The Sun
The Sun is card 19 of the Major Arcana, the brightest card in the deck. Readers traditionally take it as joy, vitality and clarity, a time when things are warm, open and plain to see.
- Major Arcana
- Card 19
- Golden Dawn
- Sun
- Upright
- joy, vitality, clarity
- Reversed
- dimmed joy, a passing gloom
Upright
Joy is the simplest reading, and readers rarely look past it. The card is taken as happiness, confidence and energy: a good day, a success, or a moment of feeling fully yourself. It is also read as clarity, since the sun leaves nothing in shadow.
Reversed
Dimmed joy is how most readers take the reversed card: happiness that is there but harder to feel, or a passing gloom. Many readers treat it as a small cloud, since even upside down this is a bright card.
In love and at work
In love, the card is linked with warmth, playfulness and a relationship that makes both people happy. At work, readers see recognition, enthusiasm and a project that goes well.
In the picture
A naked child rides a white horse, arms spread wide, holding a long red banner. A huge sun with a face shines overhead, and a row of sunflowers grows along a gray wall behind. The Golden Dawn gave the card to the Sun itself.
In a Caelumia profile
When The Sun comes up upright in a Caelumia reading, it counts toward these themes for that day, alongside the rest of the profile: Play, Self-expression, Openness.
Sources
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910). Waite's own guide to the deck he designed with Pamela Colman Smith, with each card's divinatory meanings.
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Book T: The Tarot (1890s, published by Israel Regardie in The Golden Dawn (1937 to 1940)). The source of the planetary, zodiac and elemental attributions of the cards.
Updated September 28, 2026.
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