Remember how, when you were a kid, you learned to make wishes on a star? You’d stand there in the dark, close your eyes, tilt your head toward the sky, and when you opened your eyes again, focus on the first star you noticed and say the magical chant. . .
“Star light, star bright
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.”
Then, silently, you’d tell the star your wish.
It was sort of like making a wish when you blew out the candles on your birthday cake. Except that wish came only once a year. Wishing on a star was something you could do on any clear night.
Remember how it felt, sorting through the crowd of wishes you could make to find the exact right one, to name the one wish, above all, that you most wanted to come true?
And as soon as you told it to the star, remember how easily and simply you let it go and went on with the night, happier somehow that you made it?
What a wonderful game! Not only did it give you a chance to look up to the star-glittered sky, to sense the vastness and wonder of it, but it let you tune in to your innermost heart, too. It let you listen to its desires. It let you taste each one, to weigh the depth of your desire for it, and then, in a moment of clarity, to pick the best one, imagining how delicious it would feel to have that one come true.
You can still do that, you know. Even if you’re somewhere that you can’t see the sky, the sky is still there and still sparkled with a billion stars, just waiting for your wishes.
If you were going to make a wish right now, what would you wish for? What’s the one thing your heart would most like to have come true?
That’s a good thing to know. It gives you clarity about what, at this moment, you want to experience more than anything. And when you have clarity about that, amazing things can happen.
I wrote a poem once with lines that said, “When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true, although not necessarily in the time, or form, or manner that you’d imagined.”
One day, maybe a week down the road, maybe a year or a decade or two later, you realize you followed a nudge, moved in the direction of a new idea, made unexpected connections, spotted new opportunities. And now here you are, experiencing the very reality you wished for.
Not because a star in the sky made it happen, but because you did, because your wishing let you know what you truly wanted and set that wish as a guiding star within you.
“Star light, star bright, I wish I may, I wish I might. . .” Whisper that to a star some night. Then let it go, taking the magic of the moment with you. You’ll be glad you did.
I’ll be wishing wonderful wishes for you.
Warmly,
Susan
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