Sun with a “Halo”
I have often spoken about how I love that technology brings us together. But I also love how it educates. Yesterday, my South African friends on Facebook started posting pictures of the sun with a “halo” around it. I had never seen this before. When we were in Fiji in July, we had seen a full moon with a rainbow around it and that was awesome, with the sea and the palm trees in the background. But I have never seen the sun like that.
The phenomenon is when cold crystals from cirrus clouds form in the air and the light refracts through them basically creating a rainbow, in the same way that light goes through raindrops to form a rainbow. It is commonly known as a “sundog.” If we were ancient people we might wonder what something like that means. It would surely be a sign from the gods? Yet these days we notch everything up to a scientific explanation and move on. Being rational is wonderful, but do we miss out on the magic of the universe around us, by glibly writing it off to it’s scientific explanation? So I began to ponder on what the halo around the sun is metaphorically. I pondered through my spinning class this morning (a girl needs to do something while pedalling) and I pondered while I was making my lasagne this afternoon. My interpretation is this…
The sun is warmth and happiness, it definitely impacts how we feel and think and grow. Ice crystals are like our fears or resistance, the cold parts of ourselves or the parts where we are “frosty” with each other. When you turn your positivity to your iciness, you get beauty. When we shine our light on fears, the refraction causes rainbows. Holding our fears, resistance or coldness in warmth, can result in beauty. I dare you, look through a different lens, the sun did yesterday 🙂
Ok, that’s my interpretation, what’s yours?
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