Three Preparations – May 16th & May 17 & May 31st.
Taurus new moon. Beginning Prayers for our country.
Gemini Festival of Humanity, World Invocation Day.
Today, Monday, a new week begins, today May 11, 2026.
Sun in Taurus, Pisces moon today – there are no other transits today. The moon is resting. No making any contacts.
We have a restful day today too. Preparing for our new week.

Notes:
1. Next Saturday May 16th is the Taurus New Moon festival.
2. Next Sunday May 17th – beginning of 49 days of prayer in the United States, rededicating our country to God.
49 Days – 49 sub-levels (of 7 levels) of reality on the Constitution of Man (map).
From May 17, Sunday to July 4th, the 250th birthday of the United States. We pray together as a country with the peoples of our country. Rededicating our country to God.
We hold these truths that all men/minds are created equal.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
….with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Declaration of Independence.

3. Gemini Solar Festival May 31st.
Preparing each day for the Gemini Festival.
We are reading about the Great Invocation in our morning meditations each day. Preparing for World Invocation Day at the Gemini solar festival (at the full moon), Sunday, May 31st.
So each day I will post paragraphs about the Great Invocation.
And post it so everyone can recite it with us.

Disciples are called to recite the Great Invocation at noon.
And at 5pm everywhere, the Great Invocation is recited by the Christ, from his home in Shamballa.

And so, about the Great Invocation, the great world prayer, the Mantram of Direction for humanity. The Great Invocation is the world prayer for humanity now. In Atlantean times, the Our Father was the great world prayer for humanity. Note we still say it today. Much of humanity is still Atlantean (4th Life Wave). Humanity needs to catch up now – as we are in the Aryan (5th) Life Wave, wherein humanity rises up from the emotional plane (Atlantean) and into the mental plane where the Soul resides. The Aryan Life Wave is the Thinking Life Wave, humanity becoming the Thinkers.

The Great Invocation.
When Disciples recite the Great Invocation, it summons Goodwill from the heart of humanity.

The Great Invocation is the Mantram of Direction for Humanity & the prayer & mantram for Aquarius, the new era, the New Age.

The Great Invocation is a world prayer translated into over 80 languages and dialects. It was given to Alice Bailey in April 1945 (at the Gemini Festival of Humanity & the Christ) in a message for all people of Goodwill.

Central Truths within the Great Invocation
Its beauty and strength lies in its simplicity and in its expression of certain central truths, which are?

1. The truth of the existence of a basic Intelligence to Whom we vaguely give the name of God;

2. The truth that behind all outer seeming appearances, the motivating power of the universe is Love which underlies all happenings, all events in our world.

3. The truth that a great Individuality, called by Christians the Christ (Archangel from Sirius), came to earth and embodied & anchored that love for the first time so that we could understand & bring forth that love;

4. The truth that both love (Ray 2) and intelligence (Ray 3) are effects of what is called the Will (Ray 1) of God;

5. And finally, the self-evident truth that only through humanity itself can the divine plan work out. Only thru humanity can the Door to Evil be closed.

The Great Invocation below.
love, Risa 

the Earth, humanity’s mother & spiritually, Mary, the Mother of the World. Today is Sunday, May 10, 2026.
Note: The afternoon & evening are the best times to celebrate mother & to be together.
The morning is v/c, the afternoon is Pisces Moon.
The evening Sun/Jupiter – a good time for happiness.

Taurus Sun & Mercury – what comforts & beauties can we offer our mothers? What words of praise and gratitude can we offer them?
Offering them a golden chalice filled with love.

And so….(a poem)
Mother’s worry.
Here is a poem by Mary Oliver –
A poem for Mother’s Day.
Mother’s worry.
Acknowledging that Mothers worry.
A poem by Mary Oliver

I Worried (poem by Mary Oliver)
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?
Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am,

well, hopeless.
Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?
Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And I gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang. (by Mary Oliver)

From Risa
We actually know our mothers worried.
A lot. Raising children, being wives & mothers.
Being a mother, I know mothers worry about
many things every day.
Like the things Mary Oliver wrote about.
And we, too, those of us as mothers, we worry too.
Maybe about different things, some of us younger,
some of us older, some of us in between.

The poem is about things mothers worry about – gardens,
how to grow things (like children), their direction, what is right,

what is wrong, forgiveness, feeling hopeless, not seeing,
becoming ill, becoming old, wanting to not worry anymore.
Wanting to sing instead.

So that is a poem about mothers & worrying.
On this Mother’s Day, 2026.
Mother’s worry about their children.
Am I raising them right? Do we have enough money?
How do I get sleep, have less stress? Where am I as a mother?
Was I angry? Do I love the children enough?
How to discipline? What schools are best?
What about religion & God? Who am I?

And so….to our Mothers (easing their worries a bit).
Let us tell our mothers that they are/were just right.
They are/were enough of everything we need(ed).
And they do/did just enough for each of us.
Because…
Enough is better than perfect.
Just enough allows for cracks & breaks & interruptions & experimentation & not knowing & falling down & getting up
again. And starting over again every morning.

Where the cracks are, the love, like light, shines through.
And like the Chinese, the cracks are filled with gold.
Then the bowl is strong again.

So on this Mother’s Day, let us thank our mothers for all they gave us – For the days and nights, weeks, months & years.
A lot of years.
And then let us go out into the morning like the poem
And sing to them. Or better yet, sing with them. love, Risa
Offering mother a bowlful of flowers.
Each flower, filled with gratitude & love.