Speeding spaceships swerving explosions color my 3am dreams.
Navigating the maze of grocery carts, organic produce, and people at Whole Foods I silently repeat a mantra that soothes: The Force is With Me, and I Am ONE with the Force.
In lively dinner conversations with friends, when I am courted with the kind question about how I am and what I am doing, my immediate response rockets to a long-ago galaxy that amplifies my life-energy.
“Stars Wars” sparks the start of my 2020 with cosmic JOY.
The last film, “The Rise Of Skywalker” initiates the beginning of my starry affair.
The final day of my Kentucky holiday stay, I intuit that I need an action movie to recharge my third chakra, my power center.
A mysterious haze clouds the realm of the inner adult.
My internal universe has been impacted by the lethargic presence of foreign energies. Absorbing the anxiety, sorrow, pain of others happens to empaths, sensitives, people with hearts that blaze open. It’s vitally important that we stay clear in our energy, in our powers of discernment and honor boundaries so we can remain strong and vibrant in our loving natures.
On the quest to re-center in my personal embodied power, I heed the counsel of healer Sonia Choquette. Action films present characters strong in their power centers – capable, courageous, clear in their intent and willing to take the external steps to create the change they wish to see.
So on a rainy day, in a mission to motivate my third chakra back to optimal operating order, I treat myself to an early afternoon showing of “Star Wars.” I walk in with only the vague memories of the first film watched years and years ago, and am thankful for my “Stars Wars” savvy sister to assist in whispering beneficial plot information.
Wildly enthralled, the film supercharges my power center (because any story that focuses on fighting for the greater good totally wins and bolsters me) and propels fresh enthusiasm to explore a galaxy that energizes and thrills me.
The best gift of Disney Plus grants me full access to all the “Star War” films and I greatly look forward to my evenings where I cuddle up with Kali Ma, my loyal couch friend, and eat chips (with a generous spoonful of spicy salsa and hummus) and let my heart and imagination soar into a “beyond” that mirrors and sheds light on our own current history, and my own contemplations and actions aligned to being a force of light, of good in the world.
Because this post isn’t really about “Star Wars.” I’m a new star-seed to this world.
(STILL. I COULD write a whole post on how Rey represents the RISING of the divine feminine and Ben symbolizes the HEALING of the divine masculine meeting to support Rey in the collective ascension toward higher consciousness…but I digress.)
This post and the Subtle and Significant Celebrations ones that will follow throughout the year are about an answer to a reoccurring question that I felt lost to answer.
What do you want?
I attempt to force. I’ll sit here until there’s a response.
And wanting, desiring, clear motivations all spin from a balanced third chakra (do you see how everything relates?!).
What do you want?
Sigh. And a shift.
What do you want?
Becomes…
What makes you come alive?
Radiant gratitude to Harold Whitman for this joy-clarifying wisdom: “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
I can answer this question. I can feel the spark of aliveness, the expansion of the breath, the radiance of the heart, the pure delight in being present.
Diving into the galactic war for the greater good makes me come alive.
Why?
Utilizing fantasy and fantastical storytelling as messengers for higher meaning, to foster deeper empathy and understanding for human nature, to speak to the energies present in the collective rising and healing makes me feel exuberantly alive.
When I share this passion with my friends and family, they celebrate! They feel my excitement and it sizzles them up, too, because energy tells the truth. When people share what they love, I rejoice, because it’s inspiring an aliveness that instructs alignment and flow, and if we are in alignment, if we are in flow, there is a peaceful ease that influences the outer world.
So when I tell my friend Jeremy, he pauses and gives me a sly look.
“Do you envision yourself with a lightsaber?”
Of course, I do.
And it’s hot pink, too.