Most meaningful journeys begin in doubt, disconnection, and hard questions. For Jenny Rook, this path led her to something entirely unexpected: the voice of the Sun.
In this candid interview, Jenny opens up about her life, her beliefs, and how everything changed when she began receiving messages that felt cosmic, and how she connected to them personally. Born in Essex and trained in English and Music at York University, Jenny had long explored the world through writing. Her early career was filled with fantasy novels, ghost stories, and work as a child psychotherapist. But it was later in life, through a powerful inward shift, that a new kind of writing emerged.
The Book of the Sun is a call from something much larger. It speaks of our place in the universe, the unity of all things, and the struggle of being human in a world that often forgets its light. Jenny discusses why the Sun is far more than a glowing sphere in the sky. Her book is an invitation to feel, question, and remember who we really are.
Jenny, the concept of solar consciousness is profound and poetic. What inner realization or energetic shift allowed you to receive and embody this way of seeing truth through light?
Jenny Rook: I was meditating, sitting in my study, as I have done so many times. I had no preparation for what happened next. An extraordinary feeling of love and warmth overwhelmed me. A voice in my mind said, loud and clear, ‘You are in my heart.’ I didn’t know what or who it was. The wonderful feeling of love and joy continued for the next two weeks, where I thought there was some recalibration going on so that I would be able to take on the extraordinary concepts that were to be revealed. Only then did the voice reveal itself to be the Sun, to my very great surprise.
Self-forgiveness can feel elusive, especially for those who carry deep spiritual or emotional wounds. How do you guide people into that state, and why is it such an essential step in the soul’s healing journey?
Jenny Rook: You have to be able to forgive yourself, acknowledging all the mistakes and difficulties you have made, before you can extend the generosity of forgiveness to others. Only in this way can you understand where they are coming from. Put briefly, at any one time, we act through a mixture of our genetic inheritance (which is not our fault) and the pressure of circumstance, which is also not our fault. This is the background to any decision we may make. It is almost as if we don’t have free will, and I think this is true of our emotional states. Cognitively, we can choose between coffee and tea, between a red and a blue dress, or between taking the bus or walking. But whether we fall in or out of love, whether we are angry or bitter, loving or hateful, we have very little choice or control over it. So when I met parents through my work who had been angry or neglectful with their children, I could unpick the circumstances of their lives and help them understand that the stresses they were enduring, like poverty, illness, and addiction, were why they couldn’t help their inadequate parenting.
Now, if you can’t forgive yourself or others, you are chained to your guilt and others’ inadequacies. In Arabic, forgiveness and freedom are synonyms. Guilt imprisons our soul, holds it back from flying free into the magnificence of light and love.
Many speak of truth as a destination, but you describe it as a return. What does it mean for the soul to return to truth, and how does that process differ from acquiring spiritual knowledge or teachings?
Jenny Rook: We come from the truth of love, and are born into this world where love is sometimes hard to find. Between lives, we know that love is all, and that is the only truth we need to hold by. But it is not always easy to access a loving heart here when we are so constricted by our work, our political situation, our duties and responsibilities, and diverted by our amusements, our phones, our greed for food, drink, sex, etc. We are animals at heart, on a voyage to become light beings, and all these diversions hold us back.
Your awakening journey moved through atheism into divine communication. How did your relationship with doubt evolve along the way, and what role does it play in your current connection with the divine?
Jenny Rook: How could I doubt, while I was experiencing ecstasy? All we have is experience. And herein is the difficulty… how can you know that I am experiencing ecstasy? My hair colour does not change, my weight is the same. The outside fleshly body we all live in is often inadequate to express our emotional states, except when we cry. And although the depth of ecstasy faded after I had written my book, I will never forget that transforming, wonderful joy that I experienced for two years. What a gift! My relationship with the divine is a profound knowledge that I, everyone else, and everything else are divine.
Solar consciousness feels deeply connected to nature and cosmic rhythm. How do you stay attuned to that light in a world that often moves in noise, urgency, and separation?
Jenny Rook: Although life is indeed full of diversions, how can one ignore or forget the Sun? Every day, when we wake up, don’t we open the curtains to see what the Sun is up to that day? Blazing brightly, or filling the sky with wild colours of orange and pink, or hiding behind rain clouds? How we see it depends on the weather, the time of day, the seasons, or where we are on the planet, but for all of us, it gives us light, makes our crops grow, and our trees thrive. We need a daily dose of vitamin D or infrared light, which scientists have recently discovered helps our mitochondria function better. There’s no life without it. A bare, empty, and cold rock we would be with no Sun. In northern countries (I’m English), just walking from the shade out into the Sun lifts the spirits. It made us; we are part of its embrace. Solar winds reach beyond the solar system. Relax into the joyous light that showers us with blessings.
Looking ahead, what message or energy do you feel most called to share now, especially with those who sense something deeper stirring within them but do not yet know how to name it?
Jenny Rook: The Sun is easy to access. We see it every day. There are numerous studies about the health benefits of being in the Sun. It told me that the planets are ‘the children of my heart’. So Gaia, the earth we live on, is divine too, and being made of the Sun’s love, sends love to us as we live here, just as the Sun sends the warmth of love down to us. Together, the Sun and Earth create Sunrises and Sunsets to stun us with their beauty, as well as cloudscapes and rainbows, and the moon and stars to amuse us. Everything is alive in this universe, everything dances to the rhythms of life and love, and we just need to open our hearts to experience it all.
Conclusion
Jenny’s experience of the Sun as an intelligent, loving presence is not something you hear every day. Her message is not about converting people or proving a point. Her message comes from lived experiences. It’s about remembering who we are, why we’re here, and what it means to live from the heart.
She speaks of pain, of confusion, of the human habit of forgetting. But she also speaks of love, of awakening, and the return to unity. Her work asks us to see beyond division. To drop the armor. To step into the light that has always been with us, even in the darkest moments.
The Sun is calling. And perhaps, if we listen, we might just remember our way home.
