Friday evening.
Lighting the Advent Candle & the 8th Candle on the Menorah.
It’s raining and cold now & evening is soon.
It’s Friday, December 15, 2023.
The sky is dark with cold & rain.
Friday is Venus’s day, Ray 5 day.
Truth matters day.

Thinking about things.
Ten days till Christmas. And tonight is the last night of Hanukkah.
Lighting both the Advent wreath & the Menorah.
Thinking about things.
Making food in the Ashram kitchen to keep warm.
Making stock for a later soup – maybe dahl, maybe split pea, maybe boston bean soup, maybe posole, maybe albondigas – maybe not.

Spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove.
Ingredients:
(organic) Olive oil, onions, celery, bell pepper, parsley, garlic, zucchini, mushrooms, grass fed ground round in a sauce of roasted heirloom tomatoes. For the Einkorn whole wheat noodles.
Grateful for our food.

Looking ahead
– dates, happenings, festivals, feast days, astrology, etc.
Friday, today, Dec 15 is the last day of Hanukah.
Lighting our 8th candle on the menorah.

Sunday, Dec 17, we light our 3rd Advent Candle.
The color is rose – the candle of Joy for what is about to appear!
The upcoming Advent week is dedicated to the animal kingdom.
We add animals to our Advent wreath, joining with the minerals & the plants already on our circle of greens in between the candles.

Thursday, Dec. 21, the longest day of dark, the shortest day of light – Winter Solstice, when the new light for the new year begins. We join the Hierarchy in preparation for Wesak, 2024.
Sun enters Capricorn. We light the Yule log.
We begin the study of the Right Human Relations – one of the Aquarian Laws & Principles. We study RHR till February 21st.

Sunday, Dec. 24 is Christmas Eve, the light from the Midnight Sun streams into the earth. At midnight we light our white candle that is in the center of the Advent wreath. This is the Christ candle, the candle of the Holy Child. Some of us attend Midnight Mass.

Monday, Dec. 25 is Christmas day – birthday of the Holy Child.

Tuesday, Dec. 26 begins the 12 Days of Christmas (till Feast of the Magi – January 6th).
Last Full Moon of 2023 – Solar Festival of Capricorn – 5 degrees.
Chiron stations direct – 15.27 degrees Aries.

Saturday, Dec. 30, Jupiter stations direct 5.35 degrees Taurus.

Sunday, December 31, last day of 2023. New Year’s Eve.
Feast Day of the Holy Family, the human family unit of parents & children – represented by Mary, Joseph & the child Jesus.
They are a model of a holy family.
Our family is our first community. Families are to offer a place of protection for all family members. It is our first place of education & learning. The first place of love we experience after birth. Family is a fundamental institution of every society.

Monday, January 1 – first day of 2024.
Virgo moon. Mercury stations.
Feast Day of Mary, Mother of the World.
The Divine Mother blessing the new year and all peoples in the world.
Mercury stations direct at 22 degrees Sagittarius. Remaining in its retrograde shadow til January 20th at 6 degrees Capricorn.

The new year begins with a stationary Mercury & a Virgo moon.
Only Uranus & Vesta are retrograde.
It will be a wild & tumultuous year ahead!

Tending to the food on the stove.
Inviting everyone for dinner. love, Risa

Free Speech Absolutists “conflate” free speech w/ good.
It is “good” to have free speech.
No that is upside down.
We do not conflate “good” with “free speech.”
What does “conflate” mean”
Conflate means to “combine two or more things into one.”
Free speech of the relativist has no ethics. They are agnostic.
They do not recognize the intrinsic good or evil (outcomes) of their speech/words. They are ignorant. They have no moral or ethical foundations. Relativism is like a dictator that has no moral compass or metaphysical knowledge.
This is subtle.

What does it mean that we have “free speech?”
That we are CAPABLE of free speech.
Are the free speech people (relativists) aware of the consequences of sound & thought & the spoken word?
We need to harness the our free speech abilities to that which is good. It is NOT GOOD to support death of another in the words used. Free speech is a gift. Speech is a gift. How is our gift of being capable of speaking used?

Words, Thoughts, Deeds
About words & their usage (thoughts & deeds, too).
There is a natural trajectory of energy.
It begins with thoughts that become words that become actions. That is the outcome.
In a climate where our young people have not been taught ethics & morals (or the Laws of the Ages). We thus have “wokism” & a relativistic (no morals, no ethics) climate of “free speech.”

A reminder in our relativistic climate today of no morals or ethers….
“Words matter (create reality).”
One’s choice of words emerge from thoughts, & words matter.

“The tongue has the power of life and death.” (Proverbs 18:21)

In our relativiistic climate of there is NO Truth & nothing matters, & there are no consequences & there is such ignorance…
there are no morals or ethics to guide the young ones.
There is just what one thinjs or opines in the moment.

The terrible death squads & actions of Hitler began with words.
The outcome was WW2 & the Holocaust.

Words matter.
We know this from the Mercury rulership of Scorpio.
Words can create and they can destroy.
Words without a moral and ethical foundation can create a climate of death.
The climate the young people have been taught is a “woke” state of being. What is this? Woke” is an ideology whose “truth” has no morals or ethics, no foundaiton of good. It is an ever-shifting, ever-adapting, ever “evolving” state of opinion. It has no leveling. It is a flight from truth (Sagittarius).

One must be held to account for what one says.
There must be intellectual MORALITY & ETHICS behind one’s words.
Yes one has the ABILITY to speak freely.
However….
Shame on the tongue that promotes death & supports t-rr–ism.
Death & t-rr–ism by any means, words like “from the desert to the sea!”
Shame on those who in their ignorance are supporting this.

A healthy state of mind & conscience (one who knows of & follows morals/ethics & the Laws & Principles of the Ages – the Ten Commandments, the Law of Love – an ethic & set of principles to guide humanity into what is right & what is wrong, what is good & what is not good), one (young ones) trained in Goodwill & Right Human Relations would never support the woke agenda.

Free speech needs to be anchored to a moral & ethical foundation (a substructure). If not that free speech become dangerous. It leads to death (think of HItler, his genocide & his verbal ravings – what he told <using words> the people “enchanted them” into believing in the annihilation of the Jewish people.
A moral ethical person does not adovate genocide – not in thought, word or deed.
In the Catholic Act of Confesstion – “Bless me Father, for I have sinned in thought, word & deed.”

What has happened to our young people?
Where & when did the education of our young ones begin to go wrong?
Were we not listening to the universities & their faculty of wokeness?
Watching all of them they are not only wrong, but they are truly unattractive.

Twenty five years ago, in Santa Cruz, seeing what was occurring at the university, I said…the universities are like dead dragons now…no longer useful anymore. If they continue they will become dangerous. We need to create a new educational field & let the (woke) universities as they are today to fall away.

Humanity needs a new education. That is the task of the New Group of World Servers today. Our gate is open. The Tylers of protection stand at our gate. Only true seekers can enter through our Gate.

Today is the Reappearance meditation.
Using our words from the heart to the heart of Christ.
Preparing the Way for His Reappearance.
Creating the Pathway for the coming World Teacher.
Using our words with love, creating peace on earth.
Goodwill to all. Risa