StarBeing, twenty, thaw

Snowflake,

you freeze,
you thaw,
you form,
you change,
you melt,
you raise,
you fly,
you accumulate,
you transform,
you re-shape,
you fall again,
you fly,
the wind cathes you,
sideways,
back up,
crashing down,
swooshed in to
a nothingness
where all is dark
and creation
rests,
germinates

Through the soils of
Earth’s
water
you wake up
again

with the rain-
worms
and
clover

You spend what
feels
like a lifetime
as dreary
rain

There she is again,
Mother Winter,
eternal crystal queen

She picks you up,
she condenses you,
you crystalize,
become crystalline,
inviting new
light,
new life,
freeze to settle,
release to
dance

in to the form,
the shape of
life
you need to
take
right now,

Snowflake

StarBeing

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, nineteen, sisters

I have come to love
another country,
that which was not
mine,
is truly mine

I have come to lose
what I love
and love
what I lost

You should never go
back to
what you left,
people say

You should always
move forwards

Are we not moving
all the time though?

Backwards, forwards,
upwards, downwards,
sideways,
diagonally,
round and round,
in a
spiral we are
trying to grasp,
or not,
called life?
Is it not just to
be lived?

It should not feel
like punishment,
a heartstring
mother of all
told me.

Sacred Fierceness,
she is.

It does.
This feels
like
punishment.

So leave, my love,
leave.
Touch down
to bounce up.

Sisterhood,
all that matters.
Always.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, eighteen, strength

Healing
isn’t always peaceful,
he spoke on Instagram,
AbleHeart

Live in the goodness
of Life,
a scribbled note
in my stack
said.

Stop running,
turn around and
face it,
he said.

You are right
where
you’re supposed
to be,
she sang.
Aurora

When the goodness
of life
takes a struggle
to see,
as the
heavy
black
curtain
is choking the heart
and the self ,
running
being all you
do,
all you know,
to escape
Hearing
healing isn’t always peaceful,
that freedom begins
when you turn
around
and face it,
when you
let Source
walk you t
hrough
one step at
a time,
it feels like
it might
actually
provide some
strength

Turn around and face it.
You are exactly where
you are asked to
be.
In the pain.

Face it.
Face healing.

Powerful.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, seventeen, now

What matters matter
to you,
StarBeing

What matters matter
to you
my dear
my love
my one and only
living
loving
soul

Do not accept
any hurt
any more
Do not accept

What matters matter
StarBeing

To your soul,
to your light,
to your love,
joy
and
connection

Go back,
Go forwards,
act, live,
sparkle,
receive

Don’t let that
darkness
wedge
any
deeper
in to
any-thing or
any-where

What matters matter
StarBeing.
Go grab it.
Now.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, fourteen, stars

I believe in guidance,
in guidance I believe
- yet, I do not seem to
believe
in
myself

I grasp and grasp
and grasp,
fingernails bleeding,
splinters wedged
underneath them,
grasping still
at the outside,
at confirmation
that I
am allowed
to exist

I believe in guidance,
in guidance I
believe,
yet I cannot seem to see
what guidance
tells me
in this dark world
around me,
at this time

Darkness is there,
so that we can
see the Stars,
StarBeing.

I understand that,
yet why
can I not
see
the stars?

Because you must
wrap yourself
around them,
StarBeing.
Allow the darkness
to fold
to unfold,
challenge the wind,
embrace the rain.

I don’t know if I can.

You can,
StarBeing,
you can.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, thirteen, override

Speak life in to Being,
Star

StarBeing,
with every word
every breath,
present yourself.

StarBeing,
I am
StarBeing

I am of
magic,
of crystals,
of life,
of light,
of all the goodness
holding this universe
together.
I am of
That
StarBeing

Why do we have
to
emphasize the darkness
so much
that
all we initially see
is the
mustered force
of things you
are being shown you
have
to do
in this world
to be a bit less
dark?
- as if evil is inherent.

Why is the pure,
bright,
emphatic,
kind,
loving,
generous
quality which is
what gives birth to everything
we do
create,
why is that
living power,
life force,
pushed down so
deep ?

Asking the
questions
allows you to
get rid of
them,
StarBeing.

Finding out why
will not
make you
shine any brighter.

Ask.
Understand.
Know.

Do not go there!
Override!
Override the script.
Override the filter,
override the
lie,
override any and
every
thing
which is not you,
The StarBeing.

Override.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, twelve, twelve

12:12

Darkness
holds the light
Light
holds the darkness

The key,
the key lies in
“holds”

No such thinga as “not holding”

How do you reach the holding?

By leaning in.
With curiousity.

Lean in.
Be held.
Stay curious.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, eleven, moss

We went into the woods,
it poured,
heavy rain
weighing down
branches, streams
overflowing
bark
falling off
trunks
like leaves
in the wind

A veil of pine,
moving in the wind
like a
theatre
curtain

I reached out,
asked the
elementals of
the forest,
the branches,
to moss and the
mycelium,
the trolls, the fae,
vättar,
nissar,
pixies
and more trolls

to please, show us,
plese, lead us,
the emperor of
the woods,
the queen of the
throne of lavae and
snow,
to guide us
to where we ought
to be

“Follow the waterdragon”
the answer came from
the wild creek

“Up the mountain,
down the other side.
Not here, is all I
can say.
Just follow
the waterdragon”.

Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

StarBeing, nine, because

Star’s wisdom
is wider than anything
I have ever
Known

In her playfulness lies a gentleness
wrapped as a totally crazy
devotion
to nudging,
watching,
challenging
disobedience

Star’s wisdom says
break all the rules
that are not of the heart,
which do not make you fly

Keep companionship close,
too close for comfort,
unless
it is neediness
disguised
as companionship
- from your side too,
my dear
from your side too

Star’s wisdom says
look in the mirror,
just don’t
drown in it.

Do it differently
tomorrow
Because
tomorrow
is
different

Go back to school,
walk backwards,
sing a song,
write a new story,
a new life,
a new way of
living,
being,
loving
and moving
in and out
of the world,
anything

Because you can


Cecilia Gotherstrom, Dec 2025 

The Life of a WaterDragon, Part 2

Conversations With An Angel

Her whiskers touch my hand. She eats gently out of the palm of my hand. Young one. Brave one. Gentle and so powerful.

Looking back , I see how I had no understanding in that younger mind of mine of how this four footer could have chosen me, could have loved me so dearly from day one. To me it had seemed so clear back then that I had just taken too much hay on my fork – as usual – by inviting this little ball of fierce energy in to my life and now I had to deal with it.

Being here with her now I wonder if it is not she who took too much hay on her fork by coming in to my life.

My Angel.

The drums of nature are calling. My angel is speaking. She speaks through the curiousness of her eyes. Through eternal listening. Through her constant invitation of pure awareness and boundless peace.

I am still learning her language. Or unlearning the old language, as she calls it.

Her language is in her ways. 

“Learn my ways and you will learn new things”. The first sentence she ever spoke to me.

The light is bright. The candle flickers higher than what should be possible. Its spark illuminates the night.

“That little light, that little spark, hold on to that”, she motions with her paw. 

“Watch it grow, watch it flicker, watch it sparkle, let it take over, let it burn down all that which is overgrown and overbearing, carry it with you in the night, hold it in your heart, see it in your mind, know that the only focus you need is that light, that one light, that one flickering luminous flame.”

“The flame that so many are afraid of shall be hidden no more. It is burning and it will only burn stronger and stronger the coming years, decades and centuries.”

“ Those who hide their flames will be choked by their own smoke. Literally. It is already happening. Dim your light and you feel the inner claustrophobia creeping in. Shut the door of your soul and you fall ill. Soul ill. You feel betrayed. Trapped. You look outside for the reasons. You trace your days, years, decades, centuries back for explanations. You want to understand.”

“There is nothing to be understood. There is a hatch to be opened. A door to be blown wide open by a storm so fierce that the magma of Vattnajökull diminishes in comparison. All you are to do is to hand over the key. Hand it back to the soul. Be bold! You cannot hold back what is meant to be. What already is. Open! Stand! Be bold!”

Mid December 2024, Cecilia Götherström