Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – 2020 Half-Year Review – Where are we now? (June 28, 2020)

In my six­teenth show of 2020, I want to look at where we are now, the halfway point in our cal­en­dar year. Cer­tain­ly, a lot has hap­pened in 2020; and the mean­ings and mes­sages in the heav­ens keep rever­ber­at­ing and com­bin­ing, form­ing a com­plex sym­pho­ny of pain and growth, of loss and love. Though these crises and chal­lenges impact all the realms of our lives, fun­da­men­tal­ly they should always be under­stood as what they are, that a great Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis is fac­ing human­i­ty at this time. The chal­lenges of Cli­mate Change (Pan­dem­ic) and the strug­gle for Social Jus­tice (Genocide/Racism) are part of the exis­ten­tial chal­lenge fac­ing all humans on Earth. The chal­lenges we face are very pro­found and yet equal­ly so clear and sim­ple. What we must ask our­selves is this: How will we live with one anoth­er; and how will we live with all the oth­er life­forms on this planet.

Life hangs in the bal­ance now; the future for human­i­ty and for many life-forms will be decid­ed in the next few years. What world will we leave for those who come after us; will we be hon­ored or cursed? That is the question.

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 June 28^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/06/28/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-2020-half-year-review

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 June 28th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

In Aries you ask, “Who am I?”; in Tau­rus you ask, “What am I?”; in Gem­i­ni you ask, “How do I Know?” And now in the time of Can­cer, you ask your­self, “Where do I come from?”

The “four cor­ners” of the year, and of your life, are held by the Car­di­nal Signs of Aries, Can­cer, Libra, and Capri­corn. These are the signs of begin­nings, and they are espe­cial­ly sacred as they are the por­tals and path­ways to your enlight­en­ment or Initiation.

In your own chart, the four car­di­nal signs point the way, much like a com­pass, reveal­ing through their polar­i­ties the four direc­tions of life as you estab­lish and secure your sense of Iden­ti­ty. As posit­ed by these equinox­es and sol­stices, you will expe­ri­ence the subject/object and inner/outer ways of being through Aries to Libra as in “Who am I, who are you”; and, by Can­cer to Capri­corn, as in “Where did I come from, where am I going”?

Today we enter one of these four sacred por­tals again, today we enter the realm of Feel­ing, as we seek to find our way to our true cen­ter by the Way of Can­cer. For there is only so much you know and can under­stand by your intel­lect; there is only so much that will be encom­passed by your present knowl­edge, by your con­cepts and cat­e­gories of thought. Beyond these defined, deter­mined data points and cat­e­gories of real­i­ty there lies what is always beyond; out there beyond the known, there you meet “the mys­tery”. Yes, out there, and equal­ly with­in your very own self too, you encounter the won­ders of the unknown, what is beyond “know­ing”; both in here and out there, you will expe­ri­ence the beau­ty and majesty of the All.

Some­where in your chart, there you will find this spe­cial realm that is the Sign of Can­cer. This is the space you enter now, the realm of feel­ings, of intu­itions and inti­ma­tions of what is beyond your con­scious know­ing. We can­not, yet, ful­ly under­stand what we sense with­in and around us; these impres­sions, sen­si­bil­i­ties and mes­sages are part of what remains beyond our thoughts and rea­son. We expe­ri­ence this abil­i­ty as our “sixth sense”, where we appre­hend by our intu­ition­al sense what is beyond the finite realm of con­scious understanding.

Yes, now in Can­cer we will move into our feel­ings, through sen­sa­tions that take us beyond def­i­nite bor­ders and bound­aries. We have entered into a realm where real­i­ty is felt as more encom­pass­ing, as it con­nects us deeply with­in and then out­ward­ly with every­one and every­thing, from the small­est of par­ti­cles to the great­est of stel­lar bod­ies of unimag­in­able size. In the end, when we feel the full­ness of our con­nec­tions with all that is, we will feel our true kin­ship with the entire­ty of Creation.

But first, before we reach upwards and out­ward, to the One and to the many, some­thing we will most cer­tain­ly con­sid­er in the time of Pisces, we feel the pull, and we must turn and con­sid­er the prin­ci­ple mat­ter of Can­cer, which is our first mys­tery, where do we come from? Before we can imag­ine or expe­ri­ence what is “out there”, we need to feel what is at the root of us; we need to under­stand what lies at the foun­da­tion and cen­ter of our journey.

Though we expe­ri­ence our­selves as body, mind and spir­it, (and so many sub­di­vi­sions with­in those realms), we also feel the truth, we all feel the need to have all these “parts” of us some­how yoked togeth­er, to hold all these parts as one. We are formed by a beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chy, made of fields of ener­gy-forms; we are some­how also held togeth­er as just a one. What is this sense of one, where does it come from, where do we come from?

It seems, at first, so clear and present to us. We come from Mother/Father, that is where we are from. But then the sense of your­self begins to grow out­ward­ly and inward­ly too. We are shaped and formed by a hier­ar­chy of rela­tions, both near at hand and far away in space and time as well. Yes, it starts with Mother/Father, Grandmother/Grandfather, Aunts and Uncles, Sis­ters and Broth­ers. You first feel your roots by your most inti­mate fam­i­ly mem­bers, by your fam­i­ly her­itage, and your first cir­cle of life-meanings.

But then your cir­cle widens and deep­ens, the mean­ings become more nuanced yet more strik­ing too, as you expe­ri­ence some of these as even more sig­nif­i­cant than some in the first cir­cle of kin­ship. You see that your source of feel­ing whole, of being cen­tered with­in your­self, is forged by ever more encom­pass­ing and affirm­ing inti­ma­cies and shared affec­tions with friends, col­leagues and most sur­pris­ing­ly but won­der­ful­ly in the mag­i­cal shar­ing with so-called total strangers too. Yes, you will through­out your jour­ney prune or alter some of the first or “giv­en” roots of you, as you choose to align with oth­er mean­ings and sen­si­bil­i­ties that feel more cen­tered and truer to your jour­ney of becoming.

But it is not mere­ly in the here and now that you will find the true cen­ter of you, for your roots con­tin­ue to grow both in space and through time. You will feel how your sense of cen­ter arch­es back before this life, to your ances­tors, to many cul­tures and art forms and teach­ings that frame your feel­ings of mean­ing in the present today.

Tru­ly, your work of cen­ter­ing, of find­ing your­self at your cen­ter will nev­er end. For it is very much part of the inces­sant force that binds the uni­verse togeth­er as one, as it is true for all Life and Spirit:

You are here to grow; you are here to change.

So, it equal­ly fol­lows, that as much as you alter your­self and your world out­ward­ly, so will you renew, extend, and deep­en the roots of you too. And, as you go deep­er, you will also rise.

As you lift your­self up, as your roots go deep­er, you will come to even greater intu­itions as to the nature of you and your world. You will feel the con­nec­tions to your fel­low humans, to all crea­tures great and small, and you will feel the truth that all of it, the plan­ets, stars and galax­ies too, that all Life is held as one by the One. You will under­stand that your root is the same, that all roots come togeth­er in the One whose “Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”.

Yes, you will feel and know the truth of the Ancients, which is that we are one fam­i­ly, “We are all Relat­ed”. We are all ones of the One, and we are here quite sim­ply to feel this truth and to love one anoth­er. This is what you will find at the core of you; there you will feel the truth, that what is at the cen­ter of you is the source of one and all:

Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The time of Can­cer is here; let us cel­e­brate the Fam­i­ly of Spir­it. Let us bow to our Mother/Father who is in heav­en, and who is equal­ly in our own very hearts too.

But this is a most spe­cial entrance of the Sun mov­ing into Can­cer, (June 20 at 5:44 pm EDT). That is because only a few hours lat­er, there will be a New Moon Eclipse of the Sun (June 21 at 2:41 am EDT).

Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the most impor­tant cer­e­monies for Ini­ti­a­tion take place at the Spring and Fall Equinox­es, and the Sum­mer and Win­ter Sol­stices. They each hold their own spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance, all are holy. An Ini­ti­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny is timed with the New Moon, so that the Ini­ti­ate is car­ried through the planes and spheres for the 14 days of the wax­ing Moon.

When the New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse, as is this one, those Ini­ti­a­tions are said to be high­ly sig­nif­i­cant. The great­est Ini­ti­a­tions of all are set at a Total Solar Eclipse, with the cer­e­mo­ny held direct­ly beneath the path of Eclipse on Earth.

This is no ordi­nary turn­ing of the sea­sons. We are in a very spe­cial time.

May the light of truth, love and under­stand­ing guide our steps.

Tran­script of Radio Show: A House Divid­ed – Equality-Justice-Freedom

Plan­e­tary Cycles
There are no rep­e­ti­tions in the cycling of the plan­ets, with their var­ied cycles and inter­sec­tions with one anoth­er, they weave a nev­er-end­ing, ever evolv­ing cho­rus of har­monies and melodies. But there are repeat­ed pat­terns that car­ry res­o­nances with themes and mes­sages that echo down the ages. We can see reflect­ed in times past the uni­ver­sal themes of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, and by look­ing back and com­par­ing to our present day, we can see how these sim­i­lar times are con­nect­ed and form a larg­er sto­ry in our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney through the stars.

One har­mon­ic that I have not­ed before is the plan­et Nep­tune as it makes its once every 164 years pas­sage through the Sign of Pisces. We are in such a Pis­cean time now, from 2011 to 2026. Nep­tune rules the Spir­i­tu­al Truth of One­ness, “that there is but One Life, that there is but One Spir­it”, and per­son­al­ly and col­lec­tive­ly it rules our Dreams, but when mis­un­der­stood or mis­ap­plied it also rules our illu­sions, delu­sions and night­mares too. We can gain some greater under­stand­ing about our time by look­ing to its pre­vi­ous pas­sage in Pisces which was from 1848 to 1862. You will see that the themes and ener­gies of that pri­or pas­sage has more than a pass­ing mean­ing­ful­ness for our present circumstances.

For the Unit­ed States, the 1850’s was a time in which we were hurtling towards and crashed into the great­est con­flict we have ever faced to date, when two very dif­fer­ent economies, two dis­parate cul­tures, and two incom­pat­i­ble real­i­ties col­lid­ed in our Civ­il War. The pain and the promise of that peri­od, trag­i­cal­ly, did not remove or resolve our orig­i­nal sin of Slav­ery (or even address our first sin of Genocide).

As I have repeat­ed­ly writ­ten and said for many years now, we are at the end of an age, which is equal­ly the begin­ning of a New World, just as we were dur­ing the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War in the 1770’s. But we are also once again being con­front­ed with the dream and the night­mare that is Amer­i­ca now. And the same fun­da­men­tal ques­tion that was raised in the 1850’s is laid before us once again between 2011 and 2026. Will we close the gap between our dreams and our real­i­ty? Will be turn from fear and hatred; will we become what we pledged and promised our­selves to be in the 1770’s, which was to be a “New Order for the Centuries”?

The Bro­ken Promise
It was then, in our Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, that we stat­ed that our found­ing prin­ci­ple for the estab­lish­ment of our nation, would be these immor­tal words:

“We hold these truths to be self-evi­dent, that all men are cre­at­ed equal, that they are endowed by their Cre­ator with cer­tain unalien­able Rights, that among these are Life, Lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness. That to secure these rights, Gov­ern­ments are insti­tut­ed among Men, deriv­ing their just pow­ers from the con­sent of the governed”.

Yet, at the very begin­ning of our self-gov­er­nance, when we agreed to help one anoth­er to pur­sue our Hap­pi­ness (that we would be the means for one anoth­er to achieve self-ful­fill­ment, for that is hap­pi­ness), we broke our pledge to do this with a great por­tion of our peo­ple who would be denied these rights. And we con­demned them to servi­tude, to being less­er men and women, to be slaves who could be owned, bought, and sold as property.

1858 and 2020 – A House Divided
As I have pre­vi­ous­ly spo­ken and writ­ten, the region of space through which Nep­tune is mov­ing in 2020 and 2021 par­al­lels the peri­od of 1858–59. In that ear­li­er peri­od, the nature and con­se­quence of the orig­i­nal sin of slav­ery was laid before the Unit­ed States by Abra­ham Lin­coln. It was 162 years ago this month, exact­ly in June 1858, when Lin­coln not­ed the fun­da­men­tal divi­sion in our coun­try, and that divi­sion very much shad­ows us in our present cri­sis, when he offered up a warn­ing about incom­pat­i­ble beliefs and prac­tices with­in any soci­ety or cul­ture, in his famous para­phras­ing of the Bible, in which he said:

“…a house divid­ed against itself can­not stand. I believe this gov­ern­ment can­not endure per­ma­nent­ly half slave and half free. I do not expect the union to be dis­solved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divid­ed. It will either become all one thing or all the oth­er. Either the oppo­nents of slav­ery will arrest the fur­ther spread of it and place it where the pub­lic mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ulti­mate extinc­tion or its advo­cates will push it for­ward till it shall become law­ful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”

Lin­coln was mak­ing a social and polit­i­cal (but tru­ly spir­i­tu­al state­ment), with regards to the incom­pat­i­bil­i­ty between two vast­ly dif­fer­ent con­cep­tions of what it means to be human. Are we all equal, or are some less than equal? These total­ly oppo­site con­cep­tions of human­i­ty would shape and form two com­plete­ly incom­pat­i­ble forms of soci­ety, econ­o­my, and cul­ture. But for me, (I know or feel this to be true), Lin­coln was aware and inspired by a deep­er under­stand­ing about this metaphor, and that this sym­bol of a “house divid­ed” is tru­ly and fun­da­men­tal­ly a spir­i­tu­al state­ment regard­ing the human con­di­tion, and speaks to the chal­lenge of our jour­ney of awak­en­ing that is true for every human being.

For make no mis­take, the mul­ti­ple crises we are fac­ing, in the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic and the Cli­mate Cri­sis from which it comes, but equal­ly the crises in our soci­ety with regards to injus­tice, inequal­i­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty, inequal­i­ty of edu­ca­tion, inequal­i­ty in health­care, and the basic denial for many to have true free­dom and hap­pi­ness, these are all indica­tive of a great Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis here and around the world.

What is our Purpose
What is our pur­pose on Earth? It is quite sim­ply for each and every human to become a whole or com­plete human. We humans are a “work in progress”; and that long jour­ney of awak­en­ing has wit­nessed our strug­gle to move from a bare­ly self-aware con­scious­ness to an ever more ful­ly formed cos­mic con­scious­ness. To that end, and in truth, the real promised land we are striv­ing to reach can­not be found or made “out there”. Instead, it is and must be made in each of us. And because we are human, because we are made by the qual­i­ty and char­ac­ter of our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, that we are here to lift one anoth­er up, that we do this with and through one anoth­er, we are the means for one anoth­er to become ful­ly con­scious and liv­ing embod­i­ments of the uncon­di­tion­al love that resides in each individual’s spark of the Divine.

The path to get there is long and twist­ing, and we have fall­en many times in the long march of human his­to­ry. As Mar­tin Luther King so aching­ly said in his I have a Dream Speech, “I have a dream that my four lit­tle chil­dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the col­or of their skin but by the con­tent of their character.”

As a stu­dent of his­to­ry and Theos­o­phy, I do believe that there is an inces­sant bend­ing of light and truth that draws us towards the source of one and all. We can­not know when, but at some point, in any one human’s jour­ney, an indi­vid­ual will seek and find the Truth; they will come to what is known in Bud­dhism as “The Heart Doc­trine”, or in Chris­tian­i­ty into the “Con­scious­ness of the Christ Force”. It will hap­pen when they hear the qui­et, lov­ing, and gen­tle voice which inte­grates and makes pos­si­ble the tri­umph of Light over Dark­ness, of love over fear.

Undi­vid­ed – The Awakening
Yes, it is when you lis­ten to your own beloved, to your own lumi­nous High­er Self, it is then that you will come into the pres­ence of the King­dom of Heav­en that is with­in you, and you will know the Truth that is Love. Only then, will you see that who­ev­er is before me is my broth­er or sis­ter, my father or moth­er, my dear­est com­pan­ion and friend. And only then will you not see gen­der, or race, or eth­nic­i­ty, or creed or any oth­er divider from one anoth­er. Only when your house is undi­vid­ed with­in your­self will you stop divid­ing you and your world into “us and them”.

Then it must cer­tain­ly fol­low, that it is only when a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of any peo­ple wake up, so that they see, feel and under­stand their true nature togeth­er, when they become col­lec­tive­ly undi­vid­ed and turn away from divi­sion, of mak­ing some “oth­ers” less than them, it is only when their hearts lead the way that they will make it equal­ly so in the man­ner in which they live on this plan­et, and with all crea­tures great and small.

That is why any group’s strug­gle is a strug­gle for all of us. Again, from Mar­tin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech, he not­ed the evi­dence of our com­mon human­i­ty and our shared strug­gle for jus­tice, as he stat­ed, “for many of our white broth­ers, as evi­denced by their pres­ence here today, have come to real­ize that their des­tiny is tied up with our des­tiny, and they have come to real­ize that their free­dom is inex­tri­ca­bly bound to our free­dom. We can­not walk alone.”

What King and so many have known is this, that no one is free, no one can achieve self-ful­fill­ment or true hap­pi­ness unless all live togeth­er with the same and equal oppor­tu­ni­ties, period.

How to live Spiritually
But what does this mean, how do you live in the Now, how do you live Spir­i­tu­al­ly; how do you not only heal your mind and your heart but go out and live right­eous­ly too? How do we make right over 500 years of Geno­cide; how to we make right over 400 years of Racism?

This is not about fix­ing “polic­ing”; it is not enough to shift or real­lo­cate some resources and retrain the forces that are the very prod­uct of injus­tice and inequal­i­ty. The change we face now goes much deep­er than that. We live in a soci­ety, in a world, where the extremes of wealth and pover­ty, the whol­ly dis­tort­ed rela­tion­ships not just to one anoth­er but to all life on this plan­et have become so over­whelm­ing­ly tox­ic that the via­bil­i­ty of life on this plan­et is in per­il. Human life hangs in the bal­ance because of what we have done to one anoth­er and to our plan­et; all crea­tures great and small are equal­ly imper­iled by our way of life.

A New Covenant
What we must do is build a new “way of being” forged upon a new covenant with Life and Spir­it. Yes, the prob­lem is pover­ty; yes, wealth inequal­i­ty is the prob­lem; and they are both made by one anoth­er, and they are forged and main­tained by a sys­tem that is destroy­ing the diver­si­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of life on this plan­et. The very Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic and Social sys­tem that was formed to meet our needs in the 1700’s is killing us. And not only us, as life is leav­ing the plan­et at a rate that is grow­ing expo­nen­tial­ly. Life on Earth is becom­ing less diverse, less vibrant, less beau­ti­ful, less pos­si­ble, and we only need to look in the mir­ror to see the cause.

What must we do? We must forge our new covenant of spir­it with one anoth­er based upon uni­ver­sal Equal­i­ty and Jus­tice. We must real­lo­cate the wealth we all pro­duce so that every per­son has what we owe to one anoth­er in our human fam­i­ly: Equal Edu­ca­tion, Equal Health­care, Equal Hous­ing, Equal Oppor­tu­ni­ty, so that every child and adult has an Equal chance to achieve Self-Ful­fill­ment. For not one of us can be tru­ly ful­filled, not one of us can be tru­ly hap­py, if so many of our broth­ers and sis­ters live in fear and poverty.

We must imme­di­ate­ly change the way we pro­duce our Ener­gy, change the ways in which we Source our Food, change the ways we Cre­ate our Shel­ter. We must change our way of liv­ing, which has been by “Destroy­ing to Sur­vive” and return to Lov­ing Ways where we are “Cre­at­ing to Thrive”.

The hour is late, and there is no excuse if you care about your chil­dren, and your children’s chil­dren, and for the many gen­er­a­tions yet to come. This is about their future; this is about the world you are mak­ing for them. If you will not sac­ri­fice now, then when? If you will not change for your own chil­dren, then who? If you will not lis­ten to rea­son, will you at least lis­ten to your heart?

The choice before us all is what it has always been.

The choice we face is between Love or Fear, between Truth or Lies.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – A House Divid­ed – Equal­i­ty-Jus­tice-Free­dom (June 14, 2020)

In my fif­teenth show of 2020, I will again con­sid­er the Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis we face. The Pan­dem­ic and the strug­gle for Social Jus­tice are part of the exis­ten­tial chal­lenge fac­ing the entire plan­et. We are here to bear wit­ness to the end of an Age and to be the cre­ators of a New Age. We are here to be part of a great Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing for human­i­ty all around the world.

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 June 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/06/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-a-house-divided

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 June 14^th @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Where are we now – The End of an Age – The Pandemic

The Pan­dem­ic
As you might imag­ine these last cou­ple of weeks almost every ses­sion I have done has always begun, though I have hour long ses­sions, the first 20 or 30 min­utes have been tak­en up with the events of the time, (and then I cer­tain­ly give that client their one hour ses­sion too). But most peo­ple want to talk about what is going on and what the stars have to say about it, and we share our expe­ri­ences and how we are try­ing to cope with this.

Whether it is clients in Europe who have had an ear­li­er taste of this, and here now in the US and around the world, we are try­ing to make sense of what is hap­pen­ing here. Of course for me in terms of what I have stud­ied, and rely­ing upon the ancient wis­dom, (being a stu­dent of his­to­ry and also stu­dent of astrol­o­gy for many years), I try to under­stand these things in big his­tor­i­cal terms and look­ing at the “arc of his­to­ry”, and I try to under­stand how that fits into the “arc of the plan­ets and their cycling”.

I always tend to frame it that way, and I am always opti­mistic because we have come through very trou­bling times before, again and again through­out his­to­ry, and Spir­it and the human spir­it finds a way through. It is always a time, I would say, of a quick­en­ing of spir­it, that when things have great “fric­tion” we reveal the “shin­ing” under­neath, and that behind all the incrus­ta­tions we see our love and com­pas­sion and car­ing for one another

Heroes of Humanity
That is show­ing up in leaps and bounds now, right here inti­mate­ly in our dai­ly lives as well as what we watch on the stage of the world with all those heroes out there. The front line, of course, con­sid­er­ing the con­di­tions were going through, our health care work­ers and oth­er lead­ers who are try­ing to fore­stall any greater calami­ty to us all. And we praise them like we did our 9/11 respon­ders here in New York, who rushed in with­out think­ing of them­selves. Their exam­ple is tru­ly the shin­ing star of human con­scious­ness; it is our self­less­ness and sac­ri­fice for one anoth­er, which is our love for one anoth­er. And it gives me goose­bumps when I watch what is going on, and what we will be going through, and hope­ful­ly we will have a lot of those shin­ing moments here to look back upon.

The End of an Age
But of course, you want to know why; why is this hap­pen­ing now? And again, Astro­log­i­cal­ly, as I have been say­ing, and prob­a­bly get­ting very dull now since before 2008, I have kept on this drum­beat that this is going to be a time that we will not for­get. Because this is a time much like it was in the 1700s and before that in the 1500s and so on that every 240, 250 years or so, one of those great plan­ets, the plan­et Plu­to the plan­et that rules Trans­for­ma­tion, Death and Rebirth, (I say it rules the will). But it is the pow­er of Cre­ation, of death and rebirth and renew­al. When it is mov­ing through cer­tain signs, it is affect­ing the qual­i­ties and con­di­tions that sign gov­erns. It always goes through a series of steps and stages, and we can look at them all at some point his­tor­i­cal­ly. But for our pur­pos­es, just to focus on today, I have said that in the 1500s was a time where a “world” came undone, in terms of how it was struc­tured eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly and cul­tur­al­ly and spir­i­tu­al­ly. It set in motion a new kind of cul­ture and econ­o­my and way of life for the next 250 years. And that came undone in the next episode of Plu­to through Capri­corn which was 1760 to 1770s.

The Answer or Solu­tion becomes the problem
In each of these peri­ods, what had been the dom­i­nant way of meet­ing human needs, because that is what we are talk­ing about, (we are humans, we take care of one anoth­er), whether with­in fam­i­lies or in com­mu­ni­ties, and then in larg­er social orga­ni­za­tions on up to state and transna­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions, it is all about meet­ing human needs. We cre­ate these sys­tems to meet our needs with­in fam­i­lies and then expand­ing out­ward, and the sys­tems we put in place, the pat­terns that we cre­ate will work for a time, per­haps for a very long time, but they are not for­ev­er. And they need to change because of their own inter­nal dynam­ic of no longer meet­ing the nature of what humans need at that time, but also exter­nal­ly, because of exter­nal events and changes in cli­mate and oth­er things, that make it no longer ten­able to meet our needs that way.

That is what hap­pened in the 1500s, it hap­pened again the 1700s. What hap­pens is the very solu­tion that is for­mu­lat­ed and put forth and becomes dom­i­nant in a peri­od, that solu­tion cre­ates its own con­tra­dic­tions and lim­i­ta­tions. We see these amaz­ing chal­lenges and prob­lems in the 1700s, that set in motion cer­tain dynam­ics in terms of releas­ing great wealth and pow­er, and accu­mu­la­tion and growth in soci­eties on the one hand, but also had inher­ent side effects that were going to be catch­ing up to us at some point. And, here they are, as the very things that we used to solve our prob­lems, (of hav­ing enough food and hav­ing enough pow­er and hav­ing and accu­mu­lat­ing more wealth and well-being in the world), is now chok­ing and destroy­ing the world, caus­ing all these dis­lo­ca­tions in the nat­ur­al world and our human made world.

That is the result of things we know, in terms of many sci­en­tists for years talk­ing about this, and that as we broke down the nat­ur­al sys­tems, and they came under greater stress, there would be reper­cus­sions. And as we moved into all spaces on the Earth, and came into con­tact with spaces that we nor­mal­ly would not, with pathogens and life­forms, and these became intro­duced into our world, and we would have no defens­es against them.

When did this begin?
You could say this goes back 10 to 15,000 years ago, when humans decid­ed (and it maybe longer than that, depend­ing upon how you look at his­to­ry), when humans became no longer hunter-gath­er­ers, and began to set­tle down into com­mu­ni­ties, as agri­cul­tur­al­ist and pas­toral­ists, and we began to live with our ani­mals. At that very moment, we began to have more of this inter­fac­ing with life-forms that we had no defens­es against, and we had to accu­mu­late those defenses.

But of course, that sped up over time, to the point where now it is rac­ing across the globe in a mat­ter of hours, because of how we have con­nect­ed to one anoth­er through these amaz­ing tech­nolo­gies. But the down­side is yes, there is this greater con­nec­tiv­i­ty for all things trav­el­ing along those path­ways includ­ing things that are dan­ger­ous to us.

And so many peo­ple are say­ing, well why did we let this hap­pen? There were many voic­es speak­ing to this, say­ing it is going to hap­pen again, and to the extent that we have rig­or­ous pub­lic health struc­tures, and peo­ple look­ing out for these things, we could catch it in time.

Of course, in many places and cul­tures they have some of those sys­tems in place, and they may be far­ing a lit­tle bet­ter than oth­er places. And, in oth­er sys­tems, they took their “eye off the ball”, and they did not put the funds and resources there, they did not catch it ear­ly enough, and now they are try­ing to play “catch up”. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Amer­i­ca and oth­er coun­tries are in that role, of hav­ing not been as resilient in terms of some resources that we would like to draw upon at this time.

Why does this happen?
So, peo­ple ask, why does this hap­pen? The plan­ets do not cause this. They are what they are, in their reg­u­lar pat­tern­ing with each oth­er, and they set in motion peri­ods where there is a begin­ning of some­thing; and then it comes to a piv­ot point; then it comes to a cli­max; and around again until it begins a new cycle. What hap­pens with­in that cycle, any cycle, whether it is look­ing at things in the month­ly cycle of the Sun and Moon or oth­er kinds of week­ly cycles every 7 days, every 14 days, some­thing begins and goes through var­i­ous stages. Just like in dis­ease, a doc­tor will note the onset of a dis­ease and then you reach a crit­i­cal moment at 3 1/2 days, and then anoth­er inflec­tion at 7 days. There are these con­stants in terms of num­bers and Fibonac­ci sequences, that seem to time the unfold­ment of nat­ur­al and beyond nat­ur­al process­es, that seem to shape the tim­ing of things.

But what hap­pens in any one of those times, depend­ing upon what organ­ism we are talk­ing about, is depen­dent upon that organ­ism, espe­cial­ly when we are talk­ing about humans, since we have much greater pow­ers to change our world and ourselves.

We are the Cause
What is hap­pen­ing here, the con­tent of what we are fac­ing, that is on us. It is not caused by Plu­to in Capri­corn; it is not caused by Sat­urn going from Capri­corn to Aquar­ius, which it did last night. And we are thank­ful for that, because it brings a new kind of test here into the world for us all, one that is quite strik­ing in terms of what we are going through, and I will def­i­nite­ly men­tion that.

But in terms of what we are fac­ing, there is no deter­mi­na­tion com­ing from the plan­ets. They just say when and what the nature of it might be. That this is a time when the insti­tu­tions fall apart. And what will be revealed to us is how lack­ing they are in their capac­i­ty to han­dle cer­tain prob­lems, that in some sense they helped to cre­ate these prob­lems, that the way we did things help to cre­ate these problems.

And we will see indi­vid­u­als, some ris­ing to the occa­sion and being the heroes of the moment, peo­ple who are author­i­ties in var­i­ous posi­tions, that are car­ry­ing out their duties as best they can, giv­en the times they are in. And oth­ers we will see, like the insti­tu­tions them­selves, are fail­ing and flail­ing, because they do not have the char­ac­ter, they do not have the integri­ty, they do not have the virtue, they do not have the wis­dom, and they do not act with truth. That is revealed at a time like this, every­thing is exposed.

Most of us, as we have been told, will get through this fine. There will be incon­ve­niences, cer­tain­ly, and dev­as­tat­ing eco­nom­ic con­se­quences, but life will go on. There are those we should be rush­ing to help who are more vul­ner­a­ble, and those who are in the front lines who need our sup­port because they are putting their life on the line every sin­gle moment.

It need not have been this dif­fi­cult; there is no neces­si­ty to how dif­fi­cult it is now. That is through a series of choic­es or will­ful igno­rance or what have you, by those who might have tak­en steps. We nev­er lay this on the plan­ets and say they are the cause of some­thing. They are a way of look­ing for the mean­ing­ful­ness of some­thing. And yes, in indi­vid­ual charts we can say this is a time for hav­ing stress in your life, and then you need to be able to cope with that.

Cer­tain­ly, Plu­to going through Capri­corn is a stress­ful peri­od in his­to­ry for all places. But obvi­ous­ly, dif­fer­ent places and peo­ples and cul­tures will respond dif­fer­ent­ly giv­en their lev­el of devel­op­ment and integri­ty in han­dling those crises. And that is what we are see­ing play out across the plan­et right now in this quite lit­er­al­ly glob­al pandemic.

Sat­urn — Test of Respon­si­bil­i­ty, becomes the Test of Community
So what we can do right now is under­stand that the test we’ve been under­go­ing for the last 2 1/2 years, with Sat­urn also being in Capri­corn was a test of respon­si­bil­i­ty, where we would see how well our sys­tems were hold­ing and peo­ple with­in those sys­tems under­stood the exer­cise of their pow­er and car­ried it out cor­rect­ly or did not; or failed to do so, dropped the ball, stum­bled and caused greater harm. But just last night and now this morn­ing, and for the next cou­ple of years, the plan­et Sat­urn is in Aquar­ius. The next test for all of us, with­in this larg­er test of Plu­to going through Capri­corn, (which con­tin­ues till 2024), is that Sat­urn in Aquar­ius says we have got to think about and face our under­stand­ing of our Social Con­scious­ness and Conscience.

It is real­ly about com­mu­ni­ty, and that we real­ize that our true nature is not indi­vid­ual but that we are made of one anoth­er. And we need one anoth­er to devel­op intel­li­gence, to devel­op our know­ing, devel­op our feel­ings and have these con­nec­tions with­in our­selves that are formed by all these con­nec­tions we form out and around our­selves. I like to say, “we are more of a we than an I” and most of our thoughts and feel­ings and under­stand­ing has been formed by all these inter­ac­tions we have had with peo­ple through­out our lives, and through many lives.

What is “the Good”, what is Happiness?
We must work at main­tain­ing and pre­serv­ing and extend­ing our com­mu­ni­ties, because it is all about this: How do we achieve the great­est lev­el of self-ful­fill­ment, for one and for all? What is hap­pi­ness? Hap­pi­ness is reach­ing one’s high­est lev­el of self-real­iza­tion, which has to be some­thing we all strive for, to bring every­body up to that greater lev­el of self-real­iza­tion, because then we will suc­ceed as a cul­ture and a peo­ple and a planet.

If we fail to cre­ate con­di­tions that allow for this greater self-real­iza­tion and there­fore of hap­pi­ness, we will go into a dark­er peri­od. So, right now, as we are being asked to phys­i­cal­ly sep­a­rate, we have to ever more pull togeth­er, call one anoth­er, speak to one anoth­er, wave to one anoth­er from a respect­ful dis­tance and hold togeth­er and help one anoth­er through this time.

Our social con­nec­tions are being test­ed, and I am sure that they will be found to be strong and true. This will revive a human spir­it in terms of fel­low­ship and com­mu­ni­ty and love of my neigh­bor. And love of all oth­ers in com­mu­ni­ties around the world, com­mu­ni­ty to com­mu­ni­ty band­ing togeth­er to solve our problems.

The Old Order, The New World
It is in the dark time, by Plu­to going to Capri­corn when the world falls apart, that a New World is also equal­ly emerg­ing, and that will become ever more evi­dent as we move into 2024 and 25 and 26. It is not going to be easy to build a New World, because we know there are sig­nif­i­cant prob­lems that we are con­fronting, not the least of which is the chal­lenge of dis­eases spring­ing out of nowhere like this, seem­ing­ly, but it is not from nowhere. Or watch­ing the eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion of this plan­et and the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of life itself in peril.

We are, as we like to think, a high­er life­form, hav­ing self-aware­ness and self-con­scious­ness. But we have been act­ing very stu­pid­ly for a long time in terms of think­ing we could get away with destroy­ing low­er life-forms and our own life-form be unaf­fect­ed by that.

Life depends on Life
All life depends on life; and the high­er life­forms even more so depend on all low­er life­forms, from the most micro­scop­ic to larg­er macro­scop­ic realms. We are right now remov­ing life from this plan­et, at an increas­ing rate. If we do not turn that around, (not that these oth­er eco­log­i­cal sys­tems and oth­er beings have inher­ent val­ue them­selves, vast val­ue) our poten­tial and our val­ue, and our real­iza­tion will very much dimin­ish as a result.

So, the hour is late, and I see these blows we are receiv­ing in eco­log­i­cal dis­as­ters and fires and storms and now waves of pan­demics, as signs of the plan­et is say­ing: “Stop! Change your way, wake up to the need for con­sid­er­ing all life is sacred”, pro­tect­ing all of life, and pro­tect­ing your own life through that.

First, we need to reach out to one anoth­er and then to all oth­er life forms, to con­tin­ue upon this won­der­ful “lifeboat of life” that we call our Earth. But right now the hour is late, and right now we are fac­ing this cri­sis that we have to get through, and we are being asked to make extra­or­di­nary changes and sac­ri­fices, which we will make for one anoth­er and for the future. But cer­tain­ly, it is not a neces­si­ty at all that this had to hap­pen. Some­thing would have to break­down, and things are break­ing down and cer­tain­ly around the world in var­i­ous ways, but that is also because it was time. But it is equal­ly time to start build­ing bet­ter sys­tems, a bet­ter way of meet­ing our needs and meet­ing the needs for one anoth­er that are sus­tain­able and can be passed down to future gen­er­a­tions as they improve upon that in many, many years and decades and even cen­turies to come.

But this is our moment, this is our moment when we see the end of an age. And rather than strik­ing fear into our hearts we should real­ize: We are grate­ful for where it brought us, this civ­i­liza­tion and cul­ture; but we see its inher­ent con­tra­dic­tions and lim­i­ta­tions and how it is itself a very imped­i­ment to future human evo­lu­tion and fulfillment.

Spir­i­tu­al Awakening/Spiritual Praxis
There­fore, we must change, we must be these instru­ments of change, now. There is no time to delay. And maybe this is one of those shocks or wake up calls that makes us see that. That the epi­dem­ic, this pan­dem­ic COVID-19, is a bless­ing, because it makes peo­ple real­ize they can­not just get by, they can­not pre­tend that every­thing is okay, that this is mere­ly a pass­ing challenge.

There is a spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing that will take place in many souls and in many hearts, and we are all expe­ri­enc­ing it on dif­fer­ent lev­els I am sure. I am cer­tain­ly hear­ing that from many peo­ple. We all wish it did not have to hap­pen this way, and I do not think it had to hap­pen this way, but it is where we are and it is where we are going to be for some time, to get our­selves out of this self-cre­at­ed mess that we are in.

The Way is Truth
We will do bet­ter, we will be fine, but we need to remem­ber how to find our way. And that is why I always return to ancient teach­ings, to ancient phi­los­o­phy, to meta­phys­i­cal prin­ci­ples to hold us true to the fun­da­men­tal teach­ings, which are:

Life is sacred and what­ev­er and whomev­er I encounter is an aspect of the divine, and to treat it as any­thing less than that is to harm myself.

Love is the is the ener­gy that holds this whole uni­verse together.

In think­ing you will find that truth is Wisdom.

In feel­ing you will find that truth is Beauty.

In liv­ing you will find that truth is Virtue.

And in action you will find that truth is Moderation.

Self-Mas­tery
Many dif­fer­ent philoso­phies under­stand this and have spo­ken to this. The sto­ic philoso­phers are amaz­ing, and they affirm that we can only con­trol our­selves. And so, self-mas­tery is the key, which comes from self-knowl­edge and knowl­edge of the world around oneself.

So, we need to do our own part in mas­ter­ing our­selves and con­duct­ing our­selves with integri­ty, and in search­ing for truth. By find­ing truth we will estab­lish greater equi­lib­ri­um and nor­mal­cy in our­selves and in our con­duct. No one pos­sess­es truth, but you can become pos­sessed by it, and know what is right and what is wrong, with­out think­ing about it; it requires no thought what­so­ev­er, it is an intu­itive feel­ing and this is what should guide us.

When will this end?
Prob­a­bly peo­ple want me to say when is this going to end, and there are experts in epi­demi­ol­o­gy and pan­demics that know far bet­ter than me, (and we are all read­ing about these things now), what the time­line is here. But I would stress, and as they stress, the time­line is not fixed; it is deter­mined by how we each act and fol­low what we find are the rea­son­able and right author­i­ties who have more under­stand­ing, the sci­en­tists and those polit­i­cal and oth­er lead­ers who are stay­ing on the straight and nar­row path, and fol­low their advice and do what we are asked to do and answer the call if we have to, and that will that will deter­mine how long this takes.

But there is no astro­log­i­cal deter­mi­na­tion that says this or that will hap­pen. Because obvi­ous­ly what is hap­pen­ing here on the plan­et for every­one is a response and result by each indi­vid­ual and com­mu­ni­ty and nation in its own fashion.

So, each of us must do our utmost and best, if we want to get through this more eas­i­ly and no longer be under this fear­ful ener­gy-form that seems to be hold­ing peo­ple in place right now. Instead, we should remove the fear by act­ing in lov­ing man­ners, in lov­ing ways and lov­ing actions towards one anoth­er, that is the great­est thing any of us can do right now, at any point in time, but espe­cial­ly a time when it seems as if we want to retreat and with­draw from one anoth­er. We need to stay dis­tant, but we need to be even more con­nect­ed is the message.