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  • January 2023 - When our star begins to speak by Rev. Reingard Knausenberger

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​When our star begins to speak

by Rev. Reingard Knausenberger

Looking out over the city at midnight, we see the lights twinkling. Every light indicates the presence of human consciousness. Leaving the city and looking upwards, we see the sparkling light of the stars, each star expressing sublime higher consciousness. Every human soul may look up to the stars and know: one of them belongs to me. Yes, everyone truly has ‘their star’. It is good to imagine this star-spangled dome as the cloak of the One, who holds, carries and knows each human soul in their higher true Self.

In the Christmas nights, we re-connect and draw impulses for the whole year ahead from this place where our star is held as a potential future reality.

In celebrating The threefold Act of Consecration of Man at Christmas midnight, Dawn and Day we are in waking presence to this potential and may experience, more and more, how the One, who carries our higher Self becomes present at the altar. During the rest of the year it is a continual endeavour to perceive our true being as an encounter with Christ in the Deed of transubstantiation.

As we begin the new year with Epiphany, this theme of the star continues. Stars become invisible during the day. In daylight we tend to go into a ‘me, me, me’ focused mode. Where has the warmth of hopes and visions, the ‘upward glance’ gone?

In daylight there is now a shift needed from ‘out there’ to ‘in here’. It is not about seeking for something, but rather of a receptivity to noticing, becoming sensitive for perceiving new qualities emerging from invisibility.

Living with Christ is to nurture and uphold an attitude. It is caring for a relationship.

One that brings my star to shine, yes, to speak itself out, in daylight. 

A meditation from Rudolf Steiner can give support for this to manifest:
 
A star stands above my head.
Christ speaks from the star:
Let your soul be carried by my strong power--
            I am with you
            I am in you
            I am for you
            I Am your true I.
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