Category: Spiritual Festivals
Thoughts on Libra – Silence and the stillness of a focused point
We’re living in a time when the words of the poet Yeats ring all too true: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,…
Thoughts on Virgo – The quickening of the spiritual life
As the age of Pisces withdraws, the energies of Virgo, Pisces’ polar opposite, reveal their significance with increasing clarity. Humanity’s orientation to the world of higher values, which was the main…
Thoughts on Leo – The path of awakening sensitivity
The progression of consciousness which leads from Cancer (the mass or herd) must pass through the awakening of the self, of individuality, in Leo before group consciousness can be registered in…
More Thoughts on Cancer – Creating a sheath for the life of God
Esoteric teaching views the study of astrology as a depiction of the growth of consciousness leading to the recognition of relationships. In this progressive unfoldment, Cancer is one of two gates…
Thoughts on Cancer – Revealing the hidden divinity
“God Transcendent eternally exists, but can only be seen and known and correctly approached by God Immanent—immanent in individual man, in humanity as a whole and in the planetary Life Itself”,…
Thoughts on Gemini – The two must become the One
Gemini is the sign of the messenger, both traditionally via Mercury and esoterically through the role of Avatars. This is a term frequently expropriated by popular culture, but the deep spiritual…
Thoughts on Taurus – Freedom from the great heresy of separateness
Through the transition from Aries (I come forth and from the plane of mind, I rule) to Taurus—I see and when the eye is opened, all is light—we gain an understanding…
Thoughts on Aries – The source, the beginning, and the initiator of the New Age
Aries initiates a new cycle in the spiritual year and, now, the inauguration of the New Age. Aries embodies the will-to-create, and a fundamental truth is that all creation begins with…
Thoughts on Pisces – The unexpected keys to liberation
Pisces, sign of the World Saviour, brings to fruition the lessons learned through service in Aquarius. As the twelfth and culminating sign, Pisces is the omega point of the zodiac. All…
Some Thoughts on Aquarius – “Within man is the soul of the whole”
Aquarius is a sign of supreme importance to our solar system at this time, for its energies are felt not only in this month’s lunar cycle but in the solar cycle…