Esoteric Astrology

Readers drawn to the wisdom in our featured text by Alice A. Bailey, Serving Humanity, may wish to explore her wider body of work. 

In Serving Humanity, Bailey and the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul teach that true service is not effort or moral duty, but the spontaneous outflow of a loving heart and an intelligent mind, arising only once the personality has cleared and aligned with the soul. Compiled from across her 24 books, it moves from the qualities of the true server out to a larger vision: a Plan carried forward by a Hierarchy of advanced beings. On Earth, that Plan is worked toward by a New Group of World Servers, scattered across every nation and field of human endeavour. 

Esoteric Astrology treats astrology not as a system of prediction but, in Bailey and the Tibetan's own words, as “the science of relationships” – the energies and forces playing through the whole of space, itself understood as “an entity.” They describe it as the basic occult science of the future, while cautioning that its application to human life is, at this stage, still experimental and tentative. Accurate use depends less on technical skill than on the reader's own consciousness: moving out of personality control into the life of the soul, and out of separateness into group awareness. The book is the third of five volumes making up 'A Treatise on the Seven Rays,' and it maps the zodiac and the planets onto the ray teaching developed across the series, distinguishes sacred from non-sacred planets, and introduces the science of triangles and the three crosses as tools for reading a chart esoterically.