We are Under Lucky Stars, we make beautiful star maps showing the alignment of the stars in a place and date chosen by you.
Everyone has that special moment in their life that is worth making into a star map.
We asked you to tell us about yours.
Here are some of our favorites stories.
By Rebecca M
On February 20th, 2016, I met the girl of my dreams.
She was there, sitting in the corner of her local coffee shop, just waiting for someone to come sweep her off her feet... and I was just down the street, several miles away and looking for her in all the wrong places. So close, yet so far — It’s a theme, you see, for we didn’t know it yet, but we’d been leading up to this for years. On that very same street, we shared weeks worth of jazz classes as kids, not like we ever spoke to each other — far too shy for that. But she was the best friend of my first girlfriend, knew the man who tattooed my chest, was there again that night, that one time, and I missed her, over and over. We passed by each other like ships in the night more times than I could count, but had we met any earlier, we would have never worked together.
The truth is, it took us time to learn the shapes of our own selves.
Then one day, we met online, in a moment, just like that. And I finally found her there, a few miles down the street from where we almost met as kids, exactly where she promised she would wait for me that night. She smiled when I walked in, nearly twenty minutes late, and all those years of searching were so suddenly made worth it.
Published on February 8, 2018, 11:58 pm
By Debbie A
Here’s my story;
Last year, in May, I moved to New York City for a few months for work. I am Belgian, have always lived in Belgium too. The company I worked for is an international diamond certification company. 2 weeks after arriving in NYC, I had to go to Las Vegas for a big conference. On the 4th of June, I met up with someone that made me feel loved, pretty, confident for the very first time in my life. We spent 2 beautiful days together before we both had to go back. Me to NYC, he to the US Virgin Islands, that’s where he lived.
Us meeting each other felt so good, that 2 weeks later he came to NYC to visit me and spend 5 days together in the Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park. We made plans to see each other again, and 1 month later, he came to visit me again, spending more beautiful days together. He was my boyfriend at that time, we made plans for Christmas with my family in Belgium.
Unfortunately, a few weeks after his last visit to NYC, hurricanes struck the USVI, we could not reach each other. Before, we spoke on the phone daily, sometimes multiple times a day. I did not sleep for 2 weeks, trying to find or contact him. I wasn’t even sure he was still alive. Eventually, I found out he was OK. We called, made plans to see each other again. Unfortunately, the hurricanes destroyed the company he built. He just did not have time for a relationship anymore. He had to rebuild his company, his island, help his friends or people that had it worse than him due to this disaster.
I made this chart, hoping to give it to him. Now, having returned to Belgium, I will keep this chart for myself. I’ll hang it up in the apartment I recently signed for, reminding me of the summer I had in NYC, with one of the sweetest guys I have ever met.
Looking back, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy; What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Published on February 8, 2018, 11:58 pm
By Gabriel D
“Once in a lifetime” only comes but once.
Before this moment I believed that it would never arrive. That I was destined to not have my defining moment of happiness. The joy of experiencing a love that I was told could move mountains and define my character. Basically a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a father. You see my wife and I tried for years to have children, but on the 11th of June at 5pm, after many in-vitro fertilization attempts, we saw our beautiful daughter born. This was the once in a lifetime experience that many spoke. That one love of all loves that would define my character and move mountains.
I believe a whole universe was born that day and was able to capture some of it with the help of “Under Lucky Stars”.
Published on February 8, 2018, 11:57 pm
By Diana B
May 27 of 2017 I met my best friend Giovani. When I met him, he had just finished chemotherapy so he had no hair and he was very shy. We met at a retreat so from what I know, he didn't want to go. I was very interested in him and the reason why I choose for the frame to say "dancing under the stars" was because that is how we first held a conversation, we met dancing.
He is highly fascinated with anything that has to do with the sky and the stars. He had mentioned how he wanted a telescope and because I wasn't able to get him one, I brought the stars to him. He is the sweetest and most humble human being despite the fact that he is still fighting cancer, he has never let that stop him from exploring the world. May 27 will forever be a date I will remember, especially being lucky enough to dance with him under the stars.
That same week, we went on a date to a coffee shop and little did he know I cut all my hair off to donate in respect to those battling cancer. He only once saw me with long hair, that was the day we met.
Published on February 8, 2018, 10:43 pm
By Allison M
Under my lucky stars, though they weren't visible through the clear blue sky, I found you. You had invited me to Dreamscape festival; ironically, at the time, I thought the name was cliché. I had never heard of such a place, and ordinarily, I would never have gone. However, your invitation was worth it. I set forth to Darlington, Maryland early in the morning from Newark, Delaware on a journey to meet you. I was nervous, to say the least. I traveled alone with the blind hope that meeting you there would be worth the while. As a pessimistic person, this was a huge risk from my perspective. It could have ruined everything. If it didn't work out, I would be alone there. I would say butterflies fluttered in the pit of my stomach, but in reality, they felt more like bees.
I arrived, and as I had feared, you did not answer my calls. "I knew it," I thought to myself. "I came here for nothing." However, I refused to waste the beautiful day and the money I had spent on my ticket and gas getting there. I wandered the campgrounds alone, and I encountered so many interesting people along the way. I made new friends, and they were very hospitable. Eventually, something told me to venture further. I drifted from the friends I had made and walked aimlessly through the muddy grass, and then, I saw you.
It felt like a perfect twist of fate. I felt like that morning had stretched on forever trying to find you, but to my pleasant surprise, it had only struck noon.
If I had seen the stars above us at that moment, I would have marveled at how beautiful they looked in the sky. No matter how they were arranged, I swear I would have seen them perfectly aligned. By some miracle, amongst the thousands of people who meandered the grounds at Camp Ramblewood that day, our paths crossed. Our Lucky Stars brought us together, and we have been together ever since.
To most, this story would seem proverbial; a tale of star-crossed lovers, classically overused and overdone. However, the true wonder to this tale is not of how lucky we were to meet that day. It is about how each and every day after that, we chose each other. Every day, it is a decision. It is an acknowledgment that there is no one I would rather spend my life with than you, nor you with I.
The true beauty of love is its undying nature. It's the fact that every morning waking up to you is just as magical as that day, on the 7th of May of 2016, when my eyes met yours. It's the fact that even through our most trying times, that feeling is more than enough for me to fight for you, and to never give up. No matter what. It's the fact that Our Lucky Stars are always above us, every day, whether we can see them or not.
Published on February 8, 2018, 10:41 pm
By Sam L
My father, at the time, was in a historical detachment in the National Guard, who just got back from his first-ever deployment. For those not in the know, a historical detachment doesn't go around shooting guns, but rather cameras. He was on some post-deployment R&R at a civilian campground in Fort McCoy with his Sergeant, my godfather. A kid comes through the camp, knowing my godfather, Norm, tangentially through some family friends, the Hallorans.
The kid asked Norm if he had any mustard for hot dogs. He didn't, but my dad did, and he gave it to the kid. After the kid left, my dad became worried. "Lone kid at a camp? Better make sure he's not a runaway." So he and Norm followed the kid to their camp and found the kid was fine, he really was asking for mustard for a hot dog with his family and friends. My father introduced himself, saying he was just worried about the lone kid at a camp, and that kids mother came by and thanked him for being so kind as to worry about a strangers kid. They got to talking, and my father mentioned he just got back from Iraq, having taken many pictures of destroyed tanks. The mother, being a military intelligence officer, offered to look at the pictures and let him know what the blackened hulks of steel were.
My father said: that'd be cool, can I have some hot dogs too? Got any relish to go with them?
The mother, to this day, maintains my father tells the story as she "pranced off like a gazelle or a doe in the woods, all for my relish" though my father always just laughs at the assertion. They talked some more, and then some more, and then, after a short years courtship, marriage at the small chapel at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds, and a brief ten month waiting period, I was born.
My parents met over hot dogs, an open fire, pictures, and relish. But, most importantly, my brother forgetting to pack the mustard.
Published on February 8, 2018, 10:28 pm
By Michele D
Brandon and I graduated high school together in 2013. We never actually talked but we always knew each other from a distance. Around the beginning of September of last year we both had been at a local show and somehow ended up hanging out later in the night over the idea that we both tweeted that we loved tacos and thought we should get them together that upcoming Monday.
The night before that show I had lost a very close friend of mine to a drug overdose. My current fling stopped talking to me the same day and I was in a very strange place at the time, the lowest I have ever been. Brandon and I had gotten tacos that Monday and hung out in the park. I had told him about what happened to my friend, and how the next day was his funeral. I was dreading it because my brother was on tour at the time so I had to go alone.
The following day, after the funeral, Brandon texted me and asked if I was okay. I told him I'll be fine. I didn't want to be a burden, and I mean we only actually hung out one time. But he ended up asking me to meet him for a drink downtown anyways because he didn't want me to be alone. After that night we started to hang out more frequently and eventually grew to us being inseparable. On October 5th we went to a jam night that was downtown at the same bar that we connected the first night and got drinks at after the funeral. We eventually wandered into the parking lot and the sky was clear and the air was crisp, everything was dark except the one street light we were under. We sat there for almost two hours just telling each other all of our darkest secrets. It was one of the rawest moments I have ever experienced with someone before. At 12:40 (I know the exact time because I got a text message at the exact minute) we both stood up and gave each other a hug and then he asked me to be his girlfriend.
Losing someone who was so close to me so sudden was one of the worst experiences of my life, and Brandon somehow made all of that go away for a moment when he opened up just as raw right back to me. He became my best friend in that moment and I will always cherish him for it even if we end up parting ways in the future. I will always be thankful for him making me see the stars when all I saw was darkness.
Published on February 8, 2018, 10:24 pm
By Angelica S
On May 6, 2017 my friends and I (a married couple) attended a gala that their company was hosting. Toward the end of the event, we were invited to go to a lounge upstairs for a few drinks. We ended up in a lounge that has an outside view of the city. My friend Dianne and I decided to check out the view and ended up exchanging some words with two gentlemen standing near us, the exchange was perhaps less than 10 minutes.
The view was so beautiful that my friend Dianne wanted a picture, so I told her I would take one of her and her husband, she insisted that I be in the picture too, but I didn’t want to be the third wheel, like I had been for the past 2 years. While we were going back and forth on whether or not I should be in the picture, I turn over and I see Tony — one of the two gentlemen my friend and I were talking to, and who is now my boyfriend. Something came over me to ask him to be my “picture date” — who says that?!
Anyway, he said OK and agreed to take a picture with me and my friends. That picture was taken at exactly 12:34 on May, 2017. Soon after, the gentleman that invited us to the lounge came over and asked me directly to go inside for our drinks. Afraid that Tony would get the wrong impression that this guy was my boyfriend, I immediately told him that this guy was my consultant and he told me what to do. Tony then asked for my number and we have been together ever since. I gave him the star map for Christmas because I want us to always remember the night we both took a chance.
That night when we met we were literally under the lucky starts.
Published on February 8, 2018, 9:39 pm
By Manisha B
The night I knew he was the one...
I had recently come out of an abusive relationship, and the very thought of reconnecting with anyone in a romantic way scared me to death. He was the one who helped me leave the man who had drained me physically and emotionally, and I had always looked at him as my savior. As time went on, he protected me from anything that may have caused me distress. One day he hugged me and told me I was his world. I grew to trust him and eventually love him. We took things slowly, to the point where it almost tortured me.
October 7th, 2016 is a date I will never forget.
He pulled me aside from all of our friends and looked deep into my eyes. His usually brown eyes shone green in the light of my garage and I found myself lost in the eyes that would soon be my heart and soul. He took me outside because he wanted to ask me out under the stars, and little did I know, that would later play in my favor. As I looked up at him, the stars shone behind him and I couldn't help but feel my heart swell up. He asked me to be his and the pure happiness that filled me was indescribable.
Almost a year later I stumbled across Under Lucky Stars and almost instantly I knew what I was going to get him for our one year anniversary. The look on his face when I presented it to him was a look I will never forget. We are fairly young, but when you know, you know. We're both pretty far into our college careers and are considering moving in together. These star maps are going to be a continued gift for him and he told me he has each one hanging from his ceiling. We plan on getting engaged once we're out of college. October 7th, and I can guarantee there will be a star map for that very occasion. I have never found a more meaningful gift and it was easy to obtain. I love him more than anything and can not wait to fill our apartment with them as we build our lives together.
Published on February 8, 2018, 9:34 pm
By Kayleigh S
My husband and I fell in love by accident.
We didn’t plan on falling for one another at all but by that night, we were so close to saying it. It rarely snows here in western PNW, so when it started to fall in the middle of the night, we ran out to slow dance in the snow. We turned on the car radio and danced in the snow under a street lamp. The best part? Because of Under Lucky Stars, I know that above us were two constellations that looked exactly like that night. Two lovers dancing (Gemini) while their beloved dog (Dog Star) chased the snow (the Milky Way) as we kissed and knew in our hearts our love was here and forever.
Here we are, 4 years later, happy home, beautiful child, and the reminder of the night we fell for one another above our bed as we sleep.
Published on February 8, 2018, 9:32 pm
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