The Sun
Major Arcana
What the The Sun means — upright and reversed, with keywords.
19What this card is
Full sunlight, a wall of sunflowers, a child on a white horse, and nothing hidden anywhere in the frame. The Sun is the most straightforward card in the deck: clarity, warmth, things going well and being visible while they do. It does not claim that nothing is difficult. It describes the moment when you can finally see what is actually happening and it turns out to be fine. Simple, uncomplicated good is permitted here, with no catch attached.
Upright meaning
KEYWORDS
Warmth, plain confidence, and things being exactly as they appear.
Reversed meaning
KEYWORDS
That same warmth temporarily dimmed, not gone.
People also ask
- What does The Sun mean?
- Keywords: vitality, clarity, confidence. Warmth, plain confidence, and things being exactly as they appear.
- What does The Sun reversed mean?
- Reversed, the keywords shift to temporary clouding of joy. That same warmth temporarily dimmed, not gone.
- Is The Sun a good card?
- Neither, and the question is worth resisting. Upright it speaks of vitality; reversed, of temporary clouding of joy. The same card is encouraging in one spread and a warning in another — what decides it is the question you asked and the cards around it.
- Where does The Sun sit in the deck?
- The Sun is a Major Arcana card, number 19 of the twenty-two. The Majors mark the large movements of a life rather than the week's weather, so when one lands it usually answers the question behind the question.
Combinations with The Sun
A card rarely arrives alone. Each pairing below changes the reading — sometimes softening it, sometimes sharpening it into something the single card never said.