The Sun As Feelings
The Sun as feelings reveals a complex emotional landscape. This person embodies The Radiant One, The Achiever, The Bringer of Joy energy in how they feel - joyful and radiant in their emotional expression. The card's imagery mirrors their inner world: A brilliant sun shines from a clear blue sky, its rays alternating between straight and wavy lines. Below, a naked child with flowing hair rides bareback on a white horse, holding a red banner. In love, The Sun represents joyful, successful relationships filled with warmth, happiness, and mutual celebration. This card indicates that love brings out the best in you, fills you with vitality, and makes you feel truly alive. For singles, The Sun suggests meeting someone who brings sunshine into your life, or experiencing such self-love and confidence that you naturally attract joyful romantic connections. In relationships, this card represents a period of harmony, celebration, and shared happiness. The Sun can also indicate marriages, engagements, or the birth of children - any joyful expansion of love.
What They're Feeling
When someone feels like The Sun, their primary emotions are joy, warmth, optimism. The radiant sun in the card reflects feelings of divine illumination, consciousness, and life-giving energy. The sun rays (straight and wavy) in the card reflects feelings of direct divine energy and gentle warming influence. Beneath the surface, there may also be feelings of vitality, freedom, power.
Hidden Emotions
Even when The Sun appears upright, there may be hidden undercurrents of delayed success, temporary pessimism, blocked joy. These shadow emotions don't negate the primary feelings but add depth to understanding them.
How They Show These Feelings
As a fire card, The Sun suggests this person expresses their feelings passionately and directly. They tend toward enthusiasm, spontaneity, intensity in emotional matters. Expect them to communicate through bold gestures, energetic presence, and immediate expression of their feelings
What This Means for You
These feelings are genuine and present. In love, The Sun represents joyful, successful relationships filled with warmth, happiness, and mutual celebration. This card indicates that love brings out the best in you, fills you with vitality, and makes you feel truly alive. Understanding their emotional language - shaped by fire energy - will help you connect more deeply.
The Sun Reversed: As Feelings
When The Sun reversed represents feelings, the emotions are present but struggling to surface or be expressed. In love, the reversed Sun indicates temporary relationship challenges, difficulty expressing joy in romantic connections, or feelings of romantic pessimism. You may be going through a rough patch in relationships, feeling that love isn't bringing the happiness you expected, or struggling to maintain optimism about romantic possibilities. The reversed Sun can represent relationship arguments, temporary separation, or the feeling that romance has lost its sparkle. However, this card suggests that these challenges are temporary and that joy in love will return with time and effort. The fire energy is turned inward, creating internal emotional processing rather than outward expression.
Blocked or Unexpressed Emotions
The Sun reversed suggests feelings that are present but trapped. They may want to express joy, warmth, optimism but feel unable to. This could stem from fear, past hurt, or uncertainty about the relationship.
What They Cannot Communicate
In love, the reversed Sun indicates temporary relationship challenges, difficulty expressing joy in romantic connections, or feelings of romantic pessimism.
Esoteric Correspondences
Understanding The Sun's deeper symbolism enriches your as feelings interpretation.
Golden Dawn Title
Le Soleil
Il Sole
Element
fire
Planet
Sun
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Dates
Sun cycles
Hebrew Letter
ר (Resh)
Head, beginning, consciousness
Tree of Life
Path 30
Hod to Yesod (Splendor to Foundation)
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