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.
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, the mass consciousness of Cancer must become transformed into self-consciousness in Leo, prior to the awakening realization of group consciousness in Aquarius. In this process, the…
Some Thoughts on Cancer – The Building of Adequate Forms
Cancer, following the three conditioning signs or energies which lie behind manifestation (Aries, Taurus, Gemini), marks the passage of the soul into manifestation and the taking of a form. Why should this journey—descent into form life—be necessary for the soul’s evolution? Why wouldn’t it be infinitely better for the soul’s development if it simply refused…
Some Thoughts on Gemini – The Mystery of Duality
Each month at the time of the full moon, we consider one of the twelve constellations which are a major transmitter of streams of energy coming from still higher Sources. Of the twelve, Gemini, Taurus, and Aries are three conditioning signs or energies which lie behind manifestation, we’re told in the writings of Alice Bailey.…
Some Thoughts on Taurus – Cleansing the Doors of Perception
The full moon of Taurus is uniquely associated with the Buddha, who according to ancient tradition was born, achieved enlightenment, and died on the Taurus full moon. After he achieved his breakthrough under the bodhi tree those millennia ago, the Buddha was asked, who are you? He responded “I am awake”. This offers an insight…
More Thoughts on Aries – An Ocean of Intelligence
Aries is the sign of beginnings—the beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul towards incarnation, the beginning of recurring and constant cycles of experience, and the initiator of the period in which the soul changes its direction, its purpose and its method, which finally leads to spiritual regeneration and initiation. To…
Thoughts on Aries
With the completion of the annual zodiacal cycle in Pisces, a new cycle of renewal and regeneration begins in Aries. The esoteric foundation of astrology is an ancient science which relates the constellations and our solar system within the vastness of space, viewed as an entity in itself. The solar system, of which our Sun…