Libra (3) moon today, Sunday, July 19, 2026.
Time for rest & contemplation, for harmonizing & balancing the past week, in order to prepare for our new upcoming week.

Upcoming (Monday & Tuesday).
Jupiter aligns with Neptune, Pluto, (tomorrow)
Jupiter aligns with Sun & Uranus (Tuesday) –
All at 4 degrees Leo, Aries, Aquarius, & Gemini.
Where are these signs, planets, degrees in everyone’s charts?

Reminding me of the song “Aquarius” from the 5th Dimension – the song from Hair (musical, first performed Oct. 17, <Libra> 1967).
Lyrics:
“When the moon is in the Seventh House.
And Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will guide the planets.
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.”

Jupiter’s transits Monday & Tuesday.
Potent expansive beneficent radical transformative energies streaming into the Earth.
And so knowing this, we prepare for the next two days.
Contemplating these energies.
Preparing ourselves today to observe all events that may happen & to maintain a calm quiet interior & exterior.
We prepare today.
Preparations always begin first with information & knowledge..

Jupiter expands everything. It’s Ray 2 of Love/Wisdom.
The energies are neutral as they enter our Earth.

How we receive the energies each day (react, respond, observe, thus work with etc.) depends upon our state of awareness (or unawareness) as to how they affect us.

Knowing the transits (movements of Sun/moon/planets), we then can WORK WITH THEM. They become our friends.
Not knowing the transits, we are CONTROLLED BY THEM.
Notice the choice we have.
Notice why it is good to study & know astrology – on a daily basis. As each day is different.

Jupiter (Ray 2) expands everything – with love that underlies all realities & events of our times).
Uranus (in Gemini) suddenly shifts breaks down shatters everything.
Neptune (in Aries) dissolves & refines everything. New self identity appears.
Pluto (in Aquarius) simply transforms everything so the fact of the new era of Aquarius is accelerated.
Jupiter is at the heart of Aquarius.

All of this occurring so humanities awareness of the new era of Aquarius (our Sun’s entrance into Aquarius) is accelerated.

Our Sun’s entrance into Aquarius (for the next 2,500 years) creates the new atmosphere, the new era, the new Age of Aquarius.

Profound Times
The the times we are in are profound – Not all of humanity is witness to the entrance of Earth, the Sun & our world into a New Age. The last time we entered a New Age was 0 AD. When Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem. When the Pisces Age began. Christianity was born then too. 500 years later the Roman Empire fell. And we entered into the Dark Ages.
We are now 2026 years later. At the very beginning of a New Age.

Aquarius offers humanity different energies than the swiftly disappearing Pisces Age (2/6).

The Astrology Today.
We are in our last days of Cancer Sun –
On Wednesday, our Sun enters Leo – signs of courage & strength & coming from the heart of the matter. Leo is the opposite sign to Aquarius (waters of life for thirsty humanity)

Today, we rest & prepare for Jupiter in potent conversations with the outer planets (all at 4 degrees). So subtle – yet when our lives change. love, Risa

***Solitude – its Value – a Spiritual Practice for Disciples.
How/where the Rose of the Soul flourishes –
Solitude, revelations – (see below on Solitude***).
And so…today…
Under Saturn, Uranus & Pluto – the Astrology Today…
Under Pale Yellow Saturn – a Choice for the Life Waves.

Today, Saturday, Saturn’s (3) day, Ray 3 day, July 18, 2026 – under the Cancer (3/7) Sun & Mercury,
under Virgo (2/6) Moon,
under pale yellow Saturn,
under the Uranus/Pluto (7/1) trine,
and under the star ray light from the Big Dipper of Ray 3.
The color today is emerald green.

Uranus (7) trine Pluto (1) – in Gemini (2) & Aquarius (5/2/7).
Anchoring deeper into Aquarius, the light of the new era for the life waves & the kingdoms of Earth.

Uranus (7) – anchoring new rhythms – sudden event(s), shifts, changes anchored (7) for the new rhythms on Earth. to be established.
Pluto (1) – destruction (1) of what is no longer needed for the creation (1) of the new world/era. Life forms disappear, in order to be revitalized, to then reappear at a later time. All is in sacred rhythms on Earth. And Earth takes care of herself, resetting herself every 10 years.

Uranus (7) gathering that which is new (1) & anchoring (7) it into the hearts & minds of humanity (4). All at 4 degrees Gemini/Aquarius. Rays 2 & 5 – There is intelligence (3) in the love & wisdom (2) that underlies all happenings in our world.

Gemini (2) brings in the love/wisdom factor.
It’s love that underlies all the happenings in the heavens & in our world and all that happens above & below.
The function of our 2nd solar system under the Ray 2 star in the Big Dipper – Ray 2 – Love/Wisdom. The color is indigo blue.

Aquarius – the Sun entering more deeply into the atmosphere & architecture of the sign of Aquarius – the New Age) –
The New Age (each age) lasts for for 2,500 years.
The new era of Aquarius has just begun.
We are in the 500 years of its preparation & the withdrawing of that which is no longer needed from the Pisces Age.

And because of this- there is a battle, a crisis, and a choice for humanity (individually & within each nation, culture, life wave.

Note: Some in humanity will choose NOT to enter the new era.
They will be the “dawdlers, the fall behinds, the idlers, the laggards” – out of step with the new era’s tasks, purpoises, freedoms, liberations, vibrations & Rays.

***Solitude – its Value to the Disciple & the Master.
Solitude – developing the Gift of Solitude.
Solitude – the Rose of the Soul Flourishes.
One of the primary conditions a disciple must cultivate, in order to sense the Plan and be useful for the Hierarchy & by the Master, is SOLITUDE.
In Solitude the Rose of the Soul flourishes.
In Solitude the Divine Self can speak.
In Solitude the Faculties and the Graces of the Higher Self can take Root and Blossom in the personality.

In Solitude the Master can approach and impress upon the quiescent Soul the knowledge that He seeks to impart, the lesson that must be learned, the method and plan for work that the disciple must grasp. (the disciples Purpose comes forth here).
In Solitude the SACRED SOUND is heard.

The Great Ones (Hierarchy) have to work (hard to pierce) through human instruments (personalities of individuals).

The Plan and Vision (& instructions) are much handicapped by failure on the part of these personality instruments (to not be in Solitude & not understand the value & purpose of Solitude. .
A Treatise on White Magic p. 132.
Rule 4 Regarding Sound.

Thus when finding ourselves in Solitude, we understand it, value it, live peaceably within it, & offer our gratitude for it. love, Risa

Religion – Buddhist Holiday & Festival.
Day in which we recognize when Buddha, after his enlightenment, delivered his first sermon – & offered the Four Noble Truths.
Drukpa Tsheshi (words signifying a festival date – a date in the Tibetan calendar when something profound occurred).

Recognizing the profound moment when Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon after achieving enlightenment.
Observed on Saturday, July 18, 2026, this auspicious day marks the ‘Setting of the Wheel of Dharma in Motion.
Where Buddha articulated the Four Noble Truths.
We reflect on these teachings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupka_Teshi