The Gift of Scorpio

You are not what you seem. Oh no, you are much more than this phys­i­cal body of flesh, blood, and bone. That is your vehi­cle; but it is not you. You are more than that, you know. And now you also under­stand that you are not you with­out one anoth­er too; this is the gift of rela­tion­ship met in the realm of Libra.

You are a spark of the Divine; you are an Immor­tal in a beau­ti­ful but mor­tal body. Your body is your home and your means to exist as a phys­i­cal being on this earth­ly plane. But every­thing and every­one on Earth is here for a tru­ly short time; we move from life to life and through form after form as we make our way through the stars.

Behind all the innu­mer­able forms you live as a mor­tal, behind them all is what resides in your heart of Spir­it, the Noume­na of Cre­ation; behind the phe­nom­e­na of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness there is just the One, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere. The whole of Cre­ation is a field of ener­gy-forms that are all held in the One Field of the One. You, yes you, are a micro­cosm of the cos­mos, and your own field of ener­gy-forms moves through a hier­ar­chy of oth­er ener­gy-forms. The Uni­verse is known Meta­phys­i­cal­ly and Sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly as a Full­ness or Plero­ma, an unimag­in­ably vast Field of Ener­gy-Forms. And we humans? We are all sparks of the Divine, Lumi­nous Bub­bles of Ener­gy-Forms too; we are but lit­tle Light-Forms who in our com­bi­na­tion with many oth­er life-forms are the Radi­ance of the One.

The Uni­verse is a Hier­ar­chy of wholes. Each less­er whole, like we humans, seems to be sep­a­rate from the oth­ers. Be we are, of course, shaped, live and thrive through all the greater and more encom­pass­ing wholes (for exam­ple of fam­i­ly, friends, com­mu­ni­ties). These innu­mer­able wholes in every king­dom or realm form the Cos­mos, like wheels with­in wheels, which we can ulti­mate­ly com­pre­hend and encom­pass into the holi­est of wholes, the One.

It is your great­est illu­sion to believe and act as if you are sep­a­rate and apart from any­thing and any­one. You are inex­tri­ca­bly and won­drous­ly part of one anoth­er; your field of self­hood has been, and will always be, made from all the con­tacts, con­nec­tions, mix­ings and trans­for­ma­tions that you have had since your birth as an “inde­pen­dent” being.

From Mother/Father, Sister/Brother, Friend/Lover, from casu­al to inti­mate, long-lived or short, and mere­ly chance encoun­ters too, you have been made by your connecting/blending/transforming into you; your ener­gy-field has been made from and by so many oth­ers. They have become part of you, and you will always be part of them.

Your sen­si­bil­i­ties, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, truths, and wis­dom too…all of it you owe to oth­ers, as they also owe theirs to you. We are one another’s means to be who we are. From our first breath we became the means to one another’s becom­ing human; we are for one anoth­er the agents of awak­en­ing and becom­ing more ful­ly human in this our fam­i­ly of the human.

But know this too, much of what made you was by count­less semi to uncon­scious acts, con­nec­tions, and blending’s with many oth­ers; it just hap­pened. That is per­fect­ly fine, but it is not enough. Not if you are to become a tru­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

Here in Scor­pio you take the most impor­tant step. You Choose; you move into Con­scious­ly Cre­at­ed Spaces of Union. Hav­ing first estab­lished the space that is rela­tion­ship as a mutu­al­ly con­scious act in Libra, it is here in the Realm of Scor­pio, in the Sacred Space of Alche­my, that  the “I and thou” are formed by mak­ing a self-con­scious­ly aware choice of join­ing in Union with one anoth­er. It is in Scor­pio that the Mys­tery and Mag­ic of Com­bi­na­tion is found.

In this time of Scor­pio, and wher­ev­er Scor­pio is found in your chart, you must choose to enter the “Cru­cible of Union”, the Sacred Space of Spir­it. For every­thing and every­one in the Uni­verse is formed by com­bi­na­tions. This is the source of Spir­i­tu­al Growth. Since the One became the many, atoms have com­bined with oth­er atoms to form larg­er ones, and mol­e­cules with mol­e­cules, and organ­isms with organ­isms. From the largest wholes of Galax­ies, Stars and Plan­ets down to the most infin­i­tes­i­mal of beings, all of Cre­ation is forged and trans­formed by the “Self-Made Motions of Becom­ing” made in the Cru­cible of Spir­it, the Alche­my that is Space.

When­ev­er you enter any joint endeav­or, whether in per­son­al and busi­ness part­ner­ships, in friend­ship or casu­al com­bi­na­tions, and most espe­cial­ly in your most sacred of Holy Unions, you must be pre­pared. It is here in the Sign of Alche­my that you must will­ing­ly and con­scious­ly choose to com­bine with one anoth­er. You enter here a sacred realm, and for this rea­son you must be pre­pared to make your sacrifice.

Yes, in Scor­pio you must choose what you are will­ing to give up so that you might gain some­thing fin­er; you must come to dis­cern what is nego­tiable and what is non-nego­tiable with­in you. In a tru­ly spir­i­tu­al union, you must each give up the less­er with­in you, and by this affirm and secure the greater with­in and between you. And as you each give up some­thing for one anoth­er, and indeed move clos­er to a Union with one anoth­er, you also dis­cov­er the greater mys­tery behind Scor­pio, the mys­tery and joy of re-birth.

For as much as you will by your mutu­al self-sac­ri­fice and mutu­al self-affir­ma­tions move clos­er to one anoth­er, you also real­ize that by this Alchem­i­cal Work you have been brought clos­er to your own true self too. You have done the sacred work, of giv­ing up the less­er to affirm, hon­or and live out the greater in your lives.

Scor­pio is the Forge of Spir­it; it is the realm of Chem­istry in the phys­i­cal world, and Alche­my in the Spir­i­tu­al. It is said that the strongest sign of the Zodi­ac is Scor­pio, and it must be so for a very good rea­son, (but remem­ber, we all have Scor­pio some­where in our charts).

You must be strong, you must be brave, for in Scor­pio you will reach the great­est heights, and plumb the deep­est depths. Yes, you will expe­ri­ence the joy of tru­ly reach­ing out to one anoth­er and becom­ing more one with each oth­er. That Joy will lift you high­er than ever before, and you will feel that there is some­thing more to life than what it appears to be. That there is some­thing, there must be some­thing, that is for­ev­er and ever.

But you will also face the awful truth that what­ev­er you felt, and even if for a moment you feel that some part of you is Immor­tal, you will also know that you live on a mor­tal plane, and that noth­ing here will last. Yes, you will real­ize the bit­ter fruit of your self-aware­ness. That if we are to Love, we will expe­ri­ence Loss; if we are to have Joy, we will also have Pain; these are insep­a­ra­ble for us because we are human, and we know and we feel these truths.

Scor­pio bring us the great­est gift, and the deep­est of challenges.

It is the Joy of Union and the agony of Separation.

But in the end, we will know and under­stand. We have noth­ing to fear.

We are here to become ful­ly human; to dance through forms we made, in life after life.

We are Immor­tals in mor­tal frames, and we are here to shine.

This is the Gift of Scorpio.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The Path of Light, Part 3 Uranus and Individuality
(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

Today’s show is Part 3 of my review of the Hier­ar­chy of Ener­gy-Forms that influ­ence and guide our lives here on Earth. I began in Part 1 by con­sid­er­ing some of the longer-term influ­ences rang­ing from the Galaxy down to our Solar Sys­tem end­ing with the influ­ence of Plu­to. In Part 2, we con­tin­ued by look­ing at the role of Nep­tune. Today I will con­sid­er the role of Uranus.

The Tri­ad of Spirit
These three plan­ets form what I like to call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”, and they are the prin­ci­pal Avatars for the ener­gy-forms that dri­ve the evo­lu­tion of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney here on Earth. With­in the Will of the One, whose Cir­cum­fer­ence holds the entire­ty of Cre­ation, Plu­to is for us, in our sys­tem, the Avatar of the mak­er of the Bound­aries for and the Con­tain­ers of all the less­er Spir­it-Forms rang­ing from Galax­ies, to Stars to Plan­ets, and all the count­less life-forms that fill the heav­ens. Through­out this seem­ing­ly infini­tude of Con­tain­ers with­in the all-encom­pass­ing One, Nep­tune rep­re­sents for us the Ener­gy-Form that fills these Spaces of Space. It is said that Space is not “emp­ty” but is in truth a Full­ness, called the Plero­ma, and that all of Space is the One. The fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Form that fills the Spaces of Space is Life, it is the Love of the One, and we humans know this as Uncon­di­tion­al Love. Uranus is the Third Prin­ci­ple of the Tri­une Nature of God, and from it we are each made into a Self-Aware unique, spe­cial, and indi­vid­ual embod­i­ment of the One.

If Plu­to is the Will of God, and Nep­tune is the Love of God, then Uranus is the Mind of God. What I like to say is that with­in every mote and par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, in every Galaxy, Star, Plan­et, and in every crea­ture great and small, there is a spark of the Divine which has some degree of aware­ness. That spark of the Divine is the Mon­ad of that enti­ty, formed by the Will, and the Love and the Mind of the One Spir­it, the Pri­mal Cause for every­thing and everyone.

Because of this, the Ancient Wis­dom holds that the entire Uni­verse is not only Alive but equal­ly holds that every-thing and every-being is endowed with some degree and form of Con­scious­ness. Yes, the whole Uni­verse is alive and awake, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal par­ti­cles, on up through atoms and mol­e­cules, to life-forms small and large, on up to the Mag­is­te­r­i­al lords of the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies. Because all these many ones are part of the One Will, and the One Love, and equal­ly the One Mind of God, the whole of Cre­ation can also be expe­ri­enced as pure Spir­i­tu­al Consciousness.

Sparks of the Divine, The Monads
That is why the fol­low­ers of the Ancient Teach­ings know and under­stand this: Cre­ation is the jour­ney of the Mon­ads of Spir­it who are Sparks of the Divine; Cre­ation is the jour­ney of Spir­i­tu­al Con­scious­ness through Ener­gy-Forms that are formed and informed by the Will, Love and Mind of the One. As a Mon­ad pro­gress­es through lives and forms, it will unfold ever­more its capac­i­ty for Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Each Spark of the Divine, each Mon­ad, is a unique or indi­vid­ual expres­sion of the Divine. What I like to say is that the essen­tial con­sti­tu­tion of each Mon­ad car­ries a “Quin­tes­sence” of that Spark of the Divine, and it is that par­tic­u­lar spir­i­tu­al quin­tes­sence that makes you and I the very spe­cial ones that we are. And much of what makes you spe­cial is held by the Avatar Uranus, the Avatar of Indi­vid­u­a­tion by Freer Minds.

Through the jour­ney in space-time, and by a series of forms, and lived in innu­mer­able lives, each Mon­ad will at some point enter the realm of Self-Aware Con­scious­ness, of which our Human King­dom is one.

The Awak­en­ing
The sto­ry told of this moment is found in many teach­ings, myths, and leg­ends. It is when the “gods” walked among us; it is when the Light-Bear­ers came to us. It was their Karmic Duty to pass on the light of self-aware­ness, and we entered our first tru­ly human state of self-aware con­scious­ness. Before then, we had been par­tial­ly con­scious but held with­in a realm of shad­ows and igno­rance; when we woke up, we crossed a fun­da­men­tal thresh­old that divides the dark­ness from the light.

From that moment onwards, our spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing was estab­lished, as we began to be guid­ed con­scious­ly by our own Will, Love, and by an ever more Self-Aware Con­scious­ness; we were now able to become more con­scious co-cre­ators of this Cre­ation. Through our awak­en­ing, the unfold­ment of our Divine poten­tial became more insis­tent, as it was now being forged by an ever increas­ing­ly self-deter­mined and self-aware con­scious­ness whose prin­ci­ple instru­ment is held by the Avatar that is Uranus.

But this also set in motion one of the greater chal­lenges of our jour­ney. We have had to strug­gle with the spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge of try­ing to hold togeth­er the seem­ing­ly con­flict­ing Ener­gy-Forms of Uranus and Nep­tune with­in the Cru­cible of the Will formed by Plu­to. We are still attempt­ing to find a way to weave togeth­er and bal­ance the Nep­tun­ian “Song of Com­mu­nal­i­ty” with the Uran­ian “Song of Individuality”.

Com­mu­nal­i­ty and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, Dri­ver of History
Through­out human his­to­ry, (or maybe it is bet­ter under­stood that this is the dri­ver to the sto­ry of this  human phase of our jour­ney), the attempt to bal­ance and inte­grate the cre­ative ten­sion between self­less­ness and self-asser­tion, between com­mu­ni­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, between Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Freer Minds has been the prin­ci­pal dri­ver for the rise and fall of com­mu­ni­ties, cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions. It may come as no sur­prise that we find our­selves in a moment that cer­tain­ly high­lights this chal­lenge right now.

As I dis­cussed in the last show, the role of Nep­tune is to be the Avatar of the over­ar­ch­ing par­a­digm of beliefs in any com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, or civ­i­liza­tion. It is what I call the Hold­er of the encom­pass­ing Bub­ble of Beliefs; and that Par­a­digm of Belief is made up of many small­er and inter­laced belief bub­bles that are held by sec­tions and sub­groups with­in any cul­ture. As I not­ed, when you look at any com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, and civ­i­liza­tion there will be one or more over­ar­ch­ing or cir­cum­scrib­ing “Bub­bles of Belief” that are shared by many. But the var­i­ous sub-group­s/­sub-cul­tures may hold oth­er sub­sets of “Bub­bles of Belief”, which will be teth­ered by and held togeth­er by the over­ar­ch­ing Real­i­ty-Form. How­ev­er, some of these “Bub­bles of Beliefs” may become some­what less or com­plete­ly unteth­ered to the gen­er­al Par­a­digm of Belief of that group, cul­ture, or civilization.

Uranus, Freer Minds
Look­ing to the Role of Uranus, which is to fos­ter and devel­op our Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty by Freer Minds and more self-aware under­stand­ings, those indi­vid­u­als and groups who are devel­op­ing more spir­i­tu­al­ly indi­vid­u­at­ed minds may sep­a­rate from the main belief sys­tem, as it may no longer be suf­fi­cient for them; they are think­ing more “for them­selves”. With­in any one Bub­ble of Belief there will be some­times more and some­times few­er mem­bers who have sep­a­rat­ed them­selves from the main belief struc­ture because of their own spir­i­tu­al­ly indi­vid­u­at­ing journey.

These Freer Thinkers have moved beyond the ortho­dox or typ­i­cal beliefs, and by so doing they have often raised their under­stand­ing to a more inclu­sive and spir­i­tu­al place of under­stand­ing. In a way, they become a van­guard or advanced sec­tion of those humans in that peri­od. The deter­mi­na­tion that they have indeed pro­gressed spir­i­tu­al­ly is that they hold them­selves in a fun­da­men­tal attune­ment with the One, with the Tri­ad of Spir­it. If so, then we can see that they are guid­ed by Freer Minds, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Cen­tered Wills.

But it is equal­ly pos­si­ble that oth­er indi­vid­u­als and groups may use their so-called freer minds to cre­ate sub­sets of belief that are spir­i­tu­al­ly regres­sive, a turn­ing-back to a more lim­it­ed belief struc­ture. There are many exam­ples of these so-called freer thinkers look­ing to the past, with a desire to return to what they con­sid­er to be a bet­ter time than the present; they think and act so as to restore or res­ur­rect a hier­ar­chy of belief and val­ue which restores their vision of what is “the old good”. But we will find that most of these indi­vid­u­als and groups are dri­ven by fear and not love; that rather than the inclu­siv­i­ty of Uncon­di­tion­al Love as the basis of Spir­i­tu­al Truth they divide their world into “us” and “them”.

Through­out His­to­ry, one can find peri­ods where the major­i­ty in a com­mu­ni­ty or cul­ture hold to a more or less well-defined and accept­ed belief sys­tem; but there are peri­ods where this com­mon­al­i­ty of belief breaks down. As I not­ed in the last show, the peri­od we are in with Nep­tune in Pisces from 2011 to 2026, and the par­al­lels to the oth­er times in his­to­ry when Nep­tune was there, cer­tain­ly cre­ates con­di­tions for the per­me­abil­i­ty and dis­so­lu­tion of the integri­ty of the pre­sid­ing Par­a­digm, and the over-arch­ing “Bub­ble of Belief” pops. At such times there is great con­fu­sion, with mul­ti­ple and con­flict­ing claims as to what is a fact, or how to deter­mine what is true and what is false. This is the time we are in now.

Uranus in Taurus
I do not sup­pose that it would sur­prise you that the con­tri­bu­tion of Uranus to our present cir­cum­stance is also an espe­cial­ly impor­tant fac­tor. Uranus is in Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026. If we look to his­to­ry, the indi­ca­tions are rather strik­ing. Uranus was also in Tau­rus from 1935 to 1942, and 1851 to 1859, and 1768 to 1775. With Tau­rus being the hold­er for the expe­ri­ence of Val­ue, Uranus as the Awak­en­er will lead to an erup­tion of change in the expe­ri­ence and under­stand­ing of val­ues dur­ing these peri­ods; it will dri­ve any social order to face a cri­sis, break­down and shift in the val­ues of their com­mu­ni­ty and culture.

For exam­ple, the 1935–42 pas­sage wit­nessed a great upheaval in the world with regards to ques­tions of val­ue and the Eco­nom­ic-Polit­i­cal order, with the strug­gle com­ing from the cri­sis of the Great Depres­sion between Cap­i­tal­ism, Social­ism, Com­mu­nism and Fas­cism. The 1851–59 pas­sage saw the clash between the two val­ue sys­tems and two Cul­tur­al-Eco­nom­ic orders in the USA, between the Free Labor econ­o­my in the North, and Slave Labor econ­o­my in the South. The 1768–1775 pas­sage wit­nessed the strug­gle of two polit­i­cal-economies, Colo­nial­ism or Self-Deter­mi­na­tion as the Amer­i­can colonies strug­gled to assert greater self-deter­mi­na­tion over their lives lead­ing up to the start of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War.

In each of these peri­ods, revolt, rebel­lion even rev­o­lu­tion was per­me­at­ing the cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal order. A great clash of ideas and ide­olo­gies led to schisms and con­flicts over essen­tial val­ues between groups and regions. An old order of val­ue was being chal­lenged by a series of crises of val­ue that were in fact the end prod­uct of the old order crum­bling into a fail­ing hier­ar­chy of val­ue and belief.

Uranus and Nep­tune, Par­al­lels in Time
If we are to draw par­al­lels about the role of Uranus and Nep­tune act­ing in con­cert in these peri­ods, and con­sid­er­ing our own present cir­cum­stance, I would have to state that our time is much like the 1850’s to the 1860’s, where both Uranus was in Tau­rus and Nep­tune in Pisces. That is where they both are now. Once again, we are faced with both the break­down of a Uni­ver­sal­ly shared Par­a­digm of Belief by Nep­tune, while we are also faced with the shat­ter­ing of the old val­ue sys­tem by Uranus that was estab­lished at the end of World War II.

Free­dom, The Illusion
Yes, it would seem, giv­en that Nep­tune in Pisces has blurred the lines between Truth, Fact and Delu­sion, and Uranus has Freed our minds with regards to ques­tions of Val­ue, giv­en this Pro­tean moment in his­to­ry, each of us is “freer” than we have been before. We are free to decide what is true and what is not, we can deter­mine what is fact and what is fic­tion. Giv­en the pow­er to believe any­thing and deter­mine what is and what is not, we are tru­ly freer now than ever before.

But it cer­tain­ly does not seem freer, does it? Why, what is miss­ing? What we are miss­ing is that we are only human, and we can­not think or believe in a man­ner that is sep­a­rate from the Greater Real­i­ty of which we are a very small part; we can­not, on our own, be defin­ers of what is real and what is not real. That belongs to a high­er power.

Laws of the Universe
The Laws of the Uni­verse are just that, Uni­ver­sal Laws that are the embod­i­ment of the One; and for that very rea­son those same Truths and Laws reside with­in each of us as well. Whether we are look­ing through the Meta­phys­i­cal lens of Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, or the Log­i­cal lens of Phi­los­o­phy, or the Phys­i­cal lens of Sci­ence, all of these are ordered and held togeth­er as one by the Will, Love, and Mind of the One. Truth is out there in the whole of Cre­ation; and that means that it equal­ly abides in our very con­sti­tu­tion from the phys­i­cal to the spir­i­tu­al realm in each human being. But to tru­ly dis­cov­er and under­stand this truth you must act human­ly; we are co-cre­ators of our con­scious­ness; we need to share with one anoth­er. That very word we use to define our aware­ness, con­scious­ness, means “know­ing-togeth­er”.

Yes, you can make things up, you can sup­pose or even believe what is phys­i­cal­ly, log­i­cal­ly, or spir­i­tu­al­ly true for you…but that will nev­er make it so. So, the ques­tion becomes, what can, or should you do with your lim­it­ed free will and with your lim­it­ed free mind?

What you must first acknowl­edge is that we do live in a Cre­ation that is gov­erned by Spir­i­tu­al, Men­tal, Emo­tion­al and Phys­i­cal Laws, and that in order for your val­ues and beliefs to real­ly approach the Truth, they must cor­re­spond with this Greater Real­i­ty. For­tu­nate­ly, much has been dis­cov­ered, dis­cerned, and is avail­able for you already. You are the heir to a great for­tune, found in the Halls of Spir­i­tu­al Wis­dom, in the Holy Teach­ings form­ing the heart of every Reli­gion, and in the pur­suit of the Truths of Sci­ence with regards to the phys­i­cal laws of the Uni­verse. The great­est minds that ever lived have left you a lega­cy, and you can build your under­stand­ing upon what has been giv­en to you. Start with these gifts from the wise ones; build your tem­ple of truth on the foun­da­tions made by the great ones whose work and gifts are eternal.

How to know Truth
But the jour­ney of dis­cov­ery and the estab­lish­ment of truth is an ever-evolv­ing endeav­or. The most essen­tial gift of hav­ing a freer mind is your capac­i­ty to ques­tion, test and val­i­date a the­o­ry or law or fact. There is noth­ing wrong with this, it is in fact nec­es­sary to your spir­i­tu­al growth and the pur­suit of Truth. You are not here mere­ly to accept what you read or what you are told; you must seek to under­stand for your­self, to affirm and then add to the gifts of your ancestors.

How do we estab­lish what is truer, or more fac­tu­al? We do what we have always done ever since we woke up; we need to be human; we need to remem­ber that we made one anoth­er through our gift of shar­ing with one anoth­er. We humans are sto­ry­tellers, and we need to tell each oth­er our sto­ries, share our expe­ri­ences, com­pare our find­ings, and keep refin­ing from all these impres­sions, expe­ri­ences, dis­cov­er­ies, and real­iza­tions of what is “tru­ly truer”. We need one anoth­er to lift one anoth­er up to our Greater Understanding.

We need to lis­ten to one anoth­er and under­stand where we agree and where we have a dif­fer­ence. But we need to bal­ance Uranus, our crit­i­cal, doubt­ing, ques­tion­ing intel­li­gence with Nep­tune, by always remem­ber­ing that we are made of one anoth­er and we must always treat one anoth­er as we would wish to be treat­ed; we need to weave togeth­er our Freer Minds with our Uncon­di­tion­al Love for one another.

We need to hold togeth­er these three Avatars: By Plu­to we forge our Cen­tered Wills so that we will nev­er tres­pass upon anoth­er; with Nep­tune we act with Uncon­di­tion­al Love because we are ones of the One; and with Uranus we strive for Freer Minds to under­stand our­selves and our Uni­verse. Only togeth­er can these pow­ers work; only togeth­er can we be bet­ter humans.

Yes, it is by fol­low­ing the path of the Lone­ly Ones, the Wise Ones, the Teach­ers and Heal­ers, that is the only way. We must for­ev­er strive for more Self-Con­trol through a Cen­tered Will, Kind­li­ness through Uncon­di­tion­al Love, and Wis­dom through Freer Minds.

This is the path.

It has always been the path.

For those on the path, we say “Let Thy Will be Done”.

For This is the Way of the One.

And we are the ones of the One.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The Path of Light, Part 3 Uranus and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty – (Octo­ber 11, 2020)

In my twen­ty-sec­ond show of 2020, we will con­tin­ue our review of the major Astro­log­i­cal influ­ences of the year. In our last show we exam­ined the influ­ence of Nep­tune, and I want to look today at the role of Uranus.

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

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

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Octo­ber 11^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/10/11/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-path-of-light-3-october-11–2020

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

Please join me on Sun­day Octo­ber 11^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

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

I am very hap­py to share with you the Pod­cast “The New Mas­cu­line” with Travis Scott. I was the guest on his show recent­ly, and I think many of you would enjoy hear­ing Travis and me share expe­ri­ences and thoughts. I speak about my jour­ney of dis­cov­ery of how I became who I am, and what Astrol­o­gy has to say about the for­ma­tion of iden­ti­ty and how our expe­ri­ences of one anoth­er make us who we are.

Here is the link to the pod­cast: The-new-masculine.simplecast.com/episodes/bill-attride-astrologer-seer-transformer

Tran­script of Radio Show: The Path of Light Part 2, Nep­tune and the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love

Today’s show is Part 2 of what I spoke (and then wrote) about in my last show (Sep­tem­ber 13th). We were look­ing at the Hier­ar­chy of Ener­gy-Forms that influ­ence and inform our jour­ney here on Earth. Work­ing through the Hier­ar­chi­cal nature of the Uni­verse, I looked at the var­i­ous Cycles of Rela­tion­ship that form our jour­ney, from the Milky Way Galaxy on down to our plan­e­tary sys­tem. I fin­ished with a brief obser­va­tion on Plu­to, and I thought it would be help­ful to look at the sec­ond of the two remain­ing Evo­lu­tion­ary Plan­ets, Nep­tune. If we have time, we will also con­sid­er Uranus, or I will exam­ine its role in the next show.

Though I have traced a great many of the fun­da­men­tal shifts we are expe­ri­enc­ing now to the influ­ence of Plu­to in Capri­corn, and to its cycle of rela­tion­ship with the USA chart, I have also been com­ment­ing for some time on the mean­ing­ful­ness of the plan­et Nep­tune dur­ing our cur­rent peri­od, (as well as the sig­nif­i­cance of the plan­et Uranus too).

Tru­ly, we should under­stand that these three out­er plan­ets of Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus, form­ing what I call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”, are the prime instru­ments or mes­sen­gers of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney and Evo­lu­tion. We should always con­sid­er them as “work­ing togeth­er”, but we can cer­tain­ly look at their indi­vid­ual or sep­a­rate influ­ences and con­tri­bu­tions as well.

I like to describe their three Pri­mal Attrib­ut­es as this: That by Plu­to we strive towards Self-Mas­tery by a “Cen­tered Will”; by Nep­tune we are sup­port­ed to hold real­i­ty and one anoth­er in “Uncon­di­tion­al Love”; and by Uranus we are helped to become a unique Spark of the Divine by mov­ing into ever “Freer Minds”.

The Arc of Awakening
For Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy, the influ­ence of Nep­tune mov­ing through the Signs indi­cates the evolv­ing shifts in Con­scious­ness with regards to how Real­i­ty is con­ceived, expe­ri­enced, and lived. This jour­ney in Con­scious­ness has been pro­ceed­ing along an Arc of Awak­en­ing ever since Humans began to move into the first stages of self-awareness.

At low­er lev­els, a human is lim­it­ed to per­ceiv­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing the most basic fac­tors of phys­i­cal exis­tence, with a cir­cum­scribed field of atten­tion to the imme­di­ate sur­round­ings of their world. As the spir­it ris­es with­in any per­son, they will in any one life, and by a series of lives, move from lev­el to lev­el of inclu­sive­ness and com­pre­hen­sion that encom­pass­es ever more than the mere phys­i­cal world and its lim­i­ta­tions. Even­tu­al­ly, through a series of epipha­nies and awak­en­ings, the indi­vid­ual is able to encom­pass not only their famil­ial, cul­tur­al and ulti­mate­ly world­ly under­stand­ing of human­i­ty, but indeed they move beyond the Earth to encom­pass the entire­ty of the Solar Sys­tem (and beyond), and to hold all that exists as One in their under­stand­ing of our jour­ney through the Hier­ar­chies of Time and Space.

By these series of Awak­en­ings, an indi­vid­ual is said to have achieved what we know as an “Inclu­sive Con­scious­ness”, a nec­es­sary part of human self-mas­tery. Those who have reached these heights of aware­ness are the lead­ing lights of human­i­ty, and they are known in var­i­ous tra­di­tions as a “Jivan­mut­ka”, or a “Bud­dha” or a “Christ­ed one”. They are freed beings, hav­ing attained Spir­i­tu­al Enlight­en­ment and Lib­er­a­tion from the bound­aries of their body and of Earth and are part of the stel­lar or Star­ry Com­pa­ny of Illu­mined Souls.

At this ulti­mate lim­it of what we as humans can imag­ine, (and it is the goal to which we are all head­ing, to be “ful­ly human”), one is said to reach a lev­el of con­scious­ness that is described as all-encom­pass­ing, or as some would say, a tru­ly Cos­mic Con­scious­ness. No longer bound by Earth­ly lim­its and phys­i­cal forms, the individual’s low­er mind ascends into the high­er realms of under­stand­ing brought about with direct con­tact with the Ener­gy-Forms com­pris­ing the Cir­cle of Ascend­ed Ones, who serve as the Spir­i­tu­al Guardians for this Solar System.

We are all at some point on this path of awak­en­ing, mov­ing from unself-aware sparks of the Divine to ful­ly Self-Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of Cre­ation. The exam­ples set before us of those who lift­ed them­selves out of dark­ness inspire us to this day: Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras, Jesus and many oth­ers not only point the way but con­tin­ue to inspire our efforts. They will not leave us behind, but they may not, nor will they inter­vene. That is because we must all learn to know what is the good; we must strug­gle to lift our­selves up and choose to live by what is good and true. Just as they walked this path, we must come to this same self-mas­tery by learn­ing what not to do, and how to be bet­ter and fuller humans.

Cir­cles of Real­i­ty, Bub­bles of Belief
The role of Nep­tune in this process is crit­i­cal, (though tru­ly, as I men­tioned ear­li­er, all three out­er plan­ets work togeth­er to forge the quick­en­ing of spir­it), because Nep­tune holds the forms of real­i­ty that ulti­mate­ly will be under­stood and expe­ri­enced as “the One”.

Know this: All of Cre­ation is the Body, Heart, Mind and Spir­it of the One. To expe­ri­ence this, for even a brief instant, would pro­duce for most ordi­nary and for any non-ful­ly awak­ened con­scious­ness, a shock that would shat­ter their being; it would quite sim­ply be an encounter with what would appear to be pure Chaos! The One is beyond our com­pre­hen­sion, beyond our lim­it­ed frame­works of prin­ci­ples, ideas, laws, or con­cepts. But this One is the Ulti­mate Real­i­ty. To us, as we look out into immen­si­ty of all of Cre­ation it is tru­ly chaot­ic; for those who have reached a high­er con­scious­ness it is sublime.

Neptune’s role for us in this jour­ney of awak­en­ing is to move us steadi­ly from less com­pre­hen­sive to more encom­pass­ing expe­ri­ences of this One­ness of Spir­it. The One encom­pass­es the whole of Cre­ation, all life-forms, all feel­ing-forms, all thought-forms, and all spir­it-forms. With­in that One, whose “Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”, innu­mer­able bub­bles of more lim­it­ed expe­ri­ences of Real­i­ty exist.

For humans, these “Cir­cles of Real­i­ty” are deter­mined by the lev­el of devel­op­ment of an individual’s degree of awak­en­ing, rang­ing from a very nar­row expe­ri­ence of space and time, to ever more com­pre­hen­sive and inclu­sive expe­ri­ences. This pro­ceeds through many stages and lives until they reach what is known as Apoth­e­o­sis, and a com­plet­ed human becomes tru­ly divine. At low­er lev­els, we could see the unfold­ing com­pre­hen­sion spi­ral­ing up from the lim­it­ed bub­ble of a young child, to a young adult, to a mature adult, and per­haps in old age tru­ly blos­som­ing into some form of wisdom.

With­in any group, region, cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion, this same order­ing of aware­ness and expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty can be seen, and here we find the for­ma­tion of “Bub­bles of Belief” that are cre­at­ed and shared by few, or many and some­times all. More­over, any one indi­vid­ual may find that their own for­ma­tion of real­i­ty is inter­sect­ed, some­times more some­times less, by many dif­fer­ing bub­bles. You might pic­ture these many inter­sect­ing “Real­i­ty Bub­bles” as being formed like three-dimen­sion­al Venn Diagrams.

Depend­ing upon the com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, and civ­i­liza­tion you are exam­in­ing, there will be one or more over­ar­ch­ing or cir­cum­scrib­ing “bub­bles of real­i­ty-forms” that are shared by many. But the var­i­ous sub-group­s/­sub-cul­tures may hold oth­er sub­sets of “Bub­bles of Belief”, which may be more or less teth­ered by and held togeth­er by the over­ar­ch­ing Real­i­ty-Form. How­ev­er, some of these “Bub­bles of Beliefs” may become some­what less or com­plete­ly unteth­ered to the gen­er­al Par­a­digm of Belief of that group, cul­ture, or civilization.

Nep­tune in Pisces
As Nep­tune moves through its 164-year orbit, there are moments when the strength and integri­ty of these bub­bles of belief will shift. It seems that when Nep­tune is mov­ing through the last sign of Pisces, the sign that it rules, the bound­aries between “Belief/Re­al­i­ty-Forms” becomes thin­ner, and the com­bi­na­tions and trans­for­ma­tions of those bub­bles of belief become more pro­nounced. As you might have noticed, we are in such a peri­od now from 2011 until 2026, and it has been observed by many that the Belief-Forms and Real­i­ty-Forms of our world are bend­ing and mutat­ing into rather exot­ic and some­times seem­ing­ly very delu­sion­al manifestations.

As Pisces is the last Sign it often holds the whole of the pre­vi­ous cycle of expe­ri­ences with­in it, like the final act in a play or move­ment in an opera or sym­pho­ny. With Nep­tune in Pisces, we wit­ness in these “end times” the reap­ing of the har­vest of the pri­or peri­od of the Par­a­digm of Belief and the for­ma­tion of the seed for the next. The two pre­vi­ous Nep­tune pas­sages in Pisces were 1848–1862 (which con­clud­ed the peri­od that had start­ed with Nep­tune in Aries from 1698–1712), and 1685–1698, (which fin­ished the cycle that start­ed in 1535–1548).

The most recent pas­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces from 1848 to 1862, came dur­ing the build up to and begin­ning of the USA’s Civ­il War, where­in two com­plete­ly incom­pat­i­ble views of human­i­ty, (all humans are equal v. some humans are slaves), came to their final col­li­sion. The ear­li­er peri­od of 1685 to 1698, cul­mi­nat­ed in Eng­land with the last attempts at Catholic Rule and the restora­tion a Par­lia­men­tary form of Gov­ern­ment and the tri­umph of a Protestant/Liberal culture.

What we are expe­ri­enc­ing now is the end of our Nep­tun­ian Par­a­digm that began in Aries from 1862–1875. That is when the end of the Civ­il War led to the attempt­ed but unful­filled promise of Recon­struc­tion in the South; that trag­ic fail­ure, to address the griev­ous inequal­i­ties and injus­tices that remained in both the South, as well as in the North, are what we face in our Spir­i­tu­al Crises of today.

It is no sur­prise that the ris­ing tide of calls for Social Jus­tice and Equal Rights have surged once again in this cur­rent peri­od of Nep­tune in Pisces. Yet, because the bound­aries between the var­i­ous Bub­bles of Real­i­ty for­ma­tion are so porous and shift­ing, we find our­selves in a time when a com­mon­ly held Cir­cle of Real­i­ty by a sig­nif­i­cant major­i­ty has been bro­ken and shat­tered into ever more dis­con­nect­ed Bub­bles of Belief.

Tow­er of Babel
Mag­ni­fied by the mod­ern phe­nom­e­na of Social Media, and the pro­lif­er­a­tion and mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of sources of infor­ma­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion that are fired by the algo­rithms that dri­ve out­rage for prof­it, we have cre­at­ed a frag­ment­ing and frac­tur­ing of our com­mon under­stand­ing. We are immersed in a ver­i­ta­ble cacoph­o­ny of “Bub­bles of Dishar­monies”, and many souls (often­times unwit­ting­ly) are shar­ing and spread­ing half-truths and falsehoods.

It appears we humans have stum­bled into what I would call anoth­er “Tow­er of Babel”; we speak words that car­ry very dif­fer­ent mean­ings for one bub­ble ver­sus anoth­er; we argue over what is a “fact” ver­sus an “opin­ion”. We are held by incom­pat­i­ble Real­i­ty-Bub­bles that divide us one from anoth­er. We are seg­ment­ed into var­i­ous parts or sub­sec­tions with­in our coun­try. Whether one looks at the divides between North and South, or Rur­al and Urban, or Coastal and Heart­land, between eth­nic­i­ties and sub-cul­tures, it has become exceed­ing­ly hard to find a com­mon under­stand­ing or sense of pur­pose for these Unit­ed States of America.

What can you do?
For me, and for all those who fol­low the path of the Ancient Wis­dom, and equal­ly the many who under­stand and fol­low the great teach­ers whose mes­sages are the “Heart Doc­trine” of all reli­gious tra­di­tions, we will begin and remain upon the Shin­ing Path of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

It may seem para­dox­i­cal and often­times seem­ing­ly impos­si­ble, but that is the way of Truth. No mat­ter who is before you, no mat­ter how much what they do or say is dis­turb­ing or even repug­nant to you, you must remem­ber this and hold your­self to the path of Spir­it and the clear Light of Truth:

“Love One Another”

Yes, yes, I know it is hard some­times, and you and I will often stum­ble and fall short. And we will have to try again to lis­ten to our heart day after day. We will have to find our strength through love. We must choose to not react to fear with fear, or to anger with anger; the way of Shad­ow and Fear is the path towards Pain and Loss.

It is easy to react, it takes no effort for it is mind­less and often heart­less. It is wis­er though seem­ing­ly hard­er to choose to change the ener­gy that came at you; to turn a neg­a­tive Ener­gy-Form and return with one that is pos­i­tive. But that is the way of becom­ing ful­ly human, to be an agent of cre­ativ­i­ty, renew­al, and rebirth. That is why we are asked to show our strength, wis­dom, and love by “turn­ing the oth­er cheek”. By doing this you are not being weak or cow­ard­ly what­so­ev­er; this is true courage, because it comes from the heart which does not act from fear. This is the Strength of Love; this is build­ing your life on Truth and Light.

Love is the way; it is the only way. It is the Way of Peace and Under­stand­ing. This is the Truth of Nep­tune. Nep­tune is the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love. It is the Light at the Core of you and of all Creation.

The One is the source of all; Uncon­di­tion­al Love is the foun­da­tion of the Uni­verse. It is the Uni­ver­sal Pow­er that holds each and every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation by, for, and in Love. When you hold your­self by this Love and act from this cen­ter, you will dis­pel the shad­ows and fears in your­self and in others.

Tru­ly, this the Ulti­mate Encom­pass­ing Cir­cle of Belief, the hid­den Root of all the count­less Bub­bles of Belief. Uncon­di­tion­al Love is the One; this is the All-Encom­pass­ing Bub­ble of Real­i­ty, of which all less­er Bub­bles are held.

If you start with this, if you start with Love, you will stay on the Path of Light and per­haps be the means to help anoth­er; you may be able to con­nect to those whose anger is formed by mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear. When you respond with Love and Under­stand­ing, you cre­ate an alter­nate path­way for the next step in that inter­ac­tion. The reac­tive pass­ing on of a neg­a­tive ener­gy-form, one that may have per­sist­ed for an awful­ly long time, has been broken.

Whether they are ready to take this step is up to them. But at the very least you have con­tributed to the de-esca­la­tion of the trou­bled thought-feel­ing-forms that have held them. You have offered a path towards under­stand­ing, and a way to move into a greater and more inclu­sive Bub­ble of Belief.

The path towards Spir­i­tu­al Truth can­not be found by impos­ing or forc­ing truth upon anoth­er, for that is a greater untruth. Truth can only be found and lived by hav­ing been elicit­ed from with­in the heart. We are here to lead one anoth­er out into a Greater Understanding.

The Ancient Wis­dom holds that Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of Truth. As much as the Truth is “out there” form­ing the foun­da­tion for every­thing in the vast­ness of the Cos­mos, it is equal­ly to found and awak­ened as a shin­ning splen­dor in every human heart and mind.

Be mind­ful, be gen­tle, be lov­ing, and you will be on the path.

This is the Mes­sage of Neptune.

This is the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.