INSPIRATION
HEALTH
What does it mean to be made of cosmic shimmer?
Whispers of visions tease us, dreams light up our
sleep, oracles unveil the extraordinary. Star Muses
birth poems, songs, altars. Imagination turns the
corner, glittering with surprise. Inexhaustible currents of healing radiate love and renewal.
The Power available to us as Star people is given
real world engagement, as our writers and artists
grapple as well with dark matter. Women, rising up
from the black hole of patriarchy, are fixing things,
dancing away violence, empowering each other
in the face of oppression. And from the depths of
personal disappointments, comes nonetheless affirmation that discomfort is a growthful edge. “The
holes rent in my heart are merely windows/with
new ways to look out” (Nell Aurelia).
Downsides: Yes, our precious blue planet is on
the downslide of climate change. As I write, the
North Pole is 50 degrees above normal. Cataclysmic storms of water, fire, wind swirl havoc on every
continent. We do actively adore our home-rock.
“To touch lichen growing on bark brings us to our
knees” (Sandy Eastoak). We care for Earth as best
we can—live green, conserve blue—and in the long
long view, know that She too rides the cyclic waves
of birth, life, death, renewal into mystery. The
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multi-dimensional universe will be Earth’s grave,
as it was her cradle, and Her particles will float into
new beyonds.
Those cycles in our own biological rhythms take us
From Dust to Dust in Moon XI. A mother celebrates
her child. “You came naked on the backs of the
celestial storks...Through tumbleweed and milky
way,/Starspray and mothers milk” (Emily Kellb).
A woman sings of her now heaven-bound mother;
a woman longs to revere her great-grandmother’s
bones. Ashes to ashes, Return Return. She who
weaves the Night Sky unravels the warp, re-invents
the woof.
We’Moon 2017 invites us to know: at the deep center of the Star archetype, there is Calm. In classic
Star card imagery a woman gives herself healing
in sacred water—liquid StarDust. “Star Wars”? No.
The elixir of Peace is the ultimate Star gift. Meditation, quiet embrace of natural beauty, exquisite
compassion for all beings. These are constellations
of the Inner Night Sky, as limitless as the far reaches of time/space out there in immensity. In here,
in the universe of the heart, on our intimate planet-home, may The Unconditional Love Force be
with us. Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star, That is Really
Who You Are.