Tran­script of Radio Show: 2020 to 2021 — A look back and a look ahead

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

I thought it would be help­ful as 2020 winds down, to con­sid­er the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of this year and what lies ahead for 2021. There are always two major influ­ences to con­sid­er in Mun­dane or World­ly Astrol­o­gy, the gen­er­al effects that hold for one and all on Earth which are indi­cat­ed by the plan­e­tary align­ments with one anoth­er in the heav­ens, what we call tran­sits to tran­sits. And sec­ond­ly, we con­sid­er the plan­e­tary tran­sits to the plan­ets of a Natal chart that is of interest.

Tran­sit to Tran­sit 2020, Jupiter Con­junct Pluto
The most con­se­quen­tial Tran­sit to Tran­sit for 2020 was the align­ment (Con­junc­tion) of Jupiter with Plu­to in Capri­corn. Rough­ly every 12 years or so, Jupiter will “catch up” to the posi­tion of Plu­to and form what is like a New Moon in their cycle of rela­tion­ship. Jupiter holds the mean­ings and truths for us and indi­cates the poten­tial for growth and expan­sion. Plu­to, being the plan­et of Will and Sacred Space, holds for me as the Avatar of the fun­da­men­tal dri­ving force for Cre­ation, Alche­my. Alche­my is the pow­er of com­bi­na­tions, whether atoms with atoms, mol­e­cules with mol­e­cules, organ­isms with organ­isms, stars with stars. It is from these com­bi­na­tions, trans­for­ma­tion, deaths, and rebirths, of evo­lu­tions and muta­tions, it is by this that the whole of Cre­ation and every­thing and every­one in it becomes the many who form the One. At the high­est, I con­sid­er Plu­to to be the Avatar of the Will of God.

The meet­ing of Jupiter with Plu­to indi­cat­ed that this year would sig­nal an end­ing (and a begin­ning) for us in the meanings/truths/science/beliefs about how we grow, how we die, and how we are to be reborn. Cer­tain­ly, from the most basic con­di­tions of our phys­i­cal lives, of how we live for our­selves and with one anoth­er, 2020 was cer­tain­ly a trans­for­ma­tion­al year. I think we can all agree that there is no going back to our old lives and ways of liv­ing, and we are all try­ing to fig­ure out what will be our “new normal”.

Tran­sit to Tran­sit 2021, Sat­urn Square Uranus
For 2021, the most sig­nif­i­cant tran­sit to tran­sit aspect will be Sat­urn Squar­ing Uranus. Their cycle of rela­tion­ship, from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion is 45 years, and in 2021 we are at their Wan­ing Square. There are four crit­i­cal moments in any plan­e­tary cycle pair­ing: Con­junc­tion, Wax­ing Square, Oppo­si­tion, and Wan­ing Square and then back to their next Conjunction.

The cur­rent cycle of Saturn/Uranus began in 1988; they reached their wax­ing square in 1999–2000, and their oppo­si­tion in 2008 to 2010, and now for 2021 their wan­ing square. It is quite strik­ing to me, that their pre­vi­ous wan­ing squares, (as well as oth­er crit­i­cal cycle turn­ings), came dur­ing crit­i­cal shifts for the world and the USA. Those pre­vi­ous moments like our own moment of the wan­ing square were 1975–77 and 1930–31. Also, of note are the pre­vi­ous con­junc­tions or seed-moments which were, in addi­tion to ours of 1988, those of 1942 and 1897. We would want to pay spe­cial atten­tion to their peri­ods of cli­max or rev­e­la­tion (by oppo­si­tion) which were in 1918–20, 1965–67, and for our peri­od 2008-10. What we need to under­stand or ask our­selves is this, “what is the mes­sage or mean­ing of their cycle of rela­tion­ship, and what does this mean for us in 2021?”

Sat­urn and Uranus
Sat­urn is the Avatar of Real­i­ty, of Insti­tu­tions and Tra­di­tions; it rules the sta­tus quo, the “tried and true”, what has been relied upon and proven to be nec­es­sary or use­ful. Uranus is the Avatar of Inven­tion, it rules New Ideas and Inde­pen­dence; it works by stim­u­lat­ing Orig­i­nal­i­ty and Con­trari­ness, by chal­leng­ing the old with some new con­cep­tu­al frame­work, idea, or tech­nique. In a way, their cycle of rela­tion­ship can be under­stood as the dynam­ic inter­play of Order and Free­dom, of Tra­di­tion ver­sus Inno­va­tion, and when pushed to extremes, of being Reac­tionary ver­sus Rev­o­lu­tion­ary. They are and should be under­stood like most plan­e­tary pairs as nec­es­sary to one anoth­er, for they each hold an aspect of truth that only becomes pos­si­ble and ful­filled by com­bi­na­tion with the other.

From Saturn’s “point of view”, what has worked is what one should hold to, it has proven to be the best or the only way to func­tion in the real world. The coun­ter­point would be, just because it has worked, that does not mean it will con­tin­ue to work, or that it could not be improved. Uranus would add, and you must remem­ber this, what­ev­er old tech­nique, prac­tice or tra­di­tion you fol­low, at some point it was an inno­va­tion, it was a dis­cov­ery or real­iza­tion that became after­wards a part of the tradition.

But equal­ly, for Uranus’ part, just because you have found some new inno­v­a­tive way of being, or way of accom­plish­ing some task or meet­ing your needs, that does not mean it is bet­ter than the old way. Many times, we will attempt a new approach or tech­nique and lat­er find the wis­dom of the old way is, well, sim­ply better.
What we must do, what we are doing con­stant­ly, is to hold the old and the new togeth­er, the tra­di­tion with the inno­va­tion, to inte­grate Sat­urn and Uranus; we must see the wis­dom of hold­ing and work­ing them togeth­er always. What hap­pens at these crit­i­cal moments in their cycle is that this cre­ative ten­sion between the old way and the new way reach­es a turn­ing point for us.

2021, The Wan­ing Square
2021 should hold some of the same core mean­ings as the pre­vi­ous wan­ing squares, which were 1975–77 and 1930–31. But we need to under­stand the dif­fer­ence between wax­ing and wan­ing squares. Dur­ing the wax­ing square, which in our cycle was 1999–2000, we are in a time where we make a defin­i­tive, con­crete choice between one way or anoth­er, we are faced with the chal­lenge to cleave to one way and cut away the oth­er, and by this we build upon the new begin­ning (which was in 1988 for this cycle). Now at the wan­ing square, we are being asked to “let go and grow”, to real­ize that giv­en the result of 2008–2010 when we were at the oppo­si­tion, we must now see the whole cycle from the seed of 1988, to the square 1999–20 to that cli­max or out­come in 2008-10 and face the truth now about what we have learned.

What is pos­si­ble (but by no means guar­an­teed) is that at the wan­ing square we need to find a way to tran­scend the old polar­i­ties, to let go of the old fram­ing of the chal­lenges we face and the solu­tions we wield. Cer­tain­ly, if we look to a pre­vi­ous wan­ing square of 1930–31, we can see that the cri­sis of the Great Depres­sion led to the attempts to fix a bro­ken eco­nom­ic order by mas­sive gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion and guid­ance, it seemed we rose to the challenge.

But In 1975–77 at the next wan­ing square, when we were faced with the after­ef­fects of the Viet­nam War, and the unfund­ed man­dates of the Great Soci­ety, the result­ing stag­na­tion of growth and infla­tion of prices, (called at the time Stagfla­tion), com­bined with the scan­dals of Water­gate, well it would seem as if we did not rise to the chal­lenge as well then. Yes, there were some major reforms imple­ment­ed with regards to cam­paign financ­ing and gov­ern­ment account­abil­i­ty. But the eco­nom­ic reforms need­ed to cor­rect the grow­ing imbal­ances from the 1960’s and ear­ly 1970’s were not imple­ment­ed. I would argue that the cri­sis of the 30’s was bet­ter met than the cri­sis of the 70’s.

We should expect our chal­lenge and cri­sis, for all squares present as some form of cri­sis, to be a moment of dan­ger but equal­ly of oppor­tu­ni­ty. The dan­ger usu­al­ly comes from fail­ing to rise to the chal­lenge that we face, and to hold to fear and retreat into the old ways and prac­tices. If we instead see this as an oppor­tu­ni­ty, and that by refram­ing our ques­tions we may find bet­ter solu­tions. Then we can rise above our cul­tur­al, polit­i­cal, and eco­nom­ic divi­sions and find our turn­ing point to be more like the New Deal of the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Tran­sit to USA 2020, Plu­to Oppo­site Mercury
The major tran­sit in the chart of the USA for 2020 was Plu­to oppo­site Mer­cury, and I have writ­ten and spo­ken exten­sive­ly about this. Here is some of what I said and wrote about this year:

The USA Plu­to is oppo­site to Mer­cury, and Mer­cury rules a nation’s means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, like a being’s ner­vous sys­tem. It rules the thought-form pat­terns and the devel­op­ment (or lack) of intel­li­gence. Each time Plu­to has aligned with Mer­cury and then with itself in his­to­ry, the USA has con­front­ed the nature of how we val­ue one anoth­er. The pre­vi­ous times in the late 1840s and into the 1850s wit­nessed the strug­gle over new states being allowed to enter as slave or free states; the 1930s with FDR and “The New Deal” in the attempt to pro­vide some greater sup­port to the gen­er­al wel­fare after the Great Depres­sion; and the 1980s and the Rea­gan rev­o­lu­tion, which in the suc­ceed­ing 40 years since then, has led to the most unequal dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth in the USA since the 1920s, a fac­tor which had led to the Great Depression.

Now we are here in 2020, with Plu­to oppo­site Mer­cury and Plu­to return­ing to its Natal posi­tion too. The plan­ets do not deter­mine what will hap­pen. We are the cre­ators and instru­ments of Action and Will, and the con­tent of what we made and the pain and joy we face is formed by us not the plan­ets. They time the unfold­ment of pat­terns, they guide our steps with mean­ings and under­ly­ing causal­i­ty, but we choose well or poorly.

The choic­es made in the 1980s and beyond, with­in the eco­nom­ic struc­tures them­selves and with­in the legal and tax struc­tures of gov­ern­ment, led to the great divide we face between one anoth­er now. For exam­ple, from 1980 to 2020 the gross domes­tic prod­uct of the USA rose by 80% in 40 years, it almost dou­bled. But the way that growth was dis­trib­uted was far less equal than the pre­vi­ous peri­od from 1940 to 1980. In the last 40 years, the bot­tom 20% of the USA pop­u­la­tion gain 20% more wealth; the mid­dle 40% gain 50% more wealth; but the top .01% gained 420% more in their wealth.

In terms of wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion, the USA is one of the worst of all the so-called “advanced soci­eties” and this inequal­i­ty is even greater when dis­trib­uted and defined by race and eth­nic­i­ty. This is the prin­ci­ple rea­son why the USA has appalling life expectan­cies and health out­comes com­pared to much of the world.

Once again, here in 2020, we are being asked to look at how we treat the val­ue of our nation, of how we care for the true wealth of the land, which is our peo­ple.

Now of course all that remains true to this day (and for all our days to come), but what you want to know is what is ahead for 2021.

Tran­sit to USA 2021, Nep­tune Oppo­site Nep­tune, Nep­tune Square Mars
In some way, what is com­ing into focus in 2021 in the USA chart has been build­ing up ever since Nep­tune entered its own sign of Pisces in 2010. One of the most dis­tinc­tive fea­tures in the chart of the USA is Nep­tune placed high in the 9^th house with the plan­et Mars 90 degrees away, squar­ing it from the 7^th house. What does this indicate?

The plan­et Nep­tune rules the dreams and visions of an enti­ty; Mars rules its desires and actions. The USA car­ries an ener­gy-form that is char­ac­ter­ized by hold­ing to a belief or faith (Nep­tune) that it is on a spe­cial mis­sion, formed into a dream of a more per­fect order (Nep­tune in Vir­go), that is guid­ed by high­er truths (Nep­tune in the 9^th house). This influ­ence shapes the USA’s desires/actions (Mars) as being guid­ed by this vision, that what is “right action” for Amer­i­ca is right Universally.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, this belief in our excep­tion­al nature has led us to impose our truths (or half-truths) around the world, with the most recent dis­as­trous results revealed in the dis­as­trous inter­ven­tions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and oth­er nations by our “war against ter­ror”. We can and should lead by exam­ple, but we lose and destroy our very mes­sage, of “free self-deter­mi­na­tion” as a fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple, when we seek to impose it by force of arms. This is a les­son we still face and have yet to mas­ter. The USA must learn to lead with deep­er wis­dom and greater humility.

In 2021, Nep­tune is align­ing with our Nep­tune and Mars once again. If we look at the his­tor­i­cal record of pre­vi­ous align­ments, we can gain some insight into our own moment now.

Neptune’s Turn­ing Points
Neptune’s orbit is about 163 years, and it will align with the USA Nep­tune and Mars every 40 years or so. The dates are: 1816–17, 1857–58, 1897–98, 1938–39, 1980–81, and now 2021–22. What we need to con­sid­er is the type of aspect being formed by Nep­tune to Nep­tune, and Nep­tune to Mars. The most sig­nif­i­cant align­ments would be the oppo­si­tion of Nep­tune to itself, and its return to its natal posi­tion. The first and only return to its natal posi­tion was 1938–39; and the two oppo­si­tions in USA his­to­ry were 1857–58 and the upcom­ing oppo­si­tion of 2021–22.

Astrologers con­sid­er any plan­e­tary return like a “New Moon”, a seed­ing of a new vari­a­tion of the ener­gy-form that Nep­tune holds in this case. That would mean that a new seed was plant­ed dur­ing the pres­i­den­cy of FDR, with his efforts to restore the USA econ­o­my after the Great Depres­sion, while he equal­ly led the USA to pre­pare for the exis­ten­tial con­fronta­tion with the rise of Fas­cism in Europe and Asia in World War II.

Oppo­si­tion of 1857–1858
The oppo­si­tion should be under­stood as the rev­e­la­tion and out­come of that vari­a­tion of expres­sion from the first or natal imprint­ing and then any suc­ceed­ing returns. The seed plant­ed in 1776 of Neptune’s “Dream of Amer­i­ca” became ful­ly revealed in the first oppo­si­tion (like a Full Moon) of 1857–58. I have writ­ten and spo­ken about this his­toric peri­od sev­er­al times, with ref­er­ence to this Nep­tune align­ment in the USA chart.

From Neptune’s embod­i­ment of the dream of Amer­i­ca in 1776, “That all men are cre­at­ed equal…”, a polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic order was estab­lished by a very small num­ber of white, prop­er­ty-own­ing men. For many of those men, they had secured their wealth through own­ing oth­er humans as prop­er­ty. This polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic order evolved into two ways of life, divid­ing into two very dif­fer­ent soci­eties and cul­tures which came to a cli­mat­ic con­fronta­tion dur­ing the 1850’s over this ques­tion: Would the USA become a ful­ly “free labor coun­try” or a ful­ly “slave labor country”?

1857–1858
The years pri­or to 1857–58 wit­nessed the grow­ing pow­er of the slave­hold­ing states in the Con­gress and over the courts. The cli­max of their pow­er was enshrined dur­ing 1857 by the Dred Scott deci­sion in the Supreme Court, in which it deter­mined that the law of the land would be that, “slaves and descen­dants of slaves were nev­er nor would they ever be cit­i­zens, and that they would remain the per­ma­nent prop­er­ty of their mas­ters”. The con­flict was best sum­ma­rized in 1858 in the famous Lincoln/Douglas debates. Lin­coln spoke of this divi­sion of humans from one anoth­er in the coun­try, between the slave states and the free states, in which he declared, “that a house divid­ed from itself can­not stand”. He pro­posed that this divi­sion would be resolved one way or anoth­er, and that the US would either become a nation where in every state all humans would be free and equal or in every state there would be slav­ery and inequality.

Nep­tune Return 1938–1939, the Dream restated
In 2021 with the oppo­si­tion of Nep­tune, just like it was in 1857–58 when the nation faced the final irrec­on­cil­able divi­sions and con­flicts before the Civ­il War, we are expe­ri­enc­ing the end result from the restate­ment of the Dream of Amer­i­ca by FDR in the 1930’s. His New Deal was sup­posed to be a Fair Deal for all Amer­i­cans, and equal­ly his dec­la­ra­tion for all humankind of the Four Free­doms for the world.

Yes, it was after FDR and for many years there­after, that the gen­er­al growth in the pros­per­i­ty of the Unit­ed States was more fair­ly shared by the entire pop­u­la­tion, from the 1940’s into the 1970’s. It cer­tain­ly was not per­fect for all, but there was a gen­er­al feel­ing that there was more equi­ty, more bal­ance and fair­ness in how we share in the val­ues we cre­ate; and, because of this most par­ents were sure that their chil­dren would have a bet­ter life than they had had. The Amer­i­can Dream of self-deter­mi­na­tion and self-ful­fill­ment was made pos­si­ble and became more real for many.

But then it went all wrong, why? What changed? What hap­pened to the Dream of America?

2021, Our Division
Though it would seem to many that we are divid­ed by space, between the coasts and the heart­land, between the urban and rur­al pop­u­la­tions, I do not believe this fair­ly or accu­rate­ly cap­tures what is at the root of our divi­sions between one anoth­er. Just as our found­ing dichoto­my of Slave and Free states led to the Civ­il War, our divide is between two dif­fer­ing ver­sions of how we under­stand our val­ue to one anoth­er, and how we share in our wealth. Today, we have a coun­try that is divid­ed into the very wealthy few, and then a shrink­ing upper and mid­dle class, and final­ly the rest who are just strug­gling to survive.

Nep­tune Square, 1980–1981
It is impor­tant to note when the USA changed. I would point to the wax­ing square of Nep­tune, the turn­ing point between 1938 and 2021, which was in 1980–81. And that is exact­ly when the growth of wealth for the peo­ple of the USA became divid­ed and unfair. The dis­tri­b­u­tion of the growth of wealth from 1940 to 1980 is stark­ly dif­fer­ent than that from 1980 to 2020; real­ly, it is of two quite dif­fer­ent coun­tries. The rea­son is that choic­es were made to turn away from fair­ness for the many, and to pro­mote ram­pant self-inter­est­ed beliefs and actions that led to self­ish­ness, greed, and great wealth for the few.

Here is an inter­est­ing math­e­mat­i­cal sce­nario: if you were to equal­ly divide the USA nation­al income and wealth, each house­hold in the USA would earn about $140,000 a year and have a net worth of almost $1 mil­lion! Think about that; that is how unequal our sys­tem has become. And it is that gross imbal­ance which has formed and solid­i­fied our polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al divides.

We are con­front­ed with a coun­try that is deeply divid­ed once again, that is fun­da­men­tal­ly shaped by a vari­a­tion of the same ques­tions put before us in the 1850’s: Who is a cit­i­zen of this coun­try; are we tru­ly equal to one anoth­er; do we have an equal voice and oppor­tu­ni­ty to deter­mine our future in a ful­ly func­tion­ing democ­ra­cy or not?

Democ­ra­cy or not
The answer is of course is we do not have a tru­ly func­tion­ing democ­ra­cy. That is not pos­si­ble when the wealth and pow­er in the USA is in the hands of so few indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies. The USA is an Oli­garchy, where­in great wealth bestows polit­i­cal con­trol; it is a polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic sys­tem ruled by Plu­to­crats. From a small group of white men of prop­er­ty in 1776, the USA in over 200 years has arrived at a place where the rel­a­tive­ly few con­trol much of the wealth that all Amer­i­cans create.

We are divid­ed because the Amer­i­can Dream of self-deter­mi­na­tion and self-ful­fill­ment is increas­ing­ly unreach­able for more and more Amer­i­cans. Many par­ents today know that they have less than their par­ents, and they cer­tain­ly fear that their chil­dren will have even less.

Love, the Path to Healing
To tru­ly heal this divide in the USA, we must address the fun­da­men­tal divide between one anoth­er. At its root, just as it was in the begin­ning of the Dream of Amer­i­ca, we need to under­stand the essen­tial val­ue of one anoth­er in each oth­er, we need to under­stand how we real­ly cre­ate value.

The val­ue of any human enter­prise is made by the inher­ent val­ue of each human which is brought to life and made man­i­fest by our com­bi­na­tions with one anoth­er; it is by our col­lab­o­ra­tions and joint ven­tures, by our com­mu­ni­ties, fel­low­ships and friend­ships, that we real­ize our val­ue to one anoth­er and for another.

As I like to say, we would be noth­ing (for the most part) with­out one anoth­er. From Father/Mother, to Grandfather/Grandmother, to Sis­ters and Broth­ers, Friends, Col­leagues and Loved Ones, we are all made by one anoth­er and our true val­ue is com­plete­ly inter­twined, inter­de­pen­dent and bound to one another.

Our True Value
We owe our well-being, we have our val­ue, from what we have made with one anoth­er and shared with one anoth­er. We are, as in every­thing in this Uni­verse, made by and become what we are through the mys­tery of Alche­my; we are what we are through com­bin­ing with one anoth­er in our sacred spaces of Union. We are indi­vis­i­ble from one anoth­er, and we must treat one anoth­er with love, respect, and honor.

We do not have a prob­lem in cre­at­ing val­ue; we have a very real prob­lem in shar­ing with one another.

We need to acknowl­edge this basic spir­i­tu­al truth, that all our val­ues are made by each oth­er for one another.

If we are to meet our chal­lenges, if we are to rise above the exis­ten­tial threat of Cli­mate Change (which we cre­at­ed in our igno­rance), if we are to cre­ate a fair, just and sus­tain­able soci­ety, then we must make a sacred com­mit­ment to ensure that each and every per­son has an oppor­tu­ni­ty to ful­fill their potential.

We must turn to one anoth­er, as we did over 200 years ago, and agree that “we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes and our Sacred Honor”.

This is the promise we made; this is the promise we must fulfill.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – 2020 to 2021 — A look back and a look ahead (Decem­ber 6, 2020)

In my twen­ty-fourth show of 2020, we will look back at the major themes of 2020 and look ahead to the major influ­ences of 2021. We will look at the gen­er­al indi­ca­tions for 2020–21, and the spe­cif­ic tran­sits in the chart of the USA.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic 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 birth­place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Decem­ber 6^th @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/12/06/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2020-to-2021-december‑6–2020

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 Decem­ber 6^th @ 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

I am very hap­py to share with you my episode on Jack­ie Tan­til­lo’s Pod­cast, “Should have lis­tened to my Moth­er”. I was a guest on her lat­est show and we talked about my moth­er, and how ahead of her time and what a spe­cial per­son she was. As I like to say, we are made of one anoth­er, infused by all the expe­ri­ences, thoughts, feel­ings and spir­it of those with whom we jour­ney. Of all those spe­cial mak­ers of us, our moth­ers are among the most mean­ing­ful and mag­i­cal. Thank you mom!
Here is the link to the episode: https://shltmm.simplecast.com/episodes/so-different-and-ahead-of-her-time-shltmm-47

TRUTH
Scor­pio to Sagit­tar­ius; Self-Tran­scen­dence to Wisdom

It is in the realm of Scor­pio that you move beyond the Illu­sion of Sep­a­ra­tion and into the Real­i­ty of One­ness; you expe­ri­ence the essen­tial inter­con­nect­ed­ness of all humans with one anoth­er, and tru­ly with all life-forms. You move beyond your more lim­it­ed notions of self towards a space of self-tran­scen­dence and illu­mi­na­tion. It is this gift of Union and Rebirth that forms your gate­way to the Greater Understanding.

The Alchem­i­cal expe­ri­ences held by Scor­pio are the foun­da­tion for the entire­ty of Cre­ation, which is the Jour­ney of Spir­it formed by the count­less sparks of the Divine who make up the One; Cre­ation is the “Self-Becom­ing Spir­it”, formed by the sparks of the Divine unfolding/evolving by Com­bi­na­tions and Trans­for­ma­tions, by Unions and Sep­a­ra­tions, by Births and Deaths and Rebirths.

Scor­pio holds the keys to the mys­ter­ies of the Uni­verse and equal­ly of your­self. But often­times these encoun­ters in Alche­my, these “high­est of highs, and the low­est of lows”, will leave you in a place with no words, no con­cepts, no way to under­stand con­scious­ly what you have expe­ri­enced or wit­nessed, at least for some time. You must wait, at the cross­ing point between the dark­ness and the light, for Under­stand­ing; you must pause at the thresh­old of Truth for the next Wind of the Spirit.

This is the Gift of Sagit­tar­ius, and wher­ev­er it is found in your chart, and at this time every year, you are remind­ed once again that you are on a jour­ney to a Greater Under­stand­ing. You are part of a great com­pa­ny of souls who are on a path of Awak­en­ing; begin­ning long ago as unself-aware sparks of the Divine, your des­tiny is to become self-aware, ful­ly con­scious Co-cre­ators of Creation.

Here in Sagit­tar­ius you enter the realm of the Wis­dom-Keep­ers, the Tem­ples of Truth, and the Watch­ers of the Eter­nal Flame. You seek to know the Truth “out there”; but know this, that very same truth is woven through your entire being. How could it be oth­er­wise? What equal­ly forms you is also the Noume­na of the One who is the Uni­verse, “I am That I am”. Truth is omnipresent, it is Shin­ing through every­where, in every mote and speck, in every plan­et, star and Galaxy. The Ancient Ones, The Wise Ones under­stood this truth: “As Above, So Below”.

How can you come to know the Truth?

Look With­in. Lis­ten to your heart; there is with­in you a source of Inher­ent Wis­dom; it is to be found in your Gen­tle, Intu­itive and Uncon­di­tion­al­ly Lov­ing Self. If you lis­ten to your high­er self, you will not stray far from the gold­en rule, “Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”.

Look With­out. Lis­ten to one anoth­er; you are made by one anoth­er, as your under­stand­ing is formed by all the expe­ri­ences you share with one anoth­er, in ages past down to this very day. We humans are Sto­ry­tellers; we depend upon one anoth­er to make one anoth­er, and we do this by shar­ing our impres­sions, expe­ri­ences, dis­cov­er­ies. We divine what is truer from the less true, by com­par­ing, con­trast­ing, argu­ing, and laugh­ing with one anoth­er. If you lis­ten to one anoth­er, you will stay on the One True Path of Light, “Love One Another”.

Look Around. We live in a Cre­ation that is formed by the One, and it is Hier­ar­chi­cal­ly arranged in and gov­erned by Spir­i­tu­al, Men­tal, Emo­tion­al and Phys­i­cal Laws. Much has been dis­cerned and dis­cov­ered before your time, and we are the heirs to a mighty for­tune, a ver­i­ta­ble Tem­ple of Truth. There are sev­er­al paths you may fol­low or com­bine to share in this wealth that is Wis­dom. You will find it in the Holy Teach­ings held in the heart of every Reli­gion; in the Meta­phys­i­cal and Philo­soph­i­cal Truths of the Wise Ones; in the Halls of Sci­ence where the Phys­i­cal Laws of this Uni­verse are enu­mer­at­ed; and also in the Arts, it is in Lit­er­a­ture, Music, Dance, Sculp­ture, Paint­ing, and so much more; there are so many sto­ries we have shared, so many gems of wis­dom and truths to behold for you. Trea­sure these Tem­ples of Spir­i­tu­al Truth and Wis­dom for they are the hard-won gifts from your ancestors.

The Way. There is no one path to fol­low, but all these paths, inward, out­ward, upward, they all lead to the Ever­last­ing Light of the One. Step by step, Truth by Truth, the path you fol­low is forged by find­ing this Eter­nal Light with­in your­self and equal­ly shin­ing around you in Nature and in one anoth­er too. It is by this, it is by Self-Tran­scen­dence, of reach­ing beyond one­self to one anoth­er and to the Greater Under­stand­ing, it is by this that you move steadi­ly for­ward in Love and with Humil­i­ty to Wis­dom and Peace. You are on a path with the many, the lumi­nous ones of the One.

So, come togeth­er with one anoth­er now, and let us give thanks. Tell your sto­ries, sing your songs, and dance your dances. This is what you are made for; this is what you are made of. This is how we were; this is who we are; this is the way we will be ones of the One.

This is the Gift of Sagit­tar­ius, the Wis­dom of the Ages.

And may the Light of Truth, Love and Under­stand­ing be with you all.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The Great Muta­tion — Sat­urn and Jupiter

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

In my last three shows I spoke about the out­er­most plan­ets, Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus, which I like to call the Tri­ad of Spir­it. They are the Avatars, for us here on Earth, for the upper­most prin­ci­ples of the Divine. In order they rep­re­sent the Will of God, The Love of God, and the Mind of God. They hold for us the truth about the path to our spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment, where­in we strive to devel­op ever more Cen­tered Wills, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Freer Minds.

I exam­ined their role in their inter­sect­ing cycles and inter­de­pen­dent influ­ences for our cur­rent peri­od and com­pared that to sim­i­lar moments in his­to­ry. For today, I will con­tin­ue this expla­na­tion of mun­dane plan­e­tary influ­ences by exam­in­ing the cycle of rela­tion­ship of the next two plan­ets (mov­ing clos­er to Earth), Sat­urn and Jupiter.

Sat­urn and Jupiter
Sat­urn is the Avatar of Real­i­ty and is gen­er­al­ly known as the plan­et of lim­i­ta­tion and cau­tion. In Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy, Sat­urn is the ruler of Insti­tu­tions (fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty, busi­ness, and gov­ern­ment). It rules Civ­il Soci­ety, Law Enforce­ment, Chief Exec­u­tives, Cor­po­ra­tions, Real Estate, and Pub­lic Build­ings. Sat­urn is the plan­et of Realism.

Jupiter is the Avatar of Truth, and as Saturn’s coun­ter­part it is gen­er­al­ly known as the plan­et of expan­sion and opti­mism. In Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy, Jupiter rules the realms of Truth and Wis­dom, (Meta­phys­i­cal, Reli­gious, Philo­soph­i­cal and Sci­en­tif­ic); it rules the Legal Sys­tem, Church­es, Uni­ver­si­ties, Pub­lish­ing. Jupiter is the plan­et of Idealism.

Jupiter pro­vides the mean­ings to Saturn’s real­i­ty struc­tures; Sat­urn pro­vides the vehi­cles for the real­iza­tion of Jupiter’s Truths. They are always held togeth­er; like all plan­e­tary pairs, they mod­u­late and shape one anoth­er, and we can see this dynam­ic inter­play in their cycle of rela­tion­ship with one another.

The orbit of Sat­urn is about 29 years, spend­ing about two and one-half years in a sign. The orbit of Jupiter is about 12 years, spend­ing about one year in a sign. Their syn­od­ic peri­od, mov­ing from one Jupiter con­junc­tion with Sat­urn to the next is about 20 years. Since they rule two oppo­site prin­ci­ples, “Growth” ver­sus “Lim­i­ta­tion”, these con­junc­tions every 20 years have been care­ful­ly not­ed by Mun­dane Astrology.

Jupiter/Saturn Con­junc­tions
What we find is that at each Con­junc­tion there is some change, often a rever­sal of trends from the pre­vi­ous 20-year peri­od in the cul­ture, econ­o­my and polit­i­cal nature of a com­mu­ni­ty or cul­ture. What hap­pens is that the Jupiter force expands along a cer­tain path­way of mean­ing until it encoun­ters the hard lim­i­ta­tions of Sat­urn real­i­ties. Astrologers call this end­ing and begin­ning of their cycle at the con­junc­tion a Mutation.

After three con­junc­tions or 60 years, their posi­tion will be rough­ly 9 degrees fur­ther along in that sign. That means in 40 con­junc­tions, (40 x 9 equal­ing 360 degrees), they com­plete a cycle through the Zodi­ac. Those 40 con­junc­tions x 20 years adds up to 800 years. What we observe, is that for rough­ly 200 years their align­ments will occur in the same ele­ment (Fire, Earth, Air or Water), and we call these series of con­junc­tions in the same ele­ment the Less­er Muta­tions. But every 200 years or so their con­junc­tion will move into the next ele­ment for the next 200 years, and Astrologers call that a Great Muta­tion. That is what is hap­pen­ing this Decem­ber 2020.

The last time Jupiter and Sat­urn shift­ed like this was 1840, when they moved from the ele­ment of Fire to Earth. This time they will begin their 200-year cycle in Air start­ing with Aquar­ius. (There are those who say that this is one more indi­ca­tor that we are mov­ing into the oft men­tioned “Age of Aquar­ius”, and there are oth­er cycles and signs that point to this too).

Look­ing to the USA, we can observe the his­to­ry of their Earth Con­junc­tions since 1840, and it can help us under­stand and delin­eate the char­ac­ter and mean­ing of each 20-year peri­od. They reveal a pat­tern of unfold­ing ener­gy-forms that bring us to the great turn­ing point we are now approach­ing. We would expect that through­out this 200-year Earthy peri­od the root char­ac­ter of these Jupiter-Sat­urn seeds would be dom­i­nat­ed by con­sid­er­a­tions of the phys­i­cal world, on mat­ters of wealth and pro­duc­tion, and social­ly and spir­i­tu­al­ly on ques­tions of how mate­r­i­al val­ues are under­stood and manifested.

Jupiter/Saturn Con­junc­tions and the USA
If we divide these peri­ods accord­ing to the US Pres­i­dents pre­sid­ing at the start of each peri­od, we will find the following:

1840–1860 (Har­ri­son) This was a peri­od of great expan­sion for the USA, prin­ci­pal­ly accom­plished by the seizure from Mex­i­co of much of the west­ern parts of the Unit­ed States in the Mex­i­can War, which added Texas, New Mex­i­co, Ari­zona, and Cal­i­for­nia. Spir­i­tu­al­ly and Mate­ri­al­ly, it was also the peri­od lead­ing up to the most con­se­quen­tial cri­sis for the Unit­ed States, the Civ­il War, as this peri­od was char­ac­ter­ized by the ris­ing exis­ten­tial strug­gle over the ques­tion of whether new states would enter as Free or Slave, with the slave-hold­ing states dom­i­nat­ing the Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and the Supreme court.

1860–1880 (Lin­coln) Begins with the Civ­il War which leads to the defeat of the Con­fed­er­ate South, the elim­i­na­tion of Slav­ery and an end to the polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic dom­i­nance of the South­ern states. But the attempt at Recon­struc­tion in the South “fails”, and the true eman­ci­pa­tion, and polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic equal­i­ty of the for­mer slaves was denied for the next 100 years.

1880–1900 (Garfield) Wit­nessed the “end of the fron­tier”, as the repeat­ed series of seizures of land, bro­ken treaties, and removal of native peo­ples for many hun­dreds of years was fin­ished at the Wound­ed Knee Mas­sacre in 1890. This peri­od also saw the rise of Indus­tri­al Cap­i­tal­ism and of great Monop­o­lies giv­ing this peri­od its title of “The Gild­ed Age” or the “Age of Rob­ber Barons”. It was also the begin­ning of the USA’s own colo­nial expan­sion by the seizure of Hawaii, and the Span­ish ter­ri­to­ries in the Caribbean and Philip­pines in the Span­ish-Amer­i­can War.

1900–1920 (McKin­ley) The USA emerged onto the world stage as a ris­ing pow­er eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly with its crit­i­cal entrance into WW I. But the unfet­tered cap­i­tal­ism of the Gild­ed Age had also led to the Pro­gres­sive Reform move­ment, with attempts to rein in the excess pow­er of the Monied class by reforms in the civ­il soci­ety and gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions, lead­ing to a nation­al income tax and a more robust reg­u­la­to­ry structure.

1920–1940 (Hard­ing) The end of World War I, Suf­frage with the vote for Women and then Pro­hi­bi­tion, were the final acts of the reform era, which led to the Roar­ing Twen­ties and a bub­ble of wild spec­u­la­tion that end­ed with the Great Depres­sion start­ing in 1929. Roo­sevelt attempt­ed with the New Deal to build a more sus­tain­able econ­o­my, and the USA began to move towards a more equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth. But many agree it is WW II that restores the eco­nom­ic indus­tri­al engine of the Unit­ed States, which becomes the “Arse­nal of Democ­ra­cy” lead­ing the Allies against the Axis powers.

1940–1960 (Roo­sevelt) The Bat­tles of WW II and its con­clu­sion leads to the Mar­shall Plan for re-build­ing Europe and the emer­gence of the Cold War, with the divide between the East and the West, between Cap­i­tal­ist ver­sus Com­mu­nist coun­tries. The USA is the dom­i­nant world pow­er lead­ing the West against the USSR.

1960–1980 (Kennedy) The Cold War reach­es its cli­max in the Nuclear Arms race, and the Unit­ed States enters the dis­as­trous Viet­nam War. Mean­while domes­ti­cal­ly, the Civ­il Rights move­ment leads to a back­lash and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic South turns Repub­li­can. The Eco­nom­ic imbal­ances gen­er­at­ed by the Viet­nam War and Johnson’s Great Soci­ety leads in the late 1970’s to what becomes known as Stagfla­tion and grind­ing eco­nom­ic malaise.

1980–2000 (Rea­gan) The Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion takes on the growth of the so-called “wel­fare state” by slash­ing tax­es and pro­grams, a rever­sal of Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Soci­ety. The more or less equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion in the growth of wealth in the USA from 1940 is halt­ed, and so once again the rise of the great inequal­i­ty between the haves and have nots begins. Rea­gan claimed that “Gov­ern­ment is the Prob­lem” and the Repub­li­can par­ty and neo-lib­er­al move­ment push­es an agen­da of cut­ting tax­es while promis­ing more rev­enue, (from what they claimed would be a robust growth in the econ­o­my), but the elder George Bush calls the move “Voodoo Eco­nom­ics”. Lat­er, Clin­ton as a cen­trist demo­c­ra­t­ic moves the coun­try fur­ther down this path of grow­ing inequal­i­ty, which was masked for a time by a gen­er­al rise in eco­nom­ic growth brought about by the end of the “Cold War”. The rise in wealth is increas­ing­ly dis­trib­uted to the top 10%.

2000–2020 (Bush) The Bush pres­i­den­cy is shocked by 9/11, as the forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War and Russia’s War in Afghanistan comes home to the Unit­ed States. The War against Ter­ror begins, (and has not end­ed), as the Fed­er­al Reserve keeps inter­est rates low to sup­port the increas­ing­ly unequal growth of wealth in the econ­o­my. This arti­fi­cial­ly low inter­est rate struc­ture sows the seeds for the Mort­gage cri­sis in 2006 and 2007 lead­ing to the Sec­ond Great Depres­sion start­ing in 2008. Oba­ma sta­bi­lizes the econ­o­my, but the eco­nom­ic imbal­ances remain and lead to a fur­ther splin­ter­ing of the coun­try between the haves and the have nots. With nei­ther Democ­rats nor Repub­li­cans address­ing the unsus­tain­able imbal­ance of wealth in the coun­try, Trump is elect­ed as a pop­ulist, with promis­es to fight as an out­sider and icon­o­clast. But he enacts anoth­er typ­i­cal tax cut that rewards the wealthy, while fur­ther erod­ing the social safe­ty net. The abysmal state of that safe­ty net is ful­ly revealed by the dis­as­trous response to the Pan­dem­ic of 2020.

The Future
2020–2040 (Biden)

We do not know what lies ahead of us now, but we do know there is a new era emerg­ing. With the Decem­ber Jupiter/Saturn Great Muta­tion Con­junc­tion ush­er­ing in a 200-year peri­od, and the Ener­gy-Form that will be at the root of this new era will be guid­ed by Air not Earth. What might this mean?

Pre­vi­ous Age of Air
The pre­vi­ous Age of Air was from 1226 to 1425 and marked the tran­si­tion from the Mid­dle Ages to the Renais­sance in Europe. Among the sig­na­ture events: The trans­la­tion from Ara­bic ver­sions into Latin of Greek works of art and phi­los­o­phy, seed­ing a rebirth of clas­si­cal under­stand­ing and intel­lec­tu­al growth; new demo­c­ra­t­ic assem­blies form in Switzer­land and Eng­land; the advent of Human­ism with the study of clas­si­cal lit­er­a­ture as a liv­ing tra­di­tion; the inven­tion of mov­able type in Korea, and print­ing press­es in Europe among many oth­er dis­cov­er­ies and inven­tions. The move­ment towards rea­son and crit­i­cal think­ing estab­lished the foun­da­tion for the Renais­sance and the lat­er age of Enlightenment.

Par­a­digm for Past 200 Years
The last 200 years have been shaped as an Age of Earth con­junc­tions, and it cer­tain­ly has become appar­ent that over this peri­od the gov­ern­ing par­a­digm and goal was to have “More of More Things”. The accu­mu­la­tion of wealth and pos­ses­sions became the dri­ving pur­pose of life. The more things you had (and con­sumed), the hap­pi­er you would be. But it turns out that this is just not true, not at all.

The pre­sid­ing cul­tur­al ide­olo­gies and even vari­ants of many reli­gions of this peri­od have not been guid­ed by con­cerns for the high­est moral good or the well-being of oth­er humans (or oth­er life-forms, or for the plan­et in gen­er­al). Most of the thought-ener­gy-forms in our cul­tur­al, polit­i­cal, and spir­i­tu­al spheres have been shaped and bound to the only val­ue that has but one dimen­sion, the Val­ue of Quantity.

Over the arc of the past 200 years it would seem to an out­side observ­er that the only good was end­less, mate­ri­al­is­tic pro­duc­tion in ser­vice to an unquench­able con­sump­tion of things. More of more was sup­posed to make you hap­pi­er. But the more peo­ple had, the more they want­ed. Whole ecosys­tems and envi­ron­ments, and whole species were and have been sac­ri­ficed for the pur­suit of wealth and pow­er. It was not “Life” that mat­tered; what mat­tered was the so-called “good life” as humans pur­sued ever more mate­r­i­al pleasures.

The Price
What has been the price? We have end­ed with a neo-lib­er­al eco­nom­ic sys­tem, where­in the pur­pose of life is dri­ven by the free­dom to pur­sue this one-dimen­sion­al val­ue of quan­ti­ty at the expense of every­thing else, where only more of more mate­r­i­al things mat­tered. And the price of all these things? This amass­ing of quan­ti­ties has come at the cost of steal­ing from the future of our descen­dants. We have been thieves, and we are to this very day steal­ing their future still. With regards to those who come after us, we will have left them so much less than we had. We drank their water, we breathed their air, we ate their food, and we are leav­ing them a bro­ken world where they will strug­gle to sur­vive; it will be a world that be will unrec­og­niz­able to you or to me, and it will be a world that is more and more unliv­able for most of human­i­ty and many oth­er species.

I do not mean to say that this “Age of Earth” had to have turned out this way, that is not true at all. The Ener­gy-Forms pre­sid­ing in any peri­od may man­i­fest in a whole array of beliefs and actions, and that will lead to a range of pos­si­ble out­comes. There were many oth­er influ­encers in the arc of our jour­ney that led to this cri­sis; and innu­mer­able choic­es were made by humans in this peri­od, (and indeed in the pri­or peri­ods of Great Muta­tion Epochs, like the pro­ceed­ing peri­od of Fire from 1663 to 1842, and of Water from 1425 to 1663). All of these con­tributed to the shap­ing of human desires, capa­bil­i­ties and actions that pro­duced the exis­ten­tial threat of Cli­mate Change that we face now.

The good news is we cre­at­ed this; it was not because of an aster­oid strik­ing the Earth, it was not the result of world-wide vol­canic erup­tions. These past Extinc­tion Events came from so-called “nat­ur­al” or “exter­nal” caus­es. The good news is we made this cri­sis; the good news, now that we know, is that we can choose to change. We can still make a dif­fer­ent future if we act now.

Ener­gy-Forms and Power
What we must do is face real­i­ty, to see what we have made; we need to under­stand what we have done and decide what we need to do. Slow­ly at first, but increas­ing­ly from the 1840’s onwards, we made a world-wide civ­i­liza­tion that is built upon the pow­er of ener­gy-forms that had been locked away for mil­lions of years in coal, and oil and gas. We thought we were so clever, so intel­li­gent and crafty. We released stu­pen­dous amounts of ener­gy to amass wealth and pow­er; but we did not ful­ly account for the true costs for the life-forms on this planet.

Through a lack of under­stand­ing (and humil­i­ty) we changed the del­i­cate bal­ance of ener­gy-forms and life-forms on this plan­et. And we did this in what amounts to a geo­log­i­cal sec­ond. What might have changed over tens of thou­sands of years we did in mere decades. We are the cre­ators of this New Earth where whole species and ecosys­tems are van­ish­ing year after year; we have moved our world from a benign and liv­able plan­et to what many are call­ing a “hot-house” Earth. The increas­ing­ly dra­mat­ic Cli­mate Change effects (and make no mis­take the 2020 Pan­dem­ic is anoth­er unin­tend­ed but direct exam­ple of this), have been the result of our cre­at­ing mate­r­i­al wealth through the destruc­tion of the web of life on this plan­et. There is no way to bal­ance our gain with this ter­ri­ble loss; the spir­i­tu­al bal­ance sheet for human­i­ty is very much in the neg­a­tive at this point in history.

Will this be our lega­cy? Will we be the first ones who are not hon­ored but instead are cursed by our children’s chil­dren? Will we be remem­bered for our self­ish­ness and greed?

How
How did this hap­pen? Because we humans came to believe that we are sep­a­rate and apart from all oth­er life-forms on this plan­et; we made them into the “oth­er”, less than us, and so destroyed the bal­ance of life on this plan­et. And then, we also sep­a­rat­ed our­selves from one anoth­er, we divid­ed humans into “us and them” by race, eth­nic­i­ty, creed, and cul­ture; and so, we con­tin­ue to destroy one anoth­er too.

Why
Why did this hap­pen? Because we for­got the first Truth: You are here to love one anoth­er; and so, you are equal­ly here to love life and pro­tect this pre­cious plan­et and the many lives that depend upon it now and for the gen­er­a­tions to come. For it is cer­tain­ly true that your lives depend upon one anoth­er and on these oth­er life-forms too. We are sup­posed to take care of one anoth­er and this plan­et; to love and pre­serve lives, not to destroy them.

What I hope for, what I believe, is that this Age of Air, (along with oth­er plan­e­tary shifts), will bring us into a “Great Awak­en­ing”, (in fact, I believe that is what we are expe­ri­enc­ing now). I believe we will turn from destruc­tion to preser­va­tion; we will turn from self­ish­ness to self­less­ness; we will turn from tak­ing to giv­ing; we will turn from greed to love. I believe we will because we must.

Sac­ri­fice
We must hon­or those and love those who will come after us by choos­ing to sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er and for all life on this plan­et now. This Age of Air can and hope­ful­ly will ush­er in a new glob­al con­scious­ness found­ed upon a New Prin­ci­ple: that the first Fun­da­men­tal and Pre­sid­ing Val­ue of Spir­it is Love and the most impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion for all our actions shall be to take care of one anoth­er and to pre­serve and pro­tect All Life on this plan­et, our Earth, our Beau­ti­ful Home.

We are here to walk in beau­ty; we are here to be sur­round­ed by beau­ty; we are here to love and be loved. Let us live as we were meant to live, sur­round­ed by beau­ty, and liv­ing by love.

It is not too late; but there is no time to wait.

We will be the ones remem­bered for their sac­ri­fice; we will be the ones who faced with the self­ish option to live for now and for our­selves, that we chose instead to pre­serve, to pro­tect and make pos­si­ble a bet­ter world for those who come after us.

Let this be our moment; let this be our sacred covenant with one anoth­er and our descendants.

Let us be the ones they remem­ber for our sac­ri­fice, courage, and love,

Let it be so; let us make it so.