The Sun

The 19th Key

Colour: Orange
Sound: D Natural
Planet: The Sun
DOUBLE LETTER: Fertility / Barrenness

This Path connects Spendour with the Foundation.

It is an active Path of intellect. The Sun is the highest level of human intellect whilst the Star is the highest level of human emotion. The are held in balance by the Tower, representing the effect of the combined energies of the Sun and the Star.

When we travel this Path upwards, it is a return to innocence. A Path where we can recollect the Source from which we emerged.

It is an introduction to what can be referred to as the inner sun, the light of the Personality. Which should shine in the same way the physical sun lights up the earth. The Sun has the potential to cause growth as well as to destroy with its light. That is the extent of the inner sun's power on the physical body as well.

The Sun exercises control of the signs of the Zodiac, the twelve guideposts of the personality and receptacles of planetary influence. The Sun plays an instrumental role not only in this incarnation but acts as a link between the Personalities that were experienced in other incarnations as well. It embraces all of creation in its rays.

The card depicts two naked children representing the purest expression of the male and female principles in incarnation. The active male functioning through earth and the passive female principle functioning through water. The hand holding indicates that their activities are reciprocal.