Shelley Hartland | Heart Star

Dear All,

As this new year flows in at a sprint, energetically and vibrationally, during a period of intense turbulence in the collective field, centering in inner peace and love is not only a gift to ourselves and those around us, it also attunes us with the deeper nurturing light radiating from Gaia, the planetary soul, and with the countless beings of Love who continue to support the unfolding presence of the higher dimensional Earth ~ which exists beyond the amplified contrasts of this plane, yet is constantly radiating sublime subtle vibrations into and through it, for all life on Earth.

Here in the area around Perth, Western Australia, there has been a tangible lift in activational energies flowing from a 5D light realm of this region, known to some of us by the name Aran. This beautiful place is one of many Agarthan realms (5D light realms of the Inner Earth), coordinating with Star Family as they step their light and presence a bit more into the field now. In conversation with close friends in this area, we’ve been experiencing these stronger radiating energies in various ways, and it feels like a perfect moment for an interview with dear friends Rob & Shelley Hartland, who live in the Perth hills, ‘on top’ of Aran and deeply attuned with these ‘next level’ activational pulses and light flows.

I first had the pleasure of interviewing Rob and Shelley back in 2013, when we initially connected and found that we were having similar experiences with orbs and ships, and also found that we lived very close to each other. We had many shared lightship sightings and wonderful subtle experiences together while I lived in Darlington in the Perth hills. During the years since then, we’ve stayed in close communication, as our inner journeys and paths with multi-dimensional awareness, experiences and understandings have unfolded, and although we now live about 80kms apart, we continue to have synchronized sightings and connected meditation and dream imagery, energetic connections with Star Family and other higher dimensional beings of Love. With a mutual (and connected) escalation in beautiful visible lightship activity in the skies over the Perth hills and here in Mandurah, ongoing since November 2025 and radiantly blossoming into this year, it’s a joy and honour to welcome Shelley & Rob to Heart Star again, and to share some of Rob’s wonderful recent footage and photos of lightships (more can be found at their website and youtube channel).

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J: Welcome back to Heart Star, dear Shelley & Rob. Reflecting on our interwoven journey with Star Family through the years since 2013, I’m filled with wonder at all that has unfolded since then, and very grateful for your peaceful, joyful friendship and shared experiences along the way! Could you talk about how you see and have experienced/are experiencing your unfolding pathway of higher dimensional connectedness since then?

Shelley: Thanks for having us back for another interview Jo! Gosh where do I start? Firstly, it is our treasured friendship with you, your guidance, wisdom and gentle encouragement that has truly nudged us along on our Galactic pathway!

So much has blossomed for me during those 13 years, with my attunement and experiences! The joy of connection with Star Family happens in so many ways for me, with the main one being able to feel their energy with tingles and warmth, like a gentle touch on my face and through my hair. My hands are very sensitive to vibration and energy when I look at the countless photos Rob has taken in those 13 years! If I feel uncomfortable prickly sensations up my neck, I know the energy is dense and not higher dimensional!

I have learnt to trust what answers come to me first, which has led to a blossoming of getting the names of my Higher Aspects, feeling my vibration in those forms and some of the names of the Lightships that travel above our home and with us wherever we go! True connection with Twin Flame energy has brought me immense happiness and peace, with visions, lucid dreams and adventures in my Inner Heart Realm showing me who I truly am, a spark of Source Love and Oneness!

For Rob and I, it is our greatest joy to do Star Family missions where we are nudged to a location to help lift the vibration, activate a node, shine our light, anchor Galactic Lovelight through us and ripple it out, plant activated crystals, and more recently, anchor golden mandalas of pure vibration. To live in the moment, being calm, staying centered, seeing the beauty all around us and counting our many blessings, brings us into our own 5D bubble here in the Perth Hills!

Rob: My connection with Star Family really started in 2012 when I first began photographing their ships in the daytime sky from our place in Darlington, Western Australia. I was particularly drawn to photograph the sky whenever there were expressive wispy clouds and asking Star Family to appear in my photos with their ships, if it was safe for them to do so. And they certainly did! I have lost count as to how many of their ships I have photographed, but they’re of many different types and origins. The best of our ship photos we share on https://wispyclouds.net. The vast majority we never saw with the naked eye, back then, but they would regularly appear in one or more frames in the many photo series that I took.

At first, in the early days, I felt that I was in some ways a passive observer that happened to photograph ships as they were passing by, but eventually I realized that Star Family were deliberately placing their ships in particular positions in photos, or decloaking just long enough to appear in only one photo of a series. It took me a little while to appreciate that I was never a passive observer, but that Shelley and I actually have direct Star Family connections via higher-dimensional aspects that are onboard the ships. In that regard, Shelley and I are essentially ‘ground crew’ in this lifetime.

Our connection with Star Family has only grown stronger over time, and includes our appreciation of why we/they are here in the first place; to help raise our vibration and bring in Earth’s Ascension.

J: Since November last year, there’s been a very noticeable increase in lightships flying visibly overhead in your area, as well as here. Would you like to share about this ongoing night-time ‘ship stream’, how these movements have changed or increased in momentum over the last few months, and your understanding of why this might be happening?

Shelley: For many years now, I have been aware of the presence of Agarthan energies in our garden, under our node where we have a small stone circle and a geometric pattern that Rob changes when guided! We have rose and clear quartz towers in the center of the node, anchoring the energy! I have always felt Agarthan energy flowing up from the Inner Realms, through my feet and up my body as the wonderful core crystals and Higher Dimensional Humans of Aran connect with myself and Rob.

Rob: The first lightships, including Agarthan ships, that we photographed to the south of us, were on the 7^th of November 2025. The ships have been appearing and powering up almost every night since then, and we’ve made it a routine to go out in the evenings and photograph ships going overhead as well as to the south. December 2025 to February 2026 have been such a treat, with us seeing and photographing ships almost every night, except when the weather has been overcast. It really feels like things have stepped up to the next level and we love it!

With our increased focus, photography and connection with the lightships, the details of the ship interiors are becoming clearer, to the point where occasionally we may recognize which Star Family or aspects are onboard, which is so exciting! The increased ship activity really feels like we’re making progress as we head towards peaceful first contact.

Shelley: It is my feeling that as we move toward first contact, our friends, family and aspects from the Agarthan Realms will be stepping forward to greet humanity in a gentle, loving manner! With all that is going on in the collective and our Beloved Earth, I feel that we have been seeing, filming, photographing and connecting with ships and even fleets streaming out from the Agarthan Inner Realm of Aran. This is happening most nights, with tangible streams of love through flashes, streaks across the sky, many colourful ships, some softly glowing while others power up brilliantly, filling us with joy and excitement!

J: This leads us naturally to the relationship between Star Family and the Agarthan realms of the Inner Earth, being signaled so clearly to you by the precise locations the lightships are flying to and from, and patterns that you have noticed. There’s an obvious intent to communicate visually with you about the ‘Agarthan connection’, and it would be lovely to hear about any interweaving dream or meditation visions, energetic impressions, subtle sensations and other forms of inner connection and attunement you might be experiencing and feel comfortable sharing with us at the present time.

Shelley: The more I connect and get to know who I am in my Agarthan aspect, the stronger my visions, messages, and knowing that flows through! I was so very excited when I realized that a pearlescent tri-level ship that I had seen travelling low down out the car window about 4 years ago in rural Western Australia, has re-appeared in our recent photos from late last year 2025. I tuned into that ship, asking for a name and I got ‘The Pearl’! She is now reasonably easy to spot in the sky and in photos as she is a pearly-white colour and my Aran Agarthan aspect is Asharna and Twin Flame Asharn, who often captain The Pearl!

Just recently I have been having detailed visions and inner heart meditations of our home in Aran! Finding the words to describe the pure beauty of an Agarthan realm is a little bit of a challenge, as the colours are brighter and “otherworldly” and so much is feeling the vibration, the shimmers in the air and the fragrance on the breeze!

Our Aran home is a hexagonal shape with the top half of the hexagon being the wings with incredible bedrooms and bathrooms that blossom into glorious apartments when guests come to stay, the bottom half of the hexagon is living rooms, kitchen, library, meditation and chill-out spaces. Our home is a Sentient Being, so each space can be changed and decorated with love and a thought in an instant! She knows what each much-loved visitor likes and the apartment is ready in their preferred style! The center of the house is a domed atrium ecosystem with a rainforest, waterfall, lush fruits, vegetables and plants, with giant crystals. The beauty in the atrium changes depending on what we want to experience at any moment.

Our home is beside the most glorious Maldives-style lagoon, reef and white sandy beach, with plenty of space to land our light ships and pods!

J: What a wonderful, vivid description, Shelley! The light-filled presence of Aran glows through your words. And this brings me to your videos, Rob, of current night-time flybys. One of the really beautiful things that comes across is the mutual joy and love you both feel for our higher dimensional family and friends. Your energy feels effervescent, as though every lightship flight in your sky is a fresh source of delight and wonder. I’m recalling a night at my home in Darlington some years ago when, just as you were leaving, a white light flew across the sky above us. I remember you saying, Rob, “Do you think that’s a satellite?” And instantly the light started dancing all over the place, and had us in fits of giggles. Would you like to talk about the relationship between joy, love, laughter and higher dimensional connectedness?

Shelley: That was the very best response to a question ever, and I was so happy that they did that for Rob, showing so joyously that they hear us and bring such lightheartedness into our lives! As the years have gone by, my connection and awareness, along with feeling the vibrational energy of Star Family, has grown so much! I have realized that true connection comes from a space of Love, being in your heart center and radiating joy, which raises your vibration into a 5D way of Being!

The absolute knowing that we are on the beautiful ships of light, in our many higher forms and aspects is a blessing and a pure source of cherishment and wonder!

Rob: I couldn’t agree more, Jo. Seeing and connecting with Star Family when their lightships are sending us love by flashing bright lights is such a treat and gives us so much joy! We have experienced this multiple times now and every time it is such a delight! It is one of our favourite ways to connect with Star Family in real-time!

Something that I’ve noticed more recently is that when particular ships are nearby or flying overhead that have closely related Star Family or my Higher Aspects onboard, I suddenly start overheating! I know this is something that Shelley and you, Jo, have been experiencing for many years, but this is really exciting for me and feels like progress, even if it means that I break out in a sweat! With all of this increased activity, we can’t wait to see what will come next!

J: I agree, it’s definitely worth the sweats, Rob! 😂 I asked a similar question to the one below back in 2013, and would love to know your thoughts and aspirations here in 2026: Would you like more, or different kinds of contact, with the beings and ships appearing in your skies, photos and footage, and if so, what do you envision and hold in your hearts?

OMG, yes to more sightings and contact! Our dream for 2026 is to see the ships lower down in the sky overhead, coming out of the portals from Aran and appearing more clearly in the photos and videos! This has started to happen, and we are so very excited! To see long, slow flashes of love and connection, speedy coloured streaks across the sky and our hope for more openings where we can communicate more easily with all on board! The ultimate wish is for peaceful open first contact, with our Beloved Agarthan friends, family and aspects, for all of humanity!

J: Is there anything else you would like to share with us about your experiences?

Having your friendship in our life Jo is our greatest blessing and you are a treasure! You always encourage us to trust the nudges and guidance, while confirming our tuning-in is on the right pathway! The shared experiences, syncs, and loving updates that help us blossom more, are priceless to us and we are a team! We are ready for more missions and nudges and it is truly an honour to serve Gaia, Ashtar Command’s Ascension team and Star Family as we flow together toward the optimal timeline for all humanity and our shared goal for a beautiful life on 5D New Earth!

J: I’d just like to add that you’re a blessing and shining inspiration to me too, dear friends, I see you as an integral part of my journey of growth and expansion too! And that the light you anchor, the love and joyful higher dimensional connectedness you radiate, is a gift to humanity and Gaia. Thank you so much for all your are and do, and for your love-filled sharing with us, as the light of Agartha and Star Family radiates gentle (yet stronger) activations to the Heart of Humanity, while we move closer toward peaceful, clear, steadily aligned collective Open Contact.