Forearm tattoo of the Aquarius water-bearer symbol, two black wave lines inside a loose teal brush-stroke circle.

Aquarius symbol in a teal circle on a forearm

Forearm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows the Aquarius zodiac symbol, two black wavy lines stacked on each other, set inside a ring of loose teal brush strokes. The black linework is solid and crisp, while the circle is filled with soft blue-green washes that fade into the skin at the edges. The arm is photographed close up against a denim jacket and a blurred indoor background.

Forearm Zodiac symbol Wave Circle Water Brush stroke

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Come closer, the fire is low and the tide is talking tonight. In the kingdom of Vellamere, where the sea came up to the orchard gates every spring, there lived a water-carrier named Oda Breck who had never once been let inside the palace. She carried brine to the salt-workers in two copper pails, and each dusk she set them down at the harbour wall and watched the swell roll under the moon in long, stacked ripples, one wave riding on the back of the one before it.

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One evening the queen's gardener came running down the steps with a bronze disc in his hands, cracked clean through. The queen had commissioned a sundial for the sea itself, he said, so the fishermen would know when to sail, and the metalsmith had taken three months to cast it and then dropped it on the quay. Nobody could mend it. The smith wept. The gardener wept. Oda only asked how wide the crack ran, and when they told her, she set down her pails and went to the forge.

She worked through the night with blue glass ground to dust and a brush of goose feather, painting the broken face in loose rings of teal the way the spray lifts off a breaking wave. Then she took a stylus and scratched two wavy lines into the centre, one above the other, the way the sea folds before a storm. At dawn the queen came down to see the ruin, and found instead a disc that glowed like shallow water over sand.

They still say the sundial hangs above the harbour, and that when the fishermen look up at its two black waves, they know to come home before the weather turns. Oda Breck never asked for a palace. She asked only that someone keep the pails full, and sometimes, if you stand very still at the harbour wall, you can hear her humming the tune of the tide.