The exalted Sun
The Sun is currently exalted in Aries. Actually the degree of exaltation for the Sunday’s 10°, he just past that a couple of days ago — but the sun is still very powerful at 12° Aries currently.
The Sun is the ego trying to become liberated and know itself truthfully, for lack of a better way to put it. The ego is the Self expressed in the world — the mistaken identity, who we think we are. The self is not related to any quality of limitation. That includes the body, mind, even some spirit idea that somehow experiences happiness for itself.
No, there is only one self — it is pervasive in all forms, ideas, spirits and everything else.
This notion is very hard, if not impossible for the mind to grasp. Even when we think of our Self as a liberated entity, some quality of it refers to an identity that has some attributes of personality. But the true Atman has no personality-type attributes, but it has qualities. The ancient Rishs have said the self is “Sat-chit-ananda” - which means wise, everywhere and joyous.
The Sun is the Atman, the self joined all selves — the energy joined all energies. Can you imagine yourself without a body, without a mind, without even a spirit, All-powerful, knowing, loving and joyous and completely free?
In Vedic thinking, in a literal and cosmic sense, the Sun and Moon together create life. The power of the Sun together with the creativity of the moon create beings on earth. Once we take a body and come to earth, we have entered duality, the realm of “2″ (the Atman is the realm of “1″). The masculine and feminine interacting — the cosmic Sun and moon. In the sky this is also true. The Sun is the power of every living being. If the Sun refused to shine, everything would die immediately.
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http://sfyoga.net/1999specials.htmYet even so, the Sun’s light would be meaningless without the creativity of the moon. Life did not begin on earth until the moon. This is the reason in Vedic thinking the feminine contains the masculine, the goddess contains the God. The moon energy contains the Sun energy - giving i the t the capacity to create life.
In numerology the Sun is one, the moon is two. The temptation and habit is so deep to consider the Atman to somehow be connected to the mind/body in some way or another. It is easy to contemplate “one” and think “this individual person is a 1, that individual person is a 1″, etc. Seeing a bunch of “1’s” in the eyes we meet. But in fact, each individual is already a “2″ (at least). Actually I would say according to astrology, each person is a 9. If we could just get down to being a “2″ would probably feel pretty good.
But as it stands, the Sun and moon together create us. This thing has already happened - we are separate from ourSelves and trying to get back. Trying to feel whole again. That is the work of the Sun. Ready to sacrifice everything in order to return to the eternal and undeniable truth shining deep within us, whether we know it is shining there or not.
These issues are especially important right now with Sun exalted.
Sometimes mistaking the ego for the Self, trying to feel powerful , leads to some misdirected personal energy, as was the case last week with the mass murder at VA Tech.
An exalted Sun and a Mars / Rahu conjunction led to this unfortunate event.
more later on that,..
Best wishes,
Sadasiva
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