19. The Sun - The Time to Be Happy is Now.

Last week the Pisces card, The Moon, pictured lots of strange omens with no understanding of what they all meant: a landscape of confusion and uncertainty. This week's card, The Sun depicts the magical moment when this scary realm of darkness and dreams suddenly becomes decipherable. Like the sun rising in the morning bringing light, The Sun card's appearance in a reading reassures us that fresh insights will dissolve old fears and we can be happy again taking life one day at a time.

We have seen this pattern of highs and lows, darkness and then light several times now:

 The Fool starts out high, literally. He is on a mountain top but being oblivious to his surroundings it appears he is about to stumble over the edge of a cliff and fall to the bottom. The next cards describe his journey to  return to the mountain top, which he finally does in card 9 only by then he is no longer an unconscious fool, but now he is The Hermit - the wise one who has made the ascent fully conscious - fully aware of where he is and what it took to get there..

Notice, however, The Hermit is not the last card in the deck. Life does not stop just because one reaches a goal. Even though The Hermit describes a man who has made his ascent wisely and without folly, the next card, The Wheel of Fortune, shows fortunes change, what seemed like an upper now becomes a downer. The Hermit does not fall off the mountain as The Fool may have, but most likely comes to decide "It's lonely at the top."  Or perhaps achievements are forgotten as the soul seeks new challenge. The next several cards describe these ups and downs, particularly Temperance - the joy of creating - The Devil - the boredom that sets in when the creation is complete and The Tower - the shake up of the status quo that leads to The Star, and the hope for a new life but then The Moon, the fear that we don't know how we'll be in this new life, we're back to being Fools again...

So up and down, up and down...Ultimately - after repeating this cycle for about a zillion lifetimes - the realization kicks in that it is not the destination that is is important, it's the joy in the journey. Or as The Sun illustrates, it's finding the joy in each moment. 

The Sun has a beautiful baby as it's symbol. What a grand card to be focusing on this week as we approach the birthday of baby Jesus!

Merry Christmas Everyone,

Rosada

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Rosada, EXT 2340
CertifiedPsychics.com