Cast & Chart
The Sun, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot card

Major Arcana

The Sun

happiness, warmth, contentment, openness

Upright

Waite is brief and cheerful here: material happiness, a fortunate marriage, contentment. A child rides a white horse under a huge sun, sunflowers leaning over a wall behind. The card points to warmth, openness and things going well.

When a relationship or a piece of work feels good, say so and enjoy it. Thank the people involved and share the credit. A happy card describes a mood and promises nothing, and good days still need ordinary care to last.

Reversed

The old note says only the same in a lesser sense. The sun is still up, behind some cloud, and the good thing is smaller or slower than you hoped.

Look for contentment you may be discounting because it falls short of the picture in your head. A decent job or a kind partner counts. Adjust what you expected, and take one small pleasure seriously today.

A card is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.

In Waite's words

Upright: Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.

Reversed: The same in a lesser sense.

From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part 3, on Wikisource. The meanings above are by Cast & Chart.

Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.