On my new Blog site, SouthernSunlight.com, I have posted a story this week about sacred sites and power places, and how many people believe they connect the Earth to the Sun via a kind of invisible ‘umbilical cord.’ This is especially true of Australia’s Uluru (Ayers Rock).

It is noteworthy that the organizers of the annual Cosmic Consciousness Conference also perceive this ‘conduit’ or ‘umbilical’ connection in the heart of the continent, believing Uluru to be the site of Earth’s solar plexus chakra – they envision the next gathering there in 2020 to be an ideal time to “construct a solar umbilical cord from the Earth to the Sun.”

In 2008, NASA may have unwittingly supported the possibility of such an event when it published details of an investigation into FTEs, or flux transfer events, describing how the Earth is linked to the Sun by a network of magnetic portals which open every eight minutes. Such discoveries help to scientifically validate the long-held belief by the New Age community that sacred sites and ancient megalithic structures are places connecting this terrestrial plane with the celestial spheres.

The same article discusses the portals in Bolivia known as the Sun Gate and the Gateway of the Gods. I believe these were established over two thousand year ago by Viracocha.

Credit for Image at Top of Page: Magnetomer survey image of the Rollright Stones. Adapted from Charles Brooker. Magnetism and Standing Stones, New Scientist, January 13, 1983

The following quotations are allegedly taken from an interview conducted by journalist John Smith with the scientist Nikola Tesla in his laboratory in Colorado Springs in the year 1899 for the magazine “Immortality”. Its authenticity has been disputed online by some who claim it is really taken from a 1990s play, 'Tesla or Customizing of Angels', by a Serbian playwright, Stevan Pešić. I present these brief passages here for their interesting comments on the Sun.

❝ Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and the induction motor, which made me famous when I was 26? One summer afternoon in Budapest, I saw the sunset with my friend. Thousands of fires circled thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw the magnetic field and the induction motor spin. I saw them in the Sun!❞

❝ Everything is light. In one of its rays is the fate of nations. Each nation has its own ray in that great source of light that we see that it is the Sun. And remember that there is no man that has existed and has not died! It became light and as such still exists. The secret lies in the fact that the particles of light restore their original state.❞ (Nikola Tesla)

I have a connection with the great philosopher, teacher and inventor Empedocles, who lived in southern Sicily from 495BC to 435BC. He was the first in history to speak of the Four Elements. So I was intrigued to read this from the person who claimed to interview Tesla:
In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time an atom has been broken. A weapon has been created that produces seismic vibrations. There, black cosmic rays were discovered. Five races will pray to him in the temple of the future, because he has taught them a great secret: that the elements of Empedocles can be watered with the life forces of the ethers. (“Everything is Light” The Incredible interview with Nikola Tesla)

In Issue 24 of our online magazine, Australian Esoteric, our regular writer on the Tarot, Sean Cooper, contributed an article which was mainly about the Hanged Man card, and in turn made several mentions of its connection to the Sun card (these are both included in the Major Arcana of the Tarot Deck. Below are three excerpts which are thought-provoking:

❝ The Sun shows a successful conclusion – positivity and joy at the beginning of an exciting new chapter after the previous uncertainty of the journey to this point. Most importantly, The Sun is childlike, open to ideas and opportunities. We have moved from the constraints of dogma and orthodoxy with the Hierophant to a new stage in The Sun where the possibilities are endless and hope prevails. This transition was made possible through what The Hanged Man does – withdraw, and look at things from another angle. […]

❝ The reflective aspect of water tells us that the act of suspension is also an excellent opportunity for some self-examination. The outcome, The Sun, is the antithesis of this. As a solution, The Sun represents direct light instead of the reflected light intimated in cards like The Hanged Man and The Moon. Getting to this point, though, is often a process of withdrawal and reflection to get to the outcome of engagement and illumination. The Sun's Hebrew letter is Resh, meaning head and face. This is in direct contract to its previous card The Moon (Qoph -the back of the head, or subconscious). The Moon and The Hanged Man both tell us that getting to the direct light of The Sun is achieved through journeying through the subconscious. […]

❝ The Hanged Man offers a badly needed reminder that it might be time to get off the treadmill and engage in some introspection instead. The Hanged Man is a sign that we've entered the gateway, leaving behind the Hierophant's limiting orthodoxy and heading towards the hope and joy of The Sun. When he enters our readings, we should listen to The Hanged Man because he's there to tell us that we're nearly there, that when we free ourselves, we can embrace The Sun. We should ask ourselves what we can do to re-evaluate our situation in a fresh way and have that "Eureka!" breakthrough moment. And we should recognize that to pass the gateway sometimes means looking within. ❞