The Light of Consciousness

The sto­ry of Cre­ation is the sto­ry of the jour­ney of Spir­it through all the many realms of this Uni­verse. From the One, came the many; the count­less many ones who went out on a seem­ing­ly nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of becom­ing. These Mon­ads of Spir­its, these Sparks of the Divine, are found at the heart of every par­ti­cle, being or Ener­gy-Form of the Uni­verse. Tru­ly we need to move away from our dual­is­tic notions of Ener­gy and Form, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, and under­stand that real­ly there is just the One. That Mat­ter is just the dens­est form of Spir­it, as Spir­it is the most ethe­re­al form of Matter.

These sparks of the Divine form the build­ing blocks of Cre­ation, rang­ing from what we know as the sub-atom­ic world of pro­tons, elec­trons, and neu­trons, and on up to the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies and what­ev­er lies beyond; and that all these amaz­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it-Mat­ter are the body, heart, and mind of the One. We should also under­stand that all these Ener­gy-Forms are just var­ied man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it, and that the whole of Cre­ation is filled with the Light of Con­scious­ness and Uncon­di­tion­al Love of the One. The One is Cre­ation; Cre­ation is the One.

And this is the point of this spe­cial moment in our Zodi­a­cal Year, for today we move from the realm of Tau­rus into the Light that is Gem­i­ni. Because anoth­er way of under­stand­ing Cre­ation is that on one lev­el or con­sid­er­a­tion, the whole of Cre­ation is Con­scious; Cre­ation is the Mind of the One made man­i­fest. Every part of Cre­ation is on some lev­el a form of mind, a form of con­scious­ness, so that the entire­ty of Cre­ation is also the Mind of the One. The Whole Uni­verse is essen­tial­ly the Con­scious­ness of the One; and we should under­stand that the entire hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness is exact­ly this, the inter­re­lat­ed and inter­de­pen­dent fields of fields of Ener­gy-Forms that are the Life-Love-Mind of the One.

Why is this impor­tant for Gem­i­ni? Because held with­in the sto­ry of Gem­i­ni we find the ever-renew­ing gift that holds the por­tal to our greater under­stand­ing. Yes, the whole of Cre­ation is formed by many forms of mind in a con­stant jour­ney of self-becom­ing. But there is a point in the pere­gri­na­tions of spir­it through the Uni­verse, in which each class of mon­ads arrives at this spe­cial moment in their jour­ney, when they become not mere­ly aware, but self-aware. That is what we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni, the gift of our self-aware consciousness.

Long, long ago, when our inner mon­ad of the Divine Spir­it was ready for this great “quick­en­ing”, for the release of our greater poten­tial, it was then that the torch of Self-Aware­ness was passed to us by those who had walked this path long ago. It was their duty and hon­or to share with us this gift, just as it had been shared with them ages ago. For this is part of the teach­ing too, that all the ones of the One care for one anoth­er, and that all of us become who and what we are to be through our rela­tion­ships and love for one another.

That is why we have these sto­ries that have been passed down to us from our ances­tors, that tell us about this gift of aware­ness. They are the tales held in the myths of Prometheus, of Lucifer, of Quet­zal­coatl, of Loki and the great sto­ry of the Kumaras. Until that moment in our jour­ney, we were aware but some­what asleep as well, and it was at this most con­se­quen­tial gift that we were pulled into “the aware­ness of our aware­ness”, we became self-aware, and this was both joy­ful and very painful too.

Why? Because now we were seem­ing­ly sep­a­rat­ed from the One, and we “fell” into divi­sion as we rose in this new under­stand­ing, and this is part of our sto­ry too. We left behind our inno­cence as we were gift­ed this greater respon­si­bil­i­ty for our fur­ther devel­op­ment. This was when we began to walk the path of being in that great com­pa­ny of awak­en­ing, to be and become self-aware cre­ators in Creation.

With this gift of self-aware­ness, with the dawn­ing of objec­tive con­scious­ness, the next step in our jour­ney was tak­en, as we became aware through the twin pil­lars of Gem­i­ni of the way of the Uni­verse, of the dual­i­ties of cre­ation, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Sub­ject and Object, of “this and that”, which began most sim­ply for us in the expe­ri­ence of “I am that, and I am not that”. And it was this, this unceas­ing, inces­sant need to expe­ri­ence Cre­ation in all its com­plex­i­ties, diver­si­ties, cor­re­spon­dences, and con­nec­tions that stirred our glo­ri­ous and self-lumi­nous seed to sprout, because now we had to know, we had to under­stand “how all of this, how all of that”, is.

What we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni now, and at this time of year and some­where in your chart this is always true, you should give thanks for this nec­tar of the gods which we know as the Light of Intel­li­gence. But we should always remem­ber that like all spir­i­tu­al gifts, this gift must be under­stood as being found­ed upon and then made real by our love for one anoth­er, just as this gift was giv­en to us by love. Our obser­va­tions and cog­i­ta­tions, our analy­ses, and our deter­mi­na­tions, can­not move us to a deep­er under­stand­ing with­out being teth­ered and shaped, ground­ed and sup­port­ed by our shar­ing and com­par­ing with one anoth­er. For after all, what we real­ly are as humans is this, we are Storytellers.

The sto­ry of our Intel­li­gence, like the sto­ry of our Con­scious­ness, is just that, a sto­ry. If we wish to not fall into error, if we wish to walk the path of the One, then we must keep shar­ing with one anoth­er, we must lis­ten to one anoth­er, we must keep shar­ing our sto­ries with one anoth­er, and by this car­ing and com­pas­sion and shar­ing, we will be able to help one anoth­er to refine our under­stand­ing of our­selves and our world.

For it is most cer­tain­ly true that you will only know your­self, and you will only under­stand your world, when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into the eyes of whomev­er is before you, and when you see shin­ing there that sparkling Spir­it of Know­ing, it is then that you will smile and laugh and love with one anoth­er because you know we are the Light which is the Divine, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.

Tau­rus, Johfra Bosschart

What are you?

Today we begin the sec­ond month in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, and some­where in your chart, and for every­one at this time of year, we all need to lis­ten to the spir­i­tu­al mes­sages for us in this sacred space known as Taurus.

For the past 30 days you have been guid­ed and inspired by the Gift that is Aries, the abil­i­ty to find and forge your true pres­ence as you walk through the “eter­nal now”. As I will often say to my clients when­ev­er their pro­gressed Moon is mov­ing through Aries, (or when­ev­er a plan­et is mov­ing through their chart’s first house), the uni­verse is ask­ing you the first ques­tion of life, “Who are you”?

That is a very pro­found ques­tion indeed, of course. But Tau­rus brings you to per­haps an even deep­er and more chal­leng­ing ques­tion; life will ask you now not “who” are you, but “what are you”? Think about that ques­tion, of all the many cat­e­gories of being, the great range of attrib­ut­es, strengths, pow­ers and so very much more that go into the mak­ing of the “what” of you. Real­ly that is it, “What is that what?”; and that is the ques­tion you need to be ask­ing your­self in Taurus.

And, if you con­sid­er this ques­tion, for even a very short time, you will real­ize how very deep and pro­found it is. Exact­ly what is “the What” of being human? For you are not “a thing”, no not at all. You, and this is true of every mote and par­ti­cle of Cre­ation too, you are a field of Ener­gy-Forms or bod­ies, formed by a hier­ar­chy of these mag­nif­i­cent man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spirit-Matter.

You are a sparkling dew­drop of the divine who emerged from the One. In each life, “from the cen­ter that is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”, from the heart of you which is a Mon­ad of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, you bring forth from your­self, in com­bi­na­tion with the sur­round­ing fields of Ener­gy-Forms, the nec­es­sary vehi­cles of being that are required for each dimen­sion of life that is Creation.

You descend or emanate from your Mon­ad or Spir­it Body Field which is the high­est part of you, into the next realm of your Men­tal-Intu­itive ener­gy-form or body, then from that descends a low­er Men­tal form, and then from this an Emo­tion­al body, and then a Vital body, and final­ly, to what you mis­tak­en­ly take to be your “true self”, you assume a Phys­i­cal body, the dens­est Field of Ener­gy-Forms that you require for life here on Earth.

And you need to know this, that each of these bod­ies are formed by par­ti­cles and forms from which they are made too. You are not an indi­vid­ual being what­so­ev­er, you are a host of hosts, a ver­i­ta­ble con­stel­la­tion or field of fields of ener­gy-forms, so that in fact you are very own lit­tle uni­verse of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

Yes, it is in Tau­rus that you move from sub­jec­tiv­i­ty to objec­tiv­i­ty, you go from “I am” to “I am that”. You become you by these forms of being as you expe­ri­ence life as a rain­bow of sen­sa­tions, as you dis­cov­er your strengths, as you acquire your abil­i­ties, and by mov­ing into this earthy realm you forge the qual­i­ties of you as human. In Tau­rus, you expe­ri­ence the joy and won­der of being alive, of see­ing the beau­ty of the world, of liv­ing in a realm of shapes and col­ors, and sounds, and scents, and so many won­der­ful sen­sa­tions that are the heart of and forge the love of being part of LIFE, of which you are a most spe­cial part too.

But the ques­tion remains, what is “that what” of you, or bet­ter, what is the val­ue that is you? From your youth to old age, the val­ues that make you, the qual­i­ties of your being, will wax and wane, as the phys­i­cal strengths of your youth give way to the gifts of wis­dom and judge­ment of lat­er years. There are days when it all seems so per­fect, to be fol­lowed by days when you do not feel so very valu­able at all. Amidst all these ups and downs, of a life of joys and of sor­rows, what is behind the val­ue of you any­way? After all the many ways of val­ue, what is the foun­tain-source of val­ue of you?

As it was in the begin­ning, so shall it be in the end. You are a price­less jew­el of spir­it, a spark of the Divine. There is no way to mea­sure what is the what of you, for tru­ly it is the one Ener­gy-Form behind the entire­ty of Cre­ation; you are through and through made of Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

But so is all of this, all of life, all of cre­ation is here because of Love. All of Cre­ation is pre­cious, all of it is here to be loved too.

You are here because of love, and you are here quite sim­ply to be that Love for one anoth­er and for this beau­ti­ful Earth and for the Stars above you too.

Remem­ber what you are,

Love one another.

Black Hole — Grav­i­ty Well

Tran­script of Radio Show: Bub­bles of Belief and The Grav­i­ty Well of Faith (4/10/2022)

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

I thought that it would help to pull back from any one issue today, as we focused on Ukraine, Zelen­sky and Putin last time, and zoom out and look at the prin­ci­pal plan­e­tary Avatars of mean­ing again, to look to Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to and reex­am­ine their message(s) for us at this time.

But first, I would also like to remind us, that the plan­ets and stars do not make the con­tent of what hap­pens here on Earth. They do not cre­ate Love or Hate, Peace or War. What we have, what we face and what we will make, the very real con­tent of our indi­vid­ual char­ac­ter, the sen­si­bil­i­ties and morals of our com­mu­ni­ties, and the real­i­ty of our eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal orders, all of that is some­thing that we have fash­ioned since the moment we humans moved into self-aware devel­op­ment many thou­sands of years ago.

Con­scious­ness, Pat­terns and Self-Awareness
The moment we began to become aware and see pat­terns, with­in our­selves, and between one anoth­er, and in the world around us, the moment we began to fash­ion ways of meet­ing our needs that we could pass down to those after us, the moment we became co-cre­ators of our­selves and this world, it is then that we became respon­si­ble for what we have done well (and not so well) through­out human his­to­ry. And this under­stand­ing, of how much we make and re-make our­selves and our real­i­ty, has become increas­ing­ly evi­dent over the last 500 years. We find at this moment in our jour­ney of awak­en­ing, that we humans have become one of the prin­ci­pal instru­ments of evo­lu­tion on this Earth. And, as always, since the moment we woke up the key to our future would for­ev­er flow from the great injunc­tion of Spir­i­tu­al Wis­dom and self-mas­tery, “Know Thyself”.

But how is it that we did or do this? What is this secret of our pow­er to cre­ate, and the pow­er to destroy our­selves and our world? What we under­stand is that this awe­some gift, with the pow­er of a being a cre­ator and destroy­er, was forged when we became self-aware, and we became capa­ble of hold­ing our expe­ri­ences in vehi­cles of preser­va­tion and trans­mis­sion, in sym­bols and sounds, in Knowl­edge and Wis­dom, and it was then that we became ever more respon­si­ble as the shapers and mak­ers of our destiny.

Vehi­cles of Knowing
These vehi­cles of preser­va­tion take many forms. In ear­li­er ages, but still very much present in our own time, the cus­toms, and life­ways of a group of humans, a fam­i­ly tribe, or a small com­mu­ni­ty or larg­er com­mu­ni­ty, who hav­ing dis­cov­ered how to secure their needs in their local area, (for water, food, shel­ter, etc.), we humans would cre­ate sto­ries and rit­u­als that held this knowl­edge of our world for those that fol­lowed. Our great­est trea­sure and gift to those who will fol­low us is this liv­ing Ener­gy-Form of Mind that per­sists from gen­er­a­tion to generation.

But these vehi­cles of know­ing and mem­o­ry do not just pass on prac­ti­cal or tech­ni­cal knowl­edge. For we humans are made of much more than naked ideas or thoughts. We also find it nec­es­sary, to enfold and encode our knowl­edge and truth with “Mean­ing­ful­ness”. We do not mere­ly think, we Think-Feel, or Feel-Think, and our expe­ri­ences, mem­o­ries, sto­ries, and wis­dom are held togeth­er and passed down in ways that hold us togeth­er with these ener­gy-forms of Love and Hate, Faith and Fear, Com­pas­sion and Self­ish­ness that move us deeply and pro­found­ly and tru­ly form our real­i­ty of one anoth­er and our world.

Bub­bles of Belief
I have called these vehi­cles of expe­ri­ence, (and this des­ig­na­tion becomes increas­ing­ly rel­e­vant in the more com­plex human com­mu­ni­ties of eth­nic­i­ties, cul­tures, and mod­ern nation states), I call these hold­ers of mean­ings our “Bub­bles of Belief”. It is Neptune’s role for us, as the Avatar of Under­stand­ing and Mean­ing, by its indi­vid­ual syn­od­ic cycles (one cir­cuit around our star to the next), and its inter­sect­ing cycles with Uranus and Plu­to espe­cial­ly, it is Neptune’s mes­sag­ing that can be most help­ful in help­ing to explain the waves of mean­ing­ful­ness that sweep through us and our history.

Again, I want to stress, that it is not Nep­tune (or any plan­et for that mat­ter), which forms the spe­cif­ic type of con­tent of mean­ing that any one group or cul­ture has cre­at­ed and fol­lowed. That con­tent and that mean­ing, is made by us, it has evolved and devel­oped over time, from the very dis­tant past, and that cre­ation and accre­tion informs our present cir­cum­stances, and it can also help us to under­stand how we might be shap­ing our future too.

In what we see from our record­ed his­to­ries, cer­tain­ly since the times of the ancient or clas­si­cal worlds, before the cur­rent era (BCE), and then increas­ing­ly down to our very own time today, we see how the pow­er of beliefs of one group or of one peo­ple or one cul­ture can have the most sig­nif­i­cant effects upon that group inter­nal­ly, and equal­ly upon those with whom they have con­tact exter­nal­ly. Indeed, what we can see now in the present day is that these Bub­bles of Belief influ­ence and shape the entire world in both won­der­ful and hor­rif­ic ways.

We humans are so very pro­tean in our nature, capa­ble of cre­at­ing or mak­ing the val­ue of our­selves and of the mate­r­i­al world we live in, bend­ing and trans­form­ing in a mul­ti­tude of ways, so that the range of cul­tures, beliefs, life­ways, and hier­ar­chies of val­ues expe­ri­enced over the course of our his­to­ry is quite astound­ing, rich, and var­ied. These Bub­bles of Belief form and shape our very notions of who we are, what it means to be human, what we aspire to be, includ­ing the notion of what is the mean­ing or pur­pose of our lives.

But because how very deeply we humans are made from and held by these Thought-Feel­ing Forms, their influ­ence over any indi­vid­ual, or group, or cul­ture or nation is very pro­found. It is one thing when we con­sid­er the more minor vehi­cles of tech­nique and mean­ing, the accu­mu­lat­ed knowl­edge that enables each gen­er­a­tion to lit­er­al­ly not have to re-invent the wheel! But it is entire­ly a dif­fer­ent order of mean­ing when we con­sid­er these larg­er Bub­bles of Belief and Mean­ing that shape a group or cul­ture or nation, mold­ing and hold­ing their spir­i­tu­al and cul­tur­al ideals, their cat­e­gories of right and wrong, of good and evil, of truth and falsehood.

Grav­i­ty Well of Faith
This is what I meant by includ­ing in the title for this show what I call the phe­nom­e­non of “The Grav­i­ty Well of Faith”. What do I mean by this? It is the con­cept that as groups of peo­ples, and even more as a set of sub-cul­tures are formed, and final­ly as a larg­er over-arch­ing cul­ture of a peo­ple or nation is estab­lished, their core beliefs become some­what like the obser­va­tions of the influ­ence of grav­i­ty, which is itself most pow­er­ful­ly observed when we see how the pas­sage of light from a par­tic­u­lar star is lit­er­al­ly “bent” by the grav­i­ty of anoth­er star or even more by a black hole. I would argue that in a Men­tal-Emo­tion­al way, the attach­ment and weight of belief and faith has a sim­i­lar effect of pulling those mem­bers into a deeply bind­ing sys­tem of real­i­ty, which cre­ates an all-pow­er­ful Idea-Feel­ing form that holds that group togeth­er as one. It is the way of that peo­ple, the “Spir­i­tus Mun­di”, the Spir­it of a Time, or the “Zeit­geist”, the defin­ing Char­ac­ter of the peo­ple in a peri­od of history.

Through­out human his­to­ry, we have wit­nessed the awe­some pow­er of what we might con­sid­er con­struc­tive and destruc­tive Bub­bles of Belief, as in the Ideas and Pas­sions forged by reli­gious beliefs, or the dra­ma of social move­ments striv­ing to advance social jus­tice. But we have equal­ly wit­nessed the hor­rors com­mit­ted in the name of faith, or the so-called advance­ment or tri­umph of one peo­ple by the destruc­tion of anoth­er. Tru­ly these more encom­pass­ing and com­pelling Belief Bub­bles hold and bind their believ­ers in a deep Well of fer­vor which can lead to the most dis­parate of outcomes.

Through­out his­to­ry, and cer­tain­ly in what we call the “mod­ern era”, the Grav­i­ty Well of Faith that holds all a peo­ple as one, the idea of a peo­ple defined by a geo­graph­ic area, a com­mon his­to­ry, a cer­tain set of cul­tur­al attrib­ut­es, etcetera, has been a prin­ci­pal dri­ver of human inte­gra­tion with­in that group and defined and shaped its rela­tion­ship with oth­er peo­ples or groups. Yet, beyond these nat­ur­al foun­da­tions for the defin­ing of a peo­ple, beyond what some have held as the true root­ed­ness found in “blood and soil”, we also have seen the very pow­er of an idea itself, such as “all humans are cre­at­ed equal” per­me­ate, chal­lenge and over­throw these more so-called nat­ur­al deter­mi­na­tions of what forms the Grav­i­ty Well of Faith.

The shift from pre­vail­ing Bub­bles of Belief, and even from one Grav­i­ty Well to anoth­er, has both been a prod­uct of our human pro­tean capac­i­ty and equal­ly the dri­ver of that trans­for­ma­tive evo­lu­tion. Tru­ly, we are and make what we are by how we Think and Feel about who we are, where we come from, what mat­ters to us, and, and how that fits with the larg­er world around us and oth­er groups with oth­er Beliefs and Grav­i­ty Wells of Faith.

Astro­log­i­cal­ly, what we can observe over time with regards to the cycle of Nep­tune through the Zodi­ac, is that there are sim­i­lar influ­ences cre­at­ed when it is mov­ing the Zodi­a­cal Signs, and espe­cial­ly when pass­ing through Pisces (as it is now), along with sig­nif­i­cant indi­ca­tions revealed by its orbital rela­tion­ship with Uranus (as well as its orbital pat­tern with Plu­to too).

Nep­tune, The Uni­ver­sal Solvent
For our pur­pose today, when­ev­er Nep­tune, known as the Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent, is mov­ing through its own sign of Pisces, we have seen a greater propen­si­ty towards the dis­solv­ing and warp­ing of the Bub­bles of Belief and Mean­ing for that peri­od. Our peri­od from 2011 to 2026 is like that of 1848–1862, or 1685–1698, and 1520–1535. In our time, as in those peri­ods, there was a surge of mys­ti­cism and cre­ativ­i­ty, of reli­gious and ide­o­log­i­cal fer­ment, and the break­ing down of the old cer­tain­ties as bor­ders between the orders and realms of soci­ety became more permeable.

What hap­pens in such peri­ods is that the for­mer cer­tain­ties of a reign­ing order of mean­ing begin to dis­solve, and indi­vid­u­als and groups become unteth­ered to a com­mon­ly held real­i­ty for­ma­tion. This move­ment beyond the lim­its or con­fines of pre­vi­ous held truths and beliefs can be lib­er­at­ing, and indeed this “let­ting go in order to grow” has been a nec­es­sary and sig­nif­i­cant instru­ment of progress. But it is also prob­a­ble, and many times we have seen this as well, that the break­ing of those Bub­bles of Beliefs which been held togeth­er the many as one in a shared Grav­i­ty Well of Faith will lead those unteth­ered souls into wider and some­times weird­er per­mu­ta­tions of mean­ings and faith.

Dan­ger of Disillusionment
Indeed, these new­ly “freed” indi­vid­u­als and groups of indi­vid­u­als, may become entan­gled and enchant­ed by a new-found faith or truth, which may or may not be true at all. Or they may look back, return­ing to a way of feel­ing and think­ing, to a way of being that was lost and wish to reclaim it. The prob­lem is that now being no longer cir­cum­scribed and held to some sense of a cen­tered self by a fun­da­men­tal Well of Mean­ing, their very long­ing for a cen­ter of mean­ing by which to hold them­selves togeth­er can be the very instru­ment by which they become pulled into and held by a new-found or redis­cov­ered belief. They forge an alter­nate Well of Mean­ing that is not based in a wide­ly shared real­i­ty that has pre­vailed over time, and which has been test­ed and affirmed by its func­tion­ing with­in the larg­er world.

Indeed, they often take com­fort and pride in stand­ing apart, hold­ing them­selves with a high regard for their role as restor­ers, or avengers, or redeemers, and by that very Well of Grav­i­ty they have forged, they may lead them­selves into a way of being that can cause great harm to them­selves and to oth­ers, as we have cer­tain­ly seen here and around the world long ago and in our present day too.

Now, giv­en we are in such a moment now, where the old cer­tain­ties, which were not with­out illu­sions to be sure, but they held us in a belief that we had moved more close­ly into a world where con­sen­sus and agree­ment would cre­ate some kind of “Gold­en Age”, but instead we find our­selves, as indi­vid­u­als, and in groups, and even as nations con­fused and uncer­tain as to our future, so that we find our­selves des­per­ate­ly hold­ing on to what­ev­er pro­vides some com­fort amidst the tumult of rumors, half-truths, pro­pa­gan­da, con­spir­a­cies, and the hav­oc foment­ed by weak souls wield­ing dead­ly pow­ers, well, what do any of us do to find our way in such a world?

The Truth
I am sure you know what I am about to say to that. For the truth is this, the Truth nev­er changes. It is what makes the Uni­verse and you and I, and it is encod­ed in the pat­terns that make the build­ing blocks of the phys­i­cal world, from atoms, to mol­e­cules, to organ­isms (like you and me), and the stars. The truth is out there, and in us too. We have seen these pat­terns of mean­ing with both our intu­itive gifts and our sci­en­tif­ic instru­ments. Yes, we feel and think about these wheels with­in wheels, pat­terns with­in pat­terns that form the web, the warp and weft of the entire uni­verse, from the infin­i­tes­i­mal to the infinite.

The First Grav­i­ty Well of Faith, The One
You, me, and the whole uni­verse are made from, shaped by and are here because of the first Grav­i­ty Well of Faith, the One. And long, long ago and through­out the ages, var­i­ous Wise Ones and Prophets, Sci­en­tists and Seers, and many who remain unknown have found their way to this sin­gu­lar truth. That we are all, no mat­ter where we think we came from, and no mat­ter what we may feel about one anoth­er, we are all here to come back to the source of all to remem­ber and under­stand that we are made as one by the One, forged by love and we are here to love one another.

What is the way for­ward, what is the path we must fol­low? It is quite sim­ple real­ly, which is why it is tru­ly true. I wrote this ear­li­er, and it bears repeat­ing now. The only way for­ward is to fol­low the path of Ever­last­ing Truth, which is:

That this Uni­verse is formed by one pri­ma­ry Ener­gy-Form, The Uncon­di­tion­al Love of the One for all the ones; That made by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, we are here to Love and be Loved Uncon­di­tion­al­ly too; and giv­en the Ener­gy-Form that holds all of Cre­ation as One is our Root Ener­gy-Form as well, then we are here quite sim­ply to Love One Anoth­er, and it fol­lows that we should Love the oth­er as we Love Our own true Self for there real­ly is no dif­fer­ence. Each one of us, all of us are in Truth sparks of the One and so we are here to live by the light of the divine with­in each of us, indeed in all that we do, and it is by this Love that we bow to the Divine that is the entire­ty of this won­drous Cre­ation too.

The Way Forward
The Ancient Wis­dom holds that the Love of the One is Uncon­di­tion­al and All-Encom­pass­ing. And we, who are sparks of this One Divine Light, we are equal­ly called upon to strive to treat one anoth­er, and indeed all of life, as our broth­ers and sis­ters, as our moth­ers and fathers, as dear to us as we are to our­selves; that we are here quite sim­ply to learn and so become that Light which is Love; and that our entire Jour­ney in Spir­it is for us to awak­en to our true nature which is to love and be loved in this Cre­ation, a Cre­ation in which we and count­less sparks of the Divine actu­al­ly form that liv­ing embod­i­ment of Love.

So, I would say the way for­ward is clear, as it has always been clear to those who fol­low the path of Light and Love. When you see some­one in trou­ble, there you are. When you see the evil that is igno­rance, there you should be light of under­stand­ing and heal­ing. When you wish to do what is right, there is but one thing you must do.

Love one another.

In my fourth show of 2022, we will return to the influ­ences of Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to in under­stand­ing our moment in his­to­ry. Today, I would like to focus upon the role of Nep­tune in help­ing us to under­stand how we make our­selves and our world by what we believe.

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.

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day April 10^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2022/04/10/astrological-musings-bubbles-of-belief-and-the-gravity-well-of-faith

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

Please join me on Sun­day April 10^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

If you miss the show, it will be avail­able as a Pod­cast short­ly after on BlogTalk or my Apple Pod­casts.

Aries, by Johfra Bosschart

The First Step

Today begins your year­ly jour­ney around our star. At this time of the year, and wher­ev­er you have Aries in your very own chart too, you should give thanks for and cel­e­brate the won­der and the joy of the most pre­cious gift that flows from the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones.

This most sub­lime truth is root­ed in the essen­tial promise of the One, cre­at­ed and pre­served and made man­i­fest by your very own Spark of the Divine. And what is that? It is this, that the truth of you, your quin­tes­sence, is revealed by your ever-renew­ing well­spring of Spir­it, in that inef­fa­ble agency by which you are here, right now and for­ev­er as the liv­ing spir­it who is sim­ply here to “be and become what you are, the Divine made man­i­fest upon this Earth”.

Aries is the gate­way of Spir­it, it is the com­ing of the Tran­scen­dent into Form, the word made man­i­fest in the phys­i­cal world. Yes, it is by this first Sign of Fire, of Spir­it, it is by Aries that you move through the por­tal between yes­ter­day and tomor­row, between what you were and what you are yet to be. Because, and this you must know, you can only be and become by mov­ing out of the shad­ows and into the light, by mov­ing through what we call space-time. You are tru­ly you at the cross­ing point between the Dark­ness and the Light, between what you were and what you will be. You are here to know this, that you are what you are, and you only exist, by mov­ing for­ev­er in The Eter­nal Now.

For the last 30 days, you loved and lost, you laughed and cried, as you walked in that most sacred realm of the Twelve Holy Ones, in the time and place of Pisces. Yes, Pisces brings the gift of clo­sure, as you sift through the har­vest of the past year and under­stand the immutable law which holds one and all togeth­er in the “Great Work”, the fun­da­men­tal keep­er of the flame which holds you to it, which is that “you will reap what you sow”. It is there that you tru­ly under­stood the unbreak­able bond between the growth of your wis­dom being root­ed in the deep­en­ing of your humil­i­ty. And you were held by the grace of for­give­ness, hum­bled by the under­stand­ing that it was your very stum­bles and over-com­ings that form the dia­mond body of your char­ac­ter and faith today. In the Waters of Pisces, you found the way to hold it all, the good and the so-called bad, to hold it all because of the com­pas­sion and love of the One who loves us all.

And now a New Year begins, and the Fire of Aries is upon you. Aries seizes you with the gift of Inspi­ra­tion, with Ideas that just come upon you, and that bend your heart and soul to the joy­ful exhil­a­ra­tion, the brand-new day filled by the light and by the pow­er of new beginnings.

Yes, in Aries you leap into action, to be and become what­ev­er you will be. But the les­son you must learn, the first les­son on the path of life is here too. At each por­tal, in each sign, you are asked a ques­tion, and the one before you now, well it is prob­a­bly the most pro­found. Quite sim­ply put, the ques­tion the uni­verse asks you now is this, “Who are you?”

To answer this seems sim­ple enough, but do not take this light­ly, for every­thing rests upon this. To tru­ly know the right answer, you must under­stand the “real” ques­tion now, which is “Why are you?”

Why are you here, what is this real­ly all about? Quite sim­ply and tru­ly, you are here to learn to be a bet­ter human. To dis­cov­er through Inspi­ra­tion and Per­spi­ra­tion, by Tri­al and by Error, through Suc­cess and Fail­ure, you are here to learn by Cause and Effect how to be a whole per­son, and how to become a wise being who choos­es to live by Love.

And it all begins here, with the first step, your next step. And then the one after that. Life is, well life is a jour­ney, of mov­ing in the Eter­nal Now, but from moment to moment and from one space into anoth­er. I like to imag­ine Life as like mov­ing through a series of doors, with you leav­ing one space and enter­ing anoth­er. And here you will encounter the ever­last­ing gift and test that is Aries, the gift of devel­op­ing your char­ac­ter, of your bear­ing, of forg­ing your presence.

As you go through each door, you will find that there is always some­one who is going through just ahead of you. And if you are for­tu­nate, you will have that per­son who is ahead of you hold the door open for you and per­haps lend you a hand. But often­times you will find that the one who is ahead is trou­bled, or thought­less, or angry, or what­ev­er, and that they do not con­sid­er who is behind them and they slam the door in your face.

And now you have it, your quin­tes­sen­tial test is upon you. What hap­pened just then, well that was bad, that was “bad” ener­gy that fell upon you. But now comes the ques­tion, “what will you do”, what will you do with this energy?

It would be so very easy, and real­ly in some ways effort­less, to just take that neg­a­tive ener­gy, and to pass it on to whomev­er is fol­low­ing you. The bad came at you, and you just got rid of it. That is so easy…but your life will not be easy if you do this, you will not grow and change, and you will not be bet­ter unless you are the change.

Instead, you must stop, for you need to real­ize that you do have a choice. You are sup­posed to choose here. If you real­ize that the neg­a­tive ener­gy-form you received is just an acci­dent of fate, per­haps a neg­a­tive “emo­tion” that has been passed down for many, many years. And you, well you can change it by choos­ing to take the path not tak­en, and to hold the door open for the one who fol­lows you.

And if you do this, you will change the world, and you will have changed your­self too.

And if we all do this, if we choose to turn the neg­a­tive into the good, to turn the dark­ness into light, to turn fear into faith and hate into love, well…

Well, that is the whole point after all.

Because you are a spark of the Divine.

And the rea­son you are here is because of love.

And you are here to be that love by lov­ing one another.

Today, and in all your many days to come.

May you make the first step be the right step.

May you be the Love that was the First Step.

May you be a one like the One.

And you will shine like the Sun.

Oh yes, that is the way, the only way.

The Way of Light, and of Truth and Love.