Aloha Beloved Friends,

Since Per and I founded Aligning With Earth in 2016, this website has grown into an expansive collection of writings exploring ascension, enlightenment, meditation, spirituality, self-realization, and Source or Tao Realization.

For many years, I have written here under the pen name Asur’Ana, sharing insights, teachings, and reflections with readers from around the world. Some of you have journeyed alongside us since the earliest days of Aligning With Earth. Others have studied with our Dreamtime Ascension School, discovered our writings more recently, or continued onward upon your own sovereign path.

Today, I would like to share another dimension of my creative journey with you—one that began several years ago and has now expanded from books into animated filmmaking.

From Asur’Ana to Iris Starshine

In January 2022, I began a very different kind of writing project: a series of science fiction teen novels called the Aurora Earth Saga.

For these books, I write under another pen name: Iris Starshine.

Although the Aurora Earth Saga takes the form of science fiction and fantasy storytelling, its worlds explore many themes that longtime Aligning With Earth readers may recognize—consciousness, compassion, transformation, remembrance, ascension, humanity’s relationship with Earth, and the possibilities that may exist beyond the reality we presently know. Read more