Tarot card
The Sun
Tarot card1 tradition
The Sun is trump XIX: a child riding a white horse beneath a blazing sun, sunflowers behind a garden wall. It is joy, success, vitality, and the truth seen in full daylight. The Golden Dawn gives it to the Sun itself.
Uses
- Success and recognition
- Joy and vitality
- Clarity and truth
- Healing and recovery
- Trump
- XIX
- Attribution
- Sun ☉︎
- Hebrew letter
- Resh ר (head)
- Path
- 30th, Hod to Yesod
- Upright
- Joy, success, vitality, clarity
- Reversed
- Temporary sadness, blocked joy, overconfidence
- Key symbols
- The child on a white horse, the sunflowers, the red banner, the wall behind
Working with it
On a Sunday morning, set the Sun in a sunny window with a glass of orange juice or a sunflower. Say aloud three things you're glad of today. The Sun works through gratitude and visibility: let yourself be seen succeeding.
Where the traditions place it
- Sun — Golden Dawn