No wonder the ancient oracles stared into the sun to sacrifice their physical vision for such extraordinary prophecies.
I had never stumbled upon this subreddit before, I needed to write about what just happened and here is where I decide to put it.
Today, Helios reflected back at me through my mirror, I was entranced with the rays hitting my skin, I was only looking in his direction for a picture of my eyes, but something pulled to actually look
Luckily I didn't look too long, but I looked long enough for it to hurt, I looked away and looked back and I couldn't it hurt too much. But Something in me said look again and I did. It didn't hurt my eyes anymore, I was crying, whether because of the light or awe, I don't know. It's so mesmerizing, I looked away and back a few more times and then I stared. Helios had a set of three more suns on each side, not straight out, kind of curved. it was darker in the middle - probably due to the creeping damage to the cones in my eyes (what absorbs light through your lids that triggers your brain to wake in the morning and are located in the fovea, basically the center of your vision and what absorbs the most light) - with a ring around it, looked like an eclipse really.
I couldn't stop looking, my partner had to pull me away. I closed my eyes and covered them to make sure it was as dark as could be and all I could see was a bright, bright, white circle in the middle (center of vision) and that's when I saw a mushroom cloud, obvious billowing, as it faded, two more smaller clouds. This then morphed quickly into the North and South American continents, it reminded me of the Earth emoji but less bubbly? Sharper edges, almost like a globe map. After it morphed into what I could make out as cartoon-y human hands reaching out from the top left of the circle and a similarly looking giraffe coming up from the bottom right of the circle.
I am not new to divination, but I mostly stick to smoke, fire, crystal gazing, tarot, the classic common quad, but something pulled me to keep looking. The bright light is gone and my eyesight restored to normality as I did not look too long and did not look consistently.
Nothing is set in stone, maybe it was just my fovea repairing themselves, my brain protecting my optic nerve when I saw those images, my cornea refracting the intense light and cause the sun to triplicate on both sides like that, but it definitely scared me.
I am lucky Helios, Apollo, and Ra, did not deem it time to take my sight.
