Spiritual Festivals
Each month, over the period of the full moon, unique spiritual energies are available to awaken minds and hearts to spiritual values and principles that are necessary for human progress. The following articles, written by Sarah McKechnie, former President of the Lucis Trust, offer thoughtful reflections on the significance and opportunities available at these times.
Thousands of people link in thought during these monthly festivals to deepen the alignment between the Kingdom of God and humanity, and to distribute spiritual energies throughout the planet.
Further details can be found on the Lucis Trust website.
Thoughts on Gemini – I recognize my other self, and in that self, I grow and glow.
Gemini, depicted by the Twins, Castor and Pollux, is said to be the major symbol of duality in the zodiac. Through duality we gain a sense of the human psyche, which is both conflicting and evolutionary, generating the struggle expressed in the keynote for meditation at the full moon of Gemini—I recognize my other self…
Thoughts on Taurus – Service and obedience, the great methods of release
In the ageless wisdom presentation of astrology, the twelve signs constitute a revelation of divinity, according to the writings of Alice Bailey. The first three—Aries, Taurus, and Gemini—represent the higher interlude of the spiritual year, making them a conduit for powerful inpouring spiritual energies: The Forces of Restoration at the Aries full moon, Enlightenment at…
Thoughts on Aries – The expansive mind
Esoteric teaching tells us that the secret of Aries is the secret of beginnings, of cycles and emerging opportunity. In Aries a new cycle commences, marking the first step of the soul towards incarnation. In human terms, this movement outward is driven by the will to manifest, to create and to achieve experience. Why is…
Thoughts on Pisces – The Universal Christ
The lessons of service learned in Aquarius create the world Saviour in Pisces, we’re told. From another perspective, the past 2000 years of Pisces have prepared the way for service in Aquarius. Through all these centuries the influence of Pisces has been playing upon humanity, bringing about the demand for world adjustment, developing the international…
Thoughts on Aquarius – Quenching Humanity’s Thirst
Aquarius is in some ways an elusive sign to understand, which the writings of Alice Bailey confirm in saying that the Aquarian Age eventually will bring in a civilization which will be utterly different than anything we have experienced up till now. We are entering a new age in which all things will become new.…
Thoughts on Capricorn – The revelation of ‘that which is ever present’
Capricorn is a sign of conclusion and of commencement, spanning the year as calculated by the Western calendar and symbolized by the summit of the mountain top as well as by new beginnings. Effort, strain, testing and struggle are all distinctive of experience in Capricorn. Its keynote—Lost am I in light supernal, yet on that…
Thoughts on Sagittarius – Pressing forward towards the sensed
While Libra marks a point of balance before the testing and trial of Scorpio, Sagittarius marks another point of balance after that testing, for the Sagittarian Archer has to acquire and hold a steady eye, hand and stance before firing the arrow which, if rightly directed, will carry him to the portal of initiation in…