The Sun
The Sun
Number 19 Fire The Sun
A major arcana card: the big weather rather than the daily forecast.
Upright
clarityjoysuccessbeing out in the open
The uncomplicatedly good card. The Sun is clarity, warmth, a thing going right in a way that does not need explaining or defending. Whatever was obscured is visible; whatever was withheld is given. It is also the card of being visible yourself: out in the open, not performing, and finding that this is fine.
Reversed
dimmeddelayedforced cheer
The good thing is delayed or dimmed rather than cancelled. Reversed, the Sun is optimism that is being worked at rather than felt, success that has not landed as satisfying, or a clear day arriving a fortnight after it was needed. Still the Sun. Just behind cloud.
What is in the picture
A child on a white horse under a full sun, sunflowers over a wall behind. No armour, no reins, nothing hidden. The simplest picture in the deck.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: it is going right. Enjoy it rather than looking for the catch.
Reversed: the good thing is late, or is being performed rather than felt.
Love and relationships
Upright: warmth, ease and being liked as you are. Take the compliment.
Reversed: putting on a face. You are allowed to say it has been hard.
Work and direction
Upright: recognition, a good result, work you are not embarrassed by.
Reversed: success that has not felt like anything. Worth asking why.
Money and security
Upright: comfortable, and comfortable enough to be generous with.
Reversed: a payment or a result delayed. It is coming.
Me, honestly
Upright: be seen. The version of you that is not managing anybody is good company.
Reversed: forced brightness is exhausting and nobody has asked for it.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, clearly and without hedging.
Reversed: yes, but later than you wanted.
With other cards
With Death
An ending followed by daylight. This pair turns up for people bracing for the worst after a loss, and its answer is unusually plain: the part after this is good.
With The Star
Repair followed by daylight. If a hard year is behind this question, that is what these two are describing.
With Ten of Swords
Bottom, then daylight. The most encouraging pair in the deck and the one people least expect, because the Ten of Swords is such a dramatic picture.
If this card leads
Say the good thing out loud instead of waiting to see if it lasts.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“I can let a good thing be good.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
