2018, The New Year – Whence, Where and Whith­er (Jan­u­ary 13, 2018)

Whence, Where and Whither

In my first show of 2018 we will look back, around and ahead as we con­sid­er the lessons learned, and the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges that lie ahead of us in the New Year.
(For a more com­pre­hen­sive view, I will be post­ing my Fore­cast for 2018 in the blog over the next sev­er­al days. Part 1 was post­ed yesterday).

The Winds of Spir­it are blow­ing stronger now, and it is most use­ful to have a bet­ter sense of how to find your way in a world that is increas­ing­ly unfa­mil­iar. With Sat­urn mov­ing through Capri­corn, Uranus about to enter Tau­rus and sig­nif­i­cant align­ments in the charts of the USA and Don­ald Trump, we will have much to cov­er. I do expect that we will need to have more than one show to under­stand, “from whence we came, where are we now and whith­er are we going”.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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 birth place, 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.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 13^th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er what 2018 is going to bring.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 13^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/01/13/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2018-the-new-year-january-13–2018

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

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 13^th!

Warm regards,

Bill

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 1 – Whence

As we look ahead to 2018, we seek to find in our fad­ing foot­steps some indi­ca­tion as to what we might encounter. So, let us look ahead by first glanc­ing back at the major Astro­log­i­cal fac­tors that mod­u­lat­ed our lives last year.

Through much of last year we felt the push and pull of two inter­re­lat­ed aspects, Jupiter was Oppo­site Uranus while Jupiter Squared Plu­to. The fact that these two align­ments over­lapped one anoth­er won­der­ful­ly illus­trat­ed that we were still expe­ri­enc­ing the major influ­ence that has dom­i­nat­ed our world of late, the ongo­ing Square of Uranus and Pluto.

The rela­tion­ship between Uranus and Plu­to artic­u­lates the dynam­ic inter­play between Free­dom and Will, or Mind and Con­trol. Through their series of align­ments, (from Con­junc­tion, to Square, to Oppo­si­tion, to Square and onto the next Con­junc­tion) we wit­ness the chal­lenge that plays out in human affairs between our need to be Free and our need for Order. Many com­men­ta­tors have not­ed the sim­i­lar­i­ty of the chal­lenges and upheavals we are expe­ri­enc­ing in our own peri­od to those of the 1960’s, (their pri­or Con­junc­tion) and to the 1930’s, (their pre­vi­ous Square).

In our time, this strug­gle has been mod­u­lat­ed and exag­ger­at­ed by the 245-year cycle of Plu­to which has once again brought it into the Sign of Capri­corn, (from 2008 until 2024); once again we are here to bear wit­ness to and bear the respon­si­bil­i­ty for bring­ing this Age to a mean­ing­ful end as we help to give birth to anoth­er. Just like our ances­tors who went through sim­i­lar “End­ings of an Age/Beginnings of an Age”, (1762–1778 and 1516–1532) our Insti­tu­tions and Norms are being shat­tered by Agents of Destruction.

Yet, many, many more will seek to pre­serve what was so dear­ly bought by the Love and Sac­ri­fice of those who came before. And, there are those who are the Seers and Builders of the next New Age. But know this, that one and all will serve in their own way to be part of a Greater Sto­ry, the nev­er-end­ing Jour­ney of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness which is lead­ing one and all home­ward to the Ever­last­ing Light.

The “Destroy­ers” serve as much as those who seek to Pre­serve, Heal and Build. Wise Ones know that we can nev­er judge anoth­er spir­i­tu­al­ly, for that is ful­filled by greater pow­ers than held in human under­stand­ing, will and laws. And, it most cer­tain­ly true, that no one per­son is all one or the oth­er. Just as Light and the Dark most cer­tain­ly con­tend “out there”, always and for­ev­er the real strug­gle of spir­it is to be faced with­in, by each indi­vid­ual in any life, and in life after life, as they walk the Spir­i­tu­al Razor’s Edge between Love and Fear, between Faith and Fate.

Each of us must find our way, to do our part in this world that is pass­ing away. For those who stand for the Eter­nal Val­ues of the Ancient Wis­dom, for those who are guid­ed by and seek to pre­serve the Trea­sures of Truth that all your for­bears endeav­ored to pass down to you, the way ahead is straight and true. You need only need remem­ber from whence you came, and you will steer your life by the ever­last­ing val­ues that stand behind all Creation.

Behind each cul­ture, in the Dia­mond Heart of every Civ­i­liza­tion, in the heart of all Reli­gions, in the Philoso­phies and Sci­ences of every age, the Shin­ing Ones hold the Arche­types of Eter­ni­ty. In the end, it will always be your Joy and Duty to stand in the Light, and to hold to the path of Freer Thought, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Cen­tered Will.

You hap­pen to be here, at this cru­cial hour. What a priv­i­lege this is; what a respon­si­bil­i­ty you bear. You have earned this; you are here to be the torch-bear­ers of Light. It is no acci­dent; you are part of a greater plan, and all those choic­es you made long ago have brought you and I to this moment now. And now, there is no more pre­cious moment than the next step you will take in this Jour­ney of Light and Love.

The world holds its breath; the Sto­ry of Light and Shad­ows arcs across your world.

It has always been so; and you have been here before.

Will you Stand for Truth?

Will you Stand Together?

Will you Stand for Love?

There is only One answer…

Stand in the Light; Be the Light.

Fol­low your Heart home.

Be guid­ed by the Wise Ones, who know there is no reli­gion high­er than Truth.
Walk the path of the Great-Souls, who prac­tice the Wis­dom of Love.
Find inspi­ra­tion in the Lone­ly Ones, their Will­ing-Sac­ri­fice hon­ored by
the Angels and Devas above.
Lis­ten for the Voice of the Silence, attend the gen­tle whis­pers in your Heart,
And you will find “The Way”.

Next, “Where are we now?”

The Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it, The Spi­ral of Light and Love, The Way

The Sun stands Still…

And the World holds its breath.

As the shad­ows grow longer,

And nature waits for a sign,

You wait for the moment,

The return of your Star.

You have reached the last of the Four Great Turn­ings in the Astro­log­i­cal year: In Aries, Can­cer, Libra and Capri­corn you encounter the Inte­gral four-fold ques­tions that cir­cum­scribe your jour­ney through the stars. In Aries you won­der, “Who am I?”; in Libra you seek to know, “Who are We?”; in Can­cer you must dis­cov­er, “From Where did I Come?”; and in Capri­corn you seek to know the ulti­mate ques­tion, “What is my Destiny?”

This is the Car­di­nal Cross, the Four Sea­sons of each year and in all your lives. Each depends upon the oth­er, and from these sacred Four Direc­tions you find your way along this Path­way of Per­fec­tion, the Road of Illu­mi­na­tion, the Lumi­nous Rib­bon of Light and Spir­i­tu­al Love that is the Ethe­re­al Essence form­ing all of Creation.

Yes, we often think we are bound to our fate, as we strug­gle against the weight of the past, bur­dened by our errors, our sins and mis­for­tunes, our stum­bles and our fears. And, as the shad­ows fall, as they do right now, we feel bound and cir­cum­scribed by our piti­ful mea­gre form, and fear that our life is fat­ed, with­out essen­tial mer­it in an unfeel­ing, soul­less uni­verse which cares not for our future.

But you must know this: That the Uni­verse is Alive, it is Spir­it, and it is quite sim­ply formed of Life and Love. You have always known this, a deep and abid­ing feel­ing that there is some­thing more about all of this and of you. You and I are part of a Great Jour­ney with an infi­nite host of oth­er beings. From the small­est infin­i­tes­i­mals on up to Heav­en­ly Lords, the entire­ty of this Uni­verse is Spir­it-Life and it sings and thrills with Con­scious­ness. We are, as are all Life-Forms that form this Cos­mos, trav­el­ling through this Cre­ation in a great com­pa­ny, form­ing a Shim­mer­ing Rib­bon of Light that is ever bend­ing towards a Greater Awareness.

We are Beings of Light and Love who in our hearts and minds think of one thing in the end, we hold one thought and feel­ing above all the shad­ows and bur­dens of long ago…we are guid­ed from with­in by a yearn­ing, a cer­tain know­ing that there is a Des­tiny to all of this.

We can feel, even in our dark­est moments, and most cer­tain­ly shin­ing through in our great­est tri­umphs too, that there is a “Leav­en of Light” with­in, a Lumi­nous Sparkling in the heart of one and all, that this Light stretch­es back through ages and ages ago, and it calls to us equal­ly from the Future and from on High. We are all con­nect­ed, back­wards and for­wards upon this Rib­bon of Light and Love, and our Des­tiny is most assured. Our “North Star” is pulling us home­ward, back home to the ONE, whose Cen­ter is Every­where and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is beyond the bounds of Space-Time.

We should not look back­wards with fear or regrets at all, for we have learned in our over-com­ing, in our count­less tri­als and errors, in our stum­bles and falls, that this is pre­cise­ly how we rose to become what we are; we are what we have become because we fell and then we got up again, and again and again. Much like the sym­bol of Capri­corn, the goat, we climb high­er, and high­er, and higher…

But we did not, and can­not do this alone or for our­selves. We indeed stand upon all our own pri­or lives, this is most cer­tain­ly true. We have made our­selves what we are (self-lumi­nous), yet this is only because of count­less oth­ers whose well-won tri­umphs of Soul and Spir­it helped to light and lift us up too. Our tri­umph is theirs, and theirs is ours. We are made of one anoth­er, and all our feel­ings, thoughts and spir­i­tu­al strengths come from our many lives lived togeth­er; we have become what we are now because we lived for one and for all. Our shared aspi­ra­tions, dreams and life expe­ri­ences are what has lift­ed one anoth­er out of the dark­ness and into the Light.

And know this, Greater ones than us, both in bod­i­ly forms and beyond, have always extend­ed their hearts and hands to help us find our way. For those who have come this way know that they too were helped along this path; and, it is so with us, that we, in turn, will feel our kin­ship with all who fol­low, we will respond with Wis­dom and Love, and we will help those who fol­low, and so on, and so on.

This is the Gold­en Thread of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, this is the Hier­ar­chy of Mas­ters and Pupils, this is the path of Light and Love…and this, this is your Des­tiny. This is the Por­tal of Capri­corn; This is the Path of Mas­tery. This is the Wis­dom of Love.

The Path of Light and Love, The Riv­er of Shin­ing Ones is the road upon which you travel.

For some it is known as the Mid­dle Way, or The Noble Path, or The Red Road.

But most sim­ply and beau­ti­ful­ly, it is sim­ply “Tao”.

It is The Way.

It is from whence you came; and it is the way home.

It is your Destiny.

The Test of Responsibility — The Way of Self-Fulfillment

For almost three years, the plan­et of Real­i­ty and Test­ing, the Plan­et Sat­urn, has been sweep­ing through the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, the Sign of Truth. Look­ing at the world today, and con­sid­er­ing what we have come through in the past few years, one could hard­ly find a more fit­ting title for this recent peri­od than it being, on so many lev­els, from the most inti­mate mat­ters of per­son­al and sex­u­al con­sid­er­a­tions, to the most nation­al, polit­i­cal and geo-polit­i­cal realms, this has tru­ly been a time where we have wit­nessed “The Test of Truth”. The very def­i­n­i­tion of what is know­able, what is fact or fic­tion (like in “alter­na­tive facts”), of what is “tru­ly true” has been the under­ly­ing as well as over­ar­ch­ing theme for our time. It cer­tain­ly seems we have all been mov­ing through a time of great lessons, a tru­ly “teach­ing moment”. But now we must take our next step…

Today we turn to the next oppor­tu­ni­ty, chal­lenge and test from Sat­urn, today the lord of Man­i­fes­ta­tion and Real­i­ty moves into his very own sign of Capri­corn. (The most recent times for Sat­urn in Capri­corn have been: 1988–91, 1959–62, 1929–32…most inter­est­ing times indeed).

Sat­urn is the Avatar of your fun­da­men­tal test or great­est chal­lenge. But most won­der­ful­ly, (for this is how you grow), it is by this chal­lenge and your over­com­ing of it that forms the sub­stance of your spir­i­tu­al growth. As much as Sat­urn indi­cates where you may stum­ble and fall (again and again), it is also the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

For it is by your very stum­bling into error or fail­ures that you learn. You learn, most cer­tain­ly what “not to do”; and by tri­al and error, by wit and will, through love and inspi­ra­tion, you learn to do bet­ter and be bet­ter. Yes, your very fail­ures are the cru­cible to your self-over­com­ing; you lift your­self and one anoth­er up as you bur­nish off the dross of your being to reveal the divine light shin­ing through and through.

We can look at Sat­urn as the teacher or what I would call “The Black­smith”, like in steel-mak­ing, “The Tem­per­er” of your soul, of your Pur­pose and “The Keep­er” of your Path of Self-Fulfillment.

Con­sid­er this: on all the planes of exis­tence, from the Spir­i­tu­al to the Men­tal, from the Emo­tion­al to the Phys­i­cal, the “Laws of Life” oper­ate in much the same fash­ion. And so, with Sat­urn, the teacher, we can see these par­al­lels on each plane as it is on the phys­i­cal: The devel­op­ment of our bones and mus­cles are elicit­ed and stim­u­lat­ed by our exer­tions and phys­i­cal strain­ing, where­in the micro tear­ing of our mus­cles and oth­er fibers leads to their very renewal/rebuilding of our bod­ies into ever stronger forms. We tem­per our bod­ies by push­ing hard­er, we grow by tear­ing down and rebuild­ing. As the adage goes, “you use it or lose it”.

Well, this same prin­ci­ple applies to the oth­er planes upon which you abide. Your emo­tion­al shocks and trau­mas, lead to the devel­op­ment of our greater capac­i­ty to han­dle these chal­lenges in the future. And, most won­der­ful­ly, these very real pains and suf­fer­ings stim­u­late the growth of those spir­i­tu­al feel­ings that make you tru­ly human, your capac­i­ty for com­pas­sion, empa­thy and per­son­al love as well.

The chal­lenges thrown down by Intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, lead to the very devel­op­ment of more com­pre­hen­sive and com­plex con­nec­tions with­in your mind and between one anoth­er. Through men­tal striv­ings and intel­lec­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion, we help one anoth­er to move beyond our more lim­it­ed or nar­row under­stand­ings; we make pos­si­ble for one anoth­er our jour­ney to the Greater Understanding.

And like­wise, the man­i­fold and many-lay­ered spir­i­tu­al chal­lenges you are brought to, the ago­nies and ecstasies of your spir­i­tu­al strug­gles and their even­tu­al over-com­ing, these are the “Spir­i­tu­al Smithies” that devel­op your high­est and finest attrib­ut­es of self-sac­ri­fice and uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

All of these realms, from the phys­i­cal on up to the Spir­i­tu­al, and all of these tests and result­ing growths, can be seen as whol­ly or in part brought to bear in our lives by the move­ment of Sat­urn, mov­ing from Sign to Sign, and through the hous­es of your astro­log­i­cal chart. Sat­urn is the instru­ment of mak­ing real your poten­tials, of mak­ing man­i­fest your Spir­i­tu­al Destiny.

What is our Teacher ask­ing of us now? 

Where­as a plan­et in a Muta­ble Sign (like Gem­i­ni or Sagit­tar­ius) has much to do with mean­ing or under­stand­ing, the Car­di­nal Signs like Can­cer or here with Sat­urn in Capri­corn, are about Iden­ti­ty and Action. The ques­tion or test of Sat­urn in Capri­corn is the Test of Posi­tion, the Test of Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty. It reveals the worth­while­ness of the Hier­ar­chies of any soci­ety and cul­ture, the via­bil­i­ty and strength of a civilization’s Insti­tu­tions whether they be of the fam­i­ly or com­mu­ni­ty, Civ­il or Cor­po­rate, local or national.

Giv­en that we are also in this greater his­tor­i­cal tran­si­tion, of Pluto’s tran­sit through Capri­corn as well, (from 2008 to 2024, we are try­ing to find our way as the very sub­stance of the world order that came into being in the late 1700’s is being bro­ken down and trans­formed. And, as I have men­tioned in numer­ous shows and blog post­ings, we are here to wit­ness this end of an age and, most cer­tain­ly now, to help one anoth­er birth and become The New Age), it would fol­low that Sat­urn mov­ing into Capri­corn will bring about an inten­si­fi­ca­tion of this challenge.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn her­alds a time of Reck­on­ing: You must be true to your­self and to one anoth­er; you must be your truth and so rebuild your world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn asks you to do one thing: Be Respon­si­ble. Respon­si­bil­i­ty is found­ed upon one thing, a right align­ment with your true self, with the Light of Love that guides your heart.

If you want to know how you should be, and where you should go, you will learn much by look­ing back at from whence you came. Fol­low­ing that very prin­ci­ple or rea­son, oppo­site Astro­log­i­cal Signs inform one anoth­er. In Can­cer you find your way to meet the needs of one anoth­er in spon­ta­neous car­ing: As a par­ent, you move with­out thought to meet the needs of your child, as a friend you share and shape one another’s dreams, and with your part­ner you find your way to uncon­di­tion­al love for one another.

But Capri­corn calls you to ful­fill the promise of Can­cer, that you take what was spon­ta­neous and pure and fold it into some­thing that will last. You take what was felt as pure and true and embody these ener­gy-forms into last­ing struc­tures of Cus­toms, Tra­di­tions, Laws and Insti­tu­tions. You are called by Sat­urn in Capri­corn to be respon­si­ble to your larg­er social circumstances.

Sat­urn rules Real­i­ty; Sat­urn is also the dark one, reveal­ing your “shad­ows of fear”. The insti­tu­tions of this age are trem­bling, crack­ing and seem­ing­ly fail­ing you…But know this, they were made by our ances­tors and by every one of us. If we wish our vil­lage, town, state and nation to be these larg­er instru­ments of our self-ful­fill­ment, then we must remem­ber what these things are for, to bring them back to their essen­tial spir­i­tu­al foun­da­tions. And then we must be that change with­in our­selves, with­in our own hearts and minds we will make our sal­va­tion, if we are to restore and rebuild our world.

The fault lies not in our things that we have made; and the fault lies not “in our stars”. The fault and solu­tion of our trou­bles lies in our own spir­i­tu­al aware­ness and prac­tice. The solu­tion for our Cri­sis of Civ­i­liza­tion is to be found in each and every human heart; the path of your heal­ing this world must start with our love for one another.

Your first respon­si­bil­i­ty is to your “Self”, to under­stand who and what you are and go out every day and strive to be the very best of that. Then, equal­ly and nat­u­ral­ly, your sec­ond respon­si­bil­i­ty is to care for one anoth­er, to help your part­ner, child, friend and neigh­bor to be the very best that they can be too.

Then you must bring this re-born spir­it into the very fibers of your life, into your most inti­mate rela­tion­ships, and then into your neigh­bor­hoods, your larg­er com­mu­ni­ties and through­out the world.

Sat­urn in Capri­corn reminds you that it is time…

You are here for thing: “To be Fulfilled”.

You can­not do this if we do not do that for one and for all.

Extend a help­ing hand to those who fol­low behind you,

For you have been where they strug­gle now.

And look ahead and feel in your heart for those Great Ones who came this way before,

And know this, they will ever extend their help­ing hand to you too.

The Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love was, is and will for­ev­er thrill through One and for All.

For Spir­it is Life; and Life is Spir­it made real.

Forged from many into One, you will reveal the Light that for­ev­er shines.

Togeth­er, we will walk in brighter days,

Togeth­er, we will be the Dawn­ing Light,

Togeth­er, we will be builders of a brand New Age.