Re-Visioning the Goal
Is this turning out to be a month of uncertainty and change for you? Are you re-thinking your goals? Wondering if you’ve been on the right path? Whether it’s time for a new horizon?
If so, then you’re benefitting from this month’s energies coming to us from the zodiac sign of Sagittarius. These energies are fiery, in contrast to last month’s watery sign of Scorpio.
According to the Ageless Wisdom teachings, the mind is composed of fire, and so fire is the basis of consciousness. (1) As a fire sign, Sagittarius channels these fiery energies into our planet, and this sign give us an opportunity to become aware of thought as the fiery power of our mind.
As many of us know, thought is power because all that we say and do starts with what we think. So our direction, goals and actions, are being born every nano-second. Of course, many of them die, or are aborted because, like any baby, if we forget about them, they lack the necessary vitality of love and warmth to keep them alive. It’s so hard to control the versatility of our monkey mind, and often we just let it run, here, there and everywhere, re-hashing old beliefs, situations, fears, and ideas, without being really conscious of what we’re thinking.
It’s no wonder that mediation is hard work – it takes all of our will-power to control our mind, and that’s before we even get to work with our creative visualisation. It also takes all the tenacity and perseverance we gained from our journeys with Scorpio to keep our mind harnessed and working towards our new goals. But as we learn to still our mind, we begin to see that we’re creating new furrows in the rich virgin soil of the etheric substance that surrounds us. This soil is the template into which our thoughts relentlessly carve out our reality.
Seeing the Vision
In Scorpio we glimpsed what could happen when our reasoning, rationalising mind is illumined by the soul. As we searched for and found the nine-heads of the Hydra of our personality, our delusions, deceptions and glamours grew frighteningly near, and loomingly large. It became all we could see. But then we found the spiritual warrior within, and we drew on our sword of light; the light of the soul. Then we used this light to see a way beyond the sordid details of our little personality worries and fears. We found a path that led higher than our monkey mind; the path that leads to illumination and love.
Each year that we traverse the wheel, we follow from Scorpio to Sagittarius, and each time our mind becomes a little more illumined and sensitive to the intuition. Sagittarius is portrayed as an archer on a white horse. In earlier days it was the centaur – half man, half animal. Over human evolution we have merged our animal-self with our soul, and many of us are now the archer astride the horse – we are learning to bridle the restless mind and control the lower nature, represented by the horse.
Rather than scattering our arrows unconsciously, or aiming them for only personal gain, we are setting a new goal. With our intention focussed towards the higher vision, we shoot straighter, our progress is hastened, and we find flashes of light and solutions to world problems. We also find that many of our own personal needs are taken care of, with little effort on our part.
From the valley where we have spent most of our time, we can now see the mountain that we must climb when we enter into Capricorn. The better we become at controlling the squawking monkey, the better can we hear the small but insistent voice of the soul. ‘We no longer walk in the dark and so our progress on the path is quicker as we fly, from point to point, searching for the arrows which we have discharged.’ (2)
The Blueprint
We all have the opportunity in December, to re-vision our goals. In the same way we can see the world-disciple, humanity, re-assessing what we must do from here. We can see the old-age systems and institutions being eroded and gradually swept away by the tidal wave of etheric energy, sweeping in on the impulse of the Aquarian and seventh ray forces. (3) This represents a new quality of energy with which we can work to assist in re-shaping our civilisation and re-defining culture.
But what does this really mean – aside from scaring us further into a gated mentality?
This etheric energy is like a new blueprint for a new era in human history and planetary evolution. It could be compared to an architectural design for a new home; a code embedded into a microchip; or even your plans for the day ahead. From the macrocosm, to the microcosm, we all set goals, and every time we do, we think etheric substance into a form or a structure, which may or may not see the light of day manifested in physical matter. The Aquarian and seventh-ray forces are like a thought, sent forth from the planetary mind – a thought or a creative visualisation being meditated into existence, by the great thinker.
On the world stage, we could say that the planetary Logos, the Mind of God, the Universal Intelligence – whatever you call the planet’s mind – is setting Itself a new goal. And humanity, as part of the physical planetary body, is inevitably caught up in manifesting this new reality. This is Sagittarian goal-visioning in action.
The Intuition
If we’re interested in helping to birth this new civilisation and culture, we’re ready to fully utilise the energies of Sagittarius. We’re ready to raise our consciousness, and as we train our lower, monkey mind, it becomes much more than it was – it realises it can be a receiver of inspiration, illumination and intuition from the soul.
What is the intuition? It’s often not what we claim to be intuitive – ‘I had a feeling she was going to have a boy, must be my intuition’, or ‘the crystal tells me what I need to do’. This is more likely to be our instinct, intellect, or psychic connection by tuning into another person, or people, via the astral thought forms swirling around us all. The intuition can be defined as, the ‘direct apprehension of truth and direct understanding of a knowledge which is so wide and synthetic in its grasp that we cover it by the nebulous term, the Universal Mind.’ (4) In other words, the intuition has nothing to do with individual consciousness, except that our individual mind can be a channel for its expression. Intuitive content is always impersonal.
How can we develop our intuition?
There is a very simple technique called Triangles*, that we can use during our day-to-day living, that will not only help develop our intuition, but in the process will perform a vitally important service to the planet and humanity. Triangles uses the etheric or the space around us all, and around the planet, to transmit thoughts of light, love and goodwill. These are the qualities that the planetary intelligence is now seeking to manifest on Earth.
The Etheric
Triangles uses the etheric, which is a form of matter vibrating faster than physical, visible matter. But it’s still substance, and can be manipulated and formed into shapes just as physical matter can. Imagine moulding clay, and you have an analogy for what we do when we think forms in the etheric. We are creating thought forms whenever we think, so why not focus our thoughts to create something really useful and beautiful, filled with light and love?
By joining with two others we can use the fiery power of our mind to visualise a triangle of light, radiating goodwill throughout the planet. We literally draw this image in the etheric substance whenever we visualise ourselves, and our two co-workers, as the three angles of the triangle. Then by saying the Great Invocation, we energise this image of our triangle, networked with other triangles, and under the law that form follows thought, we are creating linked, pulsating lines of light around the planet.(5)
Love -Wisdom
Wisdom is skill in action as the result of developed love and the light of understanding. It is being aware of what’s needed and then the ability to meet it in the most effective way. Triangles is an example of wisdom, or love in action. It’s the most effective way of meeting the need for a better world. As part of the triangles network, we are raising our consciousness, and from there we build the lighted path in etheric substance towards the intuition so that we can gradually tap the Mind of God; the great intelligence behind and within every life form that makes up our planetary life. Eventually we can think with God, and know the planetary Mind.
This path of light is built through service which is essentially a scientific mode of expressing love-wisdom. We serve according to our soul ray,(6) our circumstances, karma and evolutionary status. Alice Bailey suggests that one of the purposes of evolution is to help transform our non-sacred planet Earth, into a sacred planet. (7) This sounds strange when you look at the beauty of nature which is surely already sacred. And it is, in its fiery essence. But according to the Ageless Wisdom, nothing remains the same, and this sacredness is relative. Our job is to help fan the flame of the sacred fiery essence of nature intelligence into an even greater expression of beauty, order and divinity. We do this with love-wisdom.
In Sagittarius, we’re brought a little closer to understanding what this task entails. We can see the vision a little more clearly. We get a better grasp of what our mind is for. We learn to use the versatile, collector’s mind of Gemini which is the polar opposite of Sagittarius. Gemini loves knowledge. Gathering all the golden apples collected during our stay in Gemini, we transmute them into wisdom, by drawing them together in our Sagittarian bow, and focussing our sights on intuitive service so that our aim is straight and clear.
Sagittarius is a great opportunity to realise the power we wield as humans capable of thinking with free will. Do we use our thoughts to hurt, injure, and add to the fear surrounding us all, or thoughts that heal, soothe and add to the love and hope to which many of us aspire. The seed thought for Sagittarius is: ‘I see the goal. I reach that goal, and then I see another.’ As we meditate together, let us focus our minds, harnessing our collective power, helping to manifest a new civilisation and culture of love and light, and assisting our planet to fulfil its sacred mission.
Sources:
1. Alice Bailey, ‘A Treatise on Cosmic Fire’ p. 44
2. Ibid, p.181
3. http://www.esotericastrologer.org/Newsletters/34%20Age%20of%20Aquarius%20ZodiacRayCycles.htm
4. Bailey, ‘From Intellect to Intuition’ p. 159
5. http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/triangles
6. http://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/the_science_of_the_seven_rays
7. Bailey, ‘Esoteric Astrology’ p. 405-500
*Triangles – also see sidebar of this website for Triangles information.
If you live in Adelaide, I will be presenting a Triangles Information Evening on the New Moon, Wed Feb 22, 2012 from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.
See this website for more details.
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thanks Caroline. . . .was recently thinking of the year 2012. . . as we’re on the doorstep. . . .what I saw was ‘THE YEAR OF PERSONAL POWER’. . . .this Gemini/Sag Full Moon, the last for this wow blazing 2011, gives a hint of what lies before us. . . .2012 a year to bask in our glory. . .. lots of love to you Caroline (hugs to Sienna and buba)xx
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