© By Witch HPs Hawk

29 December 2005
Do Not Reprint without Written Permission. Protected by Apollo.

Apollo
Sol Invictus, Oulis, Phoebus Apollo, and Apollo Phôleutêrios to name a few.

 

“Know Thyself, Nothing in Excess”
Temple Gates at Delphi

 

Planet: Sun
Metal: Gold
Symbol: Lyre, Bow, Golden Arrows, Hammer, Shepard’s Crook, Cithara
Polarity: Masculine/Feminine
Element: Fire/Water
Zodiac Sign: Leo and Libra [traditional Star Sun]
Ruling Number: Power Number 9, Name Number 8, All Seasons, All Elements, the Cross and the X.
Place of Birth: Delos under a Palm tree in the 7th century B.C., on the day of December 25th.
Sacred Herbs/Oil: Heliotrope, Frankincense, Myrrh, Sunflower, Calendula, Hyacinth, Rosemary, Laurel, to name a few.
Sacred Creatures: Serpent, Dragons, Lion, Dolphin, Dog, Horse, Hawk, Swan, Raven/Crow, Griffin to name a few

The Sun is the centre of the Solar System it is known as the Star of Love and from the Sun all is born. The Sun is our heat source, and from heat comes energy, life, healing, and light. Since before time the Sun has been in the realms of the Celestial and is the ruling Star of Apollo twin brother of Artemis and rules the Sun Sign of Leo. Like the Sun, Delos is also the centre of the Cyclades Islands they are a groups of small Islands in the Aegean Sea which actually create a circle around the island of Delos, being ruled by the number 10/1, which also rules the Sun and is without change and unalterable in so representing ones spirit which can entrée all things without change. Today Delos is uninhabited and has four temples dedicated to Apollo, one of them being the Temple of Athenians. Apollo is one of the twelve Olympians that lived on Mt. Olympus, which is the highest mountain in Greece and is said to be the home of Zeus, Apollo’s father and all the other Goddesses and Gods that were of the Olympian court.

Leto coming to this land gave birth to Phoebus Apollo “far shooting Lord”, after a long journey found Delos and sought out permission to give birth to Apollo upon this land in return Delos would be protected from invasions and would produce abundantly plants and life that has not yet existed upon this land. This was all due to the fact that Hera had threatened any land who permitted Leto to give birth to Phoebus Apollo with destruction. However, due to Hera’s rage over the conception of Phoebus Apollo, she would not allow her daughter Eileithyiaa go to the aid of Leto until the ninth day of labor pains. Upon Eileithyiaa’s arrival Leto gave birth to Phoebus Apollo underneath a palm tree [Palm being ruled by the number 6], which is considered a symbolic union being Fire and Water and, why the coconut tree is associated to birth, womb and the Mother of all Creation.

There are many associations to the Sun and all date back to the times of the Sumerian. The Sun was and still is an important Star in the Celestial Realm, it is the sign of the waking of the God and the when the Sun God goes to rest, with Him goes those souls who have passed and they will travel to the Underworld upon the setting of the Sun. With this comes being able to learn both the conscious and unconscious side of oneself. Balance of the masculine self and an understanding both life and death. Understanding that there is energy so powerful that one must learn how to work with it in order to gain full knowledge of thyself and to most importantly learn not to take in excess.

Knowing Thyself is to know ones goals and directions and this is on the conscious level of ones life. To know what you seek to achieve in this lifetime it gives us direction and a path, will, learning, prophecy and more. To take nothing in excess, takes a much deeper understanding of your inner being and spirit. It is to know that the Suns power is stronger than any one of us and with the entire positive it brings; it too can bring chaos if one is not careful. The Sun is Love and in that shows us how to express and allow manifestation. The sun is the heat and passion of the fires within, it brings out our passions, our creativeness, self-awareness, will brings about action, and also aggressions from fatigue. The Sun is that of the minds conception [mentis notis] the conscious as well as the unconscious, the hidden face behind the Moon.

In Egypt the Sun is worshipped in the form of Ra father to Ma’at, it is also the country in which the first of the Solar Cults was instituted. Officially, it was Pharaoh Akhenaten, [formally known as Pharaoh Amenhotep IV] who began the Solar Cult; however, unofficially it was Queen Nefertiti who was the force behind the Solar Cult. She went every morning before sunrise to prepare for the awakening of the Sun God Ra, with offerings and Ritual. In the end it became so dangerous for both the Pharaoh and his Queen that they had to leave and move the capital of Egypt to Akhtaton where it had been for centuries in order to live safely and practice the worship of Aten, and in this Solar Cult Nefertiti was a Priest and was often depicted giving offerings to Aten. The Solar Cult was not pleasing to the Priests whom honored the Moon Goddess. However, a thought if the Sumerians were the ones to carry the Old Religion north then is it possible, I do believe so that the Solar Cult started in the Sumer lands? I do believe so. Why? Because it is the Sun that carries our souls to the Underworld and when we are ready to leave our physical bodies, we return to Sumer land for rest and return to our ancestors.

The Sun in Tarot is the nineteenth card which in numerology is 19/10/1, again showing the connection to unification between Fire and Water, here too lies the connection of the saying the hidden face of the Sun behind the Moon. Sun is Fire and the Moon is Water. The Sun is the light of the inner self and the Moon is the darkness of the inner self, the intuition.

King of the Planets, this is what the Sun is known as, it rules Leo and the Lion, it is regal, noble and Invocatory. It is all Power and rules the South at high noon and rules the day of Sunday, in the hours of 1 a. m., 8 a. m., 3 p. m., and 10 p. m. and sits at the top of the seven pointed star. The sun is action and movement, however, in the masculine form of the Lion it is also rest, in the feminine form it is the hunter. The Lion is a very loyal creature, it is one that will stand by their family and protect the family from threat. The lion is dedicated, adaptable, sneaky, sly, prideful, patient, vengeful, strong, playful, and they make great companions. Lions are an interesting breed. In the lion family it is the female who hunts and provides the food for the family and the male who stays behind to protect their territory and the cubs from onlookers. The male is known to sleep up to 20 hours a day and the female can be gone for hours, even days until she makes a kill. However, it is the male who eats first then the young then the female. The female lion is much more deadly when it comes to her cubs than the male is more likely to attack if threatened. In mating the lions can mate [when in season] every thirty minutes to a full day, making the Lion and sensual and sexual creature and bi-sexual energies. Apollo is depicted riding upon the back of a Lion and in this it shows his regal nobility, power and stature that makes him the Sun God. Another connection to the Lions, that most do not know and the even the number 7 which is how many lions lead this chariot is Ishtar, the Sumerian Goddess of the Moon.

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