Visconti-Sforza Tarot: The Sun Card
This is a series of writings where I explore the messages from the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, the oldest tarot deck in the world. In the previous post, I wrote about the backstory of how I encountered the deck, as well as the Judgment card. Today, I drew one more Major Arcana cards to write about: The Sun.
The Sun card says to me:
“Don’t look at me. Find me where you are, not where I am.”
My take on this message:
Staring at the sun burns your eyes. The Sun helps you see, but is not something to look directly at.
The Sun card here, is talking about perception, something about seeing the innate quality of things. (The innate quality is light.) It reminds me of a time when my perception was shifting: I would be walking on a street, and then it was like: beauty was everywhere all of a sudden. I started seeing the ordinary as the extraordinary, and it was somehow disorienting and grounding at the same time, like basking in the sun that came out of the blue. The joy that came with this change in perception also felt like sunlight, since it felt all-encompassing.
But then again, the Sun card reminds me that it’s not necessary to see the ordinary as the extraordinary all the time. Perceptions change. It’s not needed to be joyful all the time. The sun also casts shadows. Doubt creeps in and that’s okay. It’s okay to be in the state where nothing at all is clear. It’s okay to be in that state.
There is a shift between the two, a state where everything is joyous, clear, all-encompassing. And a state where nothing seems clear. The “state” is ever shifting.
