The Winds of Spir­it are shift­ing, so what lies ahead in 2025?

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

In our last show we took a look at the US Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates. Today, I thought we should pull back from our “here and now”, so that we might look fur­ther out in time to the larg­er shapers, influ­encers and guides of our present, to con­sid­er the spir­i­tu­al forges of our future, the out­er plan­e­tary changes that are arriv­ing in 2025 and beyond.

It is cer­tain­ly evi­dent that the “winds of spir­it” are chang­ing next year, as the plan­e­tary shifts in both sign posi­tions and their align­ments with one anoth­er are, well, they are quite remark­able. It is not com­mon to have more than one or two out­er plan­ets change sign posi­tions in the same year. But in 2025, we are going to expe­ri­ence all of the out­er plan­ets tran­si­tion­ing from one sign to anoth­er. That is just sim­ply not some­thing that hap­pens nor­mal­ly, and it cer­tain­ly means that some great changes are before us now.

Here are the Astrol­o­gy Sign shifts in our plan­e­tary brethren dur­ing 2025 into 2026:

Plu­to com­pletes its tran­si­tion from Capri­corn, where it has been since 2008 into Aquar­ius, where it will remain until 2044.

Nep­tune, tran­si­tion­ing from Pisces where it has been since 2011 into Aries, where it will remain until 2039.

Uranus, tran­si­tion­ing from Tau­rus where it has been since 2018 into Gem­i­ni, where it will remain until 2033.

Sat­urn, tran­si­tion­ing from Pisces where it has been since 2023 into Aries, where it will remain until 2028.

That is quite an unprece­dent­ed series of shifts for these lords of time and space, and I will go through them to explain the mean­ing for each of them, and also con­sid­er their inter­re­la­tion­ship with one anoth­er too.

PLUTO
The move of Plu­to from Capri­corn to Aquar­ius seems most con­se­quen­tial to me. From 2008 until now, we have wit­nessed Pluto’s influ­ence chal­leng­ing the insti­tu­tion­al order of our world. Whether in the root insti­tu­tions of fam­i­ly struc­tures, or in com­mu­ni­ties, and on up to cor­po­ra­tions and nations, the world order that began when Plu­to was last in the sign of Aries, from 1823 to 1853 had reached its lim­it of integri­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. After this strug­gle to main­tain, reform and/or tear down this order of real­i­ty, we are left with two more peri­ods of Pluto’s orbit before we will tru­ly cre­ate and enter our next new world.

Yes, we will have Plu­to in Aquar­ius from 2025 to 2044, which can be likened to what hap­pened before from 1778 to 1798, and in the cycle before that from 1532 to 1553. It is the pur­pose of this phase in Aquar­ius for the world to work through and strug­gle over the ideals and dreams of the future, to work towards a new social order, a new form of com­mu­ni­ty. These chal­lenges of build­ing a new world will lead to con­flicts over what kind of future human­i­ty will make for itself.

With Plu­to rul­ing the Will and the root pow­er of Alche­my, the strug­gle in Capri­corn over the old order is one kind of bat­tle, with the choice between to tear down or to pre­serve what had been the order since 1823. But now we will enter in Aquar­ius the strug­gle over the kind of future we wish to be part of, what kind of soci­ety and cul­ture do we yearn for and seek to estab­lish, and this will be the main issue over the next 20 years. It is not insignif­i­cant for us that the last time Plu­to was in Aquar­ius, the sign of social con­scious­ness and con­science, humans expe­ri­enced the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion and the French Rev­o­lu­tion, where there was a fun­da­men­tal restate­ment of what it means to be in a human soci­ety. In the Unit­ed States we stat­ed that “All Men are Cre­at­ed Equal”, and in France, there was the “Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Man and of the Cit­i­zen”. The lib­er­al sys­tem of cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal order was found­ed in this peri­od, and what we are now faced with is quite sim­ply our attempt to begin to estab­lish a new kind or type of soci­ety and insti­tu­tion­al order, which is as yet unknown and unnamed.

But then, there is one more final phase, which is Plu­to in Pisces, and that will be from 2044 to 2068, which we can liken to what hap­pened from 1798 to 1823. This is the final phase of Plu­to, and we will turn to the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of our faith in one anoth­er and face our fear of the unknown, and we will reach the final strug­gle to cre­ate a new world order, as we restore our faith and enter a new world of Will when Plu­to enters Aries in 2068. What will hap­pen dur­ing this final phase of Plu­to in Pisces?

Well, what hap­pened in that pre­vi­ous final phase of Plu­to from 1798 to 1823? It was for Europe, the attempt by Napolean Bona­parte to impose this new lib­er­al order by means of force, a lib­er­al Empire achieved through wars in West­ern Europe, East­ern Europe, Africa, and final­ly but dis­as­trous­ly, and quite right­ly too, giv­en his very anti-lib­er­al pur­suit of impos­ing free­dom upon oth­ers, end­ing in his self-defeat by his attempt to “lib­er­ate” Rus­sia by conquest.

Per­haps we, and our descen­dants, will learn from these lessons of his­to­ry, and much will depend upon what kind of world we will begin to cre­ate from 2024 to 2044.

NEPTUNE
Since 2011, the bound­aries between all realms or dimen­sions have become much more per­me­able and translu­cent as Nep­tune moved through the realm that it rules, Pisces. The gen­er­al per­cep­tions of what it real, the agree­ments and under­stand­ings about real­i­ty among and between humans became very hard to deter­mine and hold togeth­er, as the lines between facts and fic­tions, between truths, half-truths and lies, dis­solved to such an extent that we now live in a world where “any­thing is pos­si­ble, and noth­ing is true”. Indi­vid­u­als, groups and whole soci­eties have tak­en it upon them­selves to be the arbiters of fact and fic­tion, and illu­sions and delu­sions have per­me­at­ed the minds and hearts of many.

Now, as Nep­tune enters the sign of Aries, we will begin a new cycle of Nep­tune that will con­tin­ue until 2039 when it enters Tau­rus. What might this mean for us? Will the chaos and con­fu­sion of our recent pass give way to cer­tain­ty and progress, or might that fire of Aries lead to extremes of pas­sions and stri­dent bat­tles over what is tru­ly true?

If we look at our time of Nep­tune in Pisces from 2011 to 2026 and com­pare it to the pre­vi­ous pas­sage on Nep­tune in Pisces from 1847 to 1862, we will find res­o­nances with our time. And per­haps we can then look at the pre­vi­ous pas­sage of Nep­tune in Aries from 1862 to 1875 and see how that might give us some indi­ca­tion for what lies ahead.

The 1847 pas­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces began with a series of “rev­o­lu­tions” in Europe in 1848, which were most­ly con­tained or reversed, not unlike in our own peri­od with the so-called “Arab Spring” rev­o­lu­tions of 2011, which also were turned back by reac­tionary forces, and the promise of more pow­er of and for “the peo­ple” failed to real­ize its poten­tial. Dur­ing the 1850’s in the USA, we expe­ri­enced the ris­ing strug­gle over abo­li­tion, of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties bat­tling for and against slav­ery as in “bloody Kansas” and oth­er scenes of strug­gle, ulti­mate­ly cul­mi­nat­ing in our Civ­il War. So, what did the entry of Nep­tune into Aries bring?

The pas­sage of Nep­tune in Aries from 1862 to 1875 was con­se­quen­tial for much of the world. Aries is the spir­i­tu­al ves­sel or seed for the new and the renewed, it cer­tain­ly seems to have sig­naled that around the world. In Japan, the Mei­ji Restora­tion brought about the con­sol­i­da­tion of Japan under impe­r­i­al rule, and pro­pelled Japan upon the path towards moder­ni­ty, turn­ing it from a feu­dal king­dom into a for­mi­da­ble indus­tri­al pow­er in a mat­ter of decades. In the Amer­i­c­as, the Civ­il War was won by the north, and as Lin­coln declared, a rebirth or renew­al of the dream of the Unit­ed States had begun. In Europe, Ger­many uni­fied as a coun­try after the Fran­co-Pruss­ian War, and around the world the march towards indus­tri­al­iza­tion led to the pro­lif­er­a­tion of labor unions, to the strug­gle for fair pay and bet­ter con­di­tions of work in the ever-expand­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­ters around the world, and these devel­op­ments also sparked the move of vast major­i­ty of peo­ple away from liv­ing in an agrar­i­an and rur­al lifestyle and into the rise of major cities and urban culture.

We can­not know, but per­haps we might be able to imag­ine what our post-indus­tri­al world is about to move into, what seeds of the new or renew­al we might see in our Nep­tune in Aries pas­sage from now until 2039. Most evi­dent to me, of course, is that we will be faced with the task of trans­form­ing the means of meet­ing our needs into a sus­tain­able future for us, and tru­ly for all oth­er life-forms that are the light and the love of our dear plan­et. For what we have come to know, and it real­ly is part of the eter­nal jour­ney of spir­it in all the sparks of the divine, in all their lives, realms and worlds that fill the cos­mos, we have come to the truth that every part of cre­ation is relat­ed to every oth­er part. That it is by our wis­dom and humil­i­ty and love for all of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness that we must find our way to being tru­ly human, to live by love for all of Cre­ation, and that this is the one true path of spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing and redemption.

I would like to note here some­thing that I have men­tioned before, with regards to the nature of the rela­tion­ship of the orbits of Plu­to and Nep­tune with one anoth­er. In every pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn, Nep­tune is either in Vir­go, or Nep­tune is in Pisces, as it is now. And this is also true for Plu­to in Aquar­ius as well, that either Nep­tune is in Libra, or as it will be in our time, Nep­tune will be in Aries. That means that if we con­sid­er the mean­ings formed by Plu­to and Nep­tune togeth­er, our peri­od of 2024 to 2044 will be more like the mid 1500’s than the late 1700’s. And that peri­od of the mid-1500’s is con­sid­ered by his­to­ri­ans, espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing Europe but also in oth­er places around the world, that it was the time when the world as we know it now, what we call the mod­ern world, first began to take form. I believe that this means that what we are mov­ing into now is the end of what we have known as our “mod­ern world”, and that we are going to mov­ing into a very dif­fer­ent type of world indeed, what should be a tru­ly “new world”.

URANUS
Let us now bring into this mix the influ­ence of Uranus, which I like to call “The Awak­en­er”. Since 2018, Uranus has been mov­ing through the sign of Tau­rus, which it did also from 1935 to 1942, and 1851 to 1859, and 1768 to 1775. Uranus holds the prin­ci­ple of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, with its influ­ence being brought to bear in a man­ner so that a more con­fined or lim­it­ed form of real­iza­tion can be tran­scend­ed. Because the essen­tial pur­pose behind cre­ation, at the core of spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment is the insis­tent, irre­sistible imper­a­tive which is “to be and become”, forged by the unique spark of the divine that resides in every speck and mote of Cre­ation. For all of Cre­ation, for all that is which is Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, the third prin­ci­ple of Cre­ation holds us, one and all, to the path of becom­ing a tru­ly unique or quin­tes­sen­tial form of expres­sion of the One True Light.

With regards to Uranus’ pas­sage through Tau­rus, it was for us at this time, as it did in the late 1930’s, and the 1850’s, and the ear­ly 1770’s, it was the pur­pose of Uranus to elic­it and her­ald a rev­o­lu­tion in the hier­ar­chies of val­ue, in how we humans val­ue one anoth­er, as well as how we val­ue the world around us. Now Uranus’ pas­sage through Gem­i­ni will bring an elic­i­ta­tion of trans­for­ma­tion and change to the are­na of mind and thought, to all the innu­mer­able ways we con­nect with­in and around our­selves, trans­form­ing how and what we think, what we believe, which will form and shape our inten­tions and actions for the next 7 years.

Uranus will move into Gem­i­ni, begin­ning in 2025, though it will go back and forth into Tau­rus dur­ing the year, to final­ly remain in Gem­i­ni from 2026 until 2033. The most recent pre­vi­ous pas­sages in Gem­i­ni are 1942 to 1949, 1859 to 1866, and 1775 to 1782. It is sure­ly not­ed by many of you, I am sure, that those three peri­ods for the USA, and for the world gen­er­al­ly, were very con­se­quen­tial. After all, great world events shat­tered and rearranged the world in these peri­ods, as in World War II, our Civ­il War and our Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War. That does not mean that we are fat­ed to expe­ri­ence anoth­er great dis­rup­tion in our time, for I do believe we are capa­ble of respond­ing to the ener­gy-forms with­in and around us in a man­ner of our own choosing.

But we would be ignor­ing the lessons of his­to­ry, and of our present self-made human con­di­tions, to be so blind­ly self-assured as to assume that we are more advanced and aware than our ances­tors, and that we will not, as they did, face some great dis­rup­tion again. We can hope, and we should make every effort to turn towards one anoth­er with under­stand­ing and love and try to heal and restore our­selves and our plan­et, to work with these plan­e­tary influ­ences in the most pos­i­tive way that we can.

But to do so, we must remem­ber these very con­di­tions that we face now, it is we who have made them, some by inten­tion but many were not, and main­ly because of a lack of under­stand­ing and humil­i­ty with regard to how we have fueled our mod­ern life through an unsus­tain­able means of liv­ing. Now, with vast pop­u­la­tions being uproot­ed by the forces we have unleashed, the cri­sis we call “cli­mate change” has forged a tsuna­mi of dis­cord and fear that is ris­ing among a vast major­i­ty of humans.

But it was those very crises that accom­pa­nied Uranus in the 1700’s, the 1800’s and the 1900’s, it was by those chal­lenges that test­ed sys­tems and shat­tered old ways of think­ing, it was this that pro­duced or led to a new con­scious­ness, to new thoughts and bet­ter under­stand­ings. And that is what will hap­pen to us as well. Uranus in Gem­i­ni is pre­cise­ly the time for think­ing beyond our old assump­tions, to show that our true intel­li­gence is found by free­ing our minds from the self-cast shad­ows of cer­tain­ties and fears that divide us from with­in, and equal­ly divide us from one anoth­er too.

SATURN
Final­ly, we have Sat­urn, which just like Nep­tune is spend­ing 2025 going back and forth between the end of Pisces and the begin­ning of Aries, and this sets up some­thing that is quite remark­able for this piv­otal year, and I do believe, may pro­vide some greater mea­sure of hope for how we will meet our moment of des­tiny. All the out­er plan­ets, from Plu­to to Sat­urn, all of them will be form­ing a beau­ti­ful pat­tern of inter­re­la­tion­ship with each oth­er dur­ing 2025. All of the out­er plan­ets will be aligned in one third of space, 120 degrees of the Zodi­ac, from the per­spec­tive of Earth, from Plu­to at the begin­ning of Aquar­ius at one end, to Uranus at the begin­ning of Gem­i­ni at the oth­er, and exact­ly mid­way between them, we will have Sat­urn and Nep­tune at the begin­ning of Aries.

This is some­thing spe­cial, and the Astro­log­i­cal name for it is a Sex­tile-Trine-Sex­tile, with our exam­ple being the Trine or 120 degrees between Plu­to and Uranus, which is anchored and made man­i­fest through the Sex­tile of 60 degrees of Plu­to to Saturn/Neptune on one side, and by the Sex­tile of Uranus to Saturn/Neptune on the oth­er side.

The defin­ing Trine of Uranus to Plu­to rep­re­sents a par­tic­u­lar moment in their 127-year cycle of rela­tion­ship, which I see as hold­ing the lessons and spir­i­tu­al ten­son between Free­dom and Free Think­ing (Uranus) ver­sus Sacred Space and Willpow­er (Plu­to). Their last cycle began at their con­junc­tion in 1965 to 1968 and reached a crit­i­cal turn­ing point at their wax­ing square in 2012 to 2015. This Trine, this moment now, can or should be a moment where we may find some way or ways of hold­ing these two prin­ci­ples togeth­er, of humans find­ing a bal­ance between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Union, so that we have even Freer Minds and also pre­serve our Sacred Spaces.

And the spe­cif­ic space or place of acti­va­tion and anchor­ing of this very spe­cial moment is being formed by the begin­ning of this new Sat­urn-Nep­tune cycle, which is released by their con­junc­tion dur­ing 2025 into ear­ly 2026. Their cycle of rela­tion­ship is 36 years, with their pre­vi­ous con­junc­tions being 1989, 1952–53, 1917, and 1882. I call their cycle of rela­tion­ship as being the dance of spir­it that holds or weaves togeth­er Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) and Dreams (Nep­tune).

The Saturn/Neptune con­junc­tion in Aries rep­re­sents a moment where real­i­ty is infused with a new dream, and it can and should be equal­ly a time when a dream that seemed beyond reach becomes a real­i­ty. What this means, I believe, is that the Uranus to Plu­to trine will be mod­u­lat­ed, per­haps “blessed”, by Nep­tune form­ing a sex­tile to both of them, and equal­ly ground­ed and made man­i­fest by Saturn’s sex­tile to Uranus and Plu­to too.

The “winds of the spir­it” are chang­ing this year, and the very real chal­lenges we face, whether they be envi­ron­men­tal, tech­no­log­i­cal, or even epis­te­mo­log­i­cal, or in truth and in sum, all of these spir­i­tu­al chal­lenges have as their root cause that they were all made by us humans…and there­in lies our hope, and I believe it is where can find our faith.

The future is not writ­ten or fore­or­dained, for we are each of us forg­ing some part of it each and every moment, and we do this in that space where we only exist through­out our entire jour­ney, which is in the “eter­nal now”. The past is behind us, the future not yet made. At each moment in the eter­nal now we must be alert to what might be need­ed from us to redeem our past and make a bet­ter future too.

This is the mes­sage and les­son of Aries, the sign of new begin­nings, the sign of the eter­nal now.

What mat­ters is what you and I do next. This is the liv­ing source of our faith and of our hopes ful­filled, because we can choose, it is our choice as to how we will face and meet the next moment, and the next, and the next, and what we must do is be ful­ly present in each moment, guid­ed by car­ing inten­tions and lov­ing actions.

This is the way of spir­it; this is the way of the One.

This will be our sev­enth show in 2024. Today I want to return to a broad­er view of the plan­e­tary for­ma­tions, to con­sid­er the longer cycles that are shap­ing our present cir­cum­stances because we are about to enter a peri­od of major tran­si­tions and changes in the heav­ens. Yes, 2025 is going to be a con­se­quen­tial year and I do believe that these many shifts mean that we are going to be mov­ing into a very dif­fer­ent type of world indeed.

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.

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The One and the Many, the Lumi­nous Bridge of Creation…Relationship

Today we reach one of the four fun­da­men­tal turn­ings in the Zodi­a­cal cal­en­dar, one sea­son ends, and anoth­er begins. These four gate­ways of spir­it hold the four direc­tions of life which frame our jour­ney through the stars, and so we ask, time and time again, “where did I come from, where am I going, who am I, and who are you”?

We are told that we are all part of and came from the One. We humans are one of a host of mon­ads singing our songs of spir­it upon count­less worlds and in many lives. Our des­tiny is to some­day reach our human apoth­e­o­sis, when we become ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ators of cre­ation, formed and guid­ed by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, join­ing the great com­pa­ny of shin­ing ones or Devas in the life divine.

At the cen­ter of every part of cre­ation is a mon­ad of spir­it; in every atom, mol­e­cule, organ­ism, plan­et, star and galaxy, there is the spark of the Divine, because the whole of cre­ation is the One made man­i­fest, all made by Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love. At the heart of every part of cre­ation is a mon­ad which is formed by Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and this is why all of cre­ation is Spir­it, and all of cre­ation is Alive, and all of cre­ation is Conscious.

In each and every life we seek to under­stand who we are to be in this life, to dis­cov­er what is quin­tes­sen­tial to us as a unique spark of the Divine, so that we might sing our true song in the cho­rus of spir­it. And in each and every life we meet one anoth­er, again and again, because it is also true that we will find our true self through one anoth­er, because we are made by one anoth­er from the begin­ning unto the end. Whether in the infin­i­tes­i­mal worlds of mon­ads and atoms, or in the divine heart of stars, it is also true for us humans as well; it is the truth that all of cre­ation is forged, formed, and trans­formed through the agency and pow­er of rela­tion­ships, and so it so with one anoth­er as humans and with all the innu­mer­able hosts of Cre­ation too.

For the next 30 days, and always and for­ev­er an essen­tial part of your very own being too, we cel­e­brate the realm that is Libra. It is here, in the forge of Spir­it, that you meet the great truth that what makes you, and what makes all of cre­ation too, is the won­der that is the mag­ic and mys­tery of relationship.

It is most cer­tain­ly true, that we have been shaped and informed by all our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, by moth­er and father, by sis­ter and broth­er, by aunt and uncle, by our friends, by our col­leagues, by a pass­ing stranger, and our dear­est loves ones too. And just as we have been shaped by them, so have we been an essen­tial source of their form­ing, shap­ing, and becom­ing who they are meant to be as well. Tru­ly, we are all made by and held in a vast web of ener­gy-forms, and the most con­se­quen­tial and essen­tial part of these ener­gy-forms are these past and present rela­tion­ships between with one anoth­er, so that we are tru­ly insep­a­ra­ble from one anoth­er for­ev­er and ever.

This is why rela­tion­ships are the Forge of Cre­ation. You exist with­in your own sacred space, and the oth­er before you, they are like­wise in their sacred space, and then togeth­er we cre­ate what I call “Third Space”, which is the space that is your rela­tion­ship. It is here where the mag­ic of cre­ative com­bi­na­tion can lead you both to a bet­ter, high­er and truer expe­ri­ence of being and becom­ing what you are meant to be.

Guid­ing your actions and reac­tions with one anoth­er, you must under­stand that who­ev­er is before you, they are just like you, anoth­er spark of the Divine on this jour­ney of awak­en­ing, made by and here to become ful­ly human through love. You must do every­thing you can, and they must also like­wise, to endeav­or to make this new and sacred space a beau­ti­ful shar­ing and blend­ing by which you and they can be even more what you are meant to be than you could ever be with­out one another.

In order to cre­ate, main­tain and grow this expe­ri­ence with one anoth­er, you are to be guid­ed by what you are, to give from your heart what is at the root of Cre­ation, to live by uncon­di­tion­al love for your­self and for them. But no mat­ter what place in this jour­ney of awak­en­ing you are, you and they are not per­fect, and you and they will make mis­takes, you will give too lit­tle or take too much, you will tres­pass upon one another’s sacred space, and expe­ri­ence pain and loss. But this too is part of your jour­ney. You are here to learn what to be, and what not to be, and you are meant to help one anoth­er to reveal these errors of omis­sion or com­mis­sion, so that you may turn away from pain and back to love.

And so, as a prin­ci­pal part of your jour­ney to per­fec­tion, you must for­give your­self as you equal­ly must for­give them. By this lov­ing for­give­ness you renew your shared sacred space for heal­ing and growth. Yes, by humil­i­ty, grace and for­give­ness, as you try and fail, and try again, you will help one anoth­er to stay upon the one true path, which is the wis­dom way of love.

Yes, we are the means to one another’s per­fec­tion, we are the instru­ments of our renew­al and the reward of hap­pi­ness and peace, and this will always hap­pen when we stay true to our nature, and remem­ber we are here because of love, and our only com­mand­ment is to love and be that love.

As it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be for­ev­er and ever,

Love one another.

Virgo, by Jack Baddeley

The Great Work 

What is the rea­son you are here; what is your pur­pose here on the Earth, and what is your des­tiny? Some of the great­est minds have pon­dered these fun­da­men­tal ques­tions, as they wres­tled with the mean­ing of life, and what will be our fate.

For me, the Ancient Teach­ings, and with­in those teach­ings the lessons brought to us by the gift of Astrol­o­gy, point to the answer for these mysteries.

Why are we here; what is our pur­pose on Earth? It is real­ly so sim­ple, and yet so awful­ly hard, we are sim­ply here to learn to be bet­ter humans. In life after life, we encounter oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges, and each Zodi­a­cal Sign holds part of the answer as to how we should and will make our des­tiny, by the man­ner in which we meet each moment, one after the other.

In Aries we learn the les­son of pres­ence itself, of the pow­er of our atti­tude as we encounter each moment in the eter­nal now. In Tau­rus we learn the les­son of val­ue, of how all of Cre­ation is made from Divine Love, as we learn to live by love with one anoth­er. In Gem­i­ni we open our minds to the won­der of Cre­ation so that we may learn how to live as intel­li­gent cre­ators. In Can­cer we reach deep into the roots of our feel­ing nature so that we may be guid­ed to care for one anoth­er. In Leo we see the light of the divine in each oth­er as we are led by love to respect and hon­or one another.

Now we have arrived at anoth­er turn­ing in these, “songs of the spir­it”. At this time every year, and always and for­ev­er a most inte­gral part of your nature too, we turn to the gift that is held by the Sign we know as Vir­go. In Vir­go we observe, adjust, cor­rect and improve our­selves, because in order to grow there must be change, and our growth must be guid­ed by atten­tive intel­li­gence to the need to live a life of inte­gral bal­ance with one anoth­er and our world.

The gifts of Vir­go are clar­i­ty and focus, as we bring a crit­i­cal eye to our­selves, to our world and to one anoth­er. By our ser­vice and ded­i­ca­tion through all of our works in the world, from the most menial of tasks to the most mean­ing­ful sac­ri­fices, we strive to be bet­ter, to become bet­ter, to be that bet­ter human we are des­tined to be.

Yes, it is in this most spe­cial space of Vir­go, it is in this time and in this place where we seek and may find what we have always want­ed. Wise ones know that what­ev­er we may wish for or desire, what­ev­er it is that we think might make us hap­py and con­tent, what­ev­er that might be, there is no way to expe­ri­ence any form of hap­pi­ness with­out what you will find here in Virgo.

And what do you seek and what will you find in Vir­go? The great­est gift of Vir­go is to find your way to be at peace, to live as we were meant to be, which is to live in beau­ty and har­mo­ny with our world and with one anoth­er. It is by your self-cor­rec­tion and improve­ment, through your refine­ment and ser­vice, it is by this great work that you ele­vate your con­scious­ness and your actions so that you may live in beau­ty with­in your­self and with one anoth­er too.

Yes, in Vir­go you walk the path of self-mas­tery, sac­ri­fice and self­less­ness, of ded­i­ca­tion and grace to the great work of becom­ing a bet­ter human, and you will do well to remem­ber these words of wis­dom so that you will live your life as it was meant to be:

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.

The 2024 US Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion, Kamala Har­ris and Don­ald Trump (August 11, 2024)

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

I did a radio show back in 2019, and anoth­er in 2020 on Kamala Har­ris. In the first episode she was a Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, and in the sec­ond I was ana­lyz­ing her chart as Joe Biden’s run­ning mate. But now that she is the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date for 2024, and Tim Walz is her Vice-Pres­i­den­tial pick, I knew we would all want to take a fresh look at our cur­rent con­di­tions, and in par­tic­u­lar take a look at Kamala’s chart and com­pare it to Don­ald Trump’s.

I will do a sum­ma­ry of Har­ris’ chart and com­pare that with a sum­ma­ry on Trump’s chart. Then I will look at the cur­rent con­di­tions in Har­ris’ chart and com­pare that with the influ­ences pre­vail­ing in Trump’s chart.

When read­ing a chart, it is impor­tant to remain open and curi­ous, to hold one­self with­in a holis­tic or inclu­sive obser­va­tion­al frame­work. What this means is that even though we will imme­di­ate­ly notice someone’s Sun sign, and their Moon sign and Ris­ing Sign, and we will cer­tain­ly ascer­tain a great deal from just these three indi­ca­tors, it is impor­tant to step back and look for an over­all pat­tern, an encom­pass­ing mean­ing­ful­ness of the chart. What we look for are what we call plan­e­tary pat­terns, cer­tain­ly an over­ar­ch­ing pat­tern that all the plan­ets may form with one anoth­er, and also to the indi­vid­ual pat­terns or for­ma­tions with­in the whole chart. And it is from such an over­all pat­tern or impres­sion that we are able to dis­cern a person’s basic type, some­thing that forms their spir­i­tu­al con­sti­tu­tion and their approach to life in general.

For Kamala, the over­ar­ch­ing pat­tern of her chart is what we call an Hour-Glass or a See Saw pat­tern. This is formed when there are a num­ber of plan­ets in one sec­tion of the chart, and then there is anoth­er gath­er­ing of plan­ets across from the oth­er, and then between those filled in areas there are no plan­ets what­so­ev­er. This cre­ates a deep aware­ness or con­scious­ness of oppo­site and con­trast­ing points of view, of expe­ri­enc­ing the world as diverse and com­plex, and espe­cial­ly see­ing our human world as formed by oppos­ing views which can lead to con­flicts between one side and anoth­er. Because of this, Kamala is able to under­stand one side of a ques­tion, and also the oth­er side (or sides), and so when she is work­ing at her best, her desire and inten­tion is to find the way to bring about under­stand­ing between one side and anoth­er, to rec­on­cile the oppo­sites if pos­si­ble. Often that is found by find­ing a “third way”, which blends some of each into a more inte­gral approach to the issues or prob­lems being faced. Kamala’s chal­lenge and her gift is to stand “in the mid­dle”, to see the good and the less than good on either side of the issue, and try, if pos­si­ble, to find a way beyond con­flict. Kamala will strive to bring peo­ple and groups togeth­er to forge agree­ments by build­ing bridges of mutu­al understanding.

Kamala is a Libra, with her Moon in Aries, and she has Gem­i­ni as her Ris­ing Sign. Though that com­bi­na­tion does cre­ate a very strong and ide­al­is­tic per­sona, she also has a num­ber of plan­ets in Earth signs, includ­ing her ruler Venus in Vir­go and Jupiter in Tau­rus, which togeth­er help to forge a more prag­mat­ic approach from her val­ues and sense of truth, lead­ing her to a real­is­tic appli­ca­tion for her ide­al­ism. As a Libra she wants to work towards coop­er­a­tion and under­stand­ing, but no one should mis­take her as being over-accom­mo­dat­ing. After all, she has the plan­et Mars, the plan­et of the war­rior, in Leo, and it is also her ris­ing plan­et, which means Mars will lead her through life. This makes her a fight­er (Mars) for hon­or and respect (Leo), a leader who seeks to leads by inspi­ra­tion and exam­ple. The chal­lenge posed by her Mars, is that Kamala will have to mod­u­late her assertive, mar­tial nature so that she does not come off as too aggres­sive. Though this served her well as a pros­e­cu­tor, it would have to be tem­pered in the pub­lic space of pol­i­tics. I do believe that her more joy­ful demeanor and laugh­ter now indi­cates that she is chan­nel­ing her war­rior spir­it, but she is doing it with a sense of humor too.

At the very top of her chart Kamala has Sat­urn, in the sign of Aquar­ius. Sat­urn rep­re­sents the test in one’s life, which by fac­ing and over­com­ing that spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge will reward that indi­vid­ual by becom­ing one of their most impor­tant strengths and deeply shape their char­ac­ter. Sat­urn in Aquar­ius is the test of social con­scious­ness and con­science, and by align­ing one’s own dreams with the com­mu­ni­ty, state or nation, a per­son can be a leader of social change and jus­tice. And Sat­urn in the 9th house is the test of Truth. Here a per­son is chal­lenged to con­tin­ue to strive to under­stand, to real­ize the jour­ney to truth is not about com­ing to a des­ti­na­tion, but it is instead formed by a series of epipha­nies, which leads the soul to expand their under­stand­ing to encom­pass­ing many approach­es to truth, to find the com­mon threads behind all sci­ences, philoso­phies and religions.

I have exam­ined Don­ald Trump’s chart many times, but I will sum­ma­rize his chart now just as I did for Kamala Har­ris. The over­ar­ch­ing pat­tern for Trump is what astrologer’s call a Bowl or Hemi­spher­ic pat­tern. All plan­ets fall with­in rough­ly 180 degrees, fill­ing one half of the chart, and the oth­er half has no plan­ets what­so­ev­er. This pat­tern fos­ters a high degree of self-con­tain­ment and inde­pen­dence, cre­at­ing a spe­cial sense of mis­sion or pur­pose in life. Often the indi­vid­ual does not need much social inter­ac­tion, as their own posi­tion or point of view is para­mount. The plan­et that is the lead­ing edge of this pat­tern forms the way they meet with the world. For Trump, this lead­ing plan­et is also the upper­most plan­et in his chart, and it is right next to his Sun and oppo­site his Moon. That sig­na­ture plan­et for Trump is the plan­et Uranus. Uranus is the plan­et of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and free­dom, and giv­en its promi­nence in Trump’s chart, he cer­tain­ly sees him­self as a unique indi­vid­ual, and his pur­pose is to be a break­er of icons and norms.

Don­ald is a Gem­i­ni with his Moon in Sagit­tar­ius, and he has Leo Ris­ing. Like Kamala, Trump has a very strong and ide­al­is­tic per­sona, but unlike Kamala he does not have any Earthy plan­ets to bal­ance out or tem­per his ide­al­ism. The com­bi­na­tion of his Gem­i­ni Sun with the Sagit­tar­i­an Moon makes Don­ald a very curi­ous and rest­less indi­vid­ual, who swings back and forth between one posi­tion and then anoth­er, mak­ing him flex­i­ble and pli­able, a mer­cu­r­ial nature with a con­stant stream of thoughts, notions and sup­po­si­tions. And, inter­est­ing­ly, just like Kamala, Don­ald has the plan­et Mars in Leo, and giv­en its place­ment just inside his 12^th house, it also func­tions as one of his Ris­ing plan­ets too. This means Trump is a fight­er too, but with Mars in his 12^th house, he prefers to act as a sac­ri­fi­cial hero, and often works behind the cur­tain, cov­er­ing up his true aims or intentions.

It is very inter­est­ing to note, that two fac­tors shared by many pres­i­dents in US his­to­ry, is either hav­ing Mars as the ris­ing plan­et, for 20% of all pres­i­dents, or Mars in Leo, for 26% of all pres­i­dents. Admit­ted­ly, it is a small sam­ple of only 42 indi­vid­u­als, but the fact that Kamala and Trump have both means something.

But there is anoth­er plan­et that one could argue func­tions as anoth­er ris­ing plan­et for Trump, because we can cer­tain­ly observe that it plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in the per­sona he projects to the world, and that plan­et is Nep­tune. Nep­tune is the plan­et of dreams, of imag­i­na­tion and fan­ta­sy, of inspi­ra­tions and delu­sions. When Nep­tune is ris­ing, and many movie stars have had this fea­ture, you can play many or any roles, because the audi­ence finds it easy to project their dreams upon you, so that in effect, that per­son acts like a mir­ror and becomes the bear­er of oth­ers dreams or fears. And not only does Don­ald have Nep­tune ris­ing, but it exact­ly squares the ruler of Gem­i­ni, Mer­cury, and so it is very much inte­gral to the way he thinks and com­mu­ni­cates. But anoth­er fea­ture of Nep­tune, which rules the sign of Pisces, is to take on the role of sav­ior or mar­tyr, to play the hero or the vic­tim. That cer­tain­ly fits the per­sona of Trump, who swings between the van­quish­ing hero and the vic­tim of a world that is out to get him.

Now let us look at the major plan­e­tary indi­ca­tors in Kamala’s and Donald’s charts. When con­sid­er­ing any chart, I first take a look at two indi­ca­tors in order to get a quick sense of what is hap­pen­ing in any individual’s life. One indi­ca­tor is the posi­tion of their pro­gressed Moon, (sign and house) and the oth­er is the house posi­tion of Sat­urn, and the aspects it is form­ing with the ele­ments of their chart.

For Kamala, her pro­gressed Moon has been mov­ing through her 1^st house since July 2023 and it will enter the 2^nd house by Decem­ber 2024, and it has been in the sign of Can­cer since Decem­ber 2023, where it will remain until Novem­ber 2025. The pro­gressed Moon in the 1^st house is a time when you re-present your­self to the world, when you take on a new role, a new iden­ti­ty, and you lean into and devel­op a new­er form of the pow­er of your pres­ence in the world. When it moves into the 2^nd house, you focus on your strengths and val­ues, and you are tasked with apply­ing your fac­ul­ties in ever more mean­ing­ful ways in the world. When the pro­gressed Moon is in Can­cer, it is a time to re-cen­ter your­self, to become more in touch with your feel­ings, and so be able to equal­ly con­nect in more mean­ing­ful ways with oth­er peo­ple. You more deeply con­nect to your roots and ori­gins, and by exten­sion find the way to con­nect to oth­er peo­ple with regards to their needs for nur­tur­ing and secu­ri­ty too.

From 2021 to 2023, Kamala had Sat­urn mov­ing through her 9^th house (which is where it is locat­ed in her birth chart). When Sat­urn is mov­ing through the 9^th, you are going on an inner and out­er jour­ney to deep­en and extend your expe­ri­ence of the truth, whether that be cul­tur­al, sci­en­tif­ic, reli­gious or spir­i­tu­al truths, or usu­al­ly a com­bi­na­tion of them all. By clar­i­fy­ing your truth, and more deeply align­ing your­self to what guides and moti­vates you, you are in effect prepar­ing for what comes next, which is Sat­urn in the 10^th house, the Test of Respon­si­bil­i­ty. Sat­urn entered Kamala’s 10^th house in 2023 and will remain there until 2026. This is the cli­mac­tic moment in her life, where every­thing she has done since Sat­urn began it cycle through her chart, that is when it entered her 1^st house in 2002–2004, then ful­ly com­mit­ting to her path with Sat­urn in the 4^th house in 2008-10, and final­ly mov­ing out into an even more pub­lic life when Sat­urn entered her 7^th house in 2017–19, so that now all that she has done and pre­pared her­self for is ready to be ful­ly real­ized. Now she will feel the weight of respon­si­bil­i­ty, and if she has pre­pared her­self, she will receive acknowl­edge­ment from the world that she is ready to ful­fill her duty.

With just these two indi­ca­tors, the pro­gressed Moon and the tran­sit­ing Sat­urn, mov­ing through these angu­lar hous­es, it cer­tain­ly would seem that the stars have aligned for Kamala. But there are oth­er indi­ca­tors that are also favor­ing her at this time. Most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, Kamala was born with her Sun trin­ing her Sat­urn, which forges and deep under­stand­ing of how the world works, and how one can and should work towards ful­fill­ing your duty as an author­i­ty in the world. In pro­gres­sions, the Sun moves about 1 degree per year in a chart, and it is pre­cise­ly this year, when she is 60 years old, that her pro­gressed Sun is now form­ing a sex­tile to her Sat­urn, which brings to fruition her potential.

Then with regards to oth­er major tran­sits, 2024 is the year when the plan­et Uranus is con­junct her Jupiter, the plan­et of benev­o­lence, of being jovial, of good for­tune and growth. Uranus brings the unex­pect­ed, like a door sud­den­ly open­ing. Kamala was pre­pared to be a vice-pres­i­dent again, but Uranus came along, and anoth­er door opened, sud­den good for­tune, and just as sud­den­ly, joyful.

Now let’s look at those two prin­ci­pal fac­tors in Don­ald Trump’s chart, the pro­gressed Moon and tran­sit­ing Sat­urn. For Don­ald, his pro­gressed Moon has been mov­ing through the 3^rd house of his chart from 2023 and will remain there until 2026. When the Moon is mov­ing through this house you are being asked to work on your means of gath­er­ing data or infor­ma­tion, of pro­cess­ing infor­ma­tion, and then of trans­mit­ting it. What you will feel like is that you are sort of “back in school”, and you need to put your think­ing cap on and reex­am­ine the world around you and adjust your under­stand­ing and mes­sag­ing about it. Basi­cal­ly, it is like going through a series of intel­li­gence tests, and if you can adapt and grow you will do well. But if you refuse to change your approach and mes­sage, you will prob­a­bly become more dis­so­ci­at­ed from the world around you. This is, after all, the nat­ur­al house of Gem­i­ni, and Trump should be able to piv­ot and retool his think­ing now. But from all the evi­dence so far this year, he is still say­ing the same things, in the same ways, and it is not reach­ing that wider audi­ence he will need to win.

Mean­while, his pro­gressed Moon had been in Libra from Sep­tem­ber 2021 until Jan­u­ary 2024, but it is now mov­ing through Scor­pio (until 2026). When­ev­er the Moon is in Scor­pio, you are going to expe­ri­ence a far high­er range of feel­ings and emo­tions, much high­er highs and much deep­er lows. Scor­pio is the sign of Union, of birth, death and rebirth. The long­ing for the indi­vid­ual at this time is for a renew­al, and a deep­er con­nec­tion with­in one­self and to oth­ers. The fear that must be faced is rejec­tion and loss, and the very fear of death itself. What­ev­er hap­pens to Don­ald at this time, he is going to react more strong­ly, and if he does not face his fears he will not fare well.

From 2020 to 2023, Don­ald had Sat­urn mov­ing through his 6^th house, the house that rules the order­ing of one’s life, your lifestyle and way of work­ing, of your health and the need for adjust­ment and heal­ing. I call this house the house of suf­fer­ing, because we suf­fer when we become unable to adapt, and we are attached to ways of being that were nev­er or are no longer good for us. We suf­fer, not as a thing unto itself, rather suf­fer­ing is nature’s way of say­ing “move away from this pain”, so that we will let go and grow, and become bet­ter. And if we do this, we are ready for what the next house will bring to us, the 7^th house which is the house of rela­tion­ships and our rela­tion­ship to the world.

For 2023, 2024 and the begin­ning of 2025, Don­ald has Sat­urn in the 7^th house of rela­tion­ship. Just as in Kamala’s chart, this is one of the four angles of the chart, and indi­cates a change in one’s rela­tion­ship with the world. If Trump has made the prop­er adjust­ments dur­ing Saturn’s pas­sage through the 6^th house, then he should be pre­pared to face the tests and oppor­tu­ni­ties of more mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships now. But if he has not released from his attach­ments that have caused him to suf­fer, then that will become evi­dent to the larg­er world as Sat­urn moves through his 7^th house now.

For 2024, while Sat­urn is mov­ing through the 7^th house it is form­ing a square to that most sig­nif­i­cant plan­et in Donald’s chart, the plan­et Uranus in his 10^th house of the pub­lic life. This means he is fac­ing a great chal­lenge and dif­fi­cul­ty bal­anc­ing out his need to be dif­fer­ent (Uranus) and his need to be respon­si­ble (Sat­urn). Often this com­bi­na­tion of Sat­urn and Uranus can cre­ate a very tense peri­od, with upsets and frus­tra­tions as the chal­lenge to make nec­es­sary changes is thwart­ed by one’s own inabil­i­ty to change, or by oth­er peo­ple who are the source of the resis­tance and/or the source of the pres­sure to change what­ev­er he is resisting.

The oth­er major fac­tor in Donald’s chart this year is being brough to bear by that very sin­gu­lar plan­et for him, Uranus. Dur­ing 2024, Uranus is mov­ing back and forth over the cusp of his 10^th house, and at the same time Uranus is squar­ing his Mars. I spoke about this in my show on Jan­u­ary 28, 2024, when I pre­viewed the 2024 elec­tion, with Trump and Biden as the can­di­dates. I not­ed then that with the immi­nent return of Uranus’ posi­tion in Donald’s chart, he would expe­ri­ence shocks, both pleas­ant and unpleas­ant, that Uranus brings into our lives. The chal­lenges of Uranus are meant to free us from our self-lim­i­ta­tions, to move us towards a more tru­ly indi­vid­u­at­ed expe­ri­ence of our­selves and our world. If we are here to grow, then we are here to change, to evolve, to become what our pur­pose of Earth is all about, which is to become a bet­ter human.

If you respond to the winds of change by resist­ing, you may suc­ceed if you are main­tain­ing core val­ues and prin­ci­ples. But if you are resist­ing because of fear, then your world­view and you will begin to crack and per­haps even shat­ter. Trump was pre­pared to com­pete against Biden, and it looked to many as if he would suc­ceed. Then Uranus lined up with Trump’s Mars; the unex­pect­ed hap­pened, Biden bowed out. This is, in Trump’s world­view, incom­pre­hen­si­ble, that some­one would walk away from pow­er? He was stunned, and he cer­tain­ly has not, as yet, recov­ered and respond­ed to this Uran­ian turn of events. And while Uranus is squar­ing Donald’s Mars so as to make him act even more errat­i­cal­ly, Uranus is form­ing a con­junc­tion to Kamala’s Jupiter which is open­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for her.

Giv­en recent events and cur­rent con­di­tions and con­sid­er­ing the over­all influ­ences pre­vail­ing in Kamala’s and Donald’s charts this year, it seems very like­ly that the next pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States will be Kamala Harris.

I think in my next show we will con­sid­er the larg­er forces at work in the world, as we seem to be at an inflec­tion point in many respects. We will cer­tain­ly talk more about the USA elec­tion, but also cast a wider net on the trends in the USA and the world. The winds of the spir­it are stir­ring, and we need to be atten­tive if we want to be pre­pared to meet the moment.