Author Archives: Bill Attride

New Moon in Leo (August 6, 2013)

Leo-New-Moon

The Mir­ror of your Heart and Soul has
turned away…now as your Sun sets there is only Mys­tery and Dark­ness, and
you must won­der, you must wait and hold your breath…

Seek­ing an answer, you lift your head up and gaze out upon those star­ry expans­es, those spaces of Space so
illu­mined now by Luna’s month­ly absence, and you won­der as you look upon what the dark reveals…for there it is, what sur­rounds you, (and what you are made
of), is a mag­is­te­r­i­al, won­drous­ly beau­ti­ful and Infi­nite Realm of Light.

Still, you are wait­ing and await­ing what
now will come…from that last flash of dusky light until first blush of
dawn…waiting, wait­ing for the New Day, for a Renew­al, for your Faith restored.

Today the Moon receives the gift of your
Star, as the Sun kiss­es the Moon he bestows a new Mes­sage that Luna will bear…she
will wing her way to those out­er bounds beyond the Earth, wax­ing towards her
rev­e­la­tion as she makes her way once again…She will be danc­ing for you,
singing her song of Spir­it, bear­ing won­drous gifts…

Luna brings the Gift of the Spir­it, so that you might bet­ter pon­der and hold to your own jour­ney, which is
for you but one mighty task: To know your­self tru­ly, to become what you will
be…to Grow.

Twelve Lessons of Life, each inte­gral to
one anoth­er, this is the Light-Song of Spir­it, your spi­ral jour­ney through the Stars,
filled with count­less vari­a­tions of octave, tem­po and truth…All must be met
and mas­tered, for all togeth­er depend upon each to make you whole and make whole this Cre­ation too, all
sparks being self-illu­mined and unique, yet held togeth­er in One Great Song.

The Gift of Leo is offered now, the gift
of your heart, of the flame with­in. The force that holds you and all of Creation
as one, bind­ing all to One and one in all, is the same Light Divine found in
every part and par­ti­cle, in every cor­ner of this vast Uni­verse, and you know it,
most beau­ti­ful­ly and sim­ply, as Love.

This is your Burn­ing Bright, the Light
that is the Uni­verse, which sur­rounds you, bathes you yet also abides within
you too…for Love or Spir­it is not “out there”, but it is here
with­in you…for it is you, as it is the fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Sub­stance of all of
Cre­ation too.

The Gift of Leo is to remind you that
you are a Divine Being…

That you are on a won­drous jour­ney of
self-dis­cov­ery and self-becoming…

And you are here to reveal, release and
express your love…

As a Dream­ing Mak­er, an Illu­mined Creator…

Lov­ing your­self and one another
too.

Mars Square Uranus (July 31, 2013)

Uranus-and-Mars2

Free­dom
and Desire

Anoth­er ques­tion is traced across your Star­ry Spaces…

Are you hear­ken­ing to the Wind of the Spir­it, lift­ing you clos­er to your Path of
Freedom…

Or are you still more unaware (and so
ensnared) by your more defen­sive, self­ish and Self-Destruc­tive Desires?

For your Hope and Faith are found­ed upon
this Key, that you stay aligned with your True path of Growth which is found in your attentiveness
to that small, gen­tle voice of your High­er Self, and so guid­ed by this Loving
Illu­mi­na­tion you may firm­ly place your­self upon the Path of those who have gone before you…a Gold­en, Noble Path: 

Right
Think­ing, Right Action!

Mars is your Avatar of Action, serving
you always as you seek to extend and secure for your­self what­ev­er you
under­stand to be your aim or inten­tion. But that is the key to how Mars will work
in your life…Your Under­stand­ing or Lev­el of Con­scious­ness is the key element
in ascer­tain­ing what is your Moti­va­tion (and so what it is you Desire or Aspire
to)…and it is this which sets in place your Aims and Inten­tions, and from
these there unfolds those Actions which nec­es­sar­i­ly fol­low from these
Ener­gy-Forms of your Consciousness.

Uranus is your Avatar of Aware­ness, known
as the Awak­en­er, he brings to you the gift of a Freer Mind so that you might
lift your aware­ness to a high­er plane of per­cep­tion and under­stand­ing. Behind
and beyond the Log­i­cal or Rea­son­ing Mind, and what is actu­al­ly the very Source,
Sup­port and Inspi­ra­tion of your “low­er mind”, there resides what is known
as the Bud­dhi Con­scious­ness or High­er Mind (or Man­as), which is the Intuitive
or Know­ing Mind of your High­er Self. 

When­ev­er there is a shift of consciousness,
wher­ev­er great break­throughs in Col­lec­tive or Indi­vid­ual Under­stand­ing have
been (Joy­ful­ly) expe­ri­enced, they have all come through this capac­i­ty (which
resides with­in you because you are a won­drous spark of the Divine)…This Gift from your
High­er Self inspires you so that you are able to slip beyond the bound­aries of
what is expect­ed and acceptable. 

You can let go of your lim­it­ed certainties
and think “out­side the box”, beyond the par­a­digm of this present
“real­i­ty”, move beyond your old Thought-Forms, of more lim­it­ed Mind and Actions, which have cre­at­ed the dilemmas
and dead-ends of that very state of consciousness…For it is this old way of
Think­ing-Being which is the root cause of your prob­lems, and that giv­en those
shad­owed assump­tions, those obsta­cles remain unsolv­able at your low­er lev­el of understanding.

And so Lord Uranus, as the Avatar of
your High­er Mind, leans in and releas­es those Bolts of Light…and you can see
beyond your Self-Cast shad­ows, beyond the bound­aries of what is possible…to
what has been as yet only a dream…and you see it there, the New World…It is
a realm found­ed upon Freer Minds, Inspired to more Self-Ful­fill­ing Actions made
pos­si­ble by these Freer Spaces of greater Self-Real­iza­tion for you and your
companions.

And here too is part of the les­son and
wis­dom that is illus­trat­ed here for you by Uranus and Mars…for your Free­dom is not
for you, or not for you alone. Because Free­dom can nev­er be so expe­ri­enced or
even exist…Your exer­cise of greater Self-Real­iza­tion depends upon build­ing ever
bet­ter Shared Sacred Spaces where each and every Self-Unfold­ing Self can also
seek their Self-Real­iza­tion, to ful­fill them­selves as you do likewise.

Your Actions to cre­ate a greater space
of Self-Real­iza­tion can­not come from tak­ing the space of anoth­er, your Free­dom can­not be “tak­en” from
anoth­er, for this is also For­bid­den to you. Kar­ma is per­fect, and how you treat anoth­er is what will be returned to you…some day. 

The only way to ful­fill your­self is to grow
the space of Free­dom and Self-Real­iza­tion for one anoth­er, to grow togeth­er in Wis­dom and Right Action, to build and grow your own Sacred Space which can only exist and inte­gral­ly depends upon these Shared Sacred Spaces that you cre­ate with and for one anoth­er. For who is before you is anoth­er spark of the Divine, they are you and you are they…forever.

And those who have gone ahead…

Who have reached that far­ther shore,

of lib­er­a­tion and beauty.

They now turn and wait, 

They extend their hearts and hands…

For they know that Free­dom will be…

When all have reached…

That beau­ti­ful, sacred shore. 

Nir­vana, Elysium…

Free.

Mars Opposite Pluto (July 27, 2013)

Mars-and-Pluto2

Desire and Will

And the ques­tion you must ever face is
are you…

Are you Self-Masterful…do you have
Self-Control?

Mars is your Avatar of Action, serving
your Self (The Sun), as he push­es out­ward beyond what you have so far
estab­lished into spaces of greater self-real­iza­tion, as you seek to unfold your
poten­tial, to ful­fill your Aims, Inten­tions and Desires…

Plu­to is your Avatar of Will, serv­ing your
Self, as he ever works to estab­lish and main­tain the sacred space of you with­in which you abide, and he also equal­ly helps you to nav­i­gate your
inter­ac­tions with the innu­mer­able sacred spaces of those around you too…

The ques­tion that is always before you
con­cerns this inte­gral bal­ance between Self-Con­trol and Self-Asser­tion, between
pre­vent­ing anoth­er from Tres­pass­ing upon your sacred space, and your equal
require­ment to hon­or the sacred space of the every oth­er as well.

Since your nature is to grow, to expand
this expe­ri­ence of self-real­iza­tion, the ener­gies and forms of your Sacred
Space must grow too…But this growth can­not come at the expense of anoth­er, it
can­not be the vio­la­tion of their right­ful, sacred space of self-realization…just
as their efforts can­not come at the expense of your sacred domain.

This is what the Mars/Pluto opposition
is singing to you of today…that you are a pow­er­ful being, with an
ever-expand­ing range of abil­i­ties that must be matched and mod­u­lat­ed by your
Con­scious­ness. So you must con­tain your­self, restrain your­self by using your
will for Self-Con­trol and nev­er, ever seek to dom­i­nate or con­trol another…for
that is the great­est error, that is for­bid­den to you, for in this you Trespass
upon the sacred­ness of another…and Kar­ma, well Kar­ma is per­fect, and what
comes down will come around.

So if you find your­self in a
cir­cum­stance where anoth­er is attempt­ing to force you to do or not do
some­thing, or you find your­self dri­ven by ego and fear, seized with a
com­pul­sion to impose your will upon another…Whatever it may be, it must stop…for
this is a mis­use of your will or theirs…and this will not take you to what
you tru­ly desire.

The noble path that you seek, your one
True Path, is to turn most of your pow­er back upon your­self, to wield your will
so as to become even more Self-Mas­ter­ful, exer­cis­ing ever greater Self-Control
so that you become Cen­tered and Secure, so that you abide in the Love that is
with­in you…and by this effort you will let go of your need to change another,
for you know that this is not “The Way”.

The Spir­i­tu­al Way is to lead by
example…

To be an authen­tic light of Wis­dom, Love
and Self-mastery.

Where your desire has become Aspiration…

Where your will has found The Way.

To fol­low always that intu­itive whisper…

That kind­ly voice within…

To always and forevermore, 

Let Thy Will be done.

Venus Opposite Neptune (July 26, 2013)

Venus-in-Virgo-and-Neptune

Do you know what you want…

and do you know what you have?

Well, it is that time again…

You need to pause, step back and
con­sid­er what is val­ue, what is beauty…

and what is Love to you.

Venus is your Avatar of Val­ue, your
guide to what you want and the keep­er of your heart. She is shin­ing through the
win­dow of Vir­go now, and your aes­thet­ic and social sen­si­bil­i­ties are more
dis­cern­ing and exact­ing than usual…

How­ev­er, there can come a point, that
tip­ping point or moment of inflec­tion, at which your jour­ney through Vir­go can
turn from being won­der­ful­ly atten­tive, mov­ing beyond a greater clar­i­ty to a more
crit­i­cal, exact­ing and cool­er dispensation…and this, well this is often found
to be less welcome…

Whether you are look­ing in the mir­ror of
your own life, or assess­ing the world about you, your sharp­ness and judgment
can go too far, for you will find faults and fail­ings every­where, in yourself
and in this world, for both are works in progress…and so your dis­cern­ing eyes
will leave you lost in those frac­tured frag­ments of that greater mosa­ic of your
life which is still unfolding.

So it is quite won­der­ful to have this
beau­ti­ful reminder from Nep­tune, who is swing­ing through her home sign of
Pisces now…For, as in any con­tra­po­si­tion, Nep­tune is here to offer an answer
and balm to the Venus mod­u­la­tion in Vir­go now.

For as much as dis­cern­ment and
refine­ment are part of your jour­ney of val­ue, beau­ty and love, it is then even
more nec­es­sary to remem­ber and hold with the greater Love and Grace that arise
in the One­ness of all of Life, that all are one in Spir­it, all are of the One…who is Love.

Com­pas­sion, empa­thy and your Unconditional
Love forge your accep­tance of imper­fec­tion and equal­ly shine a light on your path­way towards Perfection…Neptune in Pisces reminds you of this and forms the very means by which you become
this Self-Unfold­ing wonder…For your Self-Becom­ing is premised upon you being this unique work in
progress, as you jour­ney from the less­er to the greater in life after life after life…

Love your­self and one another…

With Dis­cern­ment…

And Com­pas­sion too.

For you are not yet what you will become…

But only Love will take you there.

Full Moon in Aquarius (July 22, 2013)

Aquarius-Moon

Luna’s has reached her out­er bounds, she
is out there shin­ing for you beyond Earth­’s Ellip­ti­cal Path, form­ing what is always
a most need­ed and nec­es­sary coun­ter­point to her com­pan­ion, your Star. For this
is Luna’s role, to be the medi­a­tor between you and the pow­er­ful ener­gies which
sweep around and through you, she is there to nur­ture, to care and provide…

Today you have entered into a new realm,
it is the Sun’s time in Leo, and so Luna’s role at this Full Moon, as always,
is to be a bal­ance of that for you, to offer the nec­es­sary balm and guid­ance so
that you might find your way and stay upon the Noble Mid­dle Path of the
Inte­gral Life…

For with the Sun in Leo, you have your Burning
Bright desire, to have that sig­nal recog­ni­tion, to be what you are, to be authentic
and true…But you may strive over­much, to so be your­self that you for­get that your
life and your mean­ings are not for you alone.

For although you are a unique experience
and expres­sion of sen­si­bil­i­ties and gifts, these are found­ed and formed by more
than just you, they are shared, shaped and bound­ed by those with whom you
journey…your stal­wart stew­ards, your friends and com­pan­ions whose dreams are
yours and yours is theirs too.

Your decla­ma­tions and dis­plays, your
brav­ery and courage, can only find ful­fill­ment in this Greater Life, a life that
you dream and share with those who accom­pa­ny you…Luna
reminds you now, that as you strive to be even more what you can be…she reminds
you what this is tru­ly for, that you are here to Dare and Dream for one another… 

You ful­fill yourself…

and ful­fill one another.

For your Dreams are made,

of and by one another.