KEYNOTE: "I SEE THE GOAL. I REACH THAT GOAL AND THEN I SEE ANOTHER."

Sagittarius provides a point of balance in which the vision is consciously deepened and meaningful activity expanded. In meditation the steady eye is developed which perceives clearly the higher spiritual values, prior to loosing the arrow of mental power with purposeful intention towards the goal to be achieved. This is the quality as it develops, which will carry humanity through the portal of initiation.

KEYNOTE: "WARRIOR I AM AND FROM THE BATTLE I EMERGE TRIUMPHANT."

Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity as a whole and the life of the individual human being. Every stage and every aspect of growth is subject to testing. The disciple or world server is one who has succeeded in transcending emotional and mental limitations of the personality through service which is cooperation with the light and love of the soul. The unique quality of Scorpio energy helps individuals and humanity as a whole to test itself and through trial and error to mature into planetary understanding and spiritual unfoldment. Persistence, reliability and dependability in service to the greater whole are stimulated.

KEYNOTE: "I CHOOSE THE WAY WHICH LEADS BETWEEN THE TWO GREAT LINES OF FORCE." 

Libra is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, and of achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites through the right utilisation of the balancing, analytical faculty of mind.

Libra governs the legal profession and holds the balances between so-called right and wrong, between negative and positive. Libra has been the "sponsor of the law". The law must become the custodian of a positive righteousness and not simply the instrument of enforcement. Just as we are attempting to eliminate force out of our national relationships, and just as it is obvious today that the process of drastic penalties has not succeeded in preventing crime or in deterring people from violent selfishness (for that is what all crime is), and just as the social attitude (in contradistinction to the anti-social position of all law-breakers) is being regarded as desirable and taught in our schools, so it is beginning to dawn upon the public consciousness that the inculcation of right relations and the spread of self-control and the growth of unselfishness (and these surely are the goal, subjective and oft unrealised, of all legal procedure) are the needed approach to the young. The key for growth is the cultivation of harmlessness. Harmlessness is not negativity or inaction; it is a condition of "perfect poise, a completed point of view and divine understanding".

KEYNOTE: "I AM THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD. I, GOD, I, MATTER AM." 

"Throughout the whole process of growth and evolution, and potent in Virgo, runs the theme of service." Service underlies the evolutionary process in this planet. We can consciously cooperate with this process as we learn to live more by the dictates of the soul and less by the demands of the personality. But the effort towards cooperation is not for our own benefit. We would all be better off personally for having redeemed our personalities and having learned how to live, even by a little, as a soul in manifestation; but the essential purpose is that through these expansions and growth in consciousness we may become of greater service to humanity as a whole. Service is not a matter of planned and contrived activity; not necessarily participation in worthwhile actions, although these too are needed; but as one is capable of reflecting soul energy into every aspect of daily life, it not only transforms the environment, but acts as a transmutative agent within the heart of humanity. It serves also to contribute to the transfiguration of the whole human personality by the power of the human soul. Service in its true sense is a spontaneous effect of soul control, based on love for humanity. Love and service are inseparable qualities in the life of the soul and in the endeavour of the soul to express itself more perfectly through the personality form. In Virgo we can develop this demonstration of love as right relationship and service as an attribute of love.

The time of the full moon is a period when spiritual energies are uniquely available, facilitating a closer rapport between humanity and the Hierarchy. Energies of light and love and the will-to-good are always available to those who can contact them in meditation. But in all aspects of our planetary life there are cycles in the ebb and flow of spiritual energies with which groups, as well as individuals, can consciously cooperate. One of the major energy cycles coincides with the phases of the moon, reaching its peak, its high tide, at the time of the full moon. This is a time, therefore, when the invocation and radiation of energy through group meditation can be uniquely effective. The meeting consists of a talk, followed by a group meditation.

More information about this Festival and meditation at the full moon can be found on our website at www.lucistrust.org/fullmoon. We encourage you to join us live for our broadcasts via our website. To receive announcements for our meetings, please email us at [email protected].