The stars that shine in nighttime usually represent the cosmic order since they move around the polar star – conceived as the axis of the world.
In many mythologies, stars were considered as the souls of predecessors that were admitted in the heavens.
In the Jewish tradition, each star is protected by an angel and constellations are seen as groups of celestial spirits that work together in harmony.
In Inca mythology, stars were considered as the “servants of the moon”, they thought that they followed the moon and responded to its every wish given that they could never be seen in daytime. Shooting stars have also many interpretations in ancient cultures: in some, like China, they would announce the death of important men, whilst in other they were believed to bring the soul of a child to the earth. Hence the commonly know expression: “born under a lucky star”.
Now you take the floor: what do you associate with the stars?
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To the stars is where I wanted to go, when I sat in my homeland at night under the night sky, in a Planetarium in Calcutta, or by a bonfire in the Arizona desert. In the city one cannot see the stars anymore, because of all the neon lights. One needs to get away from the modern artificial lighting, to see how the stars light up the dark night.
Some people has been like leading stars in my life. First there was my father who was an artist of life and who thought me humor. Second, a mysterious stranger, who showed me the way back to God. Third, there was my spiritual director, who helped me believe in life. Fourth, a jolly spiritual friend from Ireland, who encouraged me to journey on. Fifth, a young newly ordained priest from Poland, who said Mass as if one were in paradise. Sixth, my husband who writes poems just for me. Seventh, a county manager, who is building a community for many hundred thousands citizens. Eight, a professor who is training hundreds of social workers, and helps thousands of high risk families. Ninth, our beloved Paolo, who help us find our dream, in my case, my Brazilian dream. Tenth, tonight show host Jay Leno, who entertains me every night. Eleventh, News commentator Bill O'Reilly, for being 'fair and balanced'. And twelfth, Clients who need me like a son or daughter would, for making life worth living.
The stars are galaxies so far, far away…We will get there soon.
The stars are the souls of our ancestors who watch over us. There is strength in knowing they are there even on the brightest of days, not seen but still with a watchful eye upon us, constant vigilance. As each of us should be in our faith
Something bright and full of light.
Nous sommes tous des “Lucky luke “unique et special.
Une niche est la pour nous, a nous de la trouver.
Luke means “Light”.
I’m not one of them.
Endless time. The greatest minds of the human species are still trying to write the equation that ties the stars — their birth, movement and death — to our existence, and how we percieve “time”. And although this may sound anti-spiritual/heretical to some, we all know the mathmaticians are only attempting to artfully express what the cultures mentions by Don Paulo had attempted for thousands of years. Endless time to some is something to be feared, but to be in a universe of cycles is SO spiritual, SO HEANENLY, that all the poems that I have once writtten about the stars and how they capture my soul are simply nicely expressed thoughts compared to the importance of truely embracing the enormous workings of the great, tiny white dots we see almost every day that we take the time to simply look up at them.
I think I managed to get that all out in one key-stroked breath — hope it wasn’t too “out there”.
Peace and Love
This week-end I was lucky enough to be at the beach, away from the city. I sat for hours outside. The spectacular sunsets painted the skies in corals, mauves, fuchsias and scarlets. The deep night was not dowsed in the orange glow of city lights. The nights were clear, the moon bright white with subtle dove grey.
I watched the stars appear. Some burned steady, whilst others fulfilled the cliched twinkling. Gazing up, I thought about the light years that their illumination has traveled. How some of them no longer exist, even as we can see them still. How they show us the edges of infinity, of realms beyond, of ancient maritime maps and our minute existence in this vast universe.
Stars represent the cosmic order of things! They are producing the greatest energy in the living world, the energy of the stars that influences the lifes of all of us! Different constalations on the sky produce an energy that manifests in our lifes individually on different manner, depending on our microcosmos!
Yes, Microcosmos is the conselation of stars and planet that happened in the very moment of our birth, that is written in our soul! As these planets are constantly moving, because life is movement, they affect differently our microcosmos! AS ABOVE SO AS BELOW! This constant mixing of these energies makes us feel happy or sad, or nervous, depending on the state of our own energies! They are also challenging us, I bet you are all familiar with that feeling of necessity, or when you simply sense that you should do something!
Intuition is the language of stars, through which they always adress to us, the language of Angels!
Their movement always brings something new in our life if we learned what we were meant to, or taking us back to learn the lessons we missed!
The meaning of stars — the meaning of life!
Thank you for the answer christina
love hope
Oh, and did you know, some stars in the sky tonight we are seeing as they were 500 years ago? Fascinating.
Stars remind me just how big I really am.
Cuando vì la pregunta me quedè pensando y lo primero que se me vino a la mente fueron los sentimientos de gozo , de plenitud, de paz y uniòn con el infinito que experimento cuando las veo, hago esto de manera frecuente con las estrellas y la luna debido a que mi papà acostumbraba reunirnos a la luz de las estrellas cuando habìan apagones y nos hablaba de sus nombres y de la teorìa de la relatividad y de las historias griegas y de la vìa làctea . Era fascinante escucharlo.Sin embargo, despuès recordè que no sòlo me generan sentimientos, que la idea de las estrellas està firmemente asociada a mis sueños, que cuando las veo tengo la impresiòn de que en ellas està escrito mi destino y que es un destino brillante, confuso y difìcil de descifrar. LAS ESTRELLAS BRILLAN Y MUESTRAN EL CAMINO DE LOS SOÑADORES HACIA EL INFINITO, HACIA EL INFINITO MUNDO DE POSIBILIDADES Y OPORTUNIDADES QUE TODOS PODEMOS ABRIR SI NOS DECIDIMOS A ACTUAR.
My names signifies a cluster of stars. There has been a spiritual association with them since my childhood.When I was studying away from my parents I would look up the night sky and send messages to my loving ones because I knew where ever we might be the stars we see are the same. They would make me feel wanted and warm in an alien land. They have been and always will be my anchor.
a few months ago i was floating in the red sea at night watching the stars and the thought that came to my head was that these are the same stars our ancestors hundreds and thousands of years ago used to watch. it was such a serene feeling, made me feel connected to other people at other times.
May I say, the answers are lovely. Stars to me are voices, I hear them speaking tenderly to me, crying in travail in times of sorrow and singing in every tongue.I hear them shouting with joy and anguish alike. May I reply to the dream question, Your dream means your light reaches everyone even in the highest and most distant places on earth………Let your light shine my friend.
Love and Wishes~
Christina
Hi Paulo,
Thanks for writting this.
It may seems a nonsense, but for me there was a time when the stars were children; the children who were not yet born. They were there, shinning in the sky, waiting for the womb of a mother to call them.
I remember one day, I heard some news about abortions. And I thought to myself: “It doesn´t matter -I was very sure and completely convinced about my theory by then-, when a baby who is still in the womb of a mother die, they return to his/her star”.
I didn´t understand so much indignation and anger about abortion because I Knew that the child was fine. Because if the womb of a mother didn´t want him, he would return to his star. So I used to look at the stars with Joy because I Knew what the stars were in Truth.
Nowadays, the stars for me are nothing. Well, not nothing. I like them. I like to look at them. They are my companions and they are everything I have. I do not know what would I do without them.
It´s just that, that feeling of innocence is in some place, far from me. And I don´t know how to become One with Him again. He is waiting for me, that feeling, but it´s so dark to be able to Know how to Reach it.
I´m lost.
Stars like all living things are sacred ,precious and magical just like us ,all part of the one system ..all interconnected all essential to our movements ..also star gazing is a wonderful thing to do ..Just like a blanket over us -tucking us in at night ..
Shiny stars…also and wishes everyone wishes upon stars -first star I see tonight I wish I may I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight ..and a falling star – beautiful.Love Stars ..** and I love when people say that saying -you have stars in your eyes ** or u hit your head and you see stars ..lol..Blessings Tania
our beloved sun is a star, and earth was once part of the sun! can you believe how life was established on this once lifeless peice of rock??? how so many speices have developed miraculously on this tiny planet.. this ((small and lonely planet, traveling through casual space, past aloof stars, across indifferent suns, to a destination where all signs tell us it is possible and imperative that we discover a brave and startling truth!)) as maya angelou once said.. so, even stars can be brought to life and maybe the star we see shining so far away today may one day be home to some kind of life and some other people who feel and eat and love and hate and have a social and political and psychological life?!?! is that too crazy?
with all love and appreciation..sabah
Las estrellas nos dan admiración por la creación, la naturaleza y la vida, recordando que nustras metas van mas alla del cielo y que esos son regalos que nos alegran.
Las estrellas son antigüedades que guardan secretos, nos permite ubicacirnos en el tiempo y el espacio.
Es un brillante en una noche oscura, es la esperanza, el misterio, el poder, los ancestros, la vida, el amor, la conexión, los sueños, los deseos, representación de la divinidad femenina, rituales, , la luz que nos guia, el pasado (recuerdos) el presente (la voluntad) y el futuro (Hacer realidad los sueños).
There is one Star, the Pentagon, I associate with the Divine Femenine, Star Goddess in the Sky!!!
I associate with the Constelations.
Usually when I see the sky at night just think how far they may be and what are they made of, how beautiful they look from Earth!!!
I know you can read them and they give guidance into future past or present, they can also tell you about past lives, they can tell you a lot if you know how to read them!
stars remind me of the past and the future…
the past..that billions of years ago, the same stars existed and witnessed how the world began..how the trees grew..how the waves traveled from shore to shore..how the mountains greened and withered and went through successful rebirths..how humankind survived each storm..the stars knew the generations that came before mine..
the future..that right at this very moment, as i am gazing at the stars, there is someone somewhere who’s also dreaming of me..wishing that we’d find our way to each other..the stars will help us find our way.
for this masterful craft God has made, I am truly grateful. ♥
When the Pharoah Kings were entombed at Giza Pyramids, a direct channel was constructed in the structure to enable the spirit to travel to the afterworld from its tomb.
The channel is described as a long and continuous tunnel of very narrow proportions…
however, scientists have since discovered that there was significant alignment of the stars with the tunnel’s placement and direction… thus the dead King was viewing a certain section of the sky… in belief of the signifiance of that star constellation.
For me, the amazement is in how science can determine, pre-records… the exact location of stars several thousand years ago…
and that this is all in the knowledge that those stars are also moving, burning energy etc…
Stars are indeed of infinite wonder…
and thus enough to (justify to) put one’s faith in constantly.
Stars for me are inspiration. I prefer winter sky with its constelations so clear.
I am fortunate as there is no big light polution where I live, so night sky is lovely in summertime as well.
Personaly when electricity black-out occurs I have no fear but enjoy the sight of stars and its magnitude.
Most of all I like Orion. Seeing it in clear winter night makes me dreamy and conteplative.
I adore them, they represent endlessness, infinity, angels of navigators, mistery, spirit of God ….no limits !
Love
Luce
P.S.
If I feel that my Gardian Angel is sometimes distracted or not present, then I surch it there as it is definitely wandering somewhere between the stars !
the new star i can see in the south
its so brighten…..soooo brighten….
Nia
I love stars dunno why,when i look at them i feel they are so near to me.But last month i had this dream,that a ray of light passed through my hand and it reflected it’s ray on multitude of stars,I think it was million of stars.Those stars also started to emit rays,but surprisingly when i looked at them they were forming or taking the shape of a lion,and it wa s such a beautiful and celestial scene to see,those stars taking shape of lion and emitting rays as well,and those light emitted from stars were also channeled in one rays and it fell in one place or village on mountains or rather hills or valley,where there were lots of small houses.I asked one of an astrologer ,what does it mean and he said that my life is troubled by evil spirti.I was so disappointed by his answer.Can please anyone tranlste my dream of stars,coz i know my dream and i use to tranlste on my own but i still can’t understand this one.How can stars be evil ?? Was that dream a bad one?
hope
Stars: the sun, the black hulls; the costellations, my loved Orion; life and death, the command to birth and the place to live after the life; the nine celestial choirs.
Born of the sea…made of the stars…ALL OF US……….!!!!
ALL LOVE=cat
Stars… big energy cells just like our own sun. Stars are our natural map painted to this huge dim canvas over us. I love stars. I think they all have an important role in this universe. They are somehow godly, especially our own sun. Sun has very important role in my life and in my beliefs.
my first recollection of the stars were as if understanding them in relation to us/Earth as one might regard a living yet interactive painting on a curved gallery wall. The stars appeared fixed somehow.. though the universe a continuum.
Later I was enchanted to learn of Orion’s Belt.. having just visited the Pyramids of Giza, for which the same alignment became apparent. My life was just beginning and following seeing Orion’s belt, the stars have featured throughout my life since. Whenever I am in need of reassurance, or am doubtful, lost etc.. I seem to look up to the stars and almost always Orion’s Belt has been there…
For me, these stars are MY own personal stars of assurance. I remember how growing up, The Plough was always indicated in the skies by my mother’s family… who had a farm…
The zodiac are also special stars… and have helped me to configure in my own understanding of the universe of how each different group has its unique place. I enjoy learning about astrology; hence learning of my birth chart and how the future and personality are all affected by the placement of planets et al in the universe at the time of birth – are all amazing.
Most of all, as a Christian, I often look to the northern star and wonder at how bright the star of wonder might have been, bringing the three wise men to Bethlehem. Whenever i doubt life or am confused, then to look to the stars… and see the bright stars shining… reminds me of an (almost) infinite source of light that shines day and night… even when during the daylight hours the stars are not visible to the eye.
Stars are all about faith.
The steadfastness of Dhruv.
Hope.
PSX- Thank you. This is the first time I’ve read the entire rhyme.
Dreams, magic, child like joy…. a world of possibility…. hope….space – lots of it..quiet….
Liked what pj said!
“…staring at the stars above
wonder what are we made of
some folks say that they know right away…”
“Idaho”, the Bodeans
Camping as a boy scout laying down looking up at the star filled night sky I would be filled with the enormity of the universe. I wondered at how many worlds with life, what kind of life there could be, and how God could be God everywhere there…
No matter how high we can build a Tower of Babble, how far we can fly a spaceship, an endlessness will ever be beyond our reach.
When I try to find stillness, I seek to attune the infinite within me with the infinite beyond me.
Love is the face the unknown wears.
The star filled night sky is like that, no?
Eu acho as estrelas lindas.
Quando a noite está estrelada eu gosto de ver os desenhos que fazem e também gosto de contar as estrelas de um determinado lugar do céu ( acho que foi uma mania desde pequena, que depois tornou-se comum prá mim).
Beijos,
Mari
CARL SAGAN
I have this weird thing about stars.Every time I look at them, it gives me a sense of peace.As if someone, up there is watching over me.I keep looking at them for hours and it makes me feel good.For some reason every time I am in some trouble, just staring at those tiny dots in the sky, calms the storm within me.
I pray looking at these stars, as I believe that perhaps God himself is present in one of those stars and is guiding me at every step of life.
:)
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When I think of the stars, I think of undiscovered worlds, possibility, mystery, and dreams. The stars reflect the Cosmic Whole.
Uncertainty and the strange feeling that comes with it, sort of fear but not that strong. Its like realizing that i am so small.
Being a Child of Apollo (aged 4-7 during the Apollo Moon missions of ’69-’72) and still a proud owner of the 1959 kids classic book “You Will Go To The Moon”, I associate the Stars with a big huge treasure hunt for Humanity.
To look at the symbology of it all, take a peek at just how “conveniently” the Moon is placed as merely the first technical stepping stone into The Universal Pond (10-day missions) … then Mars, a bit harder but well within our grasp even now (18-month mission). Then the Moons of Ganymede and Io, a little further out (7-10-year missions) and incrementally more complex, probably accomplishable within 3-4 decades. Then the asteroid belt, a giant store of resources and raw materials for our first StarShip, which I’m hoping to see depart from this Solar System before I die.
Merely a “cosmic” fluke that the stepping stones have been so perfectly arranged? We’ll only come up with better ideas for the answer to that question the further down the stepping stone path we hop. There’s a chance it never ends.
I think that the giant immediate challenge for Humans alive today is to turn our awesome capacity to co-operate in times of war towards the peaceful exploration of the Stars. Every single one of them. Why else are they there if not to curiously investigate, vigorously research and lazily contemplate?
Love,
Dave
(aka Artemis and/or ActionScientist)
Les étoiles sont le berceau de l’univers, petites graines de vie qui vont peupler l’univers. Comme l’ont peuple nos forêts.
Emisaires de la vie et de la mort.
Quand j’apercois une étoile, vient le passé, le présent et le futur, les trois chemins unis sous une trace céleste.
Good morning starshine
The Earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle bellow
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song :-)
This is what came to my mind :-)
Take care
I can say that when I have time,I like to gaze at the clear sky in the night.Watching the stars,the moon,the deep blue,make me realise that there is someone there above who guides our lives.It comes upon me a great calm,a feeling that I am not alone,but part of the great Universe.I think is a Romantic trait,but I really love the night with the bright stars,for me are maybe the most wonderfull things .
I like the stars that twinkle in people’s eyes when they speak with passion, truth and honesty, about any number of topics.
Love
xxxx
Stars remind me of a childhood nursery rhyme….
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark,—
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Thank you Paulo :-)
Living life from the heart ;-)
PSX
To the stars is where I wanted to go, when I sat in my homeland at night under the night sky, in a Planetarium in Calcutta, or by a bonfire in the Arizona desert. In the city one cannot see the stars anymore, because of all the neon lights. One needs to get away from the modern artificial lighting, to see how the stars light up the dark night.
Some people has been like leading stars in my life. First there was my father who was an artist of life and who thought me humor. Second, a mysterious stranger, who showed me the way back to God. Third, there was my spiritual director, who helped me believe in life. Fourth, a jolly spiritual friend from Ireland, who encouraged me to journey on. Fifth, a young newly ordained priest from Poland, who said Mass as if one were in paradise. Sixth, my husband who writes poems just for me. Seventh, a county manager, who is building a community for many hundred thousands citizens. Eight, a professor who is training hundreds of social workers, and helps thousands of high risk families. Ninth, our beloved Paolo, who help us find our dream, in my case, my Brazilian dream. Tenth, tonight show host Jay Leno, who entertains me every night. Eleventh, News commentator Bill O’Reilly, for being ‘fair and balanced’. And twelfth, Clients who need me like a son or daughter would, for making life worth living.
The stars are galaxies so far, far away…We will get there soon.
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Starry, starry night.
The stars govern our lives in astological terms. The star of Beethlehem has guided the Three Magi and as Paul from Austria has named Annie and me the ‘Star gazers’!
LOVE,
THELMA
CELESTIAL by Savita Vega
Sometimes I think we’re like the stars
those two, right up there
I to you as Zeta’s Alcor
we, the Great Grizzly’s ill-fated Mizars
who nightly chase one another across
the taut dark dome, charting a spiral series of orbs
burning and yearning, bright
like two mirrors panting at one another, might
those two little points of light, indistinguishable
go on and on, inexhaustibly reaching but never quite touching
their own reflections elusive yet inextinguishable.
Sometimes I think we’re like the planets
or perhaps I to you as to Jupiter
any one of his many moons
or of any such whirlpool, any two twirling dervishes who pass
locked in their tight hot patterns of mutual attraction
enchanting, dancing their impotent dance on the merry-go-round
swirling, as a set of spinning tops or speeding spools unraveling
casting their heady spells, swelling of gravitation, inescapable
like two magnets entranced in a sweet slow samba, inseparable
yet eternally rocked by the sway of their ever-individual clocks.
Sometimes I think we’re like the celestial bodies
who burst and burn and fall to earth in shattered fragments
who’ve drifted cold for eons perhaps in sterile dissipation
after having chosen immolation or dissolution, the sole absolution
when no longer will the density of the core support
the outward tug of inconsummate dispensation.
Sometimes I think we’re like those gleaming dots of light
on high, born of one, in a single bang, who return to one
because in this nearness they can no longer bear to be
alone.
Savita Vega
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