About the Card
English Name(s)
The Sun
Correspondences
- Grand Etteilla: Card Number 2
- Tarot de Marseille: Trump XVIIII
Image Description
The sun wears a red mask with twisting horns and gold spirals on its cheeks. His rays are gold, black, red, and green, and there are red flourishes in the sky, imitating the shape of suns in the upper corners. Below, a masked woman sits spinning with a distaff on a decorative platform.
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Meanings
Upright
Brightening, clearing, explanation, development, instruction, interpretation, analysis, opening, discovery, revelation, clarity, elucidation, light, fire, sun, sky and earth, temple of heat.
Reversed
Fire, hot, heat, heat up, cook, heating, spark, ray of light, flow, inflammation, flame, blaze, burn, fires, meteors, lightning, thunderbolt, storm, electricity, St. Elmo’s fire, ardor, embrace, fire of love, passion, light up, enflame, internal fire, magnetism, apple of discord.