Hello friend,

The Taurus Keynote - “I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light.”

The Wesak Festival is the most important spiritual festival of the spiritual year. It is for each of us to understand the importance of the first three spiritual festivals of the year: Aries, Taurus, and Gemini. These festivals cannot be emphasized enough. Taurus marks the pinnacle of the spiritual year because it is when the Spiritual Hierarchy on Earth meets in alignment with the Buddha on His annual visitation. Taurus is also the sign that ignites us as wayshowers.

The Hierarchy, Great White Brotherhood of Light, or Masters of Wisdom gather to receive, literally, the “Word of God,” the new planetary impulse released in Aries, and transmit the annually amended Planetary Plan to Humanity. All is organized and planned in accordance with ray and astrological cycles, encompassing the constantly changing state of the world, and cooperation with Humanity. It is for each of us to exercise our own free will to determine our destiny.

Wesak is a time when three great beings of light come together: Buddha, Christ, and Melchizedek. In these Three, whose true nature is radiant love and light, humanity can grasp in some measure the nature of Divine Love. They are greater than is known or realized. Their spiritual potency has to be stepped down, and this takes place at Wesak.

Mercury, the esoteric ruler of Aries, entered this sign on April 15, bringing a message of fire, both literally and figuratively. Mercury is the mediator and messenger, representing rapid thought processes and intuitive inspiration. Known as the “messenger of the gods,” Mercury’s close proximity to the Sun reflects its role as an intermediary to the other planets, bringing “light and purpose” from the Sun, affirming the esoteric fact that “Mercury receives seven times more light than any other planet.” Mercury is the ruler of the 4th ray of Harmony through Conflict, the major ray that rules over Humanity as a whole, hence is related to Aries’ exoteric ruler Mars, a “creator of conflict.” Mercury indicates that the line of least resistance for humanity is harmony through conflict, for Mercury expresses the fourth ray energy which is buddhic, intuitional, and expressive of the Christ consciousness.

Uranus is now in Gemini. On April 26, Uranus left Taurus and will not return for 84 years, moving into Gemini for the next seven years. But just before that, a series of movements by the Moon and Venus through late Taurus heralded that big shift, amplifying the themes of this sign around Earth resources like fuel and food. Uranus in Taurus has been preparing us for the great shift now taking place within each of us, the inner man, for the sharp interplay and conflict in the next sign, Gemini. Gemini, the Twins, or “warring brothers,” represents the conflict of soul and personality, or the balancing of the pairs of opposites upon the mental plane, ultimately achieved by Gemini’s esoteric ruler Venus awakening us fully to our soulful Self.

Uranus is also the ruler of the seventh ray of Organization, also known as Ceremonial Magic, a ray that is moving into stronger expression in its new cycle that overlaps the whole Aquarian precession cycle of 2,160 years. Uranus rules Aquarius, the soul of three nations: USA, Russia, and the Netherlands. Therefore, we hope that Gemini’s communication skills will encourage a better rapport between Russia and the USA. Russia is a seventh ray soul and the USA a second ray soul, the only ray to pass through Gemini. The possibility of peaceful relations looks promising, if and when world leaders can make it happen.

I invite you to embrace love, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness, allowing freedom to flow in all aspects of your life and watch the magic happen. I look forward to seeing you on Friday, May 1st as we join with our global spiritual community, creating an illuminating vibrational energy field of Love and Peace emanating from The Village at Montrose, a place of love, peace, divine inspiration, and empowerment, opening us up to the beauty of who we are as we walk the pathway of the heart.

Blessings, love, and light,

Finbarr