Skin in a dream often represents identity and the protective boundary between your inner self and the outside world. Skin that's peeling or shedding can point to a transformation already underway, while irritated or damaged skin often reflects a boundary that's felt too exposed or thin lately.
Make Saturn and Sun significators of kings and princes, with the planet, and planets of the tenth; but their helpers take from the eleventh, and the assistants of vulgar persons from the second house. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)