The Sun Tarot Card Meaning and Art Ercole I d'Este Tarot Deck Fragment
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About the Deck
Ercole I d'Este Tarot Deck Fragment
One of the earliest extant Tarot Decks, this deck features heraldic emblems of Ercole I d'Este and his wife, Leonora of Aragon.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1473
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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.
