TAURUS FULL MOON - THE WESAK FESTIVAL
FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITUAL FESTIVALS
(extracted directly and/or paraphrased by Brad Berg from Esoteric Astrology, by Alice Bailey)
Exoteric Ruler: Venus - 5th
Ray
Esoteric Ruler: Vulcan - 1st Ray
Vulcan stands for the soul and rules the inner man's forging of the tools of spiritual expression. Ray 4 is transmitted to our solar system via Taurus.
The Taurian influence is of exceeding potency today, particularly from the angle of the subjective spiritual values.
Taurus is "the sign of the major life incentive" and is the symbol of desire in all its phases:
desire..............personality..............Humanity
aspiration........soul.........................Hierarchy
will...................Monad.....................Shamballa
Buddha clarified the nature of desire and its results.
Christ taught the transmutation of desire into aspiration
(conforming the human will to the will of God).
There is a growing responsiveness from humanity to the Shamballa force and the consequent evocation of the will aspect of man's nature. This produces undesirable as well as desirable influences, due to our point in evolution.
Just as the Aquarian Age is coming into manifestation for our planet as a whole, bringing universal awareness and world synthesis, the world disciple is coming under the influence of Taurus.
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.....?
Will the Bull of desire or the Bull of divine illumined expression succeed?
Taurus is an earth sign, so the working out of the Plan or the fulfillment of desire is carried out upon the outer plane of living.
Gold is the symbol which governs man's desires and indicates that the conflict in the world economic situation is based upon the upwelling of desire. Again the duality of Taurus:
the search for gold, versus the search for the golden light divine.
Taurus, Venus and the Earth have a very close karmic relation and a very definite dharma to work out together. Venus is to the Earth what the Higher Self is to the personality.
Sex is the relation of the lower nature to the higher Self.
Sex is the symbol of an inner duality which must be transcended and wrought into a unity.
Venus, the mental energy of humanity, establishes relation between man and man, and nation and nation. Vulcan establishes relation between the mineral kingdom and the human kingdom.
Vulcan is governed by the first Ray, as is the mineral kingdom and this brings in the Shamballa force.
The secret of Taurus is revealed at the 2nd Initiation by the sudden disappearance of world glamour in the blinding energy of light.
"The eye of the cosmic Bull of God is open and from it light pours radiantly forth upon the sons of men."
"I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light."