Thoth Tarot · Major Arcana
The Sun
joy · vitality · success · clarity · freedom
A reflective starting point
What is The Sun asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
Everything becomes clearer: success, joy and transparency. A favourable moment in almost every field.
At first sight
Success, joy, vitality, clarity. It points to a bright period, recognition, health and good relationships.
Within you
Fully self-aware consciousness, the joy of existing without shame; innocence regained after maturity.
On the path
Path 30 from Hod to Yesod, the letter Resh (the head, 200) and the Sun: the light that illuminates the intellect and the foundation. It is the Lord of the new Aeon, solar consciousness restored to humanity.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals vanity, arrogance, blind optimism, exhibitionism.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Joy that is clouded or inflated; the success is there but goes unrecognised, or turns into self-satisfaction.
In love, work and spirit
Love. Happiness, warmth, a sunny and sincere relationship; a bright period for the couple and for new acquaintances.
Work. Success, visibility, creative energy and recognition of merit.
Spirit. The light of the Self illuminating everything without distinction.
Correspondences
Resh ר · path 30 (Hod – Yesod) · Spirit · Sun
Crowley's note
Crowley's Sun announces the freedom of the new Aeon: two winged children dance on a green hill ringed by a wall, a limit humanity is called to overcome, beneath a sun surrounded by the twelve signs.
From the journal
Career