Your Chosen Card – The Lady Upright Salem Deck
When upright, the Sun is a positive card that typically symbolizes a period of success, achievement, recognition, warmth, happiness, popularity, and contentment. Health improves and personal relationships prosper. Work situations and new ventures go well. Because of the Suns connection with Leo and the fifth house of the natural zodiac, modern astrologers believe that this card can also signify romance, marriage, creative self-expression, the birth of children, or other matters related to offspring. Now is a time of clarity, illumination, and enlightenment. Ponder the words of the bard: ‘How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world’ (William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600).
Keywords Upright: Success, attainment, optimism, illumination, joy, ovation, recognition, vitality, achievement, good health, sunshine, healing, positive energy, youthful vigor, warmth, happiness, contentment, clear vision, consciousness, daylight, the bright side, brilliance, exultation, clarity, radiance, lucidity, transparency, enlightenment, childlike delight, justice tempered with mercy; ‘a good deed in a weary world.’
Key XIX: The Sun
Myths/Archetypes: The Egyptian god Amun-Ra. The Sun god. Apollo. Logos.
Astrology: the Sun (ruler of the Fire sign Leo)
Numerology: 1 (Magician) = 1 + 0 (Wheel of Fortune) = 1 + 9 (the Sun)
Hebrew letter: Resh (a mans head; a Hebrew word meaning a person, chief, leader, head, captain, that which comes first, summit, top, or beginning). The sun comes first in our solar system; without the suns rays we would not exist. The Hebrew letter Resh is associated with the sun and refers to a mans head facing you. In contrast, the Hebrew letter Qoph associated with the moon refers to the back of the head.
When The Lady is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Lady is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Lady is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Lady using cards from the Salem Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Portable Magic: The details of Tarot suit symbols do not remain absolutely constant throughout their history, but vary from place to place and from deck to deck. These minor differences are reflected in the names given to the symbols. Wands are sometimes called Rods of Staffs. Cups are sometimes called Chalices or Goblets. Swords are sometimes known as Daggers or, more rarely, Pins. Pentacles are also called Disks or Coins. The names for the suits employed here are those used by both the Golden Dawn and by the popular Rider Waite Tarot.
Complete Book of Tarot: The Sun, the center of the solar system and the giver of life, is assigned to the Sun card, trump XIX. The Sun is a ‘planet’ of brilliance, clarity, vital energy, music, and athleticism.
Development for Beginners: Induced by an absence of external stimulation, such as during instances of sunbathing, floating in water, or taking certain drugs, relaxed consciousness may occur when a person is in a state of passivity or minimal mental activity or when
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Development for Beginners: Induced by an absence of external stimulation, such as during instances of sunbathing, floating in water, or taking certain drugs, relaxed consciousness may occur when a person is in a state of passivity or minimal mental activity or when