The Sun
A child rides a horse in merriment. Behind it, the sun shines brightly and flowers are in bloom.
Card Number 19:
New Beginnings and Opportunities, Action, Forward Movement
Place in the Fool’s Journey:
Clarity sets in and the Sun clears up the confusion of the moon. It enlightens the Fool and he finds himself full of vitality and on the path for greatness.
Upright Meaning
Keywords:
Happiness – Optimism – Joy- Confidence – Vitality – Success – Truth – Positivity- Warmth - Abundance
As a Person:
As a person, the Sun card is someone who lights up the room with their positive, loving energy. They are very optimistic and find joy in almost all experiences. They seem to always be happy and willing to share that happiness with others. Their rarely wavering optimism and inspiration helps those they encounter through even the hardest of times. Simply being alive brings them joy and anything they do from there is just icing on the cake!
As a Situation/Experience:
The Sun card can only be described as the “life is great” card. It represents a time when everything has turned out successful. You have all you need and all you want. Abundance is flowing to you freely and you can see evidence of it all around you. The struggles you have gone through up to this point are over and what you feel now was totally worth the effort. Take this time to celebrate and enjoy the all you have achieved in your life.
As Advice:
The Sun card reminds us that good days are ahead and are very close at hand. You may have struggled or felt lost up to this point but things are about to change. Success is yours! Life is about to become fantastic! The situation you are unsure about WILL work out. It tells us to take time to celebrate and bask in the glow of this joy when it arrives. Don’t let this feeling pass by without making sure to enjoy it.
Reversed Meaning
Keywords:
Blocked Happiness – Unrealistic Expectations – Conceitedness – Excessive Enthusiasm – Procrastination – Pessimism – Lies - Failure
As a Person:
The Sun reversed is a person who lives in a state of negative thinking. They rarely look for the positive aspects of life and prefer to dwell on all the things that can and do go wrong. Their lives are usually stuck with very little movement. They often have health problems due to the lack of moving energy in their world. They are often people who spend more time working than playing. Because of this their lives never quite feels fulfilled and they seem to always be longing for a piece of themselves that feels missing.
As a Situation/Experience:
The Sun reversed represents a situation that is blocked and cannot move forward until changes are made. What was hoped for has failed. Perhaps because of unrealistic expectations. Perhaps because of behaviors or beliefs that prevent us from allowing ourselves to expand enough that it can. Whatever the cause we know find ourselves in a place where everything feels ruined and lost.
As Advice:
The Sun reversed reminds us that we need to purposely make time to allow more joy in our world. Stop working so hard. Ease off yourself. The weight of the world does not rest squarely on your shoulders. Its time to let go of the unrealistic expectations we have towards ourselves and focus more on brining positivity back into our life. The more we focus on negativity, the more it brings into our life. The more we focus on the positive things, the more we ask the Universe for. Now is the time to stop procrastinating and remove the blocks you are using to hold yourself back.
Artist credits to: Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot Vintage Deck, Matt Hughes’ Ethereal Visions Deck & Mrdiyshisha’s Cute Ghost Tarot Deck
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