Theosophical Order of Service, USA

It's so easy to become imprinted with fear and anxiety just from watching the news.  As we watch tragedies and natural disasters, we naturally feel empathy for those involved, but also can become fearful, even subconsciously, that something similar might happen to us or those we love.  Personal stresses, such as job loss (or fear of job loss), financial pressures, or loss of a relationship adds to the emotional load so many are carrying.  

From:  http://www.independent.co.uk
by Geoffrey Lean and Kathy Marks -- February 1, 2009 (with supporting information April 21, 2011)

Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave.

Gemini is the sign of relationship, communication, and interplay of forces.  As we saw the slow decent of divine force into ever more dense fields of reality, first into impulse and thought forms and then into the form of developing emotion and cohesion, now we see that force becoming concretized into the etheric body, or the true “physical” essence.  At this stage on the path into density the Soul has fully organized a mental and an emotional body and is in the process of completing the set with the establishment of the etheric body.  The completion of these three bodies for the use of the Soul establishes what we understand as the personality.

Location:
Theosophical Society in America
1926 North Main St.
Olcott Center, Wheaton, IL

Date:
May 24 - 28, 2011

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As the energies of Aries brought about the impulse of the Soul to manifest, the energies of Taurus bring about the focusing of those created thought forms into order.  The lives that make up the 6th or Astral Plane are corralled and yoked as the Soul begins to take more direct control over its developing subtle bodies and moves ever closer to manifestation.  At this stage the Soul is learning to gather and control.

In manifestation, the Taurian energies that are witnessed are of tremendous power and influence at this time. 

In a previous post, I wrote about the trauma-healing and humanitarian work being done by Lori Leyden, Ph.D., with young people ages 15-25 in Rwanda who were orphaned by the 1994 genocide.  Lori's efforts, as I reported in my first post, have been enormously successful in dramatically reducing trauma outbreaks in an overcrowded orphanage.   More about Lori's work and vision at: www.ProjectLightRwanda.com

Aries marks the beginning of the soul’s evolutionary cycle.  As the soul resides, unhindered, on the higher mental plane, it starts to create powerful thought-forms that call the lower lives which compose the different grades of matter into activity.  It is this initiating impulse which characterizes the energies of Aries and which begin the first stages of preparation for the soul’s taking of form.

On Friday, January 28, 2011 Jean Gullo passed away. Although her health had been deteriorating over several years, she was lucid and loving until the end.

Pisces is the sign of the Savior.  It is selfless sacrifice in the name of service.  In Aquarius we saw the removal of the personal, lower self for the enlightening experience of group absorption and awareness; and here is where most people believe the journey ends.  Liberation from the miseries of the lower worlds and escape into the greater Cosmic consciousness-there to work without pain and suffering.  But, the symbolism behind Pisces shows us differently.  The Piscean energies are the final stage, figuratively speaking, of the spiritual path. 

Aquarius is the sign of the water bearer.  In the great journey of the souls evolution the energies of Aquarius represent group awareness and perfection.  The ultimate goal of the individual soul has been reached in Capricorn and perfection has been attained – on a personal level.  But as the Initiate stands on that highest mountain peak and looks up, he realizes that his true work has just begun.  He loses his sense of individuality and becomes absorbed in the consciousness of the group soul, all in order to serve it.  A powerful mantra for Aquarius is: “Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men.”

We can see the integrating energies of Aquarius everywhere around us as we leave the Age of Pisces and enter the Age of Aquarius, on a macro level.  The technologies of the day have brought the world together in ways previously unimaginable.  It is giving us the opportunity to work as a group and to overcome the obstacles facing mankind as a whole by acting as a whole.  People have become aware of their neighbors.  And even those souls who have not reached the point in evolution wherein they can appreciate the fact of unity in diversity can dimly sense the commonality inherent in all people.  All this is due to the incoming rush of Aquarian energies.