Tarot Of The Day July 11, 2018 - Day 23: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - The Sun
I have begun the creation of an 89 day tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial 89 days of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the twenty-third session follows.
The Sun card in the rider-Waite deck is represented by both the sun itself, but also by a small child with a feathered flower crown riding a white pony, and bearing a red banner. Behind the child is a wall, and over the wall we can see four sunflowers.
The sun is the representative of the new you, coming out of the darkness after the crisis of The Tower, the hope of The Star, and the wild darkness of The Moon. Rebirth and rejuvenation, freedom and an innocence of spirit as the new you comes out fully to blossom. Personally, I have always read this card this way in the upright position, but in the reverse I learned it as a depletion, a loss of energy, and draining. When we view the card in the terms of the Fool’s Journey, the upright is as I mentioned, a new start after a litany of troubles, and when reversed it represents the Fool if he has come out of the trials -without- having learned and transformed, and instead is less than he should be.
The Rider-Waite booklet gives the following keywords for The Sun: material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment (upright,) the same in a lesser sense (reversed.)
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy deck shows the Sun card as cupped hands - the hands of The Mage with the symbols carved in them - holding a tiny sun as one would a firefly to watch it glow. She writes: “After the murky uncertainty of the Moon and the searing trauma of the Death, Devil, and Tower cards, finally the Sun has come out. With the Sun comes light and vitality and above all, awareness. You can see the truth with unbiased eyes. In the clear daylight, the world reveals itself to you, and finally, after the arduous journey to get here, you feel equal to the task of living in it.”
Maggie’s keywords for the Sun are solutions, clear-sightedness, hope, and self-awareness.
Tomorrow - Judgement
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, this course of lessons will be 89 days long, so that every Saturday I can break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first 89 day session ends, we will start over with a one day break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
I have begun the creation of an 89 day tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial 89 days of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the twenty-third session follows.
The Sun card in the rider-Waite deck is represented by both the sun itself, but also by a small child with a feathered flower crown riding a white pony, and bearing a red banner. Behind the child is a wall, and over the wall we can see four sunflowers.
The sun is the representative of the new you, coming out of the darkness after the crisis of The Tower, the hope of The Star, and the wild darkness of The Moon. Rebirth and rejuvenation, freedom and an innocence of spirit as the new you comes out fully to blossom. Personally, I have always read this card this way in the upright position, but in the reverse I learned it as a depletion, a loss of energy, and draining. When we view the card in the terms of the Fool’s Journey, the upright is as I mentioned, a new start after a litany of troubles, and when reversed it represents the Fool if he has come out of the trials -without- having learned and transformed, and instead is less than he should be.
The Rider-Waite booklet gives the following keywords for The Sun: material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment (upright,) the same in a lesser sense (reversed.)
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy deck shows the Sun card as cupped hands - the hands of The Mage with the symbols carved in them - holding a tiny sun as one would a firefly to watch it glow. She writes: “After the murky uncertainty of the Moon and the searing trauma of the Death, Devil, and Tower cards, finally the Sun has come out. With the Sun comes light and vitality and above all, awareness. You can see the truth with unbiased eyes. In the clear daylight, the world reveals itself to you, and finally, after the arduous journey to get here, you feel equal to the task of living in it.”
Maggie’s keywords for the Sun are solutions, clear-sightedness, hope, and self-awareness.
Tomorrow - Judgement
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, this course of lessons will be 89 days long, so that every Saturday I can break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first 89 day session ends, we will start over with a one day break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
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