Meeting Sky series with Stargazer Li

For more than two decades, Stargazer Li aka Cheryl “Li” Walter, Ph.D., has been Conversing with Universe and Keeping Time as a way of life. Her highly unique approach involves deep presence in engaging with the unfolding story of the moment, living natural rhythms, offering starry experiences under the night sky, making and sharing planetary essences and essence elixirs, and generally geeking out on the amazingness of life. 

Li has conversed with the YiJing for more than four decades. Her deepening into living Chinese cosmology developed through a decade of living inside a home and land (where she built an open-field Stumphenge aligned with the solstices and equinoxes) that was daily storied by the living cosmology of black Sun birds cawing in the Mulberry tree of East in the mornings and flying in from all directions to honor sunset in the Ruo tree of West, before overnighting along the convergence of two creeks in the watery North. This experience shaped her being through a profound experience of mythopoetic grace. 

In recent years, Li has been invited by Life into reading and remembering cosmological experiences and ways of relating from which the ancient Chinese characters and bagua emerged, and has since been deeply engaged in learning, rehydrating, teaching, and expressing an intimate, Dao-ish sense of ecosystemic aliveness.