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The Sun Tarot Card Meaning
The Sun tarot card means joy, success and vitality. Joy, warmth and success.
Upright
- Joy
- success
- vitality
Reversed
- Dimmed joy
- delays
- overconfidence
Yes or no
Yes
The Sun is card XIX of the 22 major arcana.
What the card shows
A naked child rides a white horse with arms flung wide, carrying a long red banner. Sunflowers lean over a wall behind, and a huge sun with a face fills the sky.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Sun is the most cheerful card in the deck. It is read as success, good health, warmth and plain happiness. Things are out in the open and going well.
The Sun reversed
Reversed, it is still a good card, read as joy that is delayed or dimmed, or optimism that has run ahead of the facts.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, The Sun is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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