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The Sun is the 21st Card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot.
(It is card No.20 because the 1st Card, "The
Fool" is called
Card No.0.)
The Sun is one of the most joyful cards in
the tarot deck.
This is clearly depicted on most cards that
include detailed images.
Examples of the imagery used include
dominant images of a sun - often with many rays emanating
outwards in all directions, sunflowers, a man and a woman (e.g.
in the Golden
Dawn Tarot
Deck), a smiling person (often a child).
In the cases of the popular Rider-Waite and Robin
Wood Decks The Sun Card depicts a smiling naked child
riding a bareback white pony - which is consistent with the "liberation" association
of this card. In contrast, some other decks (such as the The
Quest Tarot Deck which depicts the Sun above a sea-scape),
include completely different, original, images.
This card is filled with cheerful positive energy so it
always has positive implications when it appears in a spread.
More specifically, some of the possible indications of "The
Sun" Card in a spread include: Optimism and Good Cheer
are an aspect of the subject of the reading; Appreciation of
Accomplishments; Suggestion that a more playful / Child-like
attitude is brough to the situation; Enjoy the Moment !
Some specific terms associated with "The Sun" Tarot
card include:
Success, Happy Marriage, Freedom, Liberation, Pleasure.
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The cards of the Major Arcana are widely considered to be the
most powerful cards in the Tarot Deck. The 22 cards of the Major
Arcana tell a complete story when arranged in upright and numerical
order (beginning with The
Fool). This is a story of of development and enlightenment
and is sometimes referred to as "The Fool's Journey".
Some texts also include meanings for "reversed
cards". These
are for the situation in which the cards are shuffled in both
order and orientation. The theoretical advantage to this is that
it effectively doubles the number of possible "cards" in
the deck from 78 to 156. (However, in terms of the calculation
of obtaining results according to chance alone, it is not a simple
mathematical doubling because once a card
has been
drawn
it
cannot be drawn
again in the opposite orientation in the same reading.) |
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