The Sun upright
The child rides the white horse under a face-on sun. There is no shadow to interpret.
Joy, success, the moment when the thing you've been working on finally shows what it actually is.
When this card lands upright, accept the win. Receive the good without searching for the catch.
The Sun reversed
Reversed, the Sun is still there - but you're refusing to step into it. Or temporary delay before the breakthrough lands.
False optimism that hasn't yet been earned.
Keywords
- joy
- vitality
- success
- warmth
- clarity
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does The Sun mean?
- Vitality without complication, the warm clear day. The child rides the white horse under a face-on sun. There is no shadow to interpret.
- What does The Sun mean reversed?
- Reversed, the Sun is still there - but you're refusing to step into it. Or temporary delay before the breakthrough lands.
- Is The Sun a good card to draw?
- The Sun is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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