Those working with solar light and the shape of the year
Symbols
High lightThe sun discThe chariotThe turning of the year
Mythology Summary
Hyperion is a Titan, son of Earth and Sky and brother of Theia, and by her the father of Helios, Selene and Eos. His name means 'he who goes above' and in the early poets it works as a description of the sun's height rather than as a separate career. In Homer 'Hyperion Helios' is a fixed formula, which has left it genuinely uncertain whether the epic tradition knew one figure or two. He has no myth of his own: his importance is genealogical, and his domain is the light out of which sun, moon and dawn are parcelled to his children.
Modern Practice
Hyperion is worked with as the high, undifferentiated light behind a solar practice, and for the framing of a year rather than a single day. The address is short and formal, at noon, with the offering left where the sun will reach it.