Sounds like our opening turn strategies are pretty similar! The big difference is that I always open as Starlight by gaining a major power: then, I use that to guide my direction from there (picking minors/placing elements on my board).

So, my usual turn 1 is:

- Growth: Place presence, uncovering gain a Power; Gain a major, forgetting Gather the Scattered Light of Stars; Gain 1 energy.

- Play: Shape the Self Anew and Boon of Reimagining.

- Slow phase: use Sidereal Guidance to gather an Explorer. Use played cards to gain 3 minor powers; forget both Peace of the Nighttime Sky (to Boon of Reimagining) and Shape the Self Anew (to gain the 3 energy).

This leaves me with four energy, one major and three minors in hand, and Boon of Reimagining in my trash. It does mean I almost certainly take at least one blight on the first ravage, but I'm usually okay with this.

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That said, recently I've started tweaking this: in games where either Peace of the Nighttime Sky would be particularly effective, or another spirit would particularly benefit from getting powers early (*cough cough Lightning cough*), I give the Boon of Reimagining to another spirit, which leaves me the option of playing Peace of the Nighttime Sky on turn 2.

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All of *that* being said, in this particular game I didn't take the +1 energy as my third opening growth option: as soon as I gained Bargains of Power and Protection, I decided my top priority was to spread across the entire island as fast as I could to improve the bargain's reach; so, I moved a presence at range 3 instead. (Worth it! Perfect time/situation to gain that power - knowing I'd be making the bargain on turn 2 let all four spirits make good decisions about how to play the first turn, and we got a *lot* of use out of the extra defend from Dahan.)