12/21/2025
The word quintessence sums up the Sun. Aether is the element which creates fire and is pertinent here. The great expanse of aether gives rise to fire just as a great expanse of space gives rise to your source of inspiration. The Sun connects you to the causal aspect of who you are — the space in which you are created, create, or will co-create. The Sun is closely representing our spiritual Self. It gives off light that stores information for the blueprint of who we are to become, how we tend to radiate. As the Sun shows your potential for awakening to the most enlivened self you can live, it can also be a projection board for the ego.
Chinese Medicine indicates that the emperor (Sun) is located in the heart — Anahata. In Sanskrit, Anahata means “unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten,” referring to its pure unfiltered quality, uncontaminated by the ego. The sun points to the energy of the heart chakra in many ways, the fourth primary chakra, according to Hindu Yogic, Shakta and Buddhist Ta***ic traditions.
Archetypally, the Sun is the epitome of who we are. It’s a star at the center of our solar system. By knowing what sign the Sun was in at your birth, you can feel into the way you act like a star.
Archetypally, the Moon is your emotional body, the soma — the body of an organism. This body of yours is connected to all things — through the threads of an invisible but dynamic web of the cosmos. In actuality, there is no separation from the perceived barrier of your skin and its congruency with the environment.
At a basic level, the Moon is your “small” self and is representative of the subconscious tendencies and habits that have been cultivated over time to meet survival needs. It’s invested in survival and can include much of your ingrained egoic subconscious patterns.
Traditionally the luminaries were the two brightest and most luminous celestial bodies in the heavens, namely, the Sun and the Moon.
The word luminary means source of light and the Sun and the Moon are the most abundant sources of light for inhabitants of Earth.
Thus, the Sun and the Moon play a special role in Astrology and also in the awakening of spiritual consciousness.
