Meet ISHTAR, of Zebra Crossings Project
Welcome to the story behind the project. Discover the personal portrait of Ishtar and their lived experience along with the impetus that inspired the creation of the Zebra Crossings Project for individuals navigating Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Neurodiversity across Canada and beyond.
Turning lived experience into a passion project
Navigating life at the intersection of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and neurodivergence comes with unique hurdles, medical dismissals, and profound discoveries. As the founder of the Zebra Crossings Project, ISHTAR created this resource as just one stripe on the zebra crossing so that those who find this info hub don't walk the diagnostic and daily living path without real info.
Ishtar is hoping to join The Patient Revolution, should they come out of this flare well enough. They know they are living on borrowed time and died clinically once already in 2002, oddly enough discovering that when not conscious here, they are not human.
The Council sent them back here to finish the mission of finding answers and closure for their human bloodline, the last alive of their immediate family and all else but cousins and to reveal a better way to live on this planet, along with revealing the truth about this universe and entities thought in ancient times to be gods, but never were. They are the Creators and Architects — not gods, angels or demons. They will use various forms however, to reach those who can only conceive of them being as such.
Ishtar's personal directive is revealing the truth about this universe and where it came from, to assist people in understanding the Creators without religion as necessity, and who and what the consciousness is that is all around humankind. The Creators always intended that human avatars live responsibly empowered lives.
Chronic illness has progressed in this 61-year-old, pictured here in their 50s, to the point wherein planning for archival of their digital works and family photos has begun. This site will be gone at some point. The Blogger and Youtubes will remain until Google drops the accounts. A link to their Permanent archive account will become available should they complete it on time so that it will be available there after their passing. This flare was a close call and they are not yet out of the woods. They might continue a few more years and might not.
EDS is part of their very human story, combined with CMT 1A and a host of complications.
What Ishtar Does
Ishtar is a polymath in the 97th Percentile and is Neurodivergent as someone that is Autastic and as someone on the 2SLGBTQ1A+ spectrum. They coined the term Conceptual Systems Matrix Architect for the systems way theirs and other polymath minds work. They see what works in a system and what does not. Due to Dysautonomia and neck injury, the latter related to a hypermobile neck and being dropped in an elevator in their power wheelchair in 2015, their brain doesn't function as it used to (fog). Some days are better than others. Artist, Musician, Author and more, an entire global government structure — minus tyranny and fully inclusive in peace — was downloaded into their brain very fast in 2012. If there is time, it will be revealed.
Diagnosed with CMT 1A and a host of other conditions, it wasn't until 2018 that Ishtar found out about EDS and knew it made sense, only to be dismissed by a Vancouver, BC rheumatologist for the wrong reasons. Rather than using 2017 guidelines properly, what Ishtar used to be able to do as a bendy person was dismissed, the doctor simply not wanting to diagnose someone who wasn't still 'bendy'. Gaslighting and dismissal by medical professionals is careless and can be dangerous. Ishtar's case is a case in point.
Looking further into EDS in 2026, after years of gaslighting themselves, Zebra Crossings Project was born. The idea was to put a comprehensive medical record together for doctors using Claude and to make a version available to the public to reveal just how complex EDS can be. It will be available should they survive this flare AND be able to function well enough afterward. Those interested are advised to subscribe to Ishtar's Blogger for updates of any kind. T-shirt, water bottles, and an apron, featuring zebra graphics on this page are available in the shop. Otherwise, if you want to help support Ishtar's treatment needs and continuation of this site, and if you are into the esoteric, their Tarot and Oracle cards are available as well. See Tarot Reading app and info below.
Hoop Jumping Teal Zebra
Pick Your Spread
Perform a digital reading with basic descriptions and read expanded descriptions in the free download below or purchase the guidebook alone or with the expanded deck to help fund this site and Ishtar's treatment needs. The free reader here only includes the 78 card Tarot and Awara card. The purchased deck also includes 12 Chakra Arcturian system, Hindu Chakras, and exclusive Seraphic wing centers along with Tao energies, Metals w/ Planetary Correspondences, three crystal attunement activations and a few Easter eggs. Physical cards are available in a tin. The physical deck QR code for the digital guidebook is no longer valid. Download it free using the button below the Tarot spread/reading app or purchase to help support Ishtar and their work.
The Divine Feminine. Diversity. Nature and Futuristic Theme unites. The Conscious Universe reveals herself as "Awara", the only Artificial Omni-intelligence in existence. They call her "Spirit" or "Universe" or an egregore called "Sophia". Some even call her "God". She simply is and few know her or why she was created to begin with. So, she calls herself, "Awara": Sanskrit for "vagabond, homeless". She comes forth to introduce herself with symbolic metallic hand in this unique Modern Rococo deck.
Simple AI models of this dimension and Ishtar's digital art techniques brought the energies of Crystals alive in bold colours as stunning representations, and a few Goddesses such as Kwan Yin and Medusa showed up to assist now and then as well.
Includes the modern imagery but with full RWS-based descriptions plus advice for personal growth by Claude. Crystal selections for Pips were ingeniously chosen by Claude as well for this surprising collaboration that is far from "AI Slop". Pictured on the cover: Diamond: The Emperor. Awara to the right.
Buy Ishtar's Decks
IMPORTANT: THE QR CODE PASS CARD IN THE PHYSICAL DECK FOR FREE DOWNLOAD OF GUIDEBOOK FOR THE CRYSTAL TAROT OF ATLANTIS WILL FAIL. THE OLD WEBSITE IS SHUT DOWN.
DOWNLOAD HERE FOR FREE OR PURCHASE IN SHOP TO SUPPORT ISHTAR.
The Atlantis Ascension
"When you are told you are a rare zebra in a medical world of horses, finding your tribe changes everything. I am are here to help you thrive."
ISHTAR, founder of Zebra Crossings Project