MOVING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

It occurs to me, as the sun comes up this morning, that regardless of our small human desires, our longings and our beliefs—in essence, our wishes—the sun still comes up in the morning not at all mindful of our small lives, just doing its job! As is its usual habit, at 4:30AM every day, nature awakens in sync with the sun's light coming closer and the birds begin their chirping…

It is this inimitable force we call Nature that has a plan which is really the only plan that works calmly and quietly, without any planning or thought involved at all. It just is. Our personal plans, our dreams, including all the little lists we make of things we plan to do today, are swept up, so it seems, in the burning light of the sun. When you think of it, the sun is the most important god on this planet. It rules everything we do. It orders things, commands us with its overpowering might. The sun gives us light without which we have no life.

Somehow, this morning I am mindful of the sun—perhaps because it has been such a long, cold winter here in New England…which brings me to my point. I wonder if I want to continue to live in such a dark and cold place as this? I wonder, if it is not time to move someplace closer to the sun?

In Greek mythology Apollo is the sun god. Sun is considered to be consciousness. Apollo is the son of Zeus who is the god of the sky. As the one who killed the Python of Delphi, Apollo is also considered to be the vanquisher of unconscious terror, which makes perfect sense, because it’s when the sun comes up in the morning that our nightmares take flight. Apollo has golden hair, the color of the sun, and He is the archer who shoots arrows of insight. As the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine, Apollo is the "father of healing." The Muses of the arts follow Apollo so that He is also father of inspiration and imagination—the god we can look to for creative images.

It occurs to me, as one of the artists and writers in residence here in New England, that moving to a sunnier, warmer place might possibly more healing and even more inspiring. As we are all in search of finding our personal truths, I think that for me, following Apollo might be the direction in which to travel…