Many ask us about the meaning and origin of the name “Stella Maris” 

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Someone is curious to find out the etymological meaning of the name, but someone would like to know why we have chosen precisely "Stella Maris" to give meaning to our actions, that of allowing the birth of new color art therapists who can bring the wind of deep healing to as many people as possible.

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                                           Now let's tell you about our name

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​It is a question of a "spiritual etymology" which, if meditated upon in depth, can reveal many things. Fulberto tries to illustrate what the maris stella is, using one of those bright images within which the Middle Ages wove its still living thoughts, and thanks to which the being of that motionless, shining star can come back to life for us too. of sublime splendor on the agitated waves of the sea: like sailors when they travel the sea, they must look at the star that shines at the high celestial pole, and adjust their journey on it to safely reach their destination port, so all Christians who they row among the waves of this world, they follow this star of the sea, Mary, who is closest to the supreme pole, God, and according to her model they regulate the journey of their life. 

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From ”The Wonder of Chartres” by Karl Heyer on the sermon on the name of Mary by Fulbert bishop of Chartres - c. 960 - 1028 - .

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​Talking about Stella Maris means casting a glance necessarily full of silent amazement on the living images shining in the people and in the learned, who in ancient times experienced the beginning of the new times brought by Christ with the forces of the rational and affective soul and in the crepuscular clairvoyant forces.

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​It also means approaching the knowledge of the mission of the neo-Platonists in medieval European culture, of the high school of Chartres of the XII century, which, as Rudolf Steiner informs us, before the advent of the Aristotelian influences of Thomism for the development of clear thinking intellectual, have shaped the soul of the young European peoples still tied to the spiritual reality of nature with the Christian revelation in living spiritual imaginations but already in human thought.

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​And what is the meaning of re-proposing the word “Stella Maris” today, in the time of the conscious soul for such a different humanity 900 years after the brilliant time of the Chartres school, as the name of a school of anthroposophical art therapy? What spiritual forces, what qualities of the soul can meet under the light of the "star of the sea" which today is present for humanity in a further metamorphosed form?

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​The name "Stella Maris" for the art therapy school of Bologna represents the recognition, thanks to anthroposophy, of the reality of the eternal spiritual images shaping the cosmos and man.

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The deepening of the spiritual nature of healthy and sick man, combined with the knowledge of the spiritual reality of colors given by Goethean-Steiner's science and through the composition of a serious methodology in this regard, would like to have a therapeutic value for modern man who, even with all the humility necessary in this regard, it can evoke and make echo today that holy strength of the medieval Marian image mentioned in the introduction.

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Stella Maris, as Massimo Scaligero recalls in his work "The Grail" represents the goal of the solar operation, the Being of Sacred Love, "the perennial life of light, the light that dominates the waters", the marine light.

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The reverberation of sunlight in the myriad of silvery mirrors of sea water restores an image of depth and meaning to the dialogue between the lunar soul and the solar spirit in the path of self-awareness guided by the art therapist.

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