# The Ring of Fire

## A True Story Written in the Sky

There are a lot of stories about me floating around.

I think it's time I tell a true story about myself.

**For the record.**

Before I tell you what any of this means to me, I want to begin with something you can verify for yourself.

Look up the date:

**August 22nd, 1979.**

That is the day I was born.

And on that same day, an **annular solar eclipse occurred**.

The Moon passed between the Earth and the Sun. Because the Moon appeared slightly smaller than the Sun from Earth, it could not completely cover it. A brilliant circle of sunlight remained visible around the Moon's dark silhouette.

A **ring of fire**.

That is where my story begins.

Not with something I imagined years later.

Not with a prophecy.

With a date.

With a documented astronomical event.

And with the day I entered this world.

But here is where the timeline becomes interesting to me.

**Forty-four years later, in 2023, another ring-of-fire eclipse would appear — during the period of my life leading toward what I would come to recognize as my spiritual awakening.**

I didn't know any of this when I was born.

I wouldn't understand the connection for more than four decades.

But when I eventually went back and researched the dates, there they were:

**August 22nd, 1979 — the day I was born. A ring of fire.**

**October 14th, 2023 — forty-four calendar years later. Another ring of fire.**

And then came:

**September 17th, 2024.**

The day everything changed for me.