Whence – Where – Whither

Part 1 – Whence

As we attempt to dis­cern the spir­i­tu­al themes of the com­ing year, it is help­ful to con­sid­er what we have just encoun­tered in 2018. It is most cer­tain­ly true that the tests faced, and the lessons learned in any one year may con­tin­ue into the fol­low­ing year (or sev­er­al years), as the unfold­ment of one day into the next is cer­tain­ly dri­ven and informed by ener­gies and expe­ri­ences that wax and wane over many weeks, months and years.

Plu­to in Capri­corn — The End of an Age

For Earth as a whole, the most impor­tant plan­e­tary influ­ences remain in place, with some vari­a­tions on a theme we have been faced with for some time now. Cer­tain­ly, the pas­sage of Plu­to through the Sign of Capri­corn, (2008 through 2024), con­tin­ues to pro­vide the pri­ma­ry heart­beat of our spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge. I have called this once every 250-year cyclic peri­od the “end of an age”, which was clear­ly so for the pre­vi­ous pas­sages in the ear­ly 1500’s and the 1700’s. In those ear­li­er peri­ods, and I would think most by now would agree it is true for our own time too, the world seemed to fall apart as Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al dis­in­te­gra­tions rever­ber­at­ed through all realms. But these spir­i­tu­al earth­quakes also her­ald­ed each time that a new age was dawning.

A new world is com­ing, but that requires that an old order give way. Of course, the fun­da­men­tal nature of what it means to be human, our needs for food, shel­ter, com­pan­ion­ship, love and secu­ri­ty are ever-present, but they are also evolving/transforming, seem­ing­ly (or actu­al­ly) at an expo­nen­tial rate, which is in large part due to what is known as “the sci­en­tif­ic rev­o­lu­tion” that began sev­er­al cen­turies ago.

Coper­ni­cus, Bacon, Galileo, New­ton among many oth­er “less­er knowns”, ques­tioned assump­tions passed down from time immemo­r­i­al. This quick­en­ing of the human capa­bil­i­ty to know and alter our world has endowed human­i­ty with pow­ers that have seem­ing­ly out­stripped our wis­dom to wield them, whether in Physics = Nuclear weapons, or Biol­o­gy = Bio-engineering.

Much that was will con­tin­ue in some form of course, but much more of our social, eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal struc­tures will be reformed/transformed into new modes of expres­sion, and they will cer­tain­ly be informed by new ideas (or old ideas renewed) and mean­ings. The ques­tion remains, will we devel­op enough wis­dom and humil­i­ty to wield our “ring of pow­er” (Intel­li­gence) with uncon­di­tion­al love and compassion.

Uranus and Nep­tune — Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty vs. Communality

Con­tribut­ing to this shift of his­tor­i­cal pat­terns last year (and the year before), was the first major align­ment of Uranus with Nep­tune after their his­toric con­junc­tion in 1993. From 2017 on through into the begin­ning of 2019, we have been influ­enced by the Uranus/Neptune Semi­Square which is the first sig­nif­i­cant aspect in their 170 cycle from con­junc­tion to conjunction.

Uranus rules “Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty”; I call Uranus the “Awak­en­er”, as it is the Avatar of the High­er or Freer Mind that forms one of the three aspects of Spir­it. Nep­tune rules “Com­mu­nal­i­ty”; Nep­tune is the Avatar of the Ener­gy-Form that holds the whole of Cre­ation as One, the one abid­ing force that binds all to all, Uni­ver­sal or Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The inte­gral rela­tion­ship between these two reveals the para­dox­i­cal truth behind the mys­tery of the Universe’s con­sti­tu­tion. Every­thing, every par­ti­cle and every “Being” in this Uni­verse is an indi­vid­ual that is a unique instance of spir­it informed by its own Quin­tes­sence; yet all of these “ones” are One in Spir­it and fun­da­men­tal­ly indi­vis­i­ble from one anoth­er. Through­out all king­doms of life, in age after age, there is an ever-shift­ing bal­ance between these two prin­ci­ples, between the One and the many.

The ten­sion between the Indi­vid­ual and the Com­mu­ni­ty wax­es and wanes in any cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion. Whether we look at human “types” like Hunter/Gatherer, Farmer/Craftsperson or Rural/Urban (among many pos­si­ble dis­tinc­tions and dif­fer­ences), there will be found dif­fer­ing mix­tures and bal­ances (and often­times like now, imbal­ances), between these two great Ener­gy-Forms that deter­mine the degree to which Indi­vid­ual Free­dom and Com­mu­nal Har­mo­ny does or does not co-exist.

The recent past has seen a world­wide upheaval, marked now by the extremes of anar­chic indi­vid­u­al­ism and suf­fo­cat­ing com­mu­nal­ism, which sig­nals we are at a most crit­i­cal stage, where the old mod­el of bal­anc­ing Individuality/Communality has bro­ken down, and the yet to emerge new mod­el has not been ful­ly formed nor under­stood. This world-wide con­fu­sion has pro­duced a cri­sis of order and mean­ing­ful­ness for the many who yearn for a life and world that is “Fair and Free”. With­out a sig­nif­i­cant major­i­ty of peo­ple who hold to and act through an accept­ed inte­gra­tion of these two ener­gy-forms, we are liv­ing through a peri­od that is like an “in-between world”, where extrem­ists are dri­ving and divid­ing us fur­ther from one another.

How we hold these prin­ci­pals of Free­dom and Com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er with­in our­selves, and between one anoth­er, is part of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney which can only be formed and forged by hold­ing to an Inte­gral Way of Liv­ing. We are on a jour­ney from uncon­scious­ness to full spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing, and as we remake our­selves and our world, we must strive towards ever more encom­pass­ing ways of hold­ing togeth­er our “par­a­digms of under­stand­ing” and our “ways of being”.

From the phys­i­cal through the spir­i­tu­al, from the sim­plest to the most com­plex enti­ties and sys­tems, we must always strive to live a whole life, a good and beau­ty-filled life, which can be found and restored by remem­ber­ing that there is a way to do this. That way can be found by remem­ber­ing that these crises have come before, and at each moment our ances­tors found a way by hold­ing firm to the great­est truths, those pre­cious jew­els of spir­it which nev­er fade or fal­ter. We need to remem­ber that these lumi­nous truths were dis­cov­ered and passed down to us from the very begin­ning of our journey.

The Way

When­ev­er you are in doubt, you should turn (and so return) to the eter­nal truths of the Ancient Wis­dom that con­tin­u­al­ly re-emerge in age after age. This is so because Truth is equal­ly with­in you as it forms all the worlds that sur­round you too. These Spir­i­tu­al Truths are to be found every­where you look, but most impor­tant­ly, those very answers that you find “out there” will res­onate with­in you because your high­er self, your intu­itive-know­ing-self, will gen­tly whis­per “this is true”. This is because these Ancient Truths form the very sub­stance of your heart and mind too.

At the true core of any Reli­gion or Phi­los­o­phy, with­in what is known as the Eso­teric as dis­tinct from the Exo­teric forms of under­stand­ing, the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings are revealed and illu­mi­nate for you the one essen­tial path. The Great Ones, the teach­ers who form a lumi­nous riv­er of truth about life and love, all of them came to serve this cause of spir­i­tu­al integri­ty and truth, and they were guid­ed in their heart and through their soul by the fun­da­men­tal pre­cept that there is “no reli­gion high­er than truth”.

As you look back now to the year that was, and turn to face the year that is dawn­ing, take com­fort from those who showed you the way long, long ago. You will be filled with a renewed faith, and you will know that you will make a bet­ter future for your­self and for one anoth­er. Remem­ber you are nev­er alone, and you walk the same path of the Great Souls who came before you, and they strug­gled for their self-mas­tery which you will achieve one day too:

Be guid­ed by the Wise Ones, who know there is no reli­gion high­er than Truth.
Walk the path of the Great-Souls, who prac­tice the Wis­dom of Love.
Find inspi­ra­tion in the Lone­ly Ones, their Will­ing-Sac­ri­fice hon­ored by 
the Angels and Devas above.
Lis­ten for the Voice of the Silence, attend the gen­tle whis­pers in your Heart,
And you will find “The Way”.

Next, “Where are we now?”

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – The New Year ­– A Look Back and Ahead (Jan­u­ary 5, 2019)

In my first show of 2019 I will review the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2018 and exam­ine the Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions we will meet in 2019.

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: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 5^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2019/01/05/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-the-new-year-2019

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

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 5^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Char­ac­ter is Des­tiny…

It is not enough for you to know or understand.

This jour­ney is not mere­ly about your awakening,

It is not only about your dis­cov­ery of the Truth…

Your self-ful­fill­ment and true pur­pose, in life after life,

Is to become the liv­ing embod­i­ment of Spir­i­tu­al Truth.

Today marks the Fourth Turn­ing in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar. In Aries, Can­cer, Libra and now in Capri­corn, in each Car­di­nal Sign a new sea­son of life begins and you must face these four direc­tions and consider:

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

You have spent the last 30 days in Sagit­tar­ius, seek­ing and search­ing, push­ing deep­er and fur­ther, stretch­ing the bound­aries of your under­stand­ing. Whether by nov­els or in trav­els, read­ing his­to­ries or explor­ing sci­ence, you will always need to stretch your com­pre­hen­sion of this world…for you are chang­ing, and so is your world.

Then you must tell your sto­ries and lis­ten to the sto­ries of those with whom you jour­ney, for this is how you help one anoth­er to move into the Greater Under­stand­ing. You must ever seek to hold your­self to the sacred path of wis­dom, to weave togeth­er your sto­ries and your way of life, because you are the liv­ing ful­crum of the “self-that-is-becom­ing”, the self-made builder forged by the inte­gral rela­tion­ship of expe­ri­ence and understanding.

Now here you are once more, here in Capri­corn the world waits for a sign…

Indeed, this is one of the two Sol­stices (“Sun stands still”) in every year. At this time each year, the Sun will set at a cer­tain point on the hori­zon, and for the next 3 days it will set in that very same spot. But on or about the 24^th or 25^th of Decem­ber the Sun will move again, and so we mark this sacred time as we gath­er togeth­er to cel­e­brate the return of Light and Love to our world.

Where­as at the Sol­stice of Can­cer you pause to con­sid­er from whence you have come, to feel that abid­ing reas­sur­ance of your foun­da­tion and what lies at the root of one and all, to feel the warmth that holds all of cre­ation togeth­er in and by the Love of the One, it is now in the Sol­stice of Capri­corn that you will look out­ward and beyond, to con­sid­er the arc of your jour­ney and the path that leads to your future.

Through count­less lives, you have lived and have forged “you”, for the Law of Kar­ma is per­fect, and you will always reap what you have sown. The many steps you must climb in this life will redeem your past and yet equal­ly forge the com­plex future that awaits you, the joys and the chal­lenges which that “future you” must mas­ter too. Yes, here after many lives, and after a long climb you must con­sid­er the cir­cuitous and wind­ing path that you have made for your­self by your tri­umphs, and even more by your stum­bles and redemp­tion too. Your real­iza­tions of, yet trans­for­ma­tions in your inten­tions, this har­vest of spir­it and the forg­ing of your des­tiny are made man­i­fest in your constitution.

Yes, you have made you. And, you are what you are as revealed by your moti­va­tions and your inten­tions, in the man­ner of your bear­ing or what we under­stand as “Char­ac­ter”, which is the emo­tion­al and intel­lec­tu­al, the moral and spir­i­tu­al stature that you embody. You stand revealed by your under­stand­ing and moral com­pass, and from these qual­i­ties and by your shin­ing exam­ple of ful­fill­ing your respon­si­bil­i­ties, you will take your place in the Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love, as you weave your path into the paths of each and every one of us, and to the One who holds us all.

You are on a jour­ney of becom­ing, stand­ing some­where between the dawn of your awak­en­ing ages and ages ago, and your even­tu­al apoth­e­o­sis as human when you will join the great souls who came this way long ago. You stand in a Hier­ar­chy of Love and Com­pas­sion, where you lov­ing­ly extend one hand below you, as you know that your duty is to lift up those who still strug­gle with what you have mas­tered. While you, in turn, extend your oth­er hand to those ahead of you on this bridge of light, as they lov­ing­ly offer guid­ance and sup­port to help you to face what you must now undertake.

In Capri­corn, (and know that some­where in your chart, you have the Sign of Capri­corn to inspire and guide you), in Capri­corn you face the “test of respon­si­bil­i­ty” and the reward of Self-Ful­fill­ment. The test con­cerns the right and true exer­cise of “Pow­er”. Whether you are the head of your fam­i­ly, or a leader in a busi­ness or your com­mu­ni­ty, or even lead a nation­al orga­ni­za­tion or coun­try, no mat­ter what sta­tion or office you hold, the pow­er that you wield is not yours.

It is your duty and priv­i­lege to remem­ber that the pow­er that you exer­cise is giv­en in trust to you, and that it orig­i­nates and comes to you from whomev­er or what­ev­er you serve. You are a chan­nel of this pow­er, but it is not yours. You must be guid­ed by this fun­da­men­tal truth, that any office is a sacred duty, and you must use this pow­er for the good of that enti­ty, whether it be a fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty or nation. You will “fail” if you believe that you can do what you will with this pow­er that was placed in trust with you. You must be cen­tered and guid­ed by your moral and spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing, to faith­ful­ly take care of who and what you serve, or you will fall as you suc­cumb to the error of hubris.

If you can mas­ter these tests of respon­si­bil­i­ty and pow­er, then you will find your­self upon the true path of Self-Ful­fill­ment. A tru­ly mas­ter­ful human shines with the light of humil­i­ty. They ful­fill their duty with grace and grat­i­tude. Grace in their demeanor or bear­ing; Grat­i­tude in their oppor­tu­ni­ty to find Self-Ful­fill­ment by serv­ing in what­ev­er capac­i­ty they have made them­selves ready by their stead­fast call­ing to a greater purpose.

Yes, you are part of a great com­pa­ny of souls who are on a jour­ney of awak­en­ing, and at every turn upon this path of pur­pose­ful­ness you are here to lift your­self and one anoth­er up to a bet­ter world. That is your destiny.

When­ev­er you are in doubt, when­ev­er you are in need of guid­ance and inspi­ra­tion, remem­ber the Great Invo­ca­tion which all Great Souls hold in their hearts as a bea­con of Love for one and all:

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

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

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Sun Enters Sagit­tar­ius and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions (Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24, 2018)

In my eleventh show of 2018, I will speak about the Sun enter­ing the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius, and then look at what might mean for you by look­ing at Plan­ets in Sagit­tar­ius as well as the Sign of Sagit­tar­ius on the House cusps. I may also com­ment on recent shifts of Astro­log­i­cal weath­er such as Mer­cury turn­ing retrograde.

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:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24^th @ 2 pm EST:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2018/11/24/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-sun-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 Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24^th at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.