Black dotwork arrow design with a Virgo-style zodiac glyph and dotted constellation lines, drawn on pale green paper.

Dotwork arrow with constellation and Virgo symbol

Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash

A stencil-style drawing of a vertical arrow with three stacked arrowheads at the top and an inverted triangle near the bottom, with the shafts and tips shaded in stippled dots. A bold Virgo-style zodiac glyph sits over the centre of the shaft, linked by dotted lines to small dot clusters that suggest a constellation. Faint pencil guidelines are visible on the paper, and the ink is black on pale green paper with no colour.

Dotwork Geometric Arrow Zodiac symbol Constellation Star Triangle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The archery booth at Fenwick Michaelmas fair had been losing money since the Tuesday, and Ada Corran knew it was the arrows, not the customers. Her father had cut the shafts from ash in the wet winter and fletched them with goose feathers that never sat straight. The lads came, pulled the bow, and the arrows wandered off towards the cake stall. So on the last night she took the old box from under the cart, the one with the pencil marks still on its lid, and sat up by the lamp with a stub of charcoal.

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She drew the way her grandmother had shown her, a long straight line and three points stacked at the head, the shaft running down to a wedge like an upturned cup. Then she counted the stars her grandmother called the Gleaner, pricked them out on the paper with dots, and ran a thread of dotted line between them so the sky would hold the arrow steady. The sign of the maiden with her sheaf she set across the middle, because that was whose hour the fair kept.

In the morning she fixed the new shafts into the rack and said nothing. The first lad drew, loosed, and the arrow flew true over the canvas and struck the tin plate dead centre with a noise like a bell. He looked at it, then at her, and offered her a penny she refused. Ada went back to her lamp, found the box lighter by one drawing, and laughed at herself for keeping a list.