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The Tarot card The Sun is card XIX from the Major Arcana. Philosophically, the Sun represents the exploration of Light and Enlightenment. We associate the sun with clarity, truth, and the quest for knowledge.

The Sun, as a source of light and life, has inspired many throughout history. In the context of the tarot, The Sun represents not only physical light but also the metaphorical enlightenment of the mind. The child on the card, often depicted riding a white horse, can be seen as a symbol of the human soul moving freely and unrestrained in the world of ideas and knowledge. However, the wall in the background indicates that there are ‘boundaries’ or ‘limitations’…

The sunflowers reaching towards the sun symbolize the human aspiration for growth and self-development. They remind us that, just as plants need light to grow, we as humans need truth and knowledge to fully develop.

The sun further symbolizes optimism, improvement, progress, self-discovery, awareness (Ego), insight into ourselves, and the existence of many possibilities. However, these possibilities do have limits, namely those of our ‘humanity’.

The Sun is a source of inspiration for deeper reflection and understanding of the human experience.

Tarotcard The Sun from the Waite-Smith deck

“Because the sun, according to its nature, is a foot of a man in width, it will not exceed its limits: if it exceeds its limits, the Erinyes, the messengers of Dike, will catch up with it.”

– Heraclitus ca. 540 – 480 B.C.

Tarot Card The Sun is literally a sunny card that evokes cheerful images. The Sun is associated with optimism, awareness, inner growth, self-knowledge, enlightenment, and self-improvement. The depiction by Waite and Smith, with the choice of the child on the back of the horse, also aims to express a kind of freedom (of the soul). However, the beautiful sunflowers and the large red banner cannot obscure the large gray wall; the wall is prominently present on the card. What is the symbolism of the wall? And how can the Greek philosopher Heraclitus shed light on this while he himself was called ‘the Dark Philosopher’?