also expe­ri­ence loss, for this is the price of being an immor­tal in a mor­tal world. How can you live with this, know­ing and feel­ing so much pain?

Remem­ber, there is one imper­a­tive dri­ving all of this, an unceas­ing force aris­ing from with­in you, and that one irre­sistible light is Spir­it whose only dri­ve is to be and to become. Spir­it is Growth; Spir­it is Life and there­fore Change. You (and every part of Cre­ation) are this Spir­it which equals Life ever becom­ing some­thing more. That is why the great injunc­tion in all spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­plines is that you are nev­er done, that you must always “walk on”. This means that in each of your lives you must con­tin­u­ous­ly strive to “let go and grow”. This is the fun­da­men­tal teach­ing that the Bud­dha offers, and this is one of the core prin­ci­ples of the Ancient Teach­ings, which are found in all cul­tures and exists at that liv­ing heart of all reli­gion, phi­los­o­phy and science.

There is noth­ing per­ma­nent ulti­mate­ly, there is noth­ing per­ma­nent or “last­ing” in these mate­r­i­al realms or high­er realms because they are all com­pos­ites, held togeth­er by the Intel­li­gence, Love and Will that form the heart of every mote and speck of this Uni­verse. It is that Spir­i­tu­al Core or Essence which moves from World to World, through Life after Life. All these vehi­cles or bod­ies must be free to evolve into new forms, but so do their Spir­i­tu­al Cen­ters who like­wise grow into an ever-greater splen­dor. Both the Spir­i­tu­al Heart and the Mate­r­i­al Body will grow and become and be re-formed again and again into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of spir­i­tu­al self-realization.

This is what you need to con­sid­er today at the Full Moon in the time of Tau­rus, the Scor­pio Full Moon, and though I am fond of say­ing, “you are an Immor­tal in a mor­tal frame”, the truth is that noth­ing is ulti­mate­ly Immor­tal, for that would mean that even the most sub­lime part of you was fin­ished, not capa­ble of growth and change. And that is just not so. For this cos­mic cycle, your inner­most, most Sub­lime Self is “rel­a­tive­ly” Immor­tal, and from life to life is the foun­tain-source of Inspi­ra­tion and Guid­ance as you seek to free your­self from your sleep, from your uncon­scious, as you steadi­ly move towards becom­ing an “Awak­ened One”. Quite sim­ply, you are on the path of becom­ing ful­ly human. You are on the same path as the Buddha.

You are part of a hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and though you are in the Human King­dom now, one day you will face the same choice that all the “great ones” have faced. Once you are tru­ly free, what is known as a Jivan­muk­ta, or freed mon­ad, you will have the great choice of con­tin­u­ing beyond this human king­dom into more sub­lime spir­i­tu­al realms, OR, you may choose to turn and extend your love and care for those who still strug­gle behind you. We are told that most who have crossed this thresh­old of lib­er­a­tion have made their lov­ing choice to remain and help those who come after. They are known as the Watch­ers, the sav­iors and saints who hold open the door of lib­er­a­tion for you. They send you lov­ing thoughts and inspi­ra­tions to lift your­self and one anoth­er towards that sub­lime state of beau­ty, grace and uncon­di­tion­al love that is your destiny.

What does this great teach­ing of the Bud­dha mean for you? It is said that the Buddha’s last words were this: “Broth­ers, all things that are, are com­pos­ite, are com­pounds, built of oth­er ele­ments. Find your way to Truth”. It is said that many in the west have mis­in­ter­pret­ed this to mean, “You should seek out your own sal­va­tion”. Noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth. What the Bud­dha was say­ing is that the way to spir­i­tu­al peace and hap­pi­ness is to be present, to be total­ly here in the Cos­mic Dance of Life. You will do this for your­self, and you will do this for one anoth­er too.

For you and them, and every­thing in this Uni­verse is “That”, it is nei­ther Self or non-Self, it is death­less because it is Eter­ni­ty. It is THAT. You are That, I am That. It has no name, it is nei­ther Spir­it or non-Spir­it. It is both. Beyond nam­ing, beyond know­ing, it is and is not, it is the inef­fa­ble That. The great illu­sion is that you are sep­a­rate; the Great Truth is that we are one with one anoth­er, insep­a­ra­ble from one anoth­er in this Ocean of Spir­it and Love. Behind and through all the realms from the most phys­i­cal to the most tran­scen­dent, there is That.

You should cel­e­brate being here ful­ly and with great appre­ci­a­tion for the won­der of this beau­ti­ful world we call Earth. You should watch the beau­ty of the dawn unfold­ing before your eyes but know that it will end, and you must let it go. So, lat­er that day, choose to turn, and watch the Sun­set and know that it is good too. Life, Spir­it and Beau­ty are forged and reborn in motion, in liv­ing. Know that you may meet a won­der­ful per­son by chance one after­noon, but then they may fly back home and that was it, just a few hours of bliss; or you are with your true love for many, many years, but final­ly, it is time to let them go as the end for now is here.

But you should also know, that you are not say­ing “good­bye” but tru­ly just “fare thee well”, for you and I will be togeth­er again some­day soon, that is cer­tain­ly true. What has brought you to one anoth­er will hold you to one anoth­er in life after life for as long as the stars shine in the heav­ens above. Yes, the loss is real, it is quite right to mourn and cry and grieve the loss for now. But this is just for now, like all things this is not per­ma­nent either, for Love binds us all to one anoth­er, and we all held, pro­tect­ed and cher­ished by the love of the One and our love for one another.

Beau­ty, Love, Val­ue are only present “in Life which is Spir­it, in Spir­it which is life”. All of Cre­ation is mov­ing, through count­less forms and per­mu­ta­tions, being some­thing, let­ting go and becom­ing some­thing so much more. You should do your utmost to pre­serve, pro­tect and extend the worth and beau­ty and love in this world. But when it is time for mat­ters to move on we must accept this and “Let it go…and Grow”.

You are to move through these tem­po­ral realms with ever greater Intel­li­gence, Love and Will. You must hold; and you must let go. You breathe in; you breathe out. You learn to love and cher­ish the forms in which you abide, to love and pro­tect your­selves and your beau­ti­ful world too…but you are here to grow, so you must also release these won­drous forms and move into ever more sub­lime realms, for­ev­er and ever.

This is the mes­sage of the Full Moon in the time of Tau­rus. It is about the Dance of Life, the path of Lib­er­a­tion that we are all walk­ing and our even­tu­al des­tiny, which is to join those who have reached beyond the cycles of death and rebirth and are now free. The Lord Bud­dha, like all teach­ers, came not to start a reli­gion, he came to remind you who and what you are, he came to show you the way to become ful­ly human. No mat­ter what, you and I are on the path, and the Lords of Com­pas­sion are wait­ing for us all.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The Full Moon in Scor­pio ­– The Bud­dha Moon (Sat­ur­day April 28, 2018)

In my fifth show of 2018 we will look at the Full Moon on April 29^th, which is the annu­al cel­e­bra­tion of the birth of the Bud­dha. It is said that Bud­dha was born at, achieved enlight­en­ment dur­ing and released from his phys­i­cal form dur­ing such a Full Moon. What is the sig­nif­i­cance of any Full Moon, and what is the par­tic­u­lar mean­ing behind this Full Moon dur­ing the Month of Tau­rus? Please join me as we explore the spir­i­tu­al mes­sage and teach­ings behind this Full Moon for us all.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day April 28^th @ 2 pm EDT:

The Bud­dha Full Moon

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 April 28th at 2 pm EDT as we look at the spir­i­tu­al mean­ing of the Full Moon in Scor­pio, and what it means for you.

What are you?

Today marks the next and nat­ur­al phase of spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment and awak­en­ing in the Astro­log­i­cal Year. The first phase of Aries pos­es the most fun­da­men­tal ques­tion, “Who am I?”. But now it is Tau­rus, who asks you to con­sid­er the equal­ly pro­found ques­tion, “What am I”?

In Aries you are sim­ply try­ing to be, to know and feel that “I am”. Aries is your most inti­mate and imme­di­ate expe­ri­ence of being self-aware. Through Aries, you encounter you in the con­sid­er­a­tions of what I call your “Pres­ence”, the many and var­ied per­sonas you bring to meet the con­di­tions you encounter in the ever-unfold­ing “Now”.

But in Tau­rus you move out of this sub­jec­tive realm into objec­tive real­i­ty, you expe­ri­ence your­self as some “thing”. In Tau­rus you come down to 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 breathe, and you smell the flow­ers; you reach down and touch the earth, and smile, and give thanks to the moth­er of us all for this, for your life and for your body. You look up and see your star, and you watch the moon, plan­ets and stars whirling over­head and you exclaim, “Ooh, I am so hap­py, to be sur­round­ed by such beau­ty, to be part of this amaz­ing, beau­ti­ful, won­drous journey…I am so grate­ful to be part of LIFE”.

Yes, Tau­rus is life as abun­dance, as beau­ty and majesty. Tau­rus is you being one with life in grat­i­tude, grace and peace. You are here in this won­der­ful place you call Earth, to feel and taste and touch and smell the won­ders of this gar­den of delights, and to share this abun­dance of Life-Spir­it 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 phys­i­cal strengths of youth, give way to the grav­i­tas, wis­dom (and the aches) of lat­er years. It seems, depend­ing upon your jour­ney, that your best days are still ahead, or far behind you, depend­ing upon how you val­ue you.

But in Truth, at the very heart of you, you remain as you will always be, price­less, beyond all mea­sure, for you know, you are not a human being at all. That is mere­ly the form of your self-real­iza­tion at this point in your nev­er-end­ing 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 for­ev­er be 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, the kiss of dew in the morn­ing, and you are the glo­ri­ous sun­set too.

But then the Ancient Ones will whis­per in your heart, “What you know as the resplen­dent and immor­tal you, the Heav­en that is always with­in you, (for you nev­er left it tru­ly), this essen­tial spark of you, know in your heart of hearts that this same light of the Divine is in every­thing too.”

Yes, in every speck and mote of Cre­ation, in every atom, mol­e­cule, gas and rock, plant and crea­ture, or plan­et and star, all of this is Spir­it-Life in evo­lu­tion too. This is what you will under­stand in Taurus.

What you will know, feel and cel­e­brate in Tau­rus is that all of this 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.

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

With love, bow to the divine with­in you and with all that sur­rounds you too.

And every day, turn and real­ly look upon one anoth­er, and you will see that super­nal light that is shin­ing there.

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

Give thanks for all these bless­ings, give thanks for life and sim­ply say to one another,

Namaste.

The Mean­ing of Amer­i­ca, Venus and Jupiter in the USA Chart and the Oppo­si­tion by Saturn

I thought it would be use­ful for lis­ten­ers of my radio show, and for the read­ers of this blog, to have this (more or less) ver­ba­tim tran­script of my last radio show on the USA, which aired on Sat­ur­day April 7^th (which you can lis­ten to here).  

As I not­ed in my 2018 fore­cast with regards to the USA, Sat­urn will be oppos­ing the USA Venus and Jupiter dur­ing this year as Sat­urn begins its 2.5‑year pas­sage through Capri­corn. More­over, it will move into the mid­dle degrees of Capri­corn in 2019 and align with the USA Sun and Sat­urn. In the past 3 such pas­sages of Sat­urn through Capri­corn, 1988–91, 1959–62 and 1929–32, the USA expe­ri­enced eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, and these led to upsets or rever­sals of polit­i­cal pow­er. Now, a pat­tern does not pre­dict the future, but we should con­sid­er why this pas­sage of Sat­urn through Capri­corn might bring these effects, and more impor­tant­ly under­stand what the mean­ing and mes­sage is behind this experience.

Astrol­o­gy can pro­vide insight upon almost any con­sid­er­a­tion or ques­tion, whether indi­vid­u­als, groups or larg­er enti­ties. Whether one is exam­in­ing cor­po­rate, nation­al or world­ly mat­ters astrologers call this branch of astrol­o­gy Mun­dane or World­ly Astrol­o­gy. The Astro­log­i­cal Signs, Plan­ets and Hous­es of a chart retain much of their essen­tial indi­ca­tions and mean­ings, but they must also be adjust­ed with respect to what the object of study is.

For exam­ple, the Sun in an individual’s chart indi­cates that person’s essen­tial char­ac­ter, their pure poten­tial, where­as in a chart of a nation the Sun gov­erns or rules the essen­tial char­ac­ter of the state, and may also indi­cate the supreme author­i­ty or ruler, and the myths or images that the state holds for itself and how oth­ers may view it. The Moon in a person’s chart indi­cates their emo­tion­al tem­pera­ment and needs, of how they react with­out think­ing, where­as in a nation’s chart it rules the mass­es, “the peo­ple” and indi­cates pop­u­lar moods, opin­ions and ideologies.

Today we are will look at the mean­ing and mes­sages of Venus and Jupiter in the chart of the USA.

Venus and Jupiter:

The USA has its Venus and Jupiter, (and its Sun), in the 7th house, the house of rela­tion­ship, and all three are in the Sign of Can­cer. What this indi­cates for the USA is that our per­son­al val­ues and self-worth (Venus), and our prin­ci­ples, gen­eros­i­ty and good for­tune (Jupiter) and our very being and pur­pose (Sun), is revealed, real­ized and ful­filled in the nature and qual­i­ty of our car­ing (Can­cer) rela­tion­ships to one anoth­er (the 7^th House) as cit­i­zens of this coun­try, and then also exter­nal­ly with regards to the nature of our rela­tion­ship with the world at large.

What this real­ly means is this: The USA’s True Source of Strength and Val­ue, Amer­i­ca’s great­est strength, (with the two “benefics” of Astrol­o­gy, Venus and Jupiter, our Val­ues and Prin­ci­ples, in the 7th house of rela­tion­ship), is to be found in our abun­dant gen­eros­i­ty of spir­it towards one anoth­er and the towards the rest of the world. Our strength, our real wealth, lies in our con­tin­u­ing con­tri­bu­tion to one another’s self-ful­fill­ment, to the pur­suit of true Happiness.

I spoke and wrote about this under­stand­ing of Hap­pi­ness in my show/blog post­ing about the August 2017 Eclipse. Here is part of what I stat­ed then:

The True Mean­ing of “Hap­pi­ness”

But the most curi­ous phrase, the one peo­ple should con­sid­er care­ful­ly as to what does it mean, is this “Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness”. Well the true mean­ing or deriva­tion of hap­pi­ness comes from the Ancient Teach­ings or Wis­dom, affirmed and restat­ed in Greek Phi­los­o­phy by Aris­to­tle, and Locke and Jef­fer­son refer back to this ancient under­stand­ing or mean­ing or def­i­n­i­tion of hap­pi­ness. The word in Greek that defines this notion of hap­pi­ness is Eudai­mo­nia.

That word trans­lates lit­er­al­ly as “Union with Good Spir­it”, or what we might call “Human Flour­ish­ing”, or most tru­ly we would say “Human Self-Ful­fill­ment”. What Jef­fer­son was say­ing is not that peo­ple should be allowed to be hap­py, to just be hap­py or cheer­ful or some­thing like this. He was say­ing this a spir­i­tu­al mat­ter, and what he was writ­ing about and what we are doing here comes from the sto­ry of Human­i­ty, grow­ing and devel­op­ing and becom­ing ever more self-aware and self-deter­mined. What we are try­ing to do here, what the true pur­pose and goal of human life is to achieve the Union with one’s High­er Self, to expe­ri­ence the truth with­in by join­ing with what I call the “Beloved”, or the Divine Spark with­in us.

Hap­pi­ness and Self-Fulfillment

What this means for Amer­i­ca, is that the foun­da­tion­al val­ue of our Nation is that we are try­ing to allow and empow­er each per­son to be able to pur­sue their Full Human Poten­tial. In oth­er words, this core prin­ci­ple of our found­ing doc­u­ment, and we broke from the King because he was deny­ing our right to gov­ern our­selves, we could not ful­fill our­selves while being under the rule of a monar­chy, and so we jus­ti­fied our break­ing free so that we could pur­sue our right to Self-Ful­fill­ment. We estab­lished this as our under­stand­ing of the pur­pose of our Ven­ture, that the true pur­pose of rela­tion­ship is that it must serve human Self-Fulfillment.

We have formed our sacred com­pact with one anoth­er, based upon this pledge, that we will ful­fill our poten­tials for and with and through one anoth­er, as we steadi­ly move towards and align our­selves with our true and Divine Nature.

This is what Jef­fer­son meant by the Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness, Jef­fer­son meant Self-Ful­fill­ment through Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing. Which means every choice we make as indi­vid­u­als or as a soci­ety, must be ground­ed in this sim­ple ques­tion: Will this Action or Activ­i­ty bring us clos­er to uni­ver­sal human self-ful­fill­ment or move us fur­ther away from it. We make good and bad deci­sions every day, all of us do. But to sup­port our own or oth­ers greater self-ful­fill­ment is the true goal and way to Happiness.

Our found­ing as a Nation, was a vol­un­tary agree­ment or com­pact with one anoth­er. It was seen by our founders and those who fol­lowed, as the next step in the evo­lu­tion of Spir­it. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, this jour­ney of Spir­it can be seen as ever bend­ing towards the eter­nal truth embod­ied in the mys­tery and pow­er of spir­i­tu­al self-ful­fill­ment. For humans in gen­er­al, and for the USA in par­tic­u­lar, this state of hap­pi­ness is sup­port­ed and ful­filled by our freely formed rela­tion­ships with one another.

The USA rep­re­sents in the very nature of how it was estab­lished, by its found­ing and foun­da­tion­al doc­u­ments, (Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and Con­sti­tu­tion), that the essen­tial char­ac­ter of the USA would be a state found­ed not upon blood and soil, not by ref­er­ence or alle­giance to myths of empires and king­doms, and cer­tain­ly not be estab­lished as a gov­ern­ment held and shaped by hier­ar­chies of inher­it­ed pow­er. Instead, here indi­vid­u­als would freely choose to join in a com­pact and gov­ern them­selves. This “Rev­o­lu­tion in Gov­er­nance” is beau­ti­ful­ly affirmed by the idea inscribed upon the Great Seal of the USA, and this idea express­es our nation­al mot­to, when the USA declared itself to be a “Novus Ordo Seclo­rum”, which means “A New Order for the Centuries”.

The founders of this nation under­stood that what they were cre­at­ing was some­thing new, some­thing hereto­fore unfa­mil­iar because it rep­re­sent­ed a rad­i­cal break with the past, it was a rev­o­lu­tion. Here, in this nation, we would come togeth­er and freely deter­mine our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. We would sur­ren­der all title and priv­i­leges and stand as equals to one anoth­er; we would be sub­ject to no King, or Prince, or Clan or Class. Instead we agreed to come togeth­er as equals and to form a vol­un­tary asso­ci­a­tion, and we estab­lished our com­pact with one anoth­er. This sacred com­pact is sealed and pro­tect­ed by the one and only true ruler in Amer­i­ca, the Rule of Law and our Con­sti­tu­tion, (which is why the US has Sat­urn (order), in Libra (the scales of jus­tice) in our 10th house (the rul­ing author­i­ty). In the Unit­ed States, the law is King, and no one is above the law.

Embod­ied in our “Law” are the val­ues (Venus) that we have so far evolved, that form and guide our con­duct with one anoth­er per­son­al­ly. Those val­ues are made into rules (laws) which we have agreed upon, and these are held by the plan­et Jupiter (the ruler of Law), so that we know how we are expect­ed to con­duct our­selves with regards to one anoth­er. In oth­er words, we have estab­lished these laws as the crys­tal­lized form of val­ues with and between one anoth­er. The essen­tial heart of those val­ues, with Venus in Can­cer, is that we would care for one another…and behind that is the spir­i­tu­al truth that we intu­itive­ly and lov­ing­ly under­stand that our own hap­pi­ness depends upon, in fact springs from, the well-being and hap­pi­ness of our fel­low broth­ers and sisters.

But unlike some, who believe that those orig­i­nal laws, our first rules, the Con­sti­tu­tion, to be a fin­ished piece and not to be altered, most of us find that the sto­ry of human ful­fill­ment is an unfold­ing one that is far from over. And, so, we must keep improv­ing upon and adding to our val­ues and improv­ing our rules or laws.

The Found­ing Fathers cer­tain­ly knew this work was not fin­ished or done with them. They sought to go beyond what had been, yet they could not reach or agree beyond a cer­tain under­stand­ing. They strug­gled over issues and did not over­come some of their own chal­lenges, and so they left it to oth­er gen­er­a­tions to face the glar­ing injus­tices embod­ied in our first set of “rules”. How could it be otherwise?

In many ways, as the var­i­ous plan­ets align over the years with these sig­nif­i­cant indi­ca­tors of our jour­ney, we can see the rise and fall of our path as we find and make our way to forge a bet­ter union with one anoth­er, and cre­ate the con­di­tions for our “life, lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of happiness”.

In the chart of the USA, it is this con­junc­tion of Venus and Jupiter in Can­cer in our 7^th house, and the sig­nif­i­cant tran­sits to these two bod­ies (and then to the Sun and Sat­urn), that will mark sig­nif­i­cant peri­ods in this on-going sto­ry of our progress to bring into real­i­ty a more spir­i­tu­al real­iza­tion of our oth­er mot­to, e pluribus unum, “Out of Many, One”.

Sat­urn over Venus/Jupiter:

Every 7 to 8 years, Sat­urn will make a “hard” con­tact to the USA Venus, Jupiter (and then Sun and Sat­urn), and each time it is reminder that our work of form­ing a more per­fect union is far from over. But it is this par­tic­u­lar pas­sage, of Sat­urn in Capri­corn and oppo­site to the USA’s Venus, Jupiter and then Sun which hap­pens every 28–29 years or so, it is this peri­od that elic­its a rather dra­mat­ic expe­ri­ence of this ongo­ing strug­gle to make real the ide­al that is the USA.

The Sat­urn (Real­i­ty Prin­ci­ple) chal­lenge to Venus forces a reassess­ment of the val­ues that do (or do not), hold us togeth­er, just as these same val­ues will hold or not hold a fam­i­ly togeth­er in shared sen­si­bil­i­ties and love for one anoth­er, (with Venus in Can­cer, the sign of fam­i­ly). Then Sat­urn to Jupiter will equal­ly chal­lenge the larg­er sys­tems of belief that form our com­mon under­stand­ings and agree­ments as to what con­sti­tutes Real­i­ty. Jupiter rules our expe­ri­ence of Truth, (Philo­soph­ic, Sci­en­tif­ic and Reli­gious). This Sat­urn pas­sage reveals the strength or weak­ness of the inter­nal and exter­nal bonds that hold us to one anoth­er, of our shared val­ues and beliefs that guide our jour­ney to self-ful­fill­ment with and through one another.

Real­ly, every 7 to 8 years, and cer­tain­ly and more dra­mat­i­cal­ly every 29 years or so like now, we are faced with the need to con­front the gap between the ide­al and the real­i­ty in our val­ues and prin­ci­ples that form and inform our com­pact with one another.

But Venus and Jupiter hold addi­tion­al mean­ings too, and these con­tribute to oth­er effects that we also expe­ri­ence with this pas­sage of Sat­urn through Capri­corn. Venus, con­nect­ed with Tau­rus and Libra, also rules the resources of a nation, so finan­cial insti­tu­tions, bankers and farm­ers. Jupiter also rules the Nation­al Wealth, and it rules banks, the rich and the gen­er­al finan­cial life of the nation.

The USA is blessed with Venus and Jupiter con­junct one anoth­er, and these are known in Astrol­o­gy as the “less­er and greater benefics”. The USA is tru­ly blessed by “good for­tune”. But just as in a per­son­al chart, good luck is not some­thing one has, it is some­thing one makes. Venus and Jupiter brought togeth­er cre­ate good for­tune pre­cise­ly because they indi­cate a gen­er­ous, boun­ti­ful nature. It is because togeth­er they cre­ate a char­ac­ter of good will and an abun­dant spir­it of gen­eros­i­ty. The USA has always been a very gen­er­ous nation, and as long as con­tin­ues to do so, it will be reward­ed by the return of good for­tune too.

But this pas­sage of Sat­urn over this bless­ing in the chart for the USA is often marked by eco­nom­ic down­turns, reces­sions or worse. In a way, just as in an individual’s chart, the pas­sage of Sat­urn like this over Venus can make one feel less valu­able, less loved and lead to loss of val­ue inter­nal­ly, and to the break­ing of rela­tion­ships exter­nal­ly. Well, here too that will be the larg­er real­i­ty of what hap­pens to the USA.

Like­wise, the oppo­si­tion to Jupiter will also cur­tail the gen­eros­i­ty and good­will for one anoth­er and towards oth­er nations, and our rule of law will be test­ed and chal­lenged. When­ev­er Sat­urn oppos­es Jupiter for an indi­vid­ual and in a nation, they will encounter eco­nom­ic dif­fi­cul­ties, down­turns and upsets.

And, if his­to­ry is any guide, with Jupiter also indi­cat­ing the con­di­tions for the ruler of a nation, the last three pas­sages of Sat­urn in Capri­corn have been accom­pa­nied by a change of polit­i­cal for­tunes in any upcom­ing elec­tion. In all three pre­vi­ous pas­sages, the par­ty in pow­er is turned out. The Winds of Spir­it are blow­ing stronger now, and eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal change is coming.

We are remind­ed, once again by “Sat­urn the Teacher”, that our very own hap­pi­ness can only be tru­ly expe­ri­enced by affirm­ing and abid­ing in our pledge to one anoth­er as embod­ied in our found­ing doc­u­ments and prin­ci­ples. Our pledge to one anoth­er is:

That we will con­tin­u­ous­ly strive to pre­serve and improve our union with one anoth­er, and
That we lov­ing­ly ded­i­cate our lives and for­tunes to the well-being of one and all.

In no small mea­sure, we are being asked to remem­ber in this year, (and in the next), that our true good for­tune and self-ful­fill­ment rests on, depends upon each of us. “We, the peo­ple”, are the truest and great­est trea­sure in this land. The USA is great­ly enriched by our diver­si­ty of peo­ples, for it is from our com­plex webs of rela­tion­ships to one anoth­er that we forge our wealth and good fortune.

We have tak­en a sacred oath in our found­ing, “…we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes, and our sacred Honor.”

This heart­felt pledge is root­ed in a fun­da­men­tal val­ue of Spir­i­tu­al Truth, and this is the shin­ing bedrock of our New Order for the Centuries:

True hap­pi­ness for any of one of us can only be ful­ly real­ized through our con­tin­u­al­ly striv­ing for the self-ful­fill­ment of one and for all.

Yes, we are on the path where Out of many, we are One.

We, the peo­ple are here to love and care for one another,

For we are many, and we are One.