Music of the Spheres

Now, I love myths, legends, and fairy tales. I wrote these stories originally for my children, and they asked me to publish them. And so many of these fairy tales have gone on to be a really great success. I’m really thankful that my children insisted that they wanted their fairy tales published.

So sound is something that’s very important in storytelling. The word. The sound, the sacred word, the sacred song, the songlines in the aborigine tradition, and the music of the spheres in more of the Judah Christian tradition. So I think of sound as the divine mother calling us home, back into pure being, a lullaby. So, the story I want to tell you about today is a mixture of Irish legend and a South American one, and I mean, one thing I love about creatively mixing cultures is that we begin to see that while we all have lovely distinctive differences, we might look a little different, but at our core, we’re largely the same. And we tell very similar stories.

So Eala: Mother Swan/La Madre Cisne, is told in both English and Spanish as I said, and it has a little bit of a different feeling depending on the language. Today, I’m going to focus on English. I mean, just saying for a minute, most of the French I learned, I learned from reading children’s books like Le Petit Prince. So it’s fun to work with these different languages. Again, music of the sphere, the sacred sounds.

So I’m going to tell you a little bit about the story. I might read a little bit of it too. The illustrations are beautiful. Please go and look at them. They were created by Paige Ozma Ashmore. They’re whimsical. They really add to the otherworldly feeling of the story. You can see them on infinitelightpublishing.com, or you can buy an ebook, or you can purchase it if you really like the story. And there are lots of books to check out there.

So another thing that I want to do is put the story in context by speaking about the 12th-century nun Hildegard of Bingen. You might be familiar with her, but she spoke about and wrote an alignment with the music of the spheres. So you see each one of us has a song that lives in our soul. We just need to know how to find it. And one way that we begin to remember it, to find it, is to listen to the songs of the stars.

So, when we come back from the short break, we’re going to talk more about Eala: Mother Swan and finding the song of your own soul. So stay tuned, we’ll be right back.