Peace of Mind

What is the great­est good? Do you know your true heart’s desire? Where is hap­pi­ness to be tru­ly found?

Through­out the cen­turies, seek­ers and seers have pon­dered these ques­tions, and the wis­est of them have all come to the very same answer…

The great­est good, your true heart’s desire and the source of abid­ing hap­pi­ness is found by being at peace with your­self, by hav­ing “Peace of Mind”.

This is the pur­pose, and this is the path that you will for­ev­er fol­low in the realm of Virgo.
No mat­ter what your “Sun Sign” is, some­where in your chart, some­where in you, there you will expe­ri­ence the gift of Virgo.

It is the gift of “Ini­ti­a­tion”, the quick­en­ing of devel­op­ment for your body, feel­ing, mind and spir­it. Through­out the ages, in all cul­tures and spir­i­tu­al tra­di­tions, (notably exem­pli­fied in the less­er and Greater Mys­ter­ies in Greece and Rome), the promise of being a more com­plete human being, of becom­ing a human capa­ble of self-mas­tery, was offered to those ready to lift them­selves up by receiv­ing the key to the secrets of life. The Ancient Wis­dom, the Peren­ni­al Philoso­phies, were impart­ed by var­i­ous prac­tices, tri­als and teach­ings whose pur­pose was quite sim­ply to elic­it the initiate’s unfold­ment and uplift­ment. The goal or pur­pose was to bring about a more tru­ly whole or com­plete human being. Only then, were you tru­ly pre­pared to take on the next chal­lenge of a tru­ly inter­de­pen­dent expe­ri­ence of rela­tion­ship (Libra).

Today you and your world cel­e­brate the tran­si­tion from Fire to Earth, where Leo makes way for the grace of Vir­go. By Leo, you are for­ev­er inspired by the prompt­ings of your true self (encoun­tered in the realm of Can­cer), to strive and to seek, and to stretch your­self into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of Lead­er­ship, Cre­ativ­i­ty and Love.

But now, after “the per­for­mance”, now comes the review. You have a need to be more cir­cum­spect and self-aware, and so improve your­self. Yes, it is a time to pause and con­sid­er, to ana­lyze and cri­tique and so learn how you can “do bet­ter”; how you can “be better”.

Of course, you do this every sin­gle day, (or you most cer­tain­ly should). A well-ordered life would cer­tain­ly sub­scribe or fol­low the exam­ple of such great souls as Seneca or Mar­cus Aure­lius, who would take time at day­break to con­sid­er and pre­pare for the day ahead, and then before bed, to review the day, to har­vest the lessons learned, to sep­a­rate the “wheat from the chaff” of life, so that they could then retire and pre­pare for the next day.

There is only one way to find peace, and it starts with the under­stand­ing that the only con­trol you will tru­ly have, the only mas­tery you need to acquire, is self-con­trol and self-mastery…and this path begins and ends with the tem­ple of your mind. You are here to learn that the way of the mas­ters, the way of “the lone­ly ones”, is to lis­ten to the voice of truth and beau­ty that abides with­in your own spark of the divine.

Vir­go reminds us of the need for order­li­ness and rhythm in our lives. A good life is fash­ioned and formed with a bal­ance between work and play, with activ­i­ty and rest, so that you will feel the truth in how all the var­i­ous parts and pieces of your life cre­ate a greater whole, a whole being that is “you”. There is a neces­si­ty to struc­ture your day, week and year (and tru­ly the entire arc of your life), but nev­er rigid­ly but with con­stant adapt­abil­i­ty and facil­i­ty of nuance, so that each part of your life is inte­grat­ed and in fact made more mean­ing­ful and com­plete by all the oth­er parts.

At the cen­ter of this is “right think­ing and so right action”; the good life, a beau­ti­ful life is formed and cen­tered by the qual­i­ty and state of your thoughts. The whole pur­pose of meta­phys­i­cal, spir­i­tu­al and philo­soph­i­cal engage­ment is to help you find the way to the great­est trea­sure and prize. The Wis­dom that is Vir­go is there to help you form the tem­ple with­in that is guid­ed and informed by the del­i­cate and inte­gral bal­ance of your Intu­ition and Rea­son, by a know­ing that is lucid, self-crit­i­cal and open to the ever-unfold­ing jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. It is the Way of Beau­ty:

As I walk, as I walk

The Uni­verse is walk­ing with me

In beau­ty, it walks before me

In beau­ty, it walks behind me

In beau­ty, it walks below me

In beau­ty, it walks above me

Beau­ty is on every side

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

Liv­ing in Beauty

Lov­ing in Beauty

May you walk in Beauty

May you live in Beauty

For all your days

May you be at Peace

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

It is done.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders (August 3, 2019)

In my Eleventh show of 2019, we will look at the 2020 Pres­i­den­tial Race and con­sid­er the charts of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who are present­ly the two top men vying for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nomination.

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 Sat­ur­day August 3^rd @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/08/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019–biden-and-sanders

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day August 3^rd @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The Pulse of Life

The year­ly jour­ney through the Signs of the Zodi­ac forms the peren­ni­al Song of Spir­i­tu­al unfold­ment for one and all. Each sign holds the nec­es­sary expe­ri­ences and lessons that you must mas­ter as you walk the path of awak­en­ing. Though you may know your­self as one Sign or anoth­er, you are real­ly an inte­gral and unique fusion of all these essences, and you are here to mas­ter them all. Through many years and count­less lives, you will one day achieve that more per­fect bal­ance with­in this Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, and you will arrive at your even­tu­al and inevitable apoth­e­o­sis as a ful­ly formed human being.

This “Way” has been shown to us by those who came this way long ago. They are known to you as the “Great Souls”, who by their exam­ple and teach­ings ever help us through their inspi­ra­tion and wis­dom so that we may find our way as we fol­low in their foot­steps. These Great ones are known by many names, they are the self-mas­tered, the self-illu­mined or shin­ing ones, what we call the Angels or Devas, and they lov­ing­ly wait and watch over one and all.

The Song that is the Zodi­ac is chang­ing once again, mov­ing from the ele­ment of Water to Fire, from a focus that is inward to out­ward­ly once more. This is as it should be; it is the “Pulse of Life”. It is the breath­ing in and then the breath­ing out of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. This rhythm of life shapes and forms you; it is the true path of whole­ness made by hold­ing each sign togeth­er, and in a per­fect har­mo­ny they form a melo­di­ous and inte­gral song of spirit.

This is how you move upon along the “Path­way of Per­fec­tion” to an ever more per­fect con­di­tion of self-ful­fill­ment. By hold­ing all these ener­gy-forms togeth­er, in your own spe­cial way, it is by this that you become the spe­cial per­son that you are.

From your space of Can­cer, where you cen­tered and secured a truer sense of your­self, you felt a fuller expe­ri­ence of your essen­tial unique­ness of being. This is known as your “Quin­tes­sence”; it is your own Mon­ad, your own unique Spark of the Divine, and it is this essence that makes you tru­ly “you.”

But now the Pulse of Life moves on, and you are eager to move into the next realm of the Liv­ing Ones. You need to take this Ener­gy-Form of “you”, and flow and form it out­ward­ly into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of Self-Real­iza­tion. You are not mere­ly here to “feel” who you are, you will and must live this out in your life to real­ly be you.

Whether through a more authen­tic Cre­ation, or in a more inspired Role, or by a more uncon­di­tion­al expe­ri­ence of Love, it is in Leo that you move out to where you can be you and shine. Yes, in Leo you move from the realm of Feel­ing to E‑Motion, from Source to Man­i­fes­ta­tion. It is here in Leo, on the “Stage that is Life”, it is here that you will shine like a Star.

Yes, all the world is a stage and it waits upon you to become a star. If you have cho­sen well, so that your cre­ation, per­for­mance or love are guid­ed by a right and true align­ment with your high­er self, and so formed by uncon­di­tion­al love, then you will be seen as you tru­ly are…a shin­ing one too.

You will bring out the best in your­self, and by your exam­ple you will inspire oth­ers to reach in and so reach out to be their bet­ter selves too. This is true lead­er­ship; this is what we do for one anoth­er. We need one anoth­er. We need to be rec­og­nized and loved for who we are; as we in turn will respect and love them for who they are.

This is the heart of Leo; it is all about Love. We lead by our exam­ple, and by this we inspire oth­ers to be their bet­ter selves too. For in the heart of each and every one of us is a spark of the Divine, whose lumi­nous nature is Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

This is the Song of Leo; it is the Heart Doc­trine formed by the Light that will nev­er fail.

You are here to Shine.

You are here because of Love.

You are here to Love and be Loved.

Now turn toward one anoth­er and be who you are.

Just love.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Kamala Har­ris & Eliz­a­beth War­ren (July 20, 2019)

In my Tenth show of 2019, we will look at the 2020 Pres­i­den­tial Race and con­sid­er the charts of Kamala Har­ris and Eliz­a­beth War­ren who are present­ly the two top women vying for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nomination.

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 Sat­ur­day July 20^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/07/20/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2019–harris-and-warren

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day July 20^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

It is that time, to slow down, step back and con­sid­er once again your most pre­cious gift, your self-aware­ness, the lev­el of your con­scious­ness, what you think of as “you”.

Yes, it is always good to take time to reflect and revise, (but espe­cial­ly for the next three weeks), so that you may be more able to under­stand your­self, as well as under­stand one anoth­er. Use that space “in-between one moment and the next”, a most pre­cious time, before you react to what was done or said, because you will always ben­e­fit great­ly by paus­ing, reflect­ing and being ever more mind­ful of your own men­tal atti­tude and how that influ­ences your demeanor or tem­pera­ment, as well as how that affects those around you most cer­tain­ly as well.

All you can con­trol is you, and this is prin­ci­pal­ly estab­lished by your Mind­ful­ness, by your aware­ness of your Aware­ness. Yes, it is time to take the next step in being a bet­ter per­son by tak­ing a firmer hold of your own mind. This is what Mer­cury ret­ro­grade offers to you now.

Mer­cury is turn­ing ret­ro­grade once again, and it is a most nec­es­sary and won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er: What you know, how you know it and in what man­ner should you (or should you not) share it with others.

Take even more time, be much more care­ful in lis­ten­ing to and speak­ing to others.

Much like the weath­er, if we do not pay atten­tion to the con­di­tions around us, we will most cer­tain­ly be unpre­pared for what befalls us. Know­ing about this “Astro­log­i­cal Weath­er” of Mer­cury, which affects our own men­tal dis­po­si­tion as well as our com­mu­ni­ca­tions with one anoth­er, we can avoid many problems.

Make use of this time, which ide­al­ly is a time for intro­spec­tion, con­tem­pla­tion, and for a deep­er recon­sid­er­a­tion how we know and what we know. By going deep­er, and being self-crit­i­cal, we can make cor­rec­tions, refine our under­stand­ing and open our minds to oth­er pos­si­ble ways to com­pre­hend the world around us, and be more con­sid­er­ate and mind­ful about one anoth­er too.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is for review, revi­sion and renew­al. From July 7^th till July 31^st, mat­ters may become more chal­leng­ing, progress in your affairs may seem­ing­ly slow down or become even reversed. This is per­fect­ly fine and is quite tru­ly an oppor­tu­ni­ty. It is very like­ly that the mat­ter need­ed fur­ther study or revi­sion. Though you might wish that you could always go for­ward in straight lines, you must under­stand that your jour­ney and life are more cir­cuitous, (and more inter­est­ing and mean­ing­ful for that in the end).

Yes, if it is pos­si­ble, avoid sign­ing an impor­tant con­tract or oth­er doc­u­ment. But in the mod­ern world life does go on, so just be pre­pared that when Mer­cury moves for­ward you may find the need to revise that agree­ment. The key as always is to main­tain your own cen­ter and self-con­trol, because that is all you have.

By tak­ing this time, by pay­ing more atten­tion, by being even more pre­cise in your com­mu­ni­ca­tions, (and like­wise encour­ag­ing those you are con­vers­ing with to make this same attempt too), you will be able to nav­i­gate the unin­tend­ed pit­falls and prob­lems that Mer­cury ret­ro­grade seems to bring. Real­ly, it is just our own mis­un­der­stand­ing of the change in ener­gies that is to blame. As the great observ­er of the human king­dom Shake­speare wrote:

“The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars / But in our­selves, that we are underlings.”
(Julius Cae­sar, Act I, Scene III)

We have lit­tle to no con­trol as to what takes place around us; but we have the capac­i­ty through the devel­op­ment of Wis­dom and Humil­i­ty to be mas­ters of our own mind, and by this we will forge an ever more pur­pose­ful life lived in “Right Think­ing and Right Action”.

Mer­cury is ret­ro­grad­ing from around 4 degrees of Leo back to about 24 degrees of Can­cer. The first 12 days of the ret­ro­grade in Leo will bring to focus ques­tions regard­ing respect, hon­or and integri­ty. You will be remind­ed to under­stand that you should expect to receive what you bestow; give oth­ers their due, respect their posi­tion or point of view and they may be more inclined to show you the same consideration.

The sec­ond half of the ret­ro­grade, from July 19^th to July 31^st, Mer­cury will move back through Can­cer, and the focus will shift to ques­tions about your home, fam­i­ly, nur­tur­ing, and secu­ri­ty. The prin­ci­pal oppor­tu­ni­ty here will be to more deeply con­sid­er what is at the root of you, what makes you feel “cen­tered” and secure. Ulti­mate­ly, it should remind you that all our cen­ters come togeth­er and so we find that by our ori­gin in the One “we are all relat­ed”. From this we will estab­lish our own well-being through our com­mon cen­ter; tru­ly our secu­ri­ty is found­ed upon car­ing for one another.

The gift of Mer­cury Ret­ro­grade is to help you lift your­self ever high­er, and it will bring you that much clos­er to the most pre­cious thing you will ever know…“Peace of Mind”.

Peace is found with­in. By tak­ing this time for qui­etude and con­tem­pla­tion, you can move clos­er to the sacred space that lies with­in one and all. It is there, in your sacred cen­ter, that you will hear “the Voice of the Silence”, the gen­tle whis­pers of Wis­dom and Truth that form the Hier­ar­chy of Life and Love.

There, at the cen­ter which is every­where, and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere, it is there that you will become a mas­ter of yourself.