The Sun
The Sun card shows a powerful source of clarity, warmth, and renewed vitality that dissolves confusion and brings immediate, tangible success. It celebrates visible fruits of effort, joy, confidence, and the brightening of relationships and creativity. The light can also expose what was hidden, requiring reckoning with ego, illusions, or fragile truths before genuine happiness can be sustained. The card advises trusting the clarity it brings while tempering triumph with humility and awareness of overexposure or pride.
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The Sun
Visual description
A huge radiant sun with a human face fills the upper field, its red-orange rays spreading outward. In the foreground a green-skinned, almost skeletal figure in a dark coat leans back and reaches toward the sun with one hand while clutching his chest with the other. A row of old European-style houses lines the bottom of the image beneath the figure. An ornate gold frame surrounds the card and a plaque at the base reads: "ORLAC'S BANE / THE SUN / crooked-way-tarot."
Meaning
You stand beneath an enormous sun that bathes the scene in warm gold, and the image reads like a sudden thaw after a long winter: light pours over buildings and a lone figure reaches up, feeling the heat on his face. That sunlight promises clarity, vitality, and a burst of honest energy that dissolves confusion and invites simple joy, as if success is no longer distant but immediate and tangible. The voice of the card sings of renewed confidence, visible fruits of effort, and the kind of warmth that brightens relationships and creative work; laughter and clean air accompany the awakening. Yet there is also the quiet underside—when the light is too harsh it can blind, and reaching without care risks exposure or inflated pride that hides fragile truths. Sometimes the bright day reveals what was hidden in shadow, forcing reckoning with ego or illusions before genuine happiness can settle in. Whether you feel triumphant or temporarily overextended, the Sun asks you to notice what is truly illuminated and what only glitters; trust the clarity but temper it with humility. In either register the card favors honesty, openness, and the renewal of strength, promising that even setbacks are lessons that refine the warmth you carry onward.
Crooked Way tarot
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