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 Scorpio – The Crisis of Reorientation
Scorpio is the sign of the warrior, as its keynote confirms: Warrior I am and from the battle I emerge triumphant. In Libra Arjuna learned the value of entering into battle, and those lessons laid an important foundation for the spiritual seeker in Scorpio. The battle of the spiritual warrior is not against perceived enemies…
Thoughts on Libra – The transcendent path
Libra represents a pause at the halfway point of the zodiacal circle, a moment of recollection, balance and equilibrium before entering into the battle of the warrior in Scorpio, the clear-eyed focus on the goal of the archer in Sagittarius, the ascent up to the mountaintop in Capricorn, world service in Aquarius, and finally, salvage…
Some Thoughts on Virgo – Bringing to birth the new ideas
The development of the self-conscious entity in Leo prepares the way for the birth of the Christ child in Virgo. Virgo concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process, the writings of Alice Bailey say: to shield, nurture and reveal the hidden spiritual reality. The recognition of God immanent, divinity in form, is the keynote…
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 manifested worlds through the medium of a form. Out of the mass or herd the self-sufficient unit emerges and, in time, the writings of…
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 that appeared in his patients’ frequent dreams as the repository of the subconscious; Erik Erikson related the house to the human form as a…
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 through group meditation. From earliest times human beings have sensed that these energies and forces emanate from Sources which express an all-pervading unity, an…
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 to the world, bringing the “touch from Shamballa”. Destruction inevitably accompanies the impact of descending spirit upon opposing matter, in order to release the…