There are people who have long carried within them a feeling that they are not here by chance. They may look at the starry sky and feel something difficult to explain, not merely interest or admiration but a deep sense of familiarity, as if something far away were at the same time strangely close. In spiritual thinking such people are called starseeds.

According to starseed thinking the origin of the soul is not limited only to Earth. The soul is believed to have experienced existence elsewhere in the universe, in other star systems or on different levels of consciousness before being born as a human being. According to this idea starseeds have come to Earth to experience human life and also to bring something of their own with them, compassion, consciousness, creativity, wisdom or a new way of seeing the world.

Many people who identify as starseeds say that they have felt different from a young age. The rush, harshness and polarization of the world may feel foreign. At the same time the emotional states of other people and the atmosphere of the environment may be experienced very strongly. Superficial answers may not be enough. Inside there is a desire to understand who am I? Why am I here? Is there something more to life than what we are able to see? And sometimes there is also a homesickness that is difficult to explain. Not necessarily a longing for any place here on Earth but a feeling of something distant and familiar. The gaze may be drawn towards the stars as if remembering something that the mind cannot recall.

Starseed identity is often associated with the idea of awakening. There may come a stage in life when old ideas about oneself and the world no longer seem sufficient. A person begins to search for a deeper meaning in their experiences and to pay more attention to intuition, synchronicities and their own inner world. In spiritual thinking this is sometimes described as remembering. Not necessarily remembering in the ordinary sense but as an experience of gradually beginning to recognize something essential about oneself.

The purpose of a starseed does not have to mean a great or supernatural mission but it can be seen in very ordinary life. In the way one treats others, in the courage to walk one’s own path, in the desire to help, in the ability to create, in compassion and forgiveness. In daring to be oneself in a world that is constantly trying to tell us what we should be like. At the heart of being a starseed there does not have to be an idea that someone is more special than others or on a higher level. It is rather about the idea that everyone has something unique to bring into this world.

Starseeds are a concept within spiritual and New Age thinking and there is no scientific evidence for the belief that souls have an origin among the stars. For many people however being a starseed serves as a way to put into words experiences for which they previously had no name and perhaps that is why being a starseed is not always found by searching, Sometimes it is simply recognized. As if something inside had been waiting its entire life to hear the words that awaken an old question: What if I am not here by chance? And from that question an entirely new journey can begin.