Fire leads and water is right behind it, which means you feel things at full strength and then act on them at full strength. There is not much gap between the two. People around you always know where they stand, because you are incapable of the polite version.
It makes you a good friend in a crisis and an exhausting one in a disagreement. You do not hold back for strategic reasons — holding back is simply not available to you when it matters.
What steadies a geyser is not a lid. It is somewhere for the pressure to go on purpose. Anything that lets you spend the heat deliberately — work you care about, a body doing something hard — makes the rest of your week easier on everyone, you included.