Pisces

The things you carry from your family are not always the things they meant to give you. Sometimes what gets passed down is the shape of their worry, the particular way they held their breath when the phone rang late, the careful distance they kept from their own hopes. You notice it most when someone around you is struggling and your first instinct is not to fix but to absorb, to make their difficulty somehow lighter by taking it into yourself. This is both the gift and the weight of what you inherited: the inability to stay separate when someone else is drowning, even when stepping back would serve you both better.