The Sun Tarot Meditation: Journey to Your Subconscious

BY NICOLE LAU

The Sun Meditation: Embracing Clarity, Joy, and Radiant Authenticity

The Sun meditation is an uplifting and energizing journey into clarity, joy, and your authentic self. This practice allows you to access the archetypal energy of The Sun, experiencing the radiance of truth revealed, the warmth of genuine happiness, and the vitality of living authentically. This is a celebration meditation—joyful, clear, and deeply nourishing to your spirit.

Preparation for Sun Meditation

Sun meditation requires openness to joy, willingness to be authentic, and readiness to embrace clarity. This is uplifting work—prepare yourself to receive light and warmth.

Setting Your Space:

• Choose a bright, sunny space where you won't be disturbed for 20-25 minutes
• Sit in a comfortable, open position (ideally facing sunlight if available)
• Light a yellow or gold candle (for sunlight)
• Have your Sun card visible or hold it in your hands
• Optional: Play uplifting, joyful music
• Wear comfortable clothing in bright, warm colors
• Have journal and pen nearby for post-meditation processing

Mental Preparation:

• Set intention to embrace joy and clarity
• Commit to being authentic and open
• Release cynicism and allow happiness
• Accept that joy is your natural state
• Open to celebrating yourself and life

The Sun Meditation Journey

Phase 1: Emerging from Darkness (3 minutes)

Close your eyes and bring awareness to your breath. With each exhale, release heaviness. With each inhale, breathe in light.

In your mind's eye, see yourself standing in the pre-dawn darkness. You've been through a journey—through confusion, through mystery, through The Moon's uncertain path. But now, the horizon is beginning to lighten. Dawn is coming.

You've survived the night. You've walked through darkness. You've navigated uncertainty. And now, finally, the sun is about to rise.

Feel the anticipation. Feel the readiness. You're about to step into the light.

Phase 2: The Sunrise (5 minutes)

The sun begins to rise. First, just a hint of gold on the horizon. Then more, and more, until the brilliant sun breaks free of the horizon and floods the world with light.

This light touches you. Warm, golden, radiant sunlight washes over you. It touches your face, your body, your entire being. And everywhere it touches, something happens:

• Where there was confusion—clarity arrives
• Where there was sadness—joy emerges
• Where there was doubt—confidence appears
• Where there was pretense—authenticity surfaces
• Where there was heaviness—lightness comes
• Where there was shadow—light reveals truth

The sun doesn't force this. It simply shines, and in its light, everything becomes clear, everything becomes joyful, everything becomes real.

Phase 3: Basking in Sunlight (5 minutes)

You stand in full sunlight now. The sun is high, bright, warm. You're bathed in its radiance.

Feel the warmth on your skin. Feel the light filling you. Feel the vitality, the energy, the life force of the sun flowing into you.

In this sunlight, you can be completely yourself. No shadows to hide in. No darkness to conceal you. Just you, authentic and real, standing in the light.

And you realize: This is freedom. This is joy. This is what it feels like to be completely yourself, to have nothing to hide, to be seen and celebrated for who you really are.

The sun doesn't judge. It doesn't demand. It simply shines, and in its light, you can finally be free.

Phase 4: The Child Within (4 minutes)

In the sunlight, you notice a child. Joyful, free, authentic. This child is playing, laughing, completely unselfconscious. This child is you—your true self, unburdened by pretense or fear.

Watch this child. See the pure joy, the authentic expression, the freedom. This is who you really are beneath all the layers, beneath all the performance, beneath all the fear.

The child looks at you and smiles. And you understand: This joy is always available. This authenticity is always possible. This freedom is always yours. You just have to choose it, to allow it, to be it.

You become the child. You feel the joy, the freedom, the authenticity. You remember what it's like to be completely yourself, to play, to celebrate, to be happy without reason or justification.

Phase 5: The Clarity (3 minutes)

In the bright sunlight, everything is clear. No shadows, no mystery, no confusion. You can see everything clearly now.

What has become clear to you? What do you finally understand? What truth has the sun revealed?

It might be:

• Clarity about your path
• Understanding about a situation
• Truth about yourself
• Recognition of your authentic desires
• Seeing what was always there but obscured

Receive this clarity. Trust it. The sun reveals truth. What you see in its light is real.

Phase 6: The Celebration (3 minutes)

The sun invites celebration. Not because you've achieved something external, but because you're alive, because you're real, because you're here.

Celebrate yourself. Celebrate your journey. Celebrate your authenticity. Celebrate the joy that's available. Celebrate the clarity you've received. Celebrate being alive and real and free.

Feel the joy of celebration. Feel the lightness. Feel the happiness that needs no reason, no justification, no external validation. You're celebrating simply because you can, because joy is your natural state, because the sun is shining.

Phase 7: Return and Integration (2 minutes)

Begin to bring your awareness back to your physical body. The sunlight remains within you—you're bringing it back. The joy remains with you—you're carrying it forward. The clarity remains available—you're taking it into your life.

Wiggle your fingers and toes. Take three deep, joyful breaths. When you're ready, open your eyes slowly.

You have received The Sun. Clarity is with you. Joy is available. Authenticity is possible. You are radiant.

Post-Meditation Integration

Immediately after the meditation, while the experience is fresh, journal about:

• What clarity did you receive?
• What joy did you feel?
• What did you learn about your authentic self?
• What truth was revealed in the sunlight?
• What will you celebrate today?

Working with Sun Meditation Regularly

This meditation can be practiced:

• Daily in the morning: To start your day with clarity and joy
• When feeling down: To restore happiness and vitality
• After difficult periods: To celebrate emergence into light
• When needing clarity: To see truth clearly
• Before important events: To access confidence and authenticity
• Weekly: For ongoing joy and clarity maintenance

Advanced Sun Meditation Practices

The Specific Clarity: Bring a specific question needing clarity into the meditation and let the sunlight reveal the answer.

The Joy Restoration: Focus on areas where joy has been blocked and let sunlight restore happiness.

The Authenticity Practice: Spend extended time as the child, exploring what authentic expression feels like.

The Success Celebration: Bring specific achievements into the meditation and fully celebrate them in the sunlight.

Signs Your Sun Meditation is Working

You'll know this practice is effective when you notice:

• Increased clarity about life and decisions
• More frequent genuine joy and happiness
• Greater comfort being authentic
• Increased confidence and optimism
• Higher energy and vitality
• Ability to celebrate yourself and life
• Less pretense and more realness
• Feeling lighter and brighter
• Success coming more easily
• Living with more joy and less heaviness

Challenges and How to Work with Them

Challenge: Can't feel joy
Solution: Start with tiny moments of lightness. Joy doesn't have to be huge. Even small happiness counts.

Challenge: Authenticity feels unsafe
Solution: Practice being real in the meditation first. Build safety internally before expressing externally.

Challenge: Cynicism blocks the experience
Solution: Notice the cynicism but do the meditation anyway. Let the sunlight work on the cynicism itself.

Challenge: Can't access the child
Solution: Remember any moment of pure joy from your past. That's the child. Start there.

The Constant Unification Perspective

In the Constant Unification framework, Sun meditation is a practice of aligning with your natural state of clarity, joy, and authenticity. When you meditate with The Sun, you're not creating happiness—you're removing the blocks that prevent you from experiencing the joy that's always there. You're not forcing clarity—you're allowing the light to reveal what's always been true.

This meditation teaches that The Sun is not something external that might or might not shine. The sun is always shining. Joy is always available. Clarity is always possible. Authenticity is always an option. You just have to step into the light, allow the warmth, and be willing to be real.

When you practice Sun meditation, you're training yourself to access joy, to trust clarity, and to be authentic. This is not naive positivity—it's the sophisticated practice of choosing light over shadow, joy over heaviness, authenticity over pretense.

The sun is always shining. The question is: Will you step into its light?