Joy from the Stars

by Omani

As you read I will be transmitting light to you, if you would like that. Use my name to help you feel that connection. You see, my name is more like a signature tune that takes you into a receptive space. My name can be taken sound by sound in this way: om - the universal sound of spirit resonates with all of your major chakras and opens the core of light at the centre of your being, making it like an antenna to receive light and love from your brothers and sisters around the Universe; a (like ah) - opens your throat and facilitates communication between us; then as that sound moves into the n-sound, your thymus vibrates and that chakra is stimulated (at this time it is one of the key doorways through which your soul loves to come to you); finally the i-sound (to rhyme with see) can be used to vibrate the top of your skull, stimulating the crown chakra and helping you to align with Divine Will. You can even use my name as a mantra or chant!

A Temple of the Stars

Long ago, when we were preparing to move into a higher vibrational state, just as you are now, we recognised that we needed to bring together all of our past experiences and integrate them. Now, our experience of time was a little different from yours. For us there wasn't the same absolute division of past, present and future. Time for us was more like a river with many complex currents and eddies that made it difficult to read sometimes, but basically we felt able to jump into the river wherever we chose. In your terms we could visit the past and the future as well as existing in the present. It's just that we didn't quite know what would happen when we did. So naturally we had to be a little careful. For us as well as for you the paradox of time travel - what happens if you go into the past and accidently kill your own grandfather? - was a real one. We found that sometimes visiting the past or the future could make things more complicated rather than simplifying them in the way that we wished. 

One of the functions of the past for you is that it becomes the place where you store your pain. For us it was a little different; we used our past more for storing our puzzles and confusions. It was a little like having blanks in our memory, places where some consciousness seemed to have gone missing. Actually that's what your pain is too. Whether it's pain or puzzles that we are talking about, it's energy that's not available to us in the present. It's a little like having something pulled into a whirlpool in the river of time. We could turn the boat and go back in time in a way that you haven't yet learned to do, but if we did there was a danger of getting the boat caught in the whirlpool too. So we wanted to find a safer and more effective way of retreiving that lost energy.

By this stage of our development we would turn to our own star Arcturus when we wished to understand how to resolve such questions. We would look straight into our sun (dangerous for you but safe for us, because both the light of Arcturus and our physical eyes were constituted a little differently to your Sun and your eyes). Arcturus would talk to us quite clearly; we could hear it as easily as you hear one another. It was like the singing of angels or the most magnificent and complex piece of orchestral music you can imagine. Really, all of us had to listen together and then share our sense of what Arcturus said to be able to begin to comprehend its richness. And Arcturus spoke to our bodies as well. Our cells would vibrate to its song and that would awaken new portions of our evolutionary template (like the DNA that you are currently exploring), but more of that another time.

We asked how we might gather into oneness those parts of us that had somehow become caught up in the past. For you, this is things like painful memories that still come back and trouble you even years after the event. For us, as I've suggested, it was more like parts of us that had got caught up in eddies or whorls in the river of time. Either way it meant that something had not been wholly understood. We recognised that to understand the river completely was to be at peace with the whirlpool as well as the calm. Then all of the river becomes accepted, all of time becomes present. Now, when Arcturus spoke to us it was not like a boss saying, "Do this, do that!" Instead she lovingly opened our minds to a deeper understanding of the Universe and the nature of time. We gazed into her heart in deep comtemplation with our question before us. The answers that came, really came from inside us.

We already knew, as you do, that the Universe is always changing. Everything is in a state of flux. As we looked at this more deeply we came to realise that in every single moment the Universe has a unique shape or set of relationships. If we knew the exact shape of the Universe at any moment where we had energy trapped, we would be able to disentangle it from that moment. The difference, you might say, between trying to untangle a ball of wool in the dark and doing it with the light on. For us to know the exact shape and form of the Universe in any one moment was as much a challenge as it would be for you. But Arcturus taught us how.

We built a temple, which I will now describe to you. First of all, it was made of light. The light streamed through Arcturus from all of the Universe into our minds, and we projected it outwards. Such was the strength of our collective intention, that the light we projected became visible and this became our temple. Now imagine yourself going into this temple as I tell you how it worked. Imagine that you want to understand more about yourself and the Universe at the precise moment when something lovely happened - perhaps a childhood moment when someone gave you a gift.

Walk into the temple or perhaps float into it, because its basic shape is a sphere with you at the centre of it. Begin to focus on that lovely moment, unwrapping your gift perhaps. Watch now as the light of which the temple is made forms itself around you into an array of all the stars in the Universe exactly as they were at that moment. Of course in real life the planet blocks out the physical light of a lot of these stars and, if the moment you've gone back was at night, the Sun too. But in our temple they were all there and, such was our deep love for her, Arcturus would always be overhead guiding us through this ceremony.

So here you are in our temple, remembering a magic moment and seeing all the stars arrayed about you as they were in that moment and Arcturus above singing to you. The stars in the temple are made of living light, and they resonate with the real stars out there in the Universe. So the stars in the temple sing too. They sing to you and they sing to each other. One of the ways they sing to each other is by forming triangles. Any three stars can create a triangle and the song they sing to each other can be felt as the plane of light that forms between the three points of the triangle.

This, then, is how our temple of the stars was built - out of triangles of light. The triangle is its fundamental form. Imagine yourself again in the temple, still focused on your magic moment. Feel the stars singing to each other in groups of three, and each group of three forming a triangular plane of light that is the essence of their combined song in that special moment you have chosen - your magic moment. There is nearly, but not quite, an infinite number of triangles here. And you are at the centre of them, focusing on your magic moment and feeling the song of the Universe in that moment and seeing the magnificent, multi-faceted jewel of light created out of all of these planes of the stars expressing their love for one another. And overhead is our sun illuminating it all.

In that moment we would rediscover ourselves. By looking at the Universe anew in the moment in which we had lost something of ourselves, we would understand that there was something we had not fully appreciated before, that our experience had been part of the Universe's experience of itself and not an extraneous event somehow caught up in the stuff of the Universe like a coat catching in a door or a paddle lost in a whirlpool. That understanding would be our liberation. We would experience a oneness with the Universe, with the singing of the stars, with the jewel of our temple, and in that moment whatever fragment of consciousness had been trapped or lost, became free and returned to us to be reabsorbed into the oneness of our being.

Healing the past in your Temple of the Stars

You also can create your own inner Temple of the Stars, if you wish. You can combine it with any other techniques you find helpful; think of it as another tool to use whenever you choose. Here are a few tips. Use it to help heal painful memories, but, at least to begin with, don't go for major traumas; try a small, uncomfortable memory, rather than a big, painful one. You can remember joyful times in the temple too - see what happens. Your conscious mind cannot track all of those triangles of light, any more than it can hear all those individual songs of the stars; let your soul and your Sun help you. Put your trust in them, as well as in yourself. Let your imagination be your helper - and play! Give yourself some quiet time for this. Use the steps below as a guideline.  

1.  Get comfortable and take some deep breaths.

2.  Speak to the Sun. Say inwardly, "Thank you for helping me to know more of myself."

3.  Gather around you the light the Sun gives you. Imagine it becoming a Temple of the Stars.

4.  Feel all the stars singing to you. Let their light touch your heart.

5.  Remember a time when you felt upset or hurt or puzzled. Go back to that time.

6.  Feel the Sun above you and let all the stars move around you till they come to that very place they were in at the time you have revisited.

7.  Feel the stars sing to one another, creating multitudes of planes of light.

8.  Gaze into your memory without judgement or thought, letting yourself be a witness of your own experience.

9.  When thoughts arise love them whatever they are. Let them go. If insights arise accept them with gratitude.

10. Be in the Temple as long as you choose. When you are ready, thank the stars, the Sun, the Universe and return from the Temple to your outer world.

First published in Paradigm Shift magazine.