The Sun:

 The Sun:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

This is the thirtieth path on the Tree of Life and connects Yesod to Hod or the sphere of Mercury and the Moon. Carrying with it the influence of Mercury we may contemplate this influence in light of the nature of Mercury described in a previous essay entitled the ‘Four Worlds’. Yesod being the sphere that is associated with the unconscious and wherein the aim of the work is to expose the dealings with the Shadow to our everyday waking consciousness and the nature of Mercury being that of creativity and inspiration, we give way to some breathing room for intellectual analysis guided by the force of creativity through experience as symbolized in The Sun card. This experience is authentic and new to each one of those who are fortunate enough to find themselves in the light of the Sun for the first time. It is realizing the self as a joyful partaker in the dance of existence, as being thus, is the blessing and the grace that are such apt terms relating to each individual who has become cognizant, of his or her role as an actor in the theater of life.

We seek to grow in this experienced and for this reason the card also suggests that it would be the natural course of the individual drawing the card to do so. There is a sense of being at home upon this path and the phantoms have ceased, if only for the moment; from which we may come to find ourselves again as one, as if from the place whence we came, before the reality of the mundane world demanded that which we could not bestow. We are therefore growing in experience; whether this experience is the joy of learning the habits of one whom we have fallen in love with, or a break from the mundane affairs of everyday reality, when we finally have time to reflect in a state of blissful joy and peace. We have established a definite connection with something that inspires our very beings with love; our creativity is apparent not only to the outside but even to ourselves, while wrapped up in this experience. This card as such, may be interpreted, as a new relationship or some time away, but always joyful and very sure of the profundity of the experience, that may leave one transformed as its result.

This card corresponds to the Hebrew letter Resh on the Tree of Life. In Thelema the path of Resh is occupied by the God Helios, who is a solar God and it was his office to drive his chariot across the horizon carrying the Sun from sunrise to midnight. In the ritual Resh vel Helios, a Thelemite adores the Sun at every stage of its procession, whereby he affirms the nature of his own unique godhead and his aspiration for the Great Work. Both Yesod and Hod are direct reflections of Tiphareth and we may contemplate the nature of the card in light of the relationship mankind has with Hermes in Greek mythology, as well as the dichotomy, that is present between the spheres of Netzach and Hod and their effects on the psychic constitution of man. I have tried to make these differences as clear as possible in the above essay.

I hope you found this essay enjoyable and thanks for reading.

“Love is the law, love under will.”