If you have followed the teachings on this website, you will know that there is something of a pagan in me. And as with all pagans, the sun is very important to me. Every day I have the awareness of how dependent we all are on the energy of the sun, without which there would be no life here on Earth. Furthermore, my mood is linked to the weather, above all else. On sunny days I am happy, on cloudy days subdued.
For a few years now, I have offered gratitude and encouragement to the sun with a little puja, or ritual at sunrise:
Thank you Sun, for coming to warm and light this day;
Please do so splendidly, if you will.
And at sunset:
Thank you Sun, for warming and lighting this day (so splendidly);
Please come again tomorrow, if you will.
I guess the energy in these little ceremonies must have built up somewhere in the universe because now I find myself living in a part of the world where the sun shines almost every day, where it almost never rains, and where the summer temperatures often reach 50C. Perhaps it is time I began to do pujas for clouds and rain!
