Aries Constellation Ring

ARIES — HOW IT'S FORMED, WHAT IT MEANS Four stars. That's it. No grand shape. No asterism with a name. Aries is a short bent line that hooks at one end, and astronomers never bothered nicknaming it because there isn't much to name. Hamal sits at the bend. Brightest of the four, and the one everything else hangs off. The rest trail behind it in a loose curl. People read a ram's horn into that curl. Four stars, and it was enough to carry a whole sign. That's the actual constellation. Now the part people born under it already know. You go first. Everyone else is still weighing it and you're already three steps in. That's not recklessness. Somebody has to start. You say the true thing out loud. People find it blunt. They also come to you when they need an answer nobody else will give them straight. You stand in front of whoever's smaller than you. You don't decide to. It's already done. Your fire burns hot and burns out. You've been angry and over it inside an hour, and you don't hold what you dropped. You want to win. Board games, parking spots, whatever's in front of you. That drive is the same one that gets things built. Waiting is the only thing you're bad at. Four stones on this ring. One bend. Hamal at the largest bezel, sitting where it sits in the sky. Nothing added to make it look like more than it is.