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A Personal Account
By Sarah Pirtle

What we’re breathing is love.
What we’ve made of is love.

Love is what we were about when we came together singing this song in the blustery snow on December 22, 2012. We came together, connected with people all over the world, to engage with the wide transformations afoot at this long-time prophesized Solstice. According to Jose Arguelles, the Maya engaged deeply with the galactic mind and created a powerful and precise calendar which pointed out the end of one 5,121 year era and the beginning the 5th Sun on December 21, 2012. Throughout this three-day portal Satyena held space for ceremony with clarity and integrity in such a way that she gave room for each person to make their own discoveries and build knowledge together. There was no other place I wanted to be.

A dozen of us experienced the full stretch of three days that began with calling in spiritual guidance and forming the seed in the Phoenix Cathedral the first night. Numbers widened to about thirty people present for at least a segment, like a tag-team keeping a flame going. Here are a few snapshots so that the large community of people who are nourished by the steady flame of Starseed can feel included in what transpired. The intention was that this gathering marked a culmination of twenty-five years of preparation for this crossing-over point.

The first night we experienced a guided presentation about the astronomy of the Earth crossing into a new planetary relationship to the Milky Way galaxy, which the Maya people had calculated. Using creative movement, we moved from the initial flaring forth of the Universe, through the transformations which are still alive in us today. The moment that we were focusing upon the DNA in our cells opening to new growth, outside a shower of sleet began tapping the metal roof, ushering in a wave of synchronicity.

The next morning, awakened by drum and song,  we gathered together in the meditation room at 6:11 am for the long awaited Winter Solstice 2012 moment. We lit candles and moved into the next dimension of love, as wave after wave of energy and connection with all beings flowed through us. Workshops throughout the day included yoga honoring the chakras, body blessing, and sensing how to acknowledge the potential of a golden orb like a halo around our head. On the third day we lit candles with our new intentions. Then we walked to the rose cairn in the Medicine Wheel and breathed our intentions into rocks Satyena had gathered at the ocean in the fall. As we added new stones, anointed by rose oil, the cairn grew. Finally we walked to the copper pyramid structure, that was installed at the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, to connect the newest and oldest places in the medicine wheel, and here we anchored the impulse of the new era. The star seed has been planted!

Deborah Lord led an important piece about the growth of the mid-line. We learned that when we are in embryo form; after fourteen days, the growing self creates a primitive streak of cells. We recapitulated that pre-birth process, sensing — I rest in all that has been and let it melt. I begin again in a new embryo, and I find the midline that I created back in the womb.

We felt the fruition of the wholesome intentions that Starseed has been holding an incubating for these twenty-five years. With laughter, with camaraderie, with new insights, we stepped consciously into a new era, a new baktun according to the Maya, a new opportunity for quickening inside us what it means to embody the force of love.

Two Transitions that Changed My Life
By Satyena Ananda

When you ask to change a deep personal and genetic pattern be prepared to be tested and to go through the fire.  The first step is asking for help.  At this point most of my life (42 years) has been dedicated to transformation.  It should not have been a surprise to me that when the planet and humanity came to a momentous place of evolutionary shift that I would be thrown into a place of challenge and personal crisis.

My situation was that for 26 years I had been anchoring the Starseed Sanctuary as a center not only for personal transformation but also for planetary and universal transformation.  And now the moment of greatest opportunity to anchor the huge shift of ages, a portal in time so to speak, when the energy was available for humankind to change how we have been living on the planet for thousands of years (warring, killing, polluting, destroying nature and species) a way of living that was based around greed and personal power- and Shift to a time, a way of living in brotherhood/sisterhood and Universal humanhood, a way of living based on Peace, Love, co-operation and co-creation.  So this was Big for me. I did not understand everything. Actually I felt I understood little, yet my spirit was called.  I was committed to participating in the shift and anchoring the era at Starseed.

Plans were made for a three day gathering December 20-22.  I was linked up with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Grandmother to the evolutionary awareness movement, The Shift Network, the Agents of Conscious Evolution, and millions of people all over the world all preparing to enter this rare moment in time.

Then seven days before the event began I received a call from my family that my 90 year old mother, living in Ohio, had taken a turn. She had gone into a deep sleeping space, was unable to speak, and was she not eating or drinking.  I was scared.  I knew that she had wanted to cross over for some time.  I was committed to being there for her when the time came.  I did not want this time to be the time. How could I leave Starseed at a moment in time that I was born for?

There was so much to do to prepare for the Solstice 2012 Events.  There was no one else living at Starseed.  It was winter time.  The buildings are heated with wood.  How could I leave at this critical time? And how could I not go to my mother’s side?  It was my worst nightmare.

I kept going into deep prayer asking for guidance, asking to know what to do.  The nurses and doctors said, “no one knows how long it could be.  People can go for quite a while without eating and drinking.  My Mom was taking very small amounts of pureed food and water.  The staff felt she was definitely in transition.  What to do?  Inside, I knew that anchoring this energy at Starseed was part of my work, part of the mission I came here to do and that I would do it.

So, I prayed for a strengthening of faith, trust and love.  I prayed for discernment, that if God had given me this mission, I would be allowed to do it as well as be with my mother in her time of need to assist her with crossing over.  I communicated with my Mom through the ethers and asked her to hold on until I could get to her.  I prayed for help to hold this space of trust.

As things heightened for the Solstice/Birth time, my Mom’s condition became more unstable.  People were beginning to arrive at Starseed for the event, and at the same time my family decided to call in Hospice round the clock.  It was really necessary to keep calling in my higher essence to help me stay present to the energy coming in, guiding ceremonies, and holding inner space with my Mom at the same time.  During the three day event, I experienced an incredible influx of light and connection with all of the beings who were consciously participating in this moment in time.  The feeling of love and the birth of a conscious humanity was literally being birthed through us.  I felt completely guided throughout the three days and was extremely thankful for the beautiful participation of all who were present.  The energy of love, unity and connection felt the same as the experience during the three days of the Harmonic Convergence in 1987. I am sure that receiving this energy prepared me for my experience with my mom and my family.

I was then very blessed to have my dear friend Gunjeet drive me to Boston to be a part of the opening of the Boston Birth 2012 event.  I slept at my daughters, returned home the next day, threw some things in a suitcase, and flew out the next day for Ohio, arriving to my Mom on Christmas Eve. My trust and faith paid off and I was able to be with my Mom for seven days before she left for her heavenly home. I was deeply grateful that she did have need of my help, assisting her through an intense spiritual battle of releasing the fear of judgment.  On December 30^th she very peacefully slipped away.

Upon her departure, my mother let me know of her gratitude for my presence and help by infusing me with sweet loving energy from her hands, from her power center, directly into my hands, into my heart.

We never know when and what we will be called to in life. Our part is to be willing to show up, ask to be guided, and trust that it is so.

I had asked to change a deep genetic pattern that held a belief that things wouldn’t work out for me to trusting that Divine Love and Divine Order are here for me and no matter what, “all is well”.