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Update on Risa as of March 28, 2007
Aries, Spring, just prior to the Aries Festival
My Dear Readers,
It has been 2 seasons -- Autumn and Winter -- since I wrote to you personally and directly. Here we are in Spring, the season of Aries, and it is time to write to you again. I wanted to wait until it felt correct to write to you. I didn't want to write because I should. Now it is correct and right to write another letter to you. I have attempted in these two seasons, of darkness into light, to connect and to make contact with you (which releases Love) through my weekly columns and monthly updates on our website. I have thought of you each morning at our 8:00 am meditations, each Sunday on our conference call meditations, and at each New & Full Sun/Moon festival. How is everyone's esoteric journal coming? Everyone should have at least fourteen (14) weeks of introductions (astrological & esoteric) by this time (end of March).
My Gratitude
I write this Spring letter to you for several reasons. A primary one is to thank the many of you who so generously contributed to my Health & Healing Fund. This and what you also sent -- letters with heartfelt wishes for ongoing healing, prayers, goodwill, health instructions from multiple disciples, and two extraordinary pieces of art, etc, -- have sustained, supported, upheld and nourished me. Without your assistance -- financial, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual -- I would not have been able to endure these past eleven months. There have been bills in the thousands of dollars, and those bills are still mounting. There has been loss of work, interaction, family, culture, home, teaching and just about everything I am used to, care about and love. My contact with the outer world has been through you, your cards and letters and generosity on all levels. I say thank you over and over. Every one of you knows that I speak to you personally.
My Present Health - the many different aspects
The fall, resulting in my right foot and ankle dislocating and breaking, occurred May 14th in the early evening of last year. The surgery that followed was on May 15th. So, mid May, it will soon be one year later. Healing has been very slow. I want to think that the slowness of my healing has to do with a firm and sustaining strength returning to my ankle. I hear of those with same accident and surgery who are running by now. I am not running, my walking is deliberate and very slow, I stopped using the wheel chair three months ago, I use a cane 1/2 the time, and sometimes I feel I'll never regain my ability to walk easily. I think perhaps part of this is that I am a Pisces (never quite steady on my feet). Astrology people know what I mean. Pisces is a mermaid/merman, not a human.
Another Surgery
The orthopedic surgeon who I see takes x-rays at each office visit. In the past several months he has noticed that the screws and pins are loosening, pulling out of and away from the bones (tibia and fibula). A chiropractor said this is good. It means the bones are strong and do not need the screws or pins anymore. The doctor therefore says that the screws, pins and plate should be removed which means another surgery. The surgery is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17th sometime after 11:30 am. It is a New Moon day. The New Moon festival is at 27 Aries and it occurs at 4:36 am (Pacific time). The Moon will be in Taurus beginning in the morning at 9:11 (interesting time) and the doctor is a Taurus. The surgery date and time was chosen astrologically. There are astrological rules for surgery. During the entire year my transits have been and will continue to be stressful and difficult. We found a day when they are not so difficult. We pray that the surgery goes easily and there is no infection. Will you pray for me and for the steady hand and illumined mind of the doctor and his staff?
I am afraid of another surgery and afraid of the anesthesia and simply afraid of everything surrounding this. I have Pisces on my 6th house (Virgo house of health) cusp. Pisces in this position can be someone who experiences fear around things in form and matter and around health and healing. I will think of all of you praying for me during this time. This will sustain me.
Transits to My Chart
Each day since the accident, these past eleven months, I have found that I only have several hours each day of strength and energy. I get tired easily, must rest and elevate my foot, and need extra sleep. I have looked at my transits and they are somewhat severe. Transiting Neptune on my natal Moon, transiting Saturn on my natal Jupiter, transiting Saturn opposing my Moon (with Neptune there) are a few of the astrological significators on my chart. Neptune and Saturn transits make one feel exhausted. I feel this most of the time.
Each Day
At 8 or 9 am there is meditation which means visualization using the "Soul Invocation", triangles work, "Great Invocation", Integration Formula, and all the prayers on our website. Do you remember the article of The Garden I referred you to months ago? That was the template for the creation of a visualization of a Lodge/Ashram that we "go" to during meditation. After meditation and during the day I spend time answering questions from readers, reading emails, and writing. I intersperse cooking and resting with writing. I am the one who cooks where I am living. I call myself the Ashram cook and each day there is planning and preparation along with cooking and service and cleaning up. I make fresh salads every other day. The columns for the various newspapers require days and days to write each week. Much of my time is spent between research, writing, answering emails, and cooking. And now there is tending to the plant kingdom.
Gardening in Pots
I have begun a small garden in pots. During the Taurus and Cancer Moons and thinking of preparing for the Aries Festival of Resurrection and of Easter, we cleaned the planting pots and in them planted radishes, lettuces, chives, and squash. I have more to plant but not enough pots. The area where a garden would be is too far away for me to walk to and plant in. All around the house I presently live in there is only stone, slate, rock and rock shelves, black and layered. It is a Vulcan (Ray 1) house, a house set within the mineral kingdom (Ray 7). Where there is Ray 1 (Spirit) there is always Ray 7 (form and matter, mineral kingdom). Spirit entering matter. The area that is fenced and specifically set-aside for a garden, is rather far away from the kitchen and it is not level so it is safer for me to plant in pots set around the kitchen door. I have one tomato plant, called a patio tomato plant. I need more tomato plants and will plant more when I have more pots. My little seeds sprouted within 24-48 hours. Two little leaves emerging from a thin stalk. They all look just like the Aries sign. Which they should, don't you think?
After dinner and clean up (which takes a long time) it's time for sleep. It's good for all of us to be asleep by the 10:00 pm call for inner esoteric classes which last till 5 am. Often I don't sleep well so it is important that I have enough reading matter for the sleepless hours throughout the night. Along with the Tibetan's blue books, the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Time, and Tikkun, are a few of the magazines I read. It is comforting for me to receive the New Yorker each week. Sometimes it doesn't arrive or it's late. Last week's inner pages were cut out. When the New Yorker doesn't arrive it feels that the small structures I rely upon during this healing process have fallen away. With Neptune on my Moon there is very little comfort. Having my New Yorker arrive on time provides me with cultural comfort.
The city of New York is one of the five spiritual inlets on our planet. Inlets receive spiritual forces from the cosmos, which are then dispersed and distributed to surrounding geographical areas and to humanity in order that we are better able to accomplish our tasks and endeavors. New York, responsible for the entire United States and Canada, receives and distributes Ray 3, Active Intelligence from the Mind of God. If we think about what comes out of New York City (center of the publishing and financial worlds) we understand the impact being a spiritual inlet has. The other four are London, Geneva, Darjeeling and Tokyo. Only three at this time are very active. More inlets will emerge at a later time. One will be Brazil. Returning to New York as a major world inlet, we can now understand why New York was the target of destruction for the 9/11 terrorist attacks (the forces of darkness attacking a Center of Light).
Recent Email from Reader
There has been a noticeable increase in teen suicides. This is on the news often. This past week a reader wrote about the death by suicide of a young pre-teen girl. We studied her natal chart and the transits at the time of her suicide. Natally (birth chart planets and signs) she had 7 planets/asteroids plus Ascendant (rising sign) in Scorpio, Saturn in Pisces in the 4th with Mercury, Venus and North Node in 12th -- giving her even more Pisces. With all the Scorpio and Pisces, it's possible she felt the only comfort she would find would be in trusting death (Scorpio and Pisces are signs related to death esoterically). This brought me to a great state of sadness. I know that her parents, as all parents would be, are devastated and blame themselves. We can only pray for them and say Ohm Mani Padme Hum for the young child for 49 days after her death.
Ohm Mani Padme Hum -- Jewel in the Lotus
What is Ohm Mani Padme Hum? It means the Jewel in the Lotus of Life itself. It sounds like the light of Aries -- the Light of Life itself. Why we would recite this mantram after a death is that during the bardo stage, the transition stage of reviewing one's life (after death), there can be great grief and a longing to return quickly to earth life. The mantram keeps the one who has passed on "on track" and focused on the Life aspect which means that actually there is no death of the spirit or Soul, only death of the physical. But when we die, we can be frightened and saddened and confused. The mantram assists the one who has passed on to find the Light and move toward it and the mantram assists those of us left behind to complete our earth school tasks and learning.
Aspiration to Teach Family and Child Astrology Through an Educational Center & Community
The death of the young pre-teen by suicide deepened my intentions and aspiration to teach parents all over the world the science, study and practice of astrology. Why? So parents can understand more deeply the life of their children; learn how to understand the sensitive times in their children's lives; have the ability to understand when a transits occurs (Pluto or Neptune or Uranus or Saturn or Chiron -- any or all) what it means, how to work with it, know the timing and have the awareness that specific transits are very very difficult for the child. We have seen that some can lead to despair for a child. And this leads to at time tragic consequences. Parents (doctors, therapists, psychologists, other family members) can learn to understand the behaviors associated with specific difficult transit. Knowing and practicing astrology in this way can, in fact, be an intervention. So few know this information on astrology and its therapeutic use with families and children. Knowing and studying astrological information would change the disciplines of education, psychology, and medicine. It is my aspiration to have such a school and community where parents from all over the country can visit and learn the Astrology of the Family and Child. This knowledge is actually one of the foundations of the Aquarian Age. How can we bring this school and community about in practical form and matter? I ask this question of myself daily. Does anyone know?
Video-Cam of Daily Life
I was cooking this morning -- rice and curry, broccoli soup, making chicken stock. I was talking to myself which I often do for many hours in the day I am quite alone. I realized that I would like a video cam to be in my kitchen and office. That way while cooking I can teach viewers how to cook or at least share with them what I'm cooking and how. And I could also teach astrology or the astrology of the day while cooking. I don't know how to do that or bring that about. Does anyone? Though I can write I am not technologically gifted. What would one need to create this? There's no one where I live who can answer these questions for me.
Ending with a Pizza
Let's end with food. A new study came out from the American Chemical Society (and not the pizza industry) that using whole grains (not white), allowing the dough to rise longer, cooking it longer and at higher temperatures in the oven resulted in pizza dough being high in antioxidants. Make it a Chicago deep crust and top it with artichokes and the antioxidant level rises even higher. Google "pizza and antioxidants" or go to
www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ 070327_pizza_dough.html for more information. I've been wanting to make pizza. Maybe we can do it together via the cam. Write me, everyone. Love to everyone, Risa
To be continued.
If you would like to contribute to Risa's Health & Recovery Fund, please send checks or money orders to:
Risa
D'Angeles Health & Recovery Fund
P.O. Box 2780
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
As you can read from Risa's note above, she welcomes your prayers for a speedy recovery. All of us on staff welcome your well wishes and questions though we may not be able to reply to each one individually. You can email Risa at:
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