Ox × The Still-Water Keeper
Deep water layered with thick soil, the most composed and the most able to shoulder it.
The Still-Water Keeper draws inward and wants the calm, and you, an Ox, want the exact same thing, so this fills to the brim. The moon mirrored in still water, Fomalhaut the lone autumn star. Deep water layered over thick soil, both of you pulling toward the quiet center, and the result is the most composed person in the room and the one most able to shoulder the load without a sound.
You are unmoved by however big the swell gets. When the team panics you are the ballast, the low steady weight that keeps the whole thing from tipping, and people steady themselves just by standing near you. The calm is not an act and the strength under it is not borrowed. You carry what would sink most people and you carry it without the water on the surface so much as rippling.
The fault is that you hold it all in and shoulder it all and are stubborn about telling no one. You sink so deep into the still that nobody knows you are tired too, that the ballast is also a body, that the keeper of everyone's calm has no one keeping his. Fomalhaut is alone out there because a star does not need to be asked how it is. The moon on still water is only a reflection, not the moon itself, which is the reminder that the surface calm is not the whole truth of you. Let one person see past the surface before you go under.
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A mirror, not a prophecy. It reflects you as you are right now. How you walk is still yours to choose.