Spiritual Perspectives Blog

reflections on human and world affairs


Author: Sarah McKechnie

  • Some Thoughts on Leo – The Self within the Whole

    The purpose of this solar system, the writings of Alice Bailey tell us, is the unfoldment of consciousness.  In the progression of cosmic energies that flow throughout the zodiac, […]


  • Triangles: Service through the Planetary Membrane

    World problems today seem overwhelming to some.  The pandemic, climate change, global warming, the increasing transfer of capital into the hands of a tiny percentage of the world’s population […]


  • Some Thoughts on Leo – The truest thing about us

    The sun’s progress around the zodiac can be analyzed from multiple perspectives, but its esoteric significance lies in its charting of the unfoldment of consciousness.  In this progression, the […]


  • Thoughts on Cancer – Cultivating the Sense of Divinity

    When meditation at the time of the full moon draws upon the science of esoteric astrology, it focuses primarily on the energies which stream into our planet and stimulate […]


  • Some Thoughts on Gemini – Love as the deliverance of mind

    The spiritual task in Gemini is an elusive one in some ways, because it awakens both the recognition of the dualities and the need to reconcile them through the […]


  • The Long Arc of the Moral Universe

    To view human evolution requires special glasses—ones that have the power to see across vast distances of time, to pierce through mountains of error and across caverns of apparent […]


  • Thoughts on Taurus – A vision beyond all outer seeming

    Taurus is the symbol of desire, a deeply human driving force as well as an incredibly powerful field of spiritual energy. Will, power, and desire are all words which […]


  • Thoughts on Aries – The renewing of the mind

    Aries begins a new cycle, a new astrological year, bringing anticipation of renewal—an especially understandable hope after a full year of living through a pandemic .  Esoterically, we’re told […]


  • The Human Quest for Truth

    May I be led from darkness to Light, from the unreal to the Real, from death to Immortality—so runs one of the earliest prayers known.  In a few words, […]


  • Thoughts on Pisces – Sacrifice:  the impulse to give

    One of the treasures of the Aquarian experience of group life is the increasing expression of sacrifice as an ideal if not yet a common reality.  Pisces is governed […]