Star Ties

While driving through a parking lot last week, I noticed these red and blue plastic pieces just a few feet apart from each other.  I was ready to turn onto a busy street when I put the car in reverse to retrieve these shapes that I thought were red and blue stars.  I discovered they weren't stars, but they did remind me of the cross and the four directions.

I felt compelled to pick them up for the red and blue immediately reminded me of our perceived divides here in America, our divides into red states and blue states, republicans and democrats.

Yet with both held in one hand as I drove on, I immediately saw human forms and when turned in the opposite direction, I saw a bridge.

Maybe these ties from the trash are imbued with messages from the stars especially here in 2012, messages inspiring us to create bridges crossing our divides so we might stand side by side and realize we are so much more alike than different. 

In the days since, I've continued to ponder the four directions and the cross.  Our ancestors crossed the watery divide of the Atlantic arriving on the shores of this new land they came to call America hundreds of years ago.  Many came with Christianity's cross as part of their religious belief system.  They came to a land lived upon and a nature lived with by Native Americans who honored as part of their spirituality East, South, West and North. Each direction held associations and aspects of the natural world with corresponding teachings for them.  They lived cooperatively with Earth as Mother through listening to these teachings. 

White mans arrival in Red man's home resulted in sorrow and loss, loss of life and home for the Natives and loss of life on the land as millions of birds and animals were killed and forests clear cut as well as loss for white man for how can one really internally be at peace when your way of life has been gotten through such domination, betrayal and bloodshed.   

Here we are hundreds of years later thankfully without the prior degree of bloodshed but still allowing beliefs to create discord and separation between Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, Atheist and Native man forgetting that Love is what the Divine had in mind.

As days have passed I've continued to percolate on these two objects consisting of two lines, one horizontal and the other vertical creating a crossroads.  We are at a crossroads. Will we stay on the path of domination and disconnection from Earth and one another or will we choose a new path? 

Being someone who learns from the concrete, I went back outside to the two plastic ties.  Placed together and with a bit of imagination, their four points became eight.  Immediately I thought of Venus, the feminine planet of love and beauty who's making her brilliant presence known in the Eastern evening sky at this time.

Venus is symbolized by the eight-pointed star.  Maybe the feminine rising through love and beauty in both women and men is the new model arriving, the new path.  

These pieces of plastic randomly found no longer seem so random.   I initially thought they were stars.  Now I'm certain they carry messages from the stars, messages reminding us that regardless of our differences we've a greater connection. We've star ties.   

Imagine the Shift or better yet Feel the Shift of remembering the beauty that lies in our having come to Earth from the Stars in this time.

-Dawn, The Good News Muse  20 April 2012

dawn@imaginetheshift.com