Author Archives: Bill Attride

New Moon in Virgo (September 5, 2013)

Virgo-New-Moon

The Day-Bringer dips below and there is
naught but still­ness, shad­ows falling…

You see only by those dim lit beamings,
the Star­ry fir­ma­ment so glo­ri­ous­ly revealed, there to Light your Way. Your
Medi­a­trix, known to you as the Moon, your Phas­ing Inter­locu­tor between below
and what arcs above is hid­den to you now…

She has gone to meet once more her
Shin­ning One, between that Sacred Space between you and your Star, for they
must ren­dezvous where Seeds are Planted…It is anoth­er New Moon, a Darkening
which holds in its breathe the most intense of Lights, it is your Future…a
new beginning…

A sea­son is wan­ing, and it is time to
pre­pare. The Rhythm of Life beats ever on: Start-Hold-Release, and you must Grow,
for that is your one insis­tent and abid­ing imper­a­tive. Your jour­ney is through
many forms and worlds, through many lives and spaces, but through it all it is
a Jour­ney of Spir­it, a Jour­ney of Consciousness.

To grow at this stage of your journey,
you must use your won­drous pow­ers of self-reflec­tive self-aware­ness. You turn
your pre­cious Light of Con­scious­ness back upon your­self as you seek to
Under­stand. It is this, your mar­velous fac­ul­ty of Insight­ful Aware­ness that
per­mits you to cor­rect your­self, to improve your­self and your sacred spaces by
engag­ing this Vir­go Gift of Spir­it, this renew­al of your fac­ul­ty of Critical
Self-Awareness.

You are giv­en this New Moon gift in
order to help bring about a more nuanced, grace­ful and so joy­ful inte­gra­tion of
your Inner Self and your Out­er Worlds…For this is for you, this is the place,
this is your time to Heal. You seek for the order of things, to make sense of
your­self and your world…and so you look for the peace that passes
under­stand­ing, you long for redemp­tion, you look to be made whole again.

This is the Spir­it found in the New Moon
in Vir­go, that after the Dra­mas and Dis­plays there must come this Review, a
time for intro­spec­tion, re-align­ment and pur­pose­ful re-ded­i­ca­tion, a time for
attune­ment to Sim­plic­i­ty, Grace and Beauty…It is time to restore your­self and your world
to Peace.

In the still­ness of this moment…Listen.

In the whis­per of the spirit…Rejoice.

In the pres­ence of the Light…Serve.

Mars Enters Leo (August 27, 2013)

Mars-in-Leo

The Sen­tinel of your Desires is changing
his tune…

He is the watch­er of the East, rising
now under a new Ban­ner of Heaven…

The Dance of your Plan­ets is shifting
again, and for the next sev­en weeks you will make your way through Fire, you
will set your sights a lit­tle High­er, and take your aim as you fol­low your
Heart’s Desire, now to be formed/informed, drawn forth and guid­ed by the
Inspi­ra­tion of your Leo­nine Nature…

(For although you may know as you must, and
feel as you should, to be of a very dif­fer­ent Sign as regards your true
Indi­vid­ual Nature, there is always with­in you this Greater Real­i­ty, that you
are all of these ener­gies and forms, and that some­where with­in you as in all
the worlds around you, there abides and will now awak­en this Lion part of your
nature…your Courage, your Heart).

Since mid-July your Aspi­ra­tions and
Direc­tions have been guid­ed by those Watery Ways of Can­cer, and all your Ends
and Means sought to bring you back to Source and then move you out with
Atten­tive Inten­tion from your Cen­ter, as you strove to be anchored by your
deep­er Feel­ing and extend your­self in Car­ing for one anoth­er too.

But now a new Wind of Spir­it is singing
through your soul, stir­ring your Heart and Mind to move out­ward, to demonstrate
your pur­pose­ful­ness as a Cre­ator, your inspi­ra­tion as a Leader and your
con­sid­er­a­tion as a Lover.

Hav­ing come from that sacred space at
the cen­ter of you, from that place where you felt a deep­er con­nec­tion to the
truth of your­self, you feel this call­ing now, for it is time to per­form when in
Leo. 

You are inspired by this long­ing, this neces­si­ty and oppor­tu­ni­ty to reveal
your­self to the Self and your world…You need this now, to extend and stretch your­self from
your heart­felt real­iza­tions, and through courage and in joy, you can and will bring
a greater mea­sure of authen­tic­i­ty to this won­drous play, to that great dra­ma of
your Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney, to this Cre­ation that is your Life.

Your Aims and Actions are guid­ed by one
fer­vent Aspi­ra­tion now…

You need Respect, you wish for
Appreciation…you long to be Loved.

And, as in all things, what will be is
what was giv­en, for the Law is the Law…

You will get what you give, you will
cre­ate from what you are.

Lead by Truth, Cre­ate in Authenticity…

And Love one anoth­er as you are Loved…

With all your Heart.

And know­ing this, feel­ing this, now being this…

Let your Lion Roar!

Sun Opposite Neptune (August 26, 2013)

Sun-and-Neptune2

Four Turn­ings every year…

Four Por­tals to con­nect what is to what
might be…

Four Mir­rors to bridge the worlds between
You and Your Dreams…

For it is you, the Self that is Becoming
who is…

The Dream­er, The Maker…The Imagineer. 

You are the Builder of Worlds, the maker
of Heav­ens (and these less­er realms too)…For this is the Law: It is the
Dreams that you dreamt that became the Ideas that you thought and the Feelings
that you Felt, and it was these that com­bined togeth­er to form the Actions that
you took…and so it is you who made this, this is Your Cre­ation, this is your
Now. 

It is time once again to pause and
con­sid­er, to take stock of how well what was envi­sioned by you six months ago
(and much, much fur­ther ago, of many lives and many worlds too), how well your
vision has been drawn down and brought forth into your Reality…For this is
yours, this is your life, this is of your making.

The Sun is your Avatar of your Pure
Poten­tial for Being, your Spark of the Divine, and all that you can ever become
is held with­in your­self, your dia­mond cen­ter sparkling like the morn­ing dew,
and your whole jour­ney is this won­drous dance in which you are learn­ing to
mas­ter the Ener­gies and Forms of the Uni­verse as you spin and twirl those
streams of con­scious­ness and forms, as you unfold from with­in your super­nal, heavenly
birthright.

Nep­tune is your Avatar of Imag­i­na­tion, of
your Dream­ing-Real­i­ty-Mak­ing, the Fac­ul­ty of Clear-See­ing, the Ruler of
Illu­mi­na­tion and Illu­sion too, of your Now and how it appears to you “out
there”, this Reality/Maya. For your Jour­ney of Self-Unfold­ment is a
Jour­ney of Aware­ness and Con­scious­ness, and you will pass through many stages
or lev­els as you jour­ney from unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to a self-aware
yet only semi-con­scious per­ceiv­er, to ever and ever high­er realms of inspired
aware­ness as you reach for your Human poten­tial of becom­ing a Co-Cre­ator with
Cos­mic Consciousness. 

Yet at each and every stage, at every
lev­el of aware­ness, and there are many lev­els with­in each major stage, you will
per­ceive the Real­i­ty you are in as the one true one…and it is for you, at
that time and place, as it must be so…

But the Truth is, of course, that it is a
Real­i­ty and it is a Maya too! For you can only per­ceive what you believe and
under­stand, and so what is before you is true, but there is always a Deeper,
High­er, Fin­er Truth, a Greater Real­i­ty behind the one you are in, and then
anoth­er beyond that…and so on…

And so Nep­tune shows you, inspires you
to remain true to the One Path, and you must be open, you must know that the
more you know, the more there is still to know and understand…and your only
path home, the only way to Wis­dom and Truth is by find­ing and hold­ing your­self in
that most pre­cious state…Humility.

For you are of this and yet you must
remain in awe of where you abide, to mar­vel at this won­drous Cre­ation, made by
you and your Star­ry Com­pan­ions. It is a Mystery…and as you trav­el the path,
of going forth and com­ing home, you will be pass through your Cer­tain­ties that
seem to com­fort you, but only hold you in their thrall…they will, they must
even­tu­al­ly fail you, and so lead you into your sojourn in Con­fu­sion and
Doubt…but it is this dark­ness which holds the greater light, for it leads you
in and out again, as you open up to the won­der again, you will pon­der and
dream, you will let go and grow…and so you will see it before you, the New
Vision, the Next Step as a new dimen­sion beck­ons you onwards…

And so you will learn…and accept…and
understand…

That you must fol­low the Ancient
Injunction…

That all pil­grims of Spir­it hold dear
and true…

There is but one Path, one Way,

And you will find it,

By remain­ing Open and Wondrous,

Secure in your lov­ing Humility…

You take to heart what is the only way,

To Walk On.

Mercury Enters Virgo (August 23, 2013)

Mercury-in-Virgo

Mer­cury is
sweep­ing around the “far-side” of your Star, mov­ing about as fast as
he can now (at least from your per­spec­tive here on Earth), and will overtake
the Sun tomor­row to form a Supe­ri­or Con­junc­tion (and per­haps offer up some
answer to what you have been wait­ing for).

Today, he dashes
into his own sign of Vir­go, and as he only has time to stay for two and a half
weeks, you best make ready to take advan­tage of this brief but wel­come shift in
your men­tal pathways…

Yes, it is time once
again to pause, piv­ot and recon­nect your “net­works” into a more
ground­ed, pur­pose­ful and dis­cern­ing mode of mus­ing. You are the appren­tice who
must  apply your­self to a most nec­es­sary task: That guid­ed by your Prin­ci­pled Ideals and Plans, which formed and flowed from your
Fiery Mind, you must care­ful­ly, atten­tive­ly and adept­ly shape these Archetypes
and Visions into your Reality.

For you are here
on Earth, and you must use your Arti­sanal skills to fash­ion what was merely
imag­ined, to bring your world into being a more mean­ing­ful order­ing, so that
with crit­i­cal assess­ments, through duti­ful appli­ca­tion and aligned by a sincere
will­ing­ness to be of ser­vice, you may bring about a more per­fect state of grace
and beau­ty for you and for your world.

You weave these
webs, these Ener­gies and Forms, as you apply your­self to the mak­ing of the real
from what was only imagined…

You are the Apprentice…

An Adept in the making,

From this Guild
of Earth.

You are Drawing
down,

And you are Lift­ing up.

For you are the Dreamer
and the Maker,

Fash­ion­ing your­self and your Creation,

Into a World of
Wonders,

In which you now abide.

Sun Enters Virgo (August 22, 2013)

Virgo2

The Wheel of Life Turns, and so must you…

For there is a Time for everything,

A time to Begin…a time to Hold…and a
time to Release.

The rhythm of your life moves through
Three Fun­da­men­tal Phas­es, and also through Four Fun­da­men­tal Qual­i­ties, and it
is these which in their inte­gral com­bi­na­tion form them­selves into what you know
as the Twelve Astro­log­i­cal Signs.

These Ener­gies and Forms com­bine and
cre­ate, they sweep and soar, they lift you as they inspire you, they unfold
with and through you, as you and they con­tin­ue this mar­velous jour­ney, you and
they and the count­less shin­ing ones who with the One are on this path, the Path
of the Self that is Becoming.

And know this, that in all these worlds
and through all these forms and in all those lives you are nev­er alone, for all
the while there is with­in you your one, Still and Atten­tive, who is your
aware­ness of Aware­ness, the Watch­er who watch­es and waits, in your qui­et place,
lov­ing­ly abid­ing in your cen­ter, your High­er Self, your Beloved who waits for
you to come into that per­fect place, that Holy State, your place of Grace, your
World of Beauty…Peace.

For as you grow, as you learn, as you
seek and strive for that most per­fect prize, to dis­cov­er and secure the
trea­sure beyond mea­sure, you will come to real­ize that in all these trav­els and
through all these forms, this Cir­cuitous Jour­ney will always bring you back to
that one that waits and watch­es and knows…for what you are seek­ing is already
there, wait­ing with­in you…It is you, your shin­ing splen­dor, abid­ing in your
place, your gar­den, your place of Peace.

This is the hid­den mean­ing behind this
time, the Time of Vir­go, the time of the Vir­gin. For to be Vir­ginal means to be
whole, to be com­plete with­in and through­out one­self, to be behold­en to no-thing
and to no one, to be pure­ly, truly…You. Your jour­ney is an unfold­ing, a
reveal­ing of you to your­self as you under­stand and release what is within.

So after the per­for­mance, after the
stretch­ing and strut­ting and reach­ing for the Light that is Leo, you must turn
and attend to what is need­ed now. You seek to do bet­ter, to become more
atten­tive to what is need­ed and nec­es­sary, to find ful­fill­ment in the small
things and sim­ple kindnesses…to live in Spir­it in the real world, upon this
Earth, in this Gar­den of Becom­ing, as you seek to walk the path of Truth, to
Live in Beauty…and to reach for, to be with, to be at Peace.

You will come to know and understand,
that it is not a place “out there”. Your Well-Ordered World, your Place
of Beau­ty and Peace, they are imma­nent for they abide with­in you, they are your
true nature, that abides with­in your own High­er Self, with your Divine Spark
and there­by in the One.

But in your present state you have
for­got­ten this as you have become enam­ored and glam­ored by these bod­ies and
worlds you trav­el through. You Suf­fer because you are not yet what you will be,
and so you hold onto what brings you pain, you suf­fer because you do not yet
understand…and when there has been enough, when you are ready, then you are
able let go of this less­er sense of your­self, you will then rise into the Greater
Under­stand­ing, that was always there, wait­ing, abid­ing and lov­ing­ly watching
over your journey…for you were nev­er alone, and you were always and will be
for­ev­er loved.

So, you must turn now to what is needed
and necessary…

To Under­stand these past months, filled
with your Tri­umphs and your Trials.

You must Har­vest the Mean­ings, and let
go of the rest…

For you have made all of this and
your­self, and your jour­ney is not done…

You must turn with the Sea­son, to attune
and align…

Your path is before you, your path is with­in you.

May you Walk in Beau­ty, May you Live in Beauty…

May you move clos­er to Peace.