Taurus Full Moon
Sunday April 20, 2008
NZT: 10:25 PM
CET: 12:25 AM
GMT: 10:25 AM
Eastern: 6:25 AM
Pacific: 3:25 AM
Exoteric ruler: Venus - 5th ray
Esoteric ruler: Vulcan - 1st ray
The 4th ray is transmitted through Taurus.
We come also to the sign which is called "the sign of the major life
incentive," because Taurus is the symbol of desire in all its phases.
Whether the subjective man is impelled by desire, or the disciple is
driven forth upon the path of return by the urge of aspiration, or
whether the initiate is controlled by the will to cooperate with the
Plan, he is, nevertheless, being responsive to the most potent
manifestation of a little known and understood aspect of divinity, to
which we give the inadequate name of the Will of God.
Will, power, desire, aspiration, ambition, motive, purpose, impulse,
incentive, plan - all these are words which attempt to express one of
the major underlying attributes and fundamental causes (man scarcely
knows which) of manifestation, of the evolutionary processes and of
the will-to-be or the will-to-live. The great triplicity of desire -
aspiration - direction (will) are only three words which endeavor to
describe the progress and bias of man the personality, man the soul,
and man the channel for spirit or life. All three point inadequately
to the cause of the threefold expression which underlies all events,
all progress and all happenings in time and space.
It was the Buddha who clarified for man the nature of desire and its
results, with the unhappy effects which desire produces when
persistent and unenlightened. It was the Christ Who taught the
transmutation of desire into aspiration which, from the expression
given to it in The New Testament, was the effort of the human will
(hitherto animated by, or expressed through, desire) to conform itself
to the will of God - this without understanding but conformity, in
perfect trust and with the inner assurance that the will of God must
be all that is good, both in the individual and in the whole.
Now, as the Shamballa force is beginning to pour into the world, man
is seeking another interpretation of God's will which will not involve
the hitherto blind acquiescence and unavoidable acceptance of the
inscrutable dictates of a potent, inescapable Providence, but which
will produce an understanding cooperation with the divine Plan and an
enlightened fusion of the individual will with the great, divine will
and this for the greater good of the whole.
It might be here pointed out that just as the Aquarian Age is coming
into manifestation for our planet as a whole, bringing in its wake
universal awareness and the new modes of expressing world synthesis,
human interests and the world religion, so humanity, the world
disciple, is beginning to come under the influence of Taurus. It is
this influence which will bring about at this time the reversal of the
wheel of life for those in the human family who are ready (and their
numbers are now very great). This is happening and the results are
inevitable and cannot be evaded. The great question is: Will this
Taurian influence, increased as it is by the incoming Shamballa
forces, produce the floodlight of illumination of which Taurus is the
custodian, or will it simply foment desire, increase selfishness and
bring humanity to the "fiery heights of self-interest" instead of to
the mountain of vision and initiation?
This is the situation which confronts the Knowers of the race in their
various grades of knowledge and illumination at this time. Neither of
these influences - the Taurian or the Aquarian - can be avoided. As
you will see when we study the analysis of this sign and come to a
consideration of its rulers, Taurus forges the instruments of
constructive living or of destruction; it forges the chains which bind
or creates the key which unlocks the mystery of life; it is this
forging process, with its consequent clamor, which is going on at this
time in a most potent manner. Vulcan controls the anvil-like processes
of time and strikes the blow which shapes the metal into that which is
desired, and this is true today as never before.
He it is who is forging the way for the coming Avatar Who will - at
the right moment - come forth, embodying in Himself the Will of God
which is the divine will-to-good, to peace through understanding, and
to right relations between men and between nations.
The Taurian influence must now be regarded as being of exceeding
potency today, particularly from the angle of the subjective spiritual
values; it is Taurus which is the ruler and the guiding influence of
that which is occurring everywhere.
I would like here to call your attention to the fact that this sign is
a synthetic sign in the sense that it brings expression of an inner
urge of some definite nature upon the physical plane. This it does,
because its basic quality demonstrates as desire in the mass of men
and as will or directed purpose in the disciple or the initiate. It
manifests as stubbornness in the average man (and this is literally
wilful adherence to personality aims) or as intelligently expressed
will - actuated by the impulse of love - in the advanced man. This
connotes adherence to soul purpose. People who are Taurians naturally
and by natal inclination would do well to consider this statement and
thus test all their major determining activities by the question: Is
my present attitude, my work or intention actuated by personality
desire or am I working and planning directly under soul urge and
incentive? This should give the keynote of all Taurian problems. The
entire secret of divine purpose and planning is hidden in this sign,
owing fundamentally to the relation of the Pleiades to the
constellation, the Great Bear, and to our solar system. This
constitutes one of the most im****tant triangles in our entire cosmic
series of relation****ps and this im****tance is also enhanced by the
fact that the "eye of the Bull" is the eye of revelation. The
underlying goal of the evolutionary process - "the onward rush of the
Bull of God," as it is esoterically called - reveals steadily and
without cessation the stupendous and sublime plan of Deity. This is
the subject which light reveals.
This sign is an earth sign and hence the working out of the Plan or
the fulfilment of desire must be carried out upon the outer plane of
living. This will or desire must express itself in the plane of outer
living and in the environment whether it is the environment of an
individual man, of a nation or of a group of nations.
As you know, astrologers have long pointed out that this sign concerns
the physical body among other factors, and the health or wholeness of
the body is closely connected with the expression of past desire or of
present idealism and this is a point to be borne in mind. Today, the
cure or care of the physical body is of paramount im****tance to
practically everybody and the thoughts of all peoples without
exception, whether at war or not, are turned that way. The emphasis
upon the wholeness of the individual physical life is symbolic of the
outer body of humanity, viewing all human beings as a unit.
Again, gold is the symbol which today governs man's desires whether
national, economic or religious; it is connected with this sign and
this is one of the indications that today the conflict in the world
economic situation is based upon the upwelling of desire. In an
esoteric way, therefore - quoting from a very ancient book of
prophecy:
"The golden eye of Taurus points the way to those who likewise see.
That which is gold will some day, too, respond, passing from East to
West in that dire time when the urge to gather gold shall rule the
lower half (i.e., the personality aspect of men and of nations -
A.A.B.). The search for gold, the search for golden light divine,
directs the Bull of Life, the Bull of Form. These two must meet; and
meeting, clash. Thus vanishes the gold..."
It is the subjectivity of this sign which makes the understanding of
it so difficult. It will not be until humanity has grasped the nature
of the will that the true significance of the Taurian influence will
be grasped. Both the sign, Aries, and the sign, Taurus, are concerned
with the initial impact of energy upon form or of energies upon the
soul. Man today is becoming slowly aware of the distinction to be
found between the opposites and is grasping vaguely the true nature of
desire. But he is still in the vale of illusion and - whilst there -
cannot see with clarity. One of the first opposites which the disciple
has to grasp is that of the subjective and the objective worlds.
We have somewhat considered the rays and their effect and relation****p
as they, through Taurus and its rulers, pour their force and energy
into individual man, or into humanity as a whole. The two rays which
directly affect the sign are, as we have seen, the fifth (through
Venus) and the first (through Vulcan). These two when viewed in
combination with the Earth (which is an expression of the third ray)
demonstrate a most difficult combination of rays, for all are along
the line of the first Ray of Energy:
Ray 1 - The ray of Will or Power.
Ray 5 - The ray of Concrete Knowledge.
Ray 3 - The ray of Active Intelligence.
This combination tremendously increases the already difficult task of
the Taurian subject. Only indirectly does the second Ray of Love-
Wisdom and its subsidiary line of energies appear and, therefore, love
and wisdom are often noticeably lacking in the person born in this
sign. Such a man will have much self-love, self-esteem, self-respect
and a good deal of selfish centralization or personality focus. He
will be intelligent but not wise; aspirational but at the same time
stubborn and set so that his aspiration does not take him very far
very rapidly. He will move spasmodically and in wild rushes; steady
measured progress upon the Way is very hard for him. He finds it
difficult to apply practically the knowledge gained. It is apt to
remain a mental acquisition and not a practical experience. He will be
almost painfully conscious of duality but, instead of its producing a
struggle for unity, it produces often a set and static depression. He
will be destructive because "bull-headed" and because the hammer
aspect of Vulcan will be dominant. Because he has a measure of light -
his power to be thus destructive will distress him.
He needs to grasp the spiritual side of Venus which emphasizes that
the Son of God who is the Son of mind is the instrument of God's love;
he must learn, therefore, to transmute knowledge into wisdom. He must
transcend the destructive side of Vulcan and so of the first ray and
instead work as a "fa****oner of souls," including his own. He must aim
at clear seeing, pure joyful will and the death of personality desire.
Such is the goal of the Taurian disciple.
It has been said that "four energies make a man; eight energies make a
Master; twelve energies make a Buddha of Activity." During this
process of "fa****oning," great changes take place in consciousness and
there are fundamental changes wrought through this sign which - in
combination with its polar opposite, Scorpio, is one of the major
conditioning signs of the zodiac. Under its energy impact, profound
disruptions and alterations in character, quality and direction take
place. It is a dangerous sign because the destructive aspects are so
easily over-emphasized and so intelligently applied to cir***stance
that the career of the Bull can be both destructive within its field
of contacts and at the same time self-destroying until such time that
self-will or selfish desire is tempered by aspiration. Aspiration
eventually gives place to intelligent activity and the acceptance of
the will emanating from the spiritual Center of life. This leads to
cooperation with the Plan in the fullest sense and the end of
individual self-centeredness. Temper, which is so characteristic of
the Bull, must give place to directed spiritual energy, for temper is
but energy run wild in the interests of the personality; blindness
(for the Bull is blind for much of its career) must give place to
vision and the right focus of the sight and this will finally dispel
the self-engendered illusions and glamorous of the aspirant; self-
pity, which is the effect of a constant concentration on the
frustration of desire in the personality life, must be succeeded by
compassion for all humanity, and this must be developed into the
selfless service of the salvaging initiate. The task of the Taurian is
a hard one for he embodies in himself, to a marked degree, outstanding
limitations as regards the processes of spiritual evolution; there
are, however, no insuperable difficulties and the liberated Taurian is
ever a constructive, planning, creative, forward-moving force; such
men are greatly needed in these serious days of readjustment and
strain.
Taurus, as you know, rules the neck and the thyroid gland. This is
essentially the region whence must emanate the creative activity of
the man who is upon the Path. The throat is a point to which the
energy of the sacral center must be lifted so that creation through
love and by the will eventually will prove the sublimatory effect of
the transference to higher use of the *** energy. The right use of the
organs of speech gives the clue to the processes whereby the disciple
must bring about certain basic changes. The Taurian upon the way of
liberation would do well to employ the method of directed and
motivated speech of an outgoing and explanatory nature in order to
transform himself from one who goes wilfuly on his personality way
into a wise cooperator with the Plan. By this I mean that, as man
translates his ideals into words and acts, he brings about
transformation, transmutation and eventually translation upon the
mountain top of Initiation.
Keynotes of this sign are, as usual, clear in their implications. One
states the note of the form aspect,
"Let struggle be undismayed."
The Word of the form is to take, grasp and go courageously after that
which is desired. The Word of the Soul is,
"I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light."
The eye of the cosmic Bull of God is open and from it light pours
radiantly forth upon the sons of men. The eye of vision of the
individual man must likewise open in response to this cosmic light.
Hence victory is inevitable for the potency of cosmic energy will
unfailingly and in time subdue and reorient the energy of humanity.
(Source: Alice Bailey - Esoteric Astrology)
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