Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00635)

The full moon occurs this Thursday in Aquarius.  Aquarius is the eleventh
sign, and the eleventh labor of Hercules was to clean the Augean stables.

Hercules went to the lands of King Augeas, where the royal stables were
filthy with the accumulated dung of 30 years.  The fields were also
over-fertilized so that no crops would grow, and a pestilence was over the
kingdom.  Hercules first presented himself to the king and promised to rid
the kingdom of its blight, but he was not believed.  How could one man do
such a thing?!  As he studied the problem, Hercules saw that two rivers
flowed through the kingdom, close by the stables.  He broke the restraining
walls and diverted the cleansing waters through the stables, and thereby
accomplished in a day what no other had been able to do.  He returned to the
king but was rebuked and ordered to leave the kingdom immediately on pain of
death.  His service to the kingdom complete, Hercules returned to his own home.

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This is a most important sign, because the energies of Aquarius condition
not only this month but also the coming 2,000 year period.  The keynote of
Aquarius is service and cooperation, and there is much evidence of a growing
spirit of cooperation in humanity.  The cycles overlap in transition and are
not clearly distinct, however, and there are conflicting forces at the
junctions; we can see this in nearly every field of experience as the
incoming energies of selfless service, cooperation and Brotherhood clash
with the authoritarian attitudes holding over from the Piscean age that is
rapidly passing away.   

The polar opposite of Aquarius is Leo, and these two form a "whole" just as
do each of the opposite pairs of the Zodiac.  Hercules is self-centered in
Leo, with energies directed inward; in Aquarius, his goal is selfless
service, rendered without personal reward for the benefit of others.  

Aquarius is an air sign, but the word derives from the Latin aqua, water.
"The waters of life and love" pour from the jar of the symbolic server in
Aquarius, even as Hercules used the rivers to cleanse the stables of king
Augeas.  Theosophists know "the waters" refer to the emotional realm and
there is a link between the astral plane and the buddhic;  the waters "of
Life and Love" are poured forth for thirsty men, and in this the Age of
Aquarius we shall come to know a fuller meaning of those words.  

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The full moon in Aquarius occurs this Thursday, January 23rd, at 10:12 am
Eastern Standard Time, USA (3:12 pm GMT).  A group meditation will be held
on the subject of Letting in the Light on Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm (EST)
as well as at the exact time of the full moon.  At the time of each full
moon Festival, energy qualified by the constellation influencing that period
flows into the range of human awareness, thereby establishing the divine
attributes in the consciousness of humanity.  This spiritual inflow can be
channelled in meditation into the minds and hearts of all people, and
everyone is invited to participate in the group effort.