Tarot: The Sun

Beware the heat of a summer's day. Do not let it lull you to sleep. Do not curl up in it like a cat. Heat will do you grevious harm.

First it is the skin. It reddens it, leaves you feeling restless, with the desire to peel it off.

Then it is in your eyes, blinding you to faults and lies.

Then it is behind your eyelids, bright as a star when you close your eyes, imprinted.

Then it warms you from the inside out. Starlight fills your veins, erupts from your nerve endings.

Then the sun sets. What you thought, in the moment, was eternal and unquestionable, is as delicate as the night time breeze. The brilliance fades, the warm with it. The monsters under your bed, the whisper in your ear at night, the cold when you sleep, all present themselves.

Beware the heat of the sun. It will leave you cold.

Art by Woraya Chotikul

Text by Lucie MacAulay