Black sun tattoo with flame-like rays and a Virgo zodiac symbol in a central circle, placed on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.

Sun with zodiac symbol on the back

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A black sun motif with long, tapering flame-like rays surrounds a circular centre containing a Virgo zodiac glyph. The linework is bold and solid, with dark ink fill in the rays and a clean outline around the central circle. The tattoo sits off-centre on the upper back against plain, evenly lit skin, with the shoulder curving in the background.

Back Sun Zodiac symbol Flame Circle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The harvest was late that year because the rain had come in June and never properly left. Old Maud Penrose said the sun had been sulking behind the Shepherd's Hill since Lammas, and the children of Thornwick Dale believed her, because she had once predicted the frost to the day. So when the Cole girl walked up from the mill with a jar of cider and a paper bag of barley sugar, the whole village watched to see whether she would do anything about it.

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She climbed the stile to the hill without a word to anyone. At the top there was a flat stone the size of a cartwheel, pale with lichen, and on it someone had scratched a ring with a sheaf of rays pointing outward, the way a child draws the sun. The girl sat down in the middle of it. She unscrewed the jar, poured a little cider onto the stone, and began to tell the sun exactly what she thought of it, in a voice that carried all the way down to the mill-pond.

She was still talking when the cloud split along the ridge. Light came through in a long bar and lay across the stone, and the rays of the scratched sun seemed to catch fire, each one flickering like a flame that would not go out. The girl stopped mid-sentence. Below her, the village saw the gold move down the valley, field by field, until it reached the mill, the orchards and the kitchen windows.

Maud Penrose only shook her head when they told her. She said the sun had come back for a proper telling-off and nobody else had ever bothered to give him one. The Cole girl walked home with an empty jar and a sunburnt neck, and the barley sugar, it was said, went to the sun himself.