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

 

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Sat­urn in Aquar­ius- Com­mu­ni­ty Spir­it, “All for one and one for all” (April 26, 2020)

In my eleventh show of 2020, I thought it would use­ful to look again at the mean­ing of Sat­urn in Aquar­ius, which began on March 21, 2020. I will talk about this and con­sid­er the found­ing of Amer­i­ca, the piv­otal moment we face today, and the promise of rebirth.

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 April 26^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/26/saturn-in-aquarius-all-for-one-and-one-for-all

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 April 26^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Earth Day 2020

Tran­script of Radio Show- What is the “what”? (April 19, 2020)

I just post­ed about this last night because it just hap­pened this morn­ing, that the Sun has moved into the sign of Tau­rus. And I titled that post­ing that I made for today, The “Spi­ral jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness”. And, when going through these steps of devel­op­ment in our jour­ney I wrote about “What is the what?”

So, I thought I would con­tin­ue with that theme in dif­fer­ent way, approach­ing it with some­thing sim­i­lar but a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. So, let us take a look:

The way of Aries, look­ing at the sign of Aries, is about “I am”. It is the first step of life; it is there that you expe­ri­ence the won­der of being self-aware. In Aries you answer the ques­tion, “Who are you?”

But we come to Tau­rus, the way of Tau­rus says, “I am that”. It is the sec­ond step of life; it is here you expe­ri­ence that you are some-thing. In Tau­rus, you answer the ques­tion, “What are you?”

So you could see in some way that these two signs are form­ing in their com­bi­na­tion or uni­ty one of the fun­da­men­tal truths of your jour­ney in con­scious­ness this dual­is­tic expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty there is sub­jec­tiv­i­ty of being aware of your­self or what we call self-aware­ness but there is objec­tiv­i­ty too, as you expe­ri­ence your­self and every­thing and every­one else as being formed into bod­ies or vehi­cles of manifestation.

We see the world split into spir­it and mat­ter, but real­ly what you will come to know (and what I like to call the greater real­i­ty) is that you will come to under­stand your one­ness of being which is Life or the One.

Life is spir­it and mat­ter togeth­er; they are insep­a­ra­ble, yet they are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Mat­ter forms the less­er realms of Spir­it, as Spir­it forms the high­est realms of Mat­ter. The Truth is that there is but One Life. There is the One Spir­it which man­i­fest through innu­mer­able forms from the low­est of the most sub­lime. Spir­it is the one eter­nal life; and Mat­ter is the count­less ves­sels into which all life flows.

The great mys­tery is that in all these count­less forms or ves­sels, in each atom, min­er­al, plant or ani­mal, human or deva, plan­et and star, through all of them is con­tained or held is the One True Spir­it. There are count­less forms, but there is only one life. There is only one spir­it flow­ing through the hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, whether those realms be divine, human, ani­mal, or mineral.

In Tau­rus, you move out of the sub­jec­tive realm of Aries into objec­tive real­i­ty. In Tau­rus you come into the realm of earth and say, “I am that!”. Tau­rus is your most phys­i­cal, sen­su­ous expe­ri­ence of life. You open your eyes and see the beau­ty all around; you open your lungs and breathe in what we all share. You take anoth­er breath and you smell the flow­ers; you reach down and touch the earth and smile, and you give thanks to the moth­er of us all for this, for your life and for your body. You look up and see the stars and you watch the moon, plan­ets and all the heav­en­ly bod­ies whirling over­head and you exclaim, “Ooh, I am so hap­py, to be sur­round­ed by this beau­ty, to be a part of this amaz­ing, beau­ti­ful, won­drous jour­ney; I’m so grate­ful to be part of Life.”

In Tau­rus, you expe­ri­ence life’s abun­dance and beau­ty; you expe­ri­ence the mys­tery and majesty of life. You are here in this won­der­ful place we call our Earth, and you feel and taste and touch and smell the won­ders of this gar­den of delights, and you get to share this abun­dance of “Spir­it that is Life” with all with whom you journey.

But what is it that makes you, you? What do you have that is yours, what gives you the val­ue of you? Well this is the ques­tion of Tau­rus to you. Through the arc of your life, from infan­cy through youth, into adult­hood and onward, your expe­ri­ence of you and your val­ue or worth will rise and fall in so many ways. The enthu­si­asms and the phys­i­cal strengths of youth will give way to what you will earn, the grav­i­tas and wis­dom, and the aches and pains of your lat­er years. It can seem, depend­ing upon your jour­ney, that your best days are still ahead or far behind you, depend­ing upon how you val­ue you.

What you expe­ri­ence in Tau­rus is the Val­ue of You. The mys­tery you seek to unveil in Tau­rus is how to under­stand what you have, to expe­ri­ence what you can do, and dis­cov­er what you are worth. The val­ue of you at any one time is made up of a range of fac­tors: your phys­i­cal pow­ers, your emo­tion­al depths, your intel­lec­tu­al agili­ty, and your spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Through­out any day, week, year of your life, these val­u­a­tions of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in phys­i­cal strength and emo­tion­al enthu­si­asms; but matu­ri­ty will bring both a mod­u­la­tion an even­tu­al wan­ing of these as you age. Like­wise, the tem­per­ing of your emo­tion­al nature, sea­soned by the grow­ing depths of your judg­ment and wis­dom, will lift your spir­its as oth­er fac­ul­ties fade.

But the phys­i­cal life and its entice­ments and plea­sures can also bring dif­fi­cul­ties and pain. If you become too attached to one or anoth­er gift or strength that you pos­sess, you will find your expe­ri­ence of val­ue to swing wild­ly up and down. When you are too attached to some­thing with­in you, or some­thing you have acquired, then you can suffer.

Wise ones know that this is because this way of relat­ing to val­ue and things is not “the way” to be or become what you real­ly are you are. You are Spir­it liv­ing by and through these won­der­ful forms or bod­ies that you have cre­at­ed for your­self. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehi­cles that are phys­i­cal, ether­ic, emo­tion­al, men­tal, and spir­i­tu­al. But they are held togeth­er and bound to one anoth­er by the spark of the Divine which is your high­est Spir­it-Form, your High­er Self. You are in your essence this One Spir­it; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form, or life.

This is so, and you need to remem­ber, that at the very heart of you, you remain as you always will be, price­less beyond all mea­sure because you are not a human being at all. Being human is mere­ly the form of your self-real­iza­tion at this point in your jour­ney. Tru­ly, at your core, you are a spark of the Divine who is on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”. You are a mon­ad, an unfold­ing Spir­i­tu­al Fire of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness and your true worth or val­ue will be for­ev­er beyond any finite measure.

So, no mat­ter what you think you are worth today, or yes­ter­day, or a thou­sand years from now, remem­ber this, you have no way of com­pre­hend­ing the beau­ty and glo­ry and worth of you. You are the “Jew­el in the Lotus”, you are the kiss of the dew in the morn­ing, and you are the glo­ri­ous sun­set too.

Then you will hear anoth­er reminder. The voic­es of the Ancient Ones will whis­per in your heart, “What you know as the resplen­dent and immor­tal you, that heav­en that is always with­in you, (for you nev­er left it tru­ly), this essen­tial spark of you is your spir­i­tu­al heart. And in your heart, you will feel and know that this same light of the Divine is in every­thing and every­one else too”.

Yes, in every speck and mote of Cre­ation, in every atom and mol­e­cule, gas and rock, plant and crea­ture, in the plan­ets and the stars, all of this is Spir­it-Life in evo­lu­tion too. This is what we must under­stand in Taurus.

In your heart of hearts, in your high­est vehi­cle of Spir­it, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite sim­ply, won­der­ful­ly, and for­ev­er and ever your true mea­sure is beyond mea­sure. In your High­er Self, and through­out all your forms too, there is the one true light of Spir­it shin­ing through, so that fill­ing and inform­ing all of you is quite sim­ply Divine Love.

Know this: the val­ue of you is beyond ques­tion, you are quite sim­ply Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So what you will know and feel and cel­e­brate in Tau­rus is that all of this Cre­ation is Beau­ti­ful, all of this is Pre­cious, because all of this is the One Life, and all of this is the Cre­ation of the One, and all of this is the Love of the One for all.

Let us give thanks to the sun­rise and the sun­set, to the flow­ers and the trees, to the moun­tains and the oceans; yes, bow down and give thanks to it all.

Bow down to the divine with­in you and with all that sur­rounds you too.

Turn to one anoth­er, and you will see that super­nal light shin­ing there in one another.

Yes, smile and bow to one anoth­er and be filled with the won­der of this.

I am that!

Namaste.

These are the things that we need to be remind­ed of and hold close to our hearts and guide our steps each and every day. That is why I always say, in trou­bling times such as we are cer­tain­ly mov­ing through, there are truths that have been always there from the begin­ning to guide our steps.

If we hold to these truths and guide our steps accord­ing­ly, we will find a bet­ter way and we will become bet­ter for it. That is what a hard time is for. A cri­sis should not return as to where we were; it is going to be a vehi­cle for trans­for­ma­tion, for a rev­e­la­tion and new epipha­nies, and a New World that is coming.

We are mak­ing it; we are mak­ing it every sin­gle day. And we will not go back, there is no going back, but there is a brighter, bet­ter future out there that we are mak­ing day after day.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – What is the “what?” Behind every form, stands the mys­tery of Val­ue (April 19, 2020)

In my tenth show of 2020, I thought it would infor­ma­tive to look at the next month in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, the Time of Tau­rus, which begins today.

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 April 19^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/04/19/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-what-is-the-what-the-test-of-taurus

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

The Spi­ral Jour­ney – Spirit-Life-Consciousness

After any begin­ning, after each moment of emer­gence, after each step you take into the next moment, hav­ing moved by your “Pow­er of Pres­ence” in the ener­gy-form we call “Aries”, after that first will come the sec­ond, crit­i­cal moment in your journey.

In each first step you are asked (and you will answer):

“Who are you?”

The ques­tion now, and per­haps it is even more mys­ti­cal and more mys­te­ri­ous than “who” is this challenge:

What are you?

Many wise ones con­sid­er this ques­tion of life as more pro­found than the first. Yes, after you con­sid­er the “who” of you, there comes the “what”. But that begs the question:

“What is the what?”

Today we move into the realm of Tau­rus, this is the next step in your jour­ney which is equal­ly your awak­en­ing, and you should take some time to con­sid­er this essen­tial question:

What is my true self-worth; what is the val­ue of me?

It is a most chal­leng­ing ques­tion. Per­haps more than being aware that you are aware, or expe­ri­enc­ing your pure sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, here you are try­ing to under­stand the sub­stance of you. You are form­ing your first rela­tion­ship, which is to your own true self. What are you are formed of real­ly; what are your “bod­ies” or vehi­cles of being; what makes you “you”?

In Tau­rus, whether it is in terms of your entire being, or more specif­i­cal­ly posed in that realm of your chart where Tau­rus is found, you will need to answer the ques­tion, “What is the Val­ue of me?” Which will lead, inevitably, to a series of ques­tions until you reach the “heart ques­tion”, which is, “what makes any­thing have value?”

If you fol­low this path to its true root source, (and you cer­tain­ly will some­day), you will come to the heart and soul of the ques­tion which is, “What makes any of this? What is behind Creation?”

The answer is found by both lis­ten­ing to your high­er or intu­itive self, and by find­ing con­fir­ma­tion in the teach­ings that have been passed down from long, long ago. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the ONE.

The One is the inef­fa­ble, known by many names which are but “place­hold­ers” giv­en our lim­it­ed under­stand­ing. The expe­ri­ence of this, of the One, is tru­ly unknow­able or beyond our com­pre­hen­sion in our lim­it­ed human form. But if you stretch your imag­i­na­tion, if you lis­ten to the still, qui­et, gen­tle and lov­ing voice that is there with­in you, you will feel the truth with­in and see it all around you too.

You will know it because you see all the pat­terns and cor­re­spon­dences in the world around you. You will smile as you find the sim­i­lar­i­ties between realms that are infi­nite­ly small and immea­sur­ably large. You will know beyond know­ing, you will appre­hend, that there is some­thing that is order­ing and arrang­ing this thing you call the Universe.

What do the teach­ings, these “Gifts of the Wise Ones” offer? Here is what they have pre­served and passed down to help you remember:

There is but One Spir­it, and all of Cre­ation is formed by the infi­nite sparks of this One Divine Light. At the core of the most infin­i­tes­i­mal of things on up to the great­est of Hosts, there at the cen­ter of every­thing is the Mon­ad, the Divine Spark. The One is like a Infi­nite Sphere, whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

All of Cre­ation is the Light of the One.

All the Car­di­nal Signs par­take of this qual­i­ty, form­ing the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Identity.

From this One, the Sec­ond Aspect of Cre­ation comes into being, and that is LIFE. The One became the many, and Life began. Again, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the plan­ets, from the dust of the earth to the full­ness that is space, in all the stars and galax­ies, this Plen­i­tude of Cre­ation is also ALIVE.

All of Cre­ation is the Life of the One.

All the Fixed Signs embody this qual­i­ty, the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Life.

And, as Spir­it now man­i­fest­ed as Life unfold­ed from the One, it was ever formed and informed by the Third Aspect of Cre­ation, and that is CONSCIOUSNESS. Once again, from the small­est aspect of Cre­ation to the whole of Cre­ation itself, all of this is the Con­scious­ness of the One.

All of Cre­ation is the Mind of the One.

All the Muta­ble Signs move in this qual­i­ty, which is the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Consciousness.

Here in Tau­rus you make your first attempt to under­stand the ques­tion of embod­i­ment, the move­ment of spir­it into forms. Spir­it and Mat­ter are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Spir­it is the high­est form of Mat­ter; Mat­ter is the least degree of Spir­it. Though “sep­a­rate”, they are real­ly part of the all-encom­pass­ing real­i­ty of the “One”.

Spir­it “ani­mates” Mat­ter; Mat­ter pro­vides the vehi­cles or bod­ies of Spir­it. These bod­ies or forms are “Ensouled Mat­ter”, of Mat­ter that is ensouled by Spir­it. There are many forms, and many dimen­sions and realms of forms, but there is only One Spirit.

The hier­ar­chy of forms in the human king­dom (which is much the same as all oth­er king­doms), can be very sim­ply divid­ed into three: Body, Mind and Spir­it. But when you begin to exam­ine more deeply, the forms of being become ever more differentiated.

One order­ing would be into Sev­en: Phys­i­cal Body or mate­r­i­al body, Ether­ic Body or vital body, Emo­tion­al Body divid­ed into low­er and high­er, Low­er Men­tal Body or mor­tal mind, High­er Men­tal Body or divine mind, Bud­dhic Body or vehi­cle of illu­mi­na­tion, Atmic or Causal Body. But there are even more eso­teric teach­ings that final­ly under­stand the divi­sion of Cre­ation into a Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Forms that num­ber Ten, and ulti­mate­ly are held as Twelve. (Which is quite inter­est­ing giv­en that Astrol­o­gy is one of the keys to the Ancient Wis­dom and is also based upon the divi­sion of real­i­ty into twelve).

For you, these teach­ings may or may not hold much impor­tance at this time. But what is most impor­tant for you is answer the ques­tion posed by Tau­rus, “what is the val­ue of you?”

Through­out your life, you may find that your own hier­ar­chy of val­ue will shift and rearrange, with cer­tain attrib­ut­es, strengths and tal­ents being more val­ued in one peri­od, only to find that quite a dif­fer­ent set and arrange­ment pre­vails at another.

Even day to day, you may feel your­self to be “on top of the world” at one moment only to find your­self short­ly lat­er to be quite not “your­self”, with a cor­re­spond­ing loss of val­ue. Mate­ri­al­ly, this vari­a­tion of your expe­ri­ence of your val­ue or self-worth is real.

But you must know, or you will know one day, that this is also one of the great illu­sions that you are here to rise above. In your “holy of holies”, in the inner­most sanc­tum of you, (and in all your cells and bod­ies too), at the cen­ter of you is the ever­last­ing spir­it that is the One.

From the begin­ning, unto the very end of this cos­mic cycle, you are quite sim­ply beyond any mea­sure­ment. Yes, you are price­less, a spark of the divine who shines with the light of the Sun of all the suns, a light that will not fade, and will nev­er diminish.

And wise ones have many names for this Light of the One; but tru­ly and most won­der­ful­ly you will know it and feel it as Pure and Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are loved because you were made by uncon­di­tion­al love. You are made of love and that is why the val­ue of you is immea­sur­able and perennial.

But then you will know, and you will smile, and you will turn to whomev­er is before you because you under­stand this fun­da­men­tal truth about the nature of val­ue; that all are made of this, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of Uncon­di­tion­al and Divine Love.

That is why we are here; we are here to be that love that we are.

We only need to act with this truth and wis­dom, to feel the warmth in our hearts.

We turn to one anoth­er and bow to whomev­er is before us.

We greet them as our dear­ly loved ones.

That is why we say, in our thoughts and by our hearts,

“Namaste” (I bow to the Divine in you)