Stars

[IllusiveOwl]

What do you think they are?
How are they symbolically used in your practice?
What do you think of our sun?

Let's discuss!

 

[Morell]

Physically speaking there is nothing to discuss.

Although Norse pagan, I also have personal "mythology" that the Sun is the evil start that wants the world for itself and everyone to never shine themselves. It dominates the sky and only enemy to it is the moon that reminds us that this realm of the Sun, where Sun is the only source of light, that enslaves us into working day, is not all, and that there is also realm of the night, where there are many lights and we all are allowed to be trolly ourselves, as we truly are...

 

[IllusiveOwl]

In Kabbalah, the source is seen as a force rather than a being, a force of giving, of unlimited abundance. What do we have in our physical reality that gives to such a blinding extent? Everything on our planet exists because of the warmth and radiance of our sun.

Could it be that the sun is the beating heart of a being who's form we lack the perceptive faculties to comprehend? I dunno.

Crowley, at the core of his Thelema philosophy, claims that people are stars. Jung in his seven sermons of the dead, claims that there are multitudes of gods in space, and it is our duty as Abraxas to grow and ascend to the stars ourselves.

 

[Johny111]

In my humble opinion, stars are gnomons, or celestial reflections of earthly processes. It's a matter of perspective: is the stellar order the cause of events on Earth, or the consequence of those events? In a narrower sense, stars are also indicators or manifestations of divine forces. So we can treat each individual star as a deity. But, hey, what do I know...

 

[Faria]

Rupert Sheldrake (and others) have suggested that the surface of the Sun is comparable in its complexity to a brain.

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The article here acts like this would mean stars have consciousness, and that consciousness is a side effect of complex natural systems.

Maybe we can't talk to the Sun, but these ideas open up the possibility of using stars as huge computer processors.

 

[Johny111]

Rupert Sheldrake (and others) have suggested that the surface of the Sun is comparable in its complexity to a brain.

Link:

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The article here acts like this would mean stars have consciousness, and that consciousness is a side effect of complex natural systems.

Maybe we can't talk to the Sun, but these ideas open up the possibility of using stars as huge computer processors.

If the Sun has consciousness, then so does the Earth. Yes, one can communicate with the Sun, but also with the Earth, but I wouldn't say that one can talk to it the way humans talk to each other. The Sun as an entity is very complex, and in ancient times it was compared to a labyrinth.