Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Mer­cury Turns Ret­ro­grade, Sun Enters Vir­go (Sat­ur­day August 18, 2018)

In my ninth show of 2018 I will con­sid­er the cur­rent Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions. Today, Sat­ur­day August 18^th, Mer­cury is turn­ing direct once again. Next week the Sun Enters Vir­go on August 22^nd/23^rd and then five days lat­er, on August 27^th, Mars turns Direct. The Winds of Spir­it are chang­ing once more, and we will con­sid­er what these shifts mean for you and your world.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. 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 18^th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/08/18/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-mercury-turns-direct-sun-enters-virgo

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

Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade on July 26^th, at 23 degrees of Leo, and turns direct again on August 19^th at 11 degrees of Leo. I men­tioned this upcom­ing ret­ro­grade in my most recent radio show on Sat­ur­day July 21^st. Here is the link to that show: Radio Show. If you move the progress bar for the play­back to about 18 min­utes into the show, by click­ing in the play­er progress win­dow, you can hear my thoughts about this, (rough­ly 11 min­utes of com­men­tary). And, while you are there you might want to see what oth­er shows and top­ics might inter­est you too.

The expe­ri­ence you will have with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade depends upon your lev­el of spir­i­tu­al aware­ness. To the extent that you know your­self and equal­ly under­stand your world, well to that same extent you will expe­ri­ence a greater mea­sure of free will. You will choose how to meet each day, guid­ed by an open mind, a lov­ing heart and a cen­tered will.

If you are more awake and aware, your per­cep­tion and sen­si­tiv­i­ty to the shift­ing ener­gies formed by the plan­e­tary influ­ences will be held and under­stood as being nei­ther harm­ful or benef­ic for you or any­one else…these uni­ver­sal ener­gies “just are”. It is up to each of us, by rais­ing up our self-aware­ness to deter­mine whether we will live our lives as free or sub­servient to these Winds of the Spirit.

Many will com­plain over the next many weeks, that Mer­cury ret­ro­grade has brought them into a series of annoy­ances, dif­fi­cul­ties or even greater harm. But the fault lies not in Mer­cury at all, but in our own fail­ure to under­stand and make use of this change in the “Astro­log­i­cal Weather”.

When Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade we are offered an oppor­tu­ni­ty to shift our nor­mal men­tal dis­po­si­tions and con­sid­er­a­tions into a more reflec­tive, pen­sive and intro­spec­tive mode. We, like Mer­cury, need to turn back upon our­selves and re-exam­ine our minds, to be ever more self-reflec­tive and take this time to recon­sid­er our thoughts, to ques­tion our means and mech­a­nisms of per­cep­tion, and to revise and improve our avenues and tools of com­mu­ni­ca­tion too.

If we do this, we will use this ener­gy shift as it is meant to be expe­ri­enced, for self-exam­i­na­tion, repair and renewal.

Of course, we all live very busy lives, and though it would be nice to take a 3‑week break, to go on a retreat or to par­take in some form of a vision quest, our oblig­a­tions to fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty and the larg­er world will usu­al­ly not allow us to do so.

But we can take time, every day, maybe as the day begins, and cer­tain­ly at the end of each day, (and per­haps we will find some time dur­ing the day too), to pause, turn around and con­sid­er why we are think­ing about some­thing in a cer­tain way, why we are writ­ing or speak­ing with that tone or atti­tude. And, maybe we will under­stand that we can and should try to refine, renew and rebuild our self-under­stand­ing. And when we have done this, we can turn out­wards and renew our sacred spaces with one anoth­er by forg­ing a bet­ter under­stand­ing of one anoth­er too.

For this ret­ro­grade, Mer­cury is mov­ing through the sign of Leo. It is focus­ing this oppor­tu­ni­ty to reset and renew upon our heart, upon how we might bet­ter under­stand and live with greater love, hon­or and respect for one anoth­er. Plant the seeds of bet­ter tomor­rows by treat­ing those before you as you wish to be treat­ed too.

The weath­er is chang­ing, and you would be wise to make use of this gift of the Spirit.

Be wise like the ser­pent, and gen­tle as a dove.

The path to wis­dom is forged in humil­i­ty and grace.

Bow down to Her­mes, the mes­sen­ger who brings gifts from above.

Open your heart, and you will be wise.

You have spent the last 30 days in the sign of Can­cer, find­ing your way to the cen­ter of you. You aligned your self with your roots, to your fam­i­ly, to your loves, to your cul­ture and friends too. You felt your way back, to those many touch­stones that evoke the deep­est truths in the very heart of you, to those stir­rings, those feel­ings of ori­gins and hints of des­tiny. You made you way to your cen­ter and you remem­bered once more the gold­en chord that anchors you to your past and points the way to your future too.

But now you enter the time of Leo, for hav­ing met your self at the cen­ter you have no oth­er choice…you must be You!

Yes, in Leo you stretch beyond what has been. You are “the Cre­ator”’; and your great­est cre­ation, through all your many worlds and lives is you.

Your jour­ney has tak­en you from your begin­nings, as a mere spark of the divine, as an un-self-con­scious, self-unfold­ing enti­ty cycling through count­less worlds, forms and lives. Ahead of you awaits your des­tiny as a com­plete human, to the final ini­ti­a­tion, your Apoth­e­o­sis as a ful­ly awak­ened divinity.

As you become more aware of who and what you are, as you real­ize and reveal the dis­tinc­tive­ness of you, what is your Quin­tes­sence (or what is known as your Swab­hā­va, the germ or essence of you), as you do this you move into ever more truer forms of being, cre­at­ing, lead­ing and lov­ing. You become what you are, you are “THAT”, and by this you bring out the best in you and in those who are with you, and they become inspired by your exam­ple to be their bet­ter selves too. You become ever truer to your­self and you shine; you are the self who becomes, the Self-illu­mined with the light of Truth and Love.

When you do this, when you Lead with right inten­tion, when you become one more exam­ple, one more proof and inspi­ra­tion for oth­ers to be their bet­ter selves, it is by your being true to your­self and aligned with your high­er self that you inspire oth­ers to live and love with that same noble bear­ing too.

We do not need, nor do we look for lead­ers who tell us what to do; we look to those who inspire in us the shin­ing proof that we can, and we will, over­come our present lim­i­ta­tions and be the cre­ators of a brighter future for us and for our chil­dren too.

Leo is about what abides in the heart of one and all. It is about the light that shines in the dark­ness, the eter­nal flame of spir­it that will not fail.

Leo is about what is in your heart; It is about Uncon­di­tion­al love.

That love, which is Spir­it-Mat­ter, is the source, pre­serv­er and promise behind the whole of Creation.

We are one; you are one.

We are here to be who we are.

We are here to love ourselves,

And we are here to Love one anoth­er too.

This is Truth; this is the Heart Doctrine.

And, this is the Light of the Uni­verse that will not fail.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Sun Enters Leo, Mer­cury Turns Ret­ro­grade (Sat­ur­day July 21, 2018)

In my eighth show of 2018 I will con­sid­er the cur­rent Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions, look­ing at the upcom­ing move of the Sun into the Sign of Leo on July 22^nd, and the plan­et Mer­cury turn­ing ret­ro­grade from July 25^th until August 19^th.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. 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 July 21^st @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/07/21/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-sun-enters-leo-mercury-turns-retrograde

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 July 21^st at 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Mars: Retrograde/June 26^th, Opposition/July 26–27^th, Direct/August 27^th

Where­as Mer­cury moves ret­ro­grade 3 times a year for about 23 days each time, and Venus ret­ro­grades about every 1.5 years for about 40 days, Mars will move ret­ro­grade about every 2 years and 2 months, and this time it will do so for 62 days. It is the plan­et that goes ret­ro­grade the least, so you should always take advan­tage of this opportunity.

When­ev­er a plan­et is mov­ing ret­ro­grade it is actu­al­ly mov­ing clos­er to the Earth; Mars and Earth will be clos­er to one anoth­er than at any time when we reach the mid­point of the ret­ro­grade, when Mars is Oppo­site the Sun, with the Earth between the Sun and Mars. This time that will occur on July 26–27^th.

Though some might con­sid­er a plan­et to be some­how “weak­ened” by mov­ing back­wards, you must remem­ber that this is only an appear­ance for us here on Earth. In the mat­ter of Mars, it is we on Earth who are “catch­ing up” to Mars and pass­ing by, as if we were on an inside lane of a race track. More­over, as we do catch up we make our clos­est approach to Mars as it “grows” big­ger and brighter. Mars, the Avatar of Desires and Actions will shine red­der than ever, and much will be stirred with­in and around you too. You will see Mars most lumi­nous, a glow­ing crim­son orb, when it forms the oppo­si­tion to the Sun at the end of July.

Mars rules your actions and desires, it serves your “self” (the Sun) by pro­vid­ing the dri­ve to secure your needs and wants. But when it turns ret­ro­grade it sig­nals a time for you to turn inward. Mars ret­ro­grade offers you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-exam­ine what exact­ly it is that you do desire, and, just as impor­tant­ly, it calls upon you to re-con­sid­er how you should secure it.

This time Mars is ret­ro­grad­ing through Aquar­ius until August 12^th, and then con­tin­ues to ret­ro­grade in Capri­corn until it turns direct on August 27^th, so the review of your desires and aims will be upon your dreams of a bet­ter world to be made true, and then shift to con­sid­er­a­tions about your path of self-ful­fill­ment and your respon­si­bil­i­ties. It will prin­ci­pal­ly bring a re-exam­i­na­tion of your friend­ships and com­mu­ni­ties, and it will remind you that your dreams are made of one anoth­er, and you can only be ful­filled if their dreams come true too.

Many observers have not­ed that when­ev­er Mars turns ret­ro­grade the forces of Self-Asser­tion seem to slip beyond the nor­ma­tive bounds of cau­tion or self-restraint, and we find increas­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of aggres­sion and even violence…yes, there is real “dan­ger” here.

The mis­un­der­stand­ing and mis­use of Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gies is always a prob­lem no mat­ter what is hap­pen­ing “up there”. But the time of Mars Ret­ro­grade stirs more strong­ly the shad­owed depths of the human psy­che where hurts and resent­ments have fes­tered, and the result of this stir­ring of painful ener­gies inflames pas­sion, stokes fear and anger, and this col­li­sion of pas­sion, pain and anger erupts in actions that can lead to the harm­ing of one­self or of others.

Always remem­ber, the Ener­gies evoked or stoked by Mars are nei­ther “good” or “bad”…rather it is your degree of spir­i­tu­al aware­ness and evo­lu­tion that will indi­cate how the ener­gy will be received. And, then how you will pass it on equal­ly depends upon your own spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment and self-con­trol. How you receive the Ener­gies around you, how you work with them, and in what form will you pass them on is deter­mined by your Spir­i­tu­al Inte­gra­tion and Awareness.

To the extent that you have become more Self-Mas­ter­ful, guid­ed by your High­er Self and not your Ego, then to that same extent will you be able to wield your Phys­i­cal, Emo­tion­al, Men­tal and Intu­ition­al Pow­ers in a Lov­ing and Con­struc­tive Man­ner. And, to the extent that you remain unin­te­grat­ed, with con­flicts with­in and between your Hier­ar­chi­cal Nature of Body, Feel­ings, Mind and Spir­it, then to that same extent will you act Destruc­tive­ly towards your­self and/or towards oth­ers. This is true always.

This is why Mars mov­ing ret­ro­grade is such an oppor­tu­ni­ty for spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing. What Mars ret­ro­grade can and should be used for is to take this time and use it to pierce through those self-made shad­ows of old fears and hurts. You can trans­form your­self and your world by over-turn­ing lim­it­ed fear-formed desires, trans­form­ing those mis­di­rect­ed ener­gies into aspi­ra­tions. Mars ret­ro­grade is tru­ly a time to stir your awak­en­ing, as you con­tin­ue on the one true path of greater mind­ful­ness, uncon­di­tion­al love and a cen­tered will.

In the end, as always, it comes quite sim­ply down to one thing, do you Love Your­self? Do you have and know the Love of your High­er Self as real and ever present and before you at all times? Do you stand in its pres­ence, so that this eter­nal foun­tain-source of love per­vades your entire being and all of your actions too? And, from this expe­ri­ence of your true self you will equal­ly know that you are to treat the oth­er before you as you treat your­self, with uncon­di­tion­al love too.

Mars is the part of your jour­ney informed by your Desire. You are always on the path of awak­en­ing, of learn­ing to become a bet­ter or more com­plete human. Yes, as long as you strive to become out­ward­ly what you are in your High­er Self, to be ful­ly awak­ened, to become a Deva or shin­ing one, you will con­tin­ue on this jour­ney to dis­cov­er, accept and embrace your true nature which is Spir­it, which is Love.

As Mars grows brighter, night after night, as you move towards that moment of greater rev­e­la­tion, take time to re-con­sid­er where you are going and how you are get­ting there. Look more deeply with­in your­self and ask:

“Is this what I should aim for, is this the way to move my dreams and the dreams of oth­ers clos­er to the One Uni­ver­sal dream? Is this the noble path forged and formed by uncon­di­tion­al Love and Truth? Is this the way we will enter with song and laugh­ter, to become that shin­ing city on the hill?”

In the end, as it was at the beginning,

We are here to be the Light,

We are here because of Love.

Just Love one another.