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.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Kar­ma and the USA, The Plu­to Return – A Rebirth of Val­ue (Jan­u­ary 31, 2021)

In my sec­ond show of 2021, we will con­tin­ue our look at the USA.
In my last episode on Jan­u­ary 3^rd, we looked at the impor­tance of Nep­tune for the Unit­ed States with regards to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can Par­ties. Today I want to look at the mean­ing of Plu­to in the USA chart, and the sig­nif­i­cance of its first ever “Return” in the USA chart in 2021–2022. The events of the past month have been quite extra­or­di­nary, and we can bet­ter under­stand what they mean by look­ing at this most sig­nif­i­cant alignment.

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.

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Jan­u­ary 31^st @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/01/31/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-karma-and-the-usa-1312021

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Please join me on Sun­day Jan­u­ary 31^st @ 2 pm EST 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 Root of Happiness

In the cen­ter of every human, and through­out every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, in the heart of each and every ener­gy-form, is the root of one and all, the Divine Mon­ad. That is the “source” of you; it is the Spark of the Divine, the Root Ener­gy-Form that made and sus­tains Cre­ation. It is what we call Divine Love.

It is here that we find the source of our self-aware con­scious­ness, our indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. It is from the Mon­ad, from the Spark of the Divine, that is where the spe­cial­ness that each one of us is here “to be and to become” shines. It is our Song of Spir­it, the very Quin­tes­sence of us. It is the pro­tean force that dri­ves our Cre­ation, the call to Self-Realization.

Cre­ation is formed by a hier­ar­chy of hosts, formed by and into mul­ti­plic­i­ties of indi­vid­u­al­i­ties and com­mu­ni­ties of affil­i­a­tion, and each of them is shaped, guid­ed, and inspired by a unique spark of the Divine. The whole of Cre­ation is the jour­ney of innu­mer­able ones who are on the sacred path of “Self-Becom­ing by Self-Fulfillment”.

Yet we are equal­ly made by one anoth­er for one anoth­er too. Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Com­mu­ni­ty are woven through­out the fab­ric of the Uni­verse. As humans, we all wish to be “one of a kind”; but we also are made by our kinds, as we forge our unique­ness from the rich sources of the many groups, com­mu­ni­ties, and cul­tures of our human world.

Today we leave the realm of Capri­corn and enter the space of Aquar­ius. At this time of the year, and wher­ev­er Aquar­ius is to be found in your chart, it is there that you will reach beyond what was estab­lished and secured by your own efforts, and also by all those who came before you. Aquar­ius is the space where we dream of what might be, of who we might become, and how we shall cre­ate and make a bet­ter life for our­selves and for one anoth­er too.

Aquar­ius holds the dream of your future, that there are fin­er days ahead, with more gen­tle breezes and far hori­zons of hopes ful­filled. That one fine day we will live in kind­li­ness and good­ness shared between all peo­ple who know in their hearts that “we are what we are” because of our love for one another.

Aquar­ius brings you deep­er into the realm of your “vol­un­tary asso­ci­a­tions”, to your Fel­low­ships, to your Broth­er­hoods and Sis­ter­hoods, to your com­rades and com­pan­ions, for Aquar­ius is about the Truth that we are all made by and for one anoth­er. We sim­ply could nev­er be human with­out expe­ri­enc­ing the holis­tic truth, that we make one anoth­er by our shared expe­ri­ences. It is through one anoth­er that we form a more per­fect self for our­selves as we build our more per­fect com­mu­ni­ties of camaraderie.

Aquar­ius holds the para­dox­i­cal Truth, that we are One and we are the Many. Each one of us is a unique expres­sion of being human, yet we make our­selves from many groups or “kinds”. We are shaped by our com­bin­ing these var­i­ous kinds into the spe­cial human that we are, and we con­tribute our own sen­si­bil­i­ties and expe­ri­ences back into these var­i­ous asso­ci­a­tions. This dynam­ic and pro­tean cre­ation made by the weav­ing of the per­son­al and social, it is by this that “you devel­op you”, with a par­tic­u­lar per­son­al social con­scious­ness that is informed, shaped, and real­ized into a larg­er com­mu­ni­ty con­scious­ness. We are ones, formed and shaped into larg­er wholes that are a “one” as well; from indi­vid­ual, to fam­i­ly, to com­mu­ni­ty to cul­ture to the world of human­i­ty itself, we are all ones with­in oth­er ones that ulti­mate­ly are held in the One.

We expe­ri­ence our human­i­ty in Aquar­ius, of find­ing our spe­cial­ness that makes us dif­fer­ent from one anoth­er, but also find­ing and mak­ing what we have in com­mon too. At the core of what we com­mon­ly share, as Sparks of the Divine, is our dream of Self-Ful­fill­ment. This is what has been known and shared by all humans through­out the ages, and it holds the answer to the ancient ques­tion, “What will make me happy?”

Those who are wise under­stand that Hap­pi­ness is not a “thing”, it is not some­thing that you can pur­chase or an expe­ri­ence you can have. Hap­pi­ness is a “Qual­i­ty of Being” that is forged by expe­ri­enc­ing your most essen­tial nature, it is your expe­ri­ence of Self-Fulfillment.

Your hap­pi­ness comes from your own self-ful­fill­ment. But you can­not tru­ly expe­ri­ence this for your­self alone. Indeed, how could you? As you have been made by one anoth­er since the begin­ning of time, your hap­pi­ness is also part of one anoth­er too. Our true Hap­pi­ness is a social expe­ri­ence, where you see your friend’s joy in ful­fill­ment, and it brings a smile to your heart; and your laugh­ter and joy in self-real­iza­tion warms their heart as well. How can any of us be tru­ly hap­py if we have not done all that we can to make pos­si­ble the ful­fill­ment of one and all?

This is the promise and pur­pose of Aquar­ius. We are “one for all, and all for one”; we are here for one anoth­er and we are the means to one anoth­er’s self-ful­fill­ment and happiness.

Aquar­ius is about our love for one anoth­er and the joy we have when we strive to make pos­si­ble a bet­ter future for our­selves, and for those who fol­low us too.

Aquar­ius is the dream of a bet­ter world, a kinder more lov­ing world that will not come until we act as we are tru­ly meant to be.

We are made of love, and we are here to love one anoth­er too.

Yes, there is a New Age dawning,

And we will be that Dawn.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The New Year – Nep­tune and US History

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

As we say good­bye to 2020 and look ahead to what may unfold in 2021, I thought I would con­tin­ue to exam­ine the impor­tance of Neptune’s influ­ence for the USA and look at how this might be under­stood with regards to our present con­di­tion and his­tor­i­cal antecedents.

Nep­tune
As I not­ed in my show on Decem­ber 6^th, (which you can read the tran­script for here), the impor­tance of Nep­tune gen­er­al­ly, and more espe­cial­ly in the USA chart is quite telling. Nep­tune, one of the three Avatars of the Divine Tri­ad of Spir­it, holds the truth of the Ener­gy-Form behind the whole of Cre­ation. That Ener­gy-Form is the Love of the One in every Mon­ad; it is the “One in one and all” and it is most pure­ly expe­ri­enced by us as Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Of course, noth­ing can be or exist with­out inter­re­la­tion­ship, and for Nep­tune that means we can only under­stand its mean­ings for us by fram­ing our expe­ri­ence with Uranus and Plu­to as well. Look­ing at this Tri­ad we find that Plu­to as the Avatar of Divine Will cre­ates and forms the Space or Con­tain­er for any being; Nep­tune as the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love shapes the aware­ness of any being towards ever greater Com­mu­nal­i­ty; and Uranus as the Avatar of Freer Mind shapes the aware­ness of any being towards every greater Individuality.

Nep­tune as the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love holds for us our Intu­ition­al nature, our capac­i­ty to know and encom­pass anoth­er as our­self; it is the foun­tain-source for our empa­thy, com­pas­sion and sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er as all of these (and oth­er noble traits) are found­ed by our true nature (when awak­ened), which is quite sim­ply that we are made by and for one anoth­er in uncon­di­tion­al love.

Nep­tune and Astro­log­i­cal Chart of the USA
As I have not­ed before, the place­ment of Nep­tune in the chart of the USA is quite promi­nent. It is at the top of the chart (along with Sat­urn), locat­ed in the 9^th house of Under­stand­ing. Nep­tune holds the dream of a nation and part of the found­ing myth of the Unit­ed States is its sense of being excep­tion­al. We declare in our nation­al seal that we are a “New Order for the Ages”. We came to form a new human covenant, where we by hold­ing togeth­er dis­parate peo­ples from around the world, all of whom are seek­ing to live a freer life, we would be a shin­ing exam­ple of Free­dom, Tol­er­ance and Com­mu­ni­ty. The USA would be a new soci­ety, formed by a belief in one another’s self-ful­fill­ment as being made pos­si­ble through one anoth­er, and by our self-gov­ern­ment, where­in we would care for one anoth­er; we declared that “We Mutu­al­ly Pledge To Each Oth­er Our Lives, Our For­tunes, And Our Sacred Hon­or”, and so strive to cre­ate a space of free­dom and jus­tice for one and for all.

As I not­ed in my ear­li­er shows, Nep­tune, the hold­er of dreams and myths, of illu­mi­na­tions and delu­sions, has returned now to the posi­tion it held as the Unit­ed States faced its great­est exis­ten­tial and spir­i­tu­al cri­sis formed by the divi­sion into two visions or myths of Amer­i­ca, whether to be Slave or Free, in the Civ­il War. The ques­tion then and seem­ing­ly now is, “will the fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al truth, that all humans are cre­at­ed equal, be made our real­i­ty or not”?

Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can Charts
It is quite inter­est­ing, and cer­tain­ly no acci­dent, that in the charts of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can par­ties Nep­tune is also fea­tured quite promi­nent­ly. It is also quite inter­est­ing, and again no acci­dent I would think, that these two charts are so inter­re­lat­ed with one another.

Though there was an ear­li­er ver­sion of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, the gen­er­al­ly accept­ed date of the par­ty is Jan­u­ary 8, 1828 in Portsmouth, NH. That makes it a Capri­corn, and for our pur­pos­es today, it is note­wor­thy that it is born with a Sun/Neptune Con­junc­tion. The Repub­li­can Par­ty was found­ed on the wreck­age of the Whig Par­ty and its date of incor­po­ra­tion is July 6, 1854 in Jack­son, WI. That makes it a Can­cer, and it has its Nep­tune in Pisces which is Trin­ing the Sun in Cancer.

The two charts have their Sun in oppo­si­tion to one anoth­er, which makes per­fect sense giv­en the oppo­si­tion­al nature of the two party’s posi­tions through­out US his­to­ry. Spir­i­tu­al­ly, it is by oppo­si­tions or oppo­site qual­i­ties and natures that we tru­ly find our way. That Way or path is found by hold­ing each togeth­er as part of the answer, and by find­ing the third way, we fol­low the inte­gral path of Spirit.

Because of this oppo­si­tion , it is very instruc­tive to exam­ine the series of align­ments to their respec­tive Suns, by Sat­urn or Uranus, and by Nep­tune and Plu­to, as these have often indi­cat­ed the mean­ing behind as well as the tim­ing of shifts in those who held pow­er. With regards to the par­ty in con­trol of the Pres­i­den­cy, the Repub­li­can Par­ty from the Civ­il War to the Great Depres­sion held the White House, with only Grover Cleve­land and Woodrow Wil­son being the excep­tions. Then from FDR to LBJ the democ­rats held pow­er, except for the two terms of Dwight David Eisenhower.

Nep­tune and the Democratic/Republican Charts
For today, I want to focus upon the role of Nep­tune with regards to the two par­ties and their his­tor­i­cal shifts. Both par­ties are strong­ly influ­enced by the plan­et Nep­tune, which is the plan­et of dreams, myths, and ide­olo­gies. It is the prin­ci­pal shaper of the visions and dreams of a per­son, group, or nation. Real­ly, along with the plan­et Uranus, I see Nep­tune shap­ing the con­scious­ness of what­ev­er enti­ty one may be exam­in­ing. But just like an indi­vid­ual, or cul­tur­al group or par­ty or nation, those dreams and myths are pro­tean in nature, as they trans­form and blend, rise and fall, even­tu­al­ly becom­ing bro­ken, or reformed or reborn over time. Though in its high­est form Nep­tune, as the plan­et of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, will inspire empa­thy and inclu­sive­ness, wher­ev­er fear takes hold, it will then man­i­fest as the shad­ow side of Nep­tune, evi­denced by sep­a­ra­tions and exclu­sive divi­sions, becom­ing sub­ject to fan­tasies, delu­sions, and con­spir­a­to­r­i­al manias.

There are not a few his­to­ri­ans and oth­er social observers who have watch the arc of the Repub­li­can par­ty from its found­ing as the par­ty of Lin­coln and Eman­ci­pa­tion, seem­ing­ly devolve in the past 50 years or so into a par­ty whose self-inter­est seems to be depen­dent upon var­i­ous schemes to deny the right to vote to peo­ple of col­or. This process of exclu­sion instead of inclu­sion, (very much a reflec­tion of a neg­a­tive fear-based shift­ing of Nep­tun­ian dreams and myths), was not an acci­dent. It was a reac­tion or fear fed by the exten­sion of civ­il rights in 1964 and 1965. As a result of this attempt of greater inclu­sive­ness, the con­trol by the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty shift­ed to the Repub­li­can Par­ty in the for­mer states of the Con­fed­er­a­cy as well in some West­ern States and rur­al areas.

1960’s Shift
This redefin­ing of the myth of the Repub­li­can par­ty began in the late 1960’s and was accom­pa­nied Astro­log­i­cal­ly by the wan­ing Trine of Nep­tune to Nep­tune in its chart. It is inter­est­ing that we can note that the same aspect of the wan­ing Trine in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic chart hap­pened in the mid-1930’s when it shift­ed to a more activist form of gov­er­nance, in the attempt to deal with the calami­ty of the Great Depres­sion and the exis­ten­tial cri­sis of World War II. That redefin­ing of the par­ty and its elec­toral make­up, led to the Democ­rats hold­ing pow­er (except for the Eisen­how­er years), from 1932 to the late 1960’s.

It is quite inter­est­ing that for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty, the wan­ing of Nep­tune to Nep­tune in the response to the dev­as­ta­tion of the Great Depres­sion in the 1930’s, led to the expan­sion of gov­ern­ment and to the inclu­sion of more peo­ple in the body politic over time; where­as for the Repub­li­can par­ty in the late 1960’s the wan­ing trine led to con­sis­tent attempts to roll back the com­mu­nal space for the right to self-deter­mi­na­tion, in attempts to lim­it and ulti­mate­ly hob­ble Fed­er­al ser­vices, and by var­ied and numer­ous actions to nar­row the elec­torate and deny rights to legit­i­mate US citizens.

Nep­tune 2021
For our cur­rent peri­od, Nep­tune has returned to its natal posi­tion in the Repub­li­can party’s chart, the same place it was at the thresh­old of the Civ­il War. Like a “New Moon”, the return would imply a release of a new ener­gy-form that will slow­ly but sure­ly make itself evi­dent over the next many years. What this might mean after the last four years remains to be seen. But it is cer­tain­ly a fun­da­men­tal ques­tion among pun­dits and his­to­ri­ans right now: What is the dream and myth of the Repub­li­can par­ty now; what does it “stand for” after four years of Don­ald Trump?

The Nep­tune return in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic chart occurred in 1991, when after the 12 years of Repub­li­can rule under Rea­gan and George H. W. Bush, Democ­rats deter­mined that they should attempt to expand their elec­toral base by mov­ing towards a more con­ser­v­a­tive eco­nom­ic posi­tion dur­ing the Clin­ton pres­i­den­cy. Many have argued that this attempt to secure wider sup­port by mov­ing to “the cen­ter” only served to rein­force the eco­nom­i­cal­ly unsus­tain­able neo-lib­er­al poli­cies of the Rea­gan and Bush years, as it removed the last safe­guards and over­sight that had been insti­tut­ed after the Great Depres­sion. The lessons of the 1920’s and 1930’s had been for­got­ten by both par­ties, and this, along with oth­er devel­op­ments in the nature of the finan­cial mar­kets and broad­er econ­o­my, brought about the Sec­ond Great Depres­sion under George W. Bush.

That mort­gage cri­sis and finan­cial melt­down of 2007 and 2008, led to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty nom­i­nat­ing Barack Oba­ma, who would become the first black pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States. Sad­dled with the worse eco­nom­ic con­di­tions since the 1930’s, he attempt­ed to restore the eco­nom­ic order while also extend­ing one of the most basic pro­tec­tions of a civ­il (or bet­ter put, humane) soci­ety by address­ing the bro­ken health­care sys­tem of the US in the Afford­able Care Act.

Trump and Repub­li­can Party
The last four years have seen the Trump agen­da being for the most part an attempt to reverse all the gains in equi­ty and fair­ness dur­ing the Oba­ma years. The Repub­li­can par­ty, as embod­ied by its leader, appears to have no guid­ing belief or mean­ing, as it has devolved into a cult of per­son­al­i­ty for a self­ish and cru­el nar­cis­sist. There was no mean­ing or love guid­ing poli­cies and actions, no plans for the greater good, just fear-filled demands for atten­tion or revenge. It has led many now, to break their sacred oath for all who serve in gov­ern­ment, that they will “pro­tect and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion”. The repeat­ed attempts to bring charges of elec­toral fraud have failed in the courts because there is no cred­i­ble evi­dence of fraud, just spu­ri­ous alle­ga­tions meant to dis­en­fran­chise minor­i­ty districts.

What will the Repub­li­can par­ty become now? The par­ty found­ed on com­pas­sion for those suf­fer­ing under slav­ery has turned into a par­ty of griev­ance whose lamen­ta­tions and woe are root­ed in a Nep­tun­ian delu­sion of their inher­ent right to pow­er, and their claim that oth­ers are not enti­tled to vote. In all but one of their chal­lenges regard­ing the 2020 Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion brought before the courts, and three of those to the Supreme Court, all have been found to be with­out evi­dence and dis­missed. The very votes they seek to throw out were over­seen and cer­ti­fied by rep­re­sen­ta­tives from both par­ties, and in most of the states the offi­cers over­see­ing the elec­tions are from the Repub­li­can Party.

The plan­ets do not make what hap­pens down here; they pro­vide a con­text of mean­ing and the tim­ing for the events in our jour­ney of Spir­it. What hap­pens, what actions we take and what real­i­ty we make, that is on us; it is by this that we, the mak­ers of our real­i­ty, reveal our aware­ness or lack of under­stand­ing. It is upon each of us to act with integri­ty, hon­or, and love. If we lis­ten to the Winds of the Spir­it in our heart, we will be guid­ed and cen­tered in each and every moment by our ever­last­ing faith and love, and not by fear. The mes­sage of Spir­it now, held by Nep­tune, is that we must always turn away from fear and hate and remem­ber that we are here to love one another.

2021 – A Reckoning
2021 is a year of reck­on­ing. In the chart of the USA, Nep­tune is once again oppo­site to its natal or birth posi­tion. Just like in 1858, we are being asked to look at our­selves, and to look at one anoth­er, and see in one anoth­er our own true self. We formed a covenant, and in that sacred con­tract we pledged to cre­ate a space for self-ful­fill­ment that is found­ed upon and cir­cum­scribed by our Love for one anoth­er. That is why we must strive to cre­ate the freest con­di­tions pos­si­ble to real­ize each member’s poten­tial, while equal­ly sac­ri­fic­ing more self­ish inter­ests for the greater good of the com­mu­ni­ty. We must find the mid­dle way, the path of inte­gra­tion and love for one another.

It starts right here, as you lis­ten with your heart you must rea­son with your mind. As you hold togeth­er your feel­ings and thoughts through the bless­ings of your high­er, Intu­ition­al Self, it is then that you will be guid­ed to be ever kinder to your­self and to one anoth­er too.

The Law of Kar­ma is per­fect and Just; the Answer is always the same.

Love one anoth­er as you love are loved by your High­er Self.

This is the way of the Lone­ly Ones, the way of the Mas­ters of the Light.

Fol­low the path of gen­tle­ness, com­pas­sion, and sacrifice.

Fol­low the Way of Light and Truth and Love.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year – Nep­tune and US His­to­ry (Jan­u­ary 3, 2021)

In my first show of 2021, we will con­sid­er the year ahead to bet­ter under­stand the Astro­log­i­cal themes that are shap­ing our des­tiny. Today I want to con­tin­ue our exam­i­na­tion of the impor­tance of Nep­tune for the Unit­ed States. I have already not­ed its sig­nif­i­cance in the USA chart. It is most inter­est­ing that it is also very promi­nent in the charts of both the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can par­ty charts as well.

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 Jan­u­ary 3^rd @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/01/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-neptune-and-us-history

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 Jan­u­ary 3^rd @ 2 pm EST 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.