Binary Star
Allow me to recount a true story. Call it coincidence, synchronicity, or what you will, but it happened, and it illustrates very well a concept that I would say tallies most closely with jung's idea of synchronicity. It touches on the importance of deep symbols and the role they play in mysticism, and the way the universe plays with them.
One evening while staying at my mother's house I was reading from Manly P Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and came across the passage on p142 presenting the esoteric idea of a second sun, conjuring up instantly one of the most memorable vistas in film history, for me, of the binary sunset on Tatooine in the first Star Wars movie (larger picture here) and remembering how even as a young child watching the movie for the first time the image of a binary sunset was so powerful and profound I found myself all those years later lost in a sea of amazement and almost in a state of meditation at the mental image conjured up as a result of reading about such a concept.
Regardless of the historical accuracy of such recordings, the deep symbolism of the second sun relates to the concept of a spiritual sun that rises to take its place in the sky with its material counterpart once the spiritual essence of a man is sufficiently awakened. The concept and its associated imagery is one that has always had a profound affect on me, and even now when I watch Episode IV: A New Hope I find myself in a state of deep mystery and awe at the scene with the two setting suns.
"!!! Come and look at this!!!", I was interrupted from my deep reflective state by my mother who was in the kitchen preparing a salad, and by the sound of it in a state of shocked exclamation. She had cooked us a hard-boiled egg each, and just as she was cutting mine in half she noticed something that in all our combined years on earth neither of us could recall ever seeing before...
Date experienced: Approx. September 2007
One evening while staying at my mother's house I was reading from Manly P Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and came across the passage on p142 presenting the esoteric idea of a second sun, conjuring up instantly one of the most memorable vistas in film history, for me, of the binary sunset on Tatooine in the first Star Wars movie (larger picture here) and remembering how even as a young child watching the movie for the first time the image of a binary sunset was so powerful and profound I found myself all those years later lost in a sea of amazement and almost in a state of meditation at the mental image conjured up as a result of reading about such a concept.
P Hall writes, ..."In the fifty first year after Christ three suns were seen at once in the sky and also in the sixty-sixth year. In the sixty-ninth year, two suns were seen together. According to William Lilly, between the years 1156 and 1648 twenty similar occurences were recorded."
Regardless of the historical accuracy of such recordings, the deep symbolism of the second sun relates to the concept of a spiritual sun that rises to take its place in the sky with its material counterpart once the spiritual essence of a man is sufficiently awakened. The concept and its associated imagery is one that has always had a profound affect on me, and even now when I watch Episode IV: A New Hope I find myself in a state of deep mystery and awe at the scene with the two setting suns.
"!!! Come and look at this!!!", I was interrupted from my deep reflective state by my mother who was in the kitchen preparing a salad, and by the sound of it in a state of shocked exclamation. She had cooked us a hard-boiled egg each, and just as she was cutting mine in half she noticed something that in all our combined years on earth neither of us could recall ever seeing before...
Date experienced: Approx. September 2007
Labels: binary star, double yolked egg, mysticism, star wars, sunset
posted by The Blogging Mystic at
15:30
3 Comments:
Nice one.
VERY nice one.
Good that you photographed it, too.
You misspelled "mystical" in the Blog´s heading.
J.
You honestly were unaware when making this post and contacting me about it of the name of the largest known pair of Binary Stars(suns) ?
http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/part-two-narrative-epilogues-and.html
Also Google Plaskett´s Star.
And note the name of the constellation.
Curious how in the 27 years since I became aware of them I never before thought of them before as suns.
Only as stars...
another thing i've just put my finger on about the scene from star wars with the twin suns: everything is relatively normal and earthly, but for the sake of an extra sun. Very Philip K Dick is the idea of a reality at once closely familiar yet different and alien.
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