The Sun

The Sun is among the most unambiguously positive cards in the Major Arcana. It speaks to joy, confidence, vitality, and the clear-sighted success that arrives when energy flows freely and authentically. Solar clarity is the card's gift: things that were obscured in the Moon's half-light are now fully visible, and what is visible turns out to be good. Traditionally it governs happiness, health, childhood, and the straightforward pleasure of being alive in a body in a world that is, in this moment, warm. It also has a quality of outward expression — this is not internal contentment alone but a radiance that can be perceived from the outside.

Imagery

The Sun is commonly depicted with a large blazing sun above a joyful child — often riding a white horse, arms open — in a garden of sunflowers. The child is frequently shown unclothed, suggesting the ease and transparency of someone with nothing to conceal; a red banner waves behind them as an emblem of vitality.