My Fifth Conversation with Starlight."Hi Starlight! How are you doing today?" I asked my conversation friend of the past few days. I heard the word "vibrant" and got the visual of her simply glowing with life. "I can feel that you feel that way," I said. "But it's hard for me to imagine feeling that way myself these days. And I'm trying to think if I ever have felt that." "You do have a lot more layers to have to get through to make it to this point," she said, generally of the human experience. And then she added, "The human mind really knows how to send things off-course!" "So I've discovered," I agreed. "Starlight, I have a question I was wondering as I thought about speaking with you today. I thought to myself, why I would choose speaking with you as Starlight versus you as Echo. Is there a difference? Would I get different answers?" "If it is a question relating to how our different bodies and personalities interact with and experience the world around us, then, yes, you will get very specific answers, different from each other," she explained. "But for most other things, you will get answers from the real being inside. The soul. The one simply wearing these costumes." She said that with a sparkle in her eye. She continued, "The wisdom and experience collects over the lifetimes and parks itself right in the soul for ready access." "I have always wondered that," I admitted. "Like, can we take what we learned in one life and apply it in another? Some of these lives seem pretty difficult, with many hard-earned life lessons. To have to do that over and over without retaining the wisdom of experience seems unthinkable." "Yes, the 'old' souls are deeply learned ones, not necessarily any more ancient than others," she said. "The wisdom goes with you, but it's not always accessible, depending on your goals in that life. In other words, some of that wisdom is suppressed so that you can explore and experience what you wanted to in any particular lifetime." "Have you ever lived lives that you don't like?" I wondered. I tried to feel the answer and felt Starlight shudder at recalling some of her lives. "Yes, there were some bad batches," she said with humor. "They were exceedingly difficult and I was happy to leave them. But they are also my badges of honor." "Would you choose them again?" I asked. "I would be…selective," she carefully answered. Choosing and living a life.I was wondering how my current life fell in the spectrum of easy to difficult. I know others have had things much, much worse in their lives and I have many, many good things going in my favor. But lately, it hasn't been easy. I was going to pose such a question to Starlight, but in typical form, the answer just "became apparent." Most of the conversations I have seem to be like this. They aren't usually my asking a question and then waiting for an answer and I write it down. They are my thinking of a question or thought and then knowing what the other is telling me all at once. I then take the energy of that, the personality and delivery I felt, and translate that into a conversation I can put down on paper. So, in this case, when I pondered the difficulties in this life versus others or even my earlier years, Starlight sent back the understanding that while in my early life, I had my unique challenges, they were mostly due to external forces and my inner struggles. Now, at this point in life, while there may be still some of those same features, there is an added challenge of energetic difficulty that flows through life, affecting those who feel it in different degrees. This feels largely out of our control, not something we can conquer or overcome in the same ways as the other challenges. So it brings its own level of difficulty. "That does seem to sum up my experience, Starlight," I sent back. I feel Starlight as very grounded, solidly knowing her place in this world and beyond. And from within that knowing, comes an ease and easiness from which springs her playfulness, wise perspectives, and even mastery of the game. "You chose well in this life," I said to her. "Yes. But there's good in every life." I considered this comment, wondering first about those lives she mentioned weren't her favorite, then realizing she was only pointing out that no matter which life, there is always some good that comes of it. And that led me to the thought of which life or lives were perhaps her favorite. I got a flash of ancient Egypt and the feeling that cats were truly queens there, as sacred as cows in India. "Yes, those were good times," I felt her say as she enjoyed the memory. "Thank you for sharing so much with me, Starlight," I told her. "It was really fascinating. I think we will talk again at some point and I look forward to that!" "You're welcome, my boy," she said, and put a paw on my head. I was just wondering if there was any special meaning in that gesture and she came in to say, "There's no meaning other than affection. Sometimes it's just that simple." Yes, I agree. Simple is good. This is the fifth of six conversations I had with Starlight. You can read the next conversation with her here.
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