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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).

Sun Enters Scorpio (October 22–23, 2017)

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 (October 10th, 2017 — November 8th, 2018)

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.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, #7: Jupiter in Scorpio (Saturday October 14, 2017 @ 2 pm EDT)

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, #7: Jupiter in Scorpio
(Saturday October 14, 2017 @ 2 pm EDT)

Jupiter Enters Scorpio – The Way of Truth (October 10th, 2017 — November 8th, 2018)

Today’s show will con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Jupiter mov­ing from sign to sign, with a par­tic­u­lar focus upon the shift from Libra to Scor­pio which occurred on Octo­ber 10th, 2017.

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 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.

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.

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 Octo­ber 14th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er the influ­ence of Jupiter 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 Octo­ber 14th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/10/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-7-jupiter-in-scorpio

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 Octo­ber 14th!

Warm regards,

Bill

Sun Enters Libra – The Equinox – (September 22, 2017)

The Gift of Companionship, The Way of I and Thou

Life is Spir­it; Spir­it is Life.

At the core of any par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, there abides Light and Love, there at the cen­ter of every­thing and every­one there is the Spark of the Divine.

This dew­drop of divin­i­ty is Pure Con­scious­ness; it is a Dia­mond Body of True Love.

Each Mon­ad of the Divine exists in its own Sacred Space, which over time is formed more per­fect­ly into the liv­ing abode of a Self-Aware Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, which is guid­ed and informed by Uncon­di­tion­al Love and held in its Sacred Space as a unique “one of the One” by its Spir­i­tu­al­ly Cen­tered Will.

This is what forms the entire­ty of Cre­ation, rang­ing from the infin­i­tes­i­mals of inner space on up to the Galac­tic Con­scious­ness­es that encom­pass a celes­tial host of Stars, Plan­ets and Life-Forms.

And This is what you are too, a pre­cious dew-drop of Spir­it who is slow­ly but sure­ly becom­ing self-aware, draw­ing clos­er and clos­er to your own true nature: that you are a Divin­i­ty that is learn­ing to be a Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of this Uni­verse; to be a Lov­ing Cre­ator who is Wise and Hum­ble too.

This Jour­ney of Spir­it, this Path­way of Light and Love, is the Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing that is forged and made by you and by your com­pan­ions too. You could nev­er be what you are, “a self-becom­ing human”, with­out one anoth­er. A sin­gu­lar, uncon­nect­ed, unre­lat­ed human is just not even pos­si­ble, it would quite sim­ply not be “human” at all.

For you are tru­ly made of and by one anoth­er. In world after world, in life after life, you are formed by all with whom you have direct and indi­rect inter­re­la­tion­ships. You are formed by your par­ents, by your sib­lings and friends, class­mates and col­leagues, by your loves of for­mer lives and in the eter­nal now too, so that all your broth­ers and sis­ters in Spir­it are there with you, and you in them too. Your Thoughts-Val­ues-Morals, and the Love that holds them all, the essen­tial ele­ments of you, are all shaped by the count­less encoun­ters you have with one anoth­er. You are your rela­tions; you are an “I” and a “host of we”; and it is out of these many that you become the one that is you.

We are all “Mixed-up”; each of you is in so many oth­ers, and so many, many oth­ers are what makes you what you are too. That is why this next expe­ri­ence in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Twelve-Fold ener­gy forms that hold this Uni­verse togeth­er, is so impor­tant for you to under­stand and mas­ter. For in truth, you are made of all Twelve Signs, just in dif­fer­ing pro­por­tions and com­bi­na­tions. If you are to know your­self and become what you tru­ly are meant to be, then you must embrace some part of each sign as an essen­tial part of you.

Today you move into the realm of Libra; Today you meet with one anoth­er in that most Sacred Space of I and Thou; Today you enter the Mys­tery, where you will meet and make your­self through one anoth­er in the “third space” that is Relationship.

After the attune­ments, align­ments, adjust­ments and heal­ing of Vir­go, you are ready for this. You have done your home­work, you have won greater self-mas­tery through crit­i­cal self-exam­i­na­tion, and you are now more tru­ly you, and you are more at peace.

Now you see before you the Truth of Spir­it; that you can only become who you real­ly are when you are with one anoth­er. You gaze into the eyes of the one before you, and what is shin­ing back from those win­dows of the soul is so famil­iar. It is the same or essen­tial “aware­ness or pres­ence” that is there with­in you too. It is the One, it is the Love of the One for all the ones that comes shin­ing through each of you.

In any rela­tion­ship, there are three “spaces”. You exist in your own sacred space; and the oth­er before you, they are in their own sacred space too. Nei­ther of you may or should tres­pass upon the oth­er, nei­ther of you should lose your­self in the oth­er. But togeth­er you can build this “Third Space” of We, the space you make togeth­er. This is the play­ground of your “self that is becom­ing”; this is your space of self-trans­for­ma­tion and self-ful­fill­ment by and through one another.

It is here that you learn, work and play; here is where each of you become as you live for your­self and for one anoth­er too. By mov­ing into rela­tion­ship, you move into greater self-aware­ness through your dance of spir­it with one anoth­er. You can­not mere­ly do what you want with­out care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion for them too. You form a space of mutu­al ben­e­fit by at first uncon­scious­ly, and then ever more con­scious­ly, cre­at­ing a frame­work to guide, sup­port and pro­tect your inter­ac­tions with one anoth­er. Each of your own indi­vid­ual self-ful­fill­ments depends upon the ful­fill­ment of the oth­er. You expe­ri­ence the liv­ing real­i­ty that their dreams com­ing true are the very sub­stance of your dreams made real too.

Yes, it is here in Libra that you expe­ri­ence the Quick­en­ing of your Spir­it; it is here that you lift one anoth­er up into the Greater Aware­ness that is forged and found­ed by being part of one anoth­er, cre­at­ing one anoth­er by Love.

You need one anoth­er to be yourself.

You look back to your ances­tors, and under­stand how much you owe to those who came before.

And, you look around your­self and real­ize how much you need those with whom you jour­ney now.

You are one, and you are many.

Bow your head; Open your heart.

Smile at the one who is before you.

Know that you are one and the same,

Namaste.

Mercury Turns Direct in Leo (September 5, 2017)

You have been wait­ing for this. Mer­cury has been “slow­ing down” for a few days now, and it begins mov­ing for­ward once again today. It was ret­ro­grad­ing from August 12th until now, but it will take a lit­tle while to get back to its reg­u­lar motion. You may expe­ri­ence or observe that your per­son­al thought-forms and exter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tions may not com­plete­ly nor­mal­ize until Mer­cury leaves its ret­ro­grade zone on Sep­tem­ber 19th.

The past three weeks would have been best spent in qui­et reflec­tion, con­tem­pla­tion and self-cor­rec­tion. But of course, in our mod­ern world life goes on, and hav­ing that kind of oppor­tu­ni­ty is rare indeed. Hope­ful­ly, you did find some time each day to bend your thoughts back upon your­self, and you were able to clear away some of the accu­mu­la­tions of mis­ap­pre­hen­sion, incon­sis­ten­cy and con­fu­sion that often cloud your consciousness.

Now, it is time to apply this clear­ing of your thought-forms to the world around you. While most of this ret­ro­grade was in Vir­go, Mer­cury is turn­ing direct in the sign of Leo. That brings the focus of your mind (and dis­pos­es oth­ers like­wise) to be most shaped by con­cerns regard­ing Respect, Hon­or and Love. These thought-forms and sen­si­bil­i­ties are in everyone’s mind and upon everyone’s tongue. Much like the phys­i­cal weath­er, it is best to be pre­pared for what may come by under­stand­ing what con­di­tions pre­vail at any one time.

You would do well to pause and con­sid­er how to approach any mat­ter with a true con­sid­er­a­tion of the respect you need to show to one anoth­er, always. Cer­tain­ly, you should have a keen appre­ci­a­tion for your own self-regard, which is found­ed upon know­ing who and what you tru­ly are, a self-aware spir­it whose core is formed by spir­i­tu­al love. From this, you should find com­fort and grace in endur­ing and healthy love and respect for your­self. You can stay cen­tered and true, with clear thoughts and inten­tions as you hold your­self with this knowl­edge of your ori­gin and destiny.

But you must equal­ly acknowl­edge, that any per­son who is before you is owed this same con­sid­er­a­tion too. Whether that per­son be friend or stranger, your “mas­ter” or “ser­vant”, that per­son before you is fun­da­men­tal­ly your equal, walk­ing the same path of self-awak­en­ing and self-ful­fill­ment as you. If you want their respect, you must earn that by show­ing them the same respect you wish to receive from them.

Think respect­ful­ly, speak kind­ly and lis­ten atten­tive­ly because it is how you wished to be treat­ed too. If you wish to under­stand one anoth­er, to grow in con­scious­ness which can only be accom­plished by com­min­gling your thoughts with one anoth­er, you must do what­ev­er you can to open your minds to one anoth­er by acknowl­edg­ing the fun­da­men­tal and com­mon val­ue you share; that each of you is a spark of the Divine, and each of you is ulti­mate­ly a lumi­nous being whose true nature is formed by Divine Love.

You have had time to reflect and make amends for wrong­ful thoughts and deeds.

Turn the page in the book of life, and face the promise of bet­ter days.

Your thoughts, words and deeds will forge your future.

Choose wise­ly, act lovingly.

And you will shine.