The Gift of Imag­i­na­tion, The Pow­er of Faith

Always remem­ber this: You have all the signs as part of you, from Aries to Pisces, from Fire through Water, in Air or by Earth, some­where there is a part of you that is illu­mined by each of these twelve. Each sign holds spe­cif­ic gifts and chal­lenges for you. But per­haps none is more poignant, pow­er­ful and inspir­ing as the last. Today you enter once again the realm that holds them all, today you return to Pisces.

Here you come to the end­ings of things; here you gath­er togeth­er the fruit of your labors in all those pre­vi­ous chap­ters of your jour­ney. And it is from this har­vest, from your tri­umphs and even more from your so-called fail­ures, it is here that you find and forge the lessons, mean­ings and seeds that you will plant in your nev­er-end­ing sto­ry of you.

Yes, it is here in Pisces, it is here you come to the end, and equal­ly you will find the promise of all your future endeav­ors too. Here you look back and you look ahead, because this is how it is done, you must see the whole of it, the whole of you, the mean­ing behind the mir­rors of real­i­ty and so make bet­ter the future for you and your world. Here you look up at the cos­mos and take in the won­der of it all. Here you ask the ques­tion of questions:

“Where did we come from; Why are we here; Where are we going?”

In the begin­ning, before Space-Time, there was the One.
Here, in the “Now”, we are the many, who are the body of the One in Space-Time.
At the “end”, of every Cos­mic Cycle, we many return to be “one with the One” again.

This is the of pulse of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.
This is what is known as the Days and Nights of Brahma.
For there was no begin­ning, and there can be no end.
There is only the path of Becom­ing and Awak­en­ing for all “ones of the One”.

This is the Jour­ney of Spir­it, this is your path,
Formed by ever expand­ing fields of Con­scious­ness and Creativity.
You move from unself-con­scious Sparks of the Divine, fields of Ener­gy-Forms truly,
To becom­ing a ful­ly Awak­ened Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

It is said that our present form of life, this “human-phase” of our jour­ney, is most spe­cial. But why is that; what does it mean to be human? Through each step, from an infin­i­tes­i­mal being on up through all the King­doms of Spir­it-Forms, why is this human form con­sid­ered by crea­tures not yet human, and by beings above this human form, why is this expe­ri­ence of human so treasured?

We are told that it is spe­cial because here, pre­cise­ly in this form of self-aware con­scious­ness equal­ly stretch­ing itself inward­ly and out­ward­ly to the divine, that we become illu­mi­nat­ed, we wake up through our very divin­i­ty and become “the self-re-made” by our price­less gift of Imag­i­na­tion. This is the Gift of Pisces.

What makes us human, and what will bring us into our apoth­e­o­sis as ful­ly awak­ened humans, is that we are dream­ers. We encounter our world “as it is”, and then we dream of a bet­ter one for us and all those who come after. And then we try to “make it so.”

But we are imper­fect; so that spilling into our dreams of the divine comes the errors of our past, our doubts and our fears, our appre­hen­sions and mis­per­cep­tions, and these become part of our cre­ation too. That is why we have the world that we have, made in the image of our­selves, a world of light, love and of beau­ty, but also of dark­ness, fear and pain.

It is here in Pisces that you feel the pain and yet hold to the promise of your com­pound nature, that you are sub­lime yet mor­tal, filled with promise and uncon­di­tion­al love, but some­times weighed down by fear and regret. But out of these dark echoes of the past you make the very forge for your dia­mond heart of com­pas­sion and under­stand­ing too. Yes, it is here in Pisces you that reveal your divin­i­ty in your very humanity.

You learn to for­give your­self as you must equal­ly for­give one anoth­er; to cre­ate the sacred space for your own growth you must sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er too. You see in them your­self, their joy and their pain yours. You stretch your heart and soul and feel the whole of this, com­pas­sion not just for anoth­er human, but for all of life, for all of this won­drous Cre­ation that makes your life pos­si­ble too.

You see Cre­ation as it is, a Rib­bon of Souls who are all one with one anoth­er, a Rain­bow of Light and Love, and that all of Cre­ation is alive and held togeth­er. You know and feel that this is me and I am that. It is beyond words, and you bow your head and bend your knee.

Yes, you real­ize that though at times you will stum­ble and fall, that you will be touched by fear again, you feel in your heart and you know in your soul that you have noth­ing to fear.

You are one of the ones of the One.

Yes, it is the Gift of Pisces to Dream, and the Pow­er it bestows is equal to this. Because you have become self-aware, and because you are part of a host of count­less great souls who form the Con­scious­ness of Cre­ation, you real­ize that you and they are the Path of Light.

You are the Liv­ing embod­i­ment of the Pow­er of Faith; that Faith is the Love of the One.

There is but one way, there is only one path,

Just Love one another.

Don­ald Trump – The test of Power

It is most often true that the future of a nation and the for­tunes of its leader are inex­tri­ca­bly bound to one anoth­er. My pre­vi­ous post­ing not­ed that the most sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary tran­sit in the USA chart this year is the tran­sit of Plu­to over the USA Mer­cury. It may come as no sur­prise then that the most sig­nif­i­cant tran­sit in Don­ald Trump’s chart, for this year and for the next, is Plu­to as well.

In 2019 and 2020, Don­ald Trump will have Plu­to form­ing an Incon­junct aspect (150°) to his Sun. More­over, build­ing in dur­ing 2019 and becom­ing ful­ly man­i­fest­ed in 2020, Plu­to will be in oppo­si­tion to his Sat­urn. What do these two pas­sages indi­cate for Trump and the Nation?

Plu­to and The Tri­ad of Spirit

Plu­to is part of what I like to call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”. Uranus is the Avatar or prin­ci­ple of the High­er Mind; Nep­tune the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love; Plu­to the Avatar of the Will. Togeth­er, at the crown of the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy they rep­re­sent the Mind, Love and Will of God. For humans, we are striv­ing to learn to wield these pow­ers cor­rect­ly, as we slow­ly but sure­ly walk the path of awak­en­ing by devel­op­ing freer minds, tru­ly uncon­di­tion­al love and guid­ed by ever more cen­tered wills.

Plu­to rules will-pow­er, and through our will we strive to mas­ter our­selves; we learn that we must focus inward­ly, and to use our will for greater self-con­trol and self-mas­tery. The num­ber one error (or sin) on this Earth is when we use our will and pow­er to con­trol, sub­ju­gate, manip­u­late and vio­late anoth­er (or oth­ers). The great­est spir­i­tu­al crime is tres­pass­ing, where we vio­late the sacred space of another.

We are here to mas­ter our­selves, and by our exam­ple, as well as by offer­ing lov­ing help and guid­ance to oth­ers, we help one anoth­er towards greater self-mas­tery and self-con­trol. By being tru­ly cen­tered by the will, (and guid­ed by Wis­dom and Uncon­di­tion­al Love), we are more able to use what­ev­er per­son­al, social or col­lec­tive pow­ers we hold and to exer­cise them cor­rect­ly; and we will serve the source of that pow­er and direct it in the prop­er man­ner as deter­mined by our roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties. Ulti­mate­ly, any exer­cise of pow­er must be in accor­dance with Spir­i­tu­al truth:

We are here to learn to wield our will in a Transper­son­al man­ner; through our per­son­al will we serve the “source” of that pow­er so that it is nev­er used for self­ish pur­pos­es. The teach­ing will ever be, to remain guid­ed by one’s High­er Self and so by the One; we resolve to serve and so remain true to the path, “Let Thy Will be Done!”

With­in any hier­ar­chy, (Fam­i­ly, Com­mu­ni­ty, Cor­po­ra­tion, State or Nation), the leader, (or lead­ers), the hold­er of any form of exec­u­tive pow­er is invest­ed with the respon­si­bil­i­ty to be the prime exam­ple (the “Exem­plar” or Avatar) of this spir­i­tu­al truth: That the exer­cise of Will and Pow­er must be held and cen­tered, yoked to serve the pur­pose and intent of what­ev­er office that leader is there to serve. That is why in many cas­es, a per­son will take a “oath”, which binds their indi­vid­ual will to the gen­er­al good or pur­pose which they serve; that pow­er is not “theirs”, but it is mere­ly entrust­ed to them while they hold that office.

Don­ald Trump

In 2019 and 2020 Don­ald Trump will expe­ri­ence Plu­to pass­ing over his Sun and over his Sat­urn. What will this mean for him and for the USA? Quite sim­ply and pro­found­ly, Don­ald Trump is going to face a fun­da­men­tal “test of pow­er”. If he has wield­ed the pow­ers of the pres­i­den­cy cor­rect­ly, if he has aligned his will to the office of the pres­i­den­cy, then he may pass this test, though it will be a very chal­leng­ing time. If he has not suf­fi­cient­ly and cor­rect­ly sac­ri­ficed his will to the greater good of his office, if he has not under­stood the nature of his oath and aligned him­self to the true source of the pow­er which he serves, then he will fail and fall one way or another.

The Plu­to align­ment to Trump’s Sun in 2019 and 2020 indi­cates that his exer­cise and expe­ri­ence of pow­er is shift­ing in ways that will bring about a grow­ing sense of unease and con­fu­sion for him. He may ascribe it to forces or per­son­ages out­side of him­self, but it will real­ly be the grow­ing schism between his low­er will and the high­er will to which he swore an oath to serve.

This grow­ing gap between the pow­er of this office and the expe­ri­ence of his per­son­al pow­er erod­ing may cre­ate with­in him, at least in part, a desire to walk away from or give up this posi­tion of pow­er as it has lost its appeal. It is no longer of per­son­al use to him. The rea­son for this will because he has failed to under­stand and serve in the office of the Pres­i­dent as those who came before him.

The align­ment of Plu­to to Trump’s Sat­urn dur­ing 2020 is even more chal­leng­ing, as it will direct­ly threat­en his sense of posi­tion (Sat­urn) and the con­fi­dence he has in main­tain­ing that role. Typ­i­cal­ly, an indi­vid­ual with this tran­sit feels that the effort to wield or main­tain their posi­tion is over­whelm­ing. Author­i­ties, who rep­re­sent oth­er realms and sources of pow­er, are coun­ter­ing or oppos­ing his form of exer­cis­ing his (pres­i­den­tial) power.

These oth­er cen­ters of pow­er may wield such a strong counter-force that he will not be able to per­form his duties, or thwart his attempts to do what he wish­es. He will either have to bend or break under the pres­sure of foes and forces that will appear unshak­able and unbeat­able. Again, as a result of this pres­sure he may wish to with­draw from his posi­tion or if he attempts to remain, he will find that his pow­er is cir­cum­scribed or rescinded.

There are sev­er­al oth­er chal­leng­ing tran­sits in Trump’s chart in 2019 and 2020 (Nep­tune Square his Uranus in 2019 and Square his North Node in 2020, Uranus Semi­Square his Uranus in 2019 and Uranus Square his Plu­to in 2020), and I will address these in future post­ings and radio shows.

But the prin­ci­pal chal­lenge for the next two years will be Trump’s encounter with this test of Plu­to, with this test of Posi­tion and Power.

Astrological Musings – The New Year ­Part 3 – The USA & Donald Trump (February 2, 2019)

In my third show of 2019 I will con­tin­ue our look at the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2019 by exam­in­ing the tran­sits in the charts of the USA and Don­ald Trump.

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

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

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

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Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 2^nd @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/02/02/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-2019-part‑3

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

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 2^nd at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The USA

The three pre­vi­ous post­ings for the 2019 fore­cast, (past, present and future) con­cerned the uni­ver­sal ener­gy-forms of plan­e­tary con­di­tions, known as “Tran­sits to Tran­sits”, that reveal and inform our jour­ney in mean­ings and mes­sages for one and for all.

Now I will con­sid­er the con­di­tions for an indi­vid­ual enti­ty and the aspects formed to their chart, or what are termed “Tran­sits to Natal” indi­ca­tions. I will begin by con­sid­er­ing the chart of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, and in the next post­ing con­sid­er the chart of the Pres­i­dent, Don­ald Trump.

Nep­tune and Saturn

The prin­ci­pal tran­sit in the chart of the USA in 2018 was Nep­tune to Sat­urn (an incon­junct aspect or 150°). This tran­sit was exact from 2017 into ear­ly 2019, (although we should always look at all these out­er plan­e­tary align­ments as peri­ods of time, as process­es that build in over sev­er­al years lead­ing to these more exact peri­ods of culmination).

This tran­sit involved the chal­lenge that any cul­ture will face (again and again), between its present-day struc­tures of Civ­il and Polit­i­cal Soci­ety (Sat­urn) and the pres­sure to incor­po­rate ever more Spir­i­tu­al Truths into that struc­ture (Nep­tune). This was the same align­ment for the USA that occurred in the mid 1850’s. That peri­od was char­ac­ter­ized by the strug­gle over the very nature of the USA, of what of kind of econ­o­my, cul­ture and spir­i­tu­al char­ac­ter the USA would have with regards for the prin­ci­pal of human equal­i­ty (as is affirmed in our sacred com­pact, The Con­sti­tu­tion), or turn against the tide of his­to­ry and human rights and con­sid­er some as less deserv­ing, in effect treat­ing some as objects (i.e. slavery).

There cer­tain­ly are major echoes of that strug­gle in our cur­rent peri­od, with the issue of how we view the true his­to­ry ver­sus the lega­cy (memo­ri­als) of the Con­fed­er­a­cy, how we treat var­i­ous groups with­in our soci­ety, (Minori­ties, LGBT, Immi­gra­tion, Refugees), the issue of vot­ing rights and rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and the con­tin­u­ing shad­ows formed by echoes of racism and the vir­tu­al geno­cide of the Native population.

Though this aspect will fade now, the echoes it stirred and the present-day divi­sions it high­light­ed will con­tin­ue to be one of the prin­ci­pal chal­lenges the USA will face for many years to come, as we will and must con­tin­u­al­ly strive to final­ly heal these divides between our dear­est ideals and our less than per­fect union.

Sat­urn in Capricorn

The oth­er major theme of 2018 will per­sist in a mod­u­lat­ed form through 2019, as Sat­urn mov­ing through Capri­corn con­tin­ues to make sig­nif­i­cant align­ments in the USA chart. The tran­sits in 2018 were to Venus and Jupiter, and 2019 begins with Sat­urn Oppo­site to the USA Sun. Then through­out 2019 Sat­urn will Square the USA Sat­urn. As I not­ed last year, this par­tic­u­lar series of align­ments of Sat­urn has his­tor­i­cal­ly been asso­ci­at­ed with eco­nom­ic, and then socio-polit­i­cal dis­rup­tions for the USA, (in 1988–1991, 1959–1962 and 1929–32), where each time not only did strong eco­nom­ic challenges/disruptions occur, but these also trig­gered social and polit­i­cal upheavals.

Steer­ing through such chop­py eco­nom­ic waters, one would hope to have well-found­ed trust in a strong, steady leader and staff to help us avoid the worst eco­nom­ic out­comes. We can only hope that by some for­tune of hap­pen­stance we will get through with­out too much harm, because most would agree that this neces­si­tat­ed form of lead­er­ship is sore­ly lack­ing now.

Plu­to and Mer­cury – A Reckoning

Build­ing in dur­ing 2019 and becom­ing ful­ly man­i­fest in 2020 is a rather pow­er­ful align­ment of Plu­to going over the USA Mer­cury. (I men­tioned this in my radio show this past week (Jan­u­ary 19^th) and will dis­cuss it in more depth for the next show on Feb­ru­ary 2^nd, and I will also con­sid­er Don­ald Trump’s chart and transits). 

This is a very pow­er­ful tran­sit gen­er­al­ly, but even more so as the USA has a Mer­cury Plu­to oppo­si­tion in its natal chart, (Mer­cury is at around 24° of Can­cer and Plu­to around 27° of Capri­corn). This two-year tran­sit will high­light a fun­da­men­tal con­di­tion that has great­ly influ­enced the char­ac­ter of the USA, and we may be able to antic­i­pate by the last two align­ments of Plu­to to the USA Mer­cury what this might mean for us now.

The two pre­vi­ous tran­sits of Plu­to to the USA Mer­cury (and to Plu­to) were 1981–83 and 1933–37. Those two peri­ods mark per­haps the two most sig­nif­i­cant shifts in mod­ern eco­nom­ic poli­cies for the Unit­ed States that led to two very dif­fer­ent types of eco­nom­ic conditions.

Dur­ing the ear­li­er peri­od, when the coun­try (and world) grap­pled with “The Great Depres­sion” the USA was on the “razor’s edge”, much like the rest of the world, between two paths of either Fas­cism or Social­ism. But the USA found anoth­er way with FDR’s New Deal, and oth­er polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic adjust­ments, which cre­at­ed a sus­tain­able path of growth for the next sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions (late 1940’s through the 70’s). Inte­gral to the suc­cess of this path was that the remark­able rise in pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and wealth was more even­ly dis­trib­uted among the var­i­ous stra­ta of the country.

The 1981–83 peri­od was marked by the so-called “Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion”, which promised that by cut­ting tax­es dra­mat­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly the top mar­gin­al tax rates, the result­ing redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth would cre­ate more growth for one and all. How­ev­er, from the ear­ly 1980’s onward the share of the USA’s pro­duc­tive growth ben­e­fits sharply skewed to the upper­most per­centiles of the pop­u­la­tion. The mid­dle- and low­er-income groups began to steadi­ly fall behind in the degree to which they share and enjoy the ben­e­fits of the growth of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and wealth.

More and more peo­ple found they had to work hard­er and hard­er, as they received less and less. Oth­er fac­tors also con­tributed to this eco­nom­ic shift away from the more or less equal shar­ing of Amer­i­can pros­per­i­ty of the pre­vi­ous 40 years, (the move from an indus­tri­al to a ser­vice econ­o­my, increas­ing automa­tion, trade deals with­out enough pro­tec­tion or mech­a­nisms to help affect­ed work­ers, the shift to a stock mar­ket dri­ven by the short-term prof­its for invest­ment banks (the “tail wag­ging the dog”) as rais­ing cap­i­tal became an end unto itself rather than for pro­duc­tive and long-term invest­ment, etc.). But it was the change in the mar­gin­al rates of tax­a­tion which dra­mat­i­cal­ly shift­ed the dis­tri­b­u­tion of how equi­tably the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and stra­ta of Amer­i­ca ben­e­fit­ed in the last 40 years.

What hap­pened is that the promise of Amer­i­ca, “of life, lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness”, began to fade for more and more. This was brought to bear bru­tal­ly in the sec­ond “Great Reces­sion of 2008” where­in mil­lions of Amer­i­cans saw their dream of a brighter future for their chil­dren dis­solve into bank­rupt­cy, fore­clo­sures, bit­ter­ness, fear and anger.

To illus­trate how this shared dis­tri­b­u­tion of growth was bro­ken and cre­at­ed a widen­ing gap in income gains, here is a graph of the shift in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of income gains for the USA from the late 1940’s through 2017:

And this graph shows the skew­ing of the con­cen­tra­tion of US Income for the 1%, which reached its high­est point in 1929, and is now (omi­nous­ly) approach­ing that same degree now, (just as it did in 2008):

Val­ue of a Nation

The Pluto/Mercury oppo­si­tion in the USA chart is from the 2^nd House to the 8^th House. The 2^nd House in the chart of a Nation is said to con­cern the “Wealth” of that nation and many would hold that means the tax rev­enue, stocks, bonds, shares, banks, exchanges, trade and com­merce, nation­al export and cur­ren­cy. It is the gen­er­al “wealth and pros­per­i­ty” of the peo­ple of that nation.

For me, though I agree with much of that on some lev­el, I pre­fer to focus upon the root or true source of val­ue by start­ing from a spir­i­tu­al approach. The 2^nd house will always rule “val­ues” in any chart, and in this case, it rules the “Val­ues of a Nation”. The ques­tion then remains, how do we know and mea­sure (or have a scale of mea­sure­ment) for the hier­ar­chy and types of val­ue in an entire nation?

Spir­i­tu­al­ly speak­ing, the Land and Water, the For­est and the Fields, the entire­ty of what is called “nat­ur­al resources” can cer­tain­ly be under­stood by any cul­ture to have “val­ue”. But the under­stand­ing and rela­tion­ship with that is far dif­fer­ent for a trib­al or hunter-gath­er­er cul­ture ver­sus an agrar­i­an cul­ture, or some oth­er eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al type.

By stick­ing with the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion, “what is the root source of val­ue for any Nation?”, (or any unit of human soci­ety), I would always start with the premise that our truest mea­sure of val­ue is and must be cen­tered upon what forms the peo­ple of that nation. Yes, it is true that the 2^nd house also con­cerns the phys­i­cal val­ue of a geo­graph­ic space, but what will dis­tin­guish a Nation more than any­thing is the val­ue formed by and through the peo­ple of that land. Equal­ly, and even more impor­tant­ly, any soci­ety will be mea­sured spir­i­tu­al­ly by how it treats or val­ues those humans, and indeed how much it holds to the truth that all of life is sacred.

The Chal­lenge

Con­sid­er­ing this upcom­ing pas­sage of Plu­to over Mer­cury (and then the Plu­to return in 2022), what we are wit­ness­ing is anoth­er crit­i­cal moment where the very nature of our soci­ety is at stake. The ris­ing stress­es and schisms in our cul­ture, soci­ety and pol­i­tics are at the root a strug­gle over how we under­stand the nature of our core val­ues as a nation.

We face a time much like of the 1930’s, and the USA must once again address this most fun­da­men­tal ques­tion: How can we heal the divide that has formed between our var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties? How can we hold to our promise to be “A New Order for the Cen­turies”, (“Novus Ordo Seclo­rum”)? How can we restore our com­mon pur­pose and live by the love, respect and val­ue that we must have for one another?

We can if we remem­ber that our very well-being, “Our Hap­pi­ness”, depends upon one anoth­er. We should remain true to our found­ing doc­u­ment, our Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, that “…we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes, and our sacred Hon­or”. For it is most cer­tain­ly true that none of us can be tru­ly hap­py if we do not strive to make it pos­si­ble for each per­son in our coun­try to achieve their Self-Fulfillment.

Our indi­vid­ual self-ful­fill­ment depends upon one anoth­er. We must restore our com­mon pur­pose to help one anoth­er, for we have come togeth­er, as the most vibrant and diverse mix­ing of peo­ples and cul­tures guid­ed by the fun­da­men­tal Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all “ones of the One”.

Our pledge to one anoth­er is reaf­firmed in our mot­to, and togeth­er they will always point the way and hold us to our path. That mot­to, “Out of Many, One”, (“E Pluribus Unum”), reaf­firms that our very diver­si­ty is our true val­ue and strength.

Yes, we are the future; we are a peo­ple of all peo­ples, cul­tures, creeds and faiths.

Out of Many, we are One.

Next, The Chart of Don­ald Trump

The Way of Happiness

Do you know the pur­pose of your life?
Why are you here? And, where are you going?
What are your Hopes and Dreams?

Today you leave the space of Capri­corn and enter the realm of Aquar­ius. The last 30 days have been about under­stand­ing the pur­pose of your life. It is from this under­stand­ing that you are able to assume your respon­si­bil­i­ties and take your prop­er place in your com­mu­ni­ty and the larg­er world. And, by “doing your duty” you are equal­ly able to enjoy the rights you may claim by the ful­fill­ment of those responsibilities.

You are part of a great Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, where you find and ful­fill your­self in a vast and inter­de­pen­dent struc­ture of car­ing and being cared for. You are here, in life after life, to reach deep­er into your­self so that you may reach a lit­tle high­er in each life, as you slow­ly but sure­ly approach self-mas­tery through an inte­gral bal­ance of wis­dom and humility.

Along this path of pur­pose­ful­ness, it does not mat­ter “where” you are going; but it very much mat­ters “why” you are going there. You will find that your jour­ney is not about being “suc­cess­ful”; it is about being true to who you are so that you remain on the path of Self-Fulfillment.

But, of course, you do not, you can­not, walk this path alone. You could not be you or become what you will be with­out a host of oth­er souls who walk this path too. You are human, and so you are formed and forged by all those with whom you walk on this path of becoming.

This is the Truth of Aquar­ius, that you are here to be some­one spe­cial, to shine and sparkle with the light of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. But the very mate­ri­als you form into that indi­vid­ual that is you, that spe­cial essence that shines through as “you”, are formed by those build­ing blocks that come from all with whom you have shared this life (and many lives before). What you have, (your feel­ings, thoughts and spir­i­tu­al sen­si­bil­i­ties), and what you share with all with whom you jour­ney, comes from your par­ents, sib­lings, class­mates, friends, col­leagues and of course, most heart­felt, from those dear­est to your heart too.

You are all mixed up in one anoth­er, and your true Hap­pi­ness comes from this being one who is part of many oth­er ones too. You are part of many cir­cles of life, and they are in you, and you are most cer­tain­ly part of them too. Here is what I wrote in my 2019 Fore­cast – Part 3 about the nature of the “Age of Aquarius”:

The prin­ci­ple of Aquar­ius is Fel­low­ship, it is Broth­er­hood and Sis­ter­hood, it is Com­pan­ion­ship and Com­mu­ni­ty and the Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all made of and by one anoth­er. We can­not be, Life can­not be, with­out blend­ing, mix­ing, com­bin­ing, and then shar­ing and grow­ing togeth­er. Life, Con­scious­ness and Spir­it are forged and formed by Inter­re­la­tion­ship, Diver­si­ty, Com­plex­i­ty and our essen­tial Inter­de­pen­dence with one anoth­er and all Life-Forms. Every Par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a Spark of the Divine, formed in its core by its own Quin­tes­sence. Every tree and every leaf on every tree, every being and each cell form­ing that being, every­thing is formed by “ones” formed into a greater One. All of life is part of some­thing greater, yet it is pre­cious­ly and won­drous­ly its own unique instance of that Greater Whole.

Aquar­ius is all about the One and the Many, and we are each a pre­cious part, a unique one of a “Kind”, but formed and held and made pos­si­ble by that Kind, by that whole, and then the next greater whole, which ulti­mate­ly forms the whole of this entire Cre­ation or the ONE.

We are made of one anoth­er, and we see our­selves in each oth­er, as we share our love for this life and for one anoth­er. We can­not be hap­py by our­selves; that is just not pos­si­ble. That is most sim­ply but pro­found­ly because we can­not be our­selves, we can­not be or become human with­out one anoth­er. Our true Hap­pi­ness (our smiles and laugh­ter) are essen­tial­ly human and social expe­ri­ences; we shine with the light of spir­it as we share and show our love for one anoth­er. Our hopes and dreams are made of and by one anoth­er. And our well-being, our true Hap­pi­ness, comes from being with our fel­low-trav­el­ers in this amaz­ing Jour­ney of Spirit.

Yes, your Hap­pi­ness comes from your Self-Ful­fill­ment; but you can only and tru­ly expe­ri­ence this when those whom you love and care for have their Self-Ful­fill­ment and Hap­pi­ness too. You find and extend your hap­pi­ness by help­ing one anoth­er to pre­serve your way of life in your fam­i­ly, through your com­mu­ni­ty and out into the larg­er world too. Then you turn your atten­tion to your dreams of a bet­ter life, as you join togeth­er to improve your world and one anoth­er. And then you look even high­er, and you dream of what might be, and you look to that far hori­zon and say, “Let us strive to make a new Gold­en Age, let us build that Shin­ing City on a Hill, and let us live and love and laugh as we make a bet­ter world for one and for all.”

This is real­ly the deep­er mes­sage of Aquar­ius: That until we cre­ate a world where self-ful­fill­ment is pos­si­ble for one and for all, none of us will be ful­ly or tru­ly happy.

This is the dream of Aquar­ius, this is the far­away look you see in an Aquar­ius’ eyes, (and in your own Aquar­i­an nature that each of you has some­where in your chart). Humans are dream­ers and cre­ators, and we yearn to live (once more) in a gold­en age where the val­ue and worth of each indi­vid­ual is cel­e­brat­ed, hon­ored and fulfilled.

We know and feel in our sacred cen­ter and by the light of our high­est self, that we are here for this: “We are all for one and one for all”.

Your Hap­pi­ness, our hap­pi­ness is found in one anoth­er. We feel it in our smiles and laugh­ter. Because what makes us hap­py is the hap­pi­ness of our fam­i­ly and friends.

And our life is good, true and beau­ti­ful when it is lived with and for one another.

For this is why we came, this is what we are here for.

You are what you are because of love.

And all you have to do,

Is Just love one another.