The Mean­ing of Amer­i­ca, Venus and Jupiter in the USA Chart and the Oppo­si­tion by Saturn

I thought it would be use­ful for lis­ten­ers of my radio show, and for the read­ers of this blog, to have this (more or less) ver­ba­tim tran­script of my last radio show on the USA, which aired on Sat­ur­day April 7^th (which you can lis­ten to here).  

As I not­ed in my 2018 fore­cast with regards to the USA, Sat­urn will be oppos­ing the USA Venus and Jupiter dur­ing this year as Sat­urn begins its 2.5‑year pas­sage through Capri­corn. More­over, it will move into the mid­dle degrees of Capri­corn in 2019 and align with the USA Sun and Sat­urn. In the past 3 such pas­sages of Sat­urn through Capri­corn, 1988–91, 1959–62 and 1929–32, the USA expe­ri­enced eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, and these led to upsets or rever­sals of polit­i­cal pow­er. Now, a pat­tern does not pre­dict the future, but we should con­sid­er why this pas­sage of Sat­urn through Capri­corn might bring these effects, and more impor­tant­ly under­stand what the mean­ing and mes­sage is behind this experience.

Astrol­o­gy can pro­vide insight upon almost any con­sid­er­a­tion or ques­tion, whether indi­vid­u­als, groups or larg­er enti­ties. Whether one is exam­in­ing cor­po­rate, nation­al or world­ly mat­ters astrologers call this branch of astrol­o­gy Mun­dane or World­ly Astrol­o­gy. The Astro­log­i­cal Signs, Plan­ets and Hous­es of a chart retain much of their essen­tial indi­ca­tions and mean­ings, but they must also be adjust­ed with respect to what the object of study is.

For exam­ple, the Sun in an individual’s chart indi­cates that person’s essen­tial char­ac­ter, their pure poten­tial, where­as in a chart of a nation the Sun gov­erns or rules the essen­tial char­ac­ter of the state, and may also indi­cate the supreme author­i­ty or ruler, and the myths or images that the state holds for itself and how oth­ers may view it. The Moon in a person’s chart indi­cates their emo­tion­al tem­pera­ment and needs, of how they react with­out think­ing, where­as in a nation’s chart it rules the mass­es, “the peo­ple” and indi­cates pop­u­lar moods, opin­ions and ideologies.

Today we are will look at the mean­ing and mes­sages of Venus and Jupiter in the chart of the USA.

Venus and Jupiter:

The USA has its Venus and Jupiter, (and its Sun), in the 7th house, the house of rela­tion­ship, and all three are in the Sign of Can­cer. What this indi­cates for the USA is that our per­son­al val­ues and self-worth (Venus), and our prin­ci­ples, gen­eros­i­ty and good for­tune (Jupiter) and our very being and pur­pose (Sun), is revealed, real­ized and ful­filled in the nature and qual­i­ty of our car­ing (Can­cer) rela­tion­ships to one anoth­er (the 7^th House) as cit­i­zens of this coun­try, and then also exter­nal­ly with regards to the nature of our rela­tion­ship with the world at large.

What this real­ly means is this: The USA’s True Source of Strength and Val­ue, Amer­i­ca’s great­est strength, (with the two “benefics” of Astrol­o­gy, Venus and Jupiter, our Val­ues and Prin­ci­ples, in the 7th house of rela­tion­ship), is to be found in our abun­dant gen­eros­i­ty of spir­it towards one anoth­er and the towards the rest of the world. Our strength, our real wealth, lies in our con­tin­u­ing con­tri­bu­tion to one another’s self-ful­fill­ment, to the pur­suit of true Happiness.

I spoke and wrote about this under­stand­ing of Hap­pi­ness in my show/blog post­ing about the August 2017 Eclipse. Here is part of what I stat­ed then:

The True Mean­ing of “Hap­pi­ness”

But the most curi­ous phrase, the one peo­ple should con­sid­er care­ful­ly as to what does it mean, is this “Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness”. Well the true mean­ing or deriva­tion of hap­pi­ness comes from the Ancient Teach­ings or Wis­dom, affirmed and restat­ed in Greek Phi­los­o­phy by Aris­to­tle, and Locke and Jef­fer­son refer back to this ancient under­stand­ing or mean­ing or def­i­n­i­tion of hap­pi­ness. The word in Greek that defines this notion of hap­pi­ness is Eudai­mo­nia.

That word trans­lates lit­er­al­ly as “Union with Good Spir­it”, or what we might call “Human Flour­ish­ing”, or most tru­ly we would say “Human Self-Ful­fill­ment”. What Jef­fer­son was say­ing is not that peo­ple should be allowed to be hap­py, to just be hap­py or cheer­ful or some­thing like this. He was say­ing this a spir­i­tu­al mat­ter, and what he was writ­ing about and what we are doing here comes from the sto­ry of Human­i­ty, grow­ing and devel­op­ing and becom­ing ever more self-aware and self-deter­mined. What we are try­ing to do here, what the true pur­pose and goal of human life is to achieve the Union with one’s High­er Self, to expe­ri­ence the truth with­in by join­ing with what I call the “Beloved”, or the Divine Spark with­in us.

Hap­pi­ness and Self-Fulfillment

What this means for Amer­i­ca, is that the foun­da­tion­al val­ue of our Nation is that we are try­ing to allow and empow­er each per­son to be able to pur­sue their Full Human Poten­tial. In oth­er words, this core prin­ci­ple of our found­ing doc­u­ment, and we broke from the King because he was deny­ing our right to gov­ern our­selves, we could not ful­fill our­selves while being under the rule of a monar­chy, and so we jus­ti­fied our break­ing free so that we could pur­sue our right to Self-Ful­fill­ment. We estab­lished this as our under­stand­ing of the pur­pose of our Ven­ture, that the true pur­pose of rela­tion­ship is that it must serve human Self-Fulfillment.

We have formed our sacred com­pact with one anoth­er, based upon this pledge, that we will ful­fill our poten­tials for and with and through one anoth­er, as we steadi­ly move towards and align our­selves with our true and Divine Nature.

This is what Jef­fer­son meant by the Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness, Jef­fer­son meant Self-Ful­fill­ment through Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing. Which means every choice we make as indi­vid­u­als or as a soci­ety, must be ground­ed in this sim­ple ques­tion: Will this Action or Activ­i­ty bring us clos­er to uni­ver­sal human self-ful­fill­ment or move us fur­ther away from it. We make good and bad deci­sions every day, all of us do. But to sup­port our own or oth­ers greater self-ful­fill­ment is the true goal and way to Happiness.

Our found­ing as a Nation, was a vol­un­tary agree­ment or com­pact with one anoth­er. It was seen by our founders and those who fol­lowed, as the next step in the evo­lu­tion of Spir­it. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, this jour­ney of Spir­it can be seen as ever bend­ing towards the eter­nal truth embod­ied in the mys­tery and pow­er of spir­i­tu­al self-ful­fill­ment. For humans in gen­er­al, and for the USA in par­tic­u­lar, this state of hap­pi­ness is sup­port­ed and ful­filled by our freely formed rela­tion­ships with one another.

The USA rep­re­sents in the very nature of how it was estab­lished, by its found­ing and foun­da­tion­al doc­u­ments, (Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and Con­sti­tu­tion), that the essen­tial char­ac­ter of the USA would be a state found­ed not upon blood and soil, not by ref­er­ence or alle­giance to myths of empires and king­doms, and cer­tain­ly not be estab­lished as a gov­ern­ment held and shaped by hier­ar­chies of inher­it­ed pow­er. Instead, here indi­vid­u­als would freely choose to join in a com­pact and gov­ern them­selves. This “Rev­o­lu­tion in Gov­er­nance” is beau­ti­ful­ly affirmed by the idea inscribed upon the Great Seal of the USA, and this idea express­es our nation­al mot­to, when the USA declared itself to be a “Novus Ordo Seclo­rum”, which means “A New Order for the Centuries”.

The founders of this nation under­stood that what they were cre­at­ing was some­thing new, some­thing hereto­fore unfa­mil­iar because it rep­re­sent­ed a rad­i­cal break with the past, it was a rev­o­lu­tion. Here, in this nation, we would come togeth­er and freely deter­mine our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. We would sur­ren­der all title and priv­i­leges and stand as equals to one anoth­er; we would be sub­ject to no King, or Prince, or Clan or Class. Instead we agreed to come togeth­er as equals and to form a vol­un­tary asso­ci­a­tion, and we estab­lished our com­pact with one anoth­er. This sacred com­pact is sealed and pro­tect­ed by the one and only true ruler in Amer­i­ca, the Rule of Law and our Con­sti­tu­tion, (which is why the US has Sat­urn (order), in Libra (the scales of jus­tice) in our 10th house (the rul­ing author­i­ty). In the Unit­ed States, the law is King, and no one is above the law.

Embod­ied in our “Law” are the val­ues (Venus) that we have so far evolved, that form and guide our con­duct with one anoth­er per­son­al­ly. Those val­ues are made into rules (laws) which we have agreed upon, and these are held by the plan­et Jupiter (the ruler of Law), so that we know how we are expect­ed to con­duct our­selves with regards to one anoth­er. In oth­er words, we have estab­lished these laws as the crys­tal­lized form of val­ues with and between one anoth­er. The essen­tial heart of those val­ues, with Venus in Can­cer, is that we would care for one another…and behind that is the spir­i­tu­al truth that we intu­itive­ly and lov­ing­ly under­stand that our own hap­pi­ness depends upon, in fact springs from, the well-being and hap­pi­ness of our fel­low broth­ers and sisters.

But unlike some, who believe that those orig­i­nal laws, our first rules, the Con­sti­tu­tion, to be a fin­ished piece and not to be altered, most of us find that the sto­ry of human ful­fill­ment is an unfold­ing one that is far from over. And, so, we must keep improv­ing upon and adding to our val­ues and improv­ing our rules or laws.

The Found­ing Fathers cer­tain­ly knew this work was not fin­ished or done with them. They sought to go beyond what had been, yet they could not reach or agree beyond a cer­tain under­stand­ing. They strug­gled over issues and did not over­come some of their own chal­lenges, and so they left it to oth­er gen­er­a­tions to face the glar­ing injus­tices embod­ied in our first set of “rules”. How could it be otherwise?

In many ways, as the var­i­ous plan­ets align over the years with these sig­nif­i­cant indi­ca­tors of our jour­ney, we can see the rise and fall of our path as we find and make our way to forge a bet­ter union with one anoth­er, and cre­ate the con­di­tions for our “life, lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of happiness”.

In the chart of the USA, it is this con­junc­tion of Venus and Jupiter in Can­cer in our 7^th house, and the sig­nif­i­cant tran­sits to these two bod­ies (and then to the Sun and Sat­urn), that will mark sig­nif­i­cant peri­ods in this on-going sto­ry of our progress to bring into real­i­ty a more spir­i­tu­al real­iza­tion of our oth­er mot­to, e pluribus unum, “Out of Many, One”.

Sat­urn over Venus/Jupiter:

Every 7 to 8 years, Sat­urn will make a “hard” con­tact to the USA Venus, Jupiter (and then Sun and Sat­urn), and each time it is reminder that our work of form­ing a more per­fect union is far from over. But it is this par­tic­u­lar pas­sage, of Sat­urn in Capri­corn and oppo­site to the USA’s Venus, Jupiter and then Sun which hap­pens every 28–29 years or so, it is this peri­od that elic­its a rather dra­mat­ic expe­ri­ence of this ongo­ing strug­gle to make real the ide­al that is the USA.

The Sat­urn (Real­i­ty Prin­ci­ple) chal­lenge to Venus forces a reassess­ment of the val­ues that do (or do not), hold us togeth­er, just as these same val­ues will hold or not hold a fam­i­ly togeth­er in shared sen­si­bil­i­ties and love for one anoth­er, (with Venus in Can­cer, the sign of fam­i­ly). Then Sat­urn to Jupiter will equal­ly chal­lenge the larg­er sys­tems of belief that form our com­mon under­stand­ings and agree­ments as to what con­sti­tutes Real­i­ty. Jupiter rules our expe­ri­ence of Truth, (Philo­soph­ic, Sci­en­tif­ic and Reli­gious). This Sat­urn pas­sage reveals the strength or weak­ness of the inter­nal and exter­nal bonds that hold us to one anoth­er, of our shared val­ues and beliefs that guide our jour­ney to self-ful­fill­ment with and through one another.

Real­ly, every 7 to 8 years, and cer­tain­ly and more dra­mat­i­cal­ly every 29 years or so like now, we are faced with the need to con­front the gap between the ide­al and the real­i­ty in our val­ues and prin­ci­ples that form and inform our com­pact with one another.

But Venus and Jupiter hold addi­tion­al mean­ings too, and these con­tribute to oth­er effects that we also expe­ri­ence with this pas­sage of Sat­urn through Capri­corn. Venus, con­nect­ed with Tau­rus and Libra, also rules the resources of a nation, so finan­cial insti­tu­tions, bankers and farm­ers. Jupiter also rules the Nation­al Wealth, and it rules banks, the rich and the gen­er­al finan­cial life of the nation.

The USA is blessed with Venus and Jupiter con­junct one anoth­er, and these are known in Astrol­o­gy as the “less­er and greater benefics”. The USA is tru­ly blessed by “good for­tune”. But just as in a per­son­al chart, good luck is not some­thing one has, it is some­thing one makes. Venus and Jupiter brought togeth­er cre­ate good for­tune pre­cise­ly because they indi­cate a gen­er­ous, boun­ti­ful nature. It is because togeth­er they cre­ate a char­ac­ter of good will and an abun­dant spir­it of gen­eros­i­ty. The USA has always been a very gen­er­ous nation, and as long as con­tin­ues to do so, it will be reward­ed by the return of good for­tune too.

But this pas­sage of Sat­urn over this bless­ing in the chart for the USA is often marked by eco­nom­ic down­turns, reces­sions or worse. In a way, just as in an individual’s chart, the pas­sage of Sat­urn like this over Venus can make one feel less valu­able, less loved and lead to loss of val­ue inter­nal­ly, and to the break­ing of rela­tion­ships exter­nal­ly. Well, here too that will be the larg­er real­i­ty of what hap­pens to the USA.

Like­wise, the oppo­si­tion to Jupiter will also cur­tail the gen­eros­i­ty and good­will for one anoth­er and towards oth­er nations, and our rule of law will be test­ed and chal­lenged. When­ev­er Sat­urn oppos­es Jupiter for an indi­vid­ual and in a nation, they will encounter eco­nom­ic dif­fi­cul­ties, down­turns and upsets.

And, if his­to­ry is any guide, with Jupiter also indi­cat­ing the con­di­tions for the ruler of a nation, the last three pas­sages of Sat­urn in Capri­corn have been accom­pa­nied by a change of polit­i­cal for­tunes in any upcom­ing elec­tion. In all three pre­vi­ous pas­sages, the par­ty in pow­er is turned out. The Winds of Spir­it are blow­ing stronger now, and eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal change is coming.

We are remind­ed, once again by “Sat­urn the Teacher”, that our very own hap­pi­ness can only be tru­ly expe­ri­enced by affirm­ing and abid­ing in our pledge to one anoth­er as embod­ied in our found­ing doc­u­ments and prin­ci­ples. Our pledge to one anoth­er is:

That we will con­tin­u­ous­ly strive to pre­serve and improve our union with one anoth­er, and
That we lov­ing­ly ded­i­cate our lives and for­tunes to the well-being of one and all.

In no small mea­sure, we are being asked to remem­ber in this year, (and in the next), that our true good for­tune and self-ful­fill­ment rests on, depends upon each of us. “We, the peo­ple”, are the truest and great­est trea­sure in this land. The USA is great­ly enriched by our diver­si­ty of peo­ples, for it is from our com­plex webs of rela­tion­ships to one anoth­er that we forge our wealth and good fortune.

We have tak­en a sacred oath in our found­ing, “…we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes, and our sacred Honor.”

This heart­felt pledge is root­ed in a fun­da­men­tal val­ue of Spir­i­tu­al Truth, and this is the shin­ing bedrock of our New Order for the Centuries:

True hap­pi­ness for any of one of us can only be ful­ly real­ized through our con­tin­u­al­ly striv­ing for the self-ful­fill­ment of one and for all.

Yes, we are on the path where Out of many, we are One.

We, the peo­ple are here to love and care for one another,

For we are many, and we are One.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The USA, Astrol­o­gy and Cur­rent Events (Sat­ur­day April 7, 2018)

In my fourth show of 2018 we will look more close­ly into the main Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tors for cur­rent con­di­tions in the chart for the USA. In my 2018 Fore­cast, which you can read here, USA 2018, I not­ed that the USA was going through a cycle that has res­o­nances with three pre­vi­ous peri­ods like this in the 20^th Cen­tu­ry: 1988–91, 1959–62 and 1929–32. In each of these moments, the plan­et Sat­urn was first in oppo­si­tion to the USA Venus and Jupiter, and then in the fol­low­ing year, Sat­urn con­tin­ued through Capri­corn to align with both the USA Sun and Sat­urn. For each of these pri­or peri­ods, this pas­sage of Sat­urn was marked by eco­nom­ic chal­lenges and rever­sals in polit­i­cal pow­er. Why is this so, and what might this mean for our time?

First, I will look at the mean­ings of Venus and Jupiter in the chart of the USA and then con­sid­er what this present-day pas­sage of Sat­urn means for the USA and our cur­rent eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal expe­ri­ence in light of these his­tor­i­cal precedents.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day April 7^th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/04/07/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-usa-astrology-and-current-events

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 April 7^th at 2 pm EDT as we look at how Astrol­o­gy can help to reveal the true nature of this repeat­ing his­tor­i­cal influ­ence upon the USA.

Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade once more on March 22^nd and returns to direct motion again on April 15^th. As I not­ed in my lat­est radio show, Mer­cury and all the oth­er plan­ets nev­er reverse direc­tion at all. (You can lis­ten to my pod­cast on Mer­cury ret­ro­grade. It begins at about 11:30 min­utes into the pod­cast, which you can get to by just click­ing in the progress bar until you reach that time in the show). Here is the link to the show: Radio Show on Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade and the Equinox.

All the plan­ets mere­ly appear to move back­wards for a time, three weeks in the case of Mer­cury, about three times a year, and upwards of six months for an out­er plan­et like Sat­urn or Uranus, once per year. When­ev­er Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade, you are asked to bend your thoughts inward, to re-con­sid­er what and how you know, to tru­ly make a bet­ter effort to fol­low the path of Spir­it where there is but one cer­tain truth, that the way to Wis­dom is “to know thyself”.

Though many will com­plain that Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is the root cause of many mis­takes, errors and mis­un­der­stand­ings, that is not the fault of Mer­cury. As the bard Shake­speare so elo­quent­ly put it, “The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars, but in our­selves, that we are under­lings.” The plan­ets and stars cre­ate mod­u­la­tions of the twelve-fold ener­gy-forms of this uni­verse. But what we make of those gifts of the spir­it, well that depends upon our spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment, it depends upon our degree of intel­li­gence, wis­dom and love.

As we grow into our greater aware­ness, we will become as wise as a ser­pent, and equal­ly gen­tle as a dove. All great souls pos­sess these traits, and each of us will come into this state of grace some­day. Mean­while, it is best for us all to be hum­ble, to under­stand that our progress is cer­tain but slow, and it depends upon each of us being awake, alert and self-reflective.

The oppor­tu­ni­ty offered to you in this ret­ro­grade can be ascer­tained in two ways. One is by under­stand­ing what sign is involved in the ret­ro­grade. The sec­ond way, is by know­ing through what part of your own chart the ret­ro­grade is tak­ing place. Since the lat­ter qual­i­ty is a very indi­vid­ual fac­tor, let us con­sid­er what the ret­ro­grade in Aries can do for you.

The expe­ri­ence of Aries is to bring you into the realm of what I call your “pres­ence”. No mat­ter what, the most impor­tant thing to be con­scious of, in each and every moment, is to be com­plete­ly focused upon how you meet with what is right before you now. For this is the only space in which you can expe­ri­ence your free­dom to be and become ful­ly human one day. Yes, you must look back at all your pri­or expe­ri­ences and con­sid­er what you have learned; and yes, you must equal­ly look for­ward to the bet­ter you and world you wish to cre­ate. But the only thing that counts in each and every step, the most crit­i­cal moment of all, is how you meet this moment right here, right now.

To that end, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Aries can be an instru­ment for guid­ing you to be that much more aware of your­self, to con­sid­er the impor­tance of your pres­ence. By tru­ly under­stand­ing how you appear, and of how you affect those around you, you will be able to more cre­ative­ly and con­scious­ly make the most of every poten­tial held in each of these “pre­cious pearls of the now” in your life.

Mer­cury will turn you back on your­self so that you can see that if you enter a space, or greet some­one with a cer­tain atti­tude and inten­tion, that you will inevitably shape this expe­ri­ence one way or anoth­er. What you must know is that this is the only place you have con­trol to bring about a bet­ter out­come for your­self or oth­ers. Your first step, your first ges­tures and words, they are the means to advance your sto­ry or repeat the errors of your past.

By keep­ing your self-aware­ness focused on the now, through a deep­er self-reex­am­i­na­tion of past mis­takes or mis­steps, you can learn to present your­self in a man­ner that is more appro­pri­ate to every sit­u­a­tion. You can pos­i­tive­ly influ­ence and forge a bet­ter out­come, by break­ing a chain of cau­sa­tion that may have cir­cum­scribed your life (and the life of one or many oth­ers), by just choos­ing to be a bet­ter, more enlight­ened and self-aware actor in the now.

Of course, every­thing mat­ters in this encounter with the now, how you are dressed, how you hold your­self, how you move, but the most impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion is the state of your self-aware­ness, your pres­ence of mind is the key.

As you turn every cor­ner, as you enter each room, con­sid­er care­ful­ly what you are bring­ing into that space as much as what you encounter in it.

Often­times, I will “remind myself” of this. I will, quite lit­er­al­ly gen­tly slap myself in the face as I come to the turn in “the path”, and I will say to myself, “Now stay alert, be prepared…your future is just around the bend!”

May you be as wise as a ser­pent, and gen­tle as a dove.

May you walk the path of Wisdom.

May you choose to stand in the Light.

Happy Astrological New Year!

You are an Immor­tal who walks along the Razor’s Edge of Spir­it, the path­way known as Dhar­ma-Kar­ma. All your Yes­ter­days and all your Tomor­rows too, all of them meet here in this Ful­crum of Fulfillment…

There is only this, you are only in one space tru­ly, you are here in the Eter­nal Now.

What was, is done; what will be, is still being made.

All that mat­ters, for­ev­er and ever, is for you to be here, to be present and face the prod­uct of your past and hold true to your faith in a bet­ter future…and then to Act with all your heart and mind and will.

This most pre­cious space, the space of Now, is the only place that you can be free; it is only in this ever-unfold­ing moment in space-time, it is only here that you can act and feel and think and shine as the Divine being you tru­ly are. Only in the “here and now” can you be and become, it is only here that you cre­ate your bet­ter self and a bet­ter world too.

And the only lim­it to your Free­dom to be and become…is you. For every soul who is on the path of awak­en­ing, who walks the path­way of Dhar­ma-Kar­ma, the only imped­i­ment to you to become even more of who and what your tru­ly are is the self-lim­i­ta­tion imposed by your lev­el of Con­scious­ness, by your degree of Under­stand­ing and Self-Awareness.

As you and your world cir­cle your star every year, you move through the sea­sons of self-becom­ing and self-ful­fill­ment. From seed to seedling, from youth to old age, you strive to reach beyond what you were and become a self-mas­ter­ful and shin­ing spark of the Divine.

The Year just passed has been summed up in your sojourn through the realm of Pisces. It is there that you reaped and took the fuller mea­sure of your tri­umphs and fail­ures. Both your over-com­ings and stum­bles too have made you what you are today.

It is all good, for you are old­er, hum­bler and wis­er than before.

You would not have deep­ened your empa­thy and com­pas­sion with­out hav­ing come through your own tri­als. You would not have reaped your wis­dom, with­out hav­ing first fall­en into the error of hubris. You would not have under­stood the fun­da­men­tal truth: that what you sow is what you will reap.

The only trea­sure that lasts are these spir­i­tu­al trea­sures, these gifts of the spir­it, now made one with your soul. These are stored in that sub­lime realm you call heav­en. You nev­er left it you know, the high­est part of you, your sparkling dia­mond body of spir­it abides in “heav­en” from the begin­ning until the end. The body you call “you”, that is just a vehi­cle of neces­si­ty that you require upon this earth…but that is not you. You are not dust; you are spir­it, and you are immortal.

Yes, today marks the begin­ning of your next cir­cuit through the Twelve Man­sions of the Liv­ing Ones, the Zodi­ac. Today you enter the realm of Aries and the first ques­tion of life is once again put to you: Who are you?

Here, in the moment of Aries, it is here that you are always in that moment, the one and only, the Eter­nal Now.

Now, what will you do?

Do you see from whence you came, and accept all those expe­ri­ences, both the so-called “good and bad”? Do you under­stand that all of it has made you into what you are here today? And, that what you do next with this, well that is the only thing that mat­ters. The ques­tion is this: Are you bring­ing the best of you to bear as you meet the Now? Are you being what you are to be: self-aware, hum­ble and wise?

Think of your jour­ney as if each step was like mov­ing through a door­way. Of course, there is always some­one going through ahead of you. Now they may have been hurt, or upset or angry about some­thing, so what do they do? They slam that door in your face.

Now, now you face your great test of spir­it. As you go through that door, will you take that neg­a­tive ener­gy and just pass it on? Will you just uncon­scious­ly or self­ish­ly just slam that door on the next one, and so pass on the pain that may have been passed down for­ev­er and ever?

Or, will you be the one who choos­es to take that neg­a­tive ener­gy-form and trans­mute it? Will you instead choose to stand in the light; will you hold that door open for the one who fol­lows you?

If you do, know this:

You just changed the world.

You just changed yourself.

You just moved clos­er to the One.

That is all it takes…

To make the world a bet­ter place,

All it takes is Love.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The Equinox and Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade (Sat­ur­day March 17, 2018)

In my third show of 2018 we will con­sid­er some of the cur­rent con­di­tions of 2018. The Astro­log­i­cal New Year com­mences with the Sun entrance into Aries on March 20^th, and the plan­et Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade on March 22^nd (until April 15^th). We will look at the impor­tance of these shifts and con­sid­er them in light of cur­rent events and per­haps take a look at some peo­ple in the news.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day March 17^th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/03/17/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-sun-enters-aries-mercury-retrograde

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 March 17^th at 2 pm EDT as we look at how Astrol­o­gy can help to reveal the true nature of sig­nif­i­cant actors on the world stage today.