The Cycles of the Year

Sign: Capricorn 

Dates: December 22 - January 19

Virtue: Courage

Meditation: Courage Becomes Redemptive Power

Quote: "No beginning without courage, no courage without truth."

"The source of true courage is a soul event that integrates the past and the future for truth and is not restricted by time." 

"Courage leads one to a sense and recognition of destiny and the future which is paved by the world of outer events that serve as reminders and signposts on the pathway of immortality."

 Sign: Aquarius
Dates: January 20 - February 19
Virtue: Discretion
Meditation: Discretion Becomes Meditative Power

Quote: "Silence is the protection which keeps the spiritual as an inviolable secret of the soul."

"I am a thought which is brought about by the hierarchies of the cosmos."

 Sign: Pisces
Dates: February 19 - March 20
Virtue: Magnanimity
Meditation: Magnanimity Becomes Love

Quote: "Keeping silent (as in meditation and control of one's thoughts and feelings) allows the voice of the spirit to be heard as the voice of one's own true being. This hearing is the sense of individuality (and thus magnanimity)."

 Sign: Aries
Dates: March 21 - April 20
Virtue: Devotion
Meditation: Devotion Becomes the Power of Sacrifice

Quote: "The love which bears responsibility for every individual and so feels it is a member of a free community is dedication (devotion)."

 Sign: Taurus
Dates: April 21 - May 20
Virtue: Equilibrium
Meditation: Equilibrium Becomes Progress

Quote: "The sacrificial force of dedication which feels freedom as community becomes the experience of balance."

 Sign: Gemini
Dates: May 21 - June 20
Virtue: Steadfastness & Perseverance
Meditation: Steadfastness & Perseverance Becomes Faithfulness

Quote: "Balance experienced as progress is perseverance." 

"Faithful is he(or she) who, by working ceaselessly to make something of himself, fulfills what he owes to the world and the people linked with him by destiny."

 Sign: Cancer
Dates: June 21 - July 22
Virtue: Selflessness
Meditation: Selflessness Becomes Catharsis

Abridged Quote: "Faithful perseverance is selfless. Selflessness becomes self-purification which then becomes catharsis. Catharsis is achieved by transforming the dangers which threaten the center of balance."

 Sign: Leo
Dates: July 23 - August 22

 Virtue: Compassion
Meditation: Compassion Becomes Freedom

Abridged Quote: "Such purified selflessness becomes compassion. Compassion is the sheath upon which the free heart beats."

 "Through compassion, we release the true higher aspects in each person that we meet even if it is hidden in one's lower nature.  Spiritual union can only be achieved through true compassion which seeks neither to dominate or flee from one we meet. Thus, true compassion creates true spiritual union (not in a corporeal sense) and not only makes us free, but frees all whom we meet." 

 Sign: Virgo
Dates: August 23 - Sept. 22
Virtue: Courtesy
Meditation: Compassion That Becomes Freedom Restores to Courtesy its Deeper Meaning

Abridged Quote: "Compassion which becomes freedom restores courtesy its meaning and dignity. True courtesy is free union with the higher being of one whom we meet. It experiences not only itself in the higher being of the one it meets, but this higher being also in itself. It holds aloof from a behavior which disavows its own better nature. Thus it becomes heart's tact.

Courtesy and tact of heart relate to one another as systole and diastole."

 Sign: Libra
Dates: September 23 - October 22
Virtue: Contentment
Meditation: Courtesy Becomes Composure

Abridged Quote: "Courtesy and tact springing from the heart becomes contentment that desires nothing for itself."

"To Live in pure trust with the certainty of the ever-present help of the spiritual worlds."

 Sign: Scorpio
Dates: October 23 - November 22

 Virtue: Composure
Meditation: Composure Becomes Insight

Abridged Quote: "Composure becomes patience. Patience, when combined with willpower, becomes wisdom."

"Excessive patience without thoughtful action is idleness. Thoughtless action without patience and discernment is intemperance."

"Only deeds that are reexamined each and every time, based on the pillars of wisdom and willpower, leads to genuine and right action."

 Sign: Sagittarius
Dates: November 23 - December 21
Virtue: Control of Speech and Thoughts
Meditation: Insight & Discernment Leads to Truth

Abridged Quote: "Discerning patience controls the tongue. Whoever speaks or judges hastily hinders the maturing process which brings the truth of the world spirit to forward. Control becomes a sense and feeling of truth."

"When a human being gains knowledge for himself, his self becomes for him the world. When a human being gains knowledge of the world, the world becomes for him the self."