A New Year, A New Beginning

We mark the pas­sage of time in so many ways. We hold in our mem­o­ries so many expe­ri­ences and mean­ings that help us to meet the next moment in our jour­ney. And we also hold in our dreams so many hopes about what our life might become. But there real­ly is only one time that mat­ters; there is but one place for you that is real. That time and space where we are real­ly “real” is the ever-unfold­ing real­i­ty, where the past and future meet, and that is the ful­crum of Spir­it we know as the Eter­nal Now.

Today we move from one Astro­log­i­cal Year into the next; today we move from the realm of Pisces to the space that is Aries. At this time of the year, and always in that space in your own chart where Aries is found, you are there to be and to become by expe­ri­enc­ing the gift of Inspi­ra­tion, the pow­er of Enthu­si­asm and the joy of New Begin­nings that is held in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones by the Zodi­a­cal Sign of Aries.

The Joy and Pow­er of New Begin­nings is real; and you can and should in some man­ner expe­ri­ence this gift of the Spir­it in all the sec­onds, days, and years of your life. But of course, you have brought much from before to this moment now. Most recent­ly, in the last 30 days while in Pisces, you were giv­en the pre­cious gift of intro­spec­tion, reflec­tion, humil­i­ty and rein­te­gra­tion. The gift of Pisces is in expe­ri­enc­ing the Whole of You, as you feel your one­ness with­in and your one­ness with the One. Pisces enables you to be your entire expe­ri­ence, to won­der at the Arc that is your Life, as you can gath­er the har­vest of all that you have been and become in your entire life includ­ing the year that is over now.

But now you begin again; now you emerge out of the “All” where there are no bound­aries, and you enter into the time of your “Illu­sion that is Sep­a­ra­tion”. It is in Aries that you meet the world with your “self”, and here in this moment, and in each and every step you will take on the path that is your life, you face the first and most pro­found ques­tion of your life as a sep­a­rate one, “Who are you”?

That is no small ques­tion, and you should stop and con­sid­er how and in what man­ner “you will be you” in this space and time. It is only here in the ever-unfold­ing Eter­nal Now, that you may redeem your past and build your bet­ter future too. In Aries you move with the dri­ve to do, to be and become what you aspire to be. But before you leap into the cru­cible of cre­ation, you need to con­sid­er what is before you in this space where the past and future meet, the formed and form­less Now.

You are not enter­ing an emp­ty space, as all the mon­ads of spir­it, all the hier­ar­chies of Spir­it and Mat­ter and you have been mak­ing this moment that is before you now, and for quite some time. What­ev­er and whomev­er is before you, all of “that” is there because of a com­plex inter­weav­ing of Ener­gy-Forms that we call “Kar­ma”, which is the sum of all pri­or actions/reactions of the Life-Forms, by all the mon­ads of spir­it who are the “caus­es” that led to these “effects” that you encounter now.

The ques­tion put to you is not sim­ply “who are you?”, but what of you will you bring to this moment now? For being self-aware, and respon­si­ble for what you will face in your future by the Law of Kar­ma, you should con­sid­er care­ful­ly in what man­ner you should act in this pre­cious, this price­less moment we call “the now”. You are bring­ing what you have made of your­self so far, and you are shaped and guid­ed by your mean­ings that are your moti­va­tions; you are guid­ed by your inten­tions that will now become your actions. But you are not enter­ing empti­ness; you move into the next moment of the Eter­nal Now that is a full­ness of ener­gy-forms that are wait­ing upon what you do next.

You need to use all your spir­i­tu­al gifts of per­cep­tion to deter­mine what is the best way to move into this moment that is a full­ness of poten­tial, but you must be care­ful to do so in such a man­ner that you con­tribute to the advance­ment of your being and equal­ly the con­di­tions of your world.

Imag­ine that you are enter­ing a room, and you must spir­i­tu­al­ly appre­hend the con­di­tion or state of what you are mov­ing into and deter­mine what is need­ed. If you enter a room that is in tur­moil, you will wish to draw upon your kind­ly and gen­tle nature to calm mat­ters down. Like­wise, if you enter a space that is lack­ing in ener­gy, you should bring your vig­or and strength and be the liv­ing spir­it of Love in action that you are.

Every step that you take is a new begin­ning. It is anoth­er chance to turn a regret into an offer­ing of grace and love.

Every action you take can be the answer to another’s prayer and plea for help and understanding.

The ques­tion of Who you Are is real­ly do you under­stand Why you Are?

You are here because of Love, for the One that made us all, that One is in us all.

You are because of Love, and you are here to be that Love.

To be you,

Love your­self.

And Love one another.

Then you are what you are.

Cre­ator.

Love your­self.

Love one another.

Then you are what you are.

Cre­ator.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Sat­urn Square Uranus, Order and Freer Minds

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

Today I want to exam­ine the most sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary align­ment of 2021, the wan­ing square of Sat­urn to Uranus. Their syn­od­ic cycle of rela­tion­ship is 45 years, that is from con­junc­tion to con­junc­tion. Their dynam­ic and inte­gral inter­re­la­tion­ship holds togeth­er the expe­ri­ences and con­trast­ing qual­i­ties of con­ser­v­a­tive ver­sus inno­v­a­tive energy-forms.

Sat­urn
The plan­et Sat­urn rep­re­sents or holds the ener­gy-form of Tra­di­tions, Insti­tu­tions, and what we expe­ri­ence as the Sta­tus Quo. It is the vehi­cle for our appre­ci­a­tion and attach­ments to those real­i­ties in all the parts of our lives that have stood the test of time. Our very exis­tence and liveli­hoods, our present cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion, are here pre­cise­ly because of what was made and passed down to us by our ances­tors. We own them so very much for mak­ing the world that we have today.

From the per­spec­tive of Sat­urn, what is old has proven its worth and so we should pre­serve and main­tain that way of doing or being as much as we can (“if it is not bro­ken, please do not fix it!).

And yet, the whole of Cre­ation is the Jour­ney and Evo­lu­tion of Spir­it, mov­ing through forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion that are the vehi­cles for the innu­mer­able spir­i­tu­al mon­ads for their pro­gres­sive self-real­iza­tions. The whole Uni­verse is grow­ing; the whole Uni­verse is con­stant­ly chang­ing, and over-time evolv­ing and unfold­ing into ever more per­fect forms that are indeed the “Song of Spirit”.

Uranus
This is cer­tain­ly true, “for there to be growth, there must be change”. One of the Avatars that informs and shapes those changes is held for us by Uranus, which is the Avatar of High­er Con­scious­ness or Freer Minds. The Ancient Teach­ings hold that on one lev­el of our under­stand­ing, the sto­ry of Spir­it, and the lumi­nous Song of Spir­it is the saga of Con­scious­ness; that every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is part of the One Mind of the One. In effect, the whole of cre­ation is alive and con­scious, and each one of us is like a lit­tle star of con­scious­ness in the One Con­scious­ness that is Creation.

Uranus elic­its and pro­motes our growth and there­fore much of the change we expe­ri­ence in our real­i­ty-forms, and it does this by expand­ing the range and depth of our thought-forms. Uranus as the “Awak­en­er”, breaks through the bound­aries of our present-day ideas, con­cepts, and beliefs. It shat­ters the self-cre­at­ed shell of our cir­cum­scribed space which defines and dif­fer­en­ti­ates that which is real and know­able from that which is false or unknow­able for us with our more lim­it­ed under­stand­ing at any one time.

Uranus rules the abil­i­ty of a freer mind to expe­ri­ence a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing of what is “real­ly real”. As such, it oper­ates as the “Con­trar­i­an”, as that instru­ment that pro­vides our spir­i­tu­al capac­i­ty to see beyond our self-cast shad­ows that blind us to the “Greater Real­i­ty” that is tru­ly present all around us, but of which we can only per­ceive and under­stand with­in a lim­it­ed range of man­i­fes­ta­tions and dimensions.

Saturn/Uranus
What does this mean for our present con­sid­er­a­tion of the Saturn/Uranus rela­tion­ship? It is that as much as Sat­urn will hold us to that which has stood the test of time, Uranus is there to remind us that every sin­gle part of this Cre­ation was at some point “NEW”; what is now a tra­di­tion and truth was at some point a new or bet­ter Idea or For­mu­la­tion or Pro­ce­dure or Method.

Sat­urn reminds us to trea­sure and pre­serve what we have; but Uranus reminds us that we are only here because of change, because some ener­gy-form in the past moved beyond the old into some­thing more. What we will find in the dynam­ic inter­weav­ing of Sat­urn and Uranus is the beat­ing heart of our jour­ney as we bal­ance Preser­va­tion with Inno­va­tion, Tra­di­tion with Inven­tion, the well-worn path ver­sus the path not yet taken.

What we should find is that the con­junc­tion (or New Moon) of Sat­urn with Uranus should be a moment when some new idea or ideas, some con­trar­i­an or inno­v­a­tive seeds would be released. Then over the next 45 years the hier­ar­chy of ideas and forms would go through var­i­ous stages of con­flict and/or inte­gra­tion until the next conjunction.

Sat­urn-Uranus Cycle
For the last 170 years, the series of con­junc­tions occurred in 1852, 1897, 1942 and 1988 (with the next con­junc­tion due to arrive in 2032). We often can­not see at the con­junc­tion or New Moon what has start­ed, but it does become appar­ent at the wax­ing square. What we would expect to see is that at the wax­ing square there would some for­ma­tion of a con­flict or strug­gle between the New and the Old.

1852 to 1860
For exam­ple, in US His­to­ry, (and just focus­ing upon one but a major con­sid­er­a­tion of our ever-present strug­gle to extend equal rights to all US cit­i­zens), we could see the con­junc­tion of 1852 being under­stood with ref­er­ence to the wax­ing square of 1860–62. In one prime exam­ple or area, the 1852 seed would be the ever-enlarg­ing under­stand­ing about the evil of slav­ery lead­ing to the for­ma­tion of the Repub­li­can par­ty, the elec­tion of Lin­coln and the Civ­il War that fol­lowed in 1860.

In a sim­i­lar man­ner, we would expect the next moment in the cycle, the oppo­si­tion of Sat­urn and Uranus to be rather cli­mat­ic and stark, reveal­ing the inte­gra­tion of the old and the new in some new fusion, or by “fail­ure” a break­down between the old and new ways. In our cur­rent exam­ple that would be the late 1870’s and the fail­ure of Recon­struc­tion and the rein­sti­tu­tion of servi­tude for the for­mer slave pop­u­la­tion through seg­re­ga­tion and terror.

1942 to 1951
More recent­ly, the Con­junc­tion of 1942 was more defin­i­tive­ly revealed by the wax­ing square in 1951–52, as the strug­gle again between tra­di­tion­al ways and the push towards greater free­dom wit­nessed the birth of the mod­ern civ­il rights era, with local and state gov­ern­ments on up to the Supreme Court mov­ing to break up the seg­re­ga­tion (in the South and the North). Fol­low­ing that, the oppo­si­tion (like a Full Moon) of Sat­urn with Uranus in 1965–67 wit­nessed the most con­se­quen­tial Civ­il Rights laws being passed and enforced since the Civ­il War and Recon­struc­tion eras.

2021, The Wan­ing Square
But what about our peri­od? We are at the oth­er major aspect of any cycle, which is the wan­ing square of the cycle that began at the Saturn/Uranus con­junc­tion in 1988. If we look at the pre­vi­ous times of the wan­ing square, we can dis­cern a fun­da­men­tal pat­tern of mean­ing. Those pre­vi­ous moments to ours were 1930–31 and 1975–77. If a wax­ing square is known as a cri­sis of build­ing, a choice about which path to take from an incep­tion point, a wan­ing square is known as a Cri­sis in Con­scious­ness. What do we mean or why do we call this square a “cri­sis in consciousness”?

It is because the oppo­si­tion that pro­ceeds it is like a Full Moon; it is the rev­e­la­tion for that cycle of man­i­fes­ta­tion. Whether that rev­e­la­tion was a “tri­umphant” or a “sor­row­ful” moment, it will be at the wan­ing square of the cycle that we must come to a reck­on­ing. We face a choice about which ideas, beliefs, truths, (and the actions that fol­low from these), will be the ones that resolve the cri­sis that we now face.

1988 to 2008
In some fash­ion the Ideas and Ide­olo­gies that formed and guid­ed our path from 1988 led to the rev­e­la­tion of the oppo­si­tion or Full Moon of 2008-10. That was cer­tain­ly a mem­o­rable moment, as the world dealt with the mort­gage debt cri­sis and all economies and cul­tures faced the results of how well or poor­ly their jour­ney of humans was far­ing at that point. What we saw then was how unfair and unequal our way of meet­ing one another’s needs was here and equal­ly around the world. There were mas­sive attempts to sal­vage a bro­ken eco­nom­ic order, to make some repa­ra­tions and attempt some fix­es. And so, we con­tin­ued along our path after these adjust­ments were made as if all were now fine.

Giv­en what has hap­pened in the past year, almost all would have to agree that we failed to real­ly address the yawn­ing gap of good growth that should be for one and all in 2008–2010, and that our sys­tem of meet­ing one another’s needs failed in 2020, but in a far more dev­ast­ing manner.

From 1980 to 2021
In this moment we face a turn­ing once again. And the beliefs that had shaped us since the 1980s up to now are being test­ed. What is the mes­sage? For me, the mantra of “the less gov­ern­ment the bet­ter” is now offi­cial­ly over. We have seen that when we let the pri­vate, so-called “free mar­ket,” (whose only val­ue of con­se­quence is “quan­ti­ty”), when we let the unreg­u­lat­ed and self-inter­est­ed actions of indi­vid­u­als deter­mine all oth­er val­ues in our world, the eter­nal val­ues of beau­ty, kind­li­ness, equal­i­ty, equi­ty, and jus­tice are dimin­ished and spoiled. When we seek only quan­ti­ty, we turn away from our most essen­tial val­ue and duty which is to love and cher­ish one anoth­er and this beau­ti­ful Earth.

Per­son­al Mes­sage of Saturn/Uranus
What I have been exam­in­ing here are the Mun­dane or World­ly effects of this align­ment. But you might want to know, what does it mean for each of us in its more per­son­al or indi­vid­ual effects?

For all of us, no mat­ter what our indi­vid­ual chart might indi­cate, we are at a moment where we need to hold togeth­er and apply in an integrative/balanced man­ner our respect for tra­di­tion and yet equal­ly our open­ness to inno­va­tion. We must not react with fear and hold onto that whose time has clear­ly passed, nor be tempt­ed by the thrill of sup­posed free­dom by leap­ing with aban­don into the unproven and untest­ed. The way of Spir­it is always the “mid­dle path”, the roy­al road of wis­dom, humil­i­ty, and love.

Saturn/Uranus in Chart
For each of us, we can look to see where Sat­urn in Aquar­ius and Uranus in Tau­rus are in the wheel of our own chart. We can see the mes­sage they hold by what hous­es are con­nect­ed and inter­re­lat­ed by the influ­ence of Sat­urn in one house, while Uranus is in anoth­er. For exam­ple, if Sat­urn is in your 1^st house while Uranus is in your 4^th, it would indi­cate that you are feel­ing or being asked to define most clear­ly who you are, to clar­i­fy and firm up your “Pres­ence”; to find and project out­ward­ly the essen­tial and spe­cial qual­i­ty of you that makes you “you”. Mean­while, Uranus in your 4^th house is remind­ing you that you should always be open to free­ing your­self from (or redefin­ing) those ele­ments at the root of you, (fam­i­ly, ances­try, cul­ture, and civ­i­liza­tion) that would lim­it the authen­tic qual­i­ty of your pres­ence in the 1^st house.

On the one hand you want to break “free”, while on the oth­er hand you need to remain root­ed. Yes, it seems they are in con­flict, and that you must choose one or the oth­er. But in spir­i­tu­al truth, the only way is the “way through both”, because each of these qual­i­ties are nec­es­sary to each oth­er and to you.
You can­not be absolute­ly or per­fect­ly free to do or be or behave as you wish. You must be shaped, formed, guid­ed, and attached to those truths which have stood the test of all time. Num­ber one in these is to, “Love one anoth­er”; num­ber two is to, “Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”.

In this case you would be striv­ing to free your­self to a more per­fect form of self-expres­sion while being guid­ed by your essen­tial anchor of uncon­di­tion­al love root­ed in our human family.

Saturn/Uranus to Natal Planet
If we were to con­sid­er the align­ment of Sat­urn and Uranus to a plan­et (or plan­ets) in your chart, then the mean­ings for you would be more focused upon that qual­i­ty of your being. The degrees of their exact align­ment will be in the fixed signs of Tau­rus and Aquar­ius, at 7, 11 and 13 degrees.

Let us say you had Sat­urn and Uranus each aspect­ing your Mer­cury this year, what might that mean? On the one hand, Uranus would be elic­it­ing the neces­si­ty to free your mind from pri­or con­straints (or restraints), and evince a more con­trar­i­an, ques­tion­ing and dis­rup­tive influ­ence in your think­ing and mes­sag­ing. But Sat­urn would be weigh­ing in with the equal­ly insis­tent pres­sure to hold to con­ven­tion and nor­mal­i­ty out of fear of being chal­lenged by author­i­ties and the weight of belief resid­ing in the old ways of think­ing. But, of course, what you must real­ly do is hold them togeth­er and find the “third way” through reac­tion and fear ver­sus over­act­ing and rebellion.

Saturn/Uranus in Signs
We can also derive both per­son­al and uni­ver­sal mean­ings from under­stand­ing the mes­sage of this align­ment of Sat­urn and Uranus by the essen­tial nature of their posi­tion in Aquar­ius and Tau­rus, respec­tive­ly. Sat­urn in Aquar­ius is the test of Social Con­scious­ness and Con­science, and the essen­tial mean­ing­ful­ness of our very own indi­vid­ual nature is formed, nur­tured, and guid­ed by our com­pan­ions and our com­mu­ni­ties, that we are all made by and are part of one anoth­er. Uranus in Tau­rus is call­ing each and every one of us to remem­ber the true nature of val­ue, which is that with­in each and every par­ti­cle of cre­ation is the source of life and con­scious­ness for every one of us, and that is Divine and Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The truth is, we are all pre­cious, beyond any finite mea­sure, and one could say that the essen­tial part of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney is to hold this truth in our hearts, so that we will treat one anoth­er, and all crea­tures great and small, with that same uncon­di­tion­al love that made you and me.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Sat­urn Square Uranus, Order and Freer Minds (March 14, 2021)

In my third show of 2021 we will look at the major align­ment in the Dance of the Plan­ets this year, the wan­ing square of Sat­urn with Uranus. The ques­tion posed by Sat­urn and Uranus’ cycle of rela­tion­ship con­cerns the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the old and the new in all aspects of our lives. Whether per­son­al­ly or col­lec­tive­ly, with­in a com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, nation or world, we are always seek­ing to trea­sure and pre­serve what we have come to rely upon or val­ue, yet equal­ly find our­selves open to the neces­si­ty of growth and change.

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 March 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/03/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-saturn-square-uranus-in-2021

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 March 14^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

The Spark of the Divine, The Jew­el in the Lotus

Where do you come from, why are you here, and where are you going?

The Wise Ones Answer:

You came from the One; and You are here to become a True and Com­plete Human; and your Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing is how you make your Destiny.

Here at the end of the Zodi­ac in the time of Pisces, and wher­ev­er Pisces is found in your chart, it is here that you come clos­est to what I call “The Greater Under­stand­ing”. In Aquar­ius, you expe­ri­ence the truth of embrac­ing all of human­i­ty as your field of hap­pi­ness. You real­ize that you are for each oth­er the way to one another’s self-ful­fill­ment; tru­ly, you are for one anoth­er your dreams come true.

But now you must com­plete the Cir­cle of Life. You look up and to the beyond as you gaze upon the star­ry fir­ma­ment whirling above, and you equal­ly look around at the won­der­ous life-forms who share this beau­ti­ful world with you too. And in it all you see it, the Light that is there shin­ing through. This is the answer, this is the truth, that we are, that all of us are, and all the oth­er life-forms great and small, and real­ly the entire­ty of Cre­ation is in us and we in it. Because we are the Cre­ation, the One made man­i­fest in every mote and par­ti­cle of this won­der of Light and Love.

That Peak Expe­ri­ence of Whole­ness (“Holi­ness”), of embrac­ing the All as one in all, leads you to won­der once again about your jour­ney. Here at the end of anoth­er Zodi­a­cal Year, you look back and con­sid­er: Who have I become? What will I face as a New Year dawns? How will I know if I am on the path?

The Wise Ones Answer:

You are made by you; what you face is what you set in motion yes­ter­day, and a thou­sand years ago; you are on the path, always. And all you do, and do not do, it is this which cre­ates your future form and your future con­di­tions too.

Here at the end of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, you are giv­en the great­est gift; here in Pisces you real­ize that you are made by what you dream, and you find your Faith as a co-cre­ator of Cre­ation. You can see the whole arc of your jour­ney, both in this past year and for your entire life too. You stand ready now to reap the har­vest of all you did and all you did not do. You feel your shin­ing tri­umphs, and your sting­ing defeats, you cel­e­brate the pre­cious joys, and you wish to hide from your painful regrets. But hope­ful­ly you will come to this sacred place of remem­brance, dreams, and hope, and you will under­stand that it was all good because the Fruits that are Wis­dom and Love are forever.

And if this is so, you will real­ize that it was all nec­es­sary, the good and the so-called bad. Because in the end you under­stand that by your error and cor­rec­tion you forged the way to make the light that is Love; you can accept and smile and for­give your­self because you have done the one true work that you are here for, which is to become a bet­ter you by being the love that you are.

And this is the Heart of the Teach­ing, this is the Truth upon which all oth­er truths are made. You are formed, guid­ed, inspired, and held by the Love of the One which is your Spark of the Divine, your own true beloved, your immor­tal High­er Self. For you know and feel this now, you were made by Love, and you are here to be that Love.

But many have won­dered, if this is tru­ly what I am, then why can I not become bet­ter with­out all this effort; if the Spark of the Divine is with­in me, then why am I not bet­ter than this? Why must I strug­gle and suf­fer? Why?

And the Wise Ones Answer:

Because you are not mere­ly a Spark of the Divine; you, like every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, are a host of Ener­gy-Forms, and each of these are on their path of Awak­en­ing too. Your Spark of the Divine, your beloved, is the Light of Love that is at the heart of every­thing and every­one, and it is the pro­tean force of Spir­it and your source of Self-Becom­ing. That Divin­i­ty, your Mon­ad, is the Causal Agency of you becom­ing ful­ly human some­day but which you have only par­tial­ly real­ized today. 

You are on Earth in many bod­ies (not one), and for sim­plic­i­ty now let us name them as the Phys­i­cal Ener­gy-Form, the Emo­tion­al Ener­gy-Form, the Men­tal Ener­gy-Form, and the High­er Mon­ad or Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy-Form. Every one of these “bod­ies” jour­neys with you, you through them and they through you, in this life and in life after life. You are bound to one anoth­er by the Law of Kar­ma, and each of you will reap what you sow.

But you as the Self-Aware agent of Spir­it bear the great­est respon­si­bil­i­ty for all this Kar­ma, the so-called good kar­ma and the so-called bad. Each of these vehi­cles of Spir­it is on this path of Awak­en­ing with you. You, as the self-aware pre­sid­ing Spir­i­tu­al Intel­li­gence and Iden­ti­ty, you as a Human Mon­ad, are here to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the uplift­ment and per­fec­tion for all your vehi­cles too. You are the means to their awak­en­ing, as they pro­vide you with the means to lift your­self up too.

Yes, yes, I see. But why, why must I suffer?

And the Wise Ones Answer:

Because you are here to learn to use your body, heart, mind, and spir­it so that it per­fect­ly aligns with what is there at your cen­ter, which is Love. The Path­way to Per­fec­tion is long and ardu­ous, and you have spent many lives with­out much aware­ness and so you fell into error, suf­fer­ing and pain. This is the Law, and those ener­gy-forms of pain you will turn into Love.

This pain was not ordained or doled out by some mean-spir­it­ed deity, or the prod­uct of some strug­gle between good and evil into which you became trapped like some unfor­tu­nate vic­tim. The Law is the Law; the Law is Kar­ma, it is Action and Reac­tion on all the planes of Cre­ation, but most espe­cial­ly Spir­i­tu­al­ly. You are here to learn false from true, to cre­ate and pre­serve, to live by love, and when you fall into error you set in motion the very instru­ment of your own con­se­quence and even­tu­al growth. This is Spir­i­tu­al Jus­tice, and it is Divine­ly ordained, and all the ones of the One are sub­ject to this Path­way of Per­fec­tion and Love.

Those dear, wise ones who offer exam­ple, inspi­ra­tion and gen­tle guid­ance, they were once as you are now. They too were trou­bled by doubt, they were par­a­lyzed by fear, and they lived with shame and regret. But now they are the Shin­ing Ones. Yes, they have been where you are and that is why they under­stand and why they will stay at the por­tal that leads beyond this plane because they will not leave you alone. Why? Because they are the embod­i­ment of Love and Com­pas­sion which is your des­tiny too.

They can­not wave a mag­ic wand and make you bet­ter; they can­not remove the obsta­cles you have made for your­self. But they can help, and they will help if you will but lis­ten to your heart. These Winds of the Spir­it are like a gen­tle whis­per, and they form that know­ing in your heart, that kind­li­ness, com­pas­sion, and love that pro­vide a balm to your trou­bled soul and true guid­ance for right think­ing and right action.

You walk with them; and they are there with you on that very same path that they came by long ago. They know your trou­bles; they have felt your pain. But they know what you will be, as they are now. Shin­ing, Radi­ant, Loving.

This is the Cir­cle of Life, the radi­ant path of awak­en­ing that you will walk from the dark­ness into the Light.

This is the Promise of Pisces.

It is the Liv­ing Faith of the Cre­ator shin­ing through all that you do.

Now reap what you have sown and make ready for the dawn.

It is time to Shine.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Kar­ma and the USA, The Plu­to Return – A Rebirth of Value

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

Today we will con­tin­ue our exam­i­na­tion of the plan­e­tary influ­ences in the chart of the USA. In my last show on Jan­u­ary 3^rd, (here is the link to the tran­script for the Jan­u­ary 3rd show) we looked at the role of Nep­tune in the charts of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can par­ties; I exam­ined the influ­ence of the cycle of Nep­tune in the two charts and US history.

Nep­tune Oppo­site Nep­tune, Our Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal Crisis
I not­ed then, and have men­tioned numer­ous times, that Neptune’s role in the USA chart is of great impor­tance, and the fact that here in 2020 and 2021 tran­sit­ing Nep­tune is oppo­site the USA Nep­tune, indi­cates that our “Bub­bles of Belief and Real­i­ty” are very sep­a­rate from one anoth­er at this time. We are divid­ed in our under­stand­ing as to what and who we are as Amer­i­cans, and we have sort­ed our­selves into very sep­a­rate group­ings, sec­tors, and realms, and  because of this we can­not agree as to what is True ver­sus False, what is Real­i­ty and what is Fantasy.

We are as a Nation going through what is known as an Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal Cri­sis, where the very nature of knowl­edge and truth is in dis­pute. And this same align­ment of Nep­tune oppos­ing Nep­tune sig­naled a sim­i­lar divi­sion into dif­fer­ent World­views that pre­vailed just before the Civ­il War in the late 1850’s. Then the divi­sion was between Slave and Free States, between North and South, and which was resolved by what many his­to­ri­ans note was the inevitable and exis­ten­tial cli­max of our war between the states from 1860 to 1865.

Keep­ing that mes­sage of Nep­tune in our minds, I want to con­sid­er the impor­tance of Plu­to in the chart of the USA and exam­ine the sig­nif­i­cance of the upcom­ing (and first-ever) return of Plu­to to its natal or birth posi­tion in 2021 and 2022. It will have been 246 years since the found­ing of our coun­try and giv­en the promi­nent posi­tion and sig­nif­i­cance of its posi­tion in the chart, I believe it will shine a light upon our his­to­ry and the crit­i­cal  events of our cur­rent period.

Plu­to in USA Chart
Plu­to is the ris­ing plan­et in the USA chart, and it is placed in the 2^nd house. The sec­ond house holds the answer to this pri­ma­ry ques­tion: what is of Val­ue for the USA? Tra­di­tion­al Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy would assign cat­e­gories of val­ue to the sec­ond house such as: a nation’s wealth, tax rev­enue, stocks, bonds, shares, exports. Of places deal­ing with cur­ren­cy, such as banks, trade and com­merce, stock/commodity exchanges. Val­ues formed by nation­al expen­di­tures and receipts, cir­cu­la­tion of cur­ren­cy and oth­er liq­uid assets. In sum, it is the wealth of the nation as mea­sured by the population’s earn­ing and pur­chas­ing power.

Source of Value
All of that is true, if one assumes the point of view of a prac­ti­cal and mate­r­i­al under­stand­ing of val­ue, and even more espe­cial­ly in the cul­ture and econ­o­my that is dom­i­nant in our time. But for me, look­ing at this ques­tion spir­i­tu­al­ly, the real nature and source of val­ue for any human com­mu­ni­ty, whether they be hunter-gath­er­ers, pas­toral­ists or farm­ers, or part of a high­ly com­plex hier­ar­chy of pro­duc­tion like our cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion, what I would claim that is com­mon to all these types is this: that the true mea­sure of val­ue for any cul­ture is to be found in the peo­ple them­selves. It is their spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment, their intel­lec­tu­al adept­ness, their emo­tion­al depth, and their phys­i­cal well-being that com­pris­es the wealth of their com­mu­ni­ty and their val­ue to one another.

Capri­corn
For the USA, Capri­corn is the ruler of this house, which would indi­cate that the USA would expe­ri­ence its val­ue and strength as being root­ed in the val­ues that “have stood the test of time”, i.e. Truths formed into the Insti­tu­tions of the nation, and that this would find its ulti­mate expres­sion in what is known as the Wis­dom of the Ages. It is cer­tain­ly true, that although we take pride in being a nation born through “rev­o­lu­tion”, we are a Nation that takes our val­ues seri­ous­ly and con­ser­v­a­tive­ly, and I mean here con­ser­v­a­tive in the spir­i­tu­al not polit­i­cal sense. These val­ues are embod­ied in all the great tra­di­tions and teach­ings, and they are most sim­ply but pro­found­ly expressed in the root of wis­dom-teach­ing, that we are here to “Love one another”.

For today, I wish to con­sid­er the natal place­ment and cyclic mean­ings for Plu­to in the USA sec­ond house. I con­sid­er Plu­to to be the Avatar of the Will and the Pow­er of Alche­my. As the Avatar of the Will, Plu­to holds the Truth of Spir­it that all ener­gy-forms exist in their “own sacred space”, and that the will forms and main­tains these sacred cen­ters. Since all cen­ters of spir­it are sacred, the fun­da­men­tal pre­cept for us as humans is that “Thou shall not Tres­pass”, and that to impose one’s will upon anoth­er, or to vio­late their space is quite sim­ply a Spir­i­tu­al Crime.

The Mean­ing of Plu­to and Alche­my
As the rep­re­sen­ta­tive (along with the Sign Scor­pio), of the Root Pow­er of Cre­ation, Plu­to indi­cates that the USA is meant to be a trans­former of val­ues through the pow­er of Alche­my. The whole of Cre­ation is formed at it cease­less­ly unfolds and becomes what it will be through the innu­mer­able com­bi­na­tions and trans­for­ma­tions of the Ener­gy-Forms of Spir­it. Whether by atoms comb­ing with atoms to form larg­er atoms, mol­e­cules with mol­e­cules, organ­isms with organ­isms, on up to the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies, what dri­ves Cre­ation is the Pro­tean Pow­er that is Alche­my, which is the mag­ic and mys­tery of combination.

At the human lev­el, we com­bine in part­ner­ships, col­lab­o­ra­tions, joint ven­tures, enter­pris­es, com­mu­ni­ties, cul­tures, and nations. To form any union, we must make a sac­ri­fice which elic­its our change and growth; we let go of our less­er qual­i­ties in order to com­bine with one anoth­er by our deep­er val­ues, and by this we move into a greater real­i­ty. We forge our own growth and make pos­si­ble our greater and shared qual­i­ties through com­bi­na­tion. When prop­er­ly guid­ed by love and under­stand­ing, we give up for one anoth­er what we must, but we hold to the core of who we are, sac­ri­fic­ing our ego but lift­ing our hearts and minds together.

The very found­ing of our nation was a com­pact, an agree­ment made by indi­vid­u­als who sought to free them­selves from tyran­ny and pledged to one anoth­er, a sacred oath that estab­lished “a new order for the cen­turies”; and that they would cre­ate a new kind of soci­ety and gov­ern them­selves by mutu­al con­sent. Their ideals and inten­tions stat­ed in our Dec­la­ra­tion res­onate to this day, “that all men are cre­at­ed equal”.

USA Kar­ma
But they, like we, were not per­fect, and though they sac­ri­ficed much, they also held onto that which they should not. More than half of the sign­ers of the 1776 Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence were slave own­ers, and of the del­e­gates to the 1787 Con­sti­tu­tion­al Con­ven­tion, almost half were also slave own­ers. This shame­ful fact is one-half of the orig­i­nal sin of the Unit­ed States, the oth­er being the bru­tal con­quest of Native Americans.

The Pro­tean Pow­er of Plu­to can be used for good or ill, as can all the gifts of Spir­it. As much as it is the source of cre­ation by freely formed com­bi­na­tions, it is also by its mis­use and tres­pass­ing, which is so often found through­out human his­to­ry, the source of destruc­tion by the dom­i­na­tion and con­trol of one per­son or group over anoth­er. The sub­ju­ga­tion of the native peo­ples and the enslave­ment of mil­lions of African peo­ples is the root curse that hangs over the promise and dream of Amer­i­ca. What we wit­nessed in the storm­ing of the Capi­tol on Jan­u­ary 6^th, is that same evil ener­gy-form of White Suprema­cy and fear-based rage attempt­ing to seize power.

When­ev­er you treat any fel­low human being as less than your­self, that is when you turn from the path of Spir­it. For hun­dreds of years, the US slave pop­u­la­tion was treat­ed as a thing, to be used by their own­ers to pro­duce wealth and pow­er, and their human val­ue was stolen by tres­pass­ing upon the sacred cen­ter of each and every slave. After the Civ­il War, in a very few years, Recon­struc­tion was chal­lenged, erod­ed, and final­ly bro­ken, and the for­mer slave pop­u­la­tion was re-enslaved through peon­age, seg­re­ga­tion, and ter­ror for almost 100 more years. For over 400 years, ful­ly or par­tial­ly, con­trol, manip­u­la­tion, dom­i­na­tion, and ter­ror of one peo­ple over anoth­er cre­at­ed the USA’s karmic calami­ty of racism and caste in America.

Harm to all
Make no mis­take, this hurt con­tin­ues to harm every Amer­i­can of every creed and eth­nic ori­gin; we dimin­ish and reduce the self-ful­fill­ment of every one of us when we treat oth­ers as less than our­selves. We can only meet our self-real­iza­tion through and by one anoth­er; if we lim­it the self-ful­fill­ment of one or some, we hurt all of us. If we are to meet the promise of our dreams, we must forge the real­i­ty where each and every per­son is able to real­ize the full­ness of their poten­tial here and now. This is the spir­i­tu­al cri­sis we are fac­ing; and that is why what is hap­pen­ing is so mean­ing­ful and challenging.

A Reck­on­ing
Many have com­ment­ed upon the nature of our his­tor­i­cal moment, as we wit­ness erupt­ing once more from the dark­est depths of our Amer­i­can Kar­ma the shad­ows and fears formed by the ter­ri­ble lega­cy of dom­i­na­tion and ter­ror expe­ri­enced by many in our his­to­ry and to this present day. This tim­ing is not an acci­dent of course, for we are com­ing to the return of Plu­to in the USA chart in 2021–2022. The erup­tion of this neg­a­tive ener­gy-form into right-wing domes­tic ter­ror­ism is a very real and present dan­ger. For our con­sid­er­a­tion today, there are four major moments or turn­ings in any plan­e­tary cycle: the wax­ing square, the oppo­si­tion, the wan­ing square and the return or con­junc­tion. Let us look at the four turn­ings of Plu­to and see how they framed our choic­es and his­to­ry, and how that may guide us in our own time of the Plu­to return.

We should remem­ber that the align­ment of espe­cial­ly out­er plan­ets takes sev­er­al years to become exact, so the peri­od of the exact aspect rep­re­sents the cli­max or cul­mi­na­tion of that influ­ence. There­fore, these moments are cli­max­es of expe­ri­ences that had been grow­ing over sev­er­al years. More­over, with regards to Plu­to in the USA chart, its natal aspect with Mer­cury extends this peri­od of mean­ing­ful­ness even more.

If we are to look for the mean­ing behind these turn­ing points, we will see that the issue posed by Plu­to at each turn­ing will be gen­er­al­ly framed around our under­stand­ing of and actions tak­en with regards to this fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of how we under­stand the true nature of val­ue for our coun­try. That is, it will reveal how close or far from the ide­al of “equal­i­ty and equi­ty and jus­tice” we are in our jour­ney of self-ful­fill­ment for one and all.

Plu­to Squared Plu­to 1848–1850
Zachary Tay­lor, a hero of the Mex­i­can War, elect­ed Pres­i­dent of the Whig Par­ty and served March 1849 to July 1850 (suc­ceed­ed by his VP Mil­lard Fill­more). Though a slave­hold­er him­self, he did not push for expan­sion of slav­ery, but tried to work out a com­pro­mise. The pres­sure to expand slav­ery into the lands tak­en from Mex­i­co, espe­cial­ly Texas but also for all ter­ri­to­ries includ­ing Cal­i­for­nia, was extreme, as the slave­hold­ing inter­ests des­per­ate­ly sought to main­tain their con­trol of the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment. Their plan was to have every ter­ri­to­ry and state per­mit slav­ery. Much like now, there were ris­ing threats of vio­lence around the coun­try and in Wash­ing­ton, and real vio­lence broke out in both the House and Sen­ate cham­bers, with crowds gath­er­ing out­side the Capi­tol in antic­i­pa­tion of open war­fare over the issue of slavery.

This strug­gle led to the Com­pro­mise of 1850, where Cal­i­for­nia was admit­ted as a “free” state, and the lands of Texas, New Mex­i­co, Utah, and Ari­zona could put the ques­tion of slav­ery to their cit­i­zens. To pla­cate the slave-hold­ing states, it also estab­lished a much tougher Fugi­tive Slave Law. Many his­to­ri­ans see this com­pro­mise as mere­ly delay­ing the inevitable by post­pon­ing the Civ­il War for the next 10 years.

Plu­to Oppo­site Plu­to 1936–1937
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attempts to res­cue the nation from the depths of the depres­sion with new agen­cies and laws led to a series of bat­tles with the Supreme court over his pro­gram of eco­nom­ic reforms. He attempt­ed to cre­ate a court more favor­able to his pro­gres­sive eco­nom­ic agen­da by adding Jus­tices through leg­is­la­tion (fear­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al bat­tle would fail). But he failed in his attempt to “pack the court”, and some of his reforms were overturned.

But then, by retire­ment and new appoint­ments, between 1938 to 1941 his new appoint­ments turned the court away the focus upon the New Deal’s pro­gres­sive eco­nom­ic reg­u­la­tions as the court came to focus upon the issue of civ­il liberties.

As a result, Roosevelt’s poli­cies for eco­nom­ic jus­tice and greater racial equal­i­ty began the his­toric shift of black vot­ers from the Repub­li­can Par­ty to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty, which was espe­cial­ly sig­nif­i­cant in the North­ern States.

Plu­to Square Plu­to 1982–1983
Ronald Reagan’s elec­tion was found­ed upon the premise that “the gov­ern­ment is the prob­lem”, and his admin­is­tra­tion spent 8 years work­ing to dis­man­tle the laws and pro­grams of a greater safe­ty net for all Amer­i­cans, (Social Secu­ri­ty, Medicare, Labor Laws, and Eco­nom­ic reg­u­la­to­ry Laws that had lim­it­ed the reck­less greed of Wall Street), which had been place since Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930’s and 1940’s. It was a counter-rev­o­lu­tion dri­ven by a Neo-lib­er­al ide­ol­o­gy that took as its objec­tive the dis­man­tling of the state to pro­mote greater growth in the econ­o­my. But the poli­cies begun dur­ing the 1980’s and through the era of George W. Bush were the dri­ving force behind the destruc­tion of the fair­ly equi­table eco­nom­ic growth for all cit­i­zens that had pre­vailed since the 1940’s. The result is that by 2020 the USA has the largest gap between the wealthy and the major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans since the 1920’s.

Inte­gral to the polit­i­cal pow­er of the Repub­li­can Par­ty for the past 40 years has been an ever increas­ing “pol­i­tics of divi­sion”, where pow­er was main­tained by divid­ing the peo­ple of the USA by race, eth­nic­i­ty, region and reli­gion. This polit­i­cal agen­da, com­bined with spe­cif­ic news out­lets and social media cam­paigns, has cre­at­ed an insu­lar and ever-shrink­ing minor­i­ty that strives to wield polit­i­cal pow­er over the major­i­ty, and which has also led to grow­ing acts of right-wing domes­tic ter­ror­ism from the 1990’s and 2000’s up to the present day.

It has become very clear to many Amer­i­cans, (and here the Nep­tune to Nep­tune oppo­si­tion in the USA chart is rel­e­vant), that a grow­ing and core com­po­nent of the Repub­li­can base have become beguiled and delud­ed by unin­tel­li­gi­ble con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries, with a hard core that are com­mit­ted to White Suprema­cy. And it is these fear-based fol­low­ers who made their bold­est move by the attempt to over­turn the 2020 elec­tion and destroy democ­ra­cy by seiz­ing pow­er. They are not dis­suad­ed by their fail­ure, and they pose a real and present dan­ger to our coun­try, our insti­tu­tions, and our fel­low citizens.

The Plu­to Return of 2022
Of course, every cri­sis is ulti­mate­ly a Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis. The seed of our twin crises, Cli­mate Change and Racism, spring from the same root cause, and that is the sin of divid­ing our­selves from the greater whole of which we are a part. Humans have sep­a­rat­ed them­selves from the oth­er king­doms of life on this plan­et, and in doing so we have made all oth­er life-forms an object for our use with­out regard to the del­i­cate, inte­gral bal­ance of the hier­ar­chies of life on this plan­et. We are destroy­ing the web of life on which on our own human lives depend. This spir­i­tu­al crime, of mis­us­ing the essen­tial beau­ty and boun­ty of Earth has cre­at­ed the exis­ten­tial cri­sis of Cli­mate Change, and one more proof of this is the Covid-19 Pan­dem­ic that has cir­cled the globe.

Humans have equal­ly, (and here we are unique among all oth­er species of life on this plan­et), we have equal­ly and most griev­ous­ly divid­ed humans from one anoth­er; we sep­a­rate our­selves by race, eth­nic­i­ty, gen­der, reli­gion and cul­ture, and by so doing we treat some humans as less than oth­ers, turn­ing them into the objects of fear based pro­jec­tions, into scape­goats for blame and pun­ish­ment. This virus of divi­sion and hate is how we are equal­ly destroy­ing our­selves too.

Plu­to Return, A New Beginning
The return of Plu­to is very much like a New Moon of Val­ue for the USA. It rep­re­sents the release of a new seed of Val­ue; it is the hope and promise of a new begin­ning for Amer­i­ca. But know this, before we can enter what might become a bright New Age and ful­fill the promise of uni­ver­sal self-ful­fill­ment, we must hold our­selves account­able to what we wrought and what we must make right.

The only way for­ward is to under­stand where we are com­ing from; we need to under­stand our his­to­ry, to tell our sto­ries to one anoth­er and rebuild our com­mon under­stand­ing with one anoth­er. The inequity in our present cir­cum­stances that divide us by race and eth­nic­i­ty, the vast dif­fer­ences in income and wealth, in health­care and gen­er­al well-being, in the cir­cum­stances of secu­ri­ty and safe­ty which are so  dis­pro­por­tion­ate and dead­ly, all of these are no acci­dent but the results of the fail­ure to live by the spir­i­tu­al truth that we are here to love one another.

We must recom­mit our­selves to our orig­i­nal dec­la­ra­tion of equal­i­ty and self-ful­fill­ment for one and all. But to build anew we must also make amends; we must face the truth and act to reverse the sys­temic inequities, injus­tices, and spir­i­tu­al harm we have done to one another.

As I often have said, we are the mak­ers of one anoth­er, and we owe our well-being and can only become ful­filled through one anoth­er. We are, as is the entire­ty of Cre­ation, made by and become what we are through the mys­tery of Alche­my. We are what we are through join­ing with one anoth­er in our sacred spaces of Union.

Tru­ly, we are indi­vis­i­ble from one anoth­er, and we must treat one anoth­er with love, respect, and hon­or. If we are to meet this Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis, then we must renew our sacred com­mit­ment to make it pos­si­ble for each and every per­son to ful­fill their poten­tial for self-realization.

Here in 2021 and 2022 we are at an end which is a begin­ning, so let us pledge to one anoth­er that we will pro­tect and secure our true val­ue, which is our human family.