Saturn Enters Capricorn – The Test of Responsibility (December 19, 2017 – December 17, 2020)

The Test of Responsibility, The Gift of Self-Fulfillment

Today’s show will con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Sat­urn mov­ing from sign to sign, with a par­tic­u­lar focus upon the present shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn, which will occur on Decem­ber 19^th, 2017 and con­tin­ue until Decem­ber 17, 2020.

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 will become the lumi­nous bea­con of your truest spir­i­tu­al strength; Sat­urn, the Teacher, is here to bring forth or elic­it your great­est gift of spirit.

We will look at Sat­urn in the Twelve Signs of the Zodi­ac, and focus upon this shift from Sagit­tar­ius to Capri­corn. For hav­ing con­sid­ered for over two years the ques­tion, “What is Truth?”, now you need to bring this Truth into your life. It is not enough to know the truth; you are here to become this Truth.

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 Decem­ber 16^th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er the influ­ence of Sat­urn in your life.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/12/16/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-8-saturn-in-capricorn

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 Decem­ber 16^th!

Warm regards,

Bill

The Way to Wisdom

Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade in the sign of Sagit­tar­ius, (@29 degrees, 18 min­utes) on Decem­ber 2–3, and will turn direct in Sagit­tar­ius (@13 degrees) on Decem­ber 22. It is that time once again to turn your mind around, to be more inward­ly atten­tive and pen­sive. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­sid­er your per­cep­tions, assump­tions and thoughts; it is time to clear your mind of clut­ter once again.

As always, since every­one else will be sim­i­lar­ly altered in their bal­ance between out­ward atten­tive­ness and inward con­scious­ness, it will be even more impor­tant to care­ful­ly lis­ten to one anoth­er and to com­mu­ni­cate with them more care­ful­ly. Though mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tions hap­pen every day, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade can often fos­ter a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of mis­un­der­stand­ings. The result can be a series of mis­steps and mis­cues that can turn small errors into big­ger and big­ger mis­takes, and it can lead to great dam­age for your rela­tion­ships. The stress of errors builds with­in you, and between one anoth­er, and you (or they) may find your tol­er­ance and com­po­sure erode as you stum­ble into conflict.

Dur­ing Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, you will cer­tain­ly need to adopt a more for­giv­ing atti­tude for your­self (and for one anoth­er), as these mis­steps mul­ti­ply and frus­tra­tions mount. With Mer­cury ret­ro­grade, it will be even more impor­tant for you to prac­tice self-for­give­ness, and equal­ly extend your for­give­ness towards others.

Remem­ber, all of this is not the “fault” of Mer­cury, it is mere­ly because most of us do not remem­ber, per­ceive or under­stand what is hap­pen­ing; we tend to car­ry on each day as we did the day before, unaware of the changes that are con­stant­ly unfold­ing through the Ener­gy-Forms of Mercury.

Tru­ly, Mer­cury ret­ro­grade should real­ly be under­stood as a pre­cious gift of the spir­it, as it encour­ages you to become ever more self-reflec­tive and self-cor­rec­tive. It is one of the prin­ci­pal means by which you will move towards greater self-mas­tery. You will know this self-mas­tery is real when your growth in Wis­dom is pro­por­tion­al­ly matched by your deep­en­ing sense of Humil­i­ty too. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade brings you an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make improvements/corrections in your con­scious­ness, which is essen­tial to your forg­ing a bet­ter under­stand­ing of your­self and of one another.

The entire ret­ro­grade takes place in the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, so the focus of your renew­al of aware­ness will most cer­tain­ly be upon the very nature of Truth and Under­stand­ing. You will need to re-con­sid­er the ves­sels of mean­ing that shape your beliefs, that form and inform your “facts”. Whether by Reli­gion or Sci­ence, Faith or Rea­son, the real­i­ty you are attempt­ing to nav­i­gate depends upon your lev­el of spir­i­tu­al con­scious­ness, and then you must align your under­stand­ing with those with whom you journey.

Most mis­un­der­stand­ings arise from an incom­plete foun­da­tion of shared prin­ci­ples, foun­da­tions and essen­tial truths. As a result, the very “facts” that each par­ty may hold can­not be aligned or agreed upon. The ques­tions boil down to what is real­ly “real”.

To help to over­come these mutu­al mis­per­cep­tions, fol­low the lead offered in Sagit­tar­ius and expand your per­cep­tion­al frames of ref­er­ence. Look first and fore­most to the Ancient Wis­dom found at the heart of every Reli­gion; and the Log­ic and Rea­son in the vast trea­sury of Philoso­phies and Sci­ences. Be hum­ble, as you walk upon an ancient road; count­less oth­ers have come this way before you. Many ques­tions have been asked, and answered. So, look to the Wise Ones for inspi­ra­tion, guid­ance and peace of mind.

With these ancient cer­tain­ties pro­vid­ing some com­mon base of con­text, it is best to step back and re-con­sid­er the present source of dis­cord. Try to start from some fun­da­men­tal truth or prin­ci­ple and build upon that. Estab­lish com­mon cen­ters and bound­aries to hold your thoughts in con­cert with one anoth­er. Then see where the mis­un­der­stand­ings arise in the areas of your unshared con­sid­er­a­tions. Bring mat­ters to a fuller illu­mi­na­tion by reduc­ing the fog of false assump­tions or false facts.

You are here to help one anoth­er in so many ways. One way is by shin­ing a light upon one another’s blind-spots, those self-cast shad­ows which often ensnare one or both of you in bub­bles of self-con­firm­ing errors of assump­tions. You are here for one anoth­er, and your aware­ness and wis­dom come pre­cise­ly through your pro­vid­ing a lit­tle more light, by illu­mi­nat­ing what is real­ly “real” for one another.

This is pre­cise­ly how you lift your aware­ness for one anoth­er. Remem­ber, the very word “Con­scious­ness” means “Togeth­er-Know­ing”, and it is only by being a light to one anoth­er that you can lift one anoth­er up to a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing. Only togeth­er can you advance upon the Path of Wis­dom, as you dis­pel the shad­ows and fogs of fear and bring one anoth­er clos­er to the ever­last­ing Light.

Give thanks to Mer­cury, the mes­sen­ger of the gods, who reminds you that your jour­ney requires that you con­stant­ly strive to illu­mi­nate the dark spaces in your own mind, and that you can only do this by help­ing one anoth­er too.

Remem­ber to first ques­tion your­self; then ask ques­tions of one another.

Be what you are, be a light for one another.

Remove the shad­ows of fear, those dim-lit echoes of your past misunderstandings.

Bow to the Wise Ones who came this way before.

Fol­low their exam­ple of Humil­i­ty and Grace.

Be open, be hum­ble and you will per­ceive the Light.

And togeth­er you will move along the Path of Wis­dom and Love.

The Gift of Humility, The Way of Wisdom

You have felt your way for 30 days…

There were no words, no touch­stones or anchors that could bridge your under­stand­ing; there was no ade­quate chal­ice to hold your expe­ri­ence of the “ecsta­sy and agony” that is Scorpio.

Because it is in that realm of Spir­i­tu­al Alche­my, it is there you meet in the unimag­in­able joy of union, and you endure the unbear­able pain of sep­a­ra­tion and loss too…and all your words will fail you.

Yes, there is no way, in that space between worlds, between here and there, between your mor­tal­i­ty and your Immor­tal­i­ty, there is only every­thing and noth­ing all mixed up togeth­er. All you can do is feel, to expe­ri­ence an intu­ition­al know­ing as you draw one step clos­er to the Truth of your radi­ant nature. Scor­pio lit­er­al­ly takes your breath away, as you catch a glimpse of the undy­ing “light that is the uni­verse”. You have felt the Truth, and you are in awe, and you have been shat­tered, and you have been hum­bled too.

It was here that you were made aware of the divine in your­self, and in one anoth­er, and that thrills through as the shim­mer­ing light of every­thing and every­one. It was here that you felt the Truth; that Life-Spir­it is the very essence of you and every world and star and the whole of Cre­ation too.

But now it is time to turn…

You need to find your words, to share what you have learned, to extend your indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ence and fold it into a larg­er con­text of mean­ing­ful­ness. Here in Sagit­tar­ius you reach beyond your­self to become a sto­ry­teller, as all humans have done since the begin­ning of time. Here in the Cir­cle of the Lone­ly Ones, it is here that you share with one anoth­er your sto­ries, so that you can heal and grow into the Greater Understanding.

The Way of Scor­pio yields the stage to the realm that is Sagit­tar­ius, where you will find the Ever-Renew­ing Foun­tain Source of Truth. Here is found the Ancient Wis­dom and those Seers, past and present, who pre­serve the trea­sure of Human expe­ri­ence in Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy, Reli­gion, Art and Truth. It is here that you find the path; “The Way” home beck­ons to you once again.

But you must remem­ber this, what they dis­cov­ered and inscribed on papyrus, tablet and tome, all these truths and more are equal­ly found in the stars above, and in your own true heart too. “For as above, so below”, and in the heart of all cre­ation there shines the undy­ing Light of the One. For Spir­it is Life; Life is Spir­it. And so, it is known in all the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings that there is but one Spir­it, and there is but one Life. The Truth is there for all to see; you need only to weave togeth­er your heart and your mind. And you will smile, and your heart will be at peace. As the great Seer William Blake so beau­ti­ful­ly wrote:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heav­en in a Wild Flower

Hold Infin­i­ty in the palm of your hand

And Eter­ni­ty in an hour…

God Appears & God is Light

To those poor Souls who dwell in Night

But does a Human Form Display

To those who Dwell in Realms of day.

                                          “Auguries of Innocence”

Light begets Light, and with­in you resides a greater con­scious­ness, your High­er Self, who con­stant­ly encour­ages you to align what is your upper­most spir­i­tu­al and moral com­pass with what you encounter “out there” in the hier­ar­chies of Spir­it-Mat­ter. But this Intu­itive Wis­dom is mod­u­lat­ed through your inter­me­di­ary bod­ies which have not yet ful­ly awak­ened. And so, you will con­tin­u­al­ly strug­gle until your final awak­en­ing. The fear will fight to hold you, but the Light of Love will lead you onward…

Your Jour­ney is your Awak­en­ing; and you are quite sim­ply here to lift your­self into the Greater Light that is your true nature. You will hold through Faith and you will find by Rea­son, as you weave togeth­er your expe­ri­ences of feel­ing-thought into the “Wis­dom Way”, where every­thing is con­nect­ed, both with­in and with­out. You learn to turn away from sep­a­ra­tion and affirm the insep­a­ra­ble Truth: “That Life is Spir­it, Spir­it is Life”. One shin­ing day you will achieve your apoth­e­o­sis, and you will tru­ly under­stand how Lov­ing and Beau­ti­ful you are, and equal­ly under­stand that this Love and Beau­ty is what sur­rounds you too. Each is part of the oth­er; there is but One Spir­it, and we are the many ones of the One.

To bring you clos­er to this cross­ing point of Light and Love, innu­mer­able encoun­ters just like those you met in Scor­pio, of unions and sep­a­ra­tions, encour­age you to reach beyond your­self, and con­nect with your true nature by com­mu­nion, by com­pan­ion­ship and through love. It is by this that you serve as both mir­ror and light for one anoth­er. You see what holds you as one with one anoth­er, while equal­ly hon­or­ing and cel­e­brat­ing your dif­fer­ences too.

Yes, it was by Scor­pio that you felt the Truth; you sac­ri­ficed the less­er in your­self to join with one anoth­er. You came clos­er to your own true self by reach­ing beyond your­self and expe­ri­enc­ing your shared space of feel­ings for one another.

In Sagit­tar­ius you will under­stand and seek to share this Wis­dom and Love. You have your sto­ry; and they have their sto­ry. Togeth­er, you will share your sto­ries with one anoth­er, and you will refine your less­er truths into a more encom­pass­ing Truth for one anoth­er. You will dip your cup into the Well of Wis­dom, and find peace of mind in the Peren­ni­al Truths. And you will add your spe­cial sto­ries to this Sto­ry of Spir­it too. It has always been so…

You will see that the authen­tic­i­ty of your own true Feel­ing-Know­ing depends upon one anoth­er, as your shar­ing of feel­ings and thoughts removes your pri­or mis­un­der­stand­ings and half-truths. You will equal­ly rely upon the inspi­ra­tion and guid­ance from the Wis­dom of those Ancient Ones, who came this way long before you. For this is a well-worn road of awak­en­ing, and there are many, both past and present, who will help you along the path.

Behind all the noise and con­fu­sion that swirls around you now, beyond all the lies and half-truths…there is Truth.

You Felt it; now you Know it too.

Gath­er togeth­er, give thanks to those who came before you.

They forged the Roy­al Road of Truth.

And give thanks to all who trav­el with you now.

Togeth­er you keep one anoth­er on the path of Light.

Tell your sto­ries, sing your songs.

Laugh; Cry; Laugh.

Dis­pel fear, by kind­ly shar­ing your under­stand­ing with one another.

And above all, remem­ber there is one Truth upon which all oth­ers rest…

Love One Another.

This present dark­ness will fade; your words and deeds will remove it.

Your Light is shin­ing in a greater Wis­dom, which grows in step with your deep­en­ing Humility.

Be not afraid; speak Truth to Power,

Guid­ed by Love.

The Gift of Rebirth, The Way of Union

This is the space you encounter Ulti­mate Truth.

This is when you feel the high­est Joy,

And when you fall into depths of Pain,

This is your time for Love; this is your time for Loss.

This is the Space-Time to face your Shadow…

And, this is your cross­ing point into the Light.

This is the Realm that is Scorpio.

Wher­ev­er Scor­pio is found in your chart, and when­ev­er there are plan­ets mov­ing through this Sign, you will find that it is here that you face the Fun­da­men­tal Chal­lenge of your Journey:

You are an Immor­tal; but you move through mor­tal forms.

Your inner­most is a spark of the Divine; always and for­ev­er your Divin­i­ty is an essen­tial and unique instance of the Indi­vis­i­ble One, and to all less­er forms it is what is sim­ply known as the inef­fa­ble “That”. But to make pos­si­ble your jour­ney through Space-Time, you create/unfold from with­in your­self a hier­ar­chy of “bod­ies” or Ener­gy-Forms that per­mit your exis­tence upon each plane of man­i­fes­ta­tion. From the most numi­nous and tran­scen­dent to the most mate­r­i­al of planes (like here on Earth), all your vehi­cles are the mor­tal bod­ies held as one by your High­er Self.

You are born into a form; you die to that form; but you enter anoth­er. Spir­it is Life; Spir­it-Life is Eter­nal. But the Worlds, Forms and Lives you live are only for a time. You form attach­ments to your form; you form attach­ments to one anoth­er. You find the Joy of being togeth­er; and so, you must expe­ri­ence the pain of sep­a­ra­tion too. This is your jour­ney bound­ed by the inseparable:

Love and Loss; Joy and Pain.

You are on a jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, of mov­ing from less­er forms to the greater, of mov­ing out so that you may come back again, now know­ing, from mov­ing through all these Worlds, Forms and Lives that you are a spark of the Divine mak­ing your way to become a Ful­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

One day, you will break the bonds of fear. You will have an unbreak­able faith because you Know: I am Immor­tal, I am the Light and the dark­ness and fear were just the phan­toms of my past, when I was not the mas­ter of enter­ing and leav­ing these forms…but now I know, now “I am That, I am.”

And so, you will equal­ly face the mys­tery of Union with one anoth­er, final­ly free of the fear of loss too. For count­less Worlds, Forms and Lives, your Joy of Love for one anoth­er was bound up with Pain and Loss, it was (and will be) unbear­able. Yet, there will come a time when you will stand in the Light that will not dimin­ish, and you will know that we are insep­a­ra­ble to one anoth­er, all mixed-up togeth­er, we are made of and by one anoth­er for ever and ever, and we will meet again and again until we break the karmic cycle of uncon­scious birth and re-birth with our awak­en­ing. And we will break the bonds of fear and step into the undy­ing light by our very forg­ing of unions in life after life.

Yes! It is pre­cise­ly in these lov­ing unions that you see the Truth; you under­stand because you have direct knowl­edge of your Immor­tal­i­ty and your insep­a­ra­ble one­ness with one anoth­er. You go out to meet one anoth­er, to live and laugh and love this beau­ty, this beloved who is there before you…and won­der of won­ders, it is by this very going out to them, that by sac­ri­fic­ing the less­er with­in you in order to join with them, (and they like­wise do this to join with you), it is in this Union (and Re-Union again and again), with the oth­er that you come anoth­er step clos­er to your true Self too.

You move out of your­self to cre­ate the Space of We.

You join togeth­er by sur­ren­der­ing the less­er and hon­or­ing the Greater with­in and between you.

And, in the end, you smile and understand.

You have met your own true Self through one another…

You are for one anoth­er the Way and the Light…

You are the Light; We are the Light.

Shine on.

Jupiter Enters Scorpio – The Way of Truth

Jupiter is the Avatar of your Truth. In your birth chart, it pro­vides an indi­ca­tor as to the way in which you will work towards what is known as the “greater under­stand­ing”; it illu­mi­nates the path of Truth you are to fol­low in any life.

By rul­ing what is true for you, what gives mean­ing and mean­ing­ful­ness to your life, Jupiter also indi­cates how you will relate to the larg­er world around you. By hold­ing and shap­ing your moti­va­tions or your inten­tion­al nature, Jupiter helps you to find and fol­low your path of Self-Fulfillment.

Jupiter will move through the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac in rough­ly 12 years. Though your own place­ment of Jupiter in a sign indi­cates how your will find your way in gen­er­al, it is also true that you need to inte­grate your own way of truth and being with the oth­er 11 ways too. You are here to learn to mas­ter all these ener­gies so that you may become ful­ly human.

Every year, if you open your under­stand­ing to a more com­pre­hen­sive and inclu­sive approach, you can devel­op a more inte­gral, nuanced and spir­i­tu­al­ly pur­pose­ful way of being. By mod­u­lat­ing your own way with that of the cur­rent place­ment of Jupiter, you lift your own under­stand­ing into the Greater Under­stand­ing that is your destiny.

But there is per­haps no greater les­son or gift than the pas­sage of Jupiter, (or any plan­e­tary body), through the sign of Scor­pio. Because of all the mys­ter­ies and truths you will encounter in this life, or in any life, it is this one that stands at the cen­ter of them all.

It is here that you meet “The Great Illu­sion” that is formed by you being an “I”, a sep­a­rate self-con­scious­ness of being, so that your very nature clear­ly seems to cre­ate an unbridge­able divide between you and every oth­er being.

For you have for­got­ten your truth: Long, long ago, you left from the One Spir­it as a mon­ad of con­scious­ness, to become anoth­er sparkling dew­drop among count­less oth­ers who in their pere­gri­na­tions through Space-Time form the Body of the One. Yet this seem­ing sev­er­ance or sep­a­ra­tion from the One brings about nev­er-end­ing pain and con­fu­sion, and it forms the soul­ful aching, the eter­nal long­ing for your return to the envelop­ing Peace and Love that is the One.

You seek to become unit­ed again and so become whole once more. You seek to shat­ter your alone­ness, and by reach­ing out to your fel­low sparks of the Divine you hope to feel this joy again, to be brought into the grace of peace, love and under­stand­ing that is of the One.

But what you will find, in life after life, is that this expe­ri­ence of reach­ing out to one anoth­er, of form­ing Unions of Sacred Space you share with one anoth­er, and of neces­si­ty mak­ing sac­ri­fices for and to one anoth­er, that it is pre­cise­ly here where you learn that by this giv­ing up the less­er in your­self you dis­cov­er the great­ness that is always and for­ev­er in them and in you too.

The mys­tery that is Union, the sub­lime mys­tery and gift of Scor­pio, reveals this Ker­nel of Ancient Wis­dom and Truth to you: That as you sur­ren­der the less­er parts of you to one anoth­er, as you draw clos­er to them and them to you, you are brought into the pres­ence of your own truer Self. You reach beyond your mor­tal frame and touch the Divine with­in and around you.

You come clos­er to the essence of you as you feel your way to the under­stand­ing that the One that you for­ev­er seek was (and will always be) there, right there as the very cen­ter of you…and of every­one else too. The Great Illu­sion is your feel­ing of sep­a­ra­tion; The Great Truth is that you are nev­er alone, you are not and can­not be sep­a­rat­ed from the One or from one anoth­er, for what you are and what sus­tains you through world after world, and in life after life, is the Love of the One that is you, and this equal­ly forms the Ocean of Cre­ation in which you and all the sparks of the Divine abide.

As much as Jupiter in Libra brought you into the Space of the Encounter with one anoth­er, and that Truth informed the Third Space that is Rela­tion­ship, it is here in Scor­pio that you lift the Veil of Isis and you must bow your head to the Gift of the Spirit.

You do this for one anoth­er as you join in com­mu­nion with each oth­er, for you have bro­ken the bonds of the great­est illu­sion; now you know, now you feel the truth that you are That. You know you are here in this mor­tal shell that brings you from such awful pain into the most unimag­in­able joy; you know that you are an Immor­tal danc­ing through worlds and lives as you draw ever clos­er to the one before you, and the one with­in you and to the One that is All.

You say the words to yourself:

I am That, I am.

You look upon one anoth­er and say:

Namaste.

You are one with one anoth­er, and with the One.