MEDITATION ON THE STAR OF LIGHT

DECEMBER 2006

As I write this on a crisp, frosty, December morning, I have been watching and listening to a pair of robins singing on the fence and telegraph wires at the bottom of our garden. They seem full of energy and enthusiasm for life. After the winter solstice, in a few days time, the days will start to lengthen again and become lighter. It is at this darkest and coldest time in Northern Europe that we like to look for these signs that the warmer and lighter days will soon be with us again.

The star that guided the magi to the birthplace of the new born Jesus is one of the most well known of Christmas symbols. Symbols of light are much used in the Northern hemisphere at the time of the Winter Solstice (December 22nd this year). Many world traditions also talk of Light as a symbol of the divine. In the Chandogya Upanishad, we read:

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens, this is the LIGHT that shines in our heart.”

A well-known meditation is to use the symbol of the six-pointed star and its light and meditate on the heart chakra, the spiritual centre at the centre of the chest. The six-pointed star is always in balance, it can’t be turned upside down like the five-pointed star. If you like to use essential oils or incense in your meditations, frankincense is an appropriate one to use. Several spiritual teachers advise the meditator to meditate on the heart chakra, as the other chakras depend on it for the light that is generated in meditation. The heart chakra is at the centre of the self, like the sun is at the centre of the solar system and the other chakras can be compared to the planets that depend on the sun for their light.

Begin your meditation by sitting quietly and tuning in to your breathing. Visualise a bright point of light above you, that sends rays of light all around you, so that you are sitting in a ray of light, like a great triangle. The point at the apex of the triangle is above you and its broad base is at your feet. At the apex of this triangle, visualise another triangle, this time with its point facing down. It becomes bigger and bigger until this too enfolds you, with its apex at your feet and its ‘base’ above you. Now you find yourself sitting at the centre of an immense six-pointed star. Not only this, but you also see another six-pointed star at the heart centre. You might see it at the centre front of your chest or inside your chest, be aware of how it is for you.

Continue to breathe in the light of the star and affirm, “I am in the star”. With the next breath, affirm, “The star is in me.” Then affirm, “I am the star”. Repeat the affirmations and breaths as many times as you like. Visualise rays of light shining out from your heart. You can use this light to send healing to people, places and animals, by seeing them held at the centre of a star or sun.. It is a powerful healing symbol and also the symbol of the divine within you, your ‘SELF.’

Conclude your meditation in the usual way.

For more about the healing star, and a graphic that you can show on your computer screen to help with your visualisation, see www.thestarlink.net Also see “The Book of Star Light”, White Eagle Publishing Trust, (1999) ISBN 0-85487-117-9.

© Kathleen Pepper 2006

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