RE: Please do not conflate FACT and OPINION
It's true that the bodies in this galaxy move relative to each other (actually following sacred geometric ratios that almost no-one seems to know about but which were all laid out in a tiny book a few years back). Without being able to define a 'true center' or true source for the universe that is fixed in location it is arguable that any body could be said to be the center. If you imagine the earth is static (as we essentially experience it on it's surface) then it isn't such a stretch to imagine that the sun moves around the earth (in fact that would be the most likely conclusion to make absent of any deep study). If you are on the sun somehow, then you could perhaps say the same there for the sun - where the earth could be said to be moving around the sun. I am not an expert in the history of perception of these things, but I wonder how much the idea that the earth circles the sun is based on the sun being considered older and more powerful.
I like the idea that we might subconsciously project the idea that the sun is "the boss" (older and more powerful, more influential, stronger gravity).
Thank you for your insightful comment.
My understanding is that the sun is yang energy (masculine and emitting), while the earth is yin (feminine and receptive) - I don't actually know (100%) which is older, though there has been a judgemental attitude which says that masculine is better than feminine since the very beginning.
Right, "masculine" (yang, "maker", "planner", "instigator") energy is often considered more "dangerous" (and that's often conflated with "more powerful") but on the other hand, you have KALI.
So, it's sort of a matter of perspective. "Order" versus "Chaos", which do you fear more?
Too much order, or too much chaos?
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the 'instigator' (good word) energy ultimately determines the outcome a lot of the time and since it began unconscious and thus also unloving, it has been responsible for all evil. the feminine has had to carry the results. that said, neither is really more powerful - it's just 'first mover advantage' in a sense.
too much order leads to stagnation and death. too much chaos at least has the potential to recover into balance.
balance is best :)
Well stated.