Tran­script of Radio Show: The New Year – Nep­tune and US History

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

As we say good­bye to 2020 and look ahead to what may unfold in 2021, I thought I would con­tin­ue to exam­ine the impor­tance of Neptune’s influ­ence for the USA and look at how this might be under­stood with regards to our present con­di­tion and his­tor­i­cal antecedents.

Nep­tune
As I not­ed in my show on Decem­ber 6^th, (which you can read the tran­script for here), the impor­tance of Nep­tune gen­er­al­ly, and more espe­cial­ly in the USA chart is quite telling. Nep­tune, one of the three Avatars of the Divine Tri­ad of Spir­it, holds the truth of the Ener­gy-Form behind the whole of Cre­ation. That Ener­gy-Form is the Love of the One in every Mon­ad; it is the “One in one and all” and it is most pure­ly expe­ri­enced by us as Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

Of course, noth­ing can be or exist with­out inter­re­la­tion­ship, and for Nep­tune that means we can only under­stand its mean­ings for us by fram­ing our expe­ri­ence with Uranus and Plu­to as well. Look­ing at this Tri­ad we find that Plu­to as the Avatar of Divine Will cre­ates and forms the Space or Con­tain­er for any being; Nep­tune as the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love shapes the aware­ness of any being towards ever greater Com­mu­nal­i­ty; and Uranus as the Avatar of Freer Mind shapes the aware­ness of any being towards every greater Individuality.

Nep­tune as the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love holds for us our Intu­ition­al nature, our capac­i­ty to know and encom­pass anoth­er as our­self; it is the foun­tain-source for our empa­thy, com­pas­sion and sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er as all of these (and oth­er noble traits) are found­ed by our true nature (when awak­ened), which is quite sim­ply that we are made by and for one anoth­er in uncon­di­tion­al love.

Nep­tune and Astro­log­i­cal Chart of the USA
As I have not­ed before, the place­ment of Nep­tune in the chart of the USA is quite promi­nent. It is at the top of the chart (along with Sat­urn), locat­ed in the 9^th house of Under­stand­ing. Nep­tune holds the dream of a nation and part of the found­ing myth of the Unit­ed States is its sense of being excep­tion­al. We declare in our nation­al seal that we are a “New Order for the Ages”. We came to form a new human covenant, where we by hold­ing togeth­er dis­parate peo­ples from around the world, all of whom are seek­ing to live a freer life, we would be a shin­ing exam­ple of Free­dom, Tol­er­ance and Com­mu­ni­ty. The USA would be a new soci­ety, formed by a belief in one another’s self-ful­fill­ment as being made pos­si­ble through one anoth­er, and by our self-gov­ern­ment, where­in we would care for one anoth­er; we declared that “We Mutu­al­ly Pledge To Each Oth­er Our Lives, Our For­tunes, And Our Sacred Hon­or”, and so strive to cre­ate a space of free­dom and jus­tice for one and for all.

As I not­ed in my ear­li­er shows, Nep­tune, the hold­er of dreams and myths, of illu­mi­na­tions and delu­sions, has returned now to the posi­tion it held as the Unit­ed States faced its great­est exis­ten­tial and spir­i­tu­al cri­sis formed by the divi­sion into two visions or myths of Amer­i­ca, whether to be Slave or Free, in the Civ­il War. The ques­tion then and seem­ing­ly now is, “will the fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al truth, that all humans are cre­at­ed equal, be made our real­i­ty or not”?

Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can Charts
It is quite inter­est­ing, and cer­tain­ly no acci­dent, that in the charts of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can par­ties Nep­tune is also fea­tured quite promi­nent­ly. It is also quite inter­est­ing, and again no acci­dent I would think, that these two charts are so inter­re­lat­ed with one another.

Though there was an ear­li­er ver­sion of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, the gen­er­al­ly accept­ed date of the par­ty is Jan­u­ary 8, 1828 in Portsmouth, NH. That makes it a Capri­corn, and for our pur­pos­es today, it is note­wor­thy that it is born with a Sun/Neptune Con­junc­tion. The Repub­li­can Par­ty was found­ed on the wreck­age of the Whig Par­ty and its date of incor­po­ra­tion is July 6, 1854 in Jack­son, WI. That makes it a Can­cer, and it has its Nep­tune in Pisces which is Trin­ing the Sun in Cancer.

The two charts have their Sun in oppo­si­tion to one anoth­er, which makes per­fect sense giv­en the oppo­si­tion­al nature of the two party’s posi­tions through­out US his­to­ry. Spir­i­tu­al­ly, it is by oppo­si­tions or oppo­site qual­i­ties and natures that we tru­ly find our way. That Way or path is found by hold­ing each togeth­er as part of the answer, and by find­ing the third way, we fol­low the inte­gral path of Spirit.

Because of this oppo­si­tion , it is very instruc­tive to exam­ine the series of align­ments to their respec­tive Suns, by Sat­urn or Uranus, and by Nep­tune and Plu­to, as these have often indi­cat­ed the mean­ing behind as well as the tim­ing of shifts in those who held pow­er. With regards to the par­ty in con­trol of the Pres­i­den­cy, the Repub­li­can Par­ty from the Civ­il War to the Great Depres­sion held the White House, with only Grover Cleve­land and Woodrow Wil­son being the excep­tions. Then from FDR to LBJ the democ­rats held pow­er, except for the two terms of Dwight David Eisenhower.

Nep­tune and the Democratic/Republican Charts
For today, I want to focus upon the role of Nep­tune with regards to the two par­ties and their his­tor­i­cal shifts. Both par­ties are strong­ly influ­enced by the plan­et Nep­tune, which is the plan­et of dreams, myths, and ide­olo­gies. It is the prin­ci­pal shaper of the visions and dreams of a per­son, group, or nation. Real­ly, along with the plan­et Uranus, I see Nep­tune shap­ing the con­scious­ness of what­ev­er enti­ty one may be exam­in­ing. But just like an indi­vid­ual, or cul­tur­al group or par­ty or nation, those dreams and myths are pro­tean in nature, as they trans­form and blend, rise and fall, even­tu­al­ly becom­ing bro­ken, or reformed or reborn over time. Though in its high­est form Nep­tune, as the plan­et of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, will inspire empa­thy and inclu­sive­ness, wher­ev­er fear takes hold, it will then man­i­fest as the shad­ow side of Nep­tune, evi­denced by sep­a­ra­tions and exclu­sive divi­sions, becom­ing sub­ject to fan­tasies, delu­sions, and con­spir­a­to­r­i­al manias.

There are not a few his­to­ri­ans and oth­er social observers who have watch the arc of the Repub­li­can par­ty from its found­ing as the par­ty of Lin­coln and Eman­ci­pa­tion, seem­ing­ly devolve in the past 50 years or so into a par­ty whose self-inter­est seems to be depen­dent upon var­i­ous schemes to deny the right to vote to peo­ple of col­or. This process of exclu­sion instead of inclu­sion, (very much a reflec­tion of a neg­a­tive fear-based shift­ing of Nep­tun­ian dreams and myths), was not an acci­dent. It was a reac­tion or fear fed by the exten­sion of civ­il rights in 1964 and 1965. As a result of this attempt of greater inclu­sive­ness, the con­trol by the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty shift­ed to the Repub­li­can Par­ty in the for­mer states of the Con­fed­er­a­cy as well in some West­ern States and rur­al areas.

1960’s Shift
This redefin­ing of the myth of the Repub­li­can par­ty began in the late 1960’s and was accom­pa­nied Astro­log­i­cal­ly by the wan­ing Trine of Nep­tune to Nep­tune in its chart. It is inter­est­ing that we can note that the same aspect of the wan­ing Trine in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic chart hap­pened in the mid-1930’s when it shift­ed to a more activist form of gov­er­nance, in the attempt to deal with the calami­ty of the Great Depres­sion and the exis­ten­tial cri­sis of World War II. That redefin­ing of the par­ty and its elec­toral make­up, led to the Democ­rats hold­ing pow­er (except for the Eisen­how­er years), from 1932 to the late 1960’s.

It is quite inter­est­ing that for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty, the wan­ing of Nep­tune to Nep­tune in the response to the dev­as­ta­tion of the Great Depres­sion in the 1930’s, led to the expan­sion of gov­ern­ment and to the inclu­sion of more peo­ple in the body politic over time; where­as for the Repub­li­can par­ty in the late 1960’s the wan­ing trine led to con­sis­tent attempts to roll back the com­mu­nal space for the right to self-deter­mi­na­tion, in attempts to lim­it and ulti­mate­ly hob­ble Fed­er­al ser­vices, and by var­ied and numer­ous actions to nar­row the elec­torate and deny rights to legit­i­mate US citizens.

Nep­tune 2021
For our cur­rent peri­od, Nep­tune has returned to its natal posi­tion in the Repub­li­can party’s chart, the same place it was at the thresh­old of the Civ­il War. Like a “New Moon”, the return would imply a release of a new ener­gy-form that will slow­ly but sure­ly make itself evi­dent over the next many years. What this might mean after the last four years remains to be seen. But it is cer­tain­ly a fun­da­men­tal ques­tion among pun­dits and his­to­ri­ans right now: What is the dream and myth of the Repub­li­can par­ty now; what does it “stand for” after four years of Don­ald Trump?

The Nep­tune return in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic chart occurred in 1991, when after the 12 years of Repub­li­can rule under Rea­gan and George H. W. Bush, Democ­rats deter­mined that they should attempt to expand their elec­toral base by mov­ing towards a more con­ser­v­a­tive eco­nom­ic posi­tion dur­ing the Clin­ton pres­i­den­cy. Many have argued that this attempt to secure wider sup­port by mov­ing to “the cen­ter” only served to rein­force the eco­nom­i­cal­ly unsus­tain­able neo-lib­er­al poli­cies of the Rea­gan and Bush years, as it removed the last safe­guards and over­sight that had been insti­tut­ed after the Great Depres­sion. The lessons of the 1920’s and 1930’s had been for­got­ten by both par­ties, and this, along with oth­er devel­op­ments in the nature of the finan­cial mar­kets and broad­er econ­o­my, brought about the Sec­ond Great Depres­sion under George W. Bush.

That mort­gage cri­sis and finan­cial melt­down of 2007 and 2008, led to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty nom­i­nat­ing Barack Oba­ma, who would become the first black pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States. Sad­dled with the worse eco­nom­ic con­di­tions since the 1930’s, he attempt­ed to restore the eco­nom­ic order while also extend­ing one of the most basic pro­tec­tions of a civ­il (or bet­ter put, humane) soci­ety by address­ing the bro­ken health­care sys­tem of the US in the Afford­able Care Act.

Trump and Repub­li­can Party
The last four years have seen the Trump agen­da being for the most part an attempt to reverse all the gains in equi­ty and fair­ness dur­ing the Oba­ma years. The Repub­li­can par­ty, as embod­ied by its leader, appears to have no guid­ing belief or mean­ing, as it has devolved into a cult of per­son­al­i­ty for a self­ish and cru­el nar­cis­sist. There was no mean­ing or love guid­ing poli­cies and actions, no plans for the greater good, just fear-filled demands for atten­tion or revenge. It has led many now, to break their sacred oath for all who serve in gov­ern­ment, that they will “pro­tect and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion”. The repeat­ed attempts to bring charges of elec­toral fraud have failed in the courts because there is no cred­i­ble evi­dence of fraud, just spu­ri­ous alle­ga­tions meant to dis­en­fran­chise minor­i­ty districts.

What will the Repub­li­can par­ty become now? The par­ty found­ed on com­pas­sion for those suf­fer­ing under slav­ery has turned into a par­ty of griev­ance whose lamen­ta­tions and woe are root­ed in a Nep­tun­ian delu­sion of their inher­ent right to pow­er, and their claim that oth­ers are not enti­tled to vote. In all but one of their chal­lenges regard­ing the 2020 Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion brought before the courts, and three of those to the Supreme Court, all have been found to be with­out evi­dence and dis­missed. The very votes they seek to throw out were over­seen and cer­ti­fied by rep­re­sen­ta­tives from both par­ties, and in most of the states the offi­cers over­see­ing the elec­tions are from the Repub­li­can Party.

The plan­ets do not make what hap­pens down here; they pro­vide a con­text of mean­ing and the tim­ing for the events in our jour­ney of Spir­it. What hap­pens, what actions we take and what real­i­ty we make, that is on us; it is by this that we, the mak­ers of our real­i­ty, reveal our aware­ness or lack of under­stand­ing. It is upon each of us to act with integri­ty, hon­or, and love. If we lis­ten to the Winds of the Spir­it in our heart, we will be guid­ed and cen­tered in each and every moment by our ever­last­ing faith and love, and not by fear. The mes­sage of Spir­it now, held by Nep­tune, is that we must always turn away from fear and hate and remem­ber that we are here to love one another.

2021 – A Reckoning
2021 is a year of reck­on­ing. In the chart of the USA, Nep­tune is once again oppo­site to its natal or birth posi­tion. Just like in 1858, we are being asked to look at our­selves, and to look at one anoth­er, and see in one anoth­er our own true self. We formed a covenant, and in that sacred con­tract we pledged to cre­ate a space for self-ful­fill­ment that is found­ed upon and cir­cum­scribed by our Love for one anoth­er. That is why we must strive to cre­ate the freest con­di­tions pos­si­ble to real­ize each member’s poten­tial, while equal­ly sac­ri­fic­ing more self­ish inter­ests for the greater good of the com­mu­ni­ty. We must find the mid­dle way, the path of inte­gra­tion and love for one another.

It starts right here, as you lis­ten with your heart you must rea­son with your mind. As you hold togeth­er your feel­ings and thoughts through the bless­ings of your high­er, Intu­ition­al Self, it is then that you will be guid­ed to be ever kinder to your­self and to one anoth­er too.

The Law of Kar­ma is per­fect and Just; the Answer is always the same.

Love one anoth­er as you love are loved by your High­er Self.

This is the way of the Lone­ly Ones, the way of the Mas­ters of the Light.

Fol­low the path of gen­tle­ness, com­pas­sion, and sacrifice.

Fol­low the Way of Light and Truth and Love.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year – Nep­tune and US His­to­ry (Jan­u­ary 3, 2021)

In my first show of 2021, we will con­sid­er the year ahead to bet­ter under­stand the Astro­log­i­cal themes that are shap­ing our des­tiny. Today I want to con­tin­ue our exam­i­na­tion of the impor­tance of Nep­tune for the Unit­ed States. I have already not­ed its sig­nif­i­cance in the USA chart. It is most inter­est­ing that it is also very promi­nent in the charts of both the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can par­ty charts as well.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic 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 birth­place, 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. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Jan­u­ary 3^rd @ 2 pm EST:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2021/01/03/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-neptune-and-us-history

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 Jan­u­ary 3^rd @ 2 pm EST 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.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The Sol­stice and The New Age

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

In my show on Novem­ber 15 (you can read the tran­script for it here), I exam­ined the sig­nif­i­cance of what Astrologers call The Great Muta­tion of Jupiter and Sat­urn. About every 200 years or so, the Jupiter and Sat­urn Cycle of Rela­tion­ship, that is from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion every 20 years, shifts from one Ele­ment into the next. Since 1840 they have been align­ing in Earth Signs but start­ing tomor­row, they begin a new series of con­junc­tions in the Air Signs, start­ing with Aquar­ius (tomor­row), then Libra in 2040, and Gem­i­ni in 2060 and so on.

As many of you know, I pre­fer to under­stand the sig­nif­i­cance of plan­e­tary influ­ences as being bet­ter under­stood as peri­ods of times rather than dis­crete events, to be viewed more as waves of ener­gy-forms that build in or wax and then recede or wane; and that wax­ing and wan­ing occur over a longer or short­er peri­od of time depend­ing upon the plan­ets involved. Yet, it is equal­ly true that at any one moment in our jour­ney we can feel these waves of ener­gy formed by the Dance of the Plan­ets as reach­ing some defin­i­tive shift, cli­max or turn­ing point. These more dis­crete or crit­i­cal moments are found at cer­tain points in their cycle of rela­tion­ships, espe­cial­ly the Con­junc­tion, Wax­ing Square, Oppo­si­tion, Wan­ing Square and back to Conjunction.

Astro­log­i­cal Timing
Today I want to talk more about the tim­ing of this sig­nif­i­cant shift of plan­e­tary ener­gy-forms of the rela­tion­ship of Jupiter and Sat­urn, and its impact for us. I want to note or point out that it is a rather strik­ing coin­ci­dence, or acci­dent of tim­ing, or per­haps part of some divine plan, that this begin­ning of a new 200-year cycle is hap­pen­ing on one of the Four Sacred Turn­ing points in our Astro­log­i­cal Cal­en­dar, the Win­ter Sol­stice of Capricorn.

The Web of Consciousness
The mag­is­te­r­i­al nature of the Cos­mos, and the beau­ty and har­mo­ny of our Dance of the Plan­ets, and the rev­o­lu­tions and vor­tices of the Stars and Galax­ies form what I like to see as a com­plex spir­i­tu­al-neur­al net­work; it is an Infi­nite Web of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, and of course we are very much part of that Mind of Spir­it too. Just as we humans are made of and by one anoth­er, even though we often live with the illu­sion that we are sep­a­rate indi­vid­u­als because we seem­ing­ly appear to be so dis­tinct from each oth­er giv­en our bod­i­ly forms; we real­ly are not sep­a­rate from one anoth­er at all, not in the least. We, like every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, are formed by a hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms with­in our bod­ies and equal­ly by a hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms between one anoth­er. I like to say, we are made of one anoth­er in so many, many ways, and not the least of which is by all our expe­ri­ences we cre­ate with and through one anoth­er. Tru­ly, our Dance of Human Life mir­rors the Dance of the Plan­ets, and that is anoth­er affir­ma­tion of the great teach­ing, “as above so below”.

Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty
This is most cer­tain­ly true on the plan­e­tary lev­el, as the plan­ets form rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er that mutu­al­ly affect them, as well as cre­ate ener­gy-forms of mean­ing and influ­ence for us here on Earth. More­over, in our Earth’s dance around the Sun, we do not fol­low a reg­u­lar cir­cuit or cir­cle. Like any indi­vid­ual, and know this, all Ener­gy-Forms are sparks of the Divine, the entire­ty of the Uni­verse is com­posed by an infini­tude of unique instances of Spir­it, where­in every par­ti­cle and ener­gy-form is in some man­ner an Indi­vid­ual. That means that there is noth­ing that is exact­ly like any oth­er nor could it ever be. The One becom­ing man­i­fest is the body, soul, and spir­it of the Cos­mos, and that Cos­mos is made so by indi­vid­u­a­tion, dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion, and diversity.

Motions and Meaning
Earth is a being too; Earth is an Indi­vid­ual too. Earth’s orbit is Ellip­ti­cal, mov­ing clos­er and fur­ther away from the Sun as we orbit around our star. Our Earth also bob­bles and weaves, it goes back and forth, it moves up and down in var­i­ous planes of motion. One of these vari­a­tions forms our pre­ces­sion of the equinox­es which spans about 25,000 years, form­ing the Astro­log­i­cal Ages. Anoth­er vari­a­tion of motion defines our year­ly cycle around the Sun, as each polar region of the Earth will point more towards and then away from the Sun dur­ing one cir­cuit. This tilt­ing back and forth forms our sea­son­al cycling here on Earth.

The Sol­stice
And this is what the Capri­corn Sol­stice rep­re­sents tomor­row; it is one of those dis­crete moments when some­thing “ends” and some­thing “begins”; when we mark the chang­ing of the sea­sons, formed by the dance of light shift­ing between the Day and the Night. I like to say that the Sol­stices of Winter/Summer and the Equinox­es of Spring/Fall, they are like the “Four Cor­ners” of our year. They mark the South, the East, the North, and the West of our jour­ney dur­ing the year; it is this very motion that defines what we call a year.

From the Win­ter Sol­stice, the short­est of days and the longest of nights, the Earth begins to tilt back towards the Sun in the North­ern Hemi­sphere, reach­ing an equi­lib­ri­um of Day and Night at the Spring Equinox. Earth con­tin­ues to bend toward the Sun until we reach the longest of days and the short­est of nights at the Sum­mer Sol­stice. From then until the next Win­ter Sol­stice, the days grow short­er and the shad­ows length­en reach­ing a bal­ance of Day and Night at the Autum­nal Equinox, and a return to the longest night at the Win­ter Sol­stice again.

Sacred Turn­ings
In many cul­tures, one of these moments or “Four Cor­ners” that is said to her­ald the “begin­ning of the year”, spir­i­tu­al­ly, cul­tur­al­ly, or legal­is­ti­cal­ly. With regards to the Ancient Wis­dom, each of these turn­ings have been held as Sacred moments in Spir­i­tu­al Teach­ings through­out the ages. Though the spir­i­tu­al jour­ney of awak­en­ing and self-mas­tery is con­tin­u­ous and ongo­ing, these four moments are when the most impor­tant cer­e­monies are held for aspi­rants, and the great­est Ini­ti­a­tions for those on the path are held at these sacred times of the year.

Many tra­di­tions hold cel­e­bra­tions and cer­e­monies dur­ing this peri­od in hon­or of this moment. Imag­ine your­self back in time, and the days are get­ting short­er and short­er, and the nights are longer and longer, and the Sun, upon which your entire exis­tence depends, is dis­ap­pear­ing. Using our civ­il cal­en­dar, it is on or about Decem­ber 21^st, that the Sun will rise or set at the low­est point on the hori­zon since June 21^st. Then, for the next sev­er­al days, it will rise and set at the same point on the hori­zon. That is what the term Sol­stice means, “The Sun Stands Still”, and you and the whole world waits. Will the Sun return, or will the light go out; will life con­tin­ue or not? On the 3^rd or 4^th day after the Sol­stice, on Decem­ber 24^th or 25^th, the Sun begins to move back north­wards once more. The Light is return­ing; the Dark­ness is in retreat, and the promise of life, of your future and your world is there for all to see.

Ini­ti­a­tion of the Sun
The Win­ter Sol­stice rep­re­sents for one and for all the Re-Birth of the Sun; in ancient sacred rit­u­als and cer­e­monies, an aspi­rant would have tak­en many steps to pre­pare them­selves for this moment. In the Ancient Wis­dom, the Ini­ti­a­tion under­tak­en at Capri­corn rep­re­sents the “Mys­tic Birth of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty”. It is often known as the “Ini­ti­a­tion into the Sun”.

It seems rather fit­ting that on the very day of the Sol­stice we are also wit­ness­ing the birth of a New Age, her­ald­ed by the Jupiter/Saturn Great Muta­tion into Air. These shifts in Ener­gy-Forms are very real, whether the begin­ning of Win­ter for the next 90 days, or an Age of Air for the next 200 years. But these, of them­selves alone, will not “cre­ate” or “make” change hap­pen here on Earth. Enlight­en­ment is not doled out; it is earned. A New Age is not giv­en; it is made by what we do.

Respon­si­bil­i­ty
This is our respon­si­bil­i­ty; and you will know this is your duty when you lis­ten to your heart. Here is the plan­e­tary mes­sage and mean­ing of this moment; and this mes­sage is the core expe­ri­ence of spir­it at this time of year. Capri­corn is the Sign of Respon­si­bil­i­ty. All the Signs from Aries through Sagit­tar­ius have pre­pared you for this moment. The Uni­verse is ask­ing every one of us a ques­tion: What is your Respon­si­bil­i­ty; what is your Duty?

The plan­ets are Avatars of Mean­ings and Tim­ings; they hold the mes­sages and mean­ings of our jour­ney here on Earth; they pro­vide inspi­ra­tion, guid­ance, and the tim­ing for the unfold­ing of celes­tial ener­gies. But it is on us, on you and me, it is on all of us to be the change we wish to see. We are the ones who will be the awak­en­ing; and we must under­stand and so act in accor­dance with the Spir­i­tu­al prin­ci­ples that gov­ern our Creation.

Each of us must strug­gle and strive for a greater under­stand­ing about the Laws of Spir­it. We do this out­ward­ly by observ­ing and learn­ing about the world around us, to see the world as it real­ly is; and we do this inward­ly, by lis­ten­ing to our high­er intu­ition­al self, and by know­ing in our hearts what is true and good and lov­ing. And, over time we learn to align our aims and actions, our desires, and our will to that which is more than just us; slow­ly but steadi­ly we learn to choose that which is true and good and lov­ing. We learn to live by Love; and we learn to align our will with the Will of the One.

Let Thy Will Be Done
That is what is meant by that mys­ti­cal but beau­ti­ful say­ing, “Let thy will be done”. It is not the sur­ren­der of our lim­it­ed desires and will to some out­side deity or pow­er. No, this beau­ti­ful say­ing is the affir­ma­tion of the Heart Doc­trine of the Wis­dom Teach­ing. The Light of the Uni­verse is not some­where out there; it is the stead­fast gen­tle light with­in you.

The Will of the One is with­in us all. It is the Voice of the Silence; it is the Uncon­di­tion­al Love of the One for one and for all. It is your Spark of the Divine; it is your beloved who reminds you that you are awak­ened when you are self-for­get­ful, when you act to serve and help and care for one anoth­er. That is the sign, that is the proof that you are on the Path of Awak­en­ing. Quite sim­ply, but tru­ly, it is the way of the Wise Ones; it is the true path of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

And that is the way we will build this New Age. That with this Great Muta­tion Con­junc­tion of Jupiter and Sat­urn, we are being asked once more to “Let thy Will be done”.

Our Respon­si­bil­i­ty
We must think not of our­selves, but for those who will come after, those who have not yet had the gift of liv­ing and lov­ing, of striv­ing and lift­ing them­selves up on this beau­ti­ful gar­den we call Earth. We must under­stand that our respon­si­bil­i­ty is to all of life on this plan­et, for it is pre­cious. Now that we know what we have done to the bal­ance of life on this plan­et, we must put aside our igno­rance and self­ish­ness and act for the future of life on this planet.

The plan­ets are say­ing it is time, and we should heed the call.

We are here to forge a New Path; we are here to pre­serve, pro­tect and love all crea­tures great and small. For Love is Life; and Life is Love.

We humans are here to love and be loved.

We are here to be ones of the One.

Let us make it so, and

Let Thy Will be Done.

The Sol­stice — A New Age

You have wan­dered and won­dered in the Tem­ples of Truth; and by Meta­physics, Reli­gion, Phi­los­o­phy and Sci­ence, you have found the fram­ing, prin­ci­ples, and mes­sag­ing for the expe­ri­ences of your life. You have shared, by words, images, sounds and many oth­er means, your sto­ries with one anoth­er. And this is how you have made one anoth­er as human since the begin­ning of time itself, for we are Sto­ry­tellers, one and all.

Yes, it was in Sagit­tar­ius that you came a lit­tle clos­er to the truth of your­self and your world. Yes, now you know what is good and true…but that is not enough.

Here at the Sol­stice, at one of the Four Turn­ings of Aware­ness and Con­scious­ness, you are asked the four-fold ques­tion of life once more, the asks of Aries, Libra, Can­cer and Capricorn:

Who am I, and Who art thou?
Where do I come from, and What is my Destiny?

The Four Car­di­nal Signs hold the four cor­ners of your iden­ti­ty. They must be held togeth­er as it is only by their inter­re­la­tion­ship and com­bi­na­tion that you can be made whole. They inform one anoth­er and form you; and each ques­tion they ask must be answered by you today and every day.

But now and for the next 30 days you should con­sid­er more care­ful­ly the fourth ques­tion, “Des­tiny”, for that is the realm you enter here in the time of Capricorn.

From each car­di­nal point you will find your answer by the oth­ers. For exam­ple, the ques­tion of Aries, “Who am I”, meets the reply in Libra, that you are made of many; you are in effect a web of ener­gy-forms that form you through all your rela­tion­ships. Tru­ly, you are more a “We” than a mere “I”, as you are made by and for one anoth­er. And that is why we say:

“We are all Related”

Like­wise, the ques­tion of Can­cer, “Where do I come from”, meets the reply in Capri­corn. You may think that you are as you appear, a human, and that your imme­di­ate fam­i­ly and bio­log­i­cal ances­try holds the key to your essence. The Truth is that you are a spark of the Divine, a being of Light, who left on a Jour­ney through the Stars long, long ago.

One day, you will arrive at your Des­tiny. It will be then, at the Apoth­e­o­sis of your Human jour­ney that you will be “com­plete”, a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation. You will be ful­ly human, and yet, as you always were in the heart of you, Divine. Your Des­tiny is to return to where you began, a being of Light, for that is what you essen­tial­ly were, are now, and will always be. Quite sim­ply but tru­ly, you are a beau­ti­ful and lumi­nous Spark of the Divine.

Your Jour­ney is the Sto­ry of Cre­ation; Your jour­ney is the Sto­ry of the One. It is Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness mov­ing through innu­mer­able ener­gy-forms that are the Cre­ation. These count­less Sparks of the Divine are the One, and by and through their inter­re­lat­ed jour­ney with each anoth­er, they lift each oth­er up into high­er and high­er realms of self-real­iza­tion and divine ful­fill­ment. The entire Uni­verse is a Hier­ar­chy of Life and Light; and our human king­dom is one among the many, many king­doms of the One.

Through count­less lives, you have lived and have forged a more per­fect form of you. The Law of the Uni­verse, Kar­ma, gov­erns all Ener­gy-Forms in this Cos­mos. The Law is per­fect and just; what­ev­er you make is what you will receive. By count­less steps in any life, and through count­less lives, you do the Mas­ter-Work; you take what you have bestowed upon your­self from your past lives and forge today the future that awaits you too.

This is the Heart of Capri­corn, Respon­si­bil­i­ty. You are the Mak­er of you, you are respon­si­ble for what you are and equal­ly for what hap­pens to you. As Shake­speare so elo­quent­ly put it,

“The fault, dear Bru­tus, is not in our stars,
But in our­selves that we are under­lings”.

Each and every day you must take up the task of mak­ing and being a bet­ter you. You are respon­si­ble for you, and you must accept what is before you now and walk the path you made long ago.

But, of course, you have not done this by your­self, or mere­ly for your­self. Our actions bind our­selves to one anoth­er; and our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er form our char­ac­ter and future for one anoth­er too.

You are respon­si­ble for your­self; and you are respon­si­ble for one anoth­er too.

Tru­ly, our lives and our for­tunes are bound to one anoth­er because we have forged them togeth­er; we have made one anoth­er, we are all part of one anoth­er, and our des­tinies are inex­tri­ca­bly woven togeth­er like a lumi­nous band of Light.

This Lumi­nous Band of Light, this Hier­ar­chy of Life and Love holds all of us in our jour­ney through the stars. With one hand you reach down to help a soul who is strug­gling to reach where you are now; and equal­ly, with your oth­er hand you will reach up to anoth­er who can help you too.

The Heart Doc­trine is clear, we are here to care for one anoth­er, to help one anoth­er, to be self-for­get­ful, to love and be loved. That is what we are des­tined to be, to see through the illu­sion and know that we are One.

And watch­ing over one and all are those who have reached the thresh­old of Divin­i­ty. They have climbed the moun­tain; they are free from the wheel of Human Kar­ma, and they could have cho­sen to leave our world for places more sub­lime. But they did not…

For hav­ing seen the promised land, and all their trou­bles behind them now, they turned with Love and Com­pas­sion, and by Joy­ful Sac­ri­fice they chose to wait for us. They stand at the Por­tal of Lib­er­a­tion, and they will not cross because they are what we will be some day, Pure Love.

They can­not inter­fere with our jour­ney, for we must earn our Awak­en­ing; we must walk the path as they did long ago. But by their love, through their inspi­ra­tion and gen­tle guid­ance, they help us to find our way out of the dark­ness and into the Light.

Here in Capri­corn, we face our respon­si­bil­i­ties, to our­selves, to one anoth­er, and to the whole of Cre­ation. We ded­i­cate our­selves once more to do what is good and true and loving.

In our hearts, and by our love, we ask for help from those who watch over us until the end of days:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.