Starlight Healing Arts

07/22/2025

Sky treats!

The Perseids are back – and every color tells us what they're made of!

Every summer, Earth drifts through the dusty trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle – and the result is one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year: the Perseids.

Peaking in mid-August and active right now, this shower can produce up to 75 meteors per hour under dark skies. But here’s what makes them even more amazing: each meteor’s color reveals what it’s made of.

As the meteors blaze through Earth’s atmosphere at over 130,000 mph, they burn up in brilliant flashes of different colors – and those colors reveal what elements are inside:

🔴 Red = Oxygen & Nitrogen
🟡 Yellow-Gold = Iron
🟣 Violet = Calcium
🟠 Orange = Sodium
🔵 Teal/Blue-Green = Magnesium

The Perseids are active from July 17 to August 24, with peak nights around August 12–13. Even with some moonlight, it’s still one of the best times to look up.

Find a dark sky, let your eyes adjust, and enjoy one of the best sights of the year!

07/19/2025

Hoping for clear starry night skies!

☄️ The Sky’s Grandest Dance Returns — The Perseids Are Here
From July 17 to August 23, 2025, the night sky will once again come alive, as the Perseid meteor shower streaks across our view — with a dazzling peak expected between August 12 and 13.

Often called "the best meteor shower of the year," the Perseids are born from the ancient dust trail of Comet Swift–Tuttle. As Earth crosses its path, tiny fragments hit our atmosphere at 37 miles per second, igniting into fast, glowing trails — and, if you're lucky, a few spectacular fireballs.

🌕 Yes, the moon will compete this year. The nearly full Sturgeon Moon (84% brightness) will rise early and wash out fainter meteors — but the brighter ones? They’ll still blaze defiantly through the glow. Under dark skies, expect 50–100 meteors per hour during peak time.

🕐 Best time to watch?
After midnight, before dawn — when the constellation Perseus climbs high and the show reaches full strength.

But the Perseids won’t be alone.

🌠 Two other showers — Alpha Capricornids and Delta Aquariids — will be active too.

The Alpha Capricornids may only produce 5–10 meteors per hour, but they’re famous for brilliant fireballs.
The Delta Aquariids, peaking around July 30, deliver about 20 gentle meteors per hour, often leaving long, drifting trails behind them.
📍Tips for a magical experience:
Escape city lights — choose a rural or high-altitude spot
Bring a blanket, lie back, and give your eyes 30 minutes to adjust
No need for gear — just look up and take it all in
🌌 This is more than a meteor shower — it’s a cosmic tradition that has lit up human skies for over two millennia.

07/12/2025

07/01/2025

Love ignites a sense of calm, joy, safety...

👩‍👦 When a mother kisses her son, it’s not just a tender gesture — it’s biology weaving an invisible bond.

In that simple moment — lips to skin — a cascade of extraordinary things unfolds deep within the brain:

💡 Neuroimaging reveals the hidden symphony:
— The nucleus accumbens and dopamine pathways light up, wiring joy and reinforcing the primal connection.
— The amygdala and hypothalamus, architects of emotion, ignite to nurture safety and belonging.
— Oxytocin, the famed “love hormone,” floods both bodies, lowering stress, sealing trust, deepening attachment.

For the child, that kiss does more than soothe:
It quiets the stress circuits — regulating cortisol, calming fears, nurturing emotional resilience.

A mother's kiss isn’t ordinary. It’s ancient biology — a whispered promise of protection, of unconditional presence.

In that fleeting second, a shelter is built in the brain… and the roots of lifelong security begin to grow.

Love leaves traces science can finally see — but a child feels them long before they understand.

06/28/2025

Ordinary Magic

We tend to think of magic as something that, in times of doubt or lostness, might intervene upon us. We listen for its clarion call, an oracular declaration, the prophetic dream, the jungle medicine that, like a tsunami, sweeps us out of the stuckness of our lives.

But when we look at it honestly, we find the childlike imprint of a longing to be taken care of—as if looking to a cosmic parent who might lift us out of the ache and ambiguity of our becoming—bestowing the inspiration we need, revealing our true vocation, or finally delivering us to our place of belonging in the world.

This impulse isn’t misguided - it comes out of remembering those times in our lives when a divine intelligence nudged us onto the path of our destiny. Maybe you took a wrong turn and met the person who would change your life. Or a rejection rerouted you onto a more authentic path. Maybe you dreamed of a house you'd never seen, and years later, found yourself living in it. These moments of grace, textured with meaning, are real experiences of the world conspiring to bring you into coherence with a larger purpose. And once you’ve felt that kind of resonance, it becomes impossible not to long for it again. But divine intervention is only one half of a conversation. As every mystic, shaman, and artist knows, it is the every day acts of reciprocity that prepare our readiness for such magic to happen.

Magic is a relationship forged in the ordinary. It is our endurance through the unknown and unyielding times. It is faith in the as-yet-unmanifest. It is the invocation of the large, while praising the small.

Magic is the redoubling of our vow when disappointment befalls us—a shoulder to the wheel of our intent.

~ Toko-pa Turner

06/23/2025

So cool!

06/18/2025

😃 Celestial Smiley Face Appears on June 19!

🌙✨ Get ready for a rare and delightful sight in the early morning sky — a triple conjunction of the Moon, Saturn, and Neptune, forming a smiley face!

🔭 The crescent Moon will act as the smile, while the two bright planets shine as “eyes” — a cosmic coincidence that feels almost magical.

🌲 Best viewed just before dawn on June 19, 2025, looking east above the horizon. Binoculars may help you spot Neptune more clearly.

06/05/2025

Our bodies are amazing. 💗

05/31/2025

Today is the day I WILL see something beautiful in someone and tell them. 🌸💖

03/17/2025

"May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far."Blessings! 🍀💚☘️

03/14/2025

Being you is just right, no matter what others see. 💖