Book of Starlight Wins Award! 🐚💖💙

One of my beautiful Book of Starlight writers has won a Nautilus Book Award for her incredibly beautiful book ~ 'Our Beloved Futures' by Aubrey Yee 🐚💖💖💖 'This award honours books that serve conscious living, social justice and spiritual growth ~ it's been awarded to writers such as Malala Yousafzai, Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, and Louise Erdrich'..... an incredible achievement, and a luminous reflection of the beauty of this Book, that truly speaks to the heart that knows one world is dissolving, and another one just beginning, and seeks to make the steps into the New dimension of Peace, whilst keeping eyes wide open to the truth of all that unfolds in this dissolution. It charts the wild butterfly path of metamorphosis and deep purification that we make, each one of us, in the Light of the Dawn. Aubrey is a wise and noble and beautiful spirit, and this award is profoundly deserved! I so recommend this book! So proud of you beautiful, beautiful One! 💖💖💖🦋🦋🦋

'In my dreamspace one night, a circle of banyans arose from the ash of yesterday. The banyanʻs tangled branches held open mycelial remembering of ancient tomorrows, lit by the hum of ancestors. As their roots rose out of dark earth soil, a space was made within their center. As if a transparent temple of crystalline grace held a vibration to open the roots in tangled shapes of wisdom. I had glimpsed Venus earlier that night between the branches of a banyan, earthside by the sea. I knew these trees were connected.

 Tree of life, tree of wisdom, tree of futures past, returning to Earth as portent of the coming. Leaves ablaze with Earthʻs dream, the banyan reminded me of the forever woven grace of peace. This tree holds within its life force the codes to gently wake us all from the imprisoned nightmare of our own making. Like a mother kisses her daughter to wake, the banyan holding grace at her core. The one that would remind us of the rhizomatic language of soil and salt

Teaching us the ancient ways to be with Earth as the inestimable being that she is. The one that would guide us from our fugitive state, refugees of violence, to the connection and joy of our natural peace ways. Guiding us down the pathways to being again as innocent as bird, whale, and tree, herself.

In the dream, I entered the temple of roots and found soft flames of crystal, color, and light. Each one burning the ways back to balance. Step by step, I absorbed and digested their knowings. Step by step, I remembered my immutable ancestors, the Sidhe, the shining ones

The fae folk who taught my lifeʻs song, who wished me well when I decided to journey to Earth. From within the temple, words dripped like sweet waters of life force, eros, Love. This book is my temple of devotion. It is the temple of Venus and the banyans. It is dedicated to you.'

from ‘Our Beloved Futures’ by Aubrey Yee, Nautilus Book Award Winner 2026

"With rare and wild grace ~ this book has brought such strength and understanding to my heart. Its intelligence, and mythic, poetic beauty is breathtaking. Aubrey has written a poem, a prayer for the Earth and the New Dawn that sears the heart with the most beautiful and surefooted golden initiation onto a pathway of peace, a blossoming pathway of Dawn. I recommend with all my heart! It is a powerful, golden lantern that shall light your way forward."

— ELEN ELENNA, AUTHOR OF SILVER WHEEL: THE LOST TEACHINGS OF THE DEERSKIN BOOK

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