Black Leo zodiac symbol with three red star designs and the word Leo in script on the top of a foot.

Leo zodiac symbol and stars on a foot

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A healed or fresh tattoo on the top of a foot shows the Leo zodiac symbol in solid black linework, with the word Leo in cursive script beside it. Three red five-pointed stars with black outlines sit around the symbol. Black ink dominates the lettering and symbol, while the red fills the stars, and the image is a close, well-lit photo against a red fabric background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Pass the ladle down, and mind the kettle, because this is a story about a lion that never once came aboard. Regulus, the heart of the lion, the little king the old navigators called him. My father stood the middle watch on the Adelaide Rose in 1952, and he swore to me that on the night we lost the Dutchman's chart off Finisterre, it was the stars that brought us home, not the compass, which had gone soft from the damp.

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Read the sky the way a cook reads a stock pot. Look for the thing that keeps its shape when everything else has boiled away. Leo does that. Its back end is a sickle and its head a little question mark, and if you chalk it on the slate you get the same lazy curl you'd see in a lion's tail. Scattered about it hang the red ones, ruddy as a bottle of Rioja, and they keep burning through fog no matter how thick it gets.

So that's the lesson. Red stars don't flicker out for cloud, they just sit there being stubborn. Every one of us aboard needs a fixed point, and my father found his in the ledger, where a deckhand from Plymouth had once scratched a lion beside the name Leo in a hand so fancy the purser swore it was a bird. Hand me that tin of ginger biscuits. The second mate's due, and the bread isn't going to prove itself.

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