The Hopi Sun Prayer

You who are the source of all power,
Your rays illuminate the whole world,
Illuminate our hearts also,
So we too may do your work.

Asquali, Holy Ancestors

Insight on the Sun Prayer

The Sun is our Father, the elders remind us over and over.... So it is fitting here at Touch The Earth Foundation we start our day and most all of our ceremonies with this Prayer to the Sun and it is incorporated in all of our prayer work.

The suggested and most effective way to prepare to do the Sun Prayer we have found is:

• Stand facing the Sun or a symbol of the Sun (candle / fire ) even in your mind, anything that looks like the Yellow Father Sun.
• Place a offering of Corn Meal , Tobacco or food offering for the Holy Ones. A cup of pure water also if you have one or do the ceremony by water.
• With your mind and/or hands go through your body and remove anything that is not in Harmony with your highest good. This can be physical things, like a headache or spiritual things like a broken heart. Take these things in your imagination and give them away to the Father Sun.

Continue to remove things from you body and aura until you feel clean and pure inside. Like a hallow tube or bone to allow the good work of the Creator to work in and through you.

• Visualize the Sun and its energy moving in through the top of your head and all the way down through your feet. See the Sun's energy moving down into the middle of the mother Earth to purify the Earth's energy and grid systems.
• When you feel yourself as being a pillar of Golden Sun Light then reach out your hands, palms upward, in a cupped fashion. What is received in your hands will be your gift from the Holy Ones to renew and purify you.
• All the extra (and there will be much) send out through your "Heart" out into the World. See Golden Yellow Light pouring from your heart and chest area and direct it to renew and purify the World and all our Relations in the Love of the Creators Goodness and our Holy Ancestors.
• Sing your healing or Thanksgiving song as this is happening... We sing the Sundance song of the Lakota. However, there are many songs, maybe your personal power song, or chant or pray one that fits the moment and intention you have for that day. It does not have to be Native American and in time your very own spirit song will be revealed to you if you do this exercise with a pure and loving intent.

Then say the prayer once more before closing... in thanksgiving for another beauitfull day.

You who are the source of all power,
Whose rays illuminate the whole world,
Illuminate our hearts also,
So we to may do your work*
Thank you Holy Ancestors*

Repeat as often as desired.

This prayer is Grammar school approved. We have done this in over 12 public schools and not one parent or teacher complained.