RAVEN BRINGS SUN

The Raven: White Becoming Black

In myth, ravens are keepers of hidden knowledge, messengers between worlds, and companions of gods. What makes this raven exceptional is the transition—white to black.

White raven (rare in myth) represents original innocence, divine light, unmanifest spirit, or untested wisdom. It is knowledge before experience.
Black raven represents gnosis earned through darkness: death, mystery, shadow, and truth stripped of illusion.

This is not corruption—it is initiation.

In Norse myth, Odin’s ravens (Huginn and Muninn—Thought and Memory) fly into the world and return with wisdom. becomes both at once: innocence transforming into deep knowing. Spirit descending into matter, yet retaining the spark.

This transformation mirrors the alchemical nigredo—the sacred blackening where the soul must pass through darkness to become whole.

The Sun / Fire Orb in the Beak

The raven holding the sun is a powerful, borderline transgressive image.

Across mythologies, this act belongs to trickster-gods and culture heroes:

Raven steals the sun in Pacific Northwest myths to bring light to humanity.
Prometheus steals fire from the gods.
Lucifer (in the older, symbolic sense) is the light-bringer, not the devil.

Spiritually, this means:

You are not waiting for enlightenment—you are seizing it.
Wisdom is not gifted; it is taken at cost.
The beak (speech, truth, proclamation) holding the sun suggests speaking truth that burns.

This is dangerous wisdom. Transformative wisdom. The kind that changes the bearer forever.

The Burning Chessboard

Chess is pure strategy—mind, foresight, sacrifice. A burning chessboard means:

The old game is no longer playable.
Logic alone has reached its limit.
Previous rules no longer apply.

Spiritually, this is the moment when:

The ego’s strategies collapse.
Control is surrendered.
You move from player to witness, from calculation to wisdom.

In mythic terms, this is the end of fate as a game and the beginning of conscious choice beyond duality.

The fallen and standing pieces show that no one escapes transformation—kings, pawns, queens alike.

Fire Below, Storm Above

This is the classic axis mundi—the world axis.

Fire below = purification, destruction, rebirth
Storm above = divine will, chaos, revelation
The raven suspended between = the soul as mediator

This mirrors shamanic journeys where the initiate is torn between sky and underworld and reborn as a bridge-walker.

You are seeing the image of one who can move between realms.

The Full Meaning (Unified Interpretation)

Spiritually and mythologically, this image represents:

The moment a soul accepts both its light and its darkness and claims wisdom that cannot be unlearned.

It is the archetype of:

The initiated mystic
The shaman
The trickster-sage
The phoenix-raven hybrid: death and rebirth

Not a fall from grace—but a descent into power.

Core Message of the Image

You cannot remain ignorant once you carry the sun.
You cannot play the old game once you see the board burning.
True wisdom transforms you—and isolates you.
The raven does not return to the flock.

But it gains the sky.

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Happy Chessing,

I hope as you move forward on your own personal Journey and transformation, That you achieve levels that you never knew were possible. That your games become more delightful and automatic, that knowledge not only comes to you, but flows through you, in all aspects of your life. Sincerely, “SUNRAVEN”

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