While consciously, the graphic designers at AppleCore chose the starfish to represent a story Sharon loved, synchronistically the following information was also revealed.

A man is walking on a beach and thousands of starfish have been washed up on the beach. The man begins to pick one up at time and throw each one back into the ocean.

Another man asks: “What are you doing?”

Response: “The tide is low, and these starfish will die unless they return to the ocean.”

“There are so many: you can’t possibly make a difference.”

Man, picking up another starfish and throwing it into the ocean, “Made a difference to this one.” Sharon Douglas, astrologer, writer, learning facilitator, and lover of life, lives on Kauai, one of the most pristine Hawaiian islands.

A friend saw the marketing material for Haipule and immediately commented that the pentagram needs to point up to ensure it has a positive meaning.

Research on the pentagram revealed the following information:

Mayans, Latin America, China, India, Egypt and even stone-age people used the symbol of the pentagram. It can indicate the pattern of the planet Venus, symbol of the goddess Ishtar, or it could represent the five visible planets as seen by the ancient Sumerians.

To Pythagoras it represented the five-fold division of the body: fire, water, air, earth, psyche or fluid, gas, solid, plasma and aethyr.

This symbolism also became integral to later religions. Early Christians used it possibly to symbolize the wounds of Christ; the Jewish kabalistic tradition used it to represent the five upper sephiroth on the Tree of Life - five numbers, being indivisible by any but themselves, which represent pure archetypal forces: justice, mercy, wisdom, understanding, and transcendent splendor.

It was also an expression of a secret Gnostic heresy, found hidden here and there throughout Christian history - a symbol of Isis/Venus as the secret goddess, the female principal.

The most notable instance of this symbolism is in the Arthurian Grail romances, which are Gnostic and kabalistic teachings disguised as tales of knightly quests. The small, five petalled flowers found in many gothic cathedral ornamentation are not-so-secret pentagrams.

The adoption of the pentacle as a Satanic emblem is quite recent, dating only to the latter half of the twentieth century. This glyph is a representation of "Black magic," symbolizing the triumph of matter and individual desires over religious dogma - earth over an illusory promise of heaven. It is not analogous to the upturned cross (which is a symbol of rebellion against Christian culture), and is not "anti-Wiccan."

In Freemasonry and related traditions, the pentagram is usually referred to as the "blazing star," and in addition to more traditional Pythagorian symbolism, is sometimes symbolic of the descent of the divinity of Christ into the world of matter, a remnant of Masonry's ties with medieval Christian Kabbalah. In this, it represents the Star of Bethlehem.

Freemasonry emphasizes Pythagorean geometry in its system of allegorical symbology, and as the pentagram was the chief of the Pythagorean symbols, it is not at all surprising to find it among Masonic symbols.

Many of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons, to whom the Pentagram is an important symbol. The five pointed star appears in much of our early iconography- the US flag, the Great Seal, and on our currency. It is even to be found in the Capitol, where the White House sits at the apex of a giant pentagram, one of many interesting features in Capitol geometry.