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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 Taurus (April 20, 2015)

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The first ques­tion in the Book of Life is:

Who are you?

And the sec­ond, per­haps even more mys­te­ri­ous query will ever be:

What are you?

The Zodi­ac, the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Ener­gy-Forms that fill the spaces of space, that form (and inform) all of this Cre­ation (for know what your heart tells you is so, the whole Uni­verse is tru­ly “alive”), reveal and bestow the mean­ings, pur­pos­es and des­tinies for every mote and speck in this Cos­mos. For each and every mon­ad or par­ti­cle, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal on up to unimag­in­able infini­ties, whether in min­er­als, plants or ani­mat­ed beings, in flow­ers and bees, in a sin­gle mol­e­cule or in the moun­tains, and moons and stars, and so also in each cell of your body, and most impor­tant­ly, abid­ing for­ev­er at the cen­ter and very high­est part of your being too, all of these ener­gy-forms have as their ensoul­ing core, all have as their most pre­cious heart, a self-lumi­nous spark of Divinity.

You are part of a vast Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it, which is upon a jour­ney of Con­scious­ness, of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it mov­ing from states of aware­ness that begin with just the mer­est sense of being, on upwards to forms of un-self-aware con­scious­ness to ever more evolved and pur­pose­ful states of self-aware con­scious­ness. The entire­ty of Cre­ation is a spi­ral­ing chain of Life-Forms, of Spir­its mov­ing in and out of Mat­ter as each one, and then all togeth­er, jour­ney to ever greater reach­es of Spir­i­tu­al self-fulfillment.

You find your­self now in the Human King­dom, where a great chal­lenge and gift is offered to you. Here as “human” you have what greater beings and less­er can only imagine…you have the gift of choice. It is because you are here to dis­cov­er who and what you are, to under­stand like­wise who and what trav­els with you too, and you can only do this, as you learn by tri­al and error, through reach­ing up and falling down, and reach­ing up again…you learn what is good and what is less good. You are here to learn to lift your­self up, to con­scious­ly choose to con­tin­ue upon the path of Spir­it, to align your­self with your ori­gin and so hon­or the path that forms your destiny…you learn by fol­low­ing this cir­cuitous path of self-unfold­ment, you learn and choose what is good and true.

In Aries, wher­ev­er it is found in your chart, and when­ev­er you are in such a time and place that speaks of this, you are to learn again that in Aries you are here to find your true Self, to acknowl­edge “the pres­ence” with­in, to become aware of the “aware­ness of aware­ness” that watch­es over all that you were, are and are yet to be. It is your know­ing of know­ing, it is the first gate you must pass, the Por­tal of Spir­i­tu­al Pres­ence: “I am”.

Now in this time of Tau­rus, and when­ev­er and wher­ev­er you encounter this Liv­ing One, you are brought before the Sec­ond Por­tal of Spir­it to expe­ri­ence what you know as your man­i­fes­ta­tions, your mate­ri­al­iza­tions, your won­drous forms of embod­i­ment which serve you in what­ev­er world and dimen­sion you find your­self to be mov­ing through.

You are com­posed by a hier­ar­chy of vehi­cles of self-real­iza­tion. Descend­ing from the realm of pure Spir­it, you have a Spir­it Body, a Men­tal Body, an Emo­tion­al Body and then some form of Phys­i­cal Body too. But always, in each of these forms, and at the core of each of the innu­mer­able par­ti­cles mak­ing up these bod­ies, there is the pri­mal ener­gy-form, the essen­tial essence of all these Light-Forms, there abides the One, there you are one with the Divine.

This is the answer to your sec­ond ques­tion, of what are you? You are “THAT”, you are a spark of the Divine. And that as much as is it is with­in you, is you, it sur­rounds you too. You are a pre­cious par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, and as much as your core is a por­tal to the Infi­nite, being of and from the Divine, then too you will know that the entire­ty of Cre­ation is with­in you too! You are a Divin­i­ty mov­ing towards mas­tery, as is the entire­ty of Cre­ation so mov­ing too…The Illu­sion you must over­come is this appear­ance of sep­a­ra­tion, and the Greater Aware­ness to which you strive is to know and to live the Truth that there is but one Spir­it, one Con­scious­ness and one Divine Will.

That is why you are here, to learn, to grow, to under­stand and so to smile…to look with­in your­self and to “bow” to that divin­i­ty that is the core and true essence of you…And that is why you are here to equal­ly turn to your broth­ers and sis­ters, to revere all crea­tures, plants, moun­tains and stars…You are to turn to them all and bow your head in most joy­ful acknowl­edge­ment… and say the Bless­ing of Truth, which express­es this fun­da­men­tal One­ness of Creation:

Namaste” (“I bow to the Divine with­in you”).

I am that, I am.

Namaste.

Sun Enters Aries (March 20, 2015)

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Hap­py Astro­log­i­cal New Year!

Your won­drous spi­ral­ing dance

Through the Spaces of space,

Your weav­ing and bobbing,

Swoop­ing and swirling around your Star,

Has brought you full cir­cle once more.

 

Time to pause, to con­sid­er once again,

Where did you come from, why are you here…

And to what End is it real­ly, real­ly after all,

What is this Jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it for?

 

You are here, as is all of Creation,

Rang­ing from the small­est Infinitesimal,

To the Hosts of Infini­ties above and beyond,

You and all the Lumi­nous Hosts of Life-Forms,

All move through a series of Dimen­sions, Worlds and Lives,

And it is all for one thing truly,

You are here quite sim­ply to Grow.

 

Each breath that you have,

Each step that you take,

Each life that you live,

Each love that you make,

Is Pre­cious.

For you are the “Self that is Becoming”,

A ris­ing Star in a Uni­verse of Stars.

 

As you dance through these Lives, Worlds and Dimensions,

Every moment is filled with promise,

For you are formed by the Light of the One.

Each turn in your life portentous,

For oth­er lives, even Worlds, hang in the balance.

But no step is per­haps more pre­cious than this one,

The next One,

The Now.

 

Today you step into the New Year,

Today you rise to the Song of Aries.

Your year begins with Fire,

With Ideals, Visions and Dreams.

Your Life and Lives are here today,

In this most won­drous moment,

Here in this most pre­cious Now.

 

For what you must understand,

Is that you are the Dream­ing Maker-Creator.

So that what you face today is quite simply,

What you made before.

But what comes Next,

That is on you,

It Depends upon you, and

You must become Aware.

 

For you can­not change what was,

It is Done.

And you can­not see what lies ahead,

For it is not yet ful­ly Formed.

It is here, and it is only here, where

You can and will be tru­ly Free.

 

So, it is real­ly up to you,

To be what you dream,

To become what you will be,

A radi­ant, Self-Illu­mined Star.

Turn towards this Dawn­ing of Days,

With­in and with­out, face your Cen­tral Star,

Do you know who you will be?

 

Will you greet your day with Kindness?

Will you lend a help­ing hand?

Will you plant your seeds of Healing?

Will you Smile, and Laugh and Love? Ah yes,

Now you Understand.

 

This is where it matters,

Here in the first of many steps.

Your Inten­tions and Motivations,

They will make real your Light-Filled Dreams.

You will take your­self, make yourself,

You will bring this Creation,

Into the Promised Land.

 

And that, that is why you are here…

Sun Enters Pisces (February 18, 2015)

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You are the Alpha,

And you are the Omega.

You were there in the “begin­ning”,

And you will be there at the “end”.

Your Spi­ral Dance of Spir­it came out from No Thing…

From the Un-Man­i­fest, from Non-Being…

From “Noth­ing”, came all this Creation.

Out of the Dark­ness, now there is this Light,

Out of “That”, out of the One,

Came all of you, came all of you ones of the One.

 

All of this Creation,

Is a vast Spi­ral­ing Hier­ar­chy of Consciousness,

The One Light behind it all, you know and feel as Love.

Span­ning inward­ly and outwardly,

Between the Twelve Dimen­sions, and also with­in them too,

By the Dream­ers and the Builders,

From the intri­cate spi­ral­ing dance of the Infinitesimals,

To the Vast Spi­rals of Stars, Galax­ies and hosts of Super-beings,

It is all the same,

It is all the One,

It is all of you.

 

In Time and Space,

In Motion and in Still­ness too,

All of this Man­i­fes­ta­tion, this is the Body of the One.

All form the won­drous Spi­ral Dance of Spirit,

All Sing the Spir­it Songs of Consciousness.

All of this, and all of you,

All of “That” is this Jour­ney of Becoming.

All of this is Creation,

Which is from, comes from, and is made by your Love.

All of this, all of this, becomes as the becom­ing of Spirit

Because of you.

 

Your year begins in Fire,

In the spring­ing forth that is Aries.

Your year now clos­es in Water,

In the draw­ing inward that is Pisces.

 

The whole Arc of this year, and all your many years,

Of what you faced in your self-made fates,

And what you forged anew in reply,

Now you must draw and weave these ener­gy-forms together,

To Form your resplen­dent, shin­ing Robe of Glory.

From all these mem­o­ry-mean­ings are formed and found,

That most pre­cious gem,

That sparkling star, your High­er Consciousness,

And it is tru­ly this, this Story,

This is the Sto­ry and Truth that is you.

 

Here in this sacred space, this is your time,

To remem­ber who and what you were, are, and yet will be.

You are the Dream­er in your Creation,

Walk­ing the sacred Path­ways of the Presence,

For though it seems to be just behind or beyond you,

As you move in these Times and Spaces,

You will abide, as always,

In the only Cre­ative Space of Freedom.

Here in your ever­last­ing Presence,

Here you will find the Way,

Here you will be a Creator

Here in the Eter­nal Now.

 

Each step you take is precious,

Each Sign, each month a les­son for you,

By which you become and so make what you will be.

And there is no end to that, no final step that you may see.

 

Yet wise ones do say, there is some­thing even clos­er to you here,

That here in Pisces the final song and Truth of Spir­it rings out.

Here you walk beside the Ever­last­ing Waters,

Here you behold the Won­ders of your Faith and Dreaming.

For this is the gift of your Ori­gin and Destiny,

That you are a spark of the Divine,

Here is your Foun­tain-Source of Truth.

This forms your most price­less essence,

Your Dia­mond-Body, your Pearl of Great Price,

This very Quin­tes­sence that is you.

 

Yes, you are a Dreaming-Creator,

And, it is time to see the pow­er of your Faith,

And, to under­stand why you still have Fear.

To know that what you shall become,

Is always mea­sured by what you gave,

And so you shall receive, exactly

What you made by you before.

 

To under­stand that what brought you low,

Shall be the very means that will lift you up.

For you can only grow in your stumbling,

To try, and fail and to try again.

And so you learn and choose to do better.

 

And you will only know this in liv­ing by Truth,

You will only under­stand this by liv­ing with Faith,

You will only feel this by liv­ing through Love.

 

You will know and walk this path of the Wise Ones,

To see and live for the dawn­ing of your bet­ter days.

For only you can make that Shin­ing City on the Hill,

You can and will do this someday.

 

So in this time of Pisces,

Remem­ber who you are,

A Dream­er, a Creator,

Who by walk­ing your Path,

In For­give­ness and Humility,

By Kind­ness and Compassion,

You will awak­en to your Truth,

An Immor­tal in this mor­tal Frame.

Sun Enters Aquarius & New Moon in Aquarius (January 20, 2015)

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You are one of many, many ones…

Each a spark of the one Divine Light.

All togeth­er you form the Liv­ing Host

That is the Ener­gy-Sub­stance of this Cosmos,

Also known as Life-Consciousness-Spirit.

All of you count­less ones are formed by and through your jour­ney with one another…

You become by and cre­ate one anoth­er through the innumerable

Worlds, Forms and Lives in which you come to know and become

What you are.

Each of you is a lumi­nous spark of the One Divine Light.

And through these count­less lives you will find

That you are spe­cial, that you are a unique experience/expression

Of this Light that is the One.

And you will smile and laugh as you final­ly understand

That your whole jour­ney is because and found in

This Light that is the Ener­gy-Form that fills all the spaces of Space.

So, you will come to this, to know that the ulti­mate real­i­ty of this Bound­less Creation

Is Love.

And you will find your peace and hap­pi­ness here,

For you will live and abide in this Love which is simply

The Love of the One for all of you.

 

Your next turn­ing is here…

Your spi­ral­ing jour­neys of Self-Becoming

That take you through innu­mer­able ema­na­tions in Time and Space,

Have brought you now to the final realm of Air,

To the last of the Fixed Signs in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, and

You are here now to cel­e­brate the time that is Aquarius.

For as the Astro­log­i­cal Year approach­es its final moment,

Hav­ing sur­mount­ed the Pin­na­cle of the Penul­ti­mate, the moment that was Capricorn,

Your atten­tion turns away from these Achieve­ments and Glo­ries of yesteryear.

This Body of Work, your Insti­tu­tions and Lega­cies ring forth with what you and

Your Ances­tors have poured your Lives and Loves into…and yet you wonder.

Is that it? Hav­ing climbed this moun­tain of man­i­fes­ta­tion, where do I go now?

Then you hear it, that song of life ring­ing out once more,

It is there in your heart. and so too upon the wind.

 

You feel these Winds of the Spir­it blow­ing, gen­tly whis­per­ing to you that of course there is more to you than this, oh there is so much more for you and your Cre­ation to become.

And so you remem­ber, that your one true call­ing, your spir­i­tu­al imper­a­tive is quite sim­ply “to grow”. And that you can only become who you are to be by Dream­ing-Cre­at­ing-Being with your fel­low seek­ers, your broth­ers and sis­ters whose dreams are of you, and yours for them, for you are all made of and by your love for one anoth­er. You can only become the unique ray of light that you are by this, for it is with and for one anoth­er that you are to cre­ate ever bet­ter spaces of free­dom in which to be and become your truth. Your own ful­fill­ment is to be found in this self-becom­ing that is true for one and for all. For remem­ber this, you are all made of one anoth­er, and what is true for any one of you will and must be true for you all.

You are here to go beyond what has so far been made by you, you are here to go beyond these shad­owed realms and into a clear­er light, into a “New World” and so unfold your­selves into an ever greater and Freer space, where all of you, where each and every one of you will live for one anoth­er’s ful­fill­ment, where you will tru­ly be “all for one and one for All”.

Yes, your space of Aquar­ius (for you all have Aquar­ius some­where with­in you), and this time with­in Aquar­ius, is your space and time to live in the Greater Aware­ness that you are one of many ones. Your whole pur­pose is to reach beyond the Illu­sion that is your Sep­a­ra­tion, to reach with­in and beyond and know that in your heart of hearts, in your Dia­mond Spir­it Body, you are here to be for one anoth­er and so to tru­ly love one anoth­er unconditionally…

And by this you will become the dawn and dream of the Divine with­in you.

Gath­er together…

With Friends, who wish noth­ing more of you,

Than for you to be exact­ly who you are.

For you are here for this.

To Be yourself,

To Be Free.

To Be the Light,

To Be a Creator,

And To Love one another.