Jo Rose

considering how impossibly far away it is thousands of light years and yet somehow here you are witnessing its light the sky continues to darken

as though a great veil is being gently pulled back and one by one more stars begin to appear hundreds and thousands scattered across the canvas above you

The moon hangs quietly nearby.

A delicate crescent illuminating the landscape with a soft silver glow.

Just enough to see your own shadow beside you.

You feel the earth below you.

cradling you, and here in this sacred space all of the weight of the day begins to melt away.

As you continue looking upward, you notice the softest ribbon of light stretching across the night sky.

the Milky Way, ancient and endless.

The stars seem to shine a little brighter now and you begin to notice constellations taking shape, some clustered together in beautiful patterns

Others shining brilliantly on their own.

And as you take it all in, you feel the energy stirring softly within you.

you realize just how expansive the night sky truly is and perhaps how expansive you are too and you begin to feel the vastness of your own inner universe

A space that exists far beyond worries, far beyond deadlines, far beyond fears.

And everything that once felt heavy now seems small.

Not because it doesn't matter, but because there is something so much larger holding it all.

the same way the night sky holds every star every planet every galaxy and in this moment you feel that connection as someone who was a part of something so magnificent something ancient

something sacred something infinite for the next few moments allow yourself to rest here giving yourself permission to soak it all in

The stars above you.

The beautiful reflection in the lake.