When I arrived in Australia in 2013, I had never looked at the starry sky. Yet that was and is my wish to look at the stars in the desert of Chile. I already got close 4 times.
In Australia on the way back from Uluru the bus stops to stare into the void of the red sand at the sky. The bus driver turned out to know everything about the heavenly bodies (hemellichamen) and told the passengers what was to be seen. My first introduction to staring at the starry sky, a wonderful experience.
Two months later I booked a tour of stories of the Maori and the role of the celestial bodies in it. A beautiful evening looking through the telescope and defying the cold, the Maori legend was told by every celestial body. From the emergence of New Zealand from one of those heavenly bodies! Beautiful stories and quite plausible those legends.
A few years later I was introduced to say mantras during the full moon. I was at a yoga and meditation weekend in Mexico. At full moon I built a campfire, in which I burned a coco. My coco was called Coco Loco and I had to carry it with me the whole weekend! It represented what I wanted to release. The scenario was beautiful! Beautiful beach with campfire and full moon. And a verse was said about winds, sun, and moon. I was the one who looked around with admiration and thought wow!
A year later at Christmas I rented a tiny house with a telescope to stare at the starry sky in The Netherlands. It finally happened looking at the Dutch starry sky. But unfortunately it was too cloudy and the only thing I occasionally saw was the moon.
Beautiful explanation and representation what it should look like, but also overcast and inhabited here! So there’s nothing left for me to travel to the desert of Chile to watch the starry sky!