The Story of Holy Week, Passion Week.
A study today.
Monday – from today thru Easter, day by day.
And then some more days….
Today, Monday, a new week begins.
April 14, 2025 – knowledge prepares us.
And so…
Once again, because we forget or we need reminding or we didn’t know in the first place what Holy or Passion week is/was.
Its significance then & today, too.
And so, yesterday was Palm Sunday –

Today, Holy Monday, begins Holy week – culminating with
next Sunday – Easter Sunday, Resurrection Sunday –

We are participating in simultaneous celebrations.
We invite all our brothers & sisters from all developmental stages to join us in these Solar Mysteries.

The many stages/religions/spiritual levels…
The Full moon/Aries Festival (esoteric),
Passover (ending Easter evening, Jewish religion),
Holy Week (Christian religion, w/ the Last Supper which was/is Passover in the new Christian religion, Jesus was Jewish),
~ in the Garden (Gathsemane), the betrayal, imprisonment, carrying of the Cross, Crucifixion (Good Friday & the “renting of the veil”),
Holy Saturday (Christ in the bowels of the Earth, in the tomb),
& finally Resurrection.

Every day this week, every event is symbolic.
In the Catholic church we are given the story as children.
Catholicism is an adult religion.
We are given the stories as children. Then as adults, instead of rejecting Catholicism (Christianity), adults set about learning, researching & understanding what the symbols mean.

The entire Bible is a symbolic story of humanity’s sojourn on the Earth plane, its descent from heaven to earth & the journey, the seeking, the trials & challenges as one seeks the Path of Return.

When one studies Astrology, the Ages, the Wisdom Teachings & the Esoteric/occult (hidden teachings) then the story of humanity comes forth in a clear light & we understand all of the religions.
Especially Catholicism – which is a bridging religion.
It is a religion (developmental stage, with the Law of Love prominent, as Love bridges everything) that combines east & west & it is a pivotal point for humanity who had reached the apex of darkness.

The Christ’s Mission was to anchor Love & to open the Doors of Return for humanity. The doors were opened (He rented the veils, the veils were town asunder) which allowed humanity to turn around and begin its ascent ‘back to the Father’s house” – our spiritual origins. This is the significance of the renting of the veils & of Holy Saturday’s events.

And so…
Holy Monday –
Monday of Holy Week
According to Matthew 21, Mark 11 and Luke 19, Jesus returns to Jerusalem today and, enters the Temple for prayer. There in the courtyard he sees shameful & greedy practices occurring in the Temple area & He becomes angry & takes a whip & cleanses the Temple of greed & the sale of things. This is not the purpose or place for such things. The Temple is to be pure (our bodies, our environments, our interactions, our daily lives).

John’s Gospel also records that he rebuked the unbelief of the crowds who as yet did not know Who He was. And the Christ wept that day over the city of Jerusalem as it was so enmeshed in materiality. And the priests of the Temple, so enmeshed in materiality, they were blinded and did not recognize Him & were thus hostile & would later denounce & persecute HIm. This He realized.

Mark 11:19 records that He returned to Bethany (to Lazarus & his sister, Mary’s home) that night, a town outside of Jerusalem. He is with His mother, Mary, His disciples. They pray & eat together. For the next four days, the Christ teaches His Disciples many occult esoteric truths that will sustain them after the Christ leaves & returns to His Father’s house.

In the Catholic church on Monday before Easter there is a celebration of the blessing of the Holy oils which are the oils used for the coming spiritual year in the church. These are the oils used at Extreme Unction – the Sacrament of Death. The Easter oil is Spikenard.

The stories in the bible & the wisdom teachings, the activities of Holy Week all represent the Mysteries – each Age has/had its Mysteries, Wisdom Teachings that were hidden purposefully, so that humanity could begin to seek & discover on their own the Truth. Before the Christ’s appearance, humanity lived under the Lunar Mysteries. On Palm Sunday, there was a switch, a transformation onto the Solar Mysteries. From the shadows of the moon (the past) a new light shone on Earth for humanity – the Solar Mysteries began, the Light of the Sun (Son).

It was the ending, all week of Holy Week, of the old dispensation or Age (Jewish, Aries) & the beginning of the new Pisces (Christian) Age. The Christ thus “added a new note” to the sound & color & Teachings of the ages. Humanity has outgrown the old forms of spiritual understanding (Taurus, Aries religions) & was to enter into the new expanded spiritual understandings – the next stage of Evolution for humanity.

Thus began the Christian (Christed, Soul, Piscean) Mysteries, the life blood of humanity’s future (& they continue to be humanity’s future). At that time, 2000 years ago, the Sun was passing into the sign of Pisces, the sign of the World Savior. Every event in the life of Christ represents some phase of Initiation into the Christian (Piscean, Ray 2 & 6, with the Law of Love prominent) Mysteries. Palm Sunday represents the joys of the new Path. Calvary symbolizes its sorrows.

As the Christ entered Jerusalem He also understood in His heart the anguish of the centuries ahead for humanity.

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday were spent in the home of Lazarus & his sisters Mary & Martha. Christ’s closest followers were also with them, for the few final precious days of instruction & communion with their beloved Teacher. And so the Christ in these day before the Last Supper imparted many of the Mysteries the disciples needed to know.

Scorpio moon today. No transits.
Our last day of Aries –
Tomorrow – our 2nd day of Holy Week.
love, Risa