Golden Yunnan
What this is
Golden Yunnan is the solar tea of this set, the black tea of Yunnan picked with an abundance of golden tips, brewing to a bright amber-gold cup. Rich, smooth, and honeyed, it carries solar gold in its very leaf and liquor. It is the most radiant of the seven, the cup of vitality and brightness.
What it governs
It is set under the Sun and so over Sunday, sharing the solar virtues of vitality, brightness, and warm radiance. Its domain is the lifting of vitality and the brightening of the heart, the golden warmth that wakes and centres. It governs the day's call to find your warm centre and to shine from it.
Its properties
Its colour is the bright amber-gold of its golden-tipped liquor, its taste honeyed and smooth, its character vitality and brightness. The upright virtue of Golden Yunnan is solar radiance, the golden warmth that wakes the vital force and brightens the heart; its shadow is only the over-richness of too much. A cup of it is the solar spirit's vitality made drinkable, the same Sun-force that Och wields over gold and healing brought down to the brightening of your own morning. The golden-tipped leaf is the Sun's own metal in the cup.
Where else it appears
Golden Yunnan is the Sun's note steeped in a cup, the same gold that is Och's metal and Michael's radiance and the heart's own warmth, here made honeyed and bright. The vitality it gives is the domestic echo of the solar Tiphareth, the balanced radiant centre of the Tree. The same Sun that grants gold and perfect medicines in the grand telling grants a bright vital morning in the cup. Hold them side by side and it is one warmth at two scales.
Where you meet it on the Oracle
On The Day, Golden Yunnan is the tea-face of Sunday, beside the Sun, the archangel Michael, the salmon, and the spirit Och. When it appears the day invites you to wake your vitality and shine from your centre: brew the bright golden cup, gather your warmth, let the solar radiance carry you out into the day. Read it as the day's brightening, the Sun offered as vitality.
Why it matters
Golden Yunnan carries the truth that the Sun's vitality is available in the simplest golden cup, that radiance can be steeped as well as cultivated. It matters because the Sunday self gives light from a warm centre. It asks you to wake your warmth before you spend it.
Correspondences
- planet
- Sun
- element
- Fire
- zodiac
- Leo
- sephirah
- Tiphareth
- day
- Sunday
- colour
- Amber-gold
- metal
- Gold
- tarot
- The Sun