Tran­script of Radio Show — Venus Ret­ro­grade & Dhar­ma in Gemini

Let us turn our atten­tion to the top­ic of today, which is actu­al­ly two, in that I would like to talk first about Venus and then talk about the nodes of the Moon.

Ret­ro­grade
When­ev­er Venus turns ret­ro­grade, and like all the plan­ets, except for the Sun and Moon which are not plan­ets, all plan­ets have this qual­i­ty of going ret­ro­grade. Which means for our pur­pos­es here on Earth, though all the plan­ets go around the Sun in the same direc­tion, they have the appear­ance for us on our plan­et to move back­wards against the back­drop of the stars for var­i­ous peri­ods of time.

Mer­cury and Venus, being inside the orbit of the Earth to the Sun, they “catch up” with us on the “inside track” and appear to loop around in space for that peri­od of ret­ro­grade, and then con­tin­ue on their mer­ry way.

Then for the Out­er Plan­ets, of Mars on out to Plu­to, we will pass them on the “inside track”, so that for a num­ber of months or many months, they will also ret­ro­grade. In fact, com­ing up this week we have Sat­urn turn­ing ret­ro­grade tomor­row (May 11), we have Venus turn­ing ret­ro­grade on Wednes­day the 13^th, and Jupiter turn­ing ret­ro­grade on the 14^th. So, this is a week with a lot of plan­ets turn­ing ret­ro­grade. I would just like to point out in terms of the out­er plan­ets like Sat­urn and Jupiter, it is because they are so close togeth­er now (in the sign of Capri­corn), that they are going ret­ro­grade at the same time.

Of course, we are prob­a­bly more famil­iar with Mer­cury going ret­ro­grade since we talk about it more fre­quent­ly because it hap­pens more often, at least three times a year. Mars goes ret­ro­grade about every two years, but all the out­er plan­ets will ret­ro­grade for sev­er­al months each year.

Venus Ret­ro­grade
For our pur­pos­es here, when­ev­er Venus turns ret­ro­grade, (and it does this about every 19 months, last­ing for about 40 days, which is an inter­est­ing num­ber because that num­ber is found in many spir­i­tu­al tra­di­tions), we are giv­en a very spe­cial oppor­tu­ni­ty, I would say, to also turn around, look with­in and re-exam­ine our val­ues which are inte­gral to our inner sen­si­bil­i­ties and for­ma­tive of our out­er qual­i­ties of being. Those val­ues held by the Avatar of Venus form our tastes and sen­si­bil­i­ties rang­ing from our phys­i­cal plea­sures, aes­thet­ic or artis­tic appre­ci­a­tions to our per­son­al love and social sen­si­bil­i­ties. Venus holds our likes (and dis­likes) with the things of this world, and with our affec­tions or antag­o­nisms with one another.

Tru­ly Venus, as the instru­ment of our order­ing or hier­ar­chy of val­ue, holds us to what we need, what we have and what we want in our life, rang­ing from the most basic or phys­i­cal of our appetites on up to the most sub­lime of affec­tions and expe­ri­ences we have and share with one anoth­er. I like to say, that the heart or bond of all rela­tion­ships is our shared val­ues, and that if we have enough com­mon val­ue we will hold togeth­er in good times but espe­cial­ly in try­ing ones as we have now, as true friends, as sin­cere col­leagues and trea­sured loved ones.

Dur­ing the peri­od of Venus ret­ro­grade, much like dur­ing the more famil­iar Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, its nor­mal­ly out­ward­ly direct­ed ener­gy-forms are turned inward, which means they move from a more or less pure­ly sub­jec­tive per­spec­tive or point of view to a more objec­tive place. This gift of Venus ret­ro­grade enables you to become more objec­tive or inward­ly focused upon the expe­ri­ences of val­ue in your life. As with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, but now focused upon the ques­tion of val­ue not on how you think, you are able to shift your con­scious­ness and con­tem­plate your hier­ar­chy of val­ue more objec­tive­ly, less per­son­al­ly so that it is more removed from the cul­tur­al and social assump­tions that you may be unknow­ing­ly shaped and guid­ed by.

Many of your wants and needs, which arise from your val­ues, and ulti­mate­ly add up to form your val­ue of “you”, many of these have, cer­tain­ly at first, been uncon­scious­ly incor­po­rat­ed into you through your ear­li­est expe­ri­ences in your fam­i­ly and imme­di­ate neigh­bor­hood and cul­tur­al order. In child­hood and then beyond into your teens and even adult­hood, you may believe that you like or want or tru­ly need some­thing, because, well, because you always have, and those around you do too.

But as you con­sid­er these things or expe­ri­ences of val­ue you from a more dis­pas­sion­ate and objec­tive place, you may find that your likes and dis­likes are not so pre-deter­mined and fixed at all. You will prob­a­bly dis­cov­er that some or many things you feel or believe you must have, you will upon reflec­tion under­stand that you actu­al­ly do not need them at all.

You will let go or elim­i­nate some things in your life or some activ­i­ties or pas­times and that this will open a space with­in and around you. You will also real­ize that some things or expe­ri­ences you had not yet con­sid­ered mean­ing­ful or val­ued, that you now wish to enjoy and make these parts of your life.

It is quite prob­a­ble that the range of the val­ues you hold will move around, as the order that they are in may become rearranged, with some things or expe­ri­ences in your life mov­ing up or down in importance.

Flow­ing from this inner re-order­ing will be a new sen­si­bil­i­ty and rela­tion­ship to the world around you. Most espe­cial­ly, this refined/reformed under­stand­ing of the val­ue of you and of what you val­ue, will help you in your most impor­tant expe­ri­ence as human, your expe­ri­ence of val­ue that forms your rela­tion­ships with one another.

What we will see over the next six weeks, is that we will all ben­e­fit from a much need­ed reassess­ment of the nature of our val­ues, of what is tru­ly more mean­ing­ful and need­ed by each of us and for all of us. For it is our com­mon­ly shared val­ues, the glue of our part­ner­ships, com­mu­ni­ties, regions, nations and the world itself that will be illu­mi­nat­ed by this oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­nect to the most impor­tant val­ue from which all oth­ers are derived, the Love that made this world, and gives us all an undy­ing well of val­ue, the love we have in Spir­it, and the love we have for one another.

And, just as a point of infor­ma­tion the ret­ro­grade begins on May 13^th and runs until June 25^th, and the mid­point of its cycle is when Venus is pass­ing over the Sun, mak­ing the Venus/Sun Con­junc­tion will occur on June 3^rd around 1:45 pm here in New York City. It is said to be a moment where there is an align­ment between the Self and val­ue of the Self, and so that is when a seed or influ­ence might be felt by one and all, and that some­thing has changed and a new under­stand­ing is being released.

It will take some time to under­stand what that is, but it is like a New Moon for Venus with regards to us.

Lunar Nodes
Well then, let us take a look at this oth­er thing that is per­haps even more obscure for many peo­ple. Peo­ple may have found in their ses­sions with their Astrologer or read about these things, but what I have found in my prac­tice of Astrol­o­gy, and this is cer­tain­ly true for a num­ber of Astrologers, is that the insight pro­vid­ed by the posi­tion of the Moon’s nodes to be quite helpful.

The Nodes are not phys­i­cal objects. They are formed by the inter­sec­tion of two orbital paths, the orbit of the Moon around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. So, it is like two cir­cles or ellipses that inter­sect at two points. Unlike the plan­ets, the nodes move through the Zodi­ac in reverse order, from Aries to Pisces to Aquar­ius and so on, and take about 18.6 years to make a com­plete revolution.

When the Moon in pass­ing the North node, it is mov­ing over the eclip­tic (the path of the Earth around the Sun) and moves from a lat­i­tude that is South to North; and like­wise, when it reach­es the South Node, it cross­es the eclip­tic again mov­ing into South lat­i­tude. Since we are look­ing here at the orbits of the Earth to the Sun, and the Moon to the Earth, the nodal axis is said to sym­bol­ize or link the pri­ma­ry rela­tion­ship of the two lights in Astrol­o­gy, the Sun and the Moon.

The Moon in the North­ern phase of its month­ly cycle is the time for the “build­ing of ener­gy-forms” or Spir­it, and the south­ern pas­sage is the time for reap­ing and Mate­ri­al­iz­ing peri­od. Sow­ing and Reap­ing, Dhar­ma and Kar­ma is how I like to describe it.

Sim­i­lar­ly for our pur­pos­es today, as the Nodal posi­tion moves back­wards through the Astro­log­i­cal Signs for 18.6 years, (and as they do so they move through each of our charts, and through the hous­es of that chart with regards to indi­vid­ual inter­pre­ta­tions), we can obtain valu­able insight about the ongo­ing focus of what is or should be our under­stand­ing in that time of what is our col­lec­tive Dhar­ma and what is our col­lec­tive Karma.

North Node in Gemini
Start­ing on May the 5^th of 2020, and last­ing until Jan­u­ary 2022, we now have the North Node of the Moon in Gem­i­ni and so the South Node is in Sagit­tar­ius. What does this mean for us?

The North Node in Gem­i­ni calls upon us all to focus our spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment upon one of our more remark­able gifts, our fac­ul­ty of Intel­li­gence, and to use this “lamp of con­scious aware­ness” in prac­ti­cal terms to under­stand our­selves and our world. By doing so, we will be able to find bet­ter and more prac­ti­cal solu­tions to the issues and prob­lems that we face at this time.

Equal­ly, the South Node in Sagit­tar­ius reminds us that our exist­ing approach to under­stand­ing our real­i­ty will always be guid­ed by our pri­or expe­ri­ences, which have been assim­i­lat­ed and formed into our the­o­ries, sci­ence, and oth­er truths. These become our fram­ing or our lens­es that we look at the present real­i­ty with, because they cre­ate and form our present-day assump­tions and view­points. These uni­ver­sals have become crys­tal­lized into our par­a­digm of beliefs, truths and the abstract prin­ci­ples that guide us. They reveal and explain what we are encoun­ter­ing giv­en that frame­work, but it also means we can­not see or under­stand what does not fit with those assump­tions. We must remem­ber that our con­scious­ness is lim­it­ed, and we do not know what we can­not see or under­stand, espe­cial­ly if we do not even con­sid­er it possible.

We should resist the pull of the South Node, (but cer­tain­ly not dis­miss what we have learned to date either), because it would have us fall back upon or rest upon our too easy and ready answers, which have been formed by our ulti­mate­ly self-blind­ed and lim­it­ed rea­son­ing. Because even though this lev­el of Sci­ence or Belief or Truth does pro­vide a con­text of mean­ing for the phe­nom­e­na we encounter, they will also lim­it and blind us to what we may need to under­stand in the now. If we only look for what we expect to find and dis­miss what does not fit that pre­sumed view of real­i­ty, then we will miss what is “out there” or even “in us” because we have will­ful­ly cho­sen to ignore it.

The Gem­i­ni North Node is about remain­ing curi­ous and open. It is about the gift of open obser­va­tion and rely­ing more upon Induc­tive Rea­son­ing. It requires that we be flex­i­ble and agile and adept, by ques­tion­ing our assump­tions and remov­ing the ten­den­cy to dis­miss what does not fit with our pre­con­cep­tions. That way we can look at the phe­nom­e­na of what­ev­er we are encoun­ter­ing with a fresh per­spec­tive, with an open mind and heart.

The North Node in Gem­i­ni reminds us, as does the Sign of Gem­i­ni gen­er­al­ly, that as the ancient admo­ni­tion has it, we must approach the won­der of this uni­verse “with the eyes of a child and then you will see”. It is by approach­ing any mat­ter for con­sid­er­a­tion with won­der and open­ness, and with­out the pre­con­cep­tions and assump­tions that blind you to what is the greater real­i­ty that you face now, this is what is required now in our journey.

This win­dow of Gem­i­ni is about gath­er­ing many expe­ri­ences, many data points, and so you may begin to build a bet­ter or new­er set of cor­re­spon­dences and con­nec­tions between one thing and anoth­er. By build­ing inward­ly and out­ward­ly into an ever more encom­pass­ing web of inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty, you and we will even­tu­al­ly form a large enough body or col­lec­tion of infor­ma­tion that will reveal a new under­stand­ing of the order behind it.

Cer­tain­ly, much of what we already under­stand, which has been held and ulti­mate­ly formed into more or less ever­last­ing truths will remain; there are cer­tain­ly some truths that are tru­ly eter­nal. But some if not many of the, shall we say, less­er truths as well as less­er cat­e­gories of knowl­edge and mean­ing, these will be shaped, per­haps sharp­ened, or couched into a more nuanced order­ing of mean­ing which will lead to a greater com­pre­hen­sion, a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing, and help us stay upon the path that is made of equal parts of wis­dom and humil­i­ty. The great souls know this: “The more you know, the more you will bow down to that which is beyond your knowing”.

This Gem­i­ni North Node approach seems rather time­ly, as we are cer­tain­ly deal­ing with a world that is rapid­ly chang­ing. We find our­selves in a world where our old assump­tions, prac­tices and very our way of life is not only not work­ing but is the root of our prob­lem. Many souls around the world under­stand and accept that this way, our way, of liv­ing on this plan­et is the cause of this cri­sis, both with regards to the imme­di­ate prob­lem of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, but the real chal­lenge, of which the pan­dem­ic is but a symp­tom, and that is Cli­mate Change.

We are an intel­li­gent species; and many would agree that this is our “ring of pow­er”. It has been the means to the mate­r­i­al trans­for­ma­tions of our­selves and our world, but it has equal­ly, through­out our jour­ney, been an instru­ment of destruc­tion and pain too.

We are here, and we made what we face. The ques­tion is do we under­stand, and will we take respon­si­bil­i­ty for our cre­ation? Will we apply our rea­son and under­stand­ing in a man­ner that is guid­ed and informed by our com­pas­sion, humil­i­ty, and wis­dom? Will we under­stand that our first moth­er, Moth­er Earth, and all her crea­tures great and small, need us to remem­ber that we are all relat­ed on this Earth.

Yes, all humans are one fam­i­ly, and we all love our mothers.

But equal­ly all life on this plan­et is pre­cious to our Great Moth­er too.

Life is love; Love is Life.

Let us love one anoth­er, let us love all that lives.

And let us give thanks and love all moth­ers and the One Moth­er to us all.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Venus Ret­ro­grade, time to reval­ue Val­ue & Dhar­ma in Gem­i­ni, time for Prac­ti­cal Knowl­edge (May 10, 2020)

In my thir­teenth show of 2020, I will dis­cuss Venus turn­ing ret­ro­grade on May 13^th (until June 25^th), and what that offers us with regards to our val­ues. I will also dis­cuss the move­ment of the Nodes of the Moon, also called Dharma/Karma in an Astro­log­i­cal chart, and what it means to have Dhar­ma mov­ing through Gem­i­ni from May 5^th until Jan­u­ary 2022.

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 May 10^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/10/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-venus-retrograde-dharma-in-gemini

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 May 10^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Tran­script of Radio Show — “The Fun­da­men­tal Les­son of Self-Mastery”

I thought that today I would return to the top­ic, that I keep return­ing to, of the plan­et Plu­to mov­ing through Capri­corn, and talk a lit­tle bit about how we under­stand the con­sti­tu­tion of the Uni­verse. I have some thoughts I would like to share with you. I will begin with a premise as it were, and it comes from many teach­ings from all traditions:

The Uni­verse is Hier­ar­chi­cal. Begin­ning with the One, which encom­pass­es the entire­ty of cre­ation as it con­sti­tutes the essen­tial ulti­mate that makes one and all, the for­ma­tion of the Uni­verse is arranged into a series of Spir­it-Forms from the most sub­lime to the most mun­dane and mate­r­i­al. In each form, that same hier­ar­chy of spir­it-forms exists, in each realm, in each part of it, the same hier­ar­chy from the high­est to the low­est is present. And that is why “what is above so is it below”, even to the very atoms and mol­e­cules form­ing you has this Hier­ar­chy, as does the whole of you as a hier­ar­chy, and that same hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms are to be found all around you too in everything…it is every­thing and everyone.

Since the whole Uni­verse is formed by these same Spir­it-Forms, whether you look out there to the Stars for truth, or look deep with­in your­self, you will find the same mean­ings, mes­sages and pat­terns shin­ing through. The Truth is out there, but it most cer­tain­ly is with­in you too. That is why we say, “All things Shine with the Light of the One”.

That is also why, once you have reached the cross­ing point of the Divine Light, that is once you became “self-aware”, your jour­ney quick­ened. This “gift of the Gods”, that Promethean Fire, was embod­ied as an injunc­tion, and it is at the core of all the teach­ings of the mys­tery schools, found in the Greater and Less­er Mys­ter­ies, in the eso­teric teach­ings that con­nect all reli­gions, cul­tures and peo­ples. And that one injunc­tion held above all oth­ers is “Know Thyself”.

This is the heart of the Teach­ing, this is the Key, for it points the way to your self-ful­fill­ment, your self-mas­tery and illu­mi­na­tion; it is the joy­ful truth that your des­tiny is in your hands.

The main vehi­cle or tool you have for the “Great Work”, as it is called, is your mind. Because you are self-aware, because you now know, and you know that you know, you are self-con­scious­ly on the path of awak­en­ing. There is no excuse; you can see and under­stand the fun­da­men­tal law of your world; you expe­ri­ence “cause and effect” self-con­scious­ly each and every moment, and from life to life. You under­stand, at least you should, that what you make, that what you give, this is equal­ly what you will get. The Uni­verse is gov­erned by immutable laws; spir­i­tu­al jus­tice is true and per­fect. If you want a bet­ter life, if you want a bet­ter you, then you must live it! This is true for one and for all.

The great teach­ing holds, “As above, so below”. What that means is that with­in you are the same essen­tial ele­ments found in the high­est parts of cre­ation, and of these the three High­est are rep­re­sent­ed in Astrol­o­gy by the three out­er­most plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune and Pluto.

Uranus is the Avatar for the ener­gy-form you know as High­er Mind; Nep­tune is the ener­gy-form you know as Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and Plu­to is the ener­gy-form you know as Divine Will. They are in their high­est the Mind, Love and Will of the One or God or what­ev­er you may wish to call “that”. In you, these very same ener­gy-forms are your own high­er mind, your uncon­di­tion­al love, and your very own will.

These three are inte­gral to one anoth­er, they only work togeth­er, and as you become ever more aligned to the Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy “out there”, your own spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy with­in you will become illu­mined and aligned as well. Your Mind will be mod­u­lat­ed and shaped by Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and your Love for one anoth­er will find form and be expressed by your con­duct as a lov­ing being who is gov­erned and cen­tered by your own Will; and so guid­ed by Divine Will, you will tru­ly under­stand the great teach­ing and prayer, as you now stand in the light of the eter­nal now, that you are a co-cre­ator with the Cre­ator and so, say we all, “Let thy will be done”. This is the path to a tru­ly pur­pose­ful life, it is a life of Light and Love, guid­ed by Divine Purpose.

Tru­ly, in the most devel­oped beings that we know, what some call Devas or Shin­ing Ones and oth­ers call Angels, these fac­ul­ties have been refined and bal­anced with one anoth­er with a degree of per­fec­tion that we humans are seek­ing to reach but have yet to attain, to reach those undy­ing lands beyond these human forms.

The crit­i­cal and essen­tial fac­ul­ty for this Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing, for lift­ing one­self and one anoth­er to the next spir­i­tu­al realm of becom­ing, is the Will or Plu­to. For if you are to rise to a greater lev­el you must mas­ter your­self, and you must walk the path of right­eous­ness, you must walk the nar­row but roy­al road, for that is the mid­dle way of self-real­iza­tion, and to do this you must mas­ter your­self by your will and exer­cise and reveal your guid­ing divin­i­ty by your very own self-control.

And with regards to your “Jour­ney in Self-Mas­tery”, the most impor­tant fac­ul­ty you must bring under your will, the most impor­tant gift you must mas­ter is your mind. This is what you must keep your atten­tion upon. For as your Will flows through your Uncon­di­tion­al Love, you will see the Truth and find your mind at peace. And by Right Think­ing you will be guid­ed to Right Action, and you will become the truth that you are made of.

Cer­tain­ly, it is not easy now, in this time of a great cri­sis, but even more it is of a neces­si­ty, to hold your mind steady and calm in the face of so much fear, and pain and death. This is what a cri­sis brings, it shat­ters the world that was, it breaks the assump­tions and cer­tain­ties, and reveals that what had been expect­ed and accept­ed as “the way the world is, that it is just the way it is”. Much of that world­ly par­a­digm is now exposed as unten­able and false.

This world is at a turn­ing, as many of the pow­er­ful now are found to be emp­ty of their pur­pose and their promis­es, and the weak and the ignored are lift­ed up with great praise and encom­pass­ing grat­i­tude. This is a moment that you and the world will not for­get; when the val­ues, and the mean­ings of what is “the good”, of what is life for, are for­ev­er changed once again. Because this is not the first turn­ing, but it is your turning.

An age is end­ing; an age is begin­ning. Each of us can be or make a difference.

Where to begin; what can you do? The only con­trol you pos­sess, at least to start with, is over your­self. The very next moment in each and every day is pre­cious, and what will you make of it, what will you do? Your actions or inac­tions, your words and their into­na­tion, your bear­ing or demeanor, your inten­tions and moti­va­tions are powerful.

What­ev­er or whomev­er you are now encoun­ter­ing, remem­ber you have a choice. Do not be a reac­tor, pushed and pulled by the ener­gies and actions of events and by oth­ers. Be true to your­self, lis­ten to your high­er self and let your will be guid­ed by the One.

Yes, it does take more effort at first, to move through this world as an actor and not a reac­tor. But over­time it becomes effort­less, as the ener­gy-forms of love and com­pas­sion dis­si­pate the fear-filled fogs of illu­sion and you feel more at peace with­in as well.

You prob­a­bly will stum­ble and fail many days, even the Dalai Lama has a bad moment or two I would imag­ine, but over many days and months you will lift your­self and one anoth­er to a bet­ter way and a bet­ter place.

Your goal is what seems most elu­sive to you at this time, to be at peace, to have Peace of Mind.

The way is to take con­trol of what you can, that is your­self. Choose to lis­ten care­ful­ly, choose to respond car­ing­ly, and always act in align­ment with the Love and Will of the One.

This is what is called “the Way”; and, it has always been the way.

Once you are aligned with­in, you will also be able to reach out and join with oth­er mind­ful, lov­ing and cen­tered souls. With friend and with neigh­bors, with col­leagues and loved ones, we are already begin­ning to remake the world we live in and with one anoth­er on this beau­ti­ful cor­ner of the Uni­verse, this home we call our Earth.

On Thurs­day morn­ing here in New York, but around the world on that day, many will cel­e­brate a great soul who walked the path we all walk. He is known by what he is, the Bud­dha. This day, this Thurs­day, is called the Bud­dha Full Moon; and it is cel­e­brat­ed to hon­or some­one who chose the path of Light and Love and Divine Purpose.

So, what we all need to do per­haps every day, and cer­tain­ly on this great day we cel­e­brate on Thurs­day, we say the Great Invo­ca­tion. Which we can hold in our hearts to guide our steps every day. And the invo­ca­tion is:

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.

Here is the link to the radio show: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-pluto-and-the-will

Phoenix Ris­ing — A New World

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Plu­to and the Will- The Fun­da­men­tal Les­son of Self Mas­tery (May 3, 2020)

In my twelfth show of 2020, I thought it would be help­ful to exam­ine once more the influ­ence of Plu­to in Capri­corn, which is the prin­ci­pal indi­ca­tor or Avatar for the Age that is end­ing and the New Age that we are making.

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.

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day May 3^rd @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-pluto-and-the-will

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

Tran­script of Radio Show “One for all and all for one” (April 26, 2020)

The Tests, Lessons and Oppor­tu­ni­ties offered by Sat­urn in the Signs is some­thing I always dis­cuss with my clients, as it is a major indi­ca­tor for their life’s work. Much the same, the move­ment of Sat­urn through the Signs of the Zodi­ac, which takes about 29 years, pro­vides us with guid­ance year by year for one and for all of what is the chal­lenge in that time.

For the last cou­ple of years, Sat­urn was mov­ing through its own sign of Capri­corn, and the test and oppor­tu­ni­ty the world encoun­tered was sim­ply this. How respon­si­ble have we been in meet­ing our need to care for one anoth­er? We have moved from a way of life of sim­ple hunters and gath­ers to a com­plex social order, with a vast hier­ar­chy of social struc­tures, rang­ing from the fam­i­ly unit, to our com­mu­ni­ties and regions, and on up to nation­al and inter­na­tion­al insti­tu­tions that we formed to meet one another’s needs. The test of Sat­urn was how well do we ful­fill our var­i­ous roles in the hier­ar­chies of meet­ing needs; did we act with wis­dom and ful­fill our respon­si­bil­i­ties to one anoth­er. The prin­ci­pal focus of Sat­urn con­cerned the forms of our roles and rela­tion­ships, but now we need to con­sid­er the con­tent of our way of life too.

This year, Sat­urn has begun its two plus year jour­ney through the Sign of Aquar­ius. What is our test and oppor­tu­ni­ty now? What I hope you will see is that this test and oppor­tu­ni­ty of Sat­urn in Aquar­ius speaks direct­ly to the essen­tial char­ac­ter of any soci­ety and cul­ture, but for us espe­cial­ly with regards to the foun­da­tion­al core of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca. It is by look­ing to our ori­gins, look­ing to our “roots”, that we can see what we built our nation upon. We can see how we have been guid­ed and cen­tered upon that which we hold in com­mon, and that this reminder can point the way to what this peri­od of time holds for us, and why I believe it holds out the promise of a re-birth of the dream that is America.

Dec­la­ra­tion of Independence
In the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, the rad­i­cal nature of what was being estab­lished by the found­ing of our enter­prise, that we were estab­lish­ing a new kind of human order, of cre­at­ing a new form of human soci­ety, was beau­ti­ful­ly expressed when Jef­fer­son wrote, “…And for the sup­port of this Dec­la­ra­tion, with a firm reliance on the pro­tec­tion of Divine Prov­i­dence, we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes, and our sacred Honor.”

They (and we) were form­ing a new com­pact of men (at that time), who in agree­ment among them­selves, decid­ed to unite based upon their com­mon needs and inter­ests, and to mutu­al­ly sup­port one anoth­er, in order to meet one another’s needs in a freely cho­sen or self-direct­ed manner.

It was, and is, an extra­or­di­nary state­ment for the found­ing of a nation. Until this moment, all nation­al sys­tems had been found­ed upon a people’s his­to­ry as to their loca­tion by geo­graph­ic space, lan­guage, eth­nic­i­ty and cul­tur­al her­itage. Those group­ings were the “Eng­lish”, the “French”, the “Ital­ian”, and for most of the polit­i­cal con­structs over the cen­turies in those lands and through­out the world, this polit­i­cal order was based on rather fixed hier­ar­chies of the priv­i­leged in terms of title and land­hold­ings. Pow­er was in some “thing” that was inher­it­ed or seized by force, but cer­tain­ly did not come from “the peo­ple” as a whole.

Ori­gins of Self-Government
So, where did this belief in a freely deter­mined, self-cre­at­ed soci­ety come from? The major por­tion of the ear­ly set­tlers of North Amer­i­ca were prin­ci­pal­ly from Europe, from Eng­land, Hol­land, France. Many had left of their own accord in order to be “free” of reli­gious per­se­cu­tion dur­ing the 1600’s and 1700’s, as Europe faced wars and repres­sions by forces for and against Catholic ver­sus Protes­tant beliefs and practices.

These dis­si­dents had already, for more than a cen­tu­ry, expe­ri­enced through neces­si­ty the estab­lish­ment of self-formed com­mu­ni­ties of faith, and many of them had for years engaged in lengthy debates about the nature of human­i­ty, about the sources of moral author­i­ty, and the bal­ance between per­son­al free­dom and social responsibilities.

A new kind of human­i­ty, a new age of human­i­ty, was emerg­ing out of the Protes­tant rev­o­lu­tion of the 1500’s and 1600’s, which then led in the 1700’s to anoth­er shift that became known as the “Enlight­en­ment”. Eng­lish, French and Dutch set­tlers had been deeply influ­enced by the ris­ing belief in indi­vid­ual moral author­i­ty, sev­ered from the old hier­ar­chi­cal order descend­ing from King or Lord to com­mon­er, and for some, this led them to ques­tion all author­i­ty based upon some­thing exter­nal to human­i­ty itself.

Alex­is De Tocqueville
One of the most illu­mi­nat­ing works on the foun­da­tion­al nature of the Amer­i­can sys­tem was a study by Alex­is De Toc­queville in his work, “Democ­ra­cy in Amer­i­ca”, which was pub­lished in two vol­umes in 1835 and 1840. His­to­ri­ans and social sci­en­tists to this very day mar­vel over his obser­va­tions and insights regard­ing “our great exper­i­ment”, what was called by our founders a “New Order for the Cen­turies”. (And, if you have not read De Tocqueville’s obser­va­tions , you can read it online at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815‑h/815‑h.htm).

One of the defin­ing fea­tures he cit­ed in his work was this: that what was essen­tial to a self-gov­ern­ing, demo­c­ra­t­ic sys­tem was the inte­gral bal­ance of indi­vid­ual free­dom and social respon­si­bil­i­ty. He saw and under­stood that you can only have the true expe­ri­ence of the one when it is shaped and guid­ed by the oth­er (and vice ver­sa). In oth­er words, that indi­vid­ual free­dom and social respon­si­bil­i­ty are nec­es­sary to one anoth­er, they are part of a greater whole that cre­ates a tru­ly free society.

He observed that Amer­i­cans formed their soci­ety organ­i­cal­ly, from the local lev­el on up through a range of vol­un­tary orga­ni­za­tions of mutu­al help and sup­port, both sec­u­lar and sec­tar­i­an, in realms civ­il and reli­gious. Rather than a top-down order­ing of Regal or Author­i­tar­i­an con­trol imposed by fiat or Divine Right, the peo­ple of Amer­i­ca assem­bled for self-gov­er­nance because they had to. They were “on their own”, mak­ing their New World on a dis­tant shore.

In order to do pro­vide for them­selves, they agreed to pre­serve their self-deter­mi­na­tion by giv­ing up some “free­dom” for the good of the whole, and trust­ing in that larg­er whole, which was their col­lec­tive will, to equal­ly ensure their indi­vid­ual free­doms. This was and is rev­o­lu­tion­ary, a peo­ple gov­ern­ing them­selves voluntarily.

Toc­queville not­ed, “…when cit­i­zens are all almost equal, it becomes dif­fi­cult for them to defend their inde­pen­dence against the aggres­sions of pow­er. As none of them is strong enough to fight alone with advan­tage, the only guar­an­tee of lib­er­ty is for every­one to com­bine forces.” The cit­i­zens of Amer­i­ca agreed to form their var­i­ous lev­els of civ­il soci­ety for their mutu­al ben­e­fit, to meet one another’s needs and to pro­tect their freedoms.

He not­ed, and this is essen­tial for under­stand­ing the nature of the cri­sis we face now at the end of this age, that the most crit­i­cal ele­ment of our self-gov­er­nance would require this bal­ance of Indi­vid­ual Free­dom and Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty, and that it could only work if there was a more or less equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion of the val­ue and wealth with­in the society.

As de Toc­queville not­ed, as have many oth­ers, the strength of Amer­i­ca was to be found in its vibrant social mobil­i­ty, where unlike the sta­t­ic struc­tures of nobil­i­ty, priv­i­lege and class in Europe, our social mobil­i­ty would pre­vent a per­ma­nent hier­ar­chy of pow­er and wealth from becom­ing estab­lished. Toc­queville observed that if that equi­table order were to be undone, that would be the begin­ning of the end of true democ­ra­cy here (or I would argue anywhere).

Inequal­i­ty
But look at Amer­i­ca now, where a very few have man­aged to obtain and con­trol the vast major­i­ty of the wealth of the nation. And, most impor­tant­ly for the destruc­tion of real social mobil­i­ty, they can pass on that wealth to whom they choose. Today, we find, for exam­ple, that instead of the top income earn­ers mak­ing 5 times what the low­est income work­ers make, say $100,000 for the top and $20,000 for the bot­tom, we now have a gross­ly unequal dis­tri­b­u­tion of income where the top earn­ers make at least if not more than 400 times the bot­tom, $8,000,000 ver­sus $20,000. And the very top per­centiles acquire and secure much of their wealth and pow­er through invest­ments yield­ing inter­est and div­i­dends. And by hold­ing that much wealth, the top one per­cent can influ­ence the eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal order and shape the laws and reg­u­la­tions in order to rein­force, retain and make even more inequitable the dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth and pow­er over time.

In fact, the wealth and income inequal­i­ty in Amer­i­ca today rivals that of the late 1920’s. Of all the mem­bers in the G‑7 nations, America’s eco­nom­ic and social order is the most unequal. Since the great reces­sion of 2008-09, only the rich­est mem­bers of our coun­try have become bet­ter off than before, and the vast major­i­ty are poor­er, and many are strug­gling to survive.

For the past 40 years, the growth of incomes for the mid­dle and low­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors in the US has fall­en far behind that of the upper brack­ets, and that dream of a mid­dle-class life for many Amer­i­cans has become bro­ken. For many, they look at their lives and their future, and they know that their lives will be less for­tu­nate than their par­ents for the very first time in Amer­i­can his­to­ry. Then they look at their own chil­dren and they are filled with sor­row; there is no bright future there, only a life filled with despair. They ask: what has gone wrong; what have they done wrong? The answer is noth­ing; it is not their fault.

Plu­toc­ra­cy
The truth is Amer­i­ca is not a tru­ly func­tion­ing Democ­ra­cy, it has become a Plu­toc­ra­cy, with the overt and covert rule of the extreme­ly rich over the many. This is what is tear­ing at our social fab­ric, divid­ing regions and groups from one anoth­er; those regions and groups, that should be com­bin­ing to right this wrong, are instead being fur­ther ripped apart by false nar­ra­tives and dis­trac­tions. Our agree­ment to sac­ri­fice our indi­vid­ual lib­er­ty for the com­mon good has been bro­ken. But it is not by some acci­dent of fate or caused by some nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­na. It is caused by the very few hold­ing the pow­er to make and shape a sys­tem that rein­forces their wealth and power.

Sat­urn in Aquarius
To bring this back to the Astro­log­i­cal world, Sat­urn mov­ing through Aquar­ius pre­cise­ly encap­su­lates this ques­tion as it has done each time it moves through this sign. It shines a light on the ques­tion of our Com­mu­ni­ty Spir­it, of our Social Con­scious­ness and Con­science, and the degree to which we are hold­ing togeth­er by bal­anc­ing our Indi­vid­ual Free­dom and our Social Respon­si­bil­i­ties to one another.

The answer has always been the same; each time Sat­urn has been in Aquar­ius we have been remind­ed that we have not been hold­ing togeth­er and sup­port­ing one anoth­er fair­ly. Today, we have become divid­ed even more than before because the foun­da­tions of our democ­ra­cy have been shat­tered by the extremes of wealth and want. This is what Sat­urn in Aquar­ius is call­ing for, a return to a tru­ly sup­port­ive com­mu­ni­ty which will fos­ter greater oppor­tu­ni­ty for each and every indi­vid­ual to real­ize their fuller poten­tial, and which will equal­ly ben­e­fit that very com­mu­ni­ty, for it will ben­e­fit one and all. We must reaf­firm the prin­ci­ple of equal oppor­tu­ni­ty, to cre­ate a social order that is fair and just, and which will be based upon a more equi­table shar­ing in the wealth that we, every one of us, create.

Look at the pre­vi­ous years of Sat­urn in Aquar­ius, and you will see this pat­tern of social and eco­nom­ic reform for over 100 years: 1991–1994 (Clin­ton), 1962–1964 (JFK), 1932–1935 (FDR), and 1903–1906 (Ted­dy Roo­sevelt). In each of these peri­ods, some more and some less, the eco­nom­ic order was re-ordered, pow­er was re-dis­trib­uted as laws were enact­ed, poli­cies and mech­a­nisms forged that restored (for a time) a more just and equal society.

But the chal­lenge we face now, with not only Sat­urn mov­ing through Aquar­ius, but expe­ri­enc­ing for the first time, the return of Plu­to to its posi­tion in the chart of the Unit­ed States, means that this reck­on­ing, this realign­ment or reform will be much more con­se­quen­tial than any we have ever faced. And that is very good because this coun­try, and our com­pact with one anoth­er needs to be reborn.

Path to Restoration
We only need to remem­ber how this great exper­i­ment in Democ­ra­cy and Self-Gov­ern­ment began. We have to restore the bal­ance between the Indi­vid­ual and Com­mu­ni­ty Respon­si­bil­i­ty. Just like our founders, we are begin­ning to forge a new com­pact, a new agree­ment between one anoth­er. Like FDR’s New Deal, we will restore our ways and means of meet­ing one another’s needs by reform­ing our social order.

Much of this is already hap­pen­ing. Peo­ple always ask, “where is the New World com­ing from?” And the answer is, “we are mak­ing it now”. At the local, region­al and state lev­els, actions and poli­cies and pro­grams are being cre­at­ed as we help one anoth­er through this cri­sis. We are tak­ing actions, chang­ing our pri­or­i­ties, and being remind­ed once again about what is tru­ly most impor­tant. We had been sac­ri­fic­ing the qual­i­ty of our life for the mere quan­ti­ty of our things.

We can see and feel how unequal our world had become. In what kind of world do peo­ple who get to “play” for a liv­ing are reward­ed with lux­u­ries like pri­vate planes and mul­ti­ple homes, while, for exam­ple, the health­care work­ers on the front lines, like count­less EMT’s sav­ing lives day after day now, and they can­not afford to live with­out a hav­ing a sec­ond job, and they can­not even afford their very own health insur­ance, all while they risk their lives every day to save oth­ers? What is wrong with us? How did this happen?

This is what a cri­sis reveals; and this is the pow­er wield­ed by our great­est fear, the fear of death. That ulti­mate truth, that we are mor­tal, and the fear we have for our­selves and loved ones, this shat­ters our com­pla­cen­cy. It is Spir­it mov­ing through and around us, it is our man­i­fest Love for one anoth­er mov­ing through us now, and that will sup­port and guide us to a rebirth for our­selves, our com­mu­ni­ties, our coun­try and our world.

The Real Crisis
Yes, we are fac­ing an extreme test of our bro­ken social order; but the very good news is that we made this order and so we can fix it too. But what we must also under­stand is the largest com­mu­ni­ty on Earth is LIFE itself; and it is formed into a sim­i­lar order of com­mu­ni­ties and sys­tems, of intri­cate and mutu­al­ly inter­de­pen­dent hier­ar­chies of seem­ing­ly count­less life-forms. And we know that life depends upon life. And from the micro­scop­ic orders to the largest of life­forms, life has become dev­as­tat­ed, life is leav­ing the plan­et, and we only need to look in the mir­ror to see why.

As I have say­ing for many weeks now with my clients, this pan­dem­ic is mere­ly the very tiny tip of an immense ice­berg that is crash­ing into our dear lifeboat in Space, our home plan­et, our plan­et Earth. And the ever-grow­ing cri­sis, of which Covid-19 is but a symp­tom, is Cli­mate Change. Our work is not mere­ly with­in our human fam­i­ly. Our great­est respon­si­bil­i­ty, most cer­tain­ly, is for us to ded­i­cate our­selves to do every­thing we can to pre­serve all life on this plan­et. For our lives depend upon all those oth­er life-forms.

You are here at the end­ing of age; and it is ter­ri­ble, and it is won­der­ful. You are here at this his­toric moment, when human civ­i­liza­tion and life on plan­et earth as we have come to know it is threat­ened. What will you do?

The world is chang­ing; and we are the change mak­ers. We must choose wise­ly, by first help­ing one anoth­er in this time of fear and loss. But we must under­stand the solu­tion is not a vac­cine for this virus, but a spir­i­tu­al and social trans­for­ma­tion of how we care for anoth­er and for our beau­ti­ful world too.

When I spoke and wrote years ago about this time being an “end of an Age”, and that the world we knew was going to be end­ing start­ing in 2008, my clients asked me
“what does that mean?” I said, “I do not know; all I know is that we will be mov­ing into a New World”.

As we move through it now, it will become clear­er to us what things have to change to pre­serve life and to pre­serve this plan­et. We all real­ize how impor­tant this moment is, and in the days and weeks and months and years ahead, we need to be that change that cre­ates a New World.

Here is the radio show link: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/26/saturn-in-aquarius-all-for-one-and-one-for-all