Subject: Hmm....
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Posted on: 2022-11-01 22:21:09 UTC
...I have now decided that Mina’s birthday is September 28, so she’s a Libra, and Carlisle’s is January 2, making him a Sagittarius.
Yeah, I had to look up the Zodiac.
—Ls
The idea just came to me after rereading the birthday interlude I wrote. Those of you who have established birthdays for your agents, feel free to share said birthdays and their associated zodiac signs in this thread; I'd love to imagine them in giant mascot suits representing their signs.
As for my agents: Kaguya and Urato were both born on June 21, the first day of Cancer. Momoka was born on September 22, last day of Virgo, while Inasuke's birthday is right after hers, making him a Libra. Hmm, maybe I should write an interlude about that.
I don't really give much weight to zodiacal signs when chosing my characters' birthdays, I tend to instead either hide references or simply go with whatever feels "right" to me.
Sergio, being born on October 27th, is a Scorpio. Which quite fits with his characterization, too, but it shouldn't be a surprise since he started off as my self insert and his characterization started off literally as Fictionalized Me (and thus shares my birthday, and yes I am said to really behave like a Scorpio),
Nikki, as she is a badfic clone of Sakura Kinomoto, shares the latter's birthday which is April 1st. As such, she's apparently an Aries, though she doesn't seem to share much in the way of that sign's associated traits, and her "template", Sakura, does even less! CLAMP surely chose April 1st with a different type of symbolism in mind.
Corolla is a bit of a peculiar case. Her birthday is (officially) May 25th, which is around the day I discovered the PPC. As an Unison Device from Lyrical Nanoha applying Earth-based astrology to her makes little sense. Still, she's a Gemini, and that sign still kinda fits with her.
Ami was born on December 28th, so she's a Capricorn. I felt that a birthday towards the end of the year fit with her, but she does seem to share some of the Capricorn's traits.
Keiko's birthday is just two weeks after her mother's, on April 13th, so she's also an Aries. I dare say it fits her better. Hajime shares her same birthday, being literally her alternate universe incarnation, but like Nikki doesn't really incarnate an Aries much. Their birthday is a reference to the day Mai Dire Fine, the fanfiction where it all started, began.
Kathleen was Aelit's self insert in Mai Dire Fine, so she shares his birthday which is July 31st. As such, she's a Leo which also kinda fits with her.
Faith's is on February 13th, chosen to be a rough inversion of Kathleen. That's Acquarius, which like Nikki is a complete miss in traits.
Fun fact: some of the bits associated with Sergio and Nikki are interesting. Their signs share the same ruler (Mars) and detriment (Venus), but their signs' element are kinda inverted between them. Sergio's sign, Scorpio, is a water sign and such associated to "emotion, empathy and sensitivity" while Nikki's, Aries, is a fire sign and such associated with "assertion, drive and willpower". Which, if you think about it, are kinda swapped between the two characters!
I did this with Nume. I decided he's a Scorpio, then set his birthday on November 10, 1950.
Gall is the very definition of a Leo, which would put her birthday sometime from July 23 to August 22. I haven't pinned it down.
Jenni has multiple birth dates, not all of which took place on Earth, but I usually make it the first day of spring or spring equinox. For instance, in the Purityworld deconstruction, it's March 20, 1960, which makes her a Pisces on the cusp of Aries.
Ilraen and Derik weren't born under a Terran sky, so our astrology isn't really applicable to them, but just for fun: Following the rule that partners should be opposites, Ilraen could be a Taurus and Derik could be an Aquarius, but I'm not convinced. I'm pretty sure Ilraen is not a Sagittarius, as amusing as that would be—but Derik might be! I dunno, I'd have to look into it more, and I'm all out of time for tonight.
~Neshomeh
With a date and a year, you bet we can!
Straightaway I can see that Scorpio is rammed (technical term). The Sun and Moon are sitting there together, and you've got Mercury and Venus crammed in too! The auto-chart calls it a triple conjunction, but I think I'd just say quadruple, and of the four innermost planets.
What that means is that those four planets will act on each other, and act together against external influences. The incredibly close Sun-Venus conjunction is going to be far and away the most dominant aspect of Nume's life: since the Sun represents the person themselves, Venus should make him friendly - even amorous - lucky, and generally nice to be around.
[Looks at Nume]
But, Venus is actually in detriment while in Scorpio. That means its effect is weakened - perhaps hidden? - behind the other aspects of the conjunction. The Moon is actually at fall in this sign, so its travelling/wandering aspects are also going to be weakened; Mercury, meanwhile, is happily imbuing all of this with changeability, a mercurial temperament.
I think the most coherent read of the conjunction is that Nume can be charming, or he can up sticks and run away at a moment's notice - but whether he does so is driven by his moods, and those are entirely unpredictable.
[Looks at Nume again]
Eh, it's closer than the first one.
The whole conjunction is at square with both Jupiter and, hilariously, Pluto. That puts both of those planets in positive tension with the conjunction: they will try to integrate it into some form of whole. In Jupiter's case, that means Nume will use humour to try and cope with that mess of a personality (can you tell I've now skimmed his Wiki page?), while Pluto would indicate... well, death, or transformation. I guess that could come out as a morbid sense of humour? Or maybe he's just changeable, so it's amplifying the mercurial nature.
Pluto and Jupiter are also in opposition to each other. The relationship between the two can be either confrotational or complementary - I think that means that Nume can either use his humour to help himself, or to bring others down. Which he does is down to him.
The other locus is around Mars and Uranus. They too are in opposition, with Mars exulted in Capricorn, and Uranus over in Cancer. That suggests Mars' strength and conflict is twanging with tension against Uranus' tech focus and "disruptive change". Yet again, this idea that Nume is a mercurial figure who can snap at a moment's notice is really strong. Mars is boosted by a square with Saturn, which is partly about stability but honestly mostly disasters. When things go wrong, Nume snaps.
One final mollifying feature: there's a trine between Uranus and the conjunction (especially Venus). A trine is beneficial, and indicates something easy, natural. Change comes easily to Nume, possibly (by way of the technology thing) with a bit of help. If he can lean into that, then the Venus aspects of his personality can come to the fore.
Or something like that. It's a very vivid chart, but it's not that easy to link what it shows back to Nume. "Changeable" is the concept I keep coming back to - this is the chart of someone who you can love or hate, fear or turn to for comfort, depending entirely on how he's feeling that day.
... I'm pretty sure that's how Jenni sees him, though.
(I should note I am not an astrologer, and firmly believe it's all nonsense. It can be fun nonsense though.)
hS
...I have now decided that Mina’s birthday is September 28, so she’s a Libra, and Carlisle’s is January 2, making him a Sagittarius.
Yeah, I had to look up the Zodiac.
—Ls
Rebecca Buch, hmmmm. I haven't given her a birthday yet, but why not May 25? It is a nerdy sort of day. She's a Gemini, but she thinks that horoscopes are probably a load of rubbish. Any supposedly Gemini-ish traits she has must be a coincidence, she swears.
Deirdre is not from anywhere that has the zodiac. She lives on Deveb V, which may possibly be a planet which exists in the real world, but is probably not habitable if it does exist. She was born on XIII Arctus, which is near the winter solstice, so Sagittarius, I think.
Boadicea probably doesn't have one because of the whole respawning after death thing, which makes it hard to calculate. Does the day she respawns on count as a birthday? I don't think it does. It would make things dreadfully hard to calculate. I think she is an adult, but she could be several thousand years old because of the respawning thing. I think this could be called pseudoimmortality. She probably doesn't look like she's several thousand years old, but she's definitely not young and pretty either, what with spending all of her life in Terraria fighting monsters.
Edit: fixed typos
The Cancer sign is ruled by the moon. Guya was conceived on tsukimi and is named after a folklore character from the moon as a result. So there ya go.
Zara is a Virgo, Doom is a Scorpio, Diamond and Thalia are Gemini, and Meg… is part of the Second Circle of demons. She doesn’t have a birthday.
