The Sun

I celebrate the golden opportunities that life brings

The Sun in summer heralds warmth with its dazzling glow and vibrant source of energy, bringing renewed vitality and freedom. The sheer visceral celebration of being alive. Its intensity unfurls the petals of protection through winter to reveal our beauty, the exquisite process of growing into ourselves. We can begin to awaken from hibernation, the natural conservation of energy and release our worries and fears in the brilliance of sunshine, allowing its heat to thaw the coldness deep within our bodies.

The Sun is depicted in this card as the thousand hand Guan Yin, the East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion. As a spiritually advanced human being, she is ready to transcend duality, the cycles of life and death; but she chooses to remain in the material world to enable others to also reach enlightenment. She is the most beloved Goddess of the Chinese and the bestower of good fortune and success. Her light illuminates the atmosphere, the arms of her rays touch everything, granting them life.

The Sun symbolism, predominantly masculine in form, has occupied a dominant position in many cultures, mythologies and religious with its first possible artistic rendition being traced to an anonymous engraving of a sun ray face at least 10,000 years old in a cave in East Timor, Indonesia. Further east in Japan (Ni-hon, the source of the sun), the sun, depicted as the red disc on a white background, is the national emblem venerated for its brilliance, power, and certainty.

Wherever you are in the world, the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, its daily rhythms mapping out the path of the human soul; birth at dawn, the power of maturity at midday and sunset, the completion of the journey. The splendor of the setting sun, brilliant oranges, pinks and reds dance, refract and melt reflecting the incredible beauty and mystery of life. We named our daughter Solaria, welcoming the burst of energy, warmth, and light she would shine into our lives.

Therefore, The Sun bears bountiful gifts, the fruit of our trials and labor, rewarding us for our determination and struggle in the pursuit of Truth, It reminds us how good it is to be alive, filled with boundless energy and enthusiasm. Laughter bubbling, squeals of delight, children playing, naturally exploring, exquisitely open and expectant, capable of anything. This energy is infectious and people warm to you immediately and are excited by what you have to offer. Celebrate the light!