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?
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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.
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.
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
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 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.
Hope.
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
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
everlasting light, love and infinite energy
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.
Moon
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
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.
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….
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.
Overcoming the darkness/defeat and rise up again with full spirit =)
Sun, signifies hope, that the creator still loves us and has given us another day, another chance.
By the way, I love the idea that Prya mentioned ‘the phoenix’. A solar animal? That’s my tatoo!
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.
Light, warmth, radiance, glory, joy, heat
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
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.
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
fire, Yang, “permanent”, warmth, life, summer, sunflower, son, gestation, creation, destruction, unwilling usurper, yellow
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
Sun – solar, energy, surrounded by planets, morningtime, the colour orange, heat
Joy, energy, life, light, happiness
Sun…
begining, space, warmness, light, life and… endless power.
love -i.
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.
Light… :)
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.
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.
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.
The Sun help me to feel my heart and soul.
fire and passion!
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.
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.
Eternal PASSION, oui <3
energy…life…eternal journey like life nd death
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.
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…:)
ohhh how pretty!! I love the sun. It’s LIFE and LOVE.
Hugs,
Clover
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHy-hA2rYQ
O SOLE MIO….
The sun is GOD, is FIRE, is LOVE!!!
LOVE. THELMA
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.
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.
Love…endless love of..God.
Energy. Life. A new day- a new beginning.
The Principle
A new birth
LIFE
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