#/ maybe someday i'll assign specific personality traits and stories surrounding the sun and moons

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➥ Sunjatti Astrology

The Sunjatti Zodiac doesn't much differ from, say, the Chinese Zodiac, though instead of the common twelve, they have thirteen repeating signs, each representing common personality traits and even granting certain buffs. It's a toss-up regarding who does and doesn't care about their birth sign, but mages almost always do, as the Zodiac, constellations, and moons all play into ritual and spacial magic (as well as divination & romantic compatability inquiries) to a degree.

The current year is 4E684, Year of the Hydra, and the yearly signs are as follows:

Red Wolf - Bestial Ice Sign, Sun

Gryphon - Aerial Beast Sign, Sun

Hydra - Spacial Ice Sign, Twin Moon

Widow - Necro Fire Sign, Twin Moon

Celare - Earthen Beast Sign, Sun

Newt - Earthen Fire Sign, Sun

Styxie - Aerial Fire Sign, Twin Moon

Siren - Necrotic Ice Sign, Twin Moon

Lixni - Bestial Ice Sign, Twin Moon

Seraph - Spacial Light Sign, Sun

Weasel - Earthen Beast Sign, Sun

Vixen - Bestial Fire Sign, Sun

Leech - Bestial Blood Sign, Twin Moon

Likewise, there are thirteen months and thirteen constellations a person could be born under within a Sunjatti year; Monthly names do not defer from the standard calander - the thirteenth month seems out of place for this reason. Each month is roughly 35-days long, running exactly five weeks instead of the typical four. Constellations, the moons' cycles, and other cosmic bodies and their placements are arguably far more important than the yearly zodiac signs, as they tend to have more of an effect on the circumstances of an individual's birth for...pretty clear reasons.

In years of the Hydra, draconic and divine constellations are more prominent, so it is more likely an individual will be born under certain stars and, perhaps, given a boon by the being represented by said stars. The constellations are as follows:

Worldeater - Dec. 23rd through Jan. 19th; Universal, draconic divine

Starstitcher - Jan. 20th through Feb. 17th; Spacial light, divine

Kingmaker - Feb. 18th through Mar. 16th; Light, magic divine

Face-Eater - Mar. 17th through April 20th; Bestial earth, beast divine

World Tree - April 21st through May 22nd; Earth, universal

Feywild - May 23rd through Sol 19th; Earthen light, non-divine

Voidsinger - Sol 20th through June 18th; Spacial light, divine

Hexbreaker - June 19th through July 20th; Spacial earth, divine

Bloodweaver - July 21st through Aug. 22nd; Blood, undead

Peacekeeper - Aug. 23rd through Sept. 25th; Earth, non-divine

Nullifier - Sept. 26th through Oct. 23rd; Null, non-magic & non-divine

Balemagus - Oct. 24th through Nov. 21st; Blood fire, non-divine

Silver-wing - Nov. 22nd through Dec. 22nd; Aerial beast, non-divine

As both the sun and moons are important to Sunjatti astrology as well, such should never be discounted when divining a person's past, present, and future.

Technically, Sunjatta has five moons, but the biggest and brightest - the moons one can actually see in the sky, day or night - have the greatest effect on Sunjatta and its functions as a planet. They are referred to as the Twins, or Twin Moons, but each have their own names and assigned meanings, with the moons representing femininity and womanhood and the sun (and stars) representing masculinity and manhood.

Petta - The second moon; Feminine energy, youth, space, romance, indecision

Arvati - The first moon; Feminine energy, age, ice, motherhood, decisiveness

T'sali - The sun; Masculine energy, middling, fire, warrior, neutrality

Alt'haiya - Lesser moon; Elfhen moon

Deluné - Lesser moon; Desert moon

Gôr - Lesser moon; Blood moon