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 of Scorpio – Reversing the life currents
After the gentle oscillation achieved by the balance of energies in Libra, the way is prepared for renewed effort in Scorpio. The consequences of choices made in Libra cause a reversal of the life currents, creating a time of reckoning and of reorientation in Scorpio. Esoteric teaching describes Scorpio as the great constellation which influences…
Some Thoughts on Libra – Treading the Razor’s Edge
According to esoteric teaching, the Earth is regarded as the turning point or battleground between spirit and matter—a battle in which neither spirit nor matter can emerge victorious. Perfect balance between spirit and matter is the goal of Libra, and the keynote for Libra offers insight into how this balance can be achieved: I choose…
Some Thoughts on Virgo – Matter, the hiding place for spirit
Virgo is one of the most significant signs in the zodiac because it concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process: to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. This, esoteric teaching tells us, every form veils. As long as we remain focused only on forms—on outer expression—we contribute to “the great heresy…
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 Leo – The truest thing about us
The sun’s progress around the zodiac can be analyzed from multiple perspectives, but its esoteric significance lies in its charting of the unfoldment of consciousness. In this progression, the transition from the mass consciousness in Cancer to the development of individual consciousness in Leo is a particularly important spiritual stage. Leo is the “birthplace of…
Thoughts on Cancer – Cultivating the Sense of Divinity
When meditation at the time of the full moon draws upon the science of esoteric astrology, it focuses primarily on the energies which stream into our planet and stimulate the awakening of consciousness. From the perspective of esoteric astrology, the energies expressed through the first three signs—Aries, Taurus and Gemini—are subjective;. They lie behind manifestation,…
Some Thoughts on Gemini – Love as the deliverance of mind
The spiritual task in Gemini is an elusive one in some ways, because it awakens both the recognition of the dualities and the need to reconcile them through the right use of the mind. The realization that the nature of man is both human and divine—that “man is an animal plus a living God” as…