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 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 of manifestation through the power of an initial idea, and thus the keynote of Aries is I come forth and from the plane of…
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 standing for the soul and the other for the personality, bound together through the cycle of manifestation. “Such is the climaxing story of Pisces”,…
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 energy destined to last some 2,500 years. Not only is this too vast a span of time for us to visualize, but the energies…
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 is the Gate into the life of spirit, yet it also represents the densest point of concrete materialization. Capricorn is both a sign of…
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 to acquire and hold a steady eye, hand and stance prior to firing the arrow which leads to the destined goal. However, elsewhere in…
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 won in Libra is sorely tested in Scorpio, which creates, for the spiritual seeker, a sense of finality, of culmination—a “last stand” of the…
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, / …The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity” (The Second Coming). Lack of conviction suggests an absence…