Let’s spend this summer studying The Sun card! Each entry between now and August (8 total) will feature a Sun card from a different deck along with the text the creator wrote for it. It will be interesting to see how so many people see difference aspects of this apparently simple card. We'll start with Tarot in Wonderland by Barbara Moore and Eugene Smith. In the text below, the “Through the Looking Glass” section is the longer exploration of the card through the lens of the Alice (in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass) stories. “Down the Rabbit Hole” is a the short and sweet divinatory meaning.   Through the Looking Glass Alice, after many adventures and trials, has

Have you ever heard a tarot teacher suggest throwing away the book that came with a deck? While I can see the benefits to approaching the cards with fresh eyes, I’d encourage just setting the book aside rather than tossing it out. Most books that come with a deck not only provide interesting deck specific information but also present basic tarot information in new ways. We rarely showcase tarot companion book text, and it is time we changed that. Tarot in Wonderland was created (with her visions brought to life by artist Eugene Smith) by someone who loves Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The images blend the characters and settings from the stories with the

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, "Which way? Which way," holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. *  *  *  *  *  *  * *  *  *  *  *  * *  *  *  *  *  *  * "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak