The Sun Tarot Card Meaning and Art Tarot Genoves Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Tarot Genoves Deck
A reproduction of an authentic Genovean Tarot exhibited at the Fournier Playing Card Museum.
Provenance
Genova, Italy. 1887.
Description
The Sun sending down his rays upon two children, who suggest the sign Gemini. (Behind them is a low wall.) It signifies Earthly Happiness.Meaning of The Sun from the Tarot Genoves Deck
Upright
Happiness, Content, Joy;
Reversed
These in a minor degree.
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The Sun. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed its influence on earth not only by light and heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew. Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the dog-star there is a wall suggesting an enclosure-as it might be, a walled garden-wherein are two children, either naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and gambolling, or running hand in hand. Eliphas Levi says that these are sometimes replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies, and otherwise by a much better symbol-a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Happiness, Content, Joy
Reversed
These in a minor degree.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Material Happiness. Lucky Marriage.
