Slow to start, impossible to stop once the weight is on its back.
Ox is the branch that holds the last quiet hour before dawn — the hour of preparation, when the work of the day is already being lined up before anyone else is awake. In a chart it reads as weight put to good use: you move slower than the room expects, and you finish what the quick ones abandon halfway. People experience this as reliability, sometimes read as stubbornness when it's really just patience with a very long memory. It shows up loudest wherever it sits in your four pillars — a year Ox carries it into your public reputation, a day Ox makes it your own temperament.