Hatha Yoga means the unity of the sun and moon. Ha means sun and tha means moon. The word heart has the letters ha and tha in it. The heart has the energy of the sun and moon as expressed by gold and silver, masculine and feminine energies, yin and yang. This makes my heart smile, the union, yoga of oneness happening in the heart, the yin and yang, my mother and father.
I love the dual expression of energetics in words. I love how French and Spanish words are assigned with either feminine or masculine qualities. It is like a word either resonates with the feminine Dragon or the masculine Dragon, yin or yang. I learned about the two dragons from Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst, as they tracked the masculine and feminine dragons of Michael and Mary, documented in their book, The Sun and the Serpent and the masculine and feminine dragons of Apollo and Athena, documented in their book, The Dance of the Dragon.
It is the dance of the dragon indeed!!
Here is a prayer, Brother Sun and Sister Earth, as expressed by St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun (from page 235, Dance of the Dragon by Hamish Miller, et. al.):
"All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made,
And first my Lord Brother Sun,
Who brings the day; and light you give us through him
How beautiful he is, how radiant in all his splendour
Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and Stars;
In the heavens you have made them, bright
And precious and fair...
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Earth, our mother,
Who feeds us in her sovereignty and produces
Various fruits with coloured flowers and herbs...
Praise and bless my Lord, and give him thanks'
And serve him with great humility."
The next question is, is the sun feminine or masculine? Is the moon a brother or a sister? Or does it matter? They both have masculine and feminine properties and have yin and yang, moon and sun, the mother and father. Also, they both measure time and create. I think I will follow St. Francis and call the Sun my brother or father and the Moon my sister or mother for now.
In order to celebrate the gold and silver energies with the heart as expressed to resonate with the silver of my Sister Moon or the gold of my Brother Sun, here are 14 paintings of hearts that I created.
These paintings were inspired by childhood experiences with the Immaculate Heart of Mary and my Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, CT education with the Sacred Heart nuns in 1984 - '94.
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