The Story of Aragorn: A Starseed's Journey to Self-Actualization

Mirror, mirror in the stars. Show me the journey of Telcontar. Reflect to me my own face. Let me see the path betraced.

Like the Tragedy of Anakin, this is also a subject I have been thinking about for some time. But let's preface this a little. Why do I care?

When I first saw Lord of the Rings in theaters, and later when I read the books, I looked at the character of Aragorn and resonated. Hard. No, I actually did not have a crush on the character. I felt I was that character in some sense. My crushes landed on Haldir and Eomer. Love me some beefy, tall blonde-haired guys who threaten impertinent dwarfs with sharp pointy objects. Poor Gimli. Not his fault some dwarves were duped into serving darkness.

Anyway. Aragorn's story is very much the hero's journey, but looking back from a little bit of a different perspective, it's also the starseed's journey. You start out a nobody, usually, just doing your thing to help those around you. No one notices. No one cares. Hell, they're even a little ungrateful. And then your own soul picks you up, sweeps you off your feet, and off you go into the wild blue yonder leading a group of misfits to destroy the key of Earth's darkness. And on the way, you learn who you really are. And hopefully, in the end, you take your place in your own destiny.

This isn't to say that all starseeds are royal heirs or anything. What they are are some of the strongest souls of their respective stellar people. You don't send pansies to Earth to transmute the dominate frequency. You simply do not. Especially if you want the job done and done correctly. You send in your Dúnedain. Your Men with Elven lineage, if we want to go ahead and equate the Elves of Middle Earth with stellar peoples. After reading the Silmarillion, I most certainly do. I mean, for goodness sake, they live forever, walk around singing to the stars and capturing its essence in water. Their history is complicated, and seems to weave in and out of time in a wobbly fashion. Stellar. People.

Let's proceed and get real nerdy.

The Unseen Protectors

Who are the Dúnedain? For those who are a little rusty on their lore, or who simply do not know it, the Dúnedain are the descendants of Beren and Luthien, the most famous Man-Elf couple in Middle Earth. Their story is a tragic one, but full of heroism. They manage to retrieve a silmaril (a luminous jewel) from the crown of Melkor. Melkor is sort of like Satan, but not. He's kind of a god, but not. He's one of the Valar, which are beings from the beginning of creation.

Hmm. Trying now to sum up Tolkein's lore simply. What I like about Tolkein's story of creation is that it happens via a song. There are many beings who participate with Iluvatar (Source) to create existence out of a song. They sing creation into being.

(C. S. Lewis also shows a universe being created from song. Are all universes created from song? Can you sing existence into being? I do believe you can. These authors knew it.)

However, one of the valar, Melkor, represents the discordant note in reality, the shadow of creation. It's easy to wonder, "Why did Iluvatar just let Melkor muck up the song?" After much meditating on the subject (i.e. letting it percolate and cook in my unconscious for a while), I think Melkor is meant to be there just as much as all the other light beings are. Because discord is just part of reality. It's the friction and resistance that catalyzes growth.

Now then.

Beren and Luthien's children end up inheriting much of the Elven traits of Luthien, seeing as she's an Elf, but they have the vitality, resilience, and life-span of Beren, who is a man. All half-elves have a choice before them. Do they become all Elf? Do they become all Man? Two such children are offered this choice: Elros and Elrond. Elros chooses to become all Man. He lives longer than most, and possesses the wisdom inherit in the Elves, but he must eventually die. Elrond, as you would probably realize, chose to be an Elf.

(Ooh, there's a whole interesting karmic cycle with Elrond and his daughter Arwen repeating the story of Beren and Luthein. I wonder what Elrond's reaction to his brother Elros was originally that spawned this cycle. Did he reject his brother's choice? Hence he must deal with his daughter making that same choice? I'll stop before I create a whole tangent...)

Elros has children and they have children, and on and on and on... These children and all those other side lineages connecting to Elros become the Dúnedain. The Dúnedain go through the Atlantis story with Numenor, an island in between Middle Earth (land of the mortals) and Valinor (land of the valar). It really is the story of Atlantis. Complete with a great Fall in consciousness due to the corruption of Melkor leading them into darkness. Those wise, enlightened Dúnedain of Numenor end up ritualistically sacrificing people at the top of the tower. This leads to so much density, Numenor sinks beneath the waves. Only a handful of Dúnedain escape.

So, fast forward a few thousand years. The kingdoms of Men have collapsed. The Dúnedain are only a shadow of their former selves, and their only function is to act as the unseen protectors of all Free People. They mostly dwell in the north of Middle Earth near their former kingdom, Arnor. Which just so happens to exist near The Shire. The Dúnedain still possess their altruistic hearts, and protect the innocent Hobbits of the Shire for many hundreds of years. They do this service, I think, to preserve some form of Light in a world that is slowly falling into Darkness.

Yet, they cannot be known for who they are. They cannot claim their rightful place. They have an heir among them who could, but he does not believe he has the right to do so. The situation is fragile, because they could easily be annihilated if they expose themselves. So, they protect their neighbors as much as they can. Even when their neighbors think they're creepy, uncultured, ranger types who are obviously up to no good. Every Hobbit and Breelander alike is always glad to see their dirty cloaks walking away from their pristine towns.

So it is with starseeds on Earth. Energetically, they protect their families and neighbors, even when those self same people often reject the starseed for their strangeness. A strangeness that is never explained clearly by said neighbors and family, except that they perceive something like a "dirty cloak" hanging from their backs and strange gleam in their eyes. And the starseed often has no idea they are providing this service. They cannot claim this service or this duty, usually, because it is often done in the astral realm, and the vast majority of starseeds are blind to their astral wanderings. But they always come back with a dirtied cloak, weather-beaten shoes, an unexplainable bruise of battle, and a gleam in their eye the next morning.

It is also the case that many starseeds cannot claim who they are as stellar people until they have gone through the journey into their own past and darkness. Into their own Numenorean moments.

From the Darkness a Light Springs

So, the world of Middle Earth is descending inexorably into darkness. No one knows exactly why for many centuries. Even the White Council cannot solve the issue. (*chuckle* Reminds me of the GF with betrayers in there to boot. Oooooh, will the most unlikely beings of all be the ones to help with the Saruman types? Oh, that's exciting to think about. I love a good twist in a story! Who shall play the role of our Hobbits and our Ents? "They'll be small, like children to your eyes.")

Where are all these orcs coming from? Why are demons waking in the deeps? What is stirring the dragons?

And suddenly, the key to all this darkness is found by the most unlikely person you could imagine, a Hobbit. But no one knows it's the key to the darkness, until Gandalf takes the time to plunge into the past and tie together all the lost histories. The problem is, some of the documentation is lost, corrupted, confused. What actually happened versus what Isildur said happened becomes a main issue. He has to read between the lines very thoroughly, because he finds the actual events and the records of events are not the same.

Gandalf finds it, and now the Dúnedain are involved. They have been Gandalf's quiet helpers for hundreds of years, and Aragorn, their own chief among them lends his aid. He steps out onto the stage. What's curious about Aragorn, is it's not like he was completely blinded to who he was. He knew he was the heir of Isildur, but he had to keep that silent. The only way he knew that was because of Elrond's care for him when he was a child. Of course Elrond would take care of the only surviving descendant of his brother. In terms of a starseed, he's a bit like one that incarnates with a sense of who he already is as a soul. He doesn't have the whole picture, but he knows enough to be very dangerous.

Anyway, I liken the Council of Elrond scene to a moment on every starseed's journey in life. It's the moment they start to become self-aware and remember who they are. But it's the very, very beginning. It's when they learn about who they think they are, and what is wrong with the world. Naturally, just like Aragorn, most starseeds stand up and volunteer to take the Ring back to Mordor and unmake it. Which is to say, take the low density patterns in themselves back to their internal fires and unmake it. For the good of themselves and of all.

Because that's what the key to darkness is. It's the patterning and programming stuck inside you. That's your Ring. And Mordor is the shadow realm inside yourself where your own furnace of creation sits. You can only unmake those patterns by going into your shadow and chucking those patterns into the furnace. You cannot unmake them by smashing them with an axe. Or throwing them in an ocean of emotions. Or hiding it inside a mountain. Or giving it to anyone else.

So, in the darkest hour of humanity on Earth, here stand up the starseeds to lead the way to Mordor.

Claiming One's Destiny

At some point, Aragorn must claim his identity as the heir of Isildur. He doesn't want to do this. He delays and delays and delays forever and a day. He wants to do it at the right time, but as I read it in the books, Aragorn is actually kinda scared to do this. If he exposes himself, now the darkness will see him clearly for the first time. He will be a target. Well, he already was a target, but now Sauron (darkness incarnate) will be gunning for him directly.

This is how a lot of starseeds feel when they start becoming aware of their own power and also aware of the Cabal's power. They know if they stand up and start shining, it will absolutely put a target on their backs. So, like Aragorn, their souls seem to time this moment carefully. Because there's always a moment in the starseed's journey where they must claim their power and claim their soul and claim themselves. They cannot hide behind being a human anymore than Aragorn can hide behind being "Strider".

At some point, you cannot be "Strider" anymore. At some point, you must accept you are Elessar Telcontar. Whether you like it or not. You will be forced to choose, and if you choose to try to go back to "being a human", you will find you cannot go that way. "The way is shut" as reads the inscription above the Path of the Dead.

But fear not. Just like Aragorn, you have your Gandalf with you. You always do.

Ascending the Throne

Speaking of the Path of the Dead. This is the moment Aragorn chooses to reveal himself. The only one who can pass through the Path of the Dead is the heir of Isildur, because it was Isildur himself who bound them to an oath that caused them to linger there in the first place. (Hey man, don't swear oaths to people and fail to uphold them. You'll get yourself trapped.)

For a starseed, this is like going through the shadowland of yourself. You must face all those ghosts of the past, lead them out into the open air, and set their bonds to you free. It's terrifying. Scary. Gimli was right to quail under that mountain. But you must lead them out, and when you do, you find aid waiting for you in the very ghosts you so feared in the first place.

Now whether or not there's a massive battle you have to face afterwards is up to everyone's soul. Sometimes there is. Sometimes there isn't. In the case of Aragorn, he has to face losing everything. His life. His friends. His world. All the light and goodness in the world. Just so he can allow space for the Hobbits to complete their own journey.

We could say the Hobbits are Earth humans. We could. We could. Yes, that would fit. I think, however, the Hobbits for the starseed are the inner child. It's the inner child that completes the process of unmaking those patterns and programs. Because the inner child remembers the taste of strawberries even when they're exhausted, dehydrated, starving, and consumed by the weight of their patterns.

So, it is the starseed coming into their true Self that must hold space, hold back their own darkness, so their inner child can make its way into their inner most furnace of creation and unmake all those patterns. Because the inner child isn't a child at all. The inner child is their own divinity. Seemingly small, powerless, but actually the most powerful being in existence because of its incorruptible innocence.

Only when they do this can they fully claim themselves and sit on the throne of their true self. And they will find that they are not the Elves they came from. Nor are they the Hobbits they saved. Or the Men they fought with. They are something else entirely. Something new and marvelous. Something that is all of those beings together in one being.

For Aragorn, this means becoming Elessar Telcontar. A wandering (striding) elf stone. A wandering star seed, if you like.

Because ultimately, that is what many starseeds are. At least the types that wake up and claim themselves. They are the great Wanderers of the Stars.

I thank you for your time. Adiamas.

​--Kyriel