Author Archives: Bill Attride

About Bill Attride

Providing Astrological advice for over 30 years. Readings by appointment. Combining Metaphysical and Psychological Insights to guide individuals to greater self-fulfillment. Mr. Attride is known for his unique integration of the spiritual and the psychological dimensions of Astrology. Mr. Attride has been featured in articles in such diverse publications as New Woman Magazine, Avenue Magazine and the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Consultations in person, by phone, Skype or Zoom. Sessions are recorded for the client as an mp3 file delivered digitally. Natal delineations, life progressions and transit timeline analysis, Astrocartography/relocation Astrology, relationship Astrology, Mundane/Financial analysis, Chart Rectification. $300 per hour session. Special introduction of 2 sessions for $400 (1.5 and 1 hour).

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2019 – Where are we now, Part IV (Sunday November 24, 2019 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now, A look back at 2019; A look ahead for 2020 (Novem­ber 24, 2019)

Note: First I want­ed to apol­o­gize to those of you who tuned or called in on Octo­ber 27 only to dis­cov­er that there was noth­ing being broad­cast. I was unaware of this at the time, and when I fin­ished my talk and turned to take ques­tions no one was wait­ing. Some­how, the BlogTalk mike was mute, but the one on my com­put­er was on. So, I did record the show, but did not broad­cast it. I do apol­o­gize, but I was able to upload the show and it is avail­able as a pod­cast if you wish to lis­ten to it. 

In my Fif­teenth show of 2019, we will look back at the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2019 and con­sid­er the indi­ca­tions for 2020.

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 Novem­ber 24th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/11/24/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019-where-are-we-now-part-iv

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 Novem­ber 24th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Sagittarius (November 22, 2019)

The Path of Wisdom

You will always reach the most supreme and delight­ful moments in Scor­pio; and you will also fall into the deep­est and dark­est of pits too. For it is here, at the cross­ing point between “the dark­ness and the light”, it is here that you will find your­self beyond “the beyond”. In this space between worlds, there are no words at all that could encom­pass what you faced and felt. It is an Alchem­i­cal Realm of great promise and pain, the cru­cible of Birth, Death and Rebirth.

What you encounter here, wher­ev­er you have Scor­pio or when­ev­er you move through its space, will leave you stunned and speech­less by the unde­ni­able and ulti­mate truths about your human jour­ney. You feel this now, you are an immor­tal in mor­tal realms, and your life will be a tapes­try of love and loss, filled with great joy and marked by deep pain. And if you do not have these, well then you are not tru­ly human at all.

But you will also be blessed by a time­less gift in this realm of shad­ow and light. Behind all of it you will feel the first promise that was made (and kept) when you began your jour­ney long, long ago. The Immor­tal Spir­it behind all of cre­ation, which forms the shin­ing cord of your true self and with one anoth­er too, will for­ev­er hold you and all of this cre­ation togeth­er by the Ener­gy-Form behind it all, and you know this because you have felt this, it is pure uncon­di­tion­al love.

But now you turn to face the dawn­ing of a brand-new day, and you will enter the Halls of Wis­dom. You will be offered the balm of Under­stand­ing in the Libraries of Truth. It is time for you to return to the peren­ni­al “Wells of Wis­dom”, as you take up your cup and drink from these eter­nal truths, which will bind your hurts and heal your wounds and restore your peace of mind once more.

Yes, you have been on a long, wind­ing and cir­cuitous Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing. From an unself-con­scious spark of the divine, your pere­gri­na­tions have brought you to this present day and pre­cious realm of Spir­it where you are “human”. The Light of self-aware­ness was lit for you long ago by those whose karmic duty was to bestow this gift, as they in turn had received this bless­ing many ages ago. These Promethean Fires are the gifts of Spir­it encod­ed and embod­ied wher­ev­er and when­ev­er you move through the Realm of Sagittarius.

From the very begin­ning until the end of this Cos­mic cycle, the Truths that form and sus­tain the whole of Cre­ation, (and which are part of the very being and fiber of each and every one of you), remains the same. The very rea­son that you are capa­ble of self-mas­tery through self-under­stand­ing, is because these same truths equal­ly form all these worlds around you. You and all of Cre­ation are made of these very same Ener­gy-Forms of Light and Love and Truth. That is why the Key to your Lib­er­a­tion, one of the Pil­lars of Pur­pose­ful­ness that will hold you to the Mid­dle Path of your jour­ney, is by hold­ing to the first injunc­tion, “Know Thyself”.

For it is by only by Right Thought that you can form Right Action, and by this you will become a mas­ter of your­self. For your­self, and for one anoth­er, you are only human because you have shared your sto­ries, your dis­cov­er­ies, your philoso­phies and sci­ences, your meta­physics and wis­dom with all who are here and those who came before you too.

We have made one anoth­er by telling our sto­ries to one anoth­er, and these sto­ries are the ves­sels of you, and from your ances­tors and then for all who will come long after you, we give thanks for these gifts of the spir­it that form our soul-full and liv­ing truth.

Tell your sto­ries, sing your songs and gath­er togeth­er in cer­e­mo­ny and sacred spaces of silence too.

Just as it was, and shall ever be, let us begin again with those mag­i­cal words…

Once upon a time…

And may it be, that we shall one day also gath­er and say to one anoth­er too…

And they lived hap­pi­ly ever after…

May it be, let it be.

So be it.

Mercury Turns Retrograde (October 31 — November 20, 2019)

The Path of Awakening

Yes, it is that time once again.

Many will com­plain about all the trou­bles, snafu’s, mis­un­der­stand­ings and mis­takes that have been surg­ing late­ly, and they may seek to find some cause or scape­goat to blame, like some dis­tant mem­ber of our solar sys­tem. But real­ly, and quite sim­ply, this is a mis­un­der­stand­ing about what is going on. All of this is the sto­ry of spir­it, and this is how the uni­verse works.

Remem­ber, you are here to learn one thing tru­ly, to know yourself.

You are also here to dis­cov­er that you can only mas­ter and exer­cise con­trol over one thing too. Again, that is yourself.

This is the Law: Know Thy­self; Rule Thyself.

By stay­ing upon the path of spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment, that is by steadi­ly increas­ing your self-knowl­edge, (which will elic­it from you an ever greater sym­pa­thy and under­stand­ing for all the lives and the worlds that sur­round you), you will slow­ly but steadi­ly rise into self-mas­tery. There is only one thing you can tru­ly con­trol, it is your­self. And those who live this truth are revealed and revered by their wis­dom and humil­i­ty. This is the roy­al road of truth, the path of self-ful­fill­ment for all souls, whether they be human or planetary.

Yes, it is time for you to slow down, and to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to step back and recon­sid­er: What do you know; and, how do you know it?

Three times a year, the plan­et Mer­cury catch­es up to Earth, pass­ing us like a rac­er on the inside track as both plan­ets cir­cle around the Sun. When Mer­cury does this it appears to be “loop­ing back­wards” against the back­drop of the heav­ens, and then, after three weeks it appears to move for­ward once more. As in all things, it takes dis­cern­ment and a more encom­pass­ing point of view to see what is real­ly going on.

That real­ly is the point of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade for us too. We need these reg­u­lar reminders of the essen­tial neces­si­ty to do some inter­nal “house­keep­ing”, to clear our minds of mis­per­cep­tions and mis­un­der­stand­ings. We need this gift of Mer­cury so that we might pause and take this gift of time, to reflect upon and to ques­tion our assump­tions of how we think, and what we think we know.

Yes, we need to reex­am­ine our thought-forms and men­tal pat­terns, to ques­tion our modes of obser­va­tion and analy­sis. We should strive to strength­en our pow­ers of dis­cern­ment and delib­er­a­tion. We need to endeav­or to re-work and restore our men­tal frame­works of under­stand­ing and our path­ways of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with one another.

All of this should be some­thing we endeav­or to do each and every day. You should begin the day with reflec­tion and prepa­ra­tion, and end your day with review, repair and renew­al. But most cer­tain­ly, dur­ing any Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, we must all remem­ber that “the weath­er out there” has changed, and that this won­drous realm of mind is going through a strong shift of ener­gy-forms. You must strive to be even more mind­ful and care­ful in these next three weeks.

Since each and every one of us is affect­ed by this shift of ener­gies, that we are all more intro­spec­tive and inward­ly focused, we must be even more atten­tive to what we observe and receive from oth­ers. And, we must equal­ly be more care­ful in how we reach out to con­nect with oth­ers by word and by deed. The chances of mis­un­der­stand­ing and mis­steps are high­er now, but if we stay alert, we can use this time to make great progress with one another.

Mer­cury is ret­ro­grad­ing in Scor­pio for the entire peri­od. It is cer­tain­ly going to be a time that will reveal deep and com­pelling secrets; and, it will shift the path of life and love, turned by soul­ful truths for you and for your world.

Emo­tions will run high­er, and the need to stay in con­trol of your­self, to remain cen­tered and calm despite the bat­tles of shad­ows and light, will be more essen­tial for one and for all.

Do your part…

Watch calm­ly, lis­ten care­ful­ly, think deeply, and ques­tion thoroughly.

When you find your­self in that tru­ly Scor­pio space, where your words will fail you.

Be grate­ful, and wait patient­ly, for this means you have reached the moment where the veil will lift a lit­tle higher.

There is only one way to move ahead now, in humil­i­ty and grace,

You must let go…and grow.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, 2019 – Where are we now, Part III (Sunday October 27, 2019 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now, Part III Astro­log­i­cal themes for 2019 – Don­ald Trump, Rudi Giu­liani, Nan­cy Pelosi and Adam Schiff (Octo­ber 27, 2019)

In my Four­teenth show of 2019, we will look again at Don­ald Trump and some of the oth­er prin­ci­pals in the Impeach­ment inquiry, Rudi Giu­liani, Nan­cy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.

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 Octo­ber 27th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/10/27/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019-trump-giuliani-pelosi-and-schiff

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 Octo­ber 27th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 23, 2019)

The Sacred Union, the Cru­cible of Immortality

Now you enter the place of mys­tery and mag­ic; the holy realm that is known as the “Tem­ple of Alche­my”. It is here that you will find the source of your quick­en­ing, the leav­en­ing of your spir­i­tu­al poten­tial through a hier­ar­chy of com­bi­na­tions, col­lab­o­ra­tions and syn­the­ses. This is the heart and soul of Spir­it; this is the Way of the Divine which is made man­i­fest in the sacred dances of Spir­i­tu­al Union.

In Libra you forge the space of I and Thou, and it is there that you must strive to con­scious­ly set the con­di­tions for one another’s expe­ri­ence of one anoth­er. There you formed the implied and explic­it pat­terns and con­di­tions between I and Thou, “the third space of We”. This is the true space of your “free­dom to be and become”, and it is shaped by your under­stand­ing of your­self and of one anoth­er. You deter­mine what you seek from and need to give to one anoth­er, guid­ed by your rea­son, and so you form the mutu­al­ly agreed upon prin­ci­ples and rules, often formed into laws and con­tracts, that will make pos­si­ble your mutu­al self-fulfillment.

But it is here in the “Cru­cible of Union” that that the real “work of the soul” is done. Here you move beyond the “airy” rea­sons of Libra into the “watery” realm of feel­ings held by Scor­pio. It is here in the sacred cen­ters that are every­where and in every­thing, it is here where the promise of indi­vid­u­a­tion, of your real­iza­tion of your indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and the ful­fill­ment of your unique promise is forged through your sac­ri­fices to and for one another.

It is by these sacred acts of self-tran­scen­dence, of giv­ing up the less­er parts of your­self in order to bring forth the greater that is with­in and between you, it is this which makes and moves you into your greater or high­er self. It is here in the realm of alchem­i­cal trans­for­ma­tions where you become for one anoth­er the very means of spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing; it is here where you encounter the mys­ter­ies of love and loss, of birth, death and rebirth, and it is here that you expe­ri­ence the inti­ma­tions and proof of your own immor­tal­i­ty too.

Yes, you can­not become tru­ly human with­out one anoth­er; you are made of one anoth­er and become what you are by all the many inter­ac­tions that you have with one anoth­er. It is here in Scor­pio that you con­scious­ly choose to do this: Here you must will­ing­ly give up some less­er part of your­self (and so dis­cov­er some deep­er truth, some fin­er qual­i­ty of being with­in you both), as you share, hon­or and lift one anoth­er into a more sub­lime real­i­ty. And this can only hap­pen because you face and over­come your fear of rejec­tion and loss.

You take a risk in reach­ing out to one anoth­er, (but you real­ly have noth­ing “to lose”), and as long as you remain true to your­self, anchored in your love and cen­tered in your truth, you will find the path togeth­er to your greater selves.

Yes, in Scor­pio you expe­ri­ence the heights and the depths, the unimag­in­able joy of pierc­ing beyond the illu­sion of being alone and sep­a­rate, and so become more tru­ly one with one anoth­er. Yet you will also expe­ri­ence the awful pain of when that inevitably ends, when they leave or are “tak­en” from you. Here in Scor­pio you face the ulti­mate truths and they leave you speech­less, you are struck dumb and with­out words.

You can­not expe­ri­ence the gift of Love with­out the agony of loss; you can­not have Joy with­out pain for they are insep­a­ra­ble. Here you must bow you head and open your heart to that mys­tery where two become one is made real, and then you must equal­ly be ready, at some point, to say to one anoth­er, “fare thee well, until we meet again.”

Yes, it is in Scor­pio, (and you have Scor­pio some place in your chart), where you will find your­self beyond words, as you encounter the great­est joys and the most ago­niz­ing pains. You expe­ri­ence the unimag­in­able joy of union, of trans­for­ma­tion and self-tran­scen­dence, the redemp­tion and release from your less­er self. But you equal­ly face the great­est fears and pains, of rejec­tion, of loss of your beloved, and you equal­ly face your own mor­tal­i­ty too.

Yes, it is said that Scor­pio is the “strongest” sign; It is stronger, because it needs to be.

Yes, you feel this now, you know the truth that makes you tremble…everything and every­one will die, and you ask your­self “what hope can remain after this?” Well, it comes from this…this expe­ri­ence which is “real” is also anoth­er illu­sion. It is not your spir­it or soul that is lost, it is just the form that you were in for a very short time. You (and all of cre­ation), are Immor­tals in mor­tal mat­ter. This dance of Spir­it and your Spir­it-Form are eter­nal; and you will move through form after form, into life after life, meet­ing one anoth­er again and again and again, so that you may smile and laugh and dance and love once more, as you have so many, many times before.

You have noth­ing to fear; you are an Immor­tal mov­ing through mor­tal realms. You are here to be for one anoth­er the very liv­ing instru­ments that lift one anoth­er to live by the Light and Love that is the “Warp and Weft” of the whole of Cre­ation. What is with­in you sur­rounds and sus­tains you; It is Spir­it whose Ener­gy-Form you know as Love. The illu­sion of your mor­tal exis­tence is this feel­ing of sep­a­ra­tion, and your mov­ing beyond this each time in your Scor­pio Unions will ulti­mate­ly free you from the fear of death and bring you to the promised land of Immortality.

This is the gift and truth of Scorpio.

You have noth­ing to fear, for you are an Immortal.

You were made by love, and you are here to love.

You are here for one anoth­er, because you are all part of one another.

And all you have to do, is let go of your fear,

And Love one another.