XIX. The Sun

Upright

• Seeing the positive.
• Indulging in what excites and gives life.
• Having sources of enthusiasm, things that one can feel alive about.
• Getting excited about anything.
• Feeling radiant, cheerful, energetic, exuberant.
• Having fun!
• A source of joy and vitality, imbuing people with energy and enthusiasm.
• Feeling like 110%.
• Being ready to take on the world.
• Focusing on the positive; avoiding negativity.
• Feeling youthful.
• Feeling alive and awake.
• Being in good health.
• Being physically active.
• Getting out in the sun.
• Mornings, new beginnings, new days, possibilities.

Oriented upright, The Sun represents a source of great, seemingly boundless energy, vitality, cheer, and illumination. The Sun's energy is reminiscent of an enthusiastic child's energy, it's illumination lights up the world in such a way that reveals those features which make people feel renewed and young again.

By the light of The Sun people can easily find those things which hold the most reward for them. There is no mystery or mystification, only radiant life.

This card can represent a great source of joy and vitality, whether that source is a person, an activity, a place, a work of art, or any other item. Even when not in the immediate vicinity of this source, the energy which has imbued in the past can continue to radiate, rendering life resplendent and causing others to pick up on its rapturous glow.

Because it is a source of raw and abundant power, The Sun is a major in the realm of Fire.

Reversed

• Old age, getting up in years.
• Seeing things through the eyes of an elder rather than the eyes of a child.
• Something which once inspired intense emotion which can now be approached with more equanimity.
• Having perspective that time affords.
• Old fires, old passions, becoming less intense; burning out.
• Assessing experiences at the end of any given period of time. Appreciating accomplishments.
• Wrapping up business and winding down at the end of the day.
• Running out of time to do something important. Letting a big commitment slip.

Interpretations of The Sun Reversed can often be symbolized by the setting sun and twilight. This is a card of looming conclusions, to a day, to a chapter in life, to a project, an opportunity, or to an entire lifetime.