The Sun
The Sun card signifies happiness, warmth, and illumination. It represents the joy that comes from friendships and the healing power of light in revealing truth and beauty. This card encourages us to face our shadows and recognize the beauty surrounding us, leading to personal growth and clarity. Conversely, when inverted, it suggests delays or unmet expectations, yet indicates that everything will ultimately be alright.
Keywords
Affection and Friendship
I’ve got a friend named Andy. He’s a good friend, and I’m amazed at how much affection I’ve gained for him, having only known him on the Internet and the phone. He’s happy. He’s ebullient. He’s funny and kind and not self-deprecating. He’s the Sun, and when he’s around, the whole world feels warmer and safer and happier. He is the Sun because he sweeps through his life, shining the light on those things that are in the dark. He investigates them and leaves them exposed, even if they worry him.
Illumination of Truth
That’s the Sun card. Everything is moved into the light. I get an image in my head of the sunshine reaching into the darkest, deepest corners of us, burning away the sadness, the lies and distortions, the broken trusts and broken hearts. The sunshine illuminates and enlightens us and shows us that when the shadows and dark and twisties go away, it’s not so scary out here after all. The Beatles absolutely had it right in 'Here Comes the Sun.'
Healing and Beauty
That’s this card. Yes, it’s been hard. It’s broken your heart and what you thought was going to be just isn’t. And you can’t fix that, but you can open your eyes and look around you at all the beauty that surrounds us. And on this side, when you’re healed? You can better deal with the next Tower or Moon or whatever life has in store for you. Because once you’ve felt the Sun, you don’t soon forget it.
Exposure of Ugliness
There are a lot of crazy things going on in the world right now. People are being exposed to different lifestyles, secrets are coming to light, and abuse and torture seem to come to the surface in the news daily. I’ve been constantly shocked by the news—by bad behavior, by terrible acts. I think, though, that we’re really coming into a time in the Sun. You can’t be a secret racist anymore. You can’t hurt kids as easily and get away with it. There are cameras everywhere; the light is shining into the deepest corners of our world and exposing ugliness. Good. It’s uncomfortable to look at raw ugliness in the light, but the more we see of it, the less likely we are to ignore it in the future.
Growing Pains
A lot of people are really struggling with the status quo shifting. It used to be 'the love that dare not speak its name,' you know? Now they’re being asked to be kind about gender reassignment and poverty and racial tension and gay marriage, and it’s uncomfortable for them. I think that those are growing pains. We’re all being pushed and encouraged to welcome everyone into the light with us. It’s going to take a while. It’s going to hurt our eyes a bit. But that warmth? It will grow. We will all share the light and realize that it helps all of us grow, together.
The Book of Oracles
I came by this self-published, really hard-to-find book by way of my friend Bree called The Book of Oracles, or A Poet’s Tarot by Josep Miquel Sobrer. Each card in this book is represented by a story. A poem. I’ve never encountered anything quite like it, and I’ve found that the impressions given by Sobrer about each card stay with me whenever I do a reading today. I can’t look at the Sun card without thinking 'the clarity is absolute,' which is a line from this lovely little book.
The Sun Inverted
Inverted, it’s not all that different. It’s going to be a bit delayed, and 'okay' might not look like what you expected. But still, it’s all right.
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