The Bud­dha — The Path of Enlight­en­ment, The Path of Love

It seems quite appar­ent to many if not most of us, that we are going through a time of great Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic, and Cul­tur­al Cri­sis. The Warp and Weave of our world seems to be com­ing undone, and the pre­servers of our way of life, the very insti­tu­tions that we expect to embody and pro­tect our very lives and loves are buck­ling and bend­ing. There is a grow­ing cho­rus for some answer, some solu­tion that will secure a way out of these shad­ows and fears that grow longer every day, we yearn to find a path­way for­ward to a bet­ter time and place.

It is clear to most of us that the divi­sions with­in and the divides between var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and groups is at the heart of all our “trou­bles”. The fun­da­men­tal cause of our fears and woes, is to be found in our seem­ing loss of com­mon­ly held mean­ings or truths by which to find our way out of these length­en­ing fear-filled shad­ows. We grow increas­ing­ly anx­ious and des­per­ate for the gift of ever­last­ing light, we long for truth and love to shine upon us once more, so that we might bind our wounds and bring us “togeth­er as one” once more.

Fun­da­men­tal­ly, we are (yet again) in a time of a great spir­i­tu­al cri­sis. We have been here before…and the great good news is that our ances­tors found their way through in their time of unrav­el­ling too. The answer to our woes does not lie “out there”. It is not to found in some polit­i­cal reform, or eco­nom­ic pro­gram, or as some mod­ernists may hope, in a tech­no­log­i­cal “deus ex machi­na”, that will pull us back from the deep­en­ing dark­ness and doom. The answer to our self-cast shad­ows of doubts and fears is not out­side of us at all.

No, the answer always lies with­in, in each and every human heart. What we require, as always, is a spir­i­tu­al return to “source”. We need to remem­ber: “from whence have we come, and why are we here, and where are we going”. We need to restore our­selves to our soul’s true pur­pose, to remem­ber our true spir­i­tu­al nature and so calm our minds and heal our hearts.

We can do this wher­ev­er and when­ev­er we need to, by a return to our spir­i­tu­al source found in the ever­last­ing waters of life, in the spir­i­tu­al heart found in every speck and mote of cre­ation, and so equal­ly in the heart of each and every one of us. These Liv­ing Truths are also beau­ti­ful­ly pre­served and passed down in the great teach­ings of the Mas­ters or Great Souls who peri­od­i­cal­ly come forth to remind us again of these immutable truths and of our true nature.

Yes, we need to remem­ber that the answers to all our trou­bles were revealed long ago. Many of these Seers and Teach­ers are unrec­og­nized and name­less to us, known by many appel­la­tions but per­haps the best for me is their title as “The Lone­ly Ones”. For they worked (and still work) “in the shad­ows”, qui­et­ly doing the work of Spir­it where it is need­ed most, ask­ing for noth­ing but to serve.

But some were des­tined to stand pub­licly in the Halls of His­to­ry as exem­plars, as pil­lars of Strength and Truth, and we hon­or and revere these Great Souls to this day: Con­fu­cius, Lao-Tzu, Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras, Christ, and the one we con­sid­er today, The Buddha.

The fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al teach­ings that form the Ancient Wis­dom, are found in the life and work of each of these mes­sen­gers. All came to reaf­firm and restate the Ancient Truths. They did not come for or intend to “start” a reli­gion, that was left to less­er souls. They came not ask­ing for devo­tions or prayers to be offered up to them, for they need them not. They came to remind you that we are all on the same path of ful­fill­ment as they fol­lowed. Their life and work is a reminder to us that we are all here for one thing only…we must all, every one of us, we must each wake up and be ful­ly human too.

That is why you can and should both lis­ten to your own heart and fol­low their exam­ple too. You are to here to ful­fill your­self and help one anoth­er to cre­ate bet­ter lives that are formed and guid­ed by Spir­i­tu­al Truth. A tru­ly human life is guid­ed by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, by kind­ness­es and con­sid­er­a­tions, because it embraces the Liv­ing Faith that we are all the “ones of the One”.

We are the cre­ators of this World and of our­selves and for one anoth­er too, and it is our true pur­pose, duty and spir­i­tu­al ful­fill­ment to make life bet­ter for one and all. Because this is “The Teach­ing” that springs from your heart and from the Wis­est of the Wise: you are insep­a­ra­ble, you are all one, so that,

“What you do to the least of these, you do to me, the One”.

You are here quite sim­ply to Love one anoth­er. This sim­ple yet pro­found Spir­i­tu­al Truth is the Foun­tain-Source, the well­spring for all our Moral Imper­a­tives towards one anoth­er, and in fact to all of Cre­ation too.

Among these “Great Souls”, the Bud­dha is held to be most spe­cial. He is said to have been “the first” of our human type to find the path to self-illu­mi­na­tion. He came and showed us how we can free our­selves from the illu­sion of mat­ter and form. He lived his life and shared the wis­dom that Life is Spir­it, and Spir­it is Life.

The fun­da­men­tal core of the Buddha’s teach­ing in the Ancient Wis­dom is this: The essence of Spir­it is to become, to evolve or real­ly to release from with­in the divine nature behind the form. Thus, the first fact of exis­tence is Change, or as the Bud­dha stat­ed, the “Law of Impermanence”.

Every­thing that exists, from the build­ing blocks of atoms, to the atoms them­selves, to ele­ments and mol­e­cules, to min­er­als, plants, ani­mals, humans, plan­ets and stars, in fact all of Cre­ation, all of these pass through the same cycle of exis­tence: Begin­ning or Birth, growth, decline and the death of that form…and then Rebirth into the next form.

This is the essen­tial eso­teric mean­ing of the Scor­pio Full Moon; it is the dynam­ic inter­play or Jour­ney of Ever­last­ing Val­ue or Spir­it-Life (Tau­rus) evolv­ing cease­less­ly through the hier­ar­chy of Mor­tal Forms (Scor­pio). It is the old sto­ry of Spir­it “falling into” mat­ter and striv­ing to return to its home with the One; yet equal­ly this is the Jour­ney of Spir­it mov­ing through all these forms of Mat­ter which lifts or evolves those mor­tal ves­sels into ever more ethe­re­al­ized forms.

This is the Dance of Spir­it; this is the Song of Life. Spir­it is One and Undi­vid­ed; Life is the Eter­nal mov­ing through ever more rar­efied forms. Though there are many, many forms, there is only one Spir­it. Mat­ter cre­ates the Illu­sion of Diver­si­ty and Separation.

Awak­en­ing-Enlight­en­ment shat­ters the divi­sion between the Know­er and the known. The indi­vid­ual dew­drop or spark of the Divine rejoic­es in Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, swim­ming through the Ocean of Life-Spirit-Consciousness.

You are on the path of Immor­tal­i­ty; mov­ing through count­less worlds, forms and lives.

Cel­e­brate tonight, as you watch the Sun set and your Moon rise; this is the dance of spir­it, this is your dance too.

Know that Spir­it is Beau­ty, and Beau­ty is Truth; that these are Eter­nal, as is the spark of the Divine that is the true heart of you.

The Les­son of the Bud­dha is to flow, to not hold or attach one­self to any par­tic­u­lar form of your­self, for these forms are not you.

Yes, live life as it is…Flowing, Grow­ing and ever Awakening.

Whether you are with a friend for one sub­lime after­noon, or with your love for many, many heart-filled years, your time togeth­er is pre­cious and so you should give of your­self to one anoth­er, share all that you can…because you know this, this is part of the bar­gain you made in mov­ing into mor­tal realms, you must also part from one anoth­er too.

But your love will hold you, keep you for one anoth­er, to the end of time. Your love will hold you to one anoth­er for Eter­ni­ty. So, when you must you will smile, and just say to one anoth­er, “fare thee well my love, until next time”.

The promise of the Full Moon of Scor­pio is the Age­less Wis­dom, it is your Free­dom from fear. For death has no hold over we Immortals:

We are ones of the One, and we are made by love.

We are ones of the One, and we are here for love.

We are ones of the One, and we are here to love.

Remem­ber, when­ev­er you are in need, or you have some doubt or feel you may even suc­cumb to fear, remem­ber always, that you are nev­er alone and have noth­ing to fear.

With­in you is the One, your high­er self, and you are equal­ly held by the love of the Wise Ones, the Lone­ly Ones and by all with whom you journey.

Cel­e­brate a fel­low one, who showed you the way, let us give thanks to the Buddha!

Remem­ber, you are on the path, be not afraid.

Have Faith, give of your­self and remain Cen­tered in the Truth that is Love.

Give thanks, and with all the Wise Ones tonight, repeat the Great Invocation:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.

Reminder:

Astro­log­i­cal Obser­va­tions May 2017 — The Full Moon in Scor­pio (The Bud­dha Full Moon)

Today we will con­sid­er the mean­ing of the Full Moon in Scor­pio which is also known as the Bud­dha Full Moon. The rea­son for this name comes from the sto­ry of the Bud­dha, who was said to have been born in the month of Tau­rus at the Full Moon of Scor­pio, and who after much striv­ing achieved enlight­en­ment or Cos­mic Con­scious­ness at anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio, and final­ly, when his work was done, laid aside his phys­i­cal vehi­cle at yet anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio. The essence of these Teach­ings of the Bud­dha is won­der­ful­ly illus­trat­ed for us in this dynam­ic inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the Sun in Tau­rus and the Moon in Scorpio.

This cycle of the Sun and Moon, (from New Moon, to Wax­ing Square, to Full Moon, to Wan­ing Square, to the next New Moon), forms the arche­typ­al pat­tern of all the plan­e­tary cycles we expe­ri­ence here on Earth. By exam­i­na­tion, reflec­tion and cor­re­spond­ing appli­ca­tion, we can bet­ter under­stand the mes­sages and mean­ings of our unfold­ing lives as informed by these inter­weav­ing cycles of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it. This intri­cate dance of the plan­ets is the weav­ing of mean­ing formed by the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chies of our broth­ers and sis­ters, the beau­ti­ful plan­e­tary hier­ar­chy that is our home among the stars.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac hold the arche­typ­al myths and mean­ings to guide our jour­ney. The jux­ta­po­si­tion or reflec­tive com­par­i­son of signs that are oppo­site to one anoth­er, helps to inform or illu­mi­nate the mean­ings of them one to anoth­er. Life or Spir­it is formed by this jour­ney through the Signs, each res­onat­ing with its own mes­sages, but these indi­vid­ual mean­ings can only be tru­ly under­stood by con­sid­er­ing each one in their rela­tion­ship with its oppo­site, and then ulti­mate­ly with every oth­er sign too. Each Sign is formed and informed by the oth­er, as we do like­wise for one anoth­er here on Earth too.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Wednes­day May 10th @ 5 pm EDT: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/05/10/astrological-observations-may-2017–the-full-moon-in-scorpio-the-buddha-moon

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Wednes­day May 10th!

Warm regards,

Bill

Astro­log­i­cal Obser­va­tions May 2017 — The Full Moon in Scor­pio (The Bud­dha Full Moon)

Today we will con­sid­er the mean­ing of the Full Moon in Scor­pio which is also known as the Bud­dha Full Moon. The rea­son for this name comes from the sto­ry of the Bud­dha, who was said to have been born in the month of Tau­rus at the Full Moon of Scor­pio, and who after much striv­ing achieved enlight­en­ment or Cos­mic Con­scious­ness at anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio, and final­ly, when his work was done, laid aside his phys­i­cal vehi­cle at yet anoth­er Full Moon in Scor­pio. The essence of these Teach­ings of the Bud­dha is won­der­ful­ly illus­trat­ed for us in this dynam­ic inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the Sun in Tau­rus and the Moon in Scorpio.

This cycle of the Sun and Moon, (from New Moon, to Wax­ing Square, to Full Moon, to Wan­ing Square, to the next New Moon), forms the arche­typ­al pat­tern of all the plan­e­tary cycles we expe­ri­ence here on Earth. By exam­i­na­tion, reflec­tion and cor­re­spond­ing appli­ca­tion, we can bet­ter under­stand the mes­sages and mean­ings of our unfold­ing lives as informed by these inter­weav­ing cycles of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it. This intri­cate dance of the plan­ets is the weav­ing of mean­ing formed by the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chies of our broth­ers and sis­ters, the beau­ti­ful plan­e­tary hier­ar­chy that is our home among the stars.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac hold the arche­typ­al myths and mean­ings to guide our jour­ney. The jux­ta­po­si­tion or reflec­tive com­par­i­son of signs that are oppo­site to one anoth­er, helps to inform or illu­mi­nate the mean­ings of them one to anoth­er. Life or Spir­it is formed by this jour­ney through the Signs, each res­onat­ing with its own mes­sages, but these indi­vid­ual mean­ings can only be tru­ly under­stood by con­sid­er­ing each one in their rela­tion­ship with its oppo­site, and then ulti­mate­ly with every oth­er sign too. Each Sign is formed and informed by the oth­er, as we do like­wise for one anoth­er here on Earth too.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Wednes­day May 10th @ 5 pm EDT: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/05/10/astrological-observations-may-2017–the-full-moon-in-scorpio-the-buddha-moon

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Wednes­day May 10th!

Warm regards,

Bill

I am That

The Cir­cle of Liv­ing Ones has turned once more; the first way of Fire must yield to the first forms of Earth. Tau­rus is here and your visions, ideals, aspi­ra­tions and desires that were fash­ioned in the Fires of Aries must be drawn down and made real and sub­stan­tial. For you are a unique spark of the one Divine Light, and your jour­ney of self-becom­ing will take you through many, many worlds, forms and lives.

If you are to tru­ly know and become what you are des­tined to be, (a con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation), then you must par­take in all these realms of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. For you to be ful­ly human, you must become a mas­ter-builder of you.

The Way of Aries is, “I am”.
It is the first step of life; it is here that you expe­ri­ence the won­der of being self-aware.
In Aries, you must answer the ques­tion, “Who are you?”

The Way of Tau­rus is, “I am that”.
This is the sec­ond step in life; it is here that you expe­ri­ence you are some-thing.
In Tau­rus, you must answer the ques­tion, “What are you?”

In some way, you can see these two signs form­ing in their uni­ty one of the fun­da­men­tal truths of your jour­ney in con­scious­ness, your dual­is­tic expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty. There is sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, of being aware of your­self, or self-aware­ness. And, there is objec­tiv­i­ty too, as you expe­ri­ence your­self, (and every­thing and every­one else), as being formed into bod­ies or vehi­cles of manifestation.

But, of course in terms of the Greater Real­i­ty (or Truth), you see the world split into Spir­it and Mat­ter as you attempt to under­stand your one­ness of being or “Life”. Life is Spir­it and Mat­ter togeth­er; they are insep­a­ra­ble. Yet they are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of Life. Mat­ter forms the less­er realms of Spir­it; as Spir­it forms the high­est realms of Mat­ter. The Great Truth is that there is but One Life, there is the One Spir­it which man­i­fests through innu­mer­able forms from the low­est to the most sub­lime. Spir­it is the one eter­nal life; and Mat­ter the count­less ves­sels into which all life flows.

The great mys­tery is that in all these count­less forms or ves­sels, in each atom, min­er­al, plant, ani­mal, human, deva, plan­et and star, through them all what is con­tained or held there is the One Spir­it. There are count­less forms; and there is one Life. There is only One spir­it flow­ing through the hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, whether those realms be Divine, Human, Ani­mal or Mineral.

The Sign of Tau­rus is not mere­ly some month, mark­ing some as “a Tau­rus”. Tau­rus is found every­where, in each moment and most cer­tain­ly in you, and some sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of you (and of course your astro­log­i­cal chart) is formed by this pri­mal expe­ri­ence of Spirit/Matter. When you look at the part of your chart that is ruled by Tau­rus, you can find the answer to what you val­ue in you, of how you expe­ri­ence your gifts of spir­it, and you can dis­cov­er by this what you have and what you want.

What you are to expe­ri­ence in Tau­rus is the Val­ue of You…The mys­tery you seek to unveil in Tau­rus is how to under­stand what you have, to expe­ri­ence what can you do, and dis­cov­er what are you worth. The val­ue of you at any one time is made of a range of fac­tors: phys­i­cal pow­ers, emo­tion­al depths, intel­lec­tu­al prowess and spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Through­out any day, week, year or life, these val­u­a­tions of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in phys­i­cal strengths and emo­tion­al enthu­si­asms; but matu­ri­ty will bring both a mod­u­la­tion and even­tu­al wan­ing of these as you age. Like­wise, the tem­per­ing of your emo­tion­al nature, sea­soned by the grow­ing depths of your judge­ment and wis­dom, will lift your spir­its as oth­er fac­ul­ties fade.

But if you become too attached to one or anoth­er gift or strength you pos­sess, you will find your expe­ri­ence of val­ue to swing wild­ly up and down, and that is real­ly not “the way” to be or become what you real­ly are. You are Spir­it liv­ing by and through these won­der­ful forms or bod­ies that you have cre­at­ed for your­self. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehi­cles that are phys­i­cal, ether­ic, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al. But they are all held togeth­er and bound to one anoth­er by the spark of the Divine which is your high­est Spirit/Form, your High­er Self. You are in your essence this One Spir­it; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form or life.

In your heart of hearts, in your high­est vehi­cle of Spir­it, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite sim­ply, won­der­ful­ly and for­ev­er and ever your true mea­sure is beyond mea­sure. In your High­er Self, and through­out all your forms too, there is the one true Light of Spir­it shin­ing through, so that fill­ing and inform­ing all of you is quite sim­ply Divine Love.

Know this: the val­ue of you is beyond ques­tion, you are quite sim­ply uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are pre­cious. Yes­ter­day, today and for all your tomor­rows, you are a shin­ing jewel.

From the begin­ning, as it will be in the end, you are a Divinity.

You began as an unself-con­scious spark of the Divine.

You unfold your­self, become your­self, through innu­mer­able worlds, forms and lives.

You will become a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation someday.

Look with­in your­self, and “bow” to that divin­i­ty that is the core and true essence of you.

Now turn, to your broth­ers and sis­ters, and to all crea­tures, plants, moun­tains and stars…

Acknowl­edge the Bless­ings of Truth and Beau­ty, the One­ness of Creation.

Bow your head in most joy­ful acknowl­edge­ment, and say…

“Namaste” (“I bow to the Divine with­in you”).

Namaste.

Reminder:

Astro­log­i­cal Obser­va­tions April 2017

Today I will con­sid­er a Astro­log­i­cal review of cur­rent con­di­tions, and tran­sits to charts in the news. Among the charts we will look at are the USA, Don­ald Trump, Vladimir Putin along with charts of oth­er nations and world lead­ers. Lis­ten­ers may call in and pose a ques­tion regard­ing the top­ic, or about their own charts (please have your birth infor­ma­tion ready if you wish to do this).

If you are not able to lis­ten live, all shows will be avail­able on demand. I will also be adding to the library by cre­at­ing short­er clips of commentary.

In addi­tion to these hour-long broad­casts, I intend to host short­er live shows for a top­ic or event.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email or call me as I would be hap­py to hear from you.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Mon­day April 10th @ 4 pm EDT: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/04/10/astrological-observations–april-2017

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion is: (516) 531‑9638.

I very much look for­ward to being “live” with Mon­day April 10th!

Warm regards,

Bill