The Sun: Soul, Health, Authority & Career

The Sun is the center of the entire solar system, the source of all our light and heat.

If you expand on that sentence you will understand everything the astrological Sun controls:

- The Soul

- Health

- Authority Figures

- Your Public Role / Career

THE CENTRAL SOURCE OF LIGHT – The Soul

Because the Sun is the central source of light, he controls “The Soul.”

What is a “soul,” anyway?

It sounds like a religious term, only because religion uses that word a lot. Consciousness, and self-awareness are less religious sounding words which pretty much mean the exact same thing as “soul.”

Consciousness is just like light, because both light and consciousness allow you to see things. When there is light, you become aware of what is around you. In the pitch black, you can not even see your own hand right in front of your face. You and I are full of this “light.” Right now you are reading these words, aware of the thoughts and images they are creating in you. You are “shining light” upon them, increasing your awareness of their meaning. At this very moment, you are aware that you exist. You can look in the mirror or look at your own hand, and be conscious of yourself.

The Sun controls the source of that awareness: which is the definition of the word “soul.” In the West, the proper name for the Sun is “Sol.”

So the Sun is your soul, and therefore:

- Your identity or “ego”

- What you are aware of and how “aware” you are.

Ego, or self-concept, is a spontaneous and natural result of being aware. Yes you can have “too much” ego. Self-absorption and “egomania” are products of a malignant astrological Sun. The natural Sun creates self-confidence and a clear sense of self.

People who talk about existing without any ego whatsoever are, to be rude, just blowing air out their asses and thinking the fart sounds “far out.” To exist as an aware being but not have an ego or identity is as possible (or desirable) as the Sun shining with darkness! Indeed the vast majority of people who set out on the path to eradicate “self” and “ego” most often wind up extremely frustrated. Why? Because it is completely unnatural. Don’t try to destroy your own identity, just purify it of selfish intention! An unselfish ego is the most beautiful thing we can become – as beautiful and bright as the Sun.

THE CENTRAL SOURCE OF WARMTH – Health

In general, living things are warm and dead things are cold. The Sun generates all the heat and warmth in the solar system. Therefore the Sun is the source of health, the fuel of life.

Have you ever noticed that light and heat are inseparable?

Light = consciousness – which comes from the soul. Heat and warmth = health. Heat always accompanies light, and visa versa. What does this tell us about the soul? The soul generates both our awareness and our vitality – just as the Sun generates all our light and heat.

What does this tell us about health?

Vitamins, minerals and exercise are definitely important for being healthy. But nothing is as important as having a “strong spirit” – a “healthy soul.”

There are many vital organs and systems in a healthy body, and the Sun relates to them all in an overall way. But there are two that the Sun most specifically controls:

- The heart: The central vital organ upon which all physical health relies.

- The bones: The central core upon which the rest of the body is built.

THE CENTRAL SOURCE OF GRAVITY – Authority

The Sun keeps every other planet “in line”… literally. Every planet stays “in line” with its own orbit only because of the authority of the Sun’s massive gravity. Because the Sun puts everything it its place, he generates all the authority figures:

- Governments & Kings

- Bosses

- Fathers

Anyone who commands the authority to lead others gets this power from the Sun.

Authority figures are not supposed to by tyrants. Only a malignant Sun creates tyrants and abusers. True authority figures may always be strict and stern, yes, but their purpose is loving – they wish to bring light and warmth to others. Governments, bosses, and fathers truly represent the Sun when they exercise their authority only for the sake of increasing the knowledge, awareness, experience, health and vitality of the people they are in charge of.

THE DAY-MAKER – Career

Since the Sun creates the light of awareness, the warmth of health and the gravity of authority it is fitting that the Sun also creates the daytime. During the day things are bright are clear, it is warm and people tend to follow the rules of authority. At night things become more unknown in the darkness, it gets chilly and we can “catch a cold,” and thieves feel far more at liberty to go about their practice.

What do most people do during most of the daytime?

They work.

During the day we go out and are seen in public. We earn money mainly so we can keep ourselves fed, sheltered, healthy. We conform ourselves to the rules and governances of our workplace. Thus the Sun, the creator of the day, controls our career.

SUMMARY

The Sun is the source of light and therefore is the soul – which sheds “light” on things, granting us awareness of ourself and our world. This self-awareness is the core of our identity, our “ego.”

Being the source of warmth the Sun gives health. Health primarily relies on a strong spirit/soul, but is also physically centered in the heart. Strong bones are also important.

The Sun’s massive gravity puts him in the center and keeps everything else “in line,” revolving around him. Thus the Sun is the ultimate authority figure and controls all governments, bosses, leaders, and fathers.

The Sun creates the daytime – in which we work and play our visible role in society. The Sun therefore controls our career.

The Sun is the center of the entire solar system, the source of all our light and heat.

- Vic DiCara

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© 2010 Vic DiCara, All Rights Reserved

The 10th House – Some Very Unusual Information

Parashara’s Encyclopedic Scripture of Astrology

The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra

Chapter 13, Verse 11

“The Tenth House”

ORIGINAL SANSKRIT

raajyaM caakaasha-vRittiM ca

maanaM caiva pitus-tathaa.

pravaasasya RiNasyaapi

vyoma-sthaanaan-niriikShaNam.

WORD FOR WORD TRANSLITERATION

raajyaM – sovereignty, lordship, kingliness; ca – and; aakaasha – open space, out in the open; vRittiM – choices, selections, borders; ca – and; maanaM – what is held in the mind: ego, honor, pride, prestige; ca – and; eva – certainly pituh – father, the provider of food; tathaa – thus; pravaasasya – blown to distant places, living away from home; RiNasya – what has flown away, debt; api – even; vyoma-sthaanaan – the house of the sky; niriikShaNam – should examine.

TRANSLATION

The “House of the Sky” [10^th House] primarily reveals one’s chosen public role (“Career”) and the level of sovereignty and prestige one attains thereby. It also describes the father, and can even describe one’s debts and the likelihood of living far away from “home.”

COMMENTARY

The great sage Parashara calls the 10^th House “The Sky House” because it exists in the highest part of the sky, more or less directly above our heads. It is thus the polar opposite of the 4^th House – which was in the deepest part of the sky hidden under the ground beneath our feet. Most of the meanings of the 10^th House derive from this basic fact that it is the polar opposite of the 4^th House. Keep that in mind as you continue reading.

Prestige & Ego (Maana)

The 10^th House describes the person out in the open – fully visible in public. This is the opposite of the 4^th House, which describes the person in private, and their internal emotional realities. The main difference between the person you are in private and the person you are in public is that in public you fake a lot of things so that other people like you. In private you are true to yourself, but in public you compromise yourself and conform to other people. Why? So that you gain their respect!

So the main word the great sage uses to define the 10^th House is “maana” - the prestige, honor, and respect one gets in public. This Sanskrit word almost always has a negative connotation, a lot like our English word “ego.” The 10^th House describes a person’s “ego” – not in the sense of their true inner identity – but in the false, assumed, costume-like ego that one adorns in order to operate profitably (or at least painlessly) in the public world.

It is therefore the house of ahamkara – the “false ego.” Has anyone ever asked you in anger, “just who do you think you are!?” If so, you could answer them by simply describing your 10^th House.

The degree of respect, prestige, “fame”, and “ego” one receives from the public is the domain of the 10^th House.

Career – Choice of Public Role (Aakaasha-vritti)

Since the 10^th House is up in the most public and visible area of the sky, the sage calls it aakaasha-vritti – “the border of space.” The word vritti equally refers to “borders” as it does to “choices.” So there is double meaning in this Sanskrit phrase. It indicates what one prefers to be out in the visible world. The 10^th House defines the role one chooses to play in society, and therefore it has become famous even with amateur astrologers as the “House of Career.”

The sage previously pointed to the 7^th House as the indicator of how one interacts with other people. So, to some extent the 7^th House shows our ability to trade and be mercantile. But it is the 10^th House which clearly defines the role one chooses to play in the public world – which is the real definition of “career.”

Often the 6^th House is brought up when considering work and career. This is because the 6^th House can indicate the nature of services performed to others, and can therefore relate to employment. However it is important to sort out what is primary and what is secondary in astrology so that one doesn’t interpret secondary factors as being of equal or greater importance to primary factors. The 10^th House and the 10^th House alone is the primary indicator of the career one chooses. Additional secondary characteristics of ones trade (seen in the 7^th House) and employment (seen in the 6^th House) supplement this primary information.

Sovereignty  (Raajya)

Since the 10^th House is physically higher in the sky than any other house, it is like the sovereign king who stands above all the citizens. So, examine the 10^th House of a horoscope to understand the areas and extent to which a person can stand above others as a self-sufficient authority commanding honor and respect, a source of guidance and protection to others.

Father (Pituh)

There is confusion amongst astrologers over which house represents the father. Some say the 9^th House, while others point to the 10^th. The sage, Parashara, here expresses his opinion that the 10^th House, not the 9^th, is the main place in which we see and understand the father. Since the 10^th House is the polar opposite of the 4^th House, which represents the mother, it makes perfect sense that the 10^th House should represent the father.

The sage uses the word pituh to refer to “father.” This Sanskrit word is closely connected to the root word for “food.” Therefore it describes the father as the person who supplies the family with food. In other words, as we say in English, it is the father in the role of the “bread-winner.”

Doubtlessly fathers are important in other respects as well. In some ways the father can operate as the person who plays a big role in helping the child establish his or her connection to morality. Thus in some cultural settings, the 9^th House can give additional information about the father in this specific role, but the main and primary location of the Father, in Parashara’s opinion, is clearly the 10^th House and nowhere else.

Distant Places (Pravaasasya)

The topics mentioned thus far are the primary themes of the 10^th House. Now the sage will mention some secondary characteristics.

The 4^th House described our roots: our home and kin. Being that the 10^th House is the opposite, it describes not our homeland but far off and distant places. The sage uses the word pravaasa which implies being blown away by the wind to a far off destination, like the seed of a dandelion. This imagery is very fitting for the house that encompasses the wild open sky above our heads, full of blowing wind.

Most astrologers consider the 12^th House to represent foreign places – but Parashara does not. This is not to say that the 12^th House does not pertain to foreign places. What it does say is that the 12^th House does not primarily pertain to them. By extension of the 12^th Houses qualities, it affects a person’s relationship to distant lands. But the 10^th House is especially noted here as being even more connected to residing in foreign lands.

Debt (Rinasya)

Debt is another topic astrologers usually ascribe to the 12^th House, but which Parashara rather surprising says is also an issue of the 10^th House! The 12^th House deals with vyaaya which means “loss” or “renunciation” and therefore by extension it indicates expenses and thus by another level of extension, debts. The 12^th House shows how you lose your money, how you spend it. It does not necessarily or directly show the debts you acquire as a result. This is a rather prevalent misconception among all sorts of astrologers.

The 10^th House, however, is highly relevant to debt, equally if not more so than the 12^th! This makes perfect sense because the 10^th House is the polar opposite of the 4^th House – which described our niddhi or “safely deposited treasure.” The opposite of safely deposited treasure is, simply put, “debt.”

Literally, the word rinasya refers to things that have flown off and been blown away. Again showing the impact the windy open sky of the 10^th house has in giving it the ability to scatter things far and wide.

- Vic DiCara

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©2010 Vic DiCara – All Rights Reserved.