Life can be challenging in the world today. There is so much chaos, and those of us who are empaths can fall out of balance with the unpleasant, disorienting energy. Staying positive to make our world go smoother can be a challenge even for those who aren’t empaths.

So what is a person to do? One of my solutions is to create beauty. Beauty makes all of life more easy and joyful. It can evoke a sense of serenity.

Think about it. All of us, no matter what gender or sexual orientation, enjoy looking at a beautiful woman. Her beauty calls forth a pleasure response in us all. A beautiful woman inspires others. And we, too, can be beautiful in our own way.

I believe that it is important for us to think in terms of giving ourselves and others gifts to the world through beauty, whether it is the food we artfully arrange on a plate, the way we drape fabric across a wall, the pot of flowers we plant, the attractive clothes we wear or the welcoming smile we give to others. Beauty is an antidote for an agitated world.

“Oh, but,” you say, “I’m not the creative type.” Well, everyone has some talent or the other – at least one, but likely many. Maybe you like to garden, and can put together a garden scene that pleases. Maybe you like to crochet, and can create a lovely wall hanging. Maybe you are good at refinishing things and can buy some old junky thing to refresh and renew it. Maybe you enjoy photographing lovely scenes. There are endless ways to update and improve your home and office to create beauty.

If none of that appeals to you, hire or trade with someone to help you. One way or another it is important to your soul to create beauty in your life. Because beauty creates an intrinsic pleasure within us to just behold it. It helps calm the chaos. And it is free with no ticket to buy, no investment to make or reservation for the joy.

I believe there are two disparate species who both look like humans on the planet: humans and star beings. As I understand it, the star beings did not originate on this planet but arrived here from other star systems. It was decided that, because humans were evolving at such a slow rate, they needed help. (Pretty trippy, eh?)

Some say that other star systems were benevolent and only wanted to help. Others say that planet earth had lots of minerals needed by civilizations on planets outside our solar system, and that humans were bred with star beings to raise the level of intelligence on this planet so that they could work humans in the mines.

Whatever the interbreeding was for, it seems they accomplished a rise in intelligence for humans. Anthropologists have found evidence that about 20,000 years ago, humans had an inexplicable jump in evolution.

But the issue for the star beings was that they were left here after the experiment was abandoned. In order to be considered “normal”, star beings just tried to fit in. However, star beings living here have continually tried for thousands of years to do things from a human perspective, and it just doesn’t work.

Star beings often have the feeling that they just don’t belong here. Or they have a craving to Go Home, like ET. I consider myself a star being, and from the time I was aged six, I would go out and stare at the stars and ask God to take me to heaven. It wasn’t a morbid thought, rather a knowing that I didn’t belong here and that, somehow, I needed to return Home. That feeling of wanting to leave has been present my whole life.

Could you be a star being? Here are some differences:

Humans:

1. They often feel that their lot in life is to live in pain and suffering.
2. When their body has aches and pains, they will go to see their doctor and take medicine.  If medicine doesn’t work, they will take more or different medicines.
3. Their body usually responds in expected ways
4. Their perception is that star beings are very weird people.
5. They are comfortable with a 9 to 5 job. They can or will complain bitterly about it, but rarely do anything about it.
6. They frequently have a fixed point of view and don’t have the desire or ability to change it.
7. Mostly, they buy into authority.
8. They function from “knowing” due to facts presented.

Star beings:

1. They will ask what is wrong with themselves, will judge themselves before they judge others (which is not to say that they do not judge others).
2. They ask a lot questions, and are always searching.
3. Their body does not react like a human’s body. The expectation that it should respond the same can be detrimental. For instance, in the case of medicine, the star being may respond with a tiny dosage or a huge dosage may have no effect at all. Generally, they prefer natural remedies.
4. They try to fit in by being “like” humans so as to be accepted. They don’t understand why they aren’t on the same wavelength.
5. They tend to look at the bigger picture of reality.
6. They are often challenged when dealing with authority.
7. They tend to function from “perceiving.”

Star beings desperately seeking human:

1. These beings have an especially hard time with being different.
2. They jump a lot of hoops to appear “normal.”
3. They just want to fit in, no matter what toll it takes on their psyches to pretend all the time.

Do you suspect that you are a star being? Then recognize that you are different and that there is nothing wrong with you. Star beings are usually highly creative people. Stop making yourself wrong for not being “normal.” You just function from a very different place. This is not about making humans wrong, either.

I hope my thoughts on this have expanded your reality.

In my life, I have been called strange, weirdo, maverick, really different (with the emphasis on really), and other adjectives and nouns to point out my not-so-normal self. It’s true that my thoughts are often different than the general population. I have dealt with the unfortunate habit of speaking those non-conformist thoughts out loud (Sag ascendant), and had to navigate the surprise of others.

Being a sound sensitive, I quickly realized that attending concerts was out of the question. I am an empath, picking up others’ feelings, so I tend to avoid crowds.  Sometimes, I see non-corporeal beings. Coming from a background of medical practitioners – my father, three uncles, my brother, and several cousins – I have been firmly in the court of holistic medicine for 45 years, choosing largely to avoid drugs for healing.

Even my clothes requirements have been different. Finding clothes and shoes that fit properly has always been an issue. Ordering stuff online is out of the question.

From the time I was a little girl, I understood that I was different. I never really minded being different. I was just uncomfortable when others resented me or disliked me for being different.

I suspect that a large percentage of my readers are different in one way or another. Maybe you were born into a fundamentalist Christian family but were always fascinated by mysticism or your mother is fussy about cleanliness and you like to collect bird nests and bones. Maybe you feel like you never did “fit in” or more so, that you somehow don’t belong here on this planet. Maybe you are filled with a longing to “Go Home,” but you don’t exactly know where Home is.

A teacher under whom I studied for a couple of years said that there are actually two species on the planet that look human. One is made up of humans and the other is made up of star beings. The story is that we were sent here about 20,000 years ago to help raise the intelligence of the slow-evolving population and we wound up caught on the planet earth. (for more info see Human or Star Being?)

To me, that is as reasonable an explanation as any other one I can think of to explain the often strange divide among earth-dwelling beings. But it doesn’t help in trying to figure out how to get “comfortable” in your own skin.

If you suspect you are a star being, how do you learn to claim your uniqueness while getting along in the world? For one thing, work for yourself, if possible. Create your own business. That will hold down a lot of clashes. Try to find other star beings to spend time with. Don’t flaunt your differences until you have a secure place in the world. Be kind to the “muggles” of the world. It’s all in the matter of just realizing the differences and having compassion for others. Most of all, it is about learning to be comfortable with being “different.’’