I thought it might be use­ful to offer the (more or less) tran­script of my lat­est radio show (Sep­tem­ber 14, 2019):

As we approach the turn­ing of anoth­er sea­son, not to men­tion being at anoth­er Full Moon today, I thought it would be use­ful to step back from the noise and con­fu­sion of the every­day to con­sid­er again the major astro­log­i­cal themes that our shap­ing our world now.

Plu­to

First among these I would argue is the move­ment of Plu­to through the sign of Capri­corn, from 2008 into 2024. As I have been not­ing since before 2008, this pas­sage of Plu­to has accom­pa­nied the last sev­er­al trans­for­ma­tions from one kind of Spiritual/Cultural/Economic and Polit­i­cal order into another.

Dur­ing the last such peri­od in the 1700’s, in what I would call the “Cri­sis of King­doms”, most vivid­ly expe­ri­enced through the Amer­i­can and French Rev­o­lu­tions, the world that had been was torn apart by what was emerg­ing from with­in it. That old­er sys­tem of Mean­ing and Form was super­seded by a new Spir­i­tu­al-Social-Eco­nom­ic order that we have come to know and expe­ri­ence as our “real­i­ty” in the present day “Mod­ern World”. Our Order is a world of Nation-States which have most­ly, to vary­ing degrees, held to some form of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment that has now encom­passed the world. It is this very Nation-State mod­el, our world order, which is com­ing undone here from 2008 to 2024.

If we look back once again, to the pre­vi­ous peri­od of Plu­to in Capri­corn in the ear­ly 1500’s, the world expe­ri­enced anoth­er Cathar­sis of Becom­ing, that some have called a “Cri­sis of Faith”, (named “The Ref­or­ma­tion”). There had been, more or less, a world formed around the One Catholic Church and a Feu­dal Political/Economic Order, with accom­pa­ny­ing Ide­olo­gies and World Views that formed and sup­port­ed that sys­tem. Again, as in the peri­od of the 1700’s, spiritual/cultural and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ments emerged in that sys­tem that shat­tered that old way of being as the new order emerged from with­in it.

It was out of that dis­or­der in the 1500’s that there arose the cen­tral­ized King­doms or Monar­chies, and with them there was cre­at­ed a new expres­sion of what it meant to be human and a new Reli­gious, Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al world came into being too.

Real­ly, I would argue, it is the imper­a­tive of Spir­it, the fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Form, which dri­ves this one shin­ing imper­a­tive for all of Life-Consciousness-Spirit…that is, it and we, and all life-forms are here for one thing only, to unfold our spir­i­tu­al poten­tial. We are here to be and become more and more fulfilled…which means we and all our vehi­cles or forms of self-real­iza­tion must grow and change too.

What you and I must accept and under­stand is that what we are going through is not a unique expe­ri­ence, not at all. It is in truth a nec­es­sary moment in “The Way of Spir­it”. It is how this Jour­ney of Spir­it will man­i­fest again and again, because it is formed by the one Truth that resides at the core of Spir­it, and so at the core of you, which is “to grow”.

As I have repeat­ed­ly stat­ed, this Dri­ving Force of His­to­ry aris­es in and streams forth from every Mind and Heart and Soul, it comes from you and I and every­one. We are the Liv­ing Spir­it, and you and your com­pan­ions are the Dreamer/Makers of all of this. This is the world that we humans made, and it is now our time to pass on the best of what was as we take up the chal­lenge to re-make this world together.

This process of trans­for­ma­tion is embod­ied in and exe­cut­ed through three major types of his­tor­i­cal char­ac­ters: The Pre­servers, the Cre­ators and the Destroy­ers. There are those whose tasks may bend toward try­ing to pre­serve and pass down those ele­ments of Wis­dom, Beau­ty, and Love that have (and will always stand) these tests of time. There are oth­er agents whose role is to be the bringer of new Ways and Means that will address the very lim­its and self-made prob­lems that arose out of the pass­ing order. And, there is a role for those who are here to tear down the old ways, who are the agents of Cathar­sis and Nega­tion, and they too serve by dis­rupt­ing the old order to make way for a new.

Uranus

Accel­er­at­ing this End of an Age is anoth­er major “Wind of the Spir­it”, car­ried by the Avatar of Awak­en­ing, the Plan­et Uranus. From 2018/19 until 2026, Uranus is mov­ing through Tau­rus. As before, we can get some under­stand­ing of this influ­ence by cast­ing our view back to its pre­vi­ous pas­sages through the Sign of Value.

The pre­vi­ous times for Uranus in Tau­rus were 1935–1942, 1851–59 and 1768–75. In each of those peri­ods, Uranus as The Awak­en­er accom­pa­nied sig­nif­i­cant shocks and con­flicts, lead­ing to the upheaval in the hier­ar­chies of fun­da­men­tal val­ues, as dif­fer­ing val­ue sys­tems with­in and between cul­tures, broke apart the glue that hold soci­eties togeth­er. When there is loss of a strong con­sen­sus, when we lack a sig­nif­i­cant agree­ment on com­mon­ly accept­ed val­ues and virtues, it is then that the “cen­ter can­not hold” because it seem­ing­ly (or actu­al­ly) does not exist.

Look­ing to the Unit­ed States, the most recent pas­sage was in the late 1930’s which led up to the “War of Democ­ra­cies ver­sus Fas­cism” or World War II; in the 1850’s Amer­i­cans strug­gled over the fun­da­men­tal nature of our coun­try and it led to our defin­ing con­flict, “The Civ­il War” from 1860–65, and the 1760’s‑70’s wit­nessed the break­down between the Amer­i­can colonies and Eng­land, lead­ing to the “The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War”.

Giv­en those three pre­vi­ous pas­sages, we must be pre­pared for great changes, as we wit­ness the break­ing of our old val­ue hier­ar­chy as we equal­ly have a pro­found oppor­tu­ni­ty to cre­ate a new com­mon­ly held val­ue system.

I would argue that to do this we need, each of us indi­vid­u­al­ly and togeth­er in our com­mu­ni­ties, to remem­ber and rely upon the eter­nal truths found in the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings or Ancient Wis­dom. By hold­ing to this bedrock of spir­it, we can be Lov­ing, strong and cen­tered so that we may respond to this chal­lenge with faith and not in fear.

Agents of Destruction

Yes, it is quite a moment we find our­selves in, and the par­al­lels between what is hap­pen­ing here in the USA and what is hap­pen­ing in the UK (and the world for that mat­ter), are quite sim­ply uncan­ny. The very so-called “moth­er of mod­ern democ­ra­cy”, The Unit­ed King­dom, and her “child”, the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, are fac­ing fun­da­men­tal chal­lenges to their Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al integri­ty. Both are being led now by very sim­i­lar men, both who hap­pen to be Gem­in­is. It cer­tain­ly seems we are in some kind of his­tor­i­cal rhyming that is no accident.

I would most cer­tain­ly char­ac­ter­ize both Boris John­son and Don­ald Trump as being or using their Gem­i­ni gift of con­trari­ness and their mul­ti­ple, con­flict­ing points of view as instru­ments of extreme dis­rup­tion. Their aim is to divide, to dis­rupt the polit­i­cal-social order so as to rule by con­fu­sion and fear, as they forge their pow­er through myr­i­ad splits of “us ver­sus them”.

By propos­ing a series of mul­ti­ple and con­tra­dic­to­ry assump­tions, by split­ting real­i­ty into many mir­rors of inchoate mean­ing, they are agents of dis­rup­tion who seek to desta­bi­lize the rules and cus­toms of the old order as they throw out half-truths and false­hoods that under­mine the nor­mal gov­ern­ing con­sen­sus and shared reality.

They seek to divide rather than unite and are quite extra­or­di­nary exam­ples of cathartic/iconoclastic agents who are break­ing down the old estab­lished order. They are not builders but destroy­ers. They serve by expos­ing the weak­ness and con­tra­dic­tions of the old order. But they are not capa­ble of cre­at­ing a new world or par­a­digm, because their very pow­er aris­es from the con­tra­dic­tions of the old, and it will fail and fall as a new world rises.

A New World

Each of us must find our way, to do our part in this world that is pass­ing away. Though this world we made is under­go­ing great changes, there are fun­da­men­tal truths that will always remain. The Eter­nal Val­ues of the Ancient Wis­dom, which have guid­ed our foot­steps since the begin­ning, these Trea­sures of Truth, are the most pre­cious gifts from all our ances­tors. It was their duty to pro­tect and pass down to us these build­ing blocks of Wis­dom and Love, and these Songs of the Spir­it are equal­ly to be found in your own heart and high­er spir­it too. It is now your duty and priv­i­lege to stand in this light and build a bet­ter world.

You hap­pen to be here, at this cru­cial hour. What an hon­or and priv­i­lege this is; what a respon­si­bil­i­ty you bear. You have earned this; you are here in this end­ing that is a begin­ning, you are here to be “Torch­bear­ers of the Light”.

This is no error or hap­pen­stance; you are exact­ly where you are sup­posed to be. You are part of a greater plan, and all those choic­es you made long ago have brought you and I to this moment now.

Always remem­ber, that behind each cul­ture, in the Dia­mond Heart of every Civ­i­liza­tion, in the heart of all Reli­gions, in all the Philoso­phies and Sci­ences of every age, the Shin­ing Ones hold the Arche­types of Eternity.

By mov­ing beyond the old divi­sions, by striv­ing to pre­serve what is ever-present in the realms of Wis­dom, Beau­ty and Love, and by lis­ten­ing to the Light of Truth with­in your heart, through you and your com­pan­ions a new world will rise once again.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now? Astro­log­i­cal themes for 2019 – The USA and the UK (Sep­tem­ber 14, 2019)

In my Twelfth show of 2019, we will look at where we are now with regards to the major Astro­log­i­cal themes for 2019, with ref­er­ence to the strik­ing sim­i­lar­i­ties in the con­di­tions pre­vail­ing in the USA and the UK.

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 Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/09/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019-where-are-we-now-the-usa-the-uk

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 Sep­tem­ber 14^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Peace of Mind

What is the great­est good? Do you know your true heart’s desire? Where is hap­pi­ness to be tru­ly found?

Through­out the cen­turies, seek­ers and seers have pon­dered these ques­tions, and the wis­est of them have all come to the very same answer…

The great­est good, your true heart’s desire and the source of abid­ing hap­pi­ness is found by being at peace with your­self, by hav­ing “Peace of Mind”.

This is the pur­pose, and this is the path that you will for­ev­er fol­low in the realm of Virgo.
No mat­ter what your “Sun Sign” is, some­where in your chart, some­where in you, there you will expe­ri­ence the gift of Virgo.

It is the gift of “Ini­ti­a­tion”, the quick­en­ing of devel­op­ment for your body, feel­ing, mind and spir­it. Through­out the ages, in all cul­tures and spir­i­tu­al tra­di­tions, (notably exem­pli­fied in the less­er and Greater Mys­ter­ies in Greece and Rome), the promise of being a more com­plete human being, of becom­ing a human capa­ble of self-mas­tery, was offered to those ready to lift them­selves up by receiv­ing the key to the secrets of life. The Ancient Wis­dom, the Peren­ni­al Philoso­phies, were impart­ed by var­i­ous prac­tices, tri­als and teach­ings whose pur­pose was quite sim­ply to elic­it the initiate’s unfold­ment and uplift­ment. The goal or pur­pose was to bring about a more tru­ly whole or com­plete human being. Only then, were you tru­ly pre­pared to take on the next chal­lenge of a tru­ly inter­de­pen­dent expe­ri­ence of rela­tion­ship (Libra).

Today you and your world cel­e­brate the tran­si­tion from Fire to Earth, where Leo makes way for the grace of Vir­go. By Leo, you are for­ev­er inspired by the prompt­ings of your true self (encoun­tered in the realm of Can­cer), to strive and to seek, and to stretch your­self into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of Lead­er­ship, Cre­ativ­i­ty and Love.

But now, after “the per­for­mance”, now comes the review. You have a need to be more cir­cum­spect and self-aware, and so improve your­self. Yes, it is a time to pause and con­sid­er, to ana­lyze and cri­tique and so learn how you can “do bet­ter”; how you can “be better”.

Of course, you do this every sin­gle day, (or you most cer­tain­ly should). A well-ordered life would cer­tain­ly sub­scribe or fol­low the exam­ple of such great souls as Seneca or Mar­cus Aure­lius, who would take time at day­break to con­sid­er and pre­pare for the day ahead, and then before bed, to review the day, to har­vest the lessons learned, to sep­a­rate the “wheat from the chaff” of life, so that they could then retire and pre­pare for the next day.

There is only one way to find peace, and it starts with the under­stand­ing that the only con­trol you will tru­ly have, the only mas­tery you need to acquire, is self-con­trol and self-mastery…and this path begins and ends with the tem­ple of your mind. You are here to learn that the way of the mas­ters, the way of “the lone­ly ones”, is to lis­ten to the voice of truth and beau­ty that abides with­in your own spark of the divine.

Vir­go reminds us of the need for order­li­ness and rhythm in our lives. A good life is fash­ioned and formed with a bal­ance between work and play, with activ­i­ty and rest, so that you will feel the truth in how all the var­i­ous parts and pieces of your life cre­ate a greater whole, a whole being that is “you”. There is a neces­si­ty to struc­ture your day, week and year (and tru­ly the entire arc of your life), but nev­er rigid­ly but with con­stant adapt­abil­i­ty and facil­i­ty of nuance, so that each part of your life is inte­grat­ed and in fact made more mean­ing­ful and com­plete by all the oth­er parts.

At the cen­ter of this is “right think­ing and so right action”; the good life, a beau­ti­ful life is formed and cen­tered by the qual­i­ty and state of your thoughts. The whole pur­pose of meta­phys­i­cal, spir­i­tu­al and philo­soph­i­cal engage­ment is to help you find the way to the great­est trea­sure and prize. The Wis­dom that is Vir­go is there to help you form the tem­ple with­in that is guid­ed and informed by the del­i­cate and inte­gral bal­ance of your Intu­ition and Rea­son, by a know­ing that is lucid, self-crit­i­cal and open to the ever-unfold­ing jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. It is the Way of Beau­ty:

As I walk, as I walk

The Uni­verse is walk­ing with me

In beau­ty, it walks before me

In beau­ty, it walks behind me

In beau­ty, it walks below me

In beau­ty, it walks above me

Beau­ty is on every side

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

Liv­ing in Beauty

Lov­ing in Beauty

May you walk in Beauty

May you live in Beauty

For all your days

May you be at Peace

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

It is done.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders (August 3, 2019)

In my Eleventh show of 2019, we will look at the 2020 Pres­i­den­tial Race and con­sid­er the charts of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who are present­ly the two top men vying for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nomination.

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 Sat­ur­day August 3^rd @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/08/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019–biden-and-sanders

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 August 3^rd @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The Pulse of Life

The year­ly jour­ney through the Signs of the Zodi­ac forms the peren­ni­al Song of Spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment for one and all. Each sign holds the nec­es­sary expe­ri­ences and lessons that you must mas­ter as you walk the path of awak­en­ing. Though you may know your­self as one Sign or anoth­er, you are real­ly an inte­gral and unique fusion of all these essences, and you are here to mas­ter them all. Through many years and count­less lives, you will one day achieve that more per­fect bal­ance with­in this Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, and you will arrive at your even­tu­al and inevitable apoth­e­o­sis as a ful­ly formed human being.

This “Way” has been shown to us by those who came this way long ago. They are known to you as the “Great Souls”, who by their exam­ple and teach­ings ever help us through their inspi­ra­tion and wis­dom so that we may find our way as we fol­low in their foot­steps. These Great ones are known by many names, they are the self-mas­tered, the self-illu­mined or shin­ing ones, what we call the Angels or Devas, and they lov­ing­ly wait and watch over one and all.

The Song that is the Zodi­ac is chang­ing once again, mov­ing from the ele­ment of Water to Fire, from a focus that is inward to out­ward­ly once more. This is as it should be; it is the “Pulse of Life”. It is the breath­ing in and then the breath­ing out of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. This rhythm of life shapes and forms you; it is the true path of whole­ness made by hold­ing each sign togeth­er, and in a per­fect har­mo­ny they form a melo­di­ous and inte­gral song of spirit.

This is how you move upon along the “Path­way of Per­fec­tion” to an ever more per­fect con­di­tion of self-ful­fill­ment. By hold­ing all these ener­gy-forms togeth­er, in your own spe­cial way, it is by this that you become the spe­cial per­son that you are.

From your space of Can­cer, where you cen­tered and secured a truer sense of your­self, you felt a fuller expe­ri­ence of your essen­tial unique­ness of being. This is known as your “Quin­tes­sence”; it is your own Mon­ad, your own unique Spark of the Divine, and it is this essence that makes you tru­ly “you.”

But now the Pulse of Life moves on, and you are eager to move into the next realm of the Liv­ing Ones. You need to take this Ener­gy-Form of “you”, and flow and form it out­ward­ly into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of Self-Real­iza­tion. You are not mere­ly here to “feel” who you are, you will and must live this out in your life to real­ly be you.

Whether through a more authen­tic Cre­ation, or in a more inspired Role, or by a more uncon­di­tion­al expe­ri­ence of Love, it is in Leo that you move out to where you can be you and shine. Yes, in Leo you move from the realm of Feel­ing to E‑Motion, from Source to Man­i­fes­ta­tion. It is here in Leo, on the “Stage that is Life”, it is here that you will shine like a Star.

Yes, all the world is a stage and it waits upon you to become a star. If you have cho­sen well, so that your cre­ation, per­for­mance or love are guid­ed by a right and true align­ment with your high­er self, and so formed by uncon­di­tion­al love, then you will be seen as you tru­ly are…a shin­ing one too.

You will bring out the best in your­self, and by your exam­ple you will inspire oth­ers to reach in and so reach out to be their bet­ter selves too. This is true lead­er­ship; this is what we do for one anoth­er. We need one anoth­er. We need to be rec­og­nized and loved for who we are; as we in turn will respect and love them for who they are.

This is the heart of Leo; it is all about Love. We lead by our exam­ple, and by this we inspire oth­ers to be their bet­ter selves too. For in the heart of each and every one of us is a spark of the Divine, whose lumi­nous nature is Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

This is the Song of Leo; it is the Heart Doc­trine formed by the Light that will nev­er fail.

You are here to Shine.

You are here because of Love.

You are here to Love and be Loved.

Now turn toward one anoth­er and be who you are.

Just love.