There are many parallels with life, from a spiritual view to a realistic. I don't actually mean twin siblings but a spirit double. Even twins have their own spirit doubles. These doubles can be our astral selves, our inner selves and our shadow selves. The moon that we're familiar with has a secondary unknown aspect, which is the dark side of the moon. The sun even has a soul twin, which is significant as well as powerful and can be regarded as the "unseen" in many circles. Each of us have a double self, the esoteric and the external. The inner and outer, shadow and light, physical and astral. The concept appears a lot in philosophy and psychology.
Regards to the sun itself, in mythology, it appears just as strong and blinding in reflections. It's believed that our own star had a physical twin named Nemesis. In Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of revenge. Many have considered calling this Nemesis "evil" because it was believed to throw stones at the Earth every 26 million years, and might've caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. While many don't accept this idea, some scientists believe each star is born with a twin. Observations were made looking at the Perseus Cloud, described as a "stellar nursery" by New Atlas, discussing how research was made. It seemed that watching the young stars showed they were binary systems, and this may be how stars are born. Nemesis was never there, according to many who don't accept the idea, while believers think Nemesis has just wandered off in the Milky Way.
In mythology, Apollo the god of the sun had a twin sister, Artemis, goddess of the moon. Apollo and Artemis are Olympians, although there are the older gods, including the personification of the sun and moon, who are Helios and his sister Selene. It's just as well that we're under the House of Gemini at present, that stands for the Twins. That would be, your inner and outer selves.
More reading:
New Atlas articleNew Atlas article on "evil twin" Nemesis.
Books by Claude Lecouteux: "Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages."
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