Major Arcana
The Sun
Upright
- ·joy
- ·success
- ·vitality
- ·warmth
Reversed
- ·temporary setback
- ·delayed success
- ·lack of clarity
- ·burnout
Upright
Morning comes through the window and lands warm on the back of your hand. The Sun is the card you don't have to read into anything. It's joy without footnotes, vitality, the moment the body remembers it likes being alive. There's no shadow in this one. Take the win, sit in the warmth, let the tea go cold while you do nothing at all. There will be other cards. This one is yours right now.
Reversed
The light is on the floor but you're turned away from it in the dark corner. The Sun reversed is the joy you can't quite reach even though everything for it has arrived, the burnout, the smile you're performing, the win that didn't land. Sometimes it's only a delay. The card doesn't shrink the sun. It asks you to remember it's still there.
In the imagery
Full daylight floods the apothecary for once, gold pouring across the dark wood and lighting every jar of dried marigold and chamomile to amber. On the sill a single sunflower leans up out of a clay pot, open all the way, past the low frame that might have held it. Warmth, plain and unguarded, yellow on yellow on yellow.
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