I’ve never been a huge believer in star signs but I’m increasingly fascinated by the miracle of the night sky and the interpretations humans have given the constellations over centuries.
Today I looked up which constellation is linked to justice and here it is: Libra.
I am fascinated as I see this and think of the traditional image of a law building:
And then I look into the “scales of justice” image and find this, the Libra Scales of Justice:
And as I fall down the rabbit hole that is Google images…
There is much I have to learn but today, I am happy to just sit with renewed fascination that the origins of these well known symbols are in the stars.
A story – to help explain why I might be starting to believe in stars and star signs: during my trip to Bali in December 2012 I was thinking hard about my mother one evening and what it must be like to have a headstrong daughter like myself! I went into a restaurant, and a woman, about my mother’s age I guessed, asked if I was travelling alone and whether I’d like to join her for dinner. With my intuition on super alert mode (as it was during my entire Bali trip), I said “OK” knowing that somehow there’d be a mother/ daughter connection in this somewhere.
It was only a minute before she mentioned she had a daughter, who was 35. I was 35 at the time. She said she was struggling as her daughter was so headstrong and was building a movement in the bootcamp fitness industry. I smiled, thinking of my work to grow the Integrative Law Movement. She told me her daughter was a Scorpio. I laughed and said “I am too.” Then she mentioned her daughter’s birth date: 18 November 1977.
That’s when it all became pretty weird. Because that is, as you guessed by now, my birthday. So having wondered what it might be like to have a headstrong Scorpio daughter born on 18 November 1977 – it took me just a few hours to find the answer.
My logical, reasonable, rational lawyer brain still dominates my ways of thinking. But increasingly, I believe in magic and synchronicity and miracles.
“I still stand in the garden at midnight, trying to eat the stars.”*
*from a poem I have loved and lost…if you can find it let me know. It’s a short, maybe 5 line poem.
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