Advent Journey of Mary & Joseph.
The light within the animal kingdom.
This week – today is Monday – December 16, 2024.
A new week begins of things, events, ideas, people yet to be!
It’s the last week of Sagittarius before Sun enters Capricorn.
We prepare this week for Saturday’s Winter Solstice, Dec. 21st, when the Sun enters Capricorn – & the dark shifts to light.
The new light for the new year begins. A paradox.

At the beginning of this week each of us begins to ‘look for the inn, the place of repose, a retreat.” Mary & Joseph, in the ancient story, walking towards Bethlehem.

Everyone this week, whether aware or not, is preparing for the new light. In the bible, the Piscean story, this is the time when Joseph & Mary are searching for a place of rest, a place of peace & quet & solitude in which the holy child can be born. They end up in a stable with the animal kingdom, as the village of Bethlehem (Place of Bread, of nourishment) is busy & full with visitors.

A star is forming in the sky & the Magi are being alerted to begin their journey westward & the Sun is soon at the end of its southward journey (reaching the Tropic of Capricorn about to turn northward) & something new & startling & filled with light is about to occur. And there is expectancy in everyone’s hearts this week. We all feel it.

Under the Cancer moon we nourish & nurture this expectancy. Under the Sagittarius Sun, our last week of Sagittarius, we lead humanity to the foothills of Capricorn. And lead humanity up the mountain, til we get to the midnight Sun of Solstice & of Christmas, three days later. A journey of hope & happiness & joy.

Saturday – after midnight, Sun enters Capricorn. Yuletide begins.
We begin our contemplation on the Laws of Right Human Relations. When the Christ returns He will teach humanity about the Law of Right Human Relations & how to have happiness. Everything is in relationship to everything else. Relationship is everything. Astrology teaches us all about relationships. Astrology is the relationship between humanity & the heavens & each other. And this contact & knowledge of all…releases love, the Law of the Piscean Age. love, Risa

Kingdoms.
THE FOUR KINGDOMS OF NATURE
“Consciousness sleeps in the stone, dreams in the plant, awakes in the animal and slowly becomes aware of itself in man.”
(Pythagoras)
There is a fifth kingdom – that of the Soul.

The Animal Kingdom.
In nature we can distinguish five kingdoms: mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom; the human kingdom; and the kingdom of the souls – these kingdoms are expressions of the soul of all things, or the soul of matter, or the Soul of the World (Anima Mundi, expressing
itself in ascending levels of form, energy, intelligence and consciousness in the five
kingdoms of nature, and further & higher still).
There is an ascending chain of kingdoms in the process of evolution (unfolding consciousness).

The Animal Kingdom.
An embryo mentality begins, a step up from the plant kingdom.
“In the animal kingdom a third energy/response appears; in increased
signs of sensation similar response in the
vegetable kingdom, but an addition of intellect, or embryo mind. Instinct begins in all animals and the word comes from the same Ray 5. When the power to instigate (initiate) begins within any animal
form it is a sign that an embryo mentality is beginning to manifest.”
Rays 3 (intelligence) & 6 (domestication & devotion).
Their expression is instinct & domesticity.
They function in the solar plexus.
They are, as is all the kingdom, an experiment – leading to divine lucidity (a mystery in all the kingdoms).
Ray 5 comes into play – it allows the merging of the animal with the human, the upliftment of the animal kingdom into the human kingdom when the door to the human kingdom opens.
The animal kingdom is a response to the elements fire & water.
The incoming 7th Ray will refine the animal bodies. It will bring about a closer relationship w/ animals & humans. & it will radically change the animal forms.
3rd Ray producing the emergence of instinct.
Note: there is instinct, intelligence & intuition developed in humanity. Humanity is 1/2 animal, 1/2 Spirit. Much of humanity is still in the instinctual stage. With right education, humanity develops intelligence. With spiritual study, meditation & service, humanity develops intuition. We cannot skip a stage.
Back to the Animal Kingdom.
Ray 3 develops the nervous system, brain & five senses, used in instinctual response.
Ray 6 is also an influence in the Animal Kingdom – the ability to be domesticated, trained, be devoted, & the power to love (which emerges in humanity). There is an intricacy of nerves & sensory centers & the plexus, force center, spinal column & brain in the animal (which humanity shares). An organization of response, which is the densification of the etheric web or body of light around the dense physical body. This is the life giving intelligent integration of energies to meet emergencies.

Today – Sunday December 15, 2024.
Today – full moon Sagittarius Solar Festival –
Day of Dedication & Safeguarding – the full moon was early this morning at 1:02 am (PT).
Moon enters Cancer after a short v/c.
Mercury stations direct this afternoon.
Before we go into the Astrology – on our Advent Wreath as we light it this evening at sundown, the start of a new day – we light the Light of the Animal Kingdom.

Sagittarius Seed Thought (Soul).
“We see the goals ahead of us, we reach those goals, then we see our next goals.” What are they for everyone?
Each month in our esoteric solar festival (new & full moons) journal, we write out the seed thoughts & we respond to them.
What are everyone’s goals? What has everyone achieved in terms of goals? What are the next goals to achieve?

Today –
The Gemini moon is resting & v/c in the morning.
Entering Cancer at 11:21am (PT).
Mercury (Ray 4) turns stationary direct at 12:56 am (PT).
At 7 degrees Leo.
We also write in our Retrograde Journals.
Knowing the degrees of the Mercury retrograde.
What happened during this retrograde of Mercury time?
What events, revelations, thoughts & ideas were experienced?

Our full moon day – the last full moon, solar festival of 2024.
Our next festival, before the new year, is the new moon, December 30th at 10 Degrees Capricorn.
These are our last days of Sagittarius. Sun enters Capricorn next Saturday, December 21, at 1:21 am (PT). Then it’s Winter Solstice & the new light begins for humanity. love, Risa