Category: Spiritual Festivals
Thoughts on Leo – Imperishable Being
The Sun’s transit from mass consciousness in Cancer gives place to individual self-consciousness in Leo. Individualization is the emergence of the soul upon the path of outgoing, of life in the…
Thoughts on Cancer – The story of evolution: “becoming aware”
I build a lighted house and therein dwell is the keynote of Cancer. The house as a powerful symbol of the self is well documented in psychology. Freud interpreted the houses…
Thoughts on Gemini – Two are halves of one
At the moment of the full moon each month, when the Sun and the Earth stand in open, unimpeded alignment, powerful spiritual energies pour into our planet which can be directed…
Thoughts on Taurus – The eye is the lens
The full moon of Taurus is closely associated with the Buddha, whose birth, enlightenment and death occurred in Taurus. At the Taurus full moon each year, we’re told that he returns…
Thoughts on Aries – Bringing the vision nearer to humanity
With the full moon in Aries a new cycle begins. According to esoteric teaching, Aries is the source, the beginning and the initiator of the New Age. Aries initiates the cycle…
Thoughts on Pisces – Liberating the lives imprisoned in form
Pisces, the final stage of the Sun’s passage through the zodiac, is a point of summation and culmination as well as duality. Its symbol ♓︎ represents two fishes linked together, one…
Thoughts on Aquarius – Gateway of the new world, the new age
The energies of Aquarius are pouring in as the full moon approaches. A lunar cycle is 29 days or so, but the Sun is also entering a new cycle of Aquarian…
Thoughts on Capricorn – Freedom through renunciation
Capricorn is a sign of contrasts and choices, as its keynote implies: Lost am I in light supernal, yet on that light I turn my back. According to esoteric teaching Capricorn…
Thoughts on Sagittarius – Developing a sense of direction
The keynote of Sagittarius—I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another—presents us with one of those conundrums of the spiritual path. The Archer, we’re told, has…
Thoughts on Scorpio – The uses of pain
Scorpio, in esoteric teaching, is the great constellation which influences the turning point in the life of humanity as well as the individual human being. The equilibrium which was so hardly…