{"id":2890,"date":"2017-01-08T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:06:21","slug":"the-new-year-part-1-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astrologerbillattride.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/the-new-year-part-1-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Year \u2013 Part 1 (January 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Whence \u2013 Where \u2013 Whither<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 1 \u2013 Whence<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As our civ\u00adil cal\u00aden\u00addar turns the page to a New Year, it seems most fit\u00adting to look back upon the year just past so that we might bet\u00adter under\u00adstand from whence<\/em> we have come; to con\u00adsid\u00ader where<\/em> we are now; and to look out ahead and see if we might dis\u00adcern more clear\u00adly whith\u00ader<\/em> we are going.<\/p>\n

Regard\u00adless what the plan\u00adets and stars may pro\u00advide, we must always remem\u00adber that although they are the Avatars of the ener\u00adgies that inform and guide our lives, it remains for us to deter\u00admine what use we will make of these \u201cGifts of the Spir\u00adit\u201d. As the great bard, Shake\u00adspeare wrote in his play Julius Cae\u00adsar<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The fault, dear Bru\u00adtus, is not in our stars,
\nBut in our\u00adselves, that we are underlings.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is upon each of us to do our part, to lis\u00adten for our \u201cvoice of the silence\u201d, our high\u00ader self, our spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal com\u00adpass, and choose how we shall strive to make our\u00adselves bet\u00adter and so cre\u00adate a bet\u00adter world for those who come after us. How these ener\u00adgies play out, as they sur\u00adround, inform and hold us as one to one anoth\u00ader, depend upon the devel\u00adop\u00adment of our spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal tri\u00adad, our Wis\u00addom-Love-Will. It is by our self-unfold\u00adment or spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal growth that we may more grace\u00adful\u00adly embody these ener\u00adgies, and find our way to their best appli\u00adca\u00adtion and most benef\u00adi\u00adcent manifestation.<\/p>\n

The most con\u00adse\u00adquen\u00adtial Astro\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal align\u00adment for 2016 was the square between the plan\u00adets Sat\u00adurn and Nep\u00adtune. Their cycle, from con\u00adjunc\u00adtion to con\u00adjunc\u00adtion, is about 36 years in dura\u00adtion and they will form their most chal\u00adleng\u00ading aspects, (con\u00adjunc\u00adtion, wax\u00ading square, oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion and wan\u00ading square), rough\u00adly 9 years apart. Their most recent cycle began at the con\u00adjunc\u00adtion of 1989, lead\u00ading to their wax\u00ading square of 1998 and to their oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion of 2006-07, and final\u00adly to their wan\u00ading square this past year, (they will start a new cycle at their con\u00adjunc\u00adtion in 2026).<\/p>\n

Their ser\u00adi\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions artic\u00adu\u00adlate the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between Order (Sat\u00adurn) and Dreams (Nep\u00adtune), or Real\u00adi\u00adty and Fan\u00adta\u00adsy, or Respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and Sac\u00adri\u00adfice. In the realm of Mun\u00addane or World\u00adly Astrol\u00ado\u00adgy, of Polit\u00adi\u00adcal-Eco\u00adnom\u00adic-Cul\u00adtur\u00adal phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna, it is inter\u00adest\u00ading to note that the three most recent con\u00adjunc\u00adtions of Sat\u00adurn and Nep\u00adtune, per\u00adfect\u00adly align with the birth of the USSR<\/span> (1917), the Cold War (1952\u20133) and the col\u00adlapse of the Com\u00admu\u00adnist order (1989).<\/p>\n

For Per\u00adson-Cen\u00adtered Astrol\u00ado\u00adgy, for you and I, when\u00adev\u00ader we expe\u00adri\u00adence these align\u00adments of Sat\u00adurn and Nep\u00adtune, we should see it as an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to exam\u00adine how close\u00adly we are hold\u00ading togeth\u00ader, in a mean\u00ading\u00adful and respon\u00adsi\u00adble man\u00adner, the del\u00adi\u00adcate and inte\u00adgral bal\u00adance between our dreams and our real\u00adi\u00adty. There are pre\u00adcious moments in any one life, or in the lives of a peo\u00adple, when their dream becomes real\u00adi\u00adty. But there are those despair-filled times too, when the chasm between real\u00adi\u00adty and the dream is (seem\u00ading\u00adly) unbridgeable.<\/p>\n

There are those pre\u00adcious moments in time and space when what we believe and what we expe\u00adri\u00adence are in greater res\u00ado\u00adnance, so that what we imag\u00adine our world should be like is what we indeed encounter. And there are times, such as this past year, when what is \u201creal\u00adly real\u201d, what is unde\u00adni\u00adably a \u201cfact\u201d and what is fic\u00adtion\u00adal (or false) become hope\u00adless\u00adly confused.<\/p>\n

What are we, (or what were we sup\u00adposed), to do when faced with such con\u00adfu\u00adsion and mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00ading? The square aspect between two plan\u00adets quite lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly calls upon us to face this these two Avatars, in this case Sat\u00adurn and Nep\u00adtune, not with fear or appre\u00adhen\u00adsion, but with a renewed and Rea\u00adson\u00adable Faith com\u00adbined with a Com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate Real\u00adism. We need to bring the two Ener\u00adgy-Forms togeth\u00ader, for that is the path of Spir\u00adit, the Inte\u00adgral Path, for it is by this that you will find and forge a new or bet\u00adter way. We should embrace this and every such turn\u00ading as a nec\u00ades\u00adsary chal\u00adlenge and oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for growth.<\/p>\n

If all the Great Teach\u00adings are true, then the entire\u00adty of Cre\u00adation is Spir\u00adit. If so, then the one con\u00adstant of this Uni\u00adverse is Growth. Then it fol\u00adlows that the oth\u00ader con\u00adstant of this Uni\u00adverse of Spir\u00adit is Change too. We need to con\u00adsid\u00ader how we can find a Path\u00adway that helps us to con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly clar\u00adi\u00adfy our Dreams and to fold them into an ever more mean\u00ading-filled Real\u00adi\u00adty. We need to find a way through both our inter\u00adnal divi\u00adsions and the divi\u00adsions between one anoth\u00ader, so that we might heal the divide between our present Real\u00adi\u00adty and our Hopes and Dreams for a bet\u00adter world.<\/p>\n

Since Nep\u00adtune is the dom\u00adi\u00adnant influ\u00adence, (being the out\u00ader\u00admost plan\u00adet), the challenge\/opportunity was for each of us to allow Nep\u00adtune to help us to slip beyond our assumptions\/certainties about the nature of our real\u00adi\u00adty and at least imag\u00adine (if not come to under\u00adstand and believe) that there were oth\u00ader dreams and real\u00adi\u00adties that are co-present and co-exist\u00ading. That all of these sub-real\u00adi\u00adties, from the small\u00adest to the largest \u201cDream-Real\u00adi\u00adties\u201d, are part of the One, the Greater Real\u00adi\u00adty in which we tru\u00adly abide.<\/p>\n

Part of Neptune\u2019s way is to dis\u00adsolve or eat away at the fab\u00adric of our per\u00adcep\u00adtion of real\u00adi\u00adty so that it can be re-formed, re-shaped and trans\u00adformed into a more encom\u00adpass\u00ading expe\u00adri\u00adence of what we tru\u00adly abide in, that Greater Real\u00adi\u00adty. Typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, we move from a peri\u00adod of cer\u00adtain\u00adty about our assump\u00adtions about our world into a peri\u00adod of doubt and mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00ading. These will begin to grow and cre\u00adate greater dis\u00adso\u00adnance lead\u00ading to greater doubts, claims and counter-claims as to what is true or false. Final\u00adly, many if not most will find them\u00adselves in a state of great con\u00adfu\u00adsion and mis\u00adtrust, doubt\u00ading them\u00adselves and one anoth\u00ader, as a com\u00admon\u00adly accept\u00aded dream-real\u00adi\u00adty gives way because the bonds of affin\u00adi\u00adty between indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals and groups dissolve.<\/p>\n

With\u00adout a shared under\u00adstand\u00ading, with\u00adout an agree\u00adment as to what are the dreams we share and what is the real\u00adi\u00adty we face, with\u00adout this wide\u00adly shared Dream-Real\u00adi\u00adty, the shad\u00adows of fear and blame are unleashed. This break\u00addown in a shared Dream-Real\u00adi\u00adty erodes our trust in one anoth\u00ader, and under\u00admines our shared sense of com\u00admit\u00adment to, and will\u00ading\u00adness to sac\u00adri\u00adfice for, the good of one another.<\/p>\n

But do not \u201cblame\u201d the Plan\u00adet Nep\u00adtune. This Nep\u00adtun\u00adian fog of dis\u00adso\u00adlu\u00adtion is not here to bring about harm to you or your world. It is mere\u00adly there to reveal what was and is becom\u00ading more and more appar\u00adent. That for\u00adev\u00ader and always you and your world were chang\u00ading, and you had reached a time which required a let\u00adting go of your lim\u00adit\u00aded assump\u00adtions so that you might find a way to cre\u00adate a more encom\u00adpass\u00ading Dream-Real\u00adi\u00adty for your\u00adself and your world.<\/p>\n

These Illu\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtions of Nep\u00adtune are stronger now than they have been for a very long time, and that is because Nep\u00adtune is cur\u00adrent\u00adly mov\u00ading through its own sign of Pisces from 2011 until 2026. The last time Nep\u00adtune was in Pisces was from 1848\u20131862, and it was a time of great Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal, Artis\u00adtic and Social transformation\u2026and it will be so in our own time too.<\/p>\n

Then as now the par\u00ada\u00addigm of beliefs shift\u00aded, and for a time the mean\u00ading and pur\u00adpose of what should be the foun\u00adda\u00adtion of Dream-Real\u00adi\u00adty was con\u00adtest\u00aded by indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals and groups. Cer\u00adtain\u00adly, it was no acci\u00addent that here in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, it was when the awful crime against Spir\u00adit at the found\u00ading of our nation, the abom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of slav\u00adery, was con\u00adfront\u00aded and ulti\u00admate\u00adly abolished.<\/p>\n

May you find a sim\u00adi\u00adlar courage to face your shad\u00adows and fears today.<\/p>\n

You can find your way for\u00adward by remem\u00adber\u00ading to hon\u00ador and to hold to the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal teach\u00adings that have guid\u00aded you through the best and the worst of times.<\/p>\n

May you find com\u00adfort and guid\u00adance in the great teach\u00adings, sto\u00adries and lives of those who have walked these same paths that you must fol\u00adlow too. Their exam\u00adple of Wis\u00addom, Love and Cen\u00adtered Will is there for you:<\/p>\n

Be guid\u00aded by the Wise Ones, who know there is no reli\u00adgion high\u00ader than Truth.
\n<\/em>Walk the path of the Great-Souls, who prac\u00adtice the Wis\u00addom of Love.
\n<\/em>Find inspi\u00adra\u00adtion in the Lone\u00adly Ones, their Will\u00ading-Sac\u00adri\u00adfice hon\u00adored by
\nthe Angels and Devas above.
\n<\/em>Lis\u00adten for the Voice of the Silence, attend the gen\u00adtle whis\u00adpers in your Heart,
\n<\/em>And you will find \u201cThe Way\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Next, \u201cWhere are we now?\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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