Intentions for Lent.
Goodwill in all thoughts, words & actions.
Pisces Sun trines Mars today. Actions are harmonious.
Cancer moon today, Saturday, March 8, 2025.
A nurturing nourishing day today.
Working in the Ashram kitchen.
Making a layered enchilada casserole.
Ingredients:
Corn tortillas (cut into small squares).
Cooked chicken (or ground beef).
Enchilada sauce (red or green) for bottom & top of casserole.
Veggies: Saute with spices – onion, garlic, bell pepper, celery, carrots, green chiles, cilantro stems.
Corn. Red kidney beans.
White cheddar cheese. Pepper Jack cheese.
Cilantro leaves.
Spices: Chile powder, cumin, oregano, onion & garlic powder, taco seasoning. Salt & pepper.
Place 1/2 can enchilada sauce into oiled baking pan.
Add cut tortillas & mix in sauce.
Layer meat, veggies, cilantro leaves, more tortillas, cheese.
Add rest of enchilada sauce.
Bake 350, an hour.
Top w/ sour cream, avocados, sliced cabbage & radishes & cilantro leaves.
Share.

Think if we had Sunday Suppers together.
Wednesday breakfasts.
Dinner on front porches! Inviting everyone in!
A kiosk of extra food at the end of the driveway for those who are hungry. Risa

It’s Friday, March 7, Venus’s day.
The daffodils have bloomed overnight!
There is a most famous daffodil poem.
” Daffodils ” By William Wordsworth
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

The first flowers of spring.
Cancer moon today, Pisces Sun trine Mars.
Every thing striving towards Spring.

Below – Wordsworth writing his poem, Daffodils.

1. A Lenten Exercise.
Intentions for Goodwill in thoughts words deeds.
For 40 days & nights.
2. Words of Praise – & words that hurt (Chiron).
3. A Lenten study from an esoteric student (LWGLass) on Lent.
4. Today – Thursday, March 6, 2025. Jupiter’s Day. Reappearance Meditation.
We are in 2025 in the Year of the Precipitation (beginning).
Precipitation of the Aquarian World Teacher, previously the Piscean World Teacher. The same Great One from Sirius.

Timing (2025)
Disciples are awake, aware & alert to this timing (2025).
Especially using this Lenten season for preparation.
For Spring, for the Three Spring Festivals, for Easter/Resurrection Festival, for the Reappearance.

And so…..
Today, Thursday, we recite the Reappearance Mantram.
Pisces Sun, Gemini moon today, a day of reflective loving communication.
As Pisces & Gemini are Ray 2, the day calls us to LOVING COMMUNICATION. Ray 2 is Love & Wisdom.

Chiron
The Moon today & Chiron.
Moon Jupiter today, moon Sun, Moon Chiron, Moon Saturn today.
The Moon/Chiron is most interesting.
We hurt each other so often by our thoughts & words & actions.
One following the other.
Hurtful words to those striving to bring forth their gifts.
Who are they? President Trump. Meghan Markle, me.
Each of us is striving to bring forth our gifts. We may stumble along. But each of us is striving to bring forth our gifts into the world.
Words of praise & recognition creates Goodwill.
It produces the good the true & the beautiful in the other.
It supports the creative expressions of the other. It recognizes the others’ livingness & creative spirit. It uplifts.
It recognizes human achievement & calls forth future possibilities.
Praise enriches the others’ imagination & recognizes the others’ contribution to livingness.
It develops harmony in self & the other.
Intentions for Goodwill, praise & recognition fosters Right Human Relations which then brings forth peace.
The hurt is lasting & it burns & pierces the heart.
Of both the speaker & the one being spoken to.
Words are like arrows – they either land softly or they create suffering. A disciples is always aware of one’s thoughts & words. Having always the intention for Goodwill in thoughts & words & actions.
This is a good Lenten exercise.

Lent – from a student
And so… Lent Seasonal Art, today, marks the first day of Lent. This morning, I attended Mass in Ojai to honor the tradition of receiving ashes on the forehead (Ash Wednesday).

The season of Lent is a Catholic – Christian liturgical season consisting of 40 days of fasting, prayer, and deep introspection beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at sundown on Holy Thursday.

The official liturgical color for the season of Lent is violet. 

The 40 days of Lent offers one an opportunity to imitate what Christ did in the desert for 40 days: He prayed and fasted in preparation for His initiations.

This spiritual spring training makes us stronger if we embrace these practices with mindfulness + generosity.

During His time in the desert, He worked with the physical, emotional, and mental lower bodies. He was tempted three times and three times He resisted and was able to pass on to His world service.

There are 2 interesting facts connected with all these temptations Christ faced in the desert. Each of them begins with “If” on the lips of the devil, and each is met by Christ with the words It is written.

These two phrases link all three episodes and give the clue to the whole process. The ultimate temptation is doubt. The test we have all to face eventually, and which climaxed in Christ’s life until He vanquished it upon the Cross, is the test of our divinity.

Are we divine? How must our divine powers express themselves?

We are called during this time to perform works of prayer, fasting and almsgiving during the Lenten season in imitation of the Christ and for internal spiritual preparation. It’s a time of repentance + renewal.
A cultivation of our inner spiritual gifts, virtues, and strengths.

The word Lent derives from the Middle English word lenten, meaning springtime***–the time of lengthening days.

During the next 40 days, there is an opportunity to enter into the wilderness*** with the Christ*** … a time to strengthen our spiritual muscles and to lovingly greet the deepest parts of ourselves. 
Note: Text written by one of our Esoteric Students.
L.W. Glass

Reappearance Mantram
Reappearance of the Christ Meditation Day.
We stand close to the Christ, at the heart of Hierarchy.
Our meditation becomes a healing for all those in need.
In the light of our Soul, we say to the Christ….

“People of goodwill can come together to make things better.”
These are good words.

Our Meditation
Standing together under the light of the Group Soul, facing the Christ with intention, dedication & Love, we say Reappearance Mantram together…

Forgetting the things which lie behind,
We will strive towards our highest spiritual possibilities.
We dedicate ourselves anew
To the service of the Coming One
And will do all we can
To prepare men’s minds and hearts
For that event.
We have no other life intention.
Ohm Ohm Ohm
(in our visualization we lift our personality up to to the Soul & the Soul in turn releases a golden light into our personality self – physical body, emotions, lower mind & we stand in the Light of the Will to Good & the Will to Love.)

Painting by Roerich.
Christ in the Desert. Being tested as He learns how to use the body of Jesus, as He overshadowed Jesus in order to appear on Earth & complete His Mission of bringing Love from Sirius (Ray 2) to Earth (Ray 3), embedding intelligence with Love & Wisdom. Anchoring Love on Earth, “renting the veils” & thus, thru love, opening the door to the Evolutionary Arc (the Return).
Being tested by the Devil (lived spelled backward).
As we are all tested during our life on Earth.
And tested during Lent too. Developing will & strength.
Three tests of the personality – Nine tests in all.
Preparation for Initiation. These words apply to all of us.
love, Risa

News & Notes – a Conversation This Morning on Lent.
Sharing with everyone.
Multiple levels. See if you can follow along.
Today –
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 –
Lent begins today – its first day.
Wednesday is always Mercury’s day – the Messenger.
Sharing with everyone our morning conversation in our Esoteric Group.

Take notes everyone.
And ask questions if there are any for understanding.
And respond too.
What was understood?
What meaning came forth for everyone?
How will each of us participate in Lent?

Conversation
This is a conversation – a mind walk concerning Lent, including the Jewish & Christian teachings, esoteric teachings, astrology, our president, his talk last night, our present country & world, the time now & the times to come.

Lent:
40 days & 40 nights (time of Saturn) of preparation for Spring & for Easter (April 20th), Sunday, Resurrection Festival.
Ashes in the form of a cross on our forehead so that we will remember. Saturn – the Law.

Biblical Symbol Understood Esoterically
Christ (the World Teacher) in the desert for 40 days & nights.
Christ (Archangel from Sirius, who overshadowed Jesus, the man, at the Baptism at the River Jordan), in the desert story is learning how to use the physical body of Jesus in order to fulfill His mission on Earth for humanity.
Christ lived through all the experiences & sufferings & initiations all of humanity experiences.

Christ’s life is a Teaching for humanity – about our sufferings, experiences & our Initiations. He was the Piscean World Teacher. He is also at the precipice of being the Aquarian World Teacher, the precipitation to begin this year – thus it is a most important time to participate in Lent.

Lent This Year 2025 –
Preparing for the Reappearance of the Christ.
and…
Preparing ourselves for the Golden Age of Aquarius.

The President’s Talk Last Night Interesting the timing of events – that the Prez spoke last night, the night before Lent.
The Prez talked about the Law – about purification & cleansing. Looking out at Congress which has to do with the Law. One half responding with love & joy, the other half no response, no action, inertia, including falsifying the information & hatred towards the Prez!

Words From the Bible:
We might read these words from the bible from Joel, describing all that the true Prez said to Congress, the people in our country & the world. We might apply these words from the Bible.
Joel 2:1-2

Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the LORD is coming.
It is close at hand—
2 a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was in ancient times
nor ever will be in ages to come.

Ashes Today
And thus ashes are place on our foreheads in the form of a cross.
What do the ashes & the cross mean?
In the Christian church, ashes are placed on our foreheads with the words….
“Remember, O personality (physical body, emotions, lower mind) from dust thou hast been made & unto dust (at death) thou shalt return.”

Meaning:
We are not our personalities. We are Souls living a physical life existence on Earth, a Mystery School, & each lifetime we experience a series of Initiations.

Christ’s Life
Christ’s entire three years on Earth exemplified the Initiations.
1. Birth (Bethlehem – House of Bread).
2.Baptism (Water & Fire),
3. Transfiguration (our essence is that of the light of the Soul). 4. Crucifixion (death of our personality, the Causal Body protecting the Soul shatters).
5. Resurrection (new spiritual life).

President’s Address (last night) He looked out last night into congress – one side joyful & applauding, recognizing & respecting his “job”, task given to him by the people.
The other side, remaining glumly & like a gray cloud, in the past, unable to come forth.
Looking out from his eyes….calling everyone to unity, ½ of Congress unable to.
It’s a brand-new day now in our country & our world.
The side unable to clap & be joyful, to unite & join with lifegivingness will need to be left behind.

Saturn/Jupiter From Saturn (new structure) to Jupiter (expansion of livingness).
We can’t get to Jupiter until we go thru Saturn – follow & respect the law, have an intelligent thinking mind, then wisdom & love follow.
When we are called to create a new template of purification in our personalities – physical body, emotional/astral & lower mind, so the Light of the Soul (Transfiguration Initiation) call stream into our bodies. For individuals, groups, countries, the entire world.

A time when we are called to enter into a time of purification – a time of Saturn. A time of loosening our habits, seeing what our limitations are, seeing what our temptations are.
And then choosing to let their hold on us to fall away.
40 days, 40 nights –

Mars/Saturn
Mars – testing. Saturn – new structures.
Mars & Saturn rules the personality –
A time of testing (Scorpio) & a time of creating a new structure (Saturn).
In order to prepare for new life – Springtime, Easter, Resurrection Festival, Three Spring festivals. BUT MOST OF ALL, FOR THE REAPPEARANCE, AS THIS IS the year of the Reappearance.

End of Two Major Cycles.
Saturn & Neptune in Pisces – the end of a huge 2,500 & a 25,000-year cycle.
Completing our temptations not to go back to the old Ray 6 habits – maya glamours illusions.
Note: We saw last night those who remained in the old ways.
Glum & filled with intertie, unable to see & applaud the new.
They were called out.

Lent –
A Mars/Saturn process – testing & disciplining the personality.
During these days – temptations come in.
The Christ, when He was on Earth, went thru & thus taught all the Initiations humanity (each of us) go thru – we set aside the word Alleluia until the Day of Easter/Resurrection. Alleluia! Christ is risen; He is risen indeed, Alleluia!”

These are the Initiations:
Birth, Baptism, Transfiguration (Christ’s Transfiguration on the mountain, revealing His divine nature to Peter, James and John before He set His face toward Jerusalem, where He would accomplish the world’s salvation by His death and resurrection for us), Crucifixion & Resurrection.

Note: Retrogrades
During Lent both Venus & Mercury are retrograde in Aries.
A time of inner listening, inner attentiveness, inner work.
A new identity of self comes forth for humanity.

Venus/Mercury are rulers of Gemini – higher & lower mind, body
& Soul. Unified.

New World – Astrology The day after Easter T Saturn joins T North Node in Pisces.
A completion.
Time to move forward now….into the new world.
Something has been completed.

Before that time, Solar eclipse (essential somethings fall away) March 29th, 9 degrees Aries. #9 is Initiation.
The next day, Neptune, Ray 6 enters Aries (1/7).
A whole new world & order of things begin (Aries)

Venus direct at the full moon & Passover begins, March 29th.

Jupiter offers us the Law & Saturn administers the Law.
The Law is what keeps all things, all of life in divine order.

Question: Can we meet the temptations of each day?
For 40 days & 40 nights?
Disciples need to be in full alignment, expanded into the Light, to help humanity in the times to come.
Lent is our preparation together.
love, Risa