Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but he knew better than that. He knew that language was built on sounds and root meanings, and connections between the names of things. A name will match the nature of the object in some way, or else we live in a nonsense world, though even in a nonsense world, such as Alice in Wonderland, there is some sense of rhyme and reason. It is human nature to link like things with like. Planets have traditionall

The essence of the Sun is childlike in nature, instinctive and uncontrived. The glyph for the Sun is a circle with a dot in the the middle. The dot is your individual soul within the totality of God. When someone bows to you and says “Namaste”, they are acknowledging that point of eternal grace which is the essence of you. To be human is to hold this concept of the eternal. Without that concept, we let go of our connection with divinity. It is not about religion, it is