The Sun as How Someone Sees You: A Joy, Plainly

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Sun as how someone sees you means you are the daylight to them. Here is what the picture includes, upright and reversed, and why simple is not the same as shallow.

If you want the short answer, the Sun as how someone sees you means they see you as a joy: warm, bright, honest, someone they are glad to see and who makes them feel better by walking in. It is the simplest picture in the deck and one of the best. The only thing to check is whether the person has seen you on a cloudy day and still held it.

This is you as the child on the horse under the full sun. They see the gladness. They have not had to see anything else yet.

The Sun upright as how someone sees you

Tina Gong's the Sun guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with joy, success, positivity, vitality and clarity. When the card lands in a position that asks how someone sees you, I read those meanings as the image the person holds of you, which is not the same as who you are and not the same as what they feel. the Sun as feelings covers what they feel; the Sun as intentions covers what they plan. This page covers the picture. The Major Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, I read the Sun as a person who sees you with uncomplicated warmth: they like you, they are happy around you, they find you honest and alive. There is no strategy in the picture and nothing hidden. In the upright card it is a picture people would be lucky to be held in.

What I would not read into it is depth of acquaintance. The Sun sees the present. Whether the person has seen you tired, sad or difficult, and kept the picture, is the question.

What the card does not tell you

The card does not confirm the gladness is romantic rather than friendly, that the picture would survive a bad week, or that the person has thought past the next happy one. No card lets a reader see inside another person's head. What a card can do is describe the kind of image that fits the person's behaviour toward you, and give you something to check against how they actually treat you.

The Sun reversed as how someone sees you

Reversed, the Sun as how someone sees you means the picture has clouded: they see you as dimmed, as not the joy you were, or they see your brightness as a performance over something they cannot reach. The warmth they loved has started to feel like a wall or a loss.

In your own question, ask whether the person has lately seemed disappointed by you being ordinary, or whether they have said anything about you not being yourself. A reversed card here is a prompt to notice whether the picture the person holds has gone sour or gone wrong, not a verdict on you.

The Sun as how an ex sees you

Asked how an ex sees you, the Sun suggests they remember you with gladness and no bitterness: the good thing, the bright chapter. That is a gift and it is not a signal. People can hold a Sun picture of you and be perfectly settled in having moved on. My guide to asking a psychic whether an ex will come back explains what a reading can and cannot say about that question.

The Sun as how a new person sees you

For someone new, this is a cheerful card: they see you as a joy. Enjoy being seen that way. Let them see you on a cloudy day eventually, because a picture that has survived weather is worth more than one that has not been tested.

How to check the picture against reality

Look for visible pleasure: they light up, they laugh easily with you, they are not guarded. A Sun picture is hard to miss. If you are having to search for it, the card may be describing your hope rather than their eyes.

What to record before drawing again

Keep three short notes: the question you asked, the plain evidence that the person is glad of you, and whether they have seen you at your worst and stayed glad. The third note is the test of the picture.

For comparison, the Star as how someone sees you and the Ten of Cups as how someone sees you describe different pictures. The the Sun card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Sun as a person covers the card when it describes a temperament rather than an image. For a personal interpretation, my guide to a love psychic reading online explains how I work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.