Symbols are doors that enable us to enter other universes. They are based in associations and from this week onwards I want to invite you to make a list of free associations based in a symbol that I will post here in the blog.
This week we will talk about the Sun.
As you know there have been sun deities throughout history.
In Ancient Greece as well as in Egypt, the Sun was portrayed as a masculine God : Apollo, Ra.
Yet, in other cultures, such as Japanese and Nordic cultures, the Sun is portrayed as a Goddess. For instance, in Japan, Amaterasu was the sun goddess who was born from the left eye of the primeval being Izanagi. The ruler of the Plain of Heaven, she was the oldest daughter of Izanagi. She hid in a cave until Uzume lured her out, at which time a beam of light, the dawn, escaped.
Now, you take the floor : what do you associate with the Sun?
LIFE
A new birth
The Principle
Energy. Life. A new day- a new beginning.
Love…endless love of..God.
i always thought of the sun, as a big mirror…and it can reflect anything..and it can also shed light to everything..and it is spreading…i mean the rays are like expanding, and they can touch anyone..(like Love)..and can warm all the world.. and maybe they can even penetrate your ability of seeing and blind you for a moment - as enthusiasm in Love, when you walk in life like you are blind or something:) - SO maybe for me it mirrors Love..cause it is always giving…
Love and Graditude
Annie
Tough love: scorching, burning, dehydrating but also envigorating, joyfull, warming. Sometimes shrill and harsh. Sometimes tender and fresh. It can brighten up colors, but also make them extremely flat. The sun for me is a symbol of extremes. I love it, because with it, in the Netherlands, come the long days (from 05.30 untill 23.00 in june!) but I also hate it, because I’m allergic and it ruins my face, makes it look like a strawberry.
The Sun means life to me. When I was a child waking up in the mornings with the rays of sun coming in through the windows meant that the day was going to be wonderful. Clouds, rain and no sunshine meant the day was a terrible one. Only later I realised that even if the rain’s pouring and dark clouds are everywhere in the sky, the Sun is still there shining above us. Clouds and rain is what we see from down here. But if you are a pilot you know that the Sun is always there. All you need to do when the rain’s pouring - simply soar high above the clouds.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHy-hA2rYQ
O SOLE MIO….
The sun is GOD, is FIRE, is LOVE!!!
LOVE. THELMA
ohhh how pretty!! I love the sun. It’s LIFE and LOVE.
Hugs,
Clover
lol everything for me from the title of blog is to do wit the sun or light :) I also use sun a lot in my poetry…:)
I believe I view the sun as though it were a divine mother or goddess, giving life to every place its fingers touch. I have always loved very, very hot and sunny days. It instantly warms your skin, makes you sweat, makes you feel very alive. It comforts the way a mother would, and can also be so intense you have to find shelter from it….the sun has immense power and strength, and could scorch in a heartbeat…but it’s gentle and strong at the same time…and it us in a way a goddess would nurture her subjects.
energy…life…eternal journey like life nd death
It lights up your heart and melts away your fears….
Love & Light, Paul
Eternal PASSION, oui <3
My associations with The Sun are:
Children- because when a child is drowning he always begins with the sun(usually with a smiling face)… it’s amazing because even an innocent creature give to the sun so much meaning.
Baked burst strawberries melting into the fields; sex on a rooftop in Athens when I was nineteen; warm cobblestones through a flimsy sandal, a half-disc blazing a path of light on the water. All things which contain it including myself. White nights. How light must be a kind of oxygen at very high altitudes.
In astrology, the Sun is the Self, the shining ego power of volitional humanity. In astrology, we say ” go to your sun” — meaning the highest active advocate for your development and evolution. It is the life force within, the central fusion reactor, the one coherent part that con not be corrupted.
fire and passion!
The Sun help me to feel my heart and soul.
SUN:
The unknowable aspect of God.
The blinding truth that is behind God’s eyes.
The counterpart to our watery moon-selves.
The “reality” that we think we can’t see at night, in darkness.
Okay, Dr. Coelho, I lie relaxed on my couch…
The first thing, when I think of sun is love of life!
…and optimism, joy, energy, feeling comfort, summer holidays, seaside, enjoying the beauty of nature,… and in the end being in a beautiful place with bright sunshine makes me feel being in tune with me and the whole universe.
First and foremost the Sun is God made visible to man, in this sense the divine son that is destined to die and become resurrected.
Moreover, the Sun is at his most powerful aspect in the South. A merciless killer in the desert, but a bringer of life provided that his energies are tempered with Water.
He is not only life, but also death.
And, as pointed out, he is not only male, but also female.
Light… :)
Para mi significa: Padre, vida, energía, amor, leo, la casa donde quiero volver.
He buscado en Internet sobre mi cultura Celta y he encontrado esto:
Es la fiesta del dios celta Lugh, el poeta, el del largo brazo, identificado con el Sol y con Mercurio. Lugh es un dios solar, que algunos mitos identifican como el hijo de Bel (celebrado en Beltane) La celebración tiene lugar en la víspera del 2 de Agosto (para el hemisferio sur)
Místicamente, el Dios pierde su fuerza, al pasar su punto máximo, ante la mirada triste y alegre de la Diosa, pues su semilla crece en su vientre y él renacerá. Es un punto de poder en el año, un sabbat mayor, simbolizado por la figura del León, el querubín del fuego:
Los celtas tomaban y toman esta fecha para celebrar matrimonios, pues el enlace entre el hombre y la mujer no solo significaba la conjunción del amor sino también el agradecimiento de devolver ese gesto a la tierra natural que les da el sustento
Si bien representa la muerte del Dios Lugo, la manera en que la cultura celta ve a la muerte es un paso más, como un reciclar a la vida, pues por ser hijo de Belt, renacerá en la primavera.
Es así como entienden el alma los celtas, por ello que para ellos el alma sigue, aprende, tiene esperanzas de renacimiento en nuestro mundo.
Me encantó que en los países nórdicos y Japón lo vean como una deidad femenina, muchas veces pensé que debería ser así porque es como el huevo de la creación.
Un beso Paulo me ha encantado la asociación, el Sol es algo que me provoca muchos sentimientos.
Sun…
begining, space, warmness, light, life and… endless power.
love -i.
Joy, energy, life, light, happiness
Sun - solar, energy, surrounded by planets, morningtime, the colour orange, heat
I was suddenly thrilled to see that you wanted to know what sun signifies for us.
Sun has been somehow being around since a few months in my life.Like here suddenly the topic is about sun, then a month back i had to choose a photo and I felt to choose sun so I choose it and so on…
Sun signifies the essential and discarding the inessential.Its huge energy and fucus (very unlike me).
And its a pheonix, as every day it goes through the dark nights, but again in the morning it rises from its ashes and becomes the SUN.
Sun is life, light, happiness and the essential.
Priya
fire, Yang, “permanent”, warmth, life, summer, sunflower, son, gestation, creation, destruction, unwilling usurper, yellow
Dear Paulo and friends,
What comes to mind when Associating the Sun is; …a Woman clothed with the Sun, with the moon under her feet….from the Revelation.
Many theologians believe this refers to Our Lady. A personal reflection is, that the Sun symbolizes everything good, true and free of sin, while the moon under her feet, is like the snake often pictured under Our Lady’s feet in religious statues, which symbolizes the sinful and evil.
I have no knowledge about Bridas, Tradition of the Sun and Tradition of the Moon, and certainly don’t want to offend any Moon traditionalists. OK!
I just find this Biblical revelation as a sign, that always fascinated me.
Heart
I guess I can assosiate the sun with the power of life itself, it has being adored and venerated for ages, and always in a different way, I consider it as the cause of light and a promise of a new beginning, so when the sun rises and you witness that either in a mountain or a sea shore, you see that something new is starting and when it goes down, its a promise that you have a new chance tomorrow, every day in your life the sun is your companion, and brings new sensations, for me and the whole world population, so for me I will say that it is renovation, a promise to be better, and if I had to rule a culture, I will set the sun as the God of New hopes.
Well I just wrote a message and lost it WT !! anyway here I go again ..orange /yellow ,yang energy ,learning -gold ,the beach-hot/sand -rainbows -sundancers ,sunkissed glows ,freckles ,sunny flowers ,orange bougainvillea-fun in the sun …Islands sunrise,sunset and also we like B.B>Q in Australia on sunny days and of course the sun brings flies ..melting ice cream,orange cottes’s cordial and I also love Ra sun God -fruit of the Nile …oranges ,mangoes and the sun also represents - growth -cleansing the soul -body heat and fire -flicker flames - and the pheonix ..plus copper/citrine
Blessings and love and sunlight + warmth Tania
Light, warmth, radiance, glory, joy, heat
I see it like male, not female. I also relate the sun immediatly with Argentina. The sun occupies a very important place being in the middle of the flag… I love this country. When I was a kid I thought of the sun as happiness. Do you guys remember drawing suns with happy faces?
The sun is fire, is warmth, is able to clean everything with that fire, it is life, it is a new start… and sometimes a happy end. (sunrise + sunset).
It is also a tatoo. I remember a tattoo in the back of a woman I love. It was a ‘dark sun’, which came out just in the dark.
By the way, I love the idea that Prya mentioned ‘the phoenix’. A solar animal? That’s my tatoo!
Sun, signifies hope, that the creator still loves us and has given us another day, another chance.
Overcoming the darkness/defeat and rise up again with full spirit =)
When I’m conscious enough to really feel the sun’s rays on my skin, I imagine I’m being wrapped in God’s embrace.
The sun is God’s way of actively loving us daily.
Warmth, nurturing, mother, friend, play, freedom. But also fierce warrior and destroyer, raw masculine energy.
The Sun always makes me remember an experience I had as a little girl… I got a cold and lost my voice so my mum made a mixture which was supposed to help - the yolk of an egg, mixed with honey in a cup of warm milk (I only found out the contents of the mixture years later). It doesn’t look or smell too good so when I saw it, I refused to drink it. I asked what the yellow bits floating in the milk were and my mum said that when she made my milk, she went out on the terrace and told the Sun about me - how I had gotten sick and lost my voice. The Sun was touched by her story and offered to help - it took one of its rays and put in the cup of milk where it dissolved and warmed it. As any small child, I was thrilled and honoured that the Sun would personally want to help me in such a way so I quickly emptied the glass of milk and soon enough I got better. :) So that’s one association I always make when I hear of the Sun….
Reminds me of abundant God’s Love and Mercy, also to me it is the symbol of ‘Father hood’, because like the SUN the father in the family should hold everything in place.
Sun?
Love, peace, birth, fire, strongness,…. There are 100 things I remember thinking on the sun…
But…
Can somebody look into the sun, whitout getting blind? Over 2-3 minutes? No, or?
It´s like looking into gods eye…
But…
What if somebody can look into the sun? For minutes after minutes… whitout getting blind…?
I think, then this little human can choose the energy from the sun, to bring it on this little earth…
or?
;-)))
Nia
Moon
Thats what my name mean :)
I used to think as a child, that sun stands for strength and individuality - the ability to give life to an entire world without expecting them to be close or even think about you. I used to feel close to the sun because I was named after it.
And now, as I live in a place with long winters and long summers, I love the sun, and the beautiful colors it shower on the world everyday.
everlasting light, love and infinite energy
Dear Nia Wind,
I heard one time that when you look at the sun for a few minutes or so, it somehow cleanses your eyes;
if “eyes are the windows of the soul” then…it cleanses your soul too…
with the love of God.
love
Agnieszka
SUN
the sun is a symbol of hope the rise of the sun is a symbol of hope and even the setting of the sun is also the rise symbolizes that a new day has begun and the setting of sun symbolizes that the shine will be back after a few moments of darkness
Hope.
The Sun …
I made a drawing ten days ago. It´s like those drawings that children make when the psichologist or teacher or whoever ask them to draw something (about their lives, their angels and so on).
It is said that in this way children can express themselves and show what there is in their mind, soul and Heart.
So I made a drawing (I will send you the picture if you want. Well I will send it anyway :)) and one of the things I draw was the Sun over the head of the Goddess.
When I was making the drawing, I liked to think that She was my Mother.
I would embrace Her right now. I cannot understand why a Mother leave Her daughter in the Hell. Maybe to Help her to remember to be strong next time She come back here to collect her.
Maybe it is just in order to Help me to remember.
I wish She could come again. This time I will hold Her hand with all my strenght.
I simply love symbols, I have always loved to descipher their meanings!
The Sun, associated with the right channel of energy in our energetic bodies: action, future, power, light, yellow, attention, creativity, discipline,supraconscious, mental and physical aspects, the aspect of the father, Shri Hanumana or the Archangel Gabriel, Shri Mahasaraswati
I also associate the Sun with summer, holiday, speed, fire, the caution not to get sun-burned, the power to destroy germs and to dry what is muddy and many others. I love the Sun as long as I don’t stay too long directly under its powerful rays… :-)
Lots of hugs and appreciation,
Carmen Larisa
The symbol of life spreading love with rays of light in the shadow of our existence to speak with the sound of the heart that arises as the sun in time to see that all life is one and timeless.
When you follow the sun you are your own master by listening as a student to the vibration that speaks by the word through all of us.
Believe in your master that shines in your heart as the sun which is a bridge to that what is invisible which we can see with the eye of love.
See the sun in all and follow your way to light and love to be
…
‘on earth as in heaven’.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
Hola a todos,
Pues lo relaciono con calor, luz, fuego, vida, verano, amarillo, Lorenzo :-), el nombre de la hija de una buena amiga ( Sunna), una bola con rayos, dibujos infantiles… ahora mismo es lo que se me ocurre…
Besos desde Barcelona,
Miriam
When I think of the sun, I automatically think of the moon. Some of what I think about when I think of the sun and the moon: If the sun is masculine then the moon is feminine. If the sun is a god then the moon is a goddess. If the sun gives light, energy and heat then the moon gives her own light (to darkness), rest and coolness. The sun offers its beauty but is unforgiving and harsh; it will blind you after a period of time. The moon offers her beauty that is cool and serene…no harm done after hours of gazing. Both have been worshipped. Both are necessary even today.
I associate the sun with the son, as in Jesus, power, a new day, cannot be received directly, we need layers of proteccion between us and the sun, health, it can give life but can also destroy, fun, the sea, plant life, fire, heat, the elements, fire, earth, wind and water, our bodies, sunglasses. sun proteccion lotion, spf creams, sky, clouds, umbrellas, convertible cars.
then Moon makes me think about Mother then about Earth then Sea then Water then Life then Creation then Sexuality then Sounds then Music then Love then Fertility then Birth then again Love then Woman then Gone then Sun again then Sky then Planets then Cosmos then Interstellar Space Arkestra then Music of the Sphere then Monk then Communication then Communion then One then God then Dog then Dark side then Night then Shadows then Trees then Ground then Wind then Silence then Mountain then Meditation then Illumination then Awakening with the sunrise then welcome to the Dawn.
Love
Damien
Yes, dear Love,
to draw as a child.
Some days ago while I was taking care of two little girls we all made a drawing, one of the girls told the story of her drawing,…
She drew two moons, a sun and a flower…
The flower that she drew was immedeatley in love with the sun when she opened her heart… She saw the sun as her grandmother and the two moons were her father and mother. The seven stars were their children and she was the flower.
I asked her why the flower was immedeatley in love with the sun,…
and she said “just because she saw and felt the sun when she was growing”.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
Or maybe the Sun makes me simply think about this warm light that enligths our path and Warms our hearts.
Love
Damien
Dear KaZenDim or Damien, i liked reading your comment following your thoughts :) sometimes i thought of what you wrote before i read it..
Love and Graditude
Annie
i dont know why but these days when i think of the sun , i think of the trees too…the rays remind me so intensely of the roots of a tree in the ground….
Love and Graditude
Annie
SOL…
True Love, energy, rebirth, contentment, inoscence, a male attribute in a God or in a Goddess,
Equality, strength, generous and nurturing light, TRANSFORMATION
George Harrison!!! (here comes the sun…)
Energy and life even thought I like the moon and night better :)
nascente…meio de dia…e por de sol…..em nome do pai do filho espirito santo amen….as above,so below
Con que asocio el sol… con el principio… con la vida, con la verdad. El sol ha sido bien asociado con los dioses creadores como Apollo y Ra puesto que este es aquel padre que da y da sin pedir nada a cambio (por el momento) El sol envía a diario 4,000 veces más la cantidad de personas que vamos a utilizar en la tierra. Padre y Madre creo que son las mejores palabras que he podido buscar para asociar como el sol.
Dear Hidegarde,
… Beautiful :).
Dear Agnieszka,
yes, it heals and refreshes the soul, but there are not many who can look in her light…
maybe the are not able to heal their souls alone…
Nia
Yo asocio al sol, con el brillo el calor la energía, una poderosa fuente de energía, que domina el día, ante la luz del sol, las cosas son verdaderas, ante la energía del sol, nuestro organismo demanda y genera mayor actividad, amo al hermano sol, a mi Inti constructor.
Saludos desde los andes americanos.
Cecilia
The impulse of life
Our Divine nature
The heart of our Universe
sun is strength and beginnings :D
Like my ancesters, the Incas, the sun is like God to me. Not god from the bible but instead the great energy that its impact has to the world. The sun is like a great vitamin in the lives of all living creature, without sun we would be like vampires.
thanks Hildegarde, for the beautiful story
POWER AND STRENGTH!!!!!!! :)
On contemplating his life in a moment of deep fear, the father of my children sent me this yesterday.
“I know one thing I’ve come to Anger is the route of all our troubles. Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful day that god has given us. The sun is a cure in it’s self.”
The sun is a cure…….What a perfect description.
xxxx Ruth xxxx
agape. or unconditional love. because the sun gives light for everyone. as much as you want. there is no bias.
light, hope, and mortality.
Francis of Assisi refers to the Sun & Moon, as “Brother Sun/ Sister Moon“…I think the Sun is our majestic, heavingly brother, always with us,influencing all life on the earth,sending energy and shining a spotlight,iiuminating, and making clear our paths on this daily walk we call Life.
Blessings to all this day!
O Sol deveria ser um objetivo para todos.
Brilhar nosso espírito com uma luz iluminadora e aquecedora em todos os lugares que passarmos e a todas pessoas que encontrarmos.
Ser como o sol, é ser uma fonte de luz divina!
Life and a healing power to depressions.
There is nothing new under the sun!
about the sun it’s kind of diffrent according to the sun condition where it’s sunrise or sunset … the sunrise kind of new spirit and kind of great hope , but sun set feel kind of mestariuos …
the actiant pharones made the pyramids at the west side of nile as the sun goes down which means the end ….
i do belive it’s according to ur mental and physical state the sun would be a sample to u :)
Well… The Sun… is so defenitive. So crusial for life. So joy bringing with light of new birth (for us in the northern and sothern hemisphere). But deep down I also feel a certain fear of the sun. It’s like the sun stands a side of all belives (I don’t really don’t know how right now). Or above maybe… Without it we will not be here, at our school… Sometimes I’m torn between what I feel and what I read and hear from science (stars born, and stars die…etc) And it bring skin disease (malignt melanom) and kill when we are exposed to it too much (ex from The Valkyries) So… happieness and fear. No one without the other. Strange…
Food, I associate the sun with food. The sun provides an abundant supply of food (energy) for every living being on Earth.
The Beloved.
The Sun Rising
My friend wrote this track back in the eighties, and since then the Sun has always represented this to me.
beauty
a sun, a node of transformation emitting an indefinable particle/vibration in which I find myself swimming, the sea of light in which we are all resonating tunefully, aspects of the Godly which first set in motion all vibration, the Word… no separation but a unity motion, different frequencies, different habitations on the spectrum of life…
God
Me, as in my soul, i see my soul as a child of the sun
I see every soul as a child of the sun
Huge and intense desire. The one that vitalizes, invigorates and fortifies but also is daunting and awesome, cannot be looked straight in the eyes and can always make a pile of smoking ashes out of you…
Energy. Life. The beginning of the beginning.
As in the Rigveda.
Spiritually and somehow linked in a scientifical way too -
I think we all carry a part of the light from the sun within us.
I can deeply understand that the sun in many cultures is worshipped as a God (masculine and feminine).
Still among Hopi it is the task of the men of the tribe to go out before the dawn and sing so that the sun will rise.
I ofthen think of the sunlight likely to the love of God because the sun shines over us all - good and bad, weak and strong, wealthy and poor…
To solely think of the sun as a physical thing feels like you would take away a part of the soul from the world…
*smile*
Josephine < romantic
suns: the street-lamps of the universe:)
Este ser tão grandioso, é muito mais do que nossa singela inteligencia possa imaginar. Estrela para os cientistas, força criadora para a humanidade. Responsável pela vida e por tudo mais que isto possa significar.
A forma fisica de Deus!
namaste amigos.
Dear Paulo,
I associate the Sun with freedom. The possibility to travel wherever I want and follow my own dreams with no regrets. The sun reaches places I would like to go to and it keeps me warm.
Love Eleonor
Vida, masculino, energia
Dear Paulo,
as I come from a tropical land (because of my study, I live in germany now –> not much sun). Sun is for just like the welcoming arms of a mother, something comfortable like home.
The mighty Sun, the creating force the keeper of life and hope, lightens and warmly embraces and sustains all living things in the world.
The Illuminator of our senses and manifester of our desires, the gate keeper from the forces of darkness the energy of the world.
Saravá ♡
Milou
The Sun symbolize my love of my children.
Joy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Sun. Solace. Bright Blessings for the Right Hand Path, lighting the Red Road.
Gliding in a boat from East to West, I shine upon the World, the Light.
Morning Star, Noonday Demon, Setting Skylark, the Sun walks a road standing still, and will exist after the Earth is gone…
A small star.
pain and joy.
my favourite image of the sun is how a boy in my primary school would draw it - with long yellow rays. I saw it as a far - away, slightly malevolent thing, but he made it touch the earth and show its loving side.
It’s burnt me many times, but I still love a glowing, sunny day.
O sol é a energia que nos dá a vida.
Quando amanhece e vejo os primeiros raios do sol, me lembro daquela música do Cat Stevens:
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken,like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing, fresh from the world
Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall,on the first grass
Praise for the sweetneess of the wet garden
Springing in completeness where his feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one ligth, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God’s recreation of the new day.
Sun…..
Its rays of light
shows us the colours of Life
From the orange chest of the robin,
That visits me in the morning.
To the deep blue of the sea,
that lies in front of me.
Where the white clouds pass by
showing us the heavens of the Sun.
Its an instrument of God and a companion to us.
The gift of life I’ve been privileged to receive from my parents - my name. It has taken me years of search to appreciate its meaning and to love it with full gratitude.
The Sun is divine.
Would make the plants dehydrated or could feed em with nutritions neccessary for their survival.
Would make the animals freeze to death or could comfort ‘em with its warmth.
To humans it’s importance is yet to be reallized. The world is closing in to Global Warming (WAKE UPPPP)
A layman like me just think its great enough to have it aroun’ to comfort and ease the pain of a gloomy day.
Shaheema R.