The Sun

After the dark passage through the Moon's territory, the Sun explodes onto the horizon in triumph, that magnificent face beaming with the joy of consciousness itself awakening to its own nature. Golden rays stream outward in waves both straight and curved—the dual nature of light, particle and wave, reaching across the cosmos to touch everything with warmth and visibility. Below this cosmic radiance, a naked child rides a white horse with the unselfconscious grace of innocence restored, waving a banner red as life's blood, red as the passion that flows when living becomes celebration rather than obligation. The wall behind suggests the passage from the protected garden of childhood into the wider world, but this child carries the garden within. Sunflowers turn their heavy heads toward the source that called them into being, those living mirrors of the sun demonstrating the magnetic attraction between light and what loves it. There are no shadows in this card—not because darkness has been destroyed but because the light is so complete it fills even the places shadows once hid. This is the moment of ultimate clarity, when everything is seen and nothing needs to be hidden, when truth brings joy rather than shame, when being fully known is finally the blessing it was always meant to be.