Monday, April 29, 2024- 2pm

Post #2 – the Quiz & Crossword Puzzle.
Our first ones!
Dear Readers – we have created a quiz and a crossword puzzle one or both of which will be posted each week.
Quizzes are good. They are like a review (or maybe not)!
Some people love quizzes. Some don’t.
I like quizzes. And I love the architecture, shape, boxes, questions & graphic of crossword puzzles.
So I am posting them as part of the Teachings.
The questions & answers for the quiz & crossword (this week) are the same for both – questions taken from last week’s posts.
In the future, they may not be.
It will be an experiment for both – with the Crossword puzzle especially.

It would be good to print out both the quiz & crossword puzzle and create an astrological esoteric quiz & crossword puzzle notebook.
Do have fun with them. Having fun is most important!
with love, from Risa (& the one who helped make them).

The Quiz.

1. What is death for the one who has died?
a) Nothing, life ends.
b) Liberation – a Great Adventure
c) Purgatory

2. What Ray is planet Earth? – What are the qualities of this Ray? Write out the answer in your own handwriting. Answer also in the comments.
a) Ray 3
b) Ray 7
c) Ray 1

3. What does the word Aryan mean in its original & esoteric context?
a) The Thinkers, Thinking ones.
b) The Loving Ones, Love
c) The Peaceful Ones, Peace

4. What Jewish festival celebrates the Jewish people stepping away from slavery & bondage (Egypt) & walking towards the land of freedom (Canaan, land of milk & honey)?
a) Passover
b) Yom Kippur
c) Shabbat

5. What sign is the Sun in this week?
a) Aries
b) Capricorn
c) Taurus

6. What Spring Festival at the full moon did we celebrate on April 23 and what occurs during this festival (write the answer to the last question in your own handwriting – answer also in comments).
a) Wesak Festival
b) Easter
c) Equinox

7. Where is the Wesak Valley located geographically? Where is it located esoterically?
a) India
b) Himalayas/Tibet
c) France

8. What astrological Cross is Taurus on?
a) Mutable Cross – cross of experience.
b) Fixed Cross – cross of the Soul.
c) Cardinal Cross – cross of Spirit.

9. Who makes a great sacrifice during the Wesak Festival and comes down to bless humanity?
a) Humanity
b) Count St. Germain
c) The Buddha

10. At Wesak, how many minutes does the Buddha make his appearance in the etheric plane of the Earth?
a) 8 minutes
b) 11 minutes
c) 30 minutes

11. What is the Soul Key note of Taurus?
a) “I see & when the Eye (Ana) is opened, all is Light.”
b) “Love is All There is Is”
c) “Peace be with you”

12. What Ray is Taurus? What are the qualities of this Ray? Write the qualities out in your own handwriting. And post the answer in comments.
a) Ray 2
b) Ray 7
c) Ray 4

13. What planet turned stationary direct on April 25th?
a) Jupiter
b) Mercury
c) Venus

14. What does this planet represent? Write this out in your own handwriting. And post in comments.

15. What gift did the Buddha bring to humanity?
a) Creativity
b) Peace
c) Will & Love of the Father

16. Where do the gifts the Buddha offers humanity originate?
a) Shamballa & the Lord of the World.
b) New Group of World Servers
c) Jupiter

17. What forces streamed into the Earth with the Buddha?
a) Forces of Restoration.
b) Forces of Enlightenment.
c) Forces of Reconstruction.

18. What planet stations retrograde this week, Thursday, May 2?
a) Mercury
b) Venus
3) Pluto

19. What do we seek as Disciples as we gaze into the past & bring into the present / future?
a) money
b) hindrances
c) the good

20. What sign is the “mark of the Savior?”
a) Scorpio
b) Pisces
c) Libra

Monday, April 29, 2024- 1pm

Sunday, April 28, 2024- 9am

Sunday, April 28, 2024.
Capricorn moon today, a practical day.
Taurus Sun Jupiter & Uranus.
Tomorrow Venus enters Taurus, is at home once again.
Venus is Ray 5 – Aquarius is Ray 5.
Leo is Rays 1 & 5.
The color of Ray 5 is all the hues & nuances of golden orange.
Venus & Taurus creates the Art of Living.
Under the sign of Taurus, we study the ancient teachings and the plight & journey of the Hebrew people, from their long walk from Taurus Age (age of materialism, i.e. symbol of the golden calf). At the end of the Taurus Age, the purity & beauty of the Tuauean religion has dissipated. All that was left of the Taurus religion was depravity and sexuality. Thus the destruction of the town Sodom & Gomorrah.
When Moses led the people our of Egypt (end of Taurus Age, out of material slavery), walkng as they did thru the desert, he would often leave the people for short or long times. The purpose of this was to see if the people were strong & brave & courageous (the blood of Aries) enough to withstand a new pioneering spirit, a new reality. Ofen when Moses returned he found they were not yet ready to assume the new laws of the new age (Aries). And they reverted back to what they knew – materiality, sensuality, etc. The Jewish people would remain in the desert for as long as it would take to diminish the remembrance of their enslavement to materiality & to sensuousness & the depravity (golden cafe – devotion to materialism) that resulted.
The life wave of humanity (at that time the Hebrew people) remained in the desert for 40 years, years of purification.
When the people broke the laws, Moses stood between the Laws of Karma (God’s wrath) and the people. Moses absorbed the sins of his people in the Aries Age (as did the Christ in the Piscean Age).
Both Moses & the Christ performed the same sacred task – They both modified the karmic law – so that the people might make better preparation to meet the retribution needed for the people to finally learn. They withheld the forces that would have destroyed the people. Moses & Christ did not annul the Law but held it until the people were able to work out the law for themselves. So humanity could work out their salvation when they were stronger & could better understand their actions & the Law. Both Moses & the Christ were saviors of the 5th Root Life Wave (the Aryan people, which is what we are – the Thinkers).

Humanity’s true history is not of wars (which are in our history books). Humanity true history is the history of its ongoing & expanding states of becoming awakened – state of expanded awareness, the spiritual developmental stages through out the Ages.
As each Age progresses forward, each new Age is given a Teacher & the Laws & Principles of that new Age. The Laws of Aries are the Ten Commandments. The Tables of the Law (the Torah) were given to Moses on the Sabbath (that was Saturday for the Hebrew people – Saturday – the Teacher of the Laws). The laws are given each new Age to help direct the people into the next developmental stage.

There is so much to learn, to study and to know.
Aquarius is humanity coming to true knowledge.
North Node in Aries – humanity learning about its true self.
Leo – humanity cultivating its gifts talents & abilities.
Taurus – Vulcan, Soul ruler of Taurus -fashioning the personality of each individual into a golden chalice for the Soul.
So much to learn & study & understand.
This is our Mystery School for that purpose.
Above our doors – Know Thyself….love, Risa

Graphic – Vulcan forging the raw materials, the lead of our personality into a golden chalice of & for the Soul.
Art by N. Roerich

Saturday, April 27, 2024- 7am

Today is Saturday, April 27, 2024.
The Aquarian Salon is today.
Sagittarius moon – international invitation.
Taurus Sun – beauty & art, illumination.
10am west coast, noon central, 1pm east coast time.
Aquarian Salon link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83900168325?pwd=cVJNdzZqTUpoRzV6VzdBZk5veTdNZz09
code – gam
839 0016 8325

 

Friday, April 26, 2024- 11am

Friday –
Night Light News is updated.
https://nightlightnews.org/esoteric-astrology-as-news-for-week-april-24-30-2024/
Venus’s day, Ray 5 day of real knowledge & real truth.
Friday – April 26, 2024
Sagittarius )4, 5, 6) moon (4).
Taurus (4) Sun (1 & 5), Jupiter (2) & Uranus (7).
We always look at the Rays of the day.
And so….
The fires of Sagittarius (4, 5, 6) the earth of Taurus (4).
Fire & Earth elements today.
If the elements have difficulty working together.
We find what Ray is common to them.
Ray 4, harmony emerging from conflict & chaos.
It always appears.

Mercury (4) ever so slowly inching forward in Aries (1 & 7)
North Node in Aries. Getting to know ourselves.
Everyone’s self identity unfolding in many & various ways.
If we observe this carefully about ourselves & others, we will see or hear or sense this. It is plain sight.

We are still in the days of Passover – it took a long time for the Hebrew people to leave Egypt & pass through the Red Sea & enter the desert for 40 years. Passover ends on Tuesday night.

Next week –
Tuesday evening at sunset, April 30, Passover ends.

Wednesday, May 1, Beltane (cross quarter day) – Queen of the Flowers Day. “O Mary we crown you with flowers today! Queen of the Meadows, Queen of the May.”

Thursday – May 3, Pluto stations retrograde at 2 degrees Aquarius, retrograding back to 29 Capricorn – retrograde till October 12.
Locate 2 degrees Aquarius to 29 Capricorn in your chart.
What area of life will these degrees of Pluto activate?
What house? Pluto is potent in its transformative depths.

Gazing at the Past
We gaze at the past during Pluto’s retrograde.

We seek what is good. We gather that good & later in the year, bring what is good into the present future.

The good within each of us. The good within others.

The good that was created in the past, too.
love, Risa

Thursday, April 25, 2024- 8am