The First “Earth Rise” for Human­i­ty — Apol­lo 8 mis­sion — Our Beau­ti­ful, Blue Home

 

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 3 – Whither

So, let us now cast our gaze for­ward to the years that lie ahead. As I have already not­ed, there are sev­er­al plan­e­tary influ­ences that are remain­ing in place now, some for quite a few years, yet their influ­ence will be con­stant­ly influ­enced and mod­u­lat­ed by align­ments and tran­si­tions of oth­er plan­ets too. The Uni­verse is formed by these undu­lat­ing rhythms of Con­stan­cy amidst con­stant Change; for the under­ly­ing essence of Spir­it is formed by these Eter­nal Truths. which play out in these worlds of Being as the pro­found­ly mov­ing res­o­nances of the cos­mos, the eter­nal Songs of Spir­it.

As I men­tioned in last year’s look ahead, we have now, (after Uranus moves into Tau­rus to stay for sev­en years on March 6^th), Sat­urn, Uranus and Plu­to all mov­ing through Earth Signs. It is per­haps a fit­ting and final chap­ter in this “Age of Earth” that we have been mov­ing through since the 1840’s, as indi­cat­ed by one of the sig­na­ture cycles in Astrol­o­gy, the con­junc­tions of Jupiter and Sat­urn every 20 years occur­ring in one ele­ment after another.

Astrologers have always paid very close atten­tion to this series of align­ments, each one defin­ing a peri­od char­ac­ter­ized by a def­i­nite spir­i­tu­al-cul­tur­al res­o­nance, the “tone of the time”. I have named the last 3 ele­men­tal pas­sages, and the upcom­ing 4^th as:

Water             1425–1663 (The Age of Faith) pre­vi­ous was 571–809

Fire                 1663–1842 (The Age of Explo­rations) pre­vi­ous was 809‑1047

Earth              1842–2020 (The Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1047–1226

Air                  2020–2219 (The Age of Ide­al­iza­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1226–1425

 

This is known as the “Great Muta­tion Cycle”, the series of Jupiter/Saturn con­junc­tions tak­ing place in the Four Ele­ments one after the oth­er, (Water, Fire, Earth, and Air). The com­plete series is formed by 40 con­junc­tions around the zodi­ac, which is divid­ed into rough­ly 4 peri­ods of about 180 to 230 years each, or an entire series last­ing about 800 years.

What this means is that we are on the cusp of some very impor­tant shifts as we move from this Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion (or Mate­ri­al­iza­tion) into an Age of Ide­al­iza­tion (or what I call Ethe­re­al­iza­tion). Per­haps, our pas­sage will mir­ror that of the 1200’s to 1400’s, and that this New Age will equal­ly bring forth a “lit­tle Renais­sance”, (or some­thing even more profound)?

It will begin as 2020 ends, as Sat­urn moves into Aquar­ius and Jupiter joins it on the very day of the Win­ter Sol­stice of Decem­ber 21, 2020. Then in the year 2024, Plu­to will leave Capri­corn and like­wise enter Aquar­ius. And yes, there are some who believe that these shifts, along with oth­er indi­ca­tors, point to the true begin­ning of what many have called the Age of Aquar­ius.

This much longer cycle of Astro­log­i­cal Ages, (which is also known as the Pre­ces­sion of the Equinox­es) is formed by the Earth’s posi­tion as indi­cat­ed by the North Pole being aligned to a series of Polar stars over the course of about 26,000 years, (or about 2,100 years per sign). As these align­ments unfold, the first day of Spring rotates back­wards through the Zodi­ac, (from Aries to Pisces to Aquar­ius…). It forms the dif­fer­ence between what Astrologers know as the Trop­i­cal Zodi­ac (mov­ing) and the Side­re­al Zodi­ac (fixed) which were aligned at 0 Aries around 254 BCE.

We are said to be at end of Pisces and the begin­ning of Aquar­ius, though the tran­si­tion between one to the oth­er is not def­i­nite, and there are var­i­ous dates for when the Aquar­i­an Age will begin (or has already begun). There are seri­ous (but also wild and rather sil­ly) the­o­ries about what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. I hold that we can more clear­ly under­stand what may be com­ing, by look­ing to the most sig­nif­i­cant theme of the past 2,000 years, or what was the root issue that formed this Age of Pisces. It is from this that we may be able to dis­cern what may lie ahead for us all.

Though vol­umes have (and will) be writ­ten about the 20 Cen­turies we have just come through, the most salient fea­ture to me comes from the cen­ter that forms the Sign of Pisces. I like to say that Pisces, being the last sign, (and from a strict­ly “human” per­spec­tive of course), is the sum­ma­tion and com­ple­tion of the jour­ney in spir­it that we humans are all engaged upon.

What dri­ves our sto­ry as human is not our won­der­ful “oppos­able thumb”, (though cer­tain­ly it has spurred the devel­op­ment of our tool-mak­ing nature and the growth of our self-con­scious­ness). Or, some would point to that fea­ture as the key to form­ing our capac­i­ty to make tools, and it was this which led to our defin­ing fea­ture, to our “self-aware­ness”, which then forms the key to what makes us human, and we are cer­tain­ly clos­er to the “truth” with this it seems.

But I am fond of say­ing, that in the end it all comes down to this, and look­ing to this last sign of Pisces, (and we all have Pisces some­where in our chart and nature), what tru­ly makes us human is our Capac­i­ty to Dream, to look at the world and one anoth­er with won­der. We are endowed with Imag­i­na­tion, and so our great­est gift is formed and held by the very heart of Spir­it, we are Cre­ators.

We dream, we imag­ine and so we create…and then we dream again. We encounter the world “as it is”, and we dream of a bet­ter one. We have and find our way through this Liv­ing Faith as Cre­ators, and we under­stand, because we know, that we can form a bet­ter life, and a bet­ter world for us and for those who follow.

We are not so much “human beings” as much as we are “human becoming’s”. It is pre­cise­ly from this essen­tial qual­i­ty of Spir­it, of being “Cre­ators”, that we have brought about remark­able changes in our very nature, and in the world around us. But now our “Ring of Pow­er”, (our Imag­i­na­tion and Intel­li­gence, our Curios­i­ty and Cre­ativ­i­ty), threat­ens to under­mine our very exis­tence, as well as fun­da­men­tal­ly change the com­plex hier­ar­chy of fel­low Life-Forms on our Earth.

Yes, into our “Cre­ations” we have poured our hopes and dreams and revealed the awe­some gift of our Imag­i­na­tion and Dreams. But we are also imper­fect, and we have nei­ther the req­ui­site wis­dom nor humil­i­ty, as yet, to use our pow­er with true under­stand­ing and com­pas­sion. So, the trag­ic result has been that we inevitably wove into our cre­ations the anx­i­eties, doubts and fears that have shad­owed our jour­ney of awakening.

Yes, we had dreams and visions, and we had inven­tive­ness, curios­i­ty and crit­i­cal think­ing and we acquired more and more knowl­edge. But both the Dream and this Knowl­edge were imper­fect and woe­ful­ly inad­e­quate. We lit­er­al­ly opened “Pandora’s Box”, and set so many things in motion that we now threat­en to over­whelm our­selves and the life­forms that share this world with us.

When we exam­ine the his­to­ry of life on Earth, sci­en­tists have deter­mined that sev­er­al Great Extinc­tion events have occurred. Today many observers are not­ing that what they are call­ing the “Sixth Great Extinc­tion” is tak­ing place all around us now…and the rea­son for this tragedy is quite sim­ply us.

For the human part in this Sto­ry of Life we have come through sev­er­al key turn­ing points: What is known as the Cog­ni­tive Rev­o­lu­tion 70,000 years ago, and then the Agri­cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion 12,000 years ago, and most cer­tain­ly since what we know as the Sci­en­tif­ic Rev­o­lu­tion 500 years ago.But nev­er have our future prospects (and the world’s) been so shad­owed by the fear of what may be unfold­ing now and by what lies ahead.

I have hope, that we will find a way to use our amaz­ing gifts, to Dream and Rea­son, to be guid­ed by our Spir­i­tu­al Intu­ition, Com­pas­sion and Wis­dom, and that this will lead to a New Age in the years ahead. Per­haps this is what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. That it will be wit­ness to the next great step in Human Awak­en­ing, and we will come to a Greater Under­stand­ing through the core expe­ri­ence 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.

Let us make this pledge to one anoth­er, in the spir­it of Human­i­ty, with Love for one anoth­er and for all of Spirit-Life-Consciousness:

May we lis­ten to our High­er Self and find in our hearts the Wis­dom and Love to approach this Sto­ry of Life on Earth as our respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect. May we turn our Dreams and Intel­li­gence to pur­pose­ful preser­va­tion of Life in all its mag­nif­i­cent Diver­si­ty. May we become ever more Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this beau­ti­ful blue Ark of Life. May we take care, and think of our chil­dren, and our children’s chil­dren, and all who will come after us. May we rise and shine as the Stars in the heaven’s above and be tru­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this Creation.

Let us hope, when we are all long gone from this world, that our descen­dants will look back upon us and say that we rose to our chal­lenge, that we faced our fears and found our faith. That we made com­mon cause among our­selves and with all who would fol­low us. We lis­tened to the Winds of the Spir­it, and we passed the torch of Light, Love and Will for the gen­er­a­tions to come.

May it be so.

Next, The Chart of the USA

The Androm­e­da Galaxy — Our near­est neigh­bor and thought to look much as our own Milky Way.
It is pre­dict­ed that our Milky Way and Androm­e­da will meet and merge in about 4 Bil­lion years.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year ­Part 2 – What lies ahead (Jan­u­ary 19, 2019)

In my sec­ond show of 2019 I will con­tin­ue our look at the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2019 and beyond as we con­sid­er what may lie ahead in the years to come.

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:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 19^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/01/19/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-2019-part‑2

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 Jan­u­ary 19^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 2 – Where

The Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar for 2019 appears to be some­what less event­ful than recent years, but appear­ances are often not what they seem. What are the Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions that will pre­vail this year?

2019 will be like many oth­er years. We will have three peri­ods of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, (March 5—March 28, July 7—July 31, and Octo­ber 31—November 20). There will be three Solar Eclipses (Jan­u­ary 5, July 2, and Decem­ber 26) and two Lunar Eclipses (Jan­u­ary 21 and July 16). Of course, there will be New Moons and Full Moons each month, and the year­ly pas­sage of the sea­sons and signs that mark your jour­ney through the stars. But what are the most impor­tant ele­ments that will inform your jour­ney this year?

Uranus in Tau­rus – Trans­for­ma­tion of Value

Many plan­e­tary fac­tors that were true for 2018 will con­tin­ue with mod­i­fi­ca­tions in 2019. The only sig­nif­i­cant shift of sign posi­tion will be the final move of Uranus into Tau­rus on March 6^th, where it will remain now until July 2025, (it had moved into Tau­rus on May 15^th, but it turned ret­ro­grade and re-entered Aries on Novem­ber 6^th, 2018).

The pre­vi­ous times for Uranus in Tau­rus were 1935–1942, 1851–59 and 1768–75. In each of those peri­ods, the effect of Uranus (The Awak­en­er) mov­ing through the sign of Val­ue (Tau­rus) wit­nessed sig­nif­i­cant shocks and con­flicts, lead­ing to cathar­tic trans­for­ma­tions, as dif­fer­ing val­ue sys­tems with­in and between cul­tures, broke the bonds of mean­ing­ful­ness that hold soci­eties togeth­er. With­out a strong con­sen­sus, lack­ing a sig­nif­i­cant agree­ment on com­mon­ly accept­ed val­ues and virtues, the “cen­ter can­not hold” because it seem­ing­ly (or actu­al­ly) does not exist.

For exam­ple, in the Unit­ed States the most recent pas­sage in the late 1930’s formed the lead up to the “War of Democ­ra­cies ver­sus Fas­cism” or World War II; the 1850’s led up to our defin­ing con­flict, “The Civ­il War” (1860–65), and the 1760’s‑70’s wit­nessed the break­down between the Amer­i­can colonies and Eng­land, lead­ing to our “The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War”. The his­to­ry of those three pre­vi­ous peri­ods should cer­tain­ly give us rea­son for con­cern as to what may lie ahead for us.

It is very appar­ent that our own peri­od is build­ing to a spir­i­tu­al­ly nec­es­sary and cathar­tic cri­sis from dif­fer­ences over, and con­flicts between val­ues once again. There comes a point when the divide with­in a peo­ple, or between one peo­ple and anoth­er, becomes so great that only a fun­da­men­tal shock to those sys­tems will pro­vide the rebirth need­ed to set things right again. Uranus ever serves the cause of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom. The frac­tures and clash­es that Uranus elic­its will always serve to steer the human sto­ry towards the endur­ing light of this fun­da­men­tal Truth:

Until we cre­ate a world where all are free to be and be self-ful­filled, then none of us are tru­ly free.

Though it may be painful to expe­ri­ence these shocks that Uranus deliv­ers, it brings about the nec­es­sary next step we must take to cre­ate a world of freer minds and lives.

 

Sat­urn in Capri­corn – The Test of Responsibility

Sat­urn con­tin­ues to move through Capri­corn in 2019, and although it will enter Aquar­ius on March 20, 2020, it will ret­ro­grade back into Capri­corn on July 1, 2020, and then re-enter Aquar­ius on Decem­ber 17, 2020. This means that the plan­et known as “The Teacher”, will con­tin­ue to chal­lenge every indi­vid­ual, com­mu­ni­ty, and cul­ture as it tests and so reveals the essen­tial char­ac­ter or wor­thi­ness of the var­i­ous hier­ar­chies and insti­tu­tions that we have formed to meet our needs for one another.

Whether we con­sid­er the most fun­da­men­tal struc­tur­al unit of the fam­i­ly, then on up through more encom­pass­ing com­mu­ni­ties formed by geog­ra­phy, inter­est or belief, or cor­po­rate struc­tures, or state and nation­al polit­i­cal insti­tu­tions, it is through and by means of all these hier­ar­chies that we have incor­po­rat­ed our val­ues and formed the endur­ing lega­cies of our ways of meet­ing one another’s needs. This Hier­ar­chy of Insti­tu­tions form and serve to ful­fill the real­ized (or crystallized/materialized) rela­tion­ships of each of us to one anoth­er. From them we cre­ate our titles and roles, and we under­take our respon­si­bil­i­ties so that we can claim our rights with­in the social order that we have made with one another.

But it is pre­cise­ly this Insti­tu­tion­al Order that is being bro­ken down and trans­formed by the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn (from 2008–2024), just as it did in the late 1700’s and in the ear­ly 1500’s. Now joined by Sat­urn in Capri­corn, we see this chal­lenge to our Insti­tu­tion­al order fac­ing extreme stress­es and strain. Each of us, with Sat­urn mov­ing through Capri­corn needs to be ask­ing, “What is my pur­pose here?” What is the respon­si­ble way to act in a world turned upside down? What is our prop­er role and what is the truth that will guide us as we face this “end of an age”?

Of course, I main­tain that the answer must always be that these crit­i­cal moments require a return to the ever-last­ing val­ues that have guid­ed our foot­steps from the very begin­ning. The answer is always the same: we must hold to the Spir­i­tu­al, Philo­soph­i­cal and Sci­en­tif­ic truths that form the foun­da­tion of the Human Story.

But, in each cri­sis of tran­si­tion through­out his­to­ry, there have been three nec­es­sary, dif­fer­ent and yet inte­gral respons­es and call­ings depend­ing upon the indi­vid­ual and their community:

There are those who are called to pre­serve, who will seek to main­tain what is good and true, to hold fast to that which still has val­ue and meaning.

There are those who cre­ate, who look ahead, as they seek to build a new mod­el of meet­ing needs and ful­fill­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties for the new age that is dawning.

There are those whose role is to destroy, to be the very break­ers of the old idols and icons, and though they are often seen as pure­ly neg­a­tive and with­out a sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty or hon­or, they also serve to bring about the new age.

More­over, (and I will com­ment more about this in the fore­cast for the Unit­ed States), I not­ed last year that this pas­sage of Sat­urn through Capri­corn has his­tor­i­cal­ly been a rather chal­leng­ing time for the USA. That is prin­ci­pal­ly because as Sat­urn moves through ear­ly to mid-Capri­corn degrees, it forms an Oppo­si­tion to the Venus, Jupiter and Sun in the Unit­ed States’ chart.

In pre­vi­ous Sat­urn pas­sages, (1988–91, 1959–1962 and 1929–32), the USA expe­ri­enced strong if not severe social, eco­nom­ic and busi­ness chal­lenges. These dis­rup­tions were fol­lowed by cul­tur­al upheavals and polit­i­cal upsets. We can now see that although 2018 start­ed with rosy fore­casts, the clouds of doubt (and fear) came to shad­ow the eco­nom­ic land­scape as 2018 end­ed. It will take thought­ful and wise mea­sures to pre­vent even fur­ther upsets and loss­es in 2019.

Yes, 2019 will be a chal­leng­ing year, and you may be for­giv­en for wish­ing that you lived in a qui­eter, more har­mo­nious peri­od of his­to­ry. But you must know, that all who live through such trou­bled times have wished for this too. But they found a way through and helped to bring about a new age, as you will too.

You are here because it is your sacred duty and hon­or to cre­ate a new­er and bet­ter world for your loved ones, com­mu­ni­ty, and soci­ety. The prob­lems and chal­lenges we face are for the most part self-made; we are the Cre­ators and we made the world that is.

The great and good news that we should take from this is that we also have the very Intel­li­gence, Love and Will to make a bet­ter world too. It is real­ly a choice you must make, each and every day, to stay true to the path of Light and Love. And remem­ber this is often made so through the small­est acts of kind­li­ness and con­sid­er­a­tion, and by this you will help one anoth­er to turn back the shad­ow­ing clouds of doubt and fear and build a bet­ter tomorrow.

When­ev­er you find your mind is trou­bled or fear is grow­ing with­in you, remem­ber the ancient Invo­ca­tion that can help you hold to the path of Light, Love and Will:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

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

 Next, “Whith­er are we going?”

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 1 – Whence

As we attempt to dis­cern the spir­i­tu­al themes of the com­ing year, it is help­ful to con­sid­er what we have just encoun­tered in 2018. It is most cer­tain­ly true that the tests faced, and the lessons learned in any one year may con­tin­ue into the fol­low­ing year (or sev­er­al years), as the unfold­ment of one day into the next is cer­tain­ly dri­ven and informed by ener­gies and expe­ri­ences that wax and wane over many weeks, months and years.

Plu­to in Capri­corn — The End of an Age

For Earth as a whole, the most impor­tant plan­e­tary influ­ences remain in place, with some vari­a­tions on a theme we have been faced with for some time now. Cer­tain­ly, the pas­sage of Plu­to through the Sign of Capri­corn, (2008 through 2024), con­tin­ues to pro­vide the pri­ma­ry heart­beat of our spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge. I have called this once every 250-year cyclic peri­od the “end of an age”, which was clear­ly so for the pre­vi­ous pas­sages in the ear­ly 1500’s and the 1700’s. In those ear­li­er peri­ods, and I would think most by now would agree it is true for our own time too, the world seemed to fall apart as Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al dis­in­te­gra­tions rever­ber­at­ed through all realms. But these spir­i­tu­al earth­quakes also her­ald­ed each time that a new age was dawning.

A new world is com­ing, but that requires that an old order give way. Of course, the fun­da­men­tal nature of what it means to be human, our needs for food, shel­ter, com­pan­ion­ship, love and secu­ri­ty are ever-present, but they are also evolving/transforming, seem­ing­ly (or actu­al­ly) at an expo­nen­tial rate, which is in large part due to what is known as “the sci­en­tif­ic rev­o­lu­tion” that began sev­er­al cen­turies ago.

Coper­ni­cus, Bacon, Galileo, New­ton among many oth­er “less­er knowns”, ques­tioned assump­tions passed down from time immemo­r­i­al. This quick­en­ing of the human capa­bil­i­ty to know and alter our world has endowed human­i­ty with pow­ers that have seem­ing­ly out­stripped our wis­dom to wield them, whether in Physics = Nuclear weapons, or Biol­o­gy = Bio-engineering.

Much that was will con­tin­ue in some form of course, but much more of our social, eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal struc­tures will be reformed/transformed into new modes of expres­sion, and they will cer­tain­ly be informed by new ideas (or old ideas renewed) and mean­ings. The ques­tion remains, will we devel­op enough wis­dom and humil­i­ty to wield our “ring of pow­er” (Intel­li­gence) with uncon­di­tion­al love and compassion.

Uranus and Nep­tune — Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty vs. Communality

Con­tribut­ing to this shift of his­tor­i­cal pat­terns last year (and the year before), was the first major align­ment of Uranus with Nep­tune after their his­toric con­junc­tion in 1993. From 2017 on through into the begin­ning of 2019, we have been influ­enced by the Uranus/Neptune Semi­Square which is the first sig­nif­i­cant aspect in their 170 cycle from con­junc­tion to conjunction.

Uranus rules “Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty”; I call Uranus the “Awak­en­er”, as it is the Avatar of the High­er or Freer Mind that forms one of the three aspects of Spir­it. Nep­tune rules “Com­mu­nal­i­ty”; Nep­tune is the Avatar of the Ener­gy-Form that holds the whole of Cre­ation as One, the one abid­ing force that binds all to all, Uni­ver­sal or Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The inte­gral rela­tion­ship between these two reveals the para­dox­i­cal truth behind the mys­tery of the Universe’s con­sti­tu­tion. Every­thing, every par­ti­cle and every “Being” in this Uni­verse is an indi­vid­ual that is a unique instance of spir­it informed by its own Quin­tes­sence; yet all of these “ones” are One in Spir­it and fun­da­men­tal­ly indi­vis­i­ble from one anoth­er. Through­out all king­doms of life, in age after age, there is an ever-shift­ing bal­ance between these two prin­ci­ples, between the One and the many.

The ten­sion between the Indi­vid­ual and the Com­mu­ni­ty wax­es and wanes in any cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion. Whether we look at human “types” like Hunter/Gatherer, Farmer/Craftsperson or Rural/Urban (among many pos­si­ble dis­tinc­tions and dif­fer­ences), there will be found dif­fer­ing mix­tures and bal­ances (and often­times like now, imbal­ances), between these two great Ener­gy-Forms that deter­mine the degree to which Indi­vid­ual Free­dom and Com­mu­nal Har­mo­ny does or does not co-exist.

The recent past has seen a world­wide upheaval, marked now by the extremes of anar­chic indi­vid­u­al­ism and suf­fo­cat­ing com­mu­nal­ism, which sig­nals we are at a most crit­i­cal stage, where the old mod­el of bal­anc­ing Individuality/Communality has bro­ken down, and the yet to emerge new mod­el has not been ful­ly formed nor under­stood. This world-wide con­fu­sion has pro­duced a cri­sis of order and mean­ing­ful­ness for the many who yearn for a life and world that is “Fair and Free”. With­out a sig­nif­i­cant major­i­ty of peo­ple who hold to and act through an accept­ed inte­gra­tion of these two ener­gy-forms, we are liv­ing through a peri­od that is like an “in-between world”, where extrem­ists are dri­ving and divid­ing us fur­ther from one another.

How we hold these prin­ci­pals of Free­dom and Com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er with­in our­selves, and between one anoth­er, is part of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney which can only be formed and forged by hold­ing to an Inte­gral Way of Liv­ing. We are on a jour­ney from uncon­scious­ness to full spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing, and as we remake our­selves and our world, we must strive towards ever more encom­pass­ing ways of hold­ing togeth­er our “par­a­digms of under­stand­ing” and our “ways of being”.

From the phys­i­cal through the spir­i­tu­al, from the sim­plest to the most com­plex enti­ties and sys­tems, we must always strive to live a whole life, a good and beau­ty-filled life, which can be found and restored by remem­ber­ing that there is a way to do this. That way can be found by remem­ber­ing that these crises have come before, and at each moment our ances­tors found a way by hold­ing firm to the great­est truths, those pre­cious jew­els of spir­it which nev­er fade or fal­ter. We need to remem­ber that these lumi­nous truths were dis­cov­ered and passed down to us from the very begin­ning of our journey.

The Way

When­ev­er you are in doubt, you should turn (and so return) to the eter­nal truths of the Ancient Wis­dom that con­tin­u­al­ly re-emerge in age after age. This is so because Truth is equal­ly with­in you as it forms all the worlds that sur­round you too. These Spir­i­tu­al Truths are to be found every­where you look, but most impor­tant­ly, those very answers that you find “out there” will res­onate with­in you because your high­er self, your intu­itive-know­ing-self, will gen­tly whis­per “this is true”. This is because these Ancient Truths form the very sub­stance of your heart and mind too.

At the true core of any Reli­gion or Phi­los­o­phy, with­in what is known as the Eso­teric as dis­tinct from the Exo­teric forms of under­stand­ing, the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings are revealed and illu­mi­nate for you the one essen­tial path. The Great Ones, the teach­ers who form a lumi­nous riv­er of truth about life and love, all of them came to serve this cause of spir­i­tu­al integri­ty and truth, and they were guid­ed in their heart and through their soul by the fun­da­men­tal pre­cept that there is “no reli­gion high­er than truth”.

As you look back now to the year that was, and turn to face the year that is dawn­ing, take com­fort from those who showed you the way long, long ago. You will be filled with a renewed faith, and you will know that you will make a bet­ter future for your­self and for one anoth­er. Remem­ber you are nev­er alone, and you walk the same path of the Great Souls who came before you, and they strug­gled for their self-mas­tery which you will achieve one day too:

Be guid­ed by the Wise Ones, who know there is no reli­gion high­er than Truth.
Walk the path of the Great-Souls, who prac­tice the Wis­dom of Love.
Find inspi­ra­tion in the Lone­ly Ones, their Will­ing-Sac­ri­fice hon­ored by 
the Angels and Devas above.
Lis­ten for the Voice of the Silence, attend the gen­tle whis­pers in your Heart,
And you will find “The Way”.

Next, “Where are we now?”

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year ­– A Look Back and Ahead (Jan­u­ary 5, 2019)

In my first show of 2019 I will review the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2018 and exam­ine the Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions we will meet in 2019.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 5^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/01/05/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-2019

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 Jan­u­ary 5^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.