Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana 19
What does The Sun mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Sun upright means “Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment”.
Upright
Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Waite gives no reversed meaning for this card that our rules let us quote.
What does the picture show?
The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism connected with this card.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2
Where does the Sun fall in a reading?
The Sun belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
Ask one question. Draw three cards, and cast an I Ching hexagram beside them to see where East and West agree. Free.
Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.