The StarWheel Sutras speak a language of metaphors, inner intuition and archetypal symbols. They express the perennial spiritual wisdom from many traditions. They launch many possible interpretations but let you pick your own.
[This description of the StarWheel Sutras is intentionally repeated on every Sutra page.]
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SW 049 — Aton Rose
Decision
The Greek Fates were said to weave
human destinies on their looms.
They were filling in the karmic blueprint
provided by and for each soul.
This StarWheel is such a matricial loom,
a frequency map designed to harmonize human life and spirit.
Who are the Fates?
They are the various Decision makers within you.
When life brings up its many and confusing options,
who is deciding within you and how?
O Friend,
your many faces sit in a peaceful sacred council
and, in a single voice, come to this common agreement:
you are your own magnificent destiny.
Weaving your own fate
is being both center and periphery as One.
SW 050 — Dove Buddha
Purity
A symbolic image of the Buddha in an interactive mode.
Less as yet another holy icon to worship,
more as an invitation to fully transcend form.
Leaving all agitation at the periphery,
enter the Sacred Gate and move into Center,
utterly still. Purity.
The Heart of the Buddha is You,
the center point of the cosmic compass.
Your focused awareness is the radius
which spans all creation and re-enters Source.
The white dove alights and mates with the black raven.
The embryo flowers within the nest.
The Original Face opens up into a vast inner smile
and sees, with perennial eyes,
the emptiness of even the holiest of forms.
The beautiful soul-bird soars through the Tree of Life
and flies into the vastness of Pure Being.
SW 051 — Spiral Goddess
Creation
The Great Star-Mother lovingly embraces the Play of Life.
Creation is a most gracious Way of Being.
The Mother's infinitely fertile womb is ever delivering the universes.
From her bountiful breasts spring forth rivers of honey-milk
to nurture her many-colored children.
Every child is a universal partner:
love sees no difference.
Timelessly, the cycles of embryonic growth
bring the single ovum-seed to full babyhood.
Underground, the mighty cosmic serpent vibrates the yoni-lingam:
sun rising over the moon mountaic.
The Spiral Goddess has myriad faces: some are familiar & pleasant,
some are surprising & frightening... but all are Perfect.
She is in turn the ravishing maiden,
the bountiful mother and the all-seeing crone.
She freely gives all forms and freely takes them away.
Birth & Death happen within Life.
SW 052 — Mother Sphere
Re-Union
A mini-planet, Mother ovum,
enshrined upon a pyramidal Father-field.
Appearing from beyond the dimensional threshold,
a supra-luminal Merkaba activates
previously dormant arrays of triangular codes
within the Human Temple.
Bright Arrows of Light are shooting across the horizon,
weaving new light grids of expanded consciousness.
Higher-dimensional holo-glyphs, carrying encoded information,
bubble through the global minds & hearts.
This is a time of Re-Union.
Gaia’s ovum, within the Earth’s evolutionary matrix,
is impregnated with seeds of galactic awareness
as humanity is learning to bond with higher star intelligence.
The Bride is welcoming the Bridegroom
and their hearts are becoming one.
We are at the point of space-time overlap.
Hear, feel, and dance the Music of the new Spheres.
SW 053 — Bardo Canoe
Transition
Two beings of Light, at your head and feet,
stand ready to guide you through the journey of your own death.
Are you ready?
You are seated at the bow of the Bardo Canoe,
the Boat of the Afterlife,
navigating the night-blue River of Remembrance.
You are drifting through the red shadows of the unconscious.
Be aware: they are ready to provoke & devour you
as soon as you give them power.
The boat carries the totality of your life experience
within an akashic treasure chest
whose contents are holographically displayed.
You simultaneously re-enact all parts of your life-script
and you instantly know your Naked Truth.
All is revealed and presented to the ten symbolic judges
- aspects of your own soul calling upon you.
Now the inverted pyramid of Light opens into your New Abode.
Welcome to Consciousness as the Dance of Transition.
Life continues... always.
SW 054 — Turtle Isle
Coherence
In ancient cosmologies, the sturdy, fertile, wise & long-lived turtle
is said to be the Prototype and Bearer of the Cosmos.
This StarWheel, like the symbolic turtle,
conveys global stability and universal order.
The primordial Foundation:
four powerful feet anchoring, like cornerstones,
the four poles of creation.
A firm back upholding, nurturing,
and sustaining the Axis of the World,
between head above and tail below.
Turtle Medicine.
As we walk in Balance & Integrity,
aware of our connection with the dome shell of the sky
and the sacred ground of the earth,
we create Harmonic Coherence.
Embracing the primal rhythm of expansion & contraction,
we dance in resonance with the seasons.
Ancient Music is playing upon the Isle of Self.
SW 055 — Vesica Ajna
Infinity
The Vesica is an almond-shaped opening,
a vortex formed by two inter-penetrating circles or spheres.
A Sacred Communion and fusion is realized
between the realms of Spirit (heaven) and Matter (earth):
a Living Vessel or womb nurturing and birthing Creation.
The chrysalis woven within the Vesica breaks open:
a new vision of life awakens & soars.
Two luminous wings on either side of the Solar Eye-disk
are a timeless symbol expressing flight & liberation.
The translucent mirror of Liquid Light is gently entered.
The Ancient Face of the ages reflects Itself
within the tranquil lake of consciousness.
Upon dissolving the shimmering illusion of appearance,
the opening third eye - the Ajna chakra -
clearly sees the One in all. Infinity.
SW 056 — Bi-Buddha
Bi-Unity
The cross-section of a soul-field Mandala.
The beautiful and wondrous mystery of God & Goddess.
Bi-Buddha is the androgyn within yourself.
You and your soul-consort.
Source flowering into manifestation.
Bi-Unity: Two in One, One in Two.
Infinite rings of radiance emanating from a golden center:
the Heart of Compassion,
merging all realms, healing all wounds, and sourcing all light.
Two halves of a whole, two faces of the same,
Eye to Eye, embracing all as One.
You are and will always remain whole & complete,
an all-encompassing totality.
Within you the parts choreograph their own unique dance.
Where is the separation?
How can we divide the ocean?
O Traveler, if you see more than one self,
take your attention away from the outer rings of your soul
and abide within the Heart.
SW 057 — Tree of Life
Flow
The River of Creation
rushes within you and all beings.
Sitting on the royal throne, you look behind the horizon.
Braiding bright garlands of sacred elements,
you are shaping roots, branches and bountiful flowers,
hanging a new leaf, petal or fruit
every golden turn of growth.
Spiral levity of the sap turning sun & moon into life:
from root to crown,
you ascend the tube of light.
Flow.
Now, balancing flower gardens on the roof of your head,
you stand in regal power,
moving with gentle breeze and graceful dance steps.
O Friend, glorious Tree of All Life,
you are Naked Water dancing from earth to sky.
SW 058 — Dome Mountain
Levitation
Inside
the mountain of life,
there is a celestial city.
Within the city, a sacred dome.
At apex is displayed the crystal floor layout,
an interactive frequency pattern for spiral dance.
Levitation is the focal vortex point of golden harmonies,
as the cup of one pours living waters upon the gardens of many.
Every day there comes the appointed time
to heed creatures' prayers
and to compassionately re-arrange creation.
The cloud ships are covers for angelic messengers
to play hide and seek.
Standing up, the landscape shows the entire universe,
a flower that keeps opening
until the next cosmic seed season.
Smiling wisely,
the moon plays yo-yo with the mountain.
SW 059 — Pura Devi
Ceremony
Temples and shrines have deep evolutionary roots:
they grow everywhere,
each one unique.
You are temple and shrine: always a Ceremonial offering.
You enter the split gate of the temple
to walk into the light,
you make live offerings to the shrine of your being
to nurture auspicious love and gratitude.
At the windows, the holy host smiles.
One head, two feet, six arms: nine.
Outside the gate, hilarious ancestors.
Descending into the roots, the cup is turned around;
ascending to canopy,
you become the Triple Sun.
Morning and evening meet at noon.
SW 060 — Dolphin Pod
Togetherness
Meet Inakan, Muniya, Ataran,
Tuanin, Kumila and Sunikor:
six dolphin beings in their kin holo-pod.
Being oneself and being a family, in attuned synergy.
Dolphins have been swimming the oceans
far longer than humans have walked the lands.
They have developed a harmonic relationship
to the galactic waters
and a playful dance of Togetherness with creation.
Compassionate elders,
dolphins are gently pushing on our ego bubbles
by displaying the ancient wisdom of life-in-oneness.
Look, you too can walk the human path with dancing beauty.
You too can flex your life in graceful curves & leaps,
singing together with the Spirit-Soul.