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More Major Arcana Cards:
0 - The Fool
1 - The Magician
2 - The High Priestess
3 - The Empress
4 - The Emperor
5 - The Hierophant
6 - The Lovers
7 - The Chariot
8 - Strength
9 - The Hermit
10 - Wheel of Fortune
11 - Justice
12 - The Hanged Man
13 - Death
14 - Temperance
15 - The Devil
16 - The Tower
17 - The Star
18 - The Moon
19 - The Sun
20 - Judgement
21 - The World

Other Tarot Cards:
Suit of Cups
Suit of Pentacles
Suit of Swords
Suit of Wands

 

19 - The Sun

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.

 

The Major Arcana cards are thought to be the most powerful cards in the Tarot. They tell a complete story when arranged in upright and numerical order. It is a story of development and enlightenment, sometimes called "The Fool's Journey".

Some texts include meanings for "reversed cards", which apply when the cards are shuffled in both order and orientation. This doubles the number of possible "cards" in the deck from 78 to 156. (In terms of the probabilities of obtaining results by chance alone, it is not a simple doubling as once a card has been drawn it cannot be selected again in the opposite orientation in the same reading.)

Why doesn't this page include a picture of this Tarot Card ?