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The Look Ahead for 2020 (January 5, 2020) — Transcript of Radio Show

Tran­script of Radio Show: The look ahead for 2020 

For today I thought we would look ahead and see what is com­ing. But of course in look­ing ahead we are always look­ing back because, unlike our civ­il cal­en­dar which we begin on Jan­u­ary 1 and ends on Decem­ber 31st and every­thing is encap­su­lat­ed with­in that year, the plan­e­tary motions, being what they are, are rather longer than that. For many of them, they last tens if not hun­dreds of years; their “year”, if you will, can be as long as 250 years rough­ly with Plu­to, and 170 years with Nep­tune to get around the solar sys­tem once. Their align­ments are reg­u­lar­ly spaced out with regards to them­selves, and with regards to any indi­vid­ual chart, whether it is a per­son or com­pa­ny or coun­try. A lot of these phe­nom­e­na are what we call “long wave phe­nom­e­na” of the out­er plan­ets, of Uranus and Nep­tune and Plu­to. We con­sid­er them to be the fun­da­men­tal “beats”, set­ting the tone for a peri­od or an age, and so they are espe­cial­ly important.

Then we look at more inter­me­di­ate changes indi­cat­ed by the plan­e­tary motions of Sat­urn, two of those inter­me­di­ate plan­ets, but Sat­urn for itself and then Jupiter of course also; and then the inner plan­ets are much quick­er and get around with­in a year or so if not sooner.

Plu­to
So, we would tend to want to focus on these larg­er wave phe­nom­e­na and work our way in. Again, start­ing with the plan­et that I have been talk­ing about quite a bit now since the mid-2000s, antic­i­pat­ing its move into Capri­corn, and now it has been there for some time , it has been there since 2008 and remains there till 2024, we are deal­ing with Plu­to in Capricorn.

Capri­corn
And it is always impor­tant to under­stand, how do we derive this infor­ma­tion, where does this come from? Capri­corn is the sign of insti­tu­tions, that we take human needs such as they are, because we are deal­ing with humans obvi­ous­ly, and as opposed to spon­ta­neous­ly try­ing to meet the needs on the fly, moment to moment, we learn to sys­tem­atize and orga­nize things and cre­ate struc­tures with­in a fam­i­ly, with­in a com­mu­ni­ty, with­in a com­pa­ny or coun­try, region or coun­try, or inter­na­tion­al­ly, we cre­ate insti­tu­tions that serve to hold these ways of meet­ing needs and offer­ing ser­vices or mean­ing in life that last for a long time.

Giv­en that at the core of every­thing down here, through­out the whole uni­verse, every speck and minor part to the largest sys­tems are all made of one thing fun­da­men­tal­ly, Spir­it; and Spirit’s imper­a­tive is to become, to grow, which means to change. No mat­ter what sys­tem or struc­ture or econ­o­my or cul­ture we cre­ate may last for a very long time, but it does have an “end date”, where things have to be bro­ken down so new forms can take their place. Much like mov­ing from life to life, the spir­it leaves the body, it is not a death but it is a release from that phys­i­cal frame, which could no longer con­tain the spir­it and the need for that spir­it to con­tin­ue to grow.

Sim­i­lar­ly here, with Plu­to going through Capri­corn, since Capri­corn rules insti­tu­tions, (and I have not­ed this by look­ing at his­to­ry, and I was his­to­ri­an long ago and stud­ied many dif­fer­ent approach­es) and when I came across Astrol­o­gy I won­dered how it might pro­vide a way of fram­ing his­to­ry. And it was remark­able how these plan­e­tary motions weav­ing with one anoth­er, char­ac­ter­ize or sort of explained in an Astro­log­i­cal way what was the pur­pose of this change that a cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion was going through.

Plu­to and the Will
It is rel­e­vant for help­ing us under­stand where we are right now. As Capri­corn rules insti­tu­tions, Plu­to is the plan­et, that I say, is the prin­ci­ple of the will, which is one of the three aspects of the divine with­in all of us. The will is there to cre­ate the bound­aries with­in our­selves, where­by we con­tain our­selves and hold our­selves with will, and pro­tect our­selves from any kind of tres­pass­ing or vio­la­tion. And equal­ly, restrain us from try­ing to over­ly influ­ence or affect anoth­er, we want to do this freely and will­ing­ly and choose to work togeth­er, not force our­selves upon one anoth­er. That is the great spir­i­tu­al crime of Tres­pass­ing, which of course, while it pre­vails on this plan­et, we have hell on earth. And when enough peo­ple respect the bound­aries one to anoth­er and help each oth­er, to lift one anoth­er up, and become more cen­tered and will­ful peo­ple in a self-con­trol­ling way, then we begin to estab­lish heav­en on earth.

The pur­pose of the will is to make these bound­aries and struc­tures, but went these Plu­ton­ian ener­gies are mov­ing through a sign it tends to break­down and refor­mu­late that sign. So, Plu­to in Capri­corn, again from 2008 to 2024, like it was from the 1760s to the 1770s, and like the ear­ly 1500s, we have wit­nessed peri­ods where, as it is now, a time when the polit­i­cal, cul­tur­al, and eco­nom­ic order breaks down. Why?  Because it has out­lived its pur­pose. The things it erect­ed to solve cer­tain prob­lems now become the very imped­i­ments to future growth for Spir­it. It must be released so a new form can take hold.

Pre­servers, Cre­ators, Destroyers
We are see­ing insti­tu­tion­al break­downs, from the fam­i­ly on up to the nation­al and transna­tion­al struc­tures, because we are at the end of an age and the birth of a new one. So, as I say repeat­ed­ly, there are peo­ple on the plan­et now who are work­ing might­i­ly to pre­serve what can and should be in our cul­ture and cul­tures; as well as those who are trans­form­ing those mech­a­nisms and means of meet­ing needs and build­ing new insti­tu­tions or reform­ing the old ones; and then the peo­ple who are just destroy­ing, that is their pur­pose, is to expose the cor­rupt, the rot, and the inef­fec­tive­ness of these old struc­tures, as is true, and they take it down or break it apart. Every­body is play­ing their role here, in var­i­ous fashions.

This is the first thing we would con­sid­er, and since Plu­to con­tin­ues to go through Capri­corn now, we would want to see what it is affect­ing most strong­ly at any one time. What we are find­ing right now is that peo­ple are feel­ing this tremen­dous pres­sure of norms being bro­ken, and wills being bro­ken and they are being swayed in var­i­ous ways, through evok­ing our pas­sions and fears, to act in ways that are not as ele­vat­ed in con­scious­ness as they should be, and then we react to each oth­er and break apart from one anoth­er into these var­i­ous group­ings. Basi­cal­ly, it is fear that is dri­ving those who go to the low­er com­mon denom­i­na­tor or level.

Plu­to and the USA Mercury
What is hap­pen­ing this year in the USA chart with this? I spoke about this last year because things build in like a Bell curve over time. An ener­gy form wax­es in and reach­es a cli­max, then fades out again. And we were under this approach­ing ener­gy form of Plu­to com­ing over the USA Mer­cury all dur­ing 2019, and now it is ful­ly in place in 2020. It is a bat­tle with the Will and the Mind; and how we  deal with the neces­si­ty to hold, as a sacred space, each per­son­’s con­scious­ness, ver­sus the mis­use of will and pow­er to sway and influ­ence minds, whether it be “one on one” with­in a fam­i­ly or in groups, or larg­er group­ings of indi­vid­u­als. Peo­ple try­ing to use their pow­er or becom­ing inflamed and pas­sion­ate about some­thing, not try­ing to try to con­vince some­one through rea­soned debate, but real­ly try­ing to force the issue. There is a break­ing down of what we should respect, ulti­mate­ly, which is the sacred space of the oth­er. We should be respect­ing their con­scious­ness. You can­not force truth upon anoth­er; you can only elic­it their growth to reach a high­er lev­el of under­stand­ing, because the truth is all with­in us.

But right now this pow­er of sway­ing minds and hearts, whether through social media and the algo­rithms, whether dif­fer­ent peo­ple spout­ing through their var­i­ous vehi­cles of influ­enc­ing in media in dif­fer­ent forums, are push­ing out ideas and beliefs and sway­ing peo­ple to their side or against oth­ers. We are expe­ri­enc­ing a break­ing down of the integri­ty and sacred­ness of indi­vid­ual con­scious­ness, by hav­ing this forc­ing of ideas and beliefs, and by doing so we are break­ing the most impor­tant fac­ul­ty of “crit­i­cal rea­son”. That fac­ul­ty of rea­son is essen­tial, to build and hold our own minds true and fig­ure out things for our­selves and share with oth­ers. But when it becomes bro­ken, as it has been, there is no com­mon under­stand­ing, and peo­ple are being swayed by appeals to sort of “half-think­ing” or “wrong way think­ing” as opposed to clear­er thinking.

Plu­to to Mer­cury Historically
We have come through times like this before in the USA his­to­ry. We look at oth­er times that Plu­to lined up with Mer­cury, the last two times were 1933 to 1937 and 1981 to 1983. Both were crit­i­cal moments in the US his­to­ry, for vis­it­ing again and look­ing again at how we struc­ture our eco­nom­ic lives and well-being. The 30s with the New Deal and in the 1980s with the Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion, and it is inter­est­ing because in the US chart the Mer­cury and Plu­to are actu­al­ly lined up with each oth­er from the 2nd House of val­ues to the 8th House of col­lec­tive values.

Wealth and Inequality
And so it makes sense that we would, with­in the con­ver­sa­tion of how we hold our minds sacred at a time like this and try to help peo­ple pro­tect their bound­aries, that we are also deal­ing with the issue of how is it that we allo­cate and deal with the wealth of this coun­try and the val­ues of its peo­ple being embod­ied in that, and how they share in that. Our big, big ques­tion of the moment in in terms of our cul­ture and how divid­ed we are in terms of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth and what that means for eco­nom­ic growth and spir­i­tu­al well-being, are very big ques­tions that are front and cen­ter, as they were in the ear­ly 1930s as they were in the ear­ly 1980s. So here we are again. It is nev­er the same con­ver­sa­tion, of course, as plan­ets are lin­ing up, every­thing else is mov­ing around, oth­er plan­ets are in dif­fer­ent places, so there is no exact­ness in terms of the con­fig­u­ra­tion. But the rhyming and the rea­son­ing behind it is remark­ably sim­i­lar, if not the same.

Nep­tune
We will talk again more about this Plu­to and Mer­cury, and I want to get to all your calls. So, the sec­ond most impor­tant fea­ture in any year is of course what is Nep­tune doing? In an inter­est­ing way, Nep­tune also is going through a spe­cial sign, its own sign from 2011 to 2026. The  last time it did this was 1848 to 1862, a very crit­i­cal time, espe­cial­ly in Amer­i­ca, where there was a ris­ing wave of spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and con­cern for the great sin of slav­ery, lead­ing to the “War of the States” over that very issue.

Nep­tune is the plan­et that, in a way, counter to Plu­to which estab­lish­es bound­aries in the sacred­ness of each indi­vid­ual, in their own sacred spir­i­tu­al space, and then shar­ing their spaces with oth­ers, Nep­tune is that counter that says yes, but the force that binds this whole uni­verse togeth­er, the force that breathes and gives life to all life and all con­scious­ness, because the whole uni­verse is con­scious, just on dif­fer­ent lev­els, is the one fun­da­men­tal val­ue or one fun­da­men­tal force, known as Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So, Nep­tune’s role is to help us dis­solve beyond the bound­aries that are fram­ing things and see things more inclu­sive­ly, to see every­thing is part of one great life. So, when Nep­tune is strong it leads to a greater ris­ing in com­pas­sion and social move­ments and visu­al­iza­tions and cre­ativ­i­ty. So it is a won­drous time for peo­ple to become more per­cep­tive, more intu­itive and see things beyond what they were con­scious­ly see­ing; to intu­it and appre­hend things, just beyond the range of our words and knowl­edge as a con­crete fact.

But it also equal­ly, every plan­et has its neg­a­tive. Where Plu­to can lead to the rise of peo­ple abus­ing will and using guilt and manip­u­la­tion to dri­ve the sto­ry, as opposed to try­ing to help peo­ple take con­trol of them­selves. Nep­tune also when mis­ap­plied leads to out rise of delu­sion and escapism and con­fu­sion and decep­tion, these are the neg­a­tive influ­ences of Nep­tune in Pisces. Because we are now mov­ing in a place where there are less bound­aries, and so what is real­ly “real”, how do we deter­mine this?

So we will have moments of great illu­mi­na­tion and clear-see­ing; but also be grap­pling with all these sort of half-truths and things that do not make sense, and we can­not make sense of it, and “what do we believe”, “how do we know what we know” are impor­tant questions.

What is True
I would say we will start with the fun­da­men­tals, start with what we know to be absolute­ly true. Start with the core prin­ci­ples that have been there to guide human­i­ty from the begin­ning of time, in all the ancient teach­ings and all the ancient wis­dom, the sto­ry does not change, the Truth does not change, because they are Truths! We have to look with­in our hearts to find them and see them mir­rored in the world around us, in the plan­ets, in the plant life, and the ani­mal life, and in us, the truths are embod­ied in real life and liv­ing in spir­it. There are ways to get to them, always. “Walk in beau­ty”, Live in beau­ty”, “Be lov­ing” and it is shown to you.

This is the path. But it is a very con­fus­ing time, and so we are try­ing to pierce through that con­fu­sion to see what is real­ly “real”.

Uranus
Then we have Uranus, mov­ing through Tau­rus, from 2018 to 2026 also. The last time it did that was back in the 1930s, which is inter­est­ing. And, before that it was in Tau­rus in the late 1850s, inter­est­ing­ly. Uranus is the plan­et that deals with the need for each of us has to become a unique instance of spir­it, to become a free­think­ing being, to have a freer and freer mind, because we are on this path of self-con­scious­ness, of self-aware­ness, and so we need to free our minds con­stant­ly and be think­ing as a cre­ative spirit.

We want to lib­er­ate our minds and in this case Uranus’ influ­ence is mov­ing through the sign of Tau­rus, the Sign of Val­ue. There is a call now to renew our val­ues, to come up with new approach­es to: What is the val­ue of me; what is the val­ue of you; what is the val­ue of all that we have here? We need to real­ize that the way we had approached val­ues since the 1930s and ear­ly 1940s, that it now needs to be revis­it­ed once again as we restate and form a new sense of pro­por­tion­al­i­ty and val­ue in the world.

Sat­urn in Aquarius
So there these three beats, (Plu­to, Nep­tune, Uranus) mov­ing through and act­ing for many years here, and we will talk about oth­er align­ments that they make. Anoth­er big change com­ing up this year, we will talk a lot about it lat­er on the shows, is Sat­urn begins to make its move into the next sign, from Capri­corn where it has been since the end of 2017, and now moves dur­ing the course of 2020 back and forth from the end of Capri­corn into Aquar­ius and back again. Final­ly lin­ing up in Aquar­ius to stay for over two years in Decem­ber 2020.

We are mov­ing to a time where we go from the “tests of respon­si­bil­i­ty” and the “tests of self-ful­fill­ment” (Capri­corn), and tests of insti­tu­tions, to “tests of social con­scious­ness and com­mu­ni­ty”. So now we will see us all hav­ing to con­sid­er once again: “what is my hope and dream? My hope, my dream is to be hap­py with those who I can share this with, with those who make me hap­py and my hap­pi­ness is theirs.”

It is all about com­mu­ni­ty and friend­ship; it is about com­pan­ion­ship and social con­scious­ness. This is what Sat­urn will now stir up as a test for all of us. The ques­tion will be: Are you par­tic­i­pat­ing in a mean­ing­ful way to pre­serve your way of life, to make for a bet­ter future for your­self and your fel­low trav­el­ers; are you are you in this world as a mem­ber of a com­mu­ni­ty, or com­mu­ni­ties in a sig­nif­i­cant way? That will be very much on point.

Jupiter
Jupiter con­tin­ues to move through Capri­corn now, it entered in Decem­ber of 2019, and will catch up to Sat­urn in Aquar­ius at the end of the year, Decem­ber 2020. That is a sig­nif­i­cant align­ment indeed. Because Jupiter and Sat­urn repeat­ed­ly align every 20 years; it is one of the prin­ci­ple time­keep­ing ele­ments astrologers have used to look at a series of steps in a civ­i­liza­tion before it changes into anoth­er one, which hap­pens peri­od­i­cal­ly whether from inter­nal devel­op­ments and dynam­ics or exter­nal shocks and challenges.

The Great Mutation
For the last 200 years we have had Jupiter and Sat­urn form­ing con­junc­tions in Earth, a time of mate­ri­al­iza­tion. Because this is what they do, Jupiter and Sat­urn will repeat­ed­ly line up in one ele­ment or anoth­er for 200 years, and when they move into the next ele­ment, in this case air, for the next 200 years it is called the Great Muta­tion. And it seems to peri­odize times in his­to­ry where one ele­ment or the oth­er is dom­i­nant. So, this age we are com­ing out of was an age of man­i­fes­ta­tion, of earth­i­ness, of the phys­i­cal world and becom­ing ever more physicalized.

The next age is this age of air, the age of ide­al­iza­tion, often not­ed for great devel­op­ments in thought and rea­son and under­stand­ing. That is what is going to take hold here and last for the next 200 years. It is excit­ing, and many astrologers are think­ing about what this means for us. But cer­tain­ly, changes are com­ing giv­en all these series of alignments.

So, what I want to do in the next few shows is go into more detail, maybe about Plu­to in Capri­corn and how it is play­ing out in the world now, and Nep­tune and Uranus. But also talk about the par­tic­u­lar align­ments oth­er charts, like the USA chart which not only has Plu­to going over Mer­cury but also quite inter­est­ing­ly, Sat­urn is going over Plu­to, and I will take a look at what that might be in future shows.

Sat­urn to Plu­to in USA chart
It is inter­est­ing, that every time Sat­urn con­juncts Plu­to (in the USA Chart), it seems to mark an espe­cial­ly impor­tant peri­od. The last few times was again back in 1932, and then in 1961 and in 1991, and now. So, every 29 to 30 years, this Saturn/Pluto align­ment is sig­nif­i­cant for us. Because in the USA chart the plan­et Plu­to is the ris­ing plan­et; it is the plan­et that sort of defines us. We are a trans­for­ma­tion­al nation, and we look at the val­ues that we have and hold, because Plu­to is in our sec­ond house, and we are con­stant­ly rework­ing these val­ues, con­stant­ly trans­form­ing them, remak­ing and remold­ing things.

We are a coun­try that is deeply involved in what I call the “alchem­i­cal work”, of Alche­my. We are not­ed for this, in terms of our capa­bil­i­ty as a nation dri­ven by this pow­er. When plan­ets are going over that point in our chart it is some­thing to quick­ly take note and ask, what does this mean now for the Amer­i­can story?

This is an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence that we are hav­ing now, because it is about Sat­urn, which is the struc­ture with Plu­to, which is the will; you could say it is about Author­i­ty and the Will, Sat­urn to Plu­to. It is a big issue each time Sat­urn aligns with Plu­to, but espe­cial­ly their con­junc­tion every 29 years. So, we will be talk­ing about that some more.

Again if you have ques­tions you can cer­tain­ly ask me in the show now, or send me an email, and I am going to be writ­ing quite a bit about this in the blog in the next few weeks.

Sun Enters Gemini (May 20, 2020)

To Know Thyself

The Sto­ry of the Uni­verse is the sto­ry of Spir­it. It is the sto­ry of the unman­i­fest becom­ing Man­i­fest, of absence being filled with Pres­ence, of dark­ness being revealed as the Light. It is in so many ways the sto­ry of the One, “whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere and whose cen­ter is every­where”, and that One becom­ing the many who are the body, the soul, and the mind of that very One.

This sto­ry is your sto­ry; it is you and I and all who came before us. We have made who and what we are by all the many lives and our sto­ries that we shared, by all these mind-forms that we made and formed into one anoth­er and into our world.

Today we cel­e­brate the next gift of Spir­it in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, today we all begin our once a year jour­ney through the sto­ry that is the Sign of Gem­i­ni. The mean­ings and mes­sages of all the signs are ever-present with­in your con­sti­tu­tion, as you real­ly are made of all of them, just as is all of Cre­ation, as is the One.

But it is also true that each sign will shine a lit­tle stronger in its own very month. So, the ques­tion you must ask your­self now, “what does the Sign of Gem­i­ni mean to me, what does this sto­ry mean to me”? The shin­ing sto­ry of Gem­i­ni is about one of your most pre­cious gifts of spir­it, your Self-Aware­ness, and your fac­ul­ty of Intelligence.

The Ancient Teach­ings hold the Ori­gin Sto­ry: All of Cre­ation, all of Spir­it, in what­ev­er form it may be, is Life and is Con­scious. The very essen­tial essence of Spir­it, of each and every spark of the Divine, of every sin­gle Mon­ad of Spir­it is to grow, to become, and to unfold ever more the inher­ent­ly, almost infi­nite poten­tial of that Mon­ad of Spir­it. Tru­ly, it is said that we come from the stars, and our des­tiny some day is to become a Star.

One of the most pre­cious moments in the becom­ing of each spark of the Divine is when the Light of Self-Aware­ness is reached. The Sto­ry is the much the same through­out the cos­mos, and the ver­sion told of this for us is held by the “myth” of the bringers of the “Flame of Self-Consciousness”.

Once upon a time, the “gods” walked among us; it was the appoint­ed time when we were ready to “wake up”. These ancient myths and tales speak of Prometheus, Lucifer, Quet­zal­coatl, Loki and the Kumaras; what­ev­er their names, they came with a gift, the Light of Self-Aware­ness, the “gift of the gods”, which had also been bestowed upon them long, long ago. This is the Rib­bon of Light and Love, that streams through the hier­ar­chies of Cre­ation, hold­ing the Uni­verse togeth­er as the one Mind of the One.

With this gift of self-aware­ness, with the dawn­ing of objec­tive con­scious­ness, the next step in your jour­ney was tak­en, as you became aware through these twin pil­lars of Gem­i­ni of the way of the Uni­verse, of the dual­i­ties of cre­ation, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Sub­ject and Object, of “this and that”, which began most sim­ply for you as “I am that, I am not that”. And it was this, this unceas­ing, inces­sant need to expe­ri­ence Cre­ation in all its com­plex­i­ties, diver­si­ties, cor­re­spon­dences and con­nec­tions that stirred your glo­ri­ous and self-lumi­nous seed to sprout, you had to know, you had to under­stand “how all of this, how all of that”, is.

And, so what was awak­ened in you was that “sparkle in your eye”, that unquench­able thirst, that need to know your­self and your world, and so the lamp was lit that is known as your “Intel­li­gence”.

Intel­li­gence is part of this gift of spir­it, the fac­ul­ty of com­par­ing-con­trast­ing, of con­sid­er­ing the dual­i­ties that you expe­ri­ence as Subject/Object, and of all the divi­sions with­in and with­out, as your spir­it cease­less­ly seeks to find a way out of sep­a­ra­tion and divi­sion and find your way back to the One. The pow­er of Intel­li­gence is the abil­i­ty to see a sit­u­a­tion more com­plete­ly, to see it whole and make it whole. Between one way of see­ing or approach­ing a prob­lem or ques­tion, and anoth­er way of see­ing the issue at hand, the Intel­li­gence seeks for the “Third Way”, the path that usu­al­ly encom­pass­es some­thing from both those oth­er ways, and by so doing ris­es above them too. And, although you may cer­tain­ly do this by rea­son­ing with­in and for one­self, the process is most cer­tain­ly quick­ened when two or more of you put your minds togeth­er and find a bet­ter way.

Yes, your Intel­li­gence and Know­ing can­not real­ly func­tion by you and for your­self alone or apart from those with whom you jour­ney. As with all of Spir­it, as in all of Life, we are part of a greater whole, which is also part of an even Greater Whole. We are made by and through our inter­re­la­tion­ships with one anoth­er. The way you devel­op and engage your fac­ul­ty of rea­son­ing, an absolute neces­si­ty for your intel­li­gence to func­tion, is through you being able to com­pare, share, con­trast and cor­rect your thought-forms by and through your inter­ac­tions with many, many others.

This Truth of the “Way of Know­ing” is revealed in your very lan­guage. The word “Con­scious­ness” is made of two words, “Con” which means “Togeth­er” and “Scious­ness” which means “Know­ing”. Con­scious­ness means “Know­ing Together”!

Yes, this is your sto­ry, this is our story.

It is in this time of Gem­i­ni, and equal­ly so wher­ev­er Gem­i­ni is found in your own chart, it is here and there that you can­not help but won­der, “who, what, when, where and why?”

When you were born, the Uni­verse asked a question.

You are the answer.

The Key to Life, the Key to the King­dom of Light and Love, is this:

KNOW THYSELF!

Venus Retrograde & Dharma in Gemini (May 10, 2020) Transcript of Radio Show

Tran­script of Radio Show — Venus Ret­ro­grade & Dhar­ma in Gemini

Let us turn our atten­tion to the top­ic of today, which is actu­al­ly two, in that I would like to talk first about Venus and then talk about the nodes of the Moon.

Ret­ro­grade
When­ev­er Venus turns ret­ro­grade, and like all the plan­ets, except for the Sun and Moon which are not plan­ets, all plan­ets have this qual­i­ty of going ret­ro­grade. Which means for our pur­pos­es here on Earth, though all the plan­ets go around the Sun in the same direc­tion, they have the appear­ance for us on our plan­et to move back­wards against the back­drop of the stars for var­i­ous peri­ods of time.

Mer­cury and Venus, being inside the orbit of the Earth to the Sun, they “catch up” with us on the “inside track” and appear to loop around in space for that peri­od of ret­ro­grade, and then con­tin­ue on their mer­ry way.

Then for the Out­er Plan­ets, of Mars on out to Plu­to, we will pass them on the “inside track”, so that for a num­ber of months or many months, they will also ret­ro­grade. In fact, com­ing up this week we have Sat­urn turn­ing ret­ro­grade tomor­row (May 11), we have Venus turn­ing ret­ro­grade on Wednes­day the 13th, and Jupiter turn­ing ret­ro­grade on the 14th. So, this is a week with a lot of plan­ets turn­ing ret­ro­grade. I would just like to point out in terms of the out­er plan­ets like Sat­urn and Jupiter, it is because they are so close togeth­er now (in the sign of Capri­corn), that they are going ret­ro­grade at the same time.

Of course, we are prob­a­bly more famil­iar with Mer­cury going ret­ro­grade since we talk about it more fre­quent­ly because it hap­pens more often, at least three times a year. Mars goes ret­ro­grade about every two years, but all the out­er plan­ets will ret­ro­grade for sev­er­al months each year.

Venus Ret­ro­grade
For our pur­pos­es here, when­ev­er Venus turns ret­ro­grade, (and it does this about every 19 months, last­ing for about 40 days, which is an inter­est­ing num­ber because that num­ber is found in many spir­i­tu­al tra­di­tions), we are giv­en a very spe­cial oppor­tu­ni­ty, I would say, to also turn around, look with­in and re-exam­ine our val­ues which are inte­gral to our inner sen­si­bil­i­ties and for­ma­tive of our out­er qual­i­ties of being. Those val­ues held by the Avatar of Venus form our tastes and sen­si­bil­i­ties rang­ing from our phys­i­cal plea­sures, aes­thet­ic or artis­tic appre­ci­a­tions to our per­son­al love and social sen­si­bil­i­ties. Venus holds our likes (and dis­likes) with the things of this world, and with our affec­tions or antag­o­nisms with one another.

Tru­ly Venus, as the instru­ment of our order­ing or hier­ar­chy of val­ue, holds us to what we need, what we have and what we want in our life, rang­ing from the most basic or phys­i­cal of our appetites on up to the most sub­lime of affec­tions and expe­ri­ences we have and share with one anoth­er. I like to say, that the heart or bond of all rela­tion­ships is our shared val­ues, and that if we have enough com­mon val­ue we will hold togeth­er in good times but espe­cial­ly in try­ing ones as we have now, as true friends, as sin­cere col­leagues and trea­sured loved ones.

Dur­ing the peri­od of Venus ret­ro­grade, much like dur­ing the more famil­iar Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, its nor­mal­ly out­ward­ly direct­ed ener­gy-forms are turned inward, which means they move from a more or less pure­ly sub­jec­tive per­spec­tive or point of view to a more objec­tive place. This gift of Venus ret­ro­grade enables you to become more objec­tive or inward­ly focused upon the expe­ri­ences of val­ue in your life. As with Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, but now focused upon the ques­tion of val­ue not on how you think, you are able to shift your con­scious­ness and con­tem­plate your hier­ar­chy of val­ue more objec­tive­ly, less per­son­al­ly so that it is more removed from the cul­tur­al and social assump­tions that you may be unknow­ing­ly shaped and guid­ed by.

Many of your wants and needs, which arise from your val­ues, and ulti­mate­ly add up to form your val­ue of “you”, many of these have, cer­tain­ly at first, been uncon­scious­ly incor­po­rat­ed into you through your ear­li­est expe­ri­ences in your fam­i­ly and imme­di­ate neigh­bor­hood and cul­tur­al order. In child­hood and then beyond into your teens and even adult­hood, you may believe that you like or want or tru­ly need some­thing, because, well, because you always have, and those around you do too.

But as you con­sid­er these things or expe­ri­ences of val­ue you from a more dis­pas­sion­ate and objec­tive place, you may find that your likes and dis­likes are not so pre-deter­mined and fixed at all. You will prob­a­bly dis­cov­er that some or many things you feel or believe you must have, you will upon reflec­tion under­stand that you actu­al­ly do not need them at all.

You will let go or elim­i­nate some things in your life or some activ­i­ties or pas­times and that this will open a space with­in and around you. You will also real­ize that some things or expe­ri­ences you had not yet con­sid­ered mean­ing­ful or val­ued, that you now wish to enjoy and make these parts of your life.

It is quite prob­a­ble that the range of the val­ues you hold will move around, as the order that they are in may become rearranged, with some things or expe­ri­ences in your life mov­ing up or down in importance.

Flow­ing from this inner re-order­ing will be a new sen­si­bil­i­ty and rela­tion­ship to the world around you. Most espe­cial­ly, this refined/reformed under­stand­ing of the val­ue of you and of what you val­ue, will help you in your most impor­tant expe­ri­ence as human, your expe­ri­ence of val­ue that forms your rela­tion­ships with one another.

What we will see over the next six weeks, is that we will all ben­e­fit from a much need­ed reassess­ment of the nature of our val­ues, of what is tru­ly more mean­ing­ful and need­ed by each of us and for all of us. For it is our com­mon­ly shared val­ues, the glue of our part­ner­ships, com­mu­ni­ties, regions, nations and the world itself that will be illu­mi­nat­ed by this oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­nect to the most impor­tant val­ue from which all oth­ers are derived, the Love that made this world, and gives us all an undy­ing well of val­ue, the love we have in Spir­it, and the love we have for one another.

And, just as a point of infor­ma­tion the ret­ro­grade begins on May 13th and runs until June 25th, and the mid­point of its cycle is when Venus is pass­ing over the Sun, mak­ing the Venus/Sun Con­junc­tion will occur on June 3rd around 1:45 pm here in New York City. It is said to be a moment where there is an align­ment between the Self and val­ue of the Self, and so that is when a seed or influ­ence might be felt by one and all, and that some­thing has changed and a new under­stand­ing is being released.

It will take some time to under­stand what that is, but it is like a New Moon for Venus with regards to us.

Lunar Nodes
Well then, let us take a look at this oth­er thing that is per­haps even more obscure for many peo­ple. Peo­ple may have found in their ses­sions with their Astrologer or read about these things, but what I have found in my prac­tice of Astrol­o­gy, and this is cer­tain­ly true for a num­ber of Astrologers, is that the insight pro­vid­ed by the posi­tion of the Moon’s nodes to be quite helpful.

The Nodes are not phys­i­cal objects. They are formed by the inter­sec­tion of two orbital paths, the orbit of the Moon around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. So, it is like two cir­cles or ellipses that inter­sect at two points. Unlike the plan­ets, the nodes move through the Zodi­ac in reverse order, from Aries to Pisces to Aquar­ius and so on, and take about 18.6 years to make a com­plete revolution.

When the Moon in pass­ing the North node, it is mov­ing over the eclip­tic (the path of the Earth around the Sun) and moves from a lat­i­tude that is South to North; and like­wise, when it reach­es the South Node, it cross­es the eclip­tic again mov­ing into South lat­i­tude. Since we are look­ing here at the orbits of the Earth to the Sun, and the Moon to the Earth, the nodal axis is said to sym­bol­ize or link the pri­ma­ry rela­tion­ship of the two lights in Astrol­o­gy, the Sun and the Moon.

The Moon in the North­ern phase of its month­ly cycle is the time for the “build­ing of ener­gy-forms” or Spir­it, and the south­ern pas­sage is the time for reap­ing and Mate­ri­al­iz­ing peri­od. Sow­ing and Reap­ing, Dhar­ma and Kar­ma is how I like to describe it.

Sim­i­lar­ly for our pur­pos­es today, as the Nodal posi­tion moves back­wards through the Astro­log­i­cal Signs for 18.6 years, (and as they do so they move through each of our charts, and through the hous­es of that chart with regards to indi­vid­ual inter­pre­ta­tions), we can obtain valu­able insight about the ongo­ing focus of what is or should be our under­stand­ing in that time of what is our col­lec­tive Dhar­ma and what is our col­lec­tive Karma.

North Node in Gemini
Start­ing on May the 5th of 2020, and last­ing until Jan­u­ary 2022, we now have the North Node of the Moon in Gem­i­ni and so the South Node is in Sagit­tar­ius. What does this mean for us?

The North Node in Gem­i­ni calls upon us all to focus our spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment upon one of our more remark­able gifts, our fac­ul­ty of Intel­li­gence, and to use this “lamp of con­scious aware­ness” in prac­ti­cal terms to under­stand our­selves and our world. By doing so, we will be able to find bet­ter and more prac­ti­cal solu­tions to the issues and prob­lems that we face at this time.

Equal­ly, the South Node in Sagit­tar­ius reminds us that our exist­ing approach to under­stand­ing our real­i­ty will always be guid­ed by our pri­or expe­ri­ences, which have been assim­i­lat­ed and formed into our the­o­ries, sci­ence, and oth­er truths. These become our fram­ing or our lens­es that we look at the present real­i­ty with, because they cre­ate and form our present-day assump­tions and view­points. These uni­ver­sals have become crys­tal­lized into our par­a­digm of beliefs, truths and the abstract prin­ci­ples that guide us. They reveal and explain what we are encoun­ter­ing giv­en that frame­work, but it also means we can­not see or under­stand what does not fit with those assump­tions. We must remem­ber that our con­scious­ness is lim­it­ed, and we do not know what we can­not see or under­stand, espe­cial­ly if we do not even con­sid­er it possible.

We should resist the pull of the South Node, (but cer­tain­ly not dis­miss what we have learned to date either), because it would have us fall back upon or rest upon our too easy and ready answers, which have been formed by our ulti­mate­ly self-blind­ed and lim­it­ed rea­son­ing. Because even though this lev­el of Sci­ence or Belief or Truth does pro­vide a con­text of mean­ing for the phe­nom­e­na we encounter, they will also lim­it and blind us to what we may need to under­stand in the now. If we only look for what we expect to find and dis­miss what does not fit that pre­sumed view of real­i­ty, then we will miss what is “out there” or even “in us” because we have will­ful­ly cho­sen to ignore it.

The Gem­i­ni North Node is about remain­ing curi­ous and open. It is about the gift of open obser­va­tion and rely­ing more upon Induc­tive Rea­son­ing. It requires that we be flex­i­ble and agile and adept, by ques­tion­ing our assump­tions and remov­ing the ten­den­cy to dis­miss what does not fit with our pre­con­cep­tions. That way we can look at the phe­nom­e­na of what­ev­er we are encoun­ter­ing with a fresh per­spec­tive, with an open mind and heart.

The North Node in Gem­i­ni reminds us, as does the Sign of Gem­i­ni gen­er­al­ly, that as the ancient admo­ni­tion has it, we must approach the won­der of this uni­verse “with the eyes of a child and then you will see”. It is by approach­ing any mat­ter for con­sid­er­a­tion with won­der and open­ness, and with­out the pre­con­cep­tions and assump­tions that blind you to what is the greater real­i­ty that you face now, this is what is required now in our journey.

This win­dow of Gem­i­ni is about gath­er­ing many expe­ri­ences, many data points, and so you may begin to build a bet­ter or new­er set of cor­re­spon­dences and con­nec­tions between one thing and anoth­er. By build­ing inward­ly and out­ward­ly into an ever more encom­pass­ing web of inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty, you and we will even­tu­al­ly form a large enough body or col­lec­tion of infor­ma­tion that will reveal a new under­stand­ing of the order behind it.

Cer­tain­ly, much of what we already under­stand, which has been held and ulti­mate­ly formed into more or less ever­last­ing truths will remain; there are cer­tain­ly some truths that are tru­ly eter­nal. But some if not many of the, shall we say, less­er truths as well as less­er cat­e­gories of knowl­edge and mean­ing, these will be shaped, per­haps sharp­ened, or couched into a more nuanced order­ing of mean­ing which will lead to a greater com­pre­hen­sion, a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing, and help us stay upon the path that is made of equal parts of wis­dom and humil­i­ty. The great souls know this: “The more you know, the more you will bow down to that which is beyond your knowing”.

This Gem­i­ni North Node approach seems rather time­ly, as we are cer­tain­ly deal­ing with a world that is rapid­ly chang­ing. We find our­selves in a world where our old assump­tions, prac­tices and very our way of life is not only not work­ing but is the root of our prob­lem. Many souls around the world under­stand and accept that this way, our way, of liv­ing on this plan­et is the cause of this cri­sis, both with regards to the imme­di­ate prob­lem of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, but the real chal­lenge, of which the pan­dem­ic is but a symp­tom, and that is Cli­mate Change.

We are an intel­li­gent species; and many would agree that this is our “ring of pow­er”. It has been the means to the mate­r­i­al trans­for­ma­tions of our­selves and our world, but it has equal­ly, through­out our jour­ney, been an instru­ment of destruc­tion and pain too.

We are here, and we made what we face. The ques­tion is do we under­stand, and will we take respon­si­bil­i­ty for our cre­ation? Will we apply our rea­son and under­stand­ing in a man­ner that is guid­ed and informed by our com­pas­sion, humil­i­ty, and wis­dom? Will we under­stand that our first moth­er, Moth­er Earth, and all her crea­tures great and small, need us to remem­ber that we are all relat­ed on this Earth.

Yes, all humans are one fam­i­ly, and we all love our mothers.

But equal­ly all life on this plan­et is pre­cious to our Great Moth­er too.

Life is love; Love is Life.

Let us love one anoth­er, let us love all that lives.

And let us give thanks and love all moth­ers and the One Moth­er to us all.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show – Venus Retrograde & Dharma in Gemini (Sunday May 10, 2020 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Venus Ret­ro­grade, time to reval­ue Val­ue & Dhar­ma in Gem­i­ni, time for Prac­ti­cal Knowl­edge (May 10, 2020)

In my thir­teenth show of 2020, I will dis­cuss Venus turn­ing ret­ro­grade on May 13th (until June 25th), and what that offers us with regards to our val­ues. I will also dis­cuss the move­ment of the Nodes of the Moon, also called Dharma/Karma in an Astro­log­i­cal chart, and what it means to have Dhar­ma mov­ing through Gem­i­ni from May 5th until Jan­u­ary 2022.

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 May 10th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/10/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-venus-retrograde-dharma-in-gemini

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 May 10th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Pluto and the Will (May 3, 2020) Transcript of Radio Show — “The Fundamental Lesson of Self-Mastery”

Tran­script of Radio Show — “The Fun­da­men­tal Les­son of Self-Mastery”

I thought that today I would return to the top­ic, that I keep return­ing to, of the plan­et Plu­to mov­ing through Capri­corn, and talk a lit­tle bit about how we under­stand the con­sti­tu­tion of the Uni­verse. I have some thoughts I would like to share with you. I will begin with a premise as it were, and it comes from many teach­ings from all traditions:

The Uni­verse is Hier­ar­chi­cal. Begin­ning with the One, which encom­pass­es the entire­ty of cre­ation as it con­sti­tutes the essen­tial ulti­mate that makes one and all, the for­ma­tion of the Uni­verse is arranged into a series of Spir­it-Forms from the most sub­lime to the most mun­dane and mate­r­i­al. In each form, that same hier­ar­chy of spir­it-forms exists, in each realm, in each part of it, the same hier­ar­chy from the high­est to the low­est is present. And that is why “what is above so is it below”, even to the very atoms and mol­e­cules form­ing you has this Hier­ar­chy, as does the whole of you as a hier­ar­chy, and that same hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms are to be found all around you too in everything…it is every­thing and everyone.

Since the whole Uni­verse is formed by these same Spir­it-Forms, whether you look out there to the Stars for truth, or look deep with­in your­self, you will find the same mean­ings, mes­sages and pat­terns shin­ing through. The Truth is out there, but it most cer­tain­ly is with­in you too. That is why we say, “All things Shine with the Light of the One”.

That is also why, once you have reached the cross­ing point of the Divine Light, that is once you became “self-aware”, your jour­ney quick­ened. This “gift of the Gods”, that Promethean Fire, was embod­ied as an injunc­tion, and it is at the core of all the teach­ings of the mys­tery schools, found in the Greater and Less­er Mys­ter­ies, in the eso­teric teach­ings that con­nect all reli­gions, cul­tures and peo­ples. And that one injunc­tion held above all oth­ers is “Know Thyself”.

This is the heart of the Teach­ing, this is the Key, for it points the way to your self-ful­fill­ment, your self-mas­tery and illu­mi­na­tion; it is the joy­ful truth that your des­tiny is in your hands.

The main vehi­cle or tool you have for the “Great Work”, as it is called, is your mind. Because you are self-aware, because you now know, and you know that you know, you are self-con­scious­ly on the path of awak­en­ing. There is no excuse; you can see and under­stand the fun­da­men­tal law of your world; you expe­ri­ence “cause and effect” self-con­scious­ly each and every moment, and from life to life. You under­stand, at least you should, that what you make, that what you give, this is equal­ly what you will get. The Uni­verse is gov­erned by immutable laws; spir­i­tu­al jus­tice is true and per­fect. If you want a bet­ter life, if you want a bet­ter you, then you must live it! This is true for one and for all.

The great teach­ing holds, “As above, so below”. What that means is that with­in you are the same essen­tial ele­ments found in the high­est parts of cre­ation, and of these the three High­est are rep­re­sent­ed in Astrol­o­gy by the three out­er­most plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune and Pluto.

Uranus is the Avatar for the ener­gy-form you know as High­er Mind; Nep­tune is the ener­gy-form you know as Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and Plu­to is the ener­gy-form you know as Divine Will. They are in their high­est the Mind, Love and Will of the One or God or what­ev­er you may wish to call “that”. In you, these very same ener­gy-forms are your own high­er mind, your uncon­di­tion­al love, and your very own will.

These three are inte­gral to one anoth­er, they only work togeth­er, and as you become ever more aligned to the Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy “out there”, your own spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy with­in you will become illu­mined and aligned as well. Your Mind will be mod­u­lat­ed and shaped by Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and your Love for one anoth­er will find form and be expressed by your con­duct as a lov­ing being who is gov­erned and cen­tered by your own Will; and so guid­ed by Divine Will, you will tru­ly under­stand the great teach­ing and prayer, as you now stand in the light of the eter­nal now, that you are a co-cre­ator with the Cre­ator and so, say we all, “Let thy will be done”. This is the path to a tru­ly pur­pose­ful life, it is a life of Light and Love, guid­ed by Divine Purpose.

Tru­ly, in the most devel­oped beings that we know, what some call Devas or Shin­ing Ones and oth­ers call Angels, these fac­ul­ties have been refined and bal­anced with one anoth­er with a degree of per­fec­tion that we humans are seek­ing to reach but have yet to attain, to reach those undy­ing lands beyond these human forms.

The crit­i­cal and essen­tial fac­ul­ty for this Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing, for lift­ing one­self and one anoth­er to the next spir­i­tu­al realm of becom­ing, is the Will or Plu­to. For if you are to rise to a greater lev­el you must mas­ter your­self, and you must walk the path of right­eous­ness, you must walk the nar­row but roy­al road, for that is the mid­dle way of self-real­iza­tion, and to do this you must mas­ter your­self by your will and exer­cise and reveal your guid­ing divin­i­ty by your very own self-control.

And with regards to your “Jour­ney in Self-Mas­tery”, the most impor­tant fac­ul­ty you must bring under your will, the most impor­tant gift you must mas­ter is your mind. This is what you must keep your atten­tion upon. For as your Will flows through your Uncon­di­tion­al Love, you will see the Truth and find your mind at peace. And by Right Think­ing you will be guid­ed to Right Action, and you will become the truth that you are made of.

Cer­tain­ly, it is not easy now, in this time of a great cri­sis, but even more it is of a neces­si­ty, to hold your mind steady and calm in the face of so much fear, and pain and death. This is what a cri­sis brings, it shat­ters the world that was, it breaks the assump­tions and cer­tain­ties, and reveals that what had been expect­ed and accept­ed as “the way the world is, that it is just the way it is”. Much of that world­ly par­a­digm is now exposed as unten­able and false.

This world is at a turn­ing, as many of the pow­er­ful now are found to be emp­ty of their pur­pose and their promis­es, and the weak and the ignored are lift­ed up with great praise and encom­pass­ing grat­i­tude. This is a moment that you and the world will not for­get; when the val­ues, and the mean­ings of what is “the good”, of what is life for, are for­ev­er changed once again. Because this is not the first turn­ing, but it is your turning.

An age is end­ing; an age is begin­ning. Each of us can be or make a difference.

Where to begin; what can you do? The only con­trol you pos­sess, at least to start with, is over your­self. The very next moment in each and every day is pre­cious, and what will you make of it, what will you do? Your actions or inac­tions, your words and their into­na­tion, your bear­ing or demeanor, your inten­tions and moti­va­tions are powerful.

What­ev­er or whomev­er you are now encoun­ter­ing, remem­ber you have a choice. Do not be a reac­tor, pushed and pulled by the ener­gies and actions of events and by oth­ers. Be true to your­self, lis­ten to your high­er self and let your will be guid­ed by the One.

Yes, it does take more effort at first, to move through this world as an actor and not a reac­tor. But over­time it becomes effort­less, as the ener­gy-forms of love and com­pas­sion dis­si­pate the fear-filled fogs of illu­sion and you feel more at peace with­in as well.

You prob­a­bly will stum­ble and fail many days, even the Dalai Lama has a bad moment or two I would imag­ine, but over many days and months you will lift your­self and one anoth­er to a bet­ter way and a bet­ter place.

Your goal is what seems most elu­sive to you at this time, to be at peace, to have Peace of Mind.

The way is to take con­trol of what you can, that is your­self. Choose to lis­ten care­ful­ly, choose to respond car­ing­ly, and always act in align­ment with the Love and Will of the One.

This is what is called “the Way”; and, it has always been the way.

Once you are aligned with­in, you will also be able to reach out and join with oth­er mind­ful, lov­ing and cen­tered souls. With friend and with neigh­bors, with col­leagues and loved ones, we are already begin­ning to remake the world we live in and with one anoth­er on this beau­ti­ful cor­ner of the Uni­verse, this home we call our Earth.

On Thurs­day morn­ing here in New York, but around the world on that day, many will cel­e­brate a great soul who walked the path we all walk. He is known by what he is, the Bud­dha. This day, this Thurs­day, is called the Bud­dha Full Moon; and it is cel­e­brat­ed to hon­or some­one who chose the path of Light and Love and Divine Purpose.

So, what we all need to do per­haps every day, and cer­tain­ly on this great day we cel­e­brate on Thurs­day, we say the Great Invo­ca­tion. Which we can hold in our hearts to guide our steps every day. And the invo­ca­tion is:

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

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

Here is the link to the radio show: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-pluto-and-the-will