Tran­script of Radio Show: The Path of Light, The Way of Will and Purpose

I want­ed to talk today and I titled the show, “The path of Light, the Way of Will and Pur­pose”, and what I meant by that is that we find our­selves here on Earth, and we are all part of this great cos­mos, and involved in all these expe­ri­ences of ener­gies and ener­gy-forms that we are par­tak­ing in or influ­enced by. Astrol­o­gy is the study of all these dif­fer­ent cos­mic influ­ences from very near at hand like the Moon, and we see the tides ris­ing and falling, and the cycles of night and day and every­thing else that goes on that have framed our exis­tence and formed our sense of time and space, and from this we began to notice pat­terns as we became self-aware.

So what I would like to do is go into this under­stand­ing of Astrol­o­gy and the study of cycles and see how we might under­stand it, or how Astrologers under­stand it and help you under­stand it too. Astrol­o­gy in many ways can be large­ly under­stood as the study of cycles. From the dai­ly rev­o­lu­tion of the Earth mov­ing from day to night, to the Moon’s orbit around the earth in 29 days, in wax­ing and wan­ing, and the plan­ets orbit­ing around the sun, and on to the Sun’s cycle around the Milky Way, Astrologers have always sought to under­stand these var­i­ous and hier­ar­chi­cal “wheels with­in wheels” that map out the real­i­ty of we call Space-Time.

When try­ing to under­stand the life of an indi­vid­ual, or a group of indi­vid­u­als, or small­er or larg­er orga­ni­za­tions, it real­ly is impor­tant to keep in mind how var­ied and inter­re­lat­ed all these cycles are. Depend­ing upon what you are try­ing to deter­mine, you may focus upon just the imme­di­ate fac­tors form­ing the con­di­tions for a per­son. Or we may pull back to con­sid­er the fate of nations and civ­i­liza­tions that span the range of many cen­turies. These vary­ing influ­ences are a won­der to behold but mak­ing sense of them and under­stand­ing the true nature of what is hap­pen­ing can be con­fus­ing and often hum­bling, but ulti­mate­ly and reas­sur­ing­ly com­fort­ing to see that there is an order to the uni­verse. It is what I like to call the “Music of the Stars”.

Galac­tic
I thought it would be use­ful to con­sid­er the hier­ar­chy of influ­ences that we should always remem­ber are work­ing togeth­er to influ­ence what hap­pened before and what is hap­pen­ing now. Tak­ing it to the high­est lev­el, the first lev­el is Galac­tic. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, rotates in about 250 mil­lion years, which in effect becomes one Galac­tic Year. As we spin around with the sun, our plan­e­tary sys­tem moves up and down with­in that galac­tic plane, weav­ing and bob­bing. It is beyond our mor­tal lim­its to know what are the dif­fer­ent divi­sions of space that we encounter in these 250 mil­lion years, but there are those who spec­u­late that it would prob­a­bly illus­trate or form long wave geo­log­i­cal changes and oth­er changes upon the earth. And we know that our very Milky Way Galaxy rotates with­in a vaster col­lec­tion of local galax­ies, which in turn are mov­ing in an even greater rota­tion­al cycle, “Wheels with­in wheels” indeed!

Solar Sys­tem
The sec­ond lev­el is our solar sys­tem. We have all seen mod­els of our plan­e­tary sys­tem, with the con­cen­tric ring of plan­ets around the Sun, from the plan­et Mer­cury to Venus to Earth, and then beyond the Earth to Mars, Jupiter, Sat­urn, Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to. The phe­nom­e­na of cycles astrologers use are focused upon the cycle of rela­tion­ships of the plan­ets to the Earth, and their cycles with one anoth­er. This is what I prin­ci­pal­ly use in my read­ings for indi­vid­u­als, and for exam­in­ing the world of Mun­dane or World­ly Astrol­o­gy too.

Pre­ces­sion of Equinoxes
But there are oth­er cycles with­in this realm, and one that many of you may have heard about. The Pre­ces­sion of the Equinox­es is formed by anoth­er motion of the Earth rel­a­tive to the local area of our Galaxy. We all know that the Earth tilts in one orbital year, hav­ing the north­ern then the south­ern hemi­sphere be more direct­ly point­ed towards the Sun. It is the cause of our sea­son­al expe­ri­ences here on Earth.

But the Earth also “wob­bles” in such a fash­ion, that look­ing to the North Pole, we find it aligns with a dif­fer­ent star over­head over the course of some 25,000 years or so. For Astrologers, this pre­ces­sion of the equinox­es moves back­ward through the Signs in about 2,000 years per Sign. This cre­ates a divi­sion between the Side­re­al (star­ry) and Trop­i­cal (local) astrol­o­gy. Where exact­ly a Side­re­al Sign begins or ends is not eas­i­ly deter­mined, but the study of these pre­ces­sions is cer­tain­ly some­thing intriguing.

Astro­log­i­cal Ages
When we look at these Astro­log­i­cal Ages let us begin at 12,000 years ago, (and there is a rea­son for that), in the Age of Leo from around 10,500 to 8000 BCE. That was the age that is crit­i­cal to our under­stand­ing as to what is hap­pen­ing now. That was the peri­od when human­i­ty took the fate­ful step of mov­ing from hunt­ing-gath­er­ing lifestyles to ever more seden­tary ways of a pas­toral and agri­cul­tur­al life. It was at that time that we began to alter our world ever­more sig­nif­i­cant­ly. And here we are, one half of a cycle of pre­ces­sion lat­er deal­ing with the end result of that choice, which is the mount­ing threats of Cli­mate Change.

From 8000 to 6000 BCE, we had the Age of Can­cer, because the pre­ces­sion moves back­wards through the signs, which wit­nessed the age of domes­ti­ca­tion and what became known as the wor­ship of the “Great Moth­er”. From 6000 to 4000 BCE, we had the Age of Gem­i­ni, and writ­ing and trade routes were flour­ish­ing, and poly­the­is­tic reli­gions were promi­nent. From 4000 to 2000 BCE, the Age of Tau­rus came to be, and we see the rise of the first true empires and of Bull wor­ship and imagery. Then from 2000 to O BCE, the Age of an Aries, we see the begin­ning of the move away from Poly­the­ism to Monothe­ism, and there is an erup­tion in this Age of Aries, the first sign, of new thoughts and philoso­phies seed­ing the world. This was the age of Con­fu­cius and Bud­dha and Lao Tzu and Zoroast­er and Pythago­ras and many, many others.

Then from 0 to 2000 CE, which is our time, this was the Age of Pisces, the Age of Monothe­ism, or some would argue spir­i­tu­al­ly and psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly, the Age of the Indi­vid­ual and the Ego.

And now we find our­selves here, whether it has already hap­pened, or is hap­pen­ing or about to hap­pen, now from 2000s to the 4000, we are now mov­ing into the Age of Aquar­ius, which I argue will be the age when humans move beyond egoic lim­i­ta­tions, and form an ever more inclu­sive and  com­mu­nal based con­scious­ness. It is when we begin to man­age our­selves and our rela­tion­ships to one anoth­er, and with all life on this plan­et, in a holis­tic and heal­ing manner.

Now, when we want to under­stand what has been dri­ving our his­to­ry of late, I would cer­tain­ly want to begin with this obser­va­tion­al mod­el of the pre­ces­sion of the equinox­es as a big fram­ing of under­stand­ing. But then I would want to con­sid­er what var­i­ous plan­e­tary cycles are cur­rent­ly in play and com­pare them to pre­vi­ous moments in history.

Jupiter/Saturn, The Great Mutation
Of course, noth­ing is ever a rep­e­ti­tion as all these cycles move at var­i­ous time frames and though we can mea­sure repeat­ing align­ments of plan­ets, when look­ing at all the plan­ets togeth­er, there is nev­er going to be an exact rep­e­ti­tion between them. Of inter­est to us, con­sid­er­ing the pos­si­bly that we are in or at the begin­ning of the Age of Aquar­ius is anoth­er cycle astrologers study, the pat­tern of Jupiter and Sat­urn, which every 20 years move from con­junc­tion to con­junc­tion, and those con­junc­tions occur in a series, align­ing in one ele­ment for 200 years or so before the next 200 years in the next element.

The most recent ages as deter­mined by this cycling of Jupiter and Sat­urn were as fol­lows: We were in a Water Age from 1425 to 1663, that would be Jupiter and Sat­urn each time they came togeth­er every 20 years align­ing in either Can­cer, Scor­pio or Pisces. And I call that Age of Water from 1425 to 1663 an Age of Faith. The pre­vi­ous Water Age was 571 to 809. Then the next peri­od is the Fire Age from 1663 to 1842, called the Age of Explo­rations, (and the pre­vi­ous Fire peri­od was 809 to 1047). Then we have the age that is now end­ing, the Earth Age from 1842 to 2020, and this is an Age of Mate­ri­al­iza­tion, (and the pre­vi­ous time was 1047 to 1226). And what we are mov­ing into or we have just entered is an Age of Air, the Age of Ide­al­iza­tion from 2020 to 2219, (and the pre­vi­ous Age of Air was 1226 to 1425, which was also the time of the 12th cen­tu­ry renais­sance, it was called the “lit­tle renaissance”).

What this means for us is that we are mov­ing from a mate­ri­al­is­tic age into anoth­er, and what we will know or name it is yet to be deter­mined. Again, this Age of Earth is end­ing with the exis­ten­tial threat of cli­mate change, where­in our wor­ship of the mate­r­i­al life has been the very cre­ator of our present challenges.

But we must remem­ber the plan­ets do not cre­ate the man­i­fes­ta­tion, they inform it and they time it. We made choic­es, we dis­cov­ered how to release ener­gy that had been locked away for mil­lions of years and we released it in a geo­log­i­cal “sec­ond”. And now we see the con­se­quences in the loss of life, the nar­row­ing of diver­si­ty of all life forms, the extremes mount­ing in cli­mate and weath­er, and indeed the Nov­el COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, all of these reflec­tions and man­i­fes­ta­tions of what we have done by bring­ing about cli­mate change. We are crafty, we are high­ly intel­li­gent and capa­ble with our tools of sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy. But we lack wis­dom and humil­i­ty. To remind us of this, we are being hum­bled by the tee­ni­est of life forms, a sim­ple virus.

Plan­e­tary Orbits and Alignments
The orbit of the plan­ets and their align­ments with one anoth­er form a very intri­cate series of influ­ences, and some of these orbits are far longer than any indi­vid­u­al’s lifes­pan, with Plu­to being 245 years to get around the solar sys­tem or Nep­tune 164 years. So, they can only be par­tial­ly expe­ri­enced by any per­son. We then have Uranus’ orbit of 84, and Sat­urn 29 years, and Jupiter 12 years.

But then we have the syn­od­ic cycles of the plan­ets to one anoth­er, like that Jupiter-Sat­urn pair, and we look at all the pairs from Plu­to to Sat­urn. For Plu­to, the cycle with Nep­tune is 492 years, and with Uranus is 127 years, and Sat­urn is 33 years. Then for Nep­tune to Uranus is 171 years, and then to Sat­urn is 36 years. Final­ly, for Uranus the cycle with Sat­urn is 45 years.

With so many cycles inter­weav­ing and inter­sect­ing one anoth­er, what I like to call “The Dance of the Plan­ets”, it is quite a chal­lenge to ascer­tain exact­ly which influ­ences are more rel­e­vant or reveal­ing in any peri­od. So, what I like to do is pro­ceed in an order­ly man­ner, from longest to short­est, so I always look to Plu­to and then to Nep­tune and then Uranus, to see what the three Long-Wave Evo­lu­tion­ary influ­ences might be.

Plu­to in Capricorn
As many of you know, I have been exam­in­ing the role of Pluto’s cycle through the signs, and the sig­nif­i­cance of its series of pas­sages through the Sign of Capri­corn, the sign of Insti­tu­tions, Real­i­ty and Struc­tures, and look­ing at his­to­ry. Our moment from 2008 to 2024 can be under­stood as the next step after the pre­vi­ous times of 1762 to 1778, and before that 1516 to 1532, and then 1270 to 1287. In each of these peri­ods, we saw the end of a par­tic­u­lar form of Polit­i­cal-Cul­tur­al and Eco­nom­ic order and the emer­gence of a new one, along with a shift in the char­ac­ter and qual­i­ties of the kind of human that would exist in that period.

I am sure that the peo­ple in each peri­od that were going through this change felt that their world was com­ing undone, that it was for them like an “end of the world”. But giv­en the chal­lenges that have been cre­at­ed and pre­sent­ed to us, by us, in our time, this Plu­to pas­sage seems more con­se­quen­tial giv­en the exis­ten­tial threat of cli­mate change. Per­haps it is because we are at the end/beginning of a Jupiter-Sat­urn cycle, or more like­ly (or cer­tain­ly) because we are at the end of the 2000 year-long Age of Pisces, and the Age of Aquar­ius is upon us.

All the above is look­ing at his­to­ry with regards to the gen­er­al phe­nom­e­na and cycles of the plan­ets one to anoth­er. But there is also what many of you are more famil­iar with, the study of the plan­ets with regards to indi­vid­ual charts. In mun­dane astrol­o­gy, we look at the charts of lead­ers and nations and gov­ern­ments and com­pa­nies and oth­er forms of orga­ni­za­tion. With regards to the USA, I have been not­ing how once again how Plu­to is so instruc­tive here.

Plu­to in USA Chart
What the USA is expe­ri­enc­ing now is the very first return of Plu­to to its Natal posi­tion. Plu­to rules many things, but for me its root nature con­cerns the Third Prin­ci­ple of Divin­i­ty, the Divine Will, and then all the less­er wills that are formed from the One. As Uranus dri­ves the prin­ci­ple of humans devel­op­ing ever freer minds, to become ever more indi­vid­u­at­ed, and Nep­tune rules the prin­ci­ple of Uncon­di­tion­al Love that holds the whole of Cre­ation togeth­er by the love of the One in all us less­er ones, Plu­to holds these two togeth­er in the Ener­gy-Form of the “con­tain­er of spir­it”, a Cen­tered Will and Consciousness.

Plu­to is sig­nif­i­cant in the chart of the USA as it is its ris­ing plan­et, lead­ing the nation and the chart in this case, and it is placed in the Sec­ond House, which is the House of Val­ue, and for a nation reveals the val­ue of a nation and its source of wealth. For me, Plu­to here spir­i­tu­al­ly means that the USA is endowed with the val­ue and pow­er of Alche­my, of the root pow­er of Com­bi­na­tion and Trans­for­ma­tion, the pow­er of Rebirth and Renew­al, and there is much to be said for the spir­it of renew­al and trans­for­ma­tion that the USA has demonstrated.

But I would also argue that what tru­ly con­sti­tutes the val­ue of any human orga­ni­za­tion, from a fam­i­ly to a cor­po­ra­tion to a coun­try, is the val­ue of the human beings who formed that group. Their intel­li­gence, their love, their wis­dom is the mea­sure of a coun­try’s wealth, and there­fore how we treat one anoth­er, how we encour­age and sup­port or deny and lim­it the self-ful­fill­ment of each and every per­son in the USA, is the mea­sure of how far we have come and how far we need to go with regards to ful­fill­ing our promis­es to one another.

But when Plu­to is chan­neled or expe­ri­enced in a neg­a­tive man­ner it becomes the vehi­cle for manip­u­la­tion, dom­i­na­tion, and enslave­ment. It is the will mis­used and break­ing the bar­ri­er of anoth­er per­son­’s will is the spir­i­tu­al crime of Tres­pass­ing. Giv­en the his­to­ry of the USA, found­ed upon geno­cide and slav­ery, it is quite telling that Plu­to is found here.

Plu­to & Mer­cury in USA Chart
The USA Plu­to is oppo­site to Mer­cury, and Mer­cury rules a nation’s means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, like a being’s ner­vous sys­tem. It rules the thought-form pat­terns and the devel­op­ment (or lack) of intel­li­gence. Each time Plu­to has aligned with Mer­cury and then with itself in his­to­ry, the USA has con­front­ed the nature of how we val­ue one anoth­er. The pre­vi­ous times in the late 1840s and into the 1850s wit­nessed the strug­gle over new states being allowed to enter as slave or free states; the 1930s with FDR and “The New Deal” in the attempt to pro­vide some greater sup­port to the gen­er­al wel­fare after the Great Depres­sion; and the 1980s and the Rea­gan rev­o­lu­tion, which in the suc­ceed­ing 40 years since then, has led to the most unequal dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth in the USA since the 1920s, a fac­tor which led to the Great Depression.

Now we are here in 2020 and 2021, with Plu­to oppo­site Mer­cury and Plu­to return­ing to its Natal posi­tion too. The plan­ets do not deter­mine what will hap­pen. We are the cre­ators and instru­ments of Action and Will, and the con­tent of what we made and the pain and joy we face is formed by us not the plan­ets. They time the unfold­ment of pat­terns, they guide our steps with mean­ings and under­ly­ing causal­i­ty, but we choose well or poorly.

The choic­es made in the 1980s and beyond, with­in the eco­nom­ic struc­tures them­selves and with­in the legal and tax struc­tures of gov­ern­ment, led to the great divide we face between one anoth­er now. For exam­ple, from 1980 to 2020 the gross domes­tic prod­uct of the USA rose by 80% in 40 years, it almost dou­bled. But the man­ner in which that growth was dis­trib­uted was far less equal than the pre­vi­ous peri­od from 1940 to 1980. In the last 40 years, the bot­tom 20% of the USA pop­u­la­tion gain 20% more wealth; the mid­dle 40% gain 50% more wealth; but the top .01% gained 420% more in their wealth.

In terms of wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion, the USA is one of the worst of all the so-called “advanced soci­eties” and this inequal­i­ty is even greater when dis­trib­uted and defined by race and eth­nic­i­ty. This is the prin­ci­ple rea­son why the USA has appalling life expectan­cies and health out­comes com­pared to much of the world.

Once again, here in 2020 and 2021, we are being asked to look at how we treat the val­ue of our nation, of how we care for the true wealth of the land, which is our peo­ple.

By many mea­sures we have been fail­ing and the crises of the pan­dem­ic and cli­mate change, and the ris­ing call for social jus­tice and the var­i­ous con­flicts between groups, all of this is call­ing on each of us to decide what kind of world we wish to leave to those who come after us.

Will we be the ones that made a bet­ter choice for the future? Will we sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er and for our chil­dren’s children?

We are at the end of an age; all these crises are real­ly one.

We are going through a Spir­i­tu­al Crisis.

It is a choice but let us choose to make this a Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing and Rebirth too.

Galax­ies Meet

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The Path of Light, The Way of Will and Pur­pose (Sep­tem­ber 13, 2020)

In my twen­ti­eth show of 2020, we will review the major Astro­log­i­cal influ­ences of the year and see how this informs what lies ahead on our path now.

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.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Sep­tem­ber 13^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/09/13/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-path-of-light-september-13–2020

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 Sep­tem­ber 13^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The Pathway of Perfection

There is but one ques­tion that you will face, again and again:

Why am I here?

If you remain still and lis­ten, you will hear the answer ris­ing from the divine spark with­in you, and you will hear your beloved soul lov­ing­ly reply:

You are here for one pur­pose only; you are here to become a bet­ter human.

The Wheel of Life is turn­ing once more, and in the Heav­en­ly King­dom above and in the inner­most sanc­tum of your heart, you will feel a change in the air now. There is a dif­fer­ent qual­i­ty of light at dawn, and at dusk, the days grow short­er, the nights are longer, and you know that you need to pre­pare for what lies ahead.

Yes, the whole world can feel it, and you can feel it too, that a new sea­son is com­ing. But before you can move for­ward you must turn around and tend to your har­vest; you have learned much, and you must gath­er the fruits of your labors over the last many months. Yes, before you move into the next sea­son of life you must under­stand what you have learned about your­self and your world.

Today you enter a time in between; today you move into Vir­go. In every year at this time, and wher­ev­er Vir­go is found in your chart, it is here for the next 30 days, and in that space for­ev­er, that you are offered the gift of attune­ment, align­ment, and healing.

After the realm of Leo, after you have stretched your­self into new forms of Lead­er­ship, Cre­ativ­i­ty and Love, after your lat­est per­for­mance, it is time to pause and review; it is time to inte­grate, adjust and pre­pare for the sec­ond half of the Cir­cle of Life that will begin in Libra.

In Vir­go you are offered the gift of a greater mea­sure of Self-Under­stand­ing; by Vir­go, you come to know and under­stand that your spir­i­tu­al jour­ney is about one thing only, Self-Mas­tery. Your first step to Mas­tery is to “know thy­self”, to use your won­drous gifts of Self-Aware­ness, Intel­li­gence and Objec­tiv­i­ty. By these tools of Mas­tery, you strive to attune and align the hier­ar­chy of your entire being, to forge an inte­gral bal­ance of your body, heart, and mind; as an Appren­tice of Spir­it, you train your­self and train with oth­ers to become a Mas­ter of Light through Right Think­ing and Right Action.

Your first step comes by your acknowl­edge­ment and accep­tance of this truth: that you are a work in progress that stretch­es back many years (and many lives). That where you are today is a prod­uct of what you (and many oth­ers) have helped to make. It is you who has have forged your strengths that you rely upon. And it is you as well who has drawn to your­self these chal­lenges which you must face now. Humbly yet wise­ly, you will come to under­stand that these very dif­fi­cul­ties are gift to you from you; that you made these ener­gy-forms by your past thoughts and deeds, and now they have returned to you, their author. Because these very chal­lenges will pro­vide you with the expe­ri­ences you need to improve your­self, you are the very instru­ment and means to your lift­ing your­self high­er upon the mas­ter­ly path of humil­i­ty and sac­ri­fice. This, of course, is the great law of Karma.

You will find inspi­ra­tion in the “great ones” who came this way before on the Path­way of Light and Love, whose exam­ples and teach­ings became part of the great philoso­phies, reli­gions and myths that are equal­ly to be found in your heart. They are the “known mas­ters”: Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras, Jesus, Muham­mad, Bahá’u’l­láh and many oth­ers. But most who take up the life of ser­vice do so with­out recog­ni­tion; they have loved, sac­ri­ficed and forged the Path of Light for count­less cen­turies. They too are hon­ored by the Broth­er­hood of Light and Love.

Most cer­tain­ly, your prin­ci­pal guide will be your high­er self. Yet upon the path that leads from dark­ness to the light you will meet many teach­ers and stu­dents who will bring you gifts of com­pas­sion, grace, and love. Some you will know, some will pass unno­ticed, but all of them will serve you as you serve them too. Tru­ly, in every encounter you have, with Father and Moth­er, Broth­er and Sis­ter, Friend, Lover and Stranger too, each and every moment with all your fel­low humans, and oth­er life-forms too, in all of these expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, you will be as dia­mond cut­ters of the soul for each oth­er, reveal­ing in joy­ous moments and painful ones too, the Light that resides with­in each and every heart.

Yes, we all have jobs to do. We all need to pro­vide for our­selves and loved ones with regards to our needs for food and shel­ter, com­fort, and secu­ri­ty. But, for each of us these occu­pa­tions are not the point or pur­pose of life at all.

The cen­tral pur­pose of your life, of any life, con­cerns your heart and your soul; life is all about your Spir­i­tu­al Life.

All that you do is a means to this end, to be a bet­ter human.

Equal­ly, you are here to help every oth­er human to be a bet­ter human too.

As you walk the path of Humil­i­ty and Wis­dom, the Way of Sac­ri­fice and Ser­vice, may you walk the path of Love and Beau­ty that is a mighty Riv­er of Light, may you always walk the Way of Beauty:

As I walk, as I walk

The Uni­verse is walk­ing with me

In beau­ty, it walks before me

In beau­ty, it walks behind me

In beau­ty, it walks below me

In beau­ty, it walks above me

Beau­ty is on every side

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

Liv­ing in Beauty

Lov­ing in Beauty

May you walk in Beauty

May you live in Beauty

For all your days

May you be at Peace

Sur­round­ed by Beauty

It is done.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The USA 2020 Elec­tion – Biden-Har­ris/Trump-Pence (August 23, 2020)

In my nine­teenth show of 2020, I will look at the Pro­gres­sions and Tran­sits for the charts of Joe Biden and Kamala Har­ris ver­sus those for the charts of Don­ald Trump and Mike Pence and the Astro­log­i­cal fore­cast for the fall.

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 August 23^rd @ 2 pm EDT:

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Please join me on Sun­day August 23^rd @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The USA and the 2020 Elec­tion – Kamala Har­ris & Joe Biden

In my last show back in July, I exam­ined the charts of Joe Biden and Don­ald Trump. Giv­en Biden’s choice of Kamala Har­ris as his run­ning mate, I thought we would look at her Astro­log­i­cal chart today. Back on July 20, 2019, I did a radio show that looked at Kamala Har­ris (and Eliz­a­beth War­ren) as part of my exam­i­na­tion of the major Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates for Pres­i­dent, (and you might want to lis­ten to that show as well). But now that Kamala has been select­ed as Joe Biden’s choice for Vice-Pres­i­dent, I thought it would be inter­est­ing and help­ful to take a deep­er look today.

The first thing that I look for in any chart is the over­all pat­tern. Astrologers have found that there are def­i­nite shapes of a chart where­by the plan­ets around the earth form a pat­tern. And indeed, there is a dis­tinc­tive pat­tern in Kamala’s chart, and It is called a See­saw or Hour­glass pat­tern. There are plan­ets on one side and plan­ets on anoth­er side, and there is a wide space on each side of the two groups with no plan­ets. This arrange­ment indi­cates a per­son who has the abil­i­ty to appre­ci­ate and under­stand one side and equal­ly the oth­er side of an issue or prob­lem; they can encom­pass an under­stand­ing of the whole issue, to see one per­son or group and then see the oth­er side. Peo­ple like Kamala will strive to bring ideas, peo­ple, and groups togeth­er to forge agree­ments by build­ing a bridge of mutu­al under­stand­ing. Kamala will try to rec­on­cile and inte­grate sides that are seem­ing­ly opposed to one anoth­er. Peo­ple like Kamala are the inter­locu­tors and inter­me­di­aries of the Zodi­ac; they seek to bring peo­ple togeth­er through objec­tive under­stand­ing and rea­son. And this is quite fit­ting for a Libra, (Kamala’s Sun Sign) which is known for that very qual­i­ty of Social Intel­li­gence, Diplo­ma­cy and Bridge Building.

Then we look and see how the Plan­e­tary ener­gy is dis­trib­uted in a chart. We are talk­ing about the ele­ments of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, and whether Kamala is more Car­di­nal, Fixed or Muta­ble in modal­i­ty. Kamala’s chart shows that she is a very fiery and earthy per­son, so that she com­bines the ide­al­ism and dri­ve of fire but she fus­es that with a more prac­ti­cal ori­en­ta­tion in terms of ground­ing those ideals in some­thing pur­pose­ful, mean­ing­ful, and most impor­tant­ly achievable.

Then in terms of the modal­i­ty, she is very Car­di­nal but also Fixed. The Car­di­nal comes from her Sun in Libra and her Moon in Aries, but then she has a lot of fixed plan­ets. Car­di­nal peo­ple see a prob­lem and they want to deal with it, they go for it and try and fix it. But Fixed peo­ple try to bear up and main­tain things, so she has a lit­tle bit of both. She will not hes­i­tate to address prob­lems by tak­ing action, but Kamala will be guid­ed by her deter­mi­na­tion to remain stead­fast and be guid­ed by cer­tain val­ues that she holds to be true.

I also like to see if there any sort of spe­cial pat­tern that might pro­vide a spe­cial qual­i­ty to a per­son. Indeed, there is a rather spe­cial pat­tern in Kamala’s chart, and it is called the Mys­tic rec­tan­gle. The Mys­tic Rec­tan­gle is formed by two group­ings of plan­ets. For Kamala it is her Sun oppo­site to her Moon, and her Mars oppo­site to Sat­urn, and then each of those four points is linked with one anoth­er. The two oppo­si­tions are linked by what we call sex­tiles and trines.

Often oppo­si­tions lead to a strug­gle between one thing and anoth­er. By hav­ing this Mys­tic pat­tern, it allows a per­son to find a way through, a bridg­ing if you will between what seems to most to be irrec­on­cil­able things. In her case the Sun in Libra would pre­dis­pose a per­son to try to do the right thing in terms of rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships, and to defer one’s own needs and inter­ests for that of oth­ers, to be what we call very “oth­er inter­est­ed”. Yet her moon in Aries says she also feels a strong need to assert her­self and dis­play lead­er­ship, courage, and ini­tia­tive. And if that is too strong one might run roughshod over oth­er people.

So, it is a tug of war between doing what is right for one­self and doing what is more accom­mo­dat­ing. Of course, the les­son in her life was to learn to hold her­self in the mid­dle, to be pos­i­tive­ly self-assertive with­out being too abra­sive or strong about it; to be mind­ful­ly sen­si­tive so that she equal­ly con­sid­er the social con­se­quences of those words and deeds in order to main­tain har­mo­ny and balance.

Like­wise, with her Mars in Leo, Kamala wish­es to act in the world in a way that that dis­plays con­fi­dence and mas­tery as she looks to earn respect. But if you shape your actions too much by what will bring you approval and respect, well then you might become untrue to who you real­ly are. That is when her Sat­urn in Aquar­ius reminds her, “to thine own self be true”, and that she should not over­ly care what peo­ple think. So that also pulls on her from anoth­er direc­tion. Giv­en this polar­iza­tion, she could get stuck by either being too accom­mo­dat­ing in terms of try­ing to earn peo­ple’s respect or too dis­mis­sive of peo­ple so she can do her own thing. The need of course is to strike the right bal­ance, to be some­one who val­ues hon­or and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, but also real­izes the impor­tance of doing that with­in a con­text that is social­ly mean­ing­ful. This pat­tern is one of the keys to under­stand­ing what dri­ves Kamala’s life.

Then we turn to the prin­ci­ple indi­ca­tors in any­body’s chart, and for Kamala it is her Sun in Libra placed in her 5th house. Peo­ple with the sun in Libra are focused on rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships, and we often find them being the medi­a­tor between indi­vid­u­als and groups. Libra’s have a strong sense of fair play and jus­tice, and we usu­al­ly see them work­ing towards alle­vi­at­ing injus­tices and heal­ing divi­sions. Kamala is a lawyer, and a pros­e­cu­tor and now a sen­a­tor, and get­ting involved in social caus­es and try­ing to make that social space more equi­table and fair­er would be some­thing that would dri­ve her sto­ry with­out question.

Kamala’s Sun is in the “nat­ur­al house” for the Sun, the 5^th House, as the Sun rules the 5th sign of Leo. This place­ment often indi­cates some­one who car­ries some form of ener­gy that nat­u­ral­ly dis­plays lead­er­ship; she inspires oth­ers with her prin­ci­pled nature. More­over, with her Sun in the nat­ur­al house of Leo, she will shine like the Sun, and when she smiles it will light up the room with warmth and goodness.

When we look to see how her Sun is con­nect­ed to the rest of the chart, the first thing to note is that Kamala was born a Full Moon. I like to say that a per­son born at a Full Moon is born with no excus­es, because they implic­it­ly under­stand cause and effect, the law of action and reac­tion. But it also indi­cates that Kamala was brought into the world so that when she looked at her moth­er, and then she looked at father, she said to her­self, “wow these peo­ple are dif­fer­ent”. It set Kamala on her path, to try and fig­ure out how to rec­on­cile the dif­fer­ences I sense with­in me, and then between myself and oth­er peo­ple. This aware­ness dri­ves her sto­ry through­out her life, try­ing to find a way to bring togeth­er peo­ple and to bring togeth­er the oppo­sites and achieve an inte­gral synthesis.

Her Sun is also per­fect­ly lined up with her Sat­urn in Aquar­ius. A Sun/Saturn trine per­son has a very deep under­stand­ing about how the world works, and equal­ly a res­olute sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty in the world in terms of their life. We typ­i­cal­ly find that peo­ple like this often find their life tends to shine once they hit their 50s and onward, as they show great adept­ness and matu­ri­ty and skill in work­ing in struc­tures and mas­ter­ing them.

Her Sun is next to Mer­cury, what we call a con­junc­tion, and that makes her a very sharp per­son in terms of her intel­li­gence. And that strength of mind fits quite well again with her moon being in Aries since the moon in Aries rules the head and makes for a rather quick mind.

An Aries Moon per­son leans into life, they are very enthu­si­as­tic, some­times a lit­tle too enthu­si­as­tic, some­times a lit­tle too com­pet­i­tive, and that eager­ness or over­reach­ing can some­times bring them trou­ble. When­ev­er a Moon in Aries per­son is frus­trat­ed or hav­ing some dif­fi­cul­ty, I always tell them that the answer or rem­e­dy is for them to get mov­ing, to just get very phys­i­cal and use up that ener­gy in some form of phys­i­cal exer­tion. Rather than peace­ful and still med­i­ta­tions in order to be cen­tered, peo­ple like this should run, dance or move vig­or­ous­ly and that will restore their peace of mind.

The Aries Moon in Kamala’s chart is in the Eleventh House of social ideals, of her social con­scious­ness and con­science. This means that Kamala’s com­mu­ni­ties, the groups, and asso­ci­a­tions that she belongs to and par­tic­i­pates in are so mean­ing­ful to her. These com­mu­ni­ties and caus­es bring her nur­tur­ing and com­fort as she equal­ly tries to bring lead­er­ship and nur­tur­ing to them.

More­over, the Moon in her chart is oppo­site to her Mer­cury and that means she ini­tial­ly had to strug­gle to inte­grate what she was feel­ing and what she was think­ing and speak­ing about. Hav­ing had to work on this, she prob­a­bly has learned to mas­ter the art of weav­ing togeth­er her intel­lect and her feel­ings, to hold them togeth­er so that her words and ideas can car­ry that much fur­ther into the mind and hearts of oth­ers. But she may still get stuck or stum­ble between what she is think­ing and what she is feel­ing some­times, and when unable to over­come that divide, she might be misunderstood.

Kamala is for­tu­nate to have her Moon trine her Mars, (and that Mars in her chart is impor­tant and we will come back to that). Mars is her ris­ing plan­et, it is the lead plan­et of her chart, and any­body with the Moon trin­ing Mars is some­one who is a “Can Do per­son”, not a “Can­not Do per­son”; the word no or can­not is just not part of their DNA. Once they set their sights upon a task or mis­sion that is it, they are ful­ly ener­gized once they feel strong­ly about some­thing, so that they are on it com­plete­ly and noth­ing will dis­suade them.

Kamala approach­es the world like a Gem­i­ni because she has Gem­i­ni Ris­ing. This makes her curi­ous and rest­less, and some­times provoca­tive or con­trary. She can see more than one side to an issue, and she relies upon her intel­li­gence and adapt­abil­i­ty to solve prob­lems and not get stuck.

The Mid­heav­en of a chart shows the des­tiny or path in life, and for Kamala she has the sign of Pisces on top of her chart. This means that she feels that her life and her life work must have some­thing to do with a mis­sion or greater pur­pose, that it is not about her­self but about the call­ing to some task that requires sac­ri­fice and dedication.

Kamala’s ris­ing plan­et of Mars is in the sign of Leo. I have men­tioned many times that Mars in Leo is one of the sig­ni­fi­ca­tors found in more US President’s charts than any oth­er. Kamala’s Mars in Leo is in a promi­nent posi­tion, and it gives her a Leo qual­i­ty of being a fight­er for hon­or and for integri­ty. Mars ris­ing peo­ple embody a war­rior spir­it, it can make them strong, but they need to be care­ful in how they wield this pow­er. For Kamala, Mars is placed in her Third House of the Mind and Intel­li­gence, and indi­cates a very sharp and quick mind, and often a very sharp tongue. It is great asset for a debater, it is the per­fect asset for a lawyer because that is where this ener­gy can find a mean­ing­ful application.

But she has to learn to be care­ful to not over­do or over­whelm her oppo­nent (or audi­ence), and that if she comes across as too strong or to seem to be full of her­self in terms of what she knows or how she wields that pow­er of her mind it could reveal a lack of social grace. Her very intel­li­gence and assertive nature could be turned against her.

As much as Mars is so impor­tant as her ris­ing plan­et, the cul­mi­nat­ing plan­et in anyone’s chart is also sig­nif­i­cant, reveal­ing much about their soul and their des­tiny. For Kamala, it is the plan­et Sat­urn in Aquar­ius. Sat­urn rules struc­ture, real­i­ty, insti­tu­tions, and the law. More­over, it is in the Ninth House which rules high­er under­stand­ing, the realm of Truth, Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy, and the Law as well. This place­ment shows that Kamala has a great abil­i­ty in this life­time to be mas­ter­ful in realms of reli­gion and phi­los­o­phy and sci­ence and law. As we all know, she was a lawyer and a pros­e­cu­tor, and giv­en Sat­urn in the Ninth house the path of her pro­fes­sion­al life makes sense.

Jupiter is the plan­et that informs and guides our beliefs and our truths, of what we find mean­ing­ful to us, and forms our inspi­ra­tions and moti­va­tions. Kamala has her Jupiter in the sign of Tau­rus, and it is in her Twelfth House. With Jupiter in her 12^th House, she can draw upon a well of spir­i­tu­al con­fi­dence and under­stand­ing from with­in her­self; for Kamala, her faith is cen­tered, deep and abid­ing. With her Jupiter in Tau­rus, she makes her way by a very per­sis­tent search for the truth. More­over, Kamala has a firm belief that there are teach­ings and val­ues that are eter­nal, and this sup­ports her opti­mism and faith in human­i­ty. Because of this sense of last­ing val­ue, she has a very steady kind of spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing, she lives a faith informed by truth.

With her Sat­urn in the 9th house, Kamala would have start­ed with a cer­tain cultural/spiritual sys­tem of belief, but then by her own need and through cir­cum­stances, she would have been exposed to and explored oth­er cul­tures, beliefs and paths to Truth. Her Sat­urn “test in life” is in fact the test of truth, and those with this test even­tu­al­ly arrive at a place of a more encom­pass­ing under­stand­ing of Wis­dom teth­ered to Humil­i­ty. Then peo­ple like Kamala can help oth­er peo­ple under­stand what is true and how to under­stand the way to truth because that has been and remains Kamala’s journey.

The plan­et Venus in a chart will show what you val­ue, what you love, and how you love. For Kamala Venus is espe­cial­ly impor­tant because she is a Libra, a sign ruled by Venus. For Kamala, Venus is in the sign of Vir­go, so even though Kamala is a Libra she real­ly wants to be a Vir­go. Kamala wants to be more at peace, to have a more com­plete under­stand­ing of val­ue, beau­ty, and love by tak­ing an ana­lyt­i­cal approach to beau­ty and to rela­tion­ship. It can make some­one some­what of a per­fec­tion­ist, but it also makes her more atten­tive to the need for rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships to be formed with right struc­tur­ing so that they are har­mo­nious and bal­anced. Venus is a strong indi­ca­tor for Kamala, since it is the plan­et that is ris­ing before her Sun. With Venus in this posi­tion and Sign, she is led through life by Venus; she seeks to under­stand and heal the pat­terns and con­di­tions of rela­tion­ships between part­ners and groups of people.

Mer­cury is the plan­et that rules the mind and our means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and for Kamala it is in the sign of Scor­pio. So even though Kamala is a Libra, she thinks like a Scor­pio which means with a great insight that always seeks to go deep­er, to remove the veil cov­er­ing things that are hid­den. She will not accept things at face val­ue but will dive deep­er to find the truth. Kamala’s mind is focused, deter­mined and author­i­ta­tive since her Mer­cury lines up with her Sat­urn, (just like her Sun). She goes deep­er than most and goes to the heart of the mat­ter, so that when she deliv­ers that mes­sage, she is com­pelling and persuasive.

KAMALA/BIDEN:

How do Joe and Kamala’s charts line up with one anoth­er? The most strik­ing dif­fer­ence between their charts is the Fixed and Watery nature of Biden as com­pared to the Cardinal/Fixed and Fiery/Earthy nature of Har­ris. Joe will appre­ci­ate Kamala’s dri­ve and ide­al­ism, but he will cer­tain­ly come across as the more sen­si­tive and emo­tion­al per­son in their part­ner­ship. After all, he has the Moon as his Ris­ing Plan­et, so Joe is an emo­tion­al and sen­si­tive type, he will be the heal­er or “Empathiz­er in Chief”. Kamala has Mars ris­ing, she will be the one who is ready for bat­tle, she will be the “War­rior Woman”.

One of the most sig­nif­i­cant links between two charts is when one person’s Moon aligns with the oth­er person’s Moon, and Kamala’s Moon and Joe’s Moon are con­junct, and that cre­ates a bond of empa­thy and under­stand­ing between them. Then Kamala’s Sun (which is oppo­site to her Moon), is also oppo­site Joe’s Moon. Here is when we say, “oppo­sites attract”. Each will feel that the oth­er per­son is dif­fer­ent but in a stim­u­lat­ing way; in some sense, each will feel that the oth­er bal­ances or com­pletes them in some man­ner. For Kamala, she will have to come to under­stand Joe’s emo­tion­al nature (which is quite dif­fer­ent from hers, he with the Moon in Tau­rus, and her with the Moon in Aries), and Joe will have to accept and enjoy Kamala’s strong per­son­al­i­ty, espe­cial­ly with her Sun in her Fifth House.

Astrologer’s will always look to see if there are Sat­urn con­nec­tions between two charts, and that is here. Joe’s Sun Squares Kamala’s Sat­urn. I always say to my clients who have this in their part­ner­ship, that this forms the feel­ing of “Déjà vu”, so that the two peo­ple will feel that this rela­tion­ship is famil­iar, like they are meet­ing one anoth­er “once again”, and their rela­tion­ship seems to have a feel­ing of kar­ma and des­tiny about it. It will tend to hold peo­ple togeth­er, to be deeply com­mit­ted to one another.

Biden’s Mer­cury squares Harris’s Mars, and this will cre­ate a fris­son of ener­gy, but also the poten­tial for fric­tion between them. Basi­cal­ly, Joe will usu­al­ly want to talk more about some mat­ter or issue, where­as Kamala will wish to take action more quick­ly. Each will mod­er­ate the oth­er when it works; Joe bring­ing more delib­er­a­tion into an issue before mov­ing on it, and at times Kamala get­ting Joe to act soon­er than he might have with­out her.

Jupiter is espe­cial­ly impor­tant in a rela­tion­ship, espe­cial­ly for Biden who has Sagit­tar­ius Ris­ing. Joe’s Jupiter squares Kamala’s Moon. This may seem chal­leng­ing at times, but Jupiter being the greater benef­ic will often lead to a reward­ing expe­ri­ence. Joe’s Jupiter will help Kamala to expand her out­look and broad­en her under­stand­ing of the world. The key to this work­ing will be do they fun­da­men­tal­ly share the same spiritual/cultural beliefs? And for that we need to exam­ine the aspect between Joe’s Jupiter and Kamala’s.

Joe has his Jupiter in Can­cer and Kamala has her Jupiter in Tau­rus, and they form a strong and pos­i­tive sex­tile. That means their under­stand­ing about the nature of truth and faith are sim­i­lar and aligned. They will form a part­ner­ship that can inspire and bring out the best in one anoth­er and give hope and inspi­ra­tion to oth­ers as well.