Peace of Mind

What I like to call “The Dance of the Plan­ets”, is cer­tain­ly evi­dent today! Venus, which has been sail­ing back­wards for over 40 days through Scor­pio, and more recent­ly Libra, turns Direct today; and, with­in hours of that shift Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade for 21 days, until Decem­ber 6^th. It is not often that you will expe­ri­ence a dou­ble-shift of plan­e­tary motions like this, so you would be wise to con­sid­er what these mod­u­la­tions mean for you.

The 42 days of Venus ret­ro­grade were a time to go with­in your­self, a pause to allow you to dig deep into the nature of your expe­ri­ence of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love. Venus is your Avatar of Love and she reminds you that with­in you is a Super­nal Light, which you will equal­ly see as the light shin­ing through the eyes of those who love you too.

With Venus ret­ro­grade, you were offered anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er the true nature and source of your Val­ue, which is that you are a spark of the Divine and your true worth or val­ue is beyond mea­sure; and to see that what is all around you, this radi­ant world of Beau­ty, is shin­ing pre­cise­ly because that same Divine ener­gy sparkles through the entire­ty of Cre­ation; and, to know that what is there with­in you, what you know and feel as the Love of the One, is equal­ly a guide for you as to how you must be with one anoth­er, for you are here quite sim­ply to love one anoth­er as you are loved too.

The les­son of Venus ret­ro­grade reminds you that “true love” is nev­er to be found “out there”, until you have met your beloved with­in you. Until you expe­ri­ence the inner mar­riage of your self with your Self, you can­not tru­ly see or find the love that is all around you too.

Now that Venus is mov­ing for­ward once again, you are ready to relate to your­self and your world with a new-found assur­ance of your own val­ue, which is beyond ques­tion­ing since you are formed by spir­i­tu­al love; and you have a bet­ter under­stand­ing and appre­ci­a­tion for the beau­ty in your world; and, you are more aware that the love you share with one anoth­er is the whole rea­son for this life, for you are tru­ly here for one another.

But today you will equal­ly feel a shud­der, shake (and you will have to roll), as Mer­cury paus­es and turns around one more time this year. Yes, yes it seems that when­ev­er this hap­pens life seems to get even more com­pli­cat­ed, con­fus­ing and frus­trat­ing. Although it seems “the grem­lins are let loose” dur­ing such a time, you should know by now that your fate is in your hands, and it is not Mercury’s pur­pose to mess with your life.

The rea­son life seems to become more chal­leng­ing at times like these is because you have failed to notice the chang­ing con­di­tions of your own mind, and equal­ly failed to appre­ci­ate how the gen­er­al men­tal­i­ty and nature of com­mu­ni­ca­tions have been altered. You are here to “Wake Up” and so you need to pay atten­tion to these shifts of ener­gy-forms and work with them. Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is here to help you. It is here to help you to let go of your mis­un­der­stand­ings, doubts and fears which have pre­vent­ed you from liv­ing in the Greater Reality.

On the heels of re-eval­u­at­ing your expe­ri­ence of val­ue, beau­ty and love in Venus Ret­ro­grade, you will now be asked to con­sid­er once more the way in which you think about your­self and your world. That is what Mer­cury ret­ro­grade is for. It is meant to be a time of intro­spec­tion and reflec­tion; it is a pre­cious oppor­tu­ni­ty for review and repair of your per­cep­tions and consciousness.

If we lived in a cul­ture that accept­ed and accom­mo­dat­ed these shifts of spir­i­tu­al ener­gy, then we would all make time to calm­ly go with­in and earnest­ly con­sid­er how we make our real­i­ty through our thoughts. We would be able to bend our thoughts back upon our­selves and be more self-crit­i­cal and self-aware, as we qui­et­ly con­sid­ered and re-cen­tered our mentality.

But we live in a cul­ture that is careen­ing from one cri­sis to anoth­er, and we work hard­er and hard­er, live faster and faster, and there seems no time to catch one’s breath, let alone time to con­tem­plate, step back and con­sid­er what is real­ly hap­pen­ing. We are all “in the moment”, but we are rarely present or pre­pared to make the best of it before the next shock to our equi­lib­ri­um is upon us. But you must remem­ber this, the only thing you can and must con­trol is your­self, and this starts with your mind.

Mer­cury ret­ro­grade offers you a time to pause pre­cise­ly because you can­not “go for­ward” eas­i­ly now, because you are sup­posed to “go in” now before you “go out”. You need to reflect and col­lect your thoughts and become clear­er and calmer.

Right Think­ing is some­thing to work for, strive for and it is essen­tial in times like these so that you may sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff in your world. This is tru­ly some­thing that you should do every sin­gle day. A self-aware per­son, a more cen­tered and bal­anced indi­vid­ual, will begin every day with men­tal prepa­ra­tions of attune­ment and align­ment; and then they will hold them­selves in qui­etude and self-obser­va­tion through­out the day; and then they will fin­ish their day with a time for review of what was right or wrong in that day, and so pre­pare to meet the world with a clear­er con­scious­ness tomorrow.

The way to do this, the way to begin to estab­lish your mind in a place of peace, is to anchor your mind upon the firm foun­da­tions of fun­da­men­tal truths. Whether West­ern or East­ern, the Peren­ni­al Truths are the same the world over and they will pro­vide com­fort and guid­ance no mat­ter what is trou­bling you today.

This is the true mean­ing and mes­sage of Mer­cury ret­ro­grade in Sagit­tar­ius; it is time to return to the bedrock of Truth found in all great teach­ings. Turn away from the noise and chat­ter, away from mere opin­ions and half-truths. Do not enter­tain these nor pass them on. Your mind is your sacred tem­ple for under­stand­ing, and your mind must be clear and not shad­owed by fear.

Return to the sources of Wis­dom, which you feel and know to be true because all these sacred sto­ries of spir­it are there in your heart as they are writ­ten for you in the stars above too.

May Her­mes show you the way out of the darkness.

Let Mer­cury ret­ro­grade release you from fear.

With your Mind tru­ly open, and your heart full of Love.

May you be wise as a ser­pent, and gen­tle as a dove.

The Tem­ple of Truth

At the heart of every teach­ing, like a riv­er of light, there abides an ever-last­ing stream of con­scious­ness, known to the Keep­ers of the Flame, as the Hier­ar­chy of the Shin­ing Ones. These Shin­ing Ones or Devas are the Lords of Med­i­ta­tion and Cos­mic Wisdom.

This is Truth: Cre­ation, all of it, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the Stars and Galax­ies and beyond, all of it, all of “That” is alive and shin­ing. The whole of Cre­ation is self-lumi­nous because it is formed by the One Spir­it, by the Light of Divine Con­scious­ness. This Cre­ation is in turn shaped by the Mind, Love and Will of the innu­mer­able many ones who togeth­er form the radi­ant body of the One.

The very rea­son you can under­stand any­thing at all is because this entire Cre­ation, all that is around you, that which you seek to expe­ri­ence as real and true in your world, this is also the very same Ener­gy-Form that makes you too. That is why you can know and under­stand because, “I am That, I am”.

Through all the King­doms and Hier­ar­chies of Cre­ation it is under­stood that all of it, all of “That”, is part of the One Life, which from the high­est to the low­est is formed, “As above, so below; as inward­ly, so out­ward­ly”. You are here because you are part of the One Life, you are here as a mon­ad of Spir­it, you are the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”. You are here quite sim­ply “to live and learn and grow” into your full Divin­i­ty. This jour­ney of becom­ing requires of you to know who and what you are, and to remem­ber why you are here.

If you wish to lift the “Veil of Isis”, if you wish to remove the scales from your eyes and know the truth of all of “That”, well there are many ways and many paths that will bring you into the “Greater Under­stand­ing”. But there is one cer­tain path of awak­en­ing that begins in your heart and holds you in the warmth of the ever­last­ing light of the One. The gen­tle guid­ance of your high­er self has but one sim­ple but pro­found assur­ance, and the cer­tain path that will lead you out of dark­ness and into the light is sim­ply to fol­low the great injunc­tion, “Know Thyself”.

Today Jupiter returns home, to its very own Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, today Jupiter returns to the sacred Tem­ple of Truth. For over the past twelve months, Jupiter has been mov­ing through the Sign of Scor­pio, what I like to call the space in which we encounter the truth behind all less­er truths: “You are an Immor­tal, but you move through Mor­tal Realms”.

In Scor­pio, you move into that mys­te­ri­ous place of alche­my where two become one, where you let go of the less­er with­in you in order to grow into your great­ness togeth­er. It is in this sacred space that you expe­ri­ence Re-Birth by true sac­ri­fice, and so become even truer to your­self too. But in such a realm of the high­est heights and the deep­est depths, you will find that in this sacred space of Union that you are ren­dered mute, there are no words for what you encounter here.

In Scor­pio you meet the mys­ter­ies of Birth and Life, and so-called Death as you move through count­less Rebirths; you find you are hum­bled and ren­dered speech­less, word­less, by expe­ri­ences that take you beyond your low­er mind of this or that and into the space of Intu­ition­al Know­ing or “Heart-Mind”, which is not teth­ered to dual­i­ty. But, because of this expe­ri­ence, of find­ing your­self in this unfa­mil­iar space there are “no words”, there can be no know­ing of what you have just expe­ri­enced just yet. Instead you face the eter­nal Dual­i­ties pro­pelling down your Path and you ask your­self, “Am I Faith­ful or Fear­ful”, for now you know your Immor­tal­i­ty and Mor­tal­i­ty too, and the greater truth that holds them to one anoth­er, and you will come to know you are here to be both yet beyond them too.

But now, today, you enter the Space of Sagittarius…and here you “will find your words”. Here in the realm of Eter­nal Truths and the Halls of Wis­dom you will stretch your mind and heart to com­pre­hend. You will read a great nov­el or book on phi­los­o­phy; you will lis­ten to wise ones who have equal­ly found their humil­i­ty, and you will mar­vel at mod­ern sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies, and mar­vel even more how they echo what was known thou­sands of years before. You will trav­el in your mind and by your body, and most impor­tant­ly and rev­er­ent­ly, you will lis­ten to that qui­et voice with­in you, as you seek to align what is with­in and around you to move beyond the known into the great unknown…and yet, oh yes, it is also eeri­ly, yet reas­sur­ing­ly, so very famil­iar too.

You will find your words, so you can share your sto­ry with one anoth­er, and they will share theirs with you. You will walk togeth­er, break bread togeth­er and do what we have done for thou­sands and thou­sands of years…you will tell one anoth­er sto­ries. You will drink from the Cup of Wis­dom and add your fair mea­sure too into this Liv­ing Tem­ple of Truth. For this is how it is done.

All that we have, all that is around us in arts and cul­ture, in civ­i­liza­tion and refine­ments, in com­mu­ni­ties and mean­ing­ful­ness is because we have laughed and cried, shared and imag­ined, and built and re-built with one anoth­er time and time again. We owe all of this to our capac­i­ty to learn from one anoth­er, to share and dis­cuss and argue and rea­son with one anoth­er, for this is how we learn to do bet­ter, this is how we become bet­ter, and by this we may dis­cov­er and estab­lish what is tru­ly true.

We find our truth out there, because it is mir­rored most per­fect­ly in our inner sanc­tum of self. Because those very same truths that shape our hearts and minds and love for one anoth­er have formed our world and this uni­verse too. All you are asked to do is open your mind and open your heart and you will see the Light.

Jupiter is mov­ing into Sagittarius…

It is time to tell your sto­ries to one another.

It is time to drink from the Well of Wisdom.

It is time to stand in the Light of the Greater Understanding.

It is time to Live for and by the Truth.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Where are we now? Plus, Jupiter enters Sagit­tar­ius (Sun­day Novem­ber 4, 2018)

In my tenth show of 2018 I will talk about this year in Astrol­o­gy and where we are right now. There are two major Uni­ver­sal influ­ences we need to con­sid­er that explain much of what we are expe­ri­enc­ing, and one his­tor­i­cal align­ment that shines a light upon the prin­ci­ple chal­lenge being encoun­tered by the Unit­ed States. If we have time, I will also con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Jupiter enter­ing Sagit­tar­ius on Thurs­day Novem­ber 8^th.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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 birth place, 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:

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day Novem­ber 4^th @ 2 pm EST:

 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/04/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-where-are-we-nowjupiter-enters-sagittarius

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 Novem­ber 4^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

At play in the Fields of the One…

It is time to face the Truth. You are on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, mov­ing through worlds, forms and lives; it is a jour­ney of unfold­ment and self-becom­ing that takes you from a mere spark of unself-con­scious divin­i­ty to a ful­ly awak­ened co-cre­ator of Creation.

But the ques­tion remains, who are you? It is nat­ur­al to look upon one­self and it seems quite sim­ple real­ly; you perceive/experience your body and it is that which defines the con­tent and cir­cum­fer­ence of your nature. You per­ceive the truth as, “I am this; and you are that.” But you are here to learn that this is one of the most impor­tant illu­sions you have fall­en into by tak­ing on this mor­tal form.

You are not this body, oh no, you are much more than this…You are a host of ener­gy-forms, a weav­ing of fields that togeth­er form what you know as your­self. And most impor­tant­ly, and equal­ly, you are mak­ing your way through innu­mer­able fields of ener­gy-forms around your­self too. For this is the nature of the One True Real­i­ty; it is not com­posed of dis­crete things or parts. You are a sparkling field of ener­gy-forms who with innu­mer­able oth­ers moves through the lumi­nous “Fields of Life and Love” that is the One.

Real­i­ty is a Field, it is “the One”, who is in turn com­posed and formed by the many less­er wholes rang­ing from the fields known as atoms and mol­e­cules and ele­ments and com­pounds, to plants, crea­tures, worlds and stars. All of these are not as you imag­ine or per­ceive; all of these are not “things” or “par­ti­cles” as seen in the Atom­istic view. In the Ancient Wis­dom as in the New Sci­ence, all of real­i­ty is formed by sys­tems, a great Hier­ar­chy of Wholes; what is real is not a thing, but instead it is vibra­tions or waves. Tru­ly, Cre­ation is “the Word” made man­i­fest; this beau­ti­ful melody of Light is the Song of Spirit.

Real­i­ty is formed by this Hier­ar­chy of wholes. Each less­er whole, (in human terms, one such as your­self), is seem­ing­ly dis­crete for itself, but it abides in, as it is informed and shaped by all the greater and more encom­pass­ing wholes (for exam­ple of fam­i­ly, friends, com­mu­ni­ties). These innu­mer­able wholes in every king­dom or realm, like wheels with­in wheels, ulti­mate­ly resolves into the holi­est of wholes, the One.

That is why, whether approach­ing this ques­tion from “the West” with Quan­tum Physics, or from “the East” and the Ancient Teach­ings, Real­i­ty is under­stood as a Field of Wholes that form a com­plex array of rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. Or, as I am fond of say­ing, this entire Cre­ation is the body of The One, and what we are mov­ing through, and what moves through and around us, is the Life and Love of the One, it is the sacred and lumi­nous Song and Dance of Spirit.

Through­out your life-jour­ney you will go through many realms that chal­lenge you to become more com­plete, to be more whole, to be more the you that is becom­ing, and none is greater than this space-time you enter by Scor­pio. You pre­pare your­self for this by what you learn in the fields of Libra.

In the space of Libra, wher­ev­er that may be in your chart, you learn how to cre­ate ever more social­ly intel­li­gent forms of rela­tion­ship. You are remind­ed that whomev­er is before you is “anoth­er you”, so to be with any oth­er you have only one truth to guide your way: “That you are to be as equal­ly fair to them as you would be for your­self; that you must do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you”. But now comes the time of Scor­pio, and the greater chal­lenge and the greater reward is now at hand; now you must utter­ly break your illu­sion of being sep­a­rate and apart from one anoth­er, now you two must become one.

Yes, it is in the realm of Scor­pio that you con­front the great­est illu­sion and expe­ri­ence the truest of Truths: You are here for one anoth­er, you are what you have become because of one anoth­er, and you can­not be or become what you are to be unless you love and join with one another.

You have been formed and informed from your first breath, (and in your turn, you have done like­wise) by all with whom you jour­ney, from Fathers/Mothers, Aunts/Uncles, Sisters/Brothers, Grand­par­ents, friends and strangers too. Your sense and sen­si­bil­i­ties, your thoughts and prin­ci­ples, most of what you call “you”, is the con­se­quence of mov­ing through those spaces, the fields of ener­gy trans­fers with all with whom you trav­el. Their sen­si­bil­i­ties, feel­ings, thoughts and truths became yours, and yours theirs.

But here in the realm of Scor­pio you must con­scious­ly, will­ing­ly and lov­ing­ly find the way to join with one anoth­er in Union. One human being, alone and by itself, is mean­ing­less, impos­si­ble to imag­ine or even be, for we are noth­ing with­out one anoth­er, and could not become human with­out our shared shap­ing and cre­at­ing of one anoth­er. The indi­vid­ual or “I” comes out of the many we or “us”. Though we may believe that “I made me”, it is fun­da­men­tal­ly true that “we made we”, and we made every “I” too.

In the space of Scor­pio, when two (or the many) are joined in com­mon pur­pose and inten­tion, when we each sur­ren­der the less­er with­in us so that we might build upon, expand and trans­form the greater that is with­in and between us, it is then that we tru­ly move clos­er to our true nature, we take anoth­er step in becom­ing full awak­ened humans.

To forge our greater Union, we each con­tribute what we can and give up what we must. We elic­it from one anoth­er the quick­en­ing of our poten­tial­i­ties, mold­ing, trans­form­ing and reveal­ing more of what we are through our com­bi­na­tion with one anoth­er. We move clos­er to one anoth­er, become more one with one anoth­er, and yet we also by this come clos­er to our true self too. We reach out to one anoth­er, only to see the greater truth of who and what we are through one anoth­er. That by draw­ing clos­er to them, by let­ting go of the less­er of us we dis­cov­er our truer self too. Yes, we two become one and yet we are also, each of us, revealed as one of kind too.

Scor­pio is the Realm of Alche­my, it is the space where we let go and grow. In Scor­pio you face the Fear of Rejec­tion and Loss, and you learn to be fear­less. You learn you are not, nor can you ever be alone or lost. Here in the space of Scor­pio we unite, we are re-born through love and sac­ri­fice, and by self-tran­scen­dence we free our­selves from fear. We know we move through mor­tal forms; but our laugh­ter and love, our danc­ing and songs, this spir­it will live on and on forever.

Scor­pio is the shin­ing heart of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness; it is the space where we break from the shad­ow, as we dance and play in the Fields of the One.

That is what and who we are…we are Singers, we are Dancers, we are the Cre­ators of one anoth­er and we have just begun to shine.

We have made who we are, and it is by and through one anoth­er that we will make our truer selves revealed.

We are the ones of the One, danc­ing and singing our Cre­ation song.

We are all for one, and One for all.

And we will Shine on.

Venus, who is your Avatar of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, is turn­ing around once again. She does this about every 19 months or so and remains ret­ro­grade for about 40-plus days. This time she will turn ret­ro­grade on Octo­ber 4^th, reach the mid­point of her dance “back­wards” as she aligns with the Sun on Octo­ber 26^th, (where you may be reward­ed with a new-found truth about love and beau­ty), and turn direct on Novem­ber 16^th. (That date is quite inter­est­ing, as it the same day that Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade once again).

When­ev­er a plan­et is ret­ro­grade it affords an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to re-exam­ine, to go on an inner jour­ney of explo­ration and dis­cov­ery; it her­alds a time to turn with­in and to more deeply under­stand the realm and func­tions for that planet.

Over the next 42 days, you will be well reward­ed if you take more time to re-con­sid­er, to pause and reflect upon your own life and recent events, to ques­tion the very nature of what is “val­ue” to you, to your loved ones and for one and all.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, the ever­last­ing Foun­tain-Source of Val­ue comes from this one essen­tial truth. That all of Cre­ation is the Love of the One shin­ing through every speck and mote of Cre­ation, for every­thing in this Uni­verse is “alive”; The One is shin­ing through one and all with the ever­last­ing Light of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

For this ret­ro­grade, Venus begins to move back­wards through the Sign of Scor­pio, the very sign that brings you to the Truth of your indis­putable con­nec­tion with one anoth­er, and so equal­ly with this won­drous, beau­ti­ful Cre­ation that is all around you (and, you must under­stand, is you too).

Yes, in Scor­pio you must con­front “The Great Illu­sion” which is your expe­ri­ence as being sep­a­rate from this Ocean of Life; we as “Human” fall into untold error and pain as we move in and out of these mor­tal frames, because they most def­i­nite­ly seem to cre­ate the irrefutable fact that every­thing is dis­tinct and sep­a­rate from every­thing else. And from this error we then cre­ate divi­sions between and among our­selves. We stum­ble and fall into count­less errors of expe­ri­enc­ing one anoth­er dif­fer­ent­ly, and from mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear we relate to some more as sub­jects, and oth­ers, those we feel are not as us, we may treat them more and more as objects. We divide our­selves from our high­er self and we “fall” into error, because we for­get who and what we tru­ly are.

But in Scor­pio, and with Venus in Scor­pio cer­tain­ly, we are moved by our need and desire to attempt to reach beyond our sep­a­rate self, to break the bonds of lone­li­ness and fear and con­nect to that one spe­cial oth­er (or attempt to join with sev­er­al oth­ers in some enter­prise or group effort)…And what we dis­cov­er every time, through this Alchem­i­cal blend­ing-com­bin­ing-trans­form­ing realm, we encounter in this sacred space the agony and ecsta­sy of Scor­pio, we expe­ri­ence the gift of self-tran­scen­dence and re-birth. That by sac­ri­fic­ing what is the less­er with­in us in order to form the union, and by equal­ly affirm­ing what is the greater and tru­ly shared between us, it is by this death and re-birth that we encounter the great­est Truth…That ever and always at the core of each of us, and equal­ly found in this new­ly cre­at­ed cen­ter that we share in our Union, we encounter that all of Life is One. And, we feel and know that the ener­gy-form that binds togeth­er one and all, well that is Love. It is the force that holds all of us and Cre­ation togeth­er as we were and are, and as we will ever be. We come back to where we start­ed, as one of the ones of the One, and so we know we are here to love and be loved.

Yes, in this time of soul-search­ing, where you may under­stand the pain of loss and the joy of union that the ret­ro­grade of Scor­pio in Venus holds for you, you will smile and be most grate­ful for these reminders of your divin­i­ty and true nature. You are here to be fear­less; you are here to love.

You are immor­tal, yet you are here in a very mor­tal realm that requires that you move from life to life, and you will expe­ri­ence the ecsta­sy of mov­ing beyond your sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er to the joy of being one with one another…and all of this, this great song and dance of spir­it, it is all for you in order to bring you back, with wis­dom and grace and love to the know­ing that you were and always will be loved…for you are.

Because that is what you are…

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here quite sim­ply to see the oth­er, any oth­er, as yourself…

Because this is truth and it shines through in the dark­est of hours.

It comes from your heart, it is in your soul.

You are a most pre­cious spark of the Divine; and so is the one before you too.

You are here to love and be loved.

There is but one truth; there is the one true way.

Just love one another.