Okay. This is how the angel happened. A few years ago, a friend of mine was facing scary surgery. Of course, I suggested good luck charms, amulets, anything she believed would help. I even offered to lend her some of mine. "Do you happen to have an angel?" she asked. I told her I didn't, unfortunately.
That's when it came to me, the story of Mazalel, who unlike Raphael and the other more famous angels, happens to be female. She also happens to be shaped like a star -- and not just any old star but a particularly lucky one, the Star of David (which as everyone knows has been a major motif in Jewish jewelry practically forever).
Of all the gazillions of angels out there, Raphael and Gabriel are probably the most famous.
But my own favorite is Mazalel.
She's the angel who, back in Biblical times, had the brilliant idea of getting the stars to gather into sparkling pictures so everyone on earth could use the sky as a map to keep from getting lost.
That's how steering by the stars began -- and also wishing on the stars! And that's why mazal became the Hebrew word for both constellation and luck -- as in mazal tov!
I've never personally met Mazalel, but I have it on good authority (my mother, who heard it from her grandfather who came from a village in Russia where they knew about such things) that she actually is shaped like a star -- and not just any old star, but the Star of David, which may well be the original lucky star.
So it was only natural that one day when I needed something lucky and also sparkly to give a friend who was feeling very lost, I made a charm for her in my favorite angel's image.
Now Mazalel™ can be your lucky star angel, too! May she protect you on all your journeys!
With love and aloha,
SusanAngels are everywhere just open your mind and your heart to the signs.
Make Angels on Your Shoulder part of your daily routine and share it with a friend!
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