Living a Life I Don't Know How to Live

I've wanted a new tattoo for awhile now. (Pretty much since I got the last one, which is standard for me.) I've been thinking for awhile that I want to get another constellation on my leg; for those who don't know, I have Canis Major on my right calf, starting close to the knee. I was thinking about getting Orion, but I've also had thoughts about a character who has Canis Major and Orion tattooed on her forearm; when another character asks her about it (she's a new werewolf and he's trying to decide if he will help her learn to control it or if he'll instead try to kill her), it becomes clear that she sees herself as the Hunting Hound, the weapon, and her brother is the Hunter, the one who points her and sends her to fight. (She and her siblings hunt monsters, but she and her brother are the oldest by quite a few years and are the closest because they've been taking care of the others for so long. Now that she is one of the monsters - quite literally, the hunting hound - things are changing.)

So writing ramble aside, I wasn't sure if I wanted to so exactly have the same tattoos I'm giving a character. Then I saw this poem that musesfool posted.

"The Astronomer and the Poet"

1. Why I stargaze

We share ninety-eight percent of our genetic code
with rats. Over half with grain. The stars, then,
must contain us somehow in their burning.

( rest of the poem )

I really, really like this part:

The stars, then,
must contain us somehow in their burning.

I think I want that tattooed on my leg, too, and a sky of constellations around it. So maybe I will get Orion. This year I've loved finding them together in the sky; it's easiest to find Orion's belt and then find my hound.

(Part of why I got Canis Major is that I do sometimes feel like the hunting hound, guided by a few specific people I trust. I could be a leader, but I don't really want to be one; I mostly lead when I don't think things are being done right, or enough is being done, or whatever, and it looks like if I don't do it no one will. Instead I'm the weapon that comes out when needed. I got it right before I went to law school because becoming a lawyer felt like another part of that; I am a tool for the client to use. I mean this in a really positive way, even if it doesn't sound like it.)