The Gift of Humility, The Way of Wisdom

You have felt your way for 30 days…

There were no words, no touch­stones or anchors that could bridge your under­stand­ing; there was no ade­quate chal­ice to hold your expe­ri­ence of the “ecsta­sy and agony” that is Scorpio.

Because it is in that realm of Spir­i­tu­al Alche­my, it is there you meet in the unimag­in­able joy of union, and you endure the unbear­able pain of sep­a­ra­tion and loss too…and all your words will fail you.

Yes, there is no way, in that space between worlds, between here and there, between your mor­tal­i­ty and your Immor­tal­i­ty, there is only every­thing and noth­ing all mixed up togeth­er. All you can do is feel, to expe­ri­ence an intu­ition­al know­ing as you draw one step clos­er to the Truth of your radi­ant nature. Scor­pio lit­er­al­ly takes your breath away, as you catch a glimpse of the undy­ing “light that is the uni­verse”. You have felt the Truth, and you are in awe, and you have been shat­tered, and you have been hum­bled too.

It was here that you were made aware of the divine in your­self, and in one anoth­er, and that thrills through as the shim­mer­ing light of every­thing and every­one. It was here that you felt the Truth; that Life-Spir­it is the very essence of you and every world and star and the whole of Cre­ation too.

But now it is time to turn…

You need to find your words, to share what you have learned, to extend your indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ence and fold it into a larg­er con­text of mean­ing­ful­ness. Here in Sagit­tar­ius you reach beyond your­self to become a sto­ry­teller, as all humans have done since the begin­ning of time. Here in the Cir­cle of the Lone­ly Ones, it is here that you share with one anoth­er your sto­ries, so that you can heal and grow into the Greater Understanding.

The Way of Scor­pio yields the stage to the realm that is Sagit­tar­ius, where you will find the Ever-Renew­ing Foun­tain Source of Truth. Here is found the Ancient Wis­dom and those Seers, past and present, who pre­serve the trea­sure of Human expe­ri­ence in Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy, Reli­gion, Art and Truth. It is here that you find the path; “The Way” home beck­ons to you once again.

But you must remem­ber this, what they dis­cov­ered and inscribed on papyrus, tablet and tome, all these truths and more are equal­ly found in the stars above, and in your own true heart too. “For as above, so below”, and in the heart of all cre­ation there shines the undy­ing Light of the One. For Spir­it is Life; Life is Spir­it. And so, it is known in all the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings that there is but one Spir­it, and there is but one Life. The Truth is there for all to see; you need only to weave togeth­er your heart and your mind. And you will smile, and your heart will be at peace. As the great Seer William Blake so beau­ti­ful­ly wrote:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heav­en in a Wild Flower

Hold Infin­i­ty in the palm of your hand

And Eter­ni­ty in an hour…

God Appears & God is Light

To those poor Souls who dwell in Night

But does a Human Form Display

To those who Dwell in Realms of day.

                                          “Auguries of Innocence”

Light begets Light, and with­in you resides a greater con­scious­ness, your High­er Self, who con­stant­ly encour­ages you to align what is your upper­most spir­i­tu­al and moral com­pass with what you encounter “out there” in the hier­ar­chies of Spir­it-Mat­ter. But this Intu­itive Wis­dom is mod­u­lat­ed through your inter­me­di­ary bod­ies which have not yet ful­ly awak­ened. And so, you will con­tin­u­al­ly strug­gle until your final awak­en­ing. The fear will fight to hold you, but the Light of Love will lead you onward…

Your Jour­ney is your Awak­en­ing; and you are quite sim­ply here to lift your­self into the Greater Light that is your true nature. You will hold through Faith and you will find by Rea­son, as you weave togeth­er your expe­ri­ences of feel­ing-thought into the “Wis­dom Way”, where every­thing is con­nect­ed, both with­in and with­out. You learn to turn away from sep­a­ra­tion and affirm the insep­a­ra­ble Truth: “That Life is Spir­it, Spir­it is Life”. One shin­ing day you will achieve your apoth­e­o­sis, and you will tru­ly under­stand how Lov­ing and Beau­ti­ful you are, and equal­ly under­stand that this Love and Beau­ty is what sur­rounds you too. Each is part of the oth­er; there is but One Spir­it, and we are the many ones of the One.

To bring you clos­er to this cross­ing point of Light and Love, innu­mer­able encoun­ters just like those you met in Scor­pio, of unions and sep­a­ra­tions, encour­age you to reach beyond your­self, and con­nect with your true nature by com­mu­nion, by com­pan­ion­ship and through love. It is by this that you serve as both mir­ror and light for one anoth­er. You see what holds you as one with one anoth­er, while equal­ly hon­or­ing and cel­e­brat­ing your dif­fer­ences too.

Yes, it was by Scor­pio that you felt the Truth; you sac­ri­ficed the less­er in your­self to join with one anoth­er. You came clos­er to your own true self by reach­ing beyond your­self and expe­ri­enc­ing your shared space of feel­ings for one another.

In Sagit­tar­ius you will under­stand and seek to share this Wis­dom and Love. You have your sto­ry; and they have their sto­ry. Togeth­er, you will share your sto­ries with one anoth­er, and you will refine your less­er truths into a more encom­pass­ing Truth for one anoth­er. You will dip your cup into the Well of Wis­dom, and find peace of mind in the Peren­ni­al Truths. And you will add your spe­cial sto­ries to this Sto­ry of Spir­it too. It has always been so…

You will see that the authen­tic­i­ty of your own true Feel­ing-Know­ing depends upon one anoth­er, as your shar­ing of feel­ings and thoughts removes your pri­or mis­un­der­stand­ings and half-truths. You will equal­ly rely upon the inspi­ra­tion and guid­ance from the Wis­dom of those Ancient Ones, who came this way long before you. For this is a well-worn road of awak­en­ing, and there are many, both past and present, who will help you along the path.

Behind all the noise and con­fu­sion that swirls around you now, beyond all the lies and half-truths…there is Truth.

You Felt it; now you Know it too.

Gath­er togeth­er, give thanks to those who came before you.

They forged the Roy­al Road of Truth.

And give thanks to all who trav­el with you now.

Togeth­er you keep one anoth­er on the path of Light.

Tell your sto­ries, sing your songs.

Laugh; Cry; Laugh.

Dis­pel fear, by kind­ly shar­ing your under­stand­ing with one another.

And above all, remem­ber there is one Truth upon which all oth­ers rest…

Love One Another.

This present dark­ness will fade; your words and deeds will remove it.

Your Light is shin­ing in a greater Wis­dom, which grows in step with your deep­en­ing Humility.

Be not afraid; speak Truth to Power,

Guid­ed by Love.

The Gift of Rebirth, The Way of Union

This is the space you encounter Ulti­mate Truth.

This is when you feel the high­est Joy,

And when you fall into depths of Pain,

This is your time for Love; this is your time for Loss.

This is the Space-Time to face your Shadow…

And, this is your cross­ing point into the Light.

This is the Realm that is Scorpio.

Wher­ev­er Scor­pio is found in your chart, and when­ev­er there are plan­ets mov­ing through this Sign, you will find that it is here that you face the Fun­da­men­tal Chal­lenge of your Journey:

You are an Immor­tal; but you move through mor­tal forms.

Your inner­most is a spark of the Divine; always and for­ev­er your Divin­i­ty is an essen­tial and unique instance of the Indi­vis­i­ble One, and to all less­er forms it is what is sim­ply known as the inef­fa­ble “That”. But to make pos­si­ble your jour­ney through Space-Time, you create/unfold from with­in your­self a hier­ar­chy of “bod­ies” or Ener­gy-Forms that per­mit your exis­tence upon each plane of man­i­fes­ta­tion. From the most numi­nous and tran­scen­dent to the most mate­r­i­al of planes (like here on Earth), all your vehi­cles are the mor­tal bod­ies held as one by your High­er Self.

You are born into a form; you die to that form; but you enter anoth­er. Spir­it is Life; Spir­it-Life is Eter­nal. But the Worlds, Forms and Lives you live are only for a time. You form attach­ments to your form; you form attach­ments to one anoth­er. You find the Joy of being togeth­er; and so, you must expe­ri­ence the pain of sep­a­ra­tion too. This is your jour­ney bound­ed by the inseparable:

Love and Loss; Joy and Pain.

You are on a jour­ney of Self-Becom­ing, of mov­ing from less­er forms to the greater, of mov­ing out so that you may come back again, now know­ing, from mov­ing through all these Worlds, Forms and Lives that you are a spark of the Divine mak­ing your way to become a Ful­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of Creation.

One day, you will break the bonds of fear. You will have an unbreak­able faith because you Know: I am Immor­tal, I am the Light and the dark­ness and fear were just the phan­toms of my past, when I was not the mas­ter of enter­ing and leav­ing these forms…but now I know, now “I am That, I am.”

And so, you will equal­ly face the mys­tery of Union with one anoth­er, final­ly free of the fear of loss too. For count­less Worlds, Forms and Lives, your Joy of Love for one anoth­er was bound up with Pain and Loss, it was (and will be) unbear­able. Yet, there will come a time when you will stand in the Light that will not dimin­ish, and you will know that we are insep­a­ra­ble to one anoth­er, all mixed-up togeth­er, we are made of and by one anoth­er for ever and ever, and we will meet again and again until we break the karmic cycle of uncon­scious birth and re-birth with our awak­en­ing. And we will break the bonds of fear and step into the undy­ing light by our very forg­ing of unions in life after life.

Yes! It is pre­cise­ly in these lov­ing unions that you see the Truth; you under­stand because you have direct knowl­edge of your Immor­tal­i­ty and your insep­a­ra­ble one­ness with one anoth­er. You go out to meet one anoth­er, to live and laugh and love this beau­ty, this beloved who is there before you…and won­der of won­ders, it is by this very going out to them, that by sac­ri­fic­ing the less­er with­in you in order to join with them, (and they like­wise do this to join with you), it is in this Union (and Re-Union again and again), with the oth­er that you come anoth­er step clos­er to your true Self too.

You move out of your­self to cre­ate the Space of We.

You join togeth­er by sur­ren­der­ing the less­er and hon­or­ing the Greater with­in and between you.

And, in the end, you smile and understand.

You have met your own true Self through one another…

You are for one anoth­er the Way and the Light…

You are the Light; We are the Light.

Shine on.

Jupiter Enters Scorpio – The Way of Truth

Jupiter is the Avatar of your Truth. In your birth chart, it pro­vides an indi­ca­tor as to the way in which you will work towards what is known as the “greater under­stand­ing”; it illu­mi­nates the path of Truth you are to fol­low in any life.

By rul­ing what is true for you, what gives mean­ing and mean­ing­ful­ness to your life, Jupiter also indi­cates how you will relate to the larg­er world around you. By hold­ing and shap­ing your moti­va­tions or your inten­tion­al nature, Jupiter helps you to find and fol­low your path of Self-Fulfillment.

Jupiter will move through the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac in rough­ly 12 years. Though your own place­ment of Jupiter in a sign indi­cates how your will find your way in gen­er­al, it is also true that you need to inte­grate your own way of truth and being with the oth­er 11 ways too. You are here to learn to mas­ter all these ener­gies so that you may become ful­ly human.

Every year, if you open your under­stand­ing to a more com­pre­hen­sive and inclu­sive approach, you can devel­op a more inte­gral, nuanced and spir­i­tu­al­ly pur­pose­ful way of being. By mod­u­lat­ing your own way with that of the cur­rent place­ment of Jupiter, you lift your own under­stand­ing into the Greater Under­stand­ing that is your destiny.

But there is per­haps no greater les­son or gift than the pas­sage of Jupiter, (or any plan­e­tary body), through the sign of Scor­pio. Because of all the mys­ter­ies and truths you will encounter in this life, or in any life, it is this one that stands at the cen­ter of them all.

It is here that you meet “The Great Illu­sion” that is formed by you being an “I”, a sep­a­rate self-con­scious­ness of being, so that your very nature clear­ly seems to cre­ate an unbridge­able divide between you and every oth­er being.

For you have for­got­ten your truth: Long, long ago, you left from the One Spir­it as a mon­ad of con­scious­ness, to become anoth­er sparkling dew­drop among count­less oth­ers who in their pere­gri­na­tions through Space-Time form the Body of the One. Yet this seem­ing sev­er­ance or sep­a­ra­tion from the One brings about nev­er-end­ing pain and con­fu­sion, and it forms the soul­ful aching, the eter­nal long­ing for your return to the envelop­ing Peace and Love that is the One.

You seek to become unit­ed again and so become whole once more. You seek to shat­ter your alone­ness, and by reach­ing out to your fel­low sparks of the Divine you hope to feel this joy again, to be brought into the grace of peace, love and under­stand­ing that is of the One.

But what you will find, in life after life, is that this expe­ri­ence of reach­ing out to one anoth­er, of form­ing Unions of Sacred Space you share with one anoth­er, and of neces­si­ty mak­ing sac­ri­fices for and to one anoth­er, that it is pre­cise­ly here where you learn that by this giv­ing up the less­er in your­self you dis­cov­er the great­ness that is always and for­ev­er in them and in you too.

The mys­tery that is Union, the sub­lime mys­tery and gift of Scor­pio, reveals this Ker­nel of Ancient Wis­dom and Truth to you: That as you sur­ren­der the less­er parts of you to one anoth­er, as you draw clos­er to them and them to you, you are brought into the pres­ence of your own truer Self. You reach beyond your mor­tal frame and touch the Divine with­in and around you.

You come clos­er to the essence of you as you feel your way to the under­stand­ing that the One that you for­ev­er seek was (and will always be) there, right there as the very cen­ter of you…and of every­one else too. The Great Illu­sion is your feel­ing of sep­a­ra­tion; The Great Truth is that you are nev­er alone, you are not and can­not be sep­a­rat­ed from the One or from one anoth­er, for what you are and what sus­tains you through world after world, and in life after life, is the Love of the One that is you, and this equal­ly forms the Ocean of Cre­ation in which you and all the sparks of the Divine abide.

As much as Jupiter in Libra brought you into the Space of the Encounter with one anoth­er, and that Truth informed the Third Space that is Rela­tion­ship, it is here in Scor­pio that you lift the Veil of Isis and you must bow your head to the Gift of the Spirit.

You do this for one anoth­er as you join in com­mu­nion with each oth­er, for you have bro­ken the bonds of the great­est illu­sion; now you know, now you feel the truth that you are That. You know you are here in this mor­tal shell that brings you from such awful pain into the most unimag­in­able joy; you know that you are an Immor­tal danc­ing through worlds and lives as you draw ever clos­er to the one before you, and the one with­in you and to the One that is All.

You say the words to yourself:

I am That, I am.

You look upon one anoth­er and say:

Namaste.

You are one with one anoth­er, and with the One.

Astrologer Bill Attride Radio Show, #7: Jupiter in Scorpio
(Saturday October 14, 2017 @ 2 pm EDT)

Jupiter Enters Scorpio – The Way of Truth (October 10^th, 2017 — November 8^th, 2018)

Today’s show will con­sid­er the sig­nif­i­cance of Jupiter mov­ing from sign to sign, with a par­tic­u­lar focus upon the shift from Libra to Scor­pio which occurred on Octo­ber 10^th, 2017.

Jupiter is the Avatar of your Truth. In your birth chart, it pro­vides an indi­ca­tor as to the way in which you will work towards the “greater under­stand­ing”; it illu­mi­nates the path of Truth you are to fol­low in any life.

By rul­ing what is true for you, what gives mean­ing and mean­ing­ful­ness to your life, Jupiter also indi­cates how you will relate to the larg­er world around you. By hold­ing and shap­ing your moti­va­tions or your inten­tion­al nature, Jupiter helps you to find and fol­low your path of Self-Fulfillment.

Jupiter will move through the 12 signs of the Zodi­ac in rough­ly 12 years. Though your own place­ment of Jupiter in a sign indi­cates how your will find your way in gen­er­al, it is also true that you need to inte­grate your own way of truth and being with the oth­er 11 ways too.

Every year, if you open your under­stand­ing to a more com­pre­hen­sive and inclu­sive approach, you can devel­op a more inte­gral, nuanced and spir­i­tu­al­ly pur­pose­ful way of being. By mod­u­lat­ing your own way with that of the cur­rent place­ment of Jupiter, you lift your own under­stand­ing into the Greater Under­stand­ing that is your destiny.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this sub­ject 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.

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 14^th at 2 pm ET as we con­sid­er the influ­ence of Jupiter in your life.

Here is the main link to Astrologer Bill Attride Radio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride

Here is the link to the show on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 14^th @ 2 pm EDT:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2017/10/14/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-show-7-jupiter-in-scorpio

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

I very much look for­ward to shar­ing time with you on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 14^th!

Warm regards,

Bill

The Gift of Companionship, The Way of I and Thou

Life is Spir­it; Spir­it is Life.

At the core of any par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, there abides Light and Love, there at the cen­ter of every­thing and every­one there is the Spark of the Divine.

This dew­drop of divin­i­ty is Pure Con­scious­ness; it is a Dia­mond Body of True Love.

Each Mon­ad of the Divine exists in its own Sacred Space, which over time is formed more per­fect­ly into the liv­ing abode of a Self-Aware Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, which is guid­ed and informed by Uncon­di­tion­al Love and held in its Sacred Space as a unique “one of the One” by its Spir­i­tu­al­ly Cen­tered Will.

This is what forms the entire­ty of Cre­ation, rang­ing from the infin­i­tes­i­mals of inner space on up to the Galac­tic Con­scious­ness­es that encom­pass a celes­tial host of Stars, Plan­ets and Life-Forms.

And This is what you are too, a pre­cious dew-drop of Spir­it who is slow­ly but sure­ly becom­ing self-aware, draw­ing clos­er and clos­er to your own true nature: that you are a Divin­i­ty that is learn­ing to be a Con­scious Co-Cre­ator of this Uni­verse; to be a Lov­ing Cre­ator who is Wise and Hum­ble too.

This Jour­ney of Spir­it, this Path­way of Light and Love, is the Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing that is forged and made by you and by your com­pan­ions too. You could nev­er be what you are, “a self-becom­ing human”, with­out one anoth­er. A sin­gu­lar, uncon­nect­ed, unre­lat­ed human is just not even pos­si­ble, it would quite sim­ply not be “human” at all.

For you are tru­ly made of and by one anoth­er. In world after world, in life after life, you are formed by all with whom you have direct and indi­rect inter­re­la­tion­ships. You are formed by your par­ents, by your sib­lings and friends, class­mates and col­leagues, by your loves of for­mer lives and in the eter­nal now too, so that all your broth­ers and sis­ters in Spir­it are there with you, and you in them too. Your Thoughts-Val­ues-Morals, and the Love that holds them all, the essen­tial ele­ments of you, are all shaped by the count­less encoun­ters you have with one anoth­er. You are your rela­tions; you are an “I” and a “host of we”; and it is out of these many that you become the one that is you.

We are all “Mixed-up”; each of you is in so many oth­ers, and so many, many oth­ers are what makes you what you are too. That is why this next expe­ri­ence in the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the Twelve-Fold ener­gy forms that hold this Uni­verse togeth­er, is so impor­tant for you to under­stand and mas­ter. For in truth, you are made of all Twelve Signs, just in dif­fer­ing pro­por­tions and com­bi­na­tions. If you are to know your­self and become what you tru­ly are meant to be, then you must embrace some part of each sign as an essen­tial part of you.

Today you move into the realm of Libra; Today you meet with one anoth­er in that most Sacred Space of I and Thou; Today you enter the Mys­tery, where you will meet and make your­self through one anoth­er in the “third space” that is Relationship.

After the attune­ments, align­ments, adjust­ments and heal­ing of Vir­go, you are ready for this. You have done your home­work, you have won greater self-mas­tery through crit­i­cal self-exam­i­na­tion, and you are now more tru­ly you, and you are more at peace.

Now you see before you the Truth of Spir­it; that you can only become who you real­ly are when you are with one anoth­er. You gaze into the eyes of the one before you, and what is shin­ing back from those win­dows of the soul is so famil­iar. It is the same or essen­tial “aware­ness or pres­ence” that is there with­in you too. It is the One, it is the Love of the One for all the ones that comes shin­ing through each of you.

In any rela­tion­ship, there are three “spaces”. You exist in your own sacred space; and the oth­er before you, they are in their own sacred space too. Nei­ther of you may or should tres­pass upon the oth­er, nei­ther of you should lose your­self in the oth­er. But togeth­er you can build this “Third Space” of We, the space you make togeth­er. This is the play­ground of your “self that is becom­ing”; this is your space of self-trans­for­ma­tion and self-ful­fill­ment by and through one another.

It is here that you learn, work and play; here is where each of you become as you live for your­self and for one anoth­er too. By mov­ing into rela­tion­ship, you move into greater self-aware­ness through your dance of spir­it with one anoth­er. You can­not mere­ly do what you want with­out care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion for them too. You form a space of mutu­al ben­e­fit by at first uncon­scious­ly, and then ever more con­scious­ly, cre­at­ing a frame­work to guide, sup­port and pro­tect your inter­ac­tions with one anoth­er. Each of your own indi­vid­ual self-ful­fill­ments depends upon the ful­fill­ment of the oth­er. You expe­ri­ence the liv­ing real­i­ty that their dreams com­ing true are the very sub­stance of your dreams made real too.

Yes, it is here in Libra that you expe­ri­ence the Quick­en­ing of your Spir­it; it is here that you lift one anoth­er up into the Greater Aware­ness that is forged and found­ed by being part of one anoth­er, cre­at­ing one anoth­er by Love.

You need one anoth­er to be yourself.

You look back to your ances­tors, and under­stand how much you owe to those who came before.

And, you look around your­self and real­ize how much you need those with whom you jour­ney now.

You are one, and you are many.

Bow your head; Open your heart.

Smile at the one who is before you.

Know that you are one and the same,

Namaste.