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THE SUN
(Sol)
“Delight with me, O child. We are playmates for eternity, awakened from our chrysalis to the Truth of ourselves, twin companions in the innocent dance of ecstatic love.”
MEDITATION COLOR: Orange.
HEBREW LETTER: Reysh, head (especially the front of the head, or face). The Divine Countenance anthropomorphized onto the Sun. The head as seat of consciousness, intelligence, and illumination. Also means source, origin, and that which “heads” or directs, guides, rules.
CARD NAME: “Sun” comes from Old English sunne, which, like the Latin sol and the Greek helios, comes from the Indo-European root sawel- (which simply means “the sun”). All of the well-developed astrological, alchemical, Qabbalistic, and otherwise occult associates with the Sun should be considered in attempting to understanding the meaning of this Trump name.
ESOTERIC MEANING: The Universal Consciousness. Through it, astrologers derive their judgments of the stars and (zodiacal) constellations, and perfect their knowledge of the celestial cycles.
TREE of LIFE: Yesod to Hod. (Links ‘the Foundation’ and ‘Glory’; or Intellect with Subconsciousness. Illuminating clarity penetrates the clouds of illusion; mastery of emotion and transcendence of instincts admits a blazing lucidity.)
ESOTERIC TITLE: The Lord of the Fire of the World
TANTRIC & ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Regenerated male and female as children before the Sun.
DIVINATION: Light, Life, Love, and Liberty. Glory, gain, riches, triumph, liberation, pleasure, frankness, candor, truth, shamelessness, self-disclosure, self-knowledge. Health. With very adverse cards, it means arrogance, self-aggrandizement, display, vanity.
