Libra

The questions you do not ask about the parent who is not here become their own kind of presence in the room. Your family has learned to speak around the gap, to make conversation that never quite lands on the obvious thing, and this careful choreography has its own grace. But there is something clean about naming what everyone already knows instead of protecting each other from it. The absence has a shape, and pretending it does not makes every gathering feel slightly staged. This week, someone will ask the question out loud, and the relief will surprise everyone.