Sunshine and Studiousness
Weekly Reading Topic for June 15, 2019: Sunshine and Studiousness
Well, good morning, love! I just opened a Reading for you, my newsletter subscribers and here’s what I heard in answer to the following:
What do my readers most need to hear this weekend? What is the most important message to send to my beloved readers?
The answer was: “sunshine and studiousness.”
What follows is your weekly reading.
Weekly Reading │ Sunshine and Studiousness
Q: What do we need to know about “sunshine and studiousness?”
A: Oh, this is lovely. If you’re reading this in the morning, take a sip of your coffee, a long, deliberate sip. And imagine that it’s wine: a deep, dark, beautiful rich wine that slips down your throat and warms your body from the center out to the tips. The kind of wine that is friendly, somehow, the kind of wine that likes you, and you like it, and you make each other relax and enjoy life.
And if you’re reading this in the evening, go ahead and pour yourself a glass of wine, and take a long savoring sip.
And if neither of those work for you, take your tea, or your juice, or your dram of whiskey.
Anything that warms you and relaxes you: that’s what we’re going for here.
Because this week it’s time to study sunshine, in all its glorious subtlety.
Yes, sunshine is super subtle! It can strike you about the face, like a stage slap of light, sure. Those of us who live closer to the equator are used to its full assault, the force of radiation when we’re out in the sun’s shine.
But even at high noon, the sun has many other qualities that are calling for us to pay attention. The sun has many faces to offer us, and all of them are warm and quite … familiar.
The sun offers us food from within, calling on the tiny cells in our bodies to manufacture a form of Vitamin D that we can’t get easily from our diet.
The sun offers us protection from the elements in the form of a change in skin tone.
The sun bakes our tired muscles, our stressed-out shoulders until they soften and relax under its relentless warmth.
The sun coaxes us out of our hibernation and out into the world, where we can see our fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers, the planet’s lifeforms that are non-human, but just as real as we are.
The sun sticks around this time of year to offer lessons for longer, and later, than usual. And we would do well to study it.
Watch the sun today and tomorrow and the day after, as it peeks over the ridge of the world in the morning, as it climbs the stairs of the sky, ever shining, no matter what happens in the planet’s atmosphere. Beyond the greatest of thunderstorms, the wildest of wet days, the sun is still relentlessly shining on us, offering us heat and warmth and food.
As it continues to work, tireless in its solar spinning, it remains the anchor our entire planet uses to move, the fulcrum of all our momentum as we hurtle through the cosmos.
It’s the wild-haired conductor of our little corner of the Milky Way, and we all look to it for cues in our symphony, whether we are aware of doing so or not.
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So let’s study the sun, and see its constancy, and adopt an attitude of the scholarly as we do so. It’s our teacher. It’s our lover. It’s our parent and our friend.
And in its actions, in its always-there-for-us-ness … we see the true face of love.
Not romantic love, but universal love, the kind of love the Greeks called Agape. Pure and true.
The kind of love that someone in your life has for you, and you for them: the kind of love that is enduring even beyond the present traumas. There is someone in your life that you know, absolutely, loves you, no matter what is going on for you. There is someone in your life that you love, absolutely, even when you haven’t seen them for decades.
That love is the love of the sun, and the reason we can know it is both because we live on a planet that receives the sun’s eternal, miraculous, perfect-for-us shine, and because we ourselves embody that love.
Yup, we do: even in our worst moments, when we are most broken and tired and feel like trampling or being trampled, we are love. And that love is like a sun, like the golden sun that I’ve seen in some clients in recent years, the golden sun that I see in you, all of you reading this right now.
Feel it: put your hand on your heart, and become aware of a glowing ball of golden sun inside your chest. You might see it, or hear it, or just sense it as a ball of warmth. It might be the size of a pea or the size of your anatomical heart, smaller or larger. Just notice it.
And this week, as you go about your life, orient yourself to it again, and again. Put your hand on your heart and feel/sense/aware that golden sun. Notice what happens. It may have grown larger even now, just in these few sentences of awareness.
That sun is not “your” sun. It’s THE sun, the same sun that swirls and orchestrates the movements of planets, and it lives in you, as well as outside. It’s the same, a hologram of the world. (You do know about the hologram, right? That’s another rabbit hole to wander down sometime.)
That sun in your body is a hologram of the sun in the center of the universe, and when you tune in to it, you will know, with certainty, somehow, that Everything Is Working Out for You.
So even if this all sounds like utter bullshit to you, try it on. You don’t have to believe something to participate in it. You just have to be willing to experience something Larger Than You.
And if you choose not to, of course, that’s OK. The sun doesn’t mind. The sun serves all of us, skeptics and gnostics alike, serves and serves, and serves, and serves.
And so even if you don’t want to study, even if it sounds silly … it’s impossible to stop doing so.
Sunshine and studiousness might be the whole point of being alive on this planet, this ball of spinning molten rock that takes a Goldilocks position in the dance around our Sun.
I am always here to serve in any way I can.
Much Love to You as You Shine and Shine!
Molly
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