The Sun
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A tarot card. Position 19 in the Major Arcana.
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
[from The pictorial Key to Tarot by E.A. Waite)
The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism connected with this card. It is the destiny of the Supernatural East and the great and holy light which goes before the endless procession of humanity, coming out from the walled garden of the sensitive life and passing on the journey home. The card signifies, therefore, the transit from the manifest light of this world, represented by the glorious sun of earth, to the light of the world to come, which goes before aspiration and is typified by the heart of a child.
But the last allusion is again the key to a different form or aspect of the symbolism. The sun is that of consciousness in the spirit - the direct as the antithesis of the reflected light. The characteristic type of humanity has become a little child therein--a child in the sense of simplicity and innocence in the sense of wisdom. In that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and of Art; in that innocence, he signifies the restored world. When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural mind, that mind in its renewal leads forth the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity
Meanings
- regeneration, fertility and sterility
- Align imagination with reason to gain an intellectual insight and build greater mental strength.
- innocence, simplicity (in a good sense)
- the "second innocense" that comes after you're through with every "sin"
- joy, happiness, good outcomes
- Another tradition has truth, revelation, prophesy; sometimes truth that hurts
Reversed Meaning
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Correspondences
- Links Hod to Yesod as path number 30 of the Tree of Life
- Colour orange
- the Sun
- The direction South (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the Collecting intelligence
- Musical note D (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter Resh meaning Head and also the number 200
- Organic Time - Psychedelics and Civil Rights By the middle of the century, Popular Culture changed with media technologies to evolve into Pop Culture. In the wake of all that had come before, people experimented with nonconventional ideas and behaviors to further sharpen and align the worldcentric and postmodern ideology. As people were educated to remember the atrocities of war, and the hope of the new century, people were also indoctrinated with the [meme]s and archetypes of the hippie.
