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XIX · Major Arcana

The Sun

“the thing you wanted is closer than your dread will let you see.”

Upright meaning

Warmth, clarity, and success in the open. The thing you wanted is closer than your dread will let you see.

Keywords: joy, success, vitality

Reversed meaning

Joy briefly clouded, delayed success, or optimism running ahead of the facts.

Keywords: delay, clouded joy, over-optimism

From the source

“THE SUN.—Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment. Reversed: The same in a lesser sense. 20. THE LAST JUDGMENT.—Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit. Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence. ZERO. THE FOOL.—Folly,…”
— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911

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