Taurus New Moon

Taurus New Moon

New Moon Meditation Meeting, New York
May 15, 2026

 

Good evening friends, and welcome to this New Moon meeting. Our meditation will be working with the energy flow of the lower interlude of Taurus. At Wesak, two weeks ago, during the higher interlude of the full moon when the sun was in Taurus, our meditation for world service created a group approach to energies radiating from the Buddha and the Christ. Today, through  our meditation together as a group, we will work  with the flow of the Taurus New Moon, aligning with the energies released at the full moon so that we can then turn our attention to humanity; attempting to use the three eyes of the serving esoteric group to imaginatively ‘see’ where and how the light released during the full moon might be taking root within the shrine of human thought, of human living and of human relationships. As our vision and understanding of the light in human affairs clarifies and simplifies in our own mind, and in the group mind, so will we be playing our part in helping to strengthen the hands, and the hearts and minds of the entire New Group of World Servers. This meditation, and this work at the New Moon, is very practical and purposeful.

There is, clearly, at this time, in the realm of thought and emotions, a strong presence of what we might think of as the shadow side of the human psyche. Destructive aspects of the will to power are having an impact on national and international affairs – reaching right into the personal stories of the lives of millions of people around the world. Stimulation of the will to power tends to amplify glamour and illusion, and, temporarily at least, strengthens the shadow in the human psyche – or at least brings the shadow out into the open. This is all one aspect of our response as a species to incoming Shamballa energies.

Yet there are also, in world affairs, elements of a more valuable destruction – and these too reach into personal lives. Universal and ancient glamours and illusions of “selfishness, materialism, aggression, and national prides” are subverting and diverting Aquarian ideologies of wholeness, cooperation and sharing, and inhibiting efforts to think through the ideas, laws and principles which can guide us as a species into a new era. [EXT 431].

Some destruction might be seen as a necessary part of a crisis which can lead to clarification of thought and purpose. It can lead to a deepening understanding of how cooperation and freedom might sweep away the hubris of separative glamours to produce a genuinely transformative world where a true spirit of sharing and right relationship with the whole can take root in personal and family lives, and at local, national and international levels. The focus, it seems to me, needs to be less on the policy choices made by leaders, than on the quality and depth of the thinking that all people of goodwill are willing to invest as they consider what is right action in any situation.

 

We are on the cusp of a new era in which an infinite diversity of cultures and lifestyles will be able to thrive within an overall respect for and valuing of the oneness of life itself. The coming of the Christ will lead us into that era.  The question is – how many decades and how many crises will be needed as we move into the next step on the path towards that destiny?

Perhaps that is the cry driving the collective invocation for the Light and Love and Power of divinity to come to our aid at this time. And that is the cry that we can help to concentrate and clarify, and simplify in our use of the Great Invocation – today at this new moon, and during the period leading into the Christ’s Festival at the Gemini Full Moon.

World Invocation Day is like a symbol when we can imagine esoteric workers from all traditions standing together with the entire ranks of the New Group of World Servers – the muscular, intelligent, wise servers who today can be numbered in the hundreds of thousands if not millions – all, as one, lifting the cry from the people of good hearts and good intentions into one focused, purposeful, directed call towards the assembled Hierarchy of Saints, Rishis and Elders on the inner side of life. Let light and love and power flow into human minds, and hearts; Let the will of humanity be guided by a new depth of loving purpose.

Without intensity, with faith in the future, and with a quiet poise, centered in the soul, we can imagine these days between now and the coming Festival of the Christ being filled with a deep, solemn appeal to divinity to Guide and lift and inspire. And having done this we can direct all our attention to the light and the love and the goodness that is taking root today in people – taking care to notice its presence whenever we see it, and trusting in the power of the soul to nurture and nourish all the new growth that is taking place in humanity’s understanding of the web of relationships.

A part of our work at this New Moon then, seems to be to silently stand during this period between the Taurus and Gemini full moons; to stand in in the flow of a light and love that reveals.

Standing together in this way, identifying with the group of all who love and serve, a part of our task seems to be to hold onto the thought that the energies flowing through the higher interlude of the three Festivals this year are part of a wider energetic environment. An ecology of energies that includes, not only the esoteric influences pouring in from the zodiac, but also the placement of this Taurus/Gemini period between two significant energetic events. We have the centennial Hierarchical Conclave taking place in the recent past (however we are to understand time from a Hierarchical perspective). And we have the coming seven year Festival Week of the New Group of World Servers in December – including the serendipitous occurrence of a Capricorn full moon during the Week.

These two points in the energetic environment within which we are working can perhaps be seen as two complimentary pulses, bringing light into the creative thinking and being of servers in every field of activity and thought; in every profession and every branch of science; in all the arts – stimulating fresh thinking within the seed groups where a new civilization is in process of being born.  And this energetic dynamic might lead us to consider 2026 as part of a rhythm echoing through the human symphony  every seven years.

Alice Bailey’s writings suggest that at a centennial Hierarchical Conclave the entire body of Rishis and Masters from all 49 ashrams  assemble to decide “what form of crisis, on what level of consciousness, and involving what group of lives, must be implemented and presented to humanity”. The reverberations of that decision can be expected to radiate through the hundred year period in human affairs, yet history tells us that they emerge through peak moments of crisis. The key point about the crisis precipitated by Hierarchy is that humanity is left free in the way in which it responds to the crisis. So, as we stand with humanity today, perhaps we can visualize and look for evidence that the species as a whole is using the crisis presented by Hierarchy to take a decisive step onto the discipleship path – a step that will ultimately reorient the civilization away from separation and materialism in the direction of a freely chosen, infinitely varied, response to a sense of synthesis, inclusiveness and wholeness. The new civilization will be founded on thought and ideas – yet it will also be an expression of an intuitive collective sense – a ‘feel’ for synthesis and wholeness throughout the diversity of cultures that sees the whole as much as it sees the part – and loses the sense that these are opposites, or in some way in competition.

What might it mean for the light pouring into humanity at this Taurus / Gemini moment, together with its accompanying pulse in December, to at least begin to activate the eye of luminosity within the mind and heart of the New Group of World Servers? And while many sensitive thinkers in humanity today see this time as a time of profound spiritual crisis – what might it mean for humanity to respond to this crisis with at least a measure of soul; a measure of awakening to a sense that the outer world of time and space has a relationship with higher worlds and realms of being, and to the integrity, beauty and oneness of life itself?

Questions for Discussion:

• We are advised to stand with the group of all who, currently, are firing the world with the sense of relationship. How do you understand this work, and what role do the Festivals of Wesak and of the Christ/Humanity play in your approach to this work?
• At the conclusion of a Centennial Hierarchical Conclave, we are told that the Masters come to a decision about the form of crisis to present to humanity … which humanity will then work through in the coming decades and through the hundred years until 2125. How does this affect your understanding of this period in our collective history as a species?