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Five spiritualizing events occur this week in our world: the Wesak Taurus Full Moon festival (first of two Taurus Full Moons); Pope Benedict visits Washington D.C., the President, New York City, the most important spiritual inlet, various cathedrals, Ground Zero, Yankee Stadium and the United Nations during the Taurus Buddha Full Moon Wesak Festival; Passover; transiting Uranus squares the U.S. Mars; and Sun enters Taurus, sign of stabilization, security and constancy. If we ponder this, the potency is apparent. Wesak is the Festival of the Buddha (Wisdom) whose light contains, for humanity, God’s purpose. The Buddha represents Eastern spirituality, Wisdom, the Ancient Ones. The Pope (visiting NYC, Ground Zero, offering Mass) represents Western Spirituality, the Love aspect of God (Christ). On the 20th of April, East and West (Wisdom and Love, Ray 2) come together in New York City.

This unified spiritual approach will stabilize and strengthen all of (many suffering) humanity at this time of crisis. Let us welcome the Pope in his U.S. pilgrimage; let us pray for his protection during the Uranus/Mars transit, let us also help strengthen humanity during the Wesak festival by reciting the World Prayer, the Great Invocation, together. (read more at nightlightnews.com).

ARIES (March 21-April 20) By now your leadership has emerged and everyone knows about it and some will think you’re driven (you are) and others will think you’re arrogant (you shouldn’t be), others will follow you (treat them with care) and others won’t (that’s OK). With everything at stake tend to how you present yourself, your conduct (manners and politeness), keep promises, and don’t fall into exhaustion. You have a long road ahead. The Shamballa force is leading.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21) Daily we find you in active investigation and research, learning about the planetary changes and figuring out how to best respond  by creating a new reality fully prepared for humanity’s needs. If not yet doing this then you will soon. You realize that at all beginnings one must keep quiet so the initial energies are not dispersed (and evaporate). You are correct. Maintain your silence till it’s revelation time.

GEMINI (May 22-June 20) Share with others your plans because once they’re known you will set up connections that are beyond usual contacts into realms where humanitarian concerns are the primary focus. Deep down inside you have hopes and wishes, desires and aspirations to assist humanity. I suggest a study of the United Nations. Find your way there. The UN astrology chart has Moon & Uranus in Gemini. The moon comforts (it’s home) and Uranus reveals. They call you.

CANCER (June 21-July 20) Perhaps, feeling tired of your usual work, you distanced yourself. Surprisingly missing work, you reestablished yourself within a new context – that of friendships. This is good because you are needed, appreciated and recognized even without your realization. Be therefore very attentive to the positive in an attempt to dislodge all that isn’t. This creates self-confidence and greater truth, which you always seek. Your mantram: “Let reality govern my every thought.”

LEO (July 21-Aug. 22) Have you been calm recently or must you summon calmness from deep within? Are you thinking of traveling or important humanitarian matters at a distance? Are you in touch with relatives? And are you communicating without irritation and irritability? Future plans are about to arrive. What will you do with them? Save your money for some long rainy gray days and for the special travel you long to do which you realize will forever change you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In your life, what things, events, realities need to be reoriented, salvaged, retrieved, reclaimed and/or rescued? It could be anything(s), from the present to the past and well into the future. Have you completed taxes and tended to monetary concerns? You do best when pondering upon a problem and listening carefully to the impressions. Then you become resourceful, creative and revolutionary. Some inner talents need recognition. And they are …?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Are there thoughts of change in your environment? In your daily life’s atmosphere try to maintain calming kindness. This will assist in understanding, which is like an umbrella protecting you from rain and hail. Cooperation is a good meditative seed thought. Cooperation brings you closer to everyone for they will feel you support their ideas, endeavors, and whatever developmental stages they are experiencing. Ohm is your second keynote.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Begin the day by saying the following mantram: “I find more and more organized ways of doing tasks each day. This gives me more time for creative pursuits which I am finding are seeking me.” Like the words to Libra, being kind and helpful to others assists in an opening of your heart that will then reveal information to you, which you seek. Careful with words. Use them to heal (not hurt).

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20) You may need a bit more social life; activities that make you laugh and let you know life is good. You may also need to drop any anxiety about the future for it will come no matter what you do and it has its own agendas for you. You may try and work more quietly within yourself, trusting that whatever occurs is building you toward success and leadership. What am I saying here? Your life is spiritually planned. It’s already ahead of you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20) Tending to parents is a good thing to do. When one gets older they shift their security base. Instead of being in charge, their children are. This is a natural order of things. I’m reminded of the photograph of young baby being held by his father, and much later in life there is a photograph of that baby, grown up, carrying his father. What is the statement? “S/he’s not heavy. S/he’s my mother, sister, brother, father.” This you understand. Teach this harmonious hierarchy to your children now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18) Being in touch with brothers and sisters is appropriate. Make this contact regularly. It releases love in the family and between and among all of you. Contact does this (releases Love). Make family interactions everyday transactions. You will begin to advance the life force, anchored in the heart, within your family. Do this with conscious choice as a daily act of Goodwill. Your life will then gain more meaning.

PISCES (Feb.19-March 20) You are thinking about money, finances, resource and important papers. You wonder how to organize them. Balancing your budget, or creating a new one is paramount in your mind. You want a new life, a new environment, different resources, more freedom. It’s good to create all of these in solitude. Create a new journal called Resources, Finances, Environments & Gardens. Safeguard it as your creative endeavor most important to creating your future. Ask in the meantime, what is your value? The answer comes.

The week as the Shamballa Force continues: Thursday, Gemini moon, is quite busy. Friday, Cancer moon, the ‘gates’ swing open, something enters form and matter. We hunger for creamy, warm foods. Saturday (and night) is v/c. Sunday sadnesses and grief emerge. We respond with intelligent love. Leo moon Sunday and Monday. Tuesday moon enters purificatory (alchemical word) Virgo. Wednesday is Pope Benedict’s 81st birthday. He visits the U.S. next week (Washington D.C., the United Nations). Passover begins Saturday and the Wesak Festival is a week away. We prepare our crystal vessels and gather smaller ones. (read more at nightlightnews.com)

ARIES (March 21-April 20) There will be much to ponder upon this week as ideas flow into your mind like lightning bolts providing new information concerning who you are, who you are supposed to be, your choices preparing for this lifetime, and how to combine all into a synthetic unity. It’s done by first understanding your family history, then knowing we are our ancestors, and realizing we are here to heal each other – everyone in our family, including ourselves. Then we move upward.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21) Like Aries, thoughts are flowing through your mind like fire from Mercury and truly they are, for Mercury is the metal and the god of alchemy—that which we need to move onward and upward on the evolutionary Jacob’s ladder. You almost seem lost in realms none of us understand, perceive, or even vaguely experience. Stay there as long as possible for the information received may well save the world. Do take some time for walking, exercising, tending to the garden and eating correctly, lest you fall down and forget who you are.

GEMINI (May 22-June 20) The planets are gathered in Aries—your tenth house of world/professional recognition, gifts you provide others, and the cosmic invitation to help create the new culture and civilization. This is a serious, esoteric statement that I know, if you are reading this, you can understand. Aries provides us with new self-identity, we’re pushed to study, which rebuilds our mind, then we aspire to build everything new. You are called to do this. Begin to read “Externalization of the Hierarchy.” If you have questions, write.

CANCER (June 21-July 20) An expanded mind is attempting to form within you, a mind that not only thinks on self and family, but includes thoughts on child tending, justice (why is it blinded?) and philosophy (Ancient Wisdom teachings). As you may travel or be considering it, there are five very special esoteric locations that are actually spiritual inlets—New York City, London, Geneva, Darjeeling, & Tokyo. The U.S. has five known charkas: New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Kansas City, Missouri and Los Angeles. Should you visit these areas, greet its protective Deva (Angel).

LEO (July 21-Aug. 22) Due to last week’s column, a Leo reader wrote that she was suffering. I responded that we have many lives and some of those lives we suffer tremendously and that our God, Sanat Kumara from Venus, suffers too. And that when we suffer we are able to share His burdens of suffering and alleviate them, providing Him rest and care. I also wrote that those who suffer understand others who suffer and that suffering eventually makes us healers. Some day, some time, somewhere, this has, is, or will occur for you. We stand with you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may be reading all the signs and that is good. Our natal chart contains all the signs. You know this. You wonder what yours is this week. All those Aries planets are hiding quietly in your eighth house of transformation, sex, intimacy, and other people’s money (or money held in common). The purpose of planets in the 8th house is to transform everything into better and greater, more inclusive and loving terms. Can you do this? Can you have the intentions? Yes, you say. Happiness appears subtly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I’ve been writing to each sign about new identity and it’s occurring for you, Libra, within relationships (either you have left, are leaving, or entering one). The new identity concerns how, in the future, you will be, what you will provide, what is valuable, and what you are seeking in relationships. New states of independence, courage and strength are emerging helping you move forward on your own. Love comes again. And great help, too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your daily life may be in upheaval and change, creating a new identity with work. Perhaps there’s desire (Mars) to do more and better or you seek to study new ideas (Mercury) that will outline the new culture, architecture and atmosphere (all Uranus) of all that you do each day, how you make money, and how to serve both yourself and others. This is a very involved and complex, yet simple and undemanding statement to you Scorpio. Absorb it slowly for understanding. Then gradually apply it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20) Who you’ve been and what you identified as through your creative efforts (also fun, games and play) is now forming a foundation for who you’re going to be and how you’ll identify yourself. You are in transition. Many things initiated now may be completed because everything’s an experiment, like trying on new clothes, new hats, new culture, new friends. If you feel everything’s also a risk, it is. Life is trying to find its perfect next fit with you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20) Attempting to realize new and intelligent ways to be and interact with family is an excellent task now as the family seeks the next level of intelligent love (Venus), a new wisdom (Pallas Athena) based on the gathering of new knowledge about family dynamics, and new ways to communicate (Mercury) to move beyond the disharmony of misunderstanding (creating chaos and confusion) into the next level of loving harmony. As always, have the intention, pray as a family to find, achieve and have it all. Ohm.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18) Notice how you feel more brilliant, with ideas flowing into your mind so fast you can’t remember most of them. A great force is falling to earth now between the Aries and Taurus (Wesak) festivals, and then an even greater force (Ray 1) till June. Be as attentive as you are able, jot down ideas for later use and manifestation, study Alchemy for inspiration. The new Aquarian art is coming. You’ll want to be the first to understand, summon it, and thus create it.

PISCES (Feb.19-March 20) You will think about resources and values in new ways. Whereas most things in form and matter have seemed hidden from you, a new thought form of both preparation and of solutions appears in symbols, the language of the Rain Cloud of Knowable Things. A thought comes to me to understand the Biblical transition of the Hebrew people on their journey from Egypt (Taurus) to Canaan/Israel (Aries). Study this biblical history. A new insight is needed. (more next week)

Three large sunspots materialized on the Sun this week and unleashed an M2 solar flare. This signifies an increase of solar activity streaming into our planet. For an extraordinary photo of the Sun and the tongues of flame emanating from it see wired.com/science/discoveries. The Sun in our sky is actually the Solar Logos, who releases three forces for our evolutionary development. 1) the Shamballa Force, the Will and Purpose of God, Ray 1 (core of the Sun); 2) Love/Wisdom, Ray 2 (heart of the Sun); and Divine Intelligence, Ray 3, (rays of the Sun). An increase in solar activity (from the Solar Logos) is welcomed and appropriate during the Three Spring Festivals, especially during the Wesak, Buddha Festival when the Will of God is released. (read more on the Sun and the week’s Celestial events at nightlightnews.com )

A note from Risa: Dear Readers and Friends—my next surgery is April 8, early Tuesday morning. I ask for your prayers once again. I’ll think of all of you on that morning—triangles of light spanning the United States and all the continents. My invitation (on my website last week) that we join together at the Ashram in reciting the Great Invocation each morning still stands though it will be three hours earlier on Tuesday. I thank you for your support and I love you. Risa

ARIES (March 21-April 20) Be cautious when working at home lest you move too fast and an accident occurs. Awareness of your body, thoughts and actions are important. It’s time to prepare your outside home and garden areas for summer family gatherings. Begin with small tasks, accomplish one each day as early as possible, create small agendas and time tables, spend money for splashes of color, and a vegetable garden as if your life depended upon it. It does/will.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21) You are aware of the many needs you and family have for day-to-day survival. If you are organizing a large food shopping to store for later use and to save on money, then you’re ahead of the game. If you haven’t thought of this, do so. Tend to books—library, ordering, organizing, giving away, etc. Find a Scout Survival book, a Mormon book on stocking up, and how to make a solar oven in the woods. They’ll all be handy someday.

GEMINI (May 22-June 20) Yes, there’s more than Oprah’s Monday night classes. Since January, 2007 I suggested readers create an Esoteric Journal, taking notes from my website’s weekly esoteric column; Mercury-ruled signs especially are always seeking the mysteries. By now there should be lots of esoteric information gathered in the journals. Each week’s information was/is an esoteric class. Esoteric means hidden, waiting for those who have “eyes to see.”

CANCER (June 21-July 20) It’s good to feel assertive and to ask for recognition for your specific abilities and nurturing gifts. You initiate tasks others cannot do because you have more energy now. You are also aware of things to come. It’s time to shop for yourself now, find new clothes, new colors and styles to freshen your outlook and to feel good about yourself. It’s spring and you need to prepare for the lightness of summer.

LEO (July 21-Aug. 22) Again I remind you never in your life have you created failure. Every event, relationship, job, person, each day and night are experiences in form and matter. Earth lives within the laws of duality—there is light and dark, day and night, up and down, right and left. Life after life, we must experience both sides of everything. When we understand, this duality ceases. We live in between, You can do this now, too.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) What I wrote for Gemini was also for Virgos, also Mercury ruled. All other signs, on different levels are included. No sign is left out. It seems you need some change, a shift in your life that looks like rebellion but is really a life force. What can you change in your daily life or within yourself? Begin with how you interact with others and your daily schedule. Both will be a challenge but then life becomes more interesting.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Sometimes we Librans are indecisive, which means we’re weighing things endlessly. With Libra rising, I remember as a child I couldn’t decide anything and I would become confused. Parents of Libra Sun, moon and/or rising children, knowing this, would do well to help their young Librans understand and discuss both sides of everything. Right now though, Librans won’t be indecisive about career, work, jobs, profession, what they want or their destination. Do you have a dream of something, Libra?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Do plan for your next vacation. Consider foreign places and destinations unknown. Make sure your passport’s updated, study customs and cultures, choose boats instead of planes, and prepare to have all perceptions of reality change—specifically who you are in the world. Careful with the law, follow all rules and think about justice as a virtue.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20) So, have you been thinking about what you’re good at and capable of doing, how you respond in an emergency or crisis, how valuable you are, and what brings you to your knees? This is serious now! Try not to have internal conflicts concerning resources or finances. You have more than most and it’s valuable to recognize this with daily gratitude. We don’t always have what you have. That power you seek? It will be available in time, on time and when the time’s auspicious. Grow something in a pot of soil.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20) Tend to your most intimate relationship. Give it loving care and kindness. Water and feed it as you would a lotus attempting to bloom. Think only of them. Remember your first encounters. Summon those beginning feelings and act on them. Communicate from the heart and see them in a perfect light. Something will be rekindled, something will be given and something extraordinary will be received. It doesn’t matter if this is a person, pet, plant, idea, recipe or a car. Tend to it with the deepest love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18) You may find to your surprise that time management and task efficiency have multiplied and all of a sudden greater organizational skills are possible. Let this flow into your living environments and either clean up, tidy up and classify everything or add to your existing home by making it more beautiful, more colorful and more comfortable. Which do you need? Tend to the animal and plant kingdoms. Shelter them.

PISCES (Feb.19-March 20) Some Pisceans may enter a new relationship filled with passion and/or anger. Some Pisceans are seeking freedom and will risk everything to have it. Some Pisceans will find themselves surrounded by children, either in a classroom teaching or learning, or becoming pregnant. Some Pisceans need to run and play, have fun, be loose and easy and fearless. Some will gamble. Don’t. Some will pursue the arts, take photos, paint, sew, design, cook, film or create a garden. Do.

ARIES (March 21-April 20) Family issues are most important. They bring up today what happened long ago, activating things forgotten, behaviors that we might not want to remember, but most of all don’t understand. When we find ourselves arguing or fighting with others it could be we don’t understand something and that hurts us. It is vital to be aware of all actions and words and intentions. There is much activity within and at home. Find solitude and rest there.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21) When working with others, great things can be accomplished. New ideas flood your mind as you sense the changes occurring in the world and know you must lead others towards safe alternatives. You have great strength of purpose. Realize others may have different paths and purposes in life. Much mental work will be done. Create notebooks for each project. Upgrade your technology.

GEMINI (May 22-June 20) Once again the question is what do you value? Gemini can value two sides of a coin equally. Instead of arguing with others concerning what they value, listen carefully to them and ask why they value what they do and how they came to their awareness. Some people may not even understand the word value. At this time for you, understanding your values defines your life choices. Create a visual and written notebook describing what you value. At some defining point, the contents of your notebook appear.

CANCER (June 21-July 20) Are you experiencing lots of activity, errands, little trips, fixing things, preparing for guests, cleaning from winter and preparing for summer. You want others to see you’ve ordered your environment making it beautiful. This is good. However, careful with seeing only one side of things – that which is all and only about yourself. Should you notice a shift in other people’s behavior it could be you’ve stepped on toes. Careful with health and headaches.

LEO (July 21-Aug. 22) It’s possible you’re doing great work, yet others, not you, are recognized and applauded. This could create irritability that casts a shadow of unease all around. Perhaps you want to show your true self but somehow you’re misunderstood. Results are emotional upsets and possible confrontations with others who won’t understand at all. Solitude is best. Near a stream, under trees, in a forest or a desert far away. You know this place.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It helps these days if you gather with others and work together on a common project, perhaps a study or reading or cooking or dancing or exercise or walking or gardening or swimming or parent group. Be sure to balance your presence (ideas, needs, wants) in the group. You are not to be only in charge. Nor are you to be subservient. You are to be equal and how this is done is to coordinate your interests and needs with those of the others. You can do this and it will serve you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Proceed with great care in all areas of public life. Realize the power you project, which you could be unaware of, can make others feel uneasy. Therefore be very aware of communication, especially if giving orders or speaking with officials. Aligning with them, letting them know you are on their side, will make people help instead of halting you. Libra’s most important gift (task, actually) is the ability to create Right Relations, which leads to Right Actions and peacefulness. Cultivate constant Goodwill. And be truly kind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Now is the time to realize that who you thought you were isn’t all of what you truly are. And that what you believe in isn’t really who you are, either. This can become complex because often we want others to believe as we do which then lets us believe in ourselves even more. This is subtle. Are you following? What you’ve learned in the past is well and good. But your mind now seeks more information, in depth study, expanded awareness and new dimensions of thought. On your way to these new realities, take ultimate care of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20) Things are subtle and blatant, present and then not, here but not there, then and later. How utterly confusing this can be. It’s because what impels you to move forward is quietly hidden doing the work of transforming you so your vision is a bit blurry and no amount of anything can correct this. You will have to live with the paradox for a bit. Your life experiences are being reviewed for their usefulness in the times to come. Here’s the virtue of patience to borrow for a while.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 20) Use all that tension to pursue a certain creative endeavor. Perhaps it would be good to coordinate and cooperate with another, which will bring you harmony and a sense of intimacy within relationship. Right Human Relations occurs when grievances are brought forth and everyone listens carefully for the purpose of clearing the air and finding truth. If there is conflict, notice who has less power. Stand up, protect, and fight for them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18) How is your health? Maintain a rigorous daily exercise program and avoid anything detrimental to your health. Should you feel frustration, do not maintain a pained and distant silence. Find someone(s) who can listen without giving advice. Keeping silent in the face of any type of intense feeling can create an illness. Work each day on a goal. Do not push it aside. Should you tend to practical things you will find yourself living with pride of self and happiness.

PISCES (Feb.19-March 20) A sense of discipline can be hard to find these days. You would prefer to play and have fun, experience life as simple and easy. Anything or anyone making demands upon you or your energy will need to watch out. You may assert your needs quite clearly so that others step back. Try and inform everyone of your need for playful and fun amusements. A Pisces can’t always be sad and hidden and drowning somewhere behind a watery fern.

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