#fandom astrology

Me musing on potential stuff for his tropical astrology natal chart. These are just ideas I'm sharing because I'm excited bout this and curious to hear thoughts or other neat observations. Accidentally fell into a rabbit hole and did this four hours, it was just gonna be simple… oops.

Side note, My astrology knowledge is very novice, so please let me know if there's any cool stuff I missed or misinterpreted or obvious goofs. I will appreciate it! Also some of these are in obvious conflict but it's okay, it's just fun ideas. 💖

Silco

Silco is imo Leo/Virgo cusp Sun in the 2nd house - He is the performer and the strategist. The man likes being the centre of attention, he can be enigmatic, theatrical, knows how to present himself and is comfortable doing so, he enjoys being seen and recognised. He likes nice clothing that reflect his status he likes a trinket. On the flip side- he has high standards and expectations of others just as he sets for himself. He’s also meticulous, calculating with the capacity seperate his emotions from an issue in order to follow logic, utilising this to be ruthless. As a cusp placement there's a delicious duality and inner conflict here too, which I enjoy as it's a major motif for his character. I feel like there's probably some Saturn shit going on here too 10th house vibes, something about hard work, building everything slowly over time, dedicated brick by brick, hard won respect, the path to success paved in blood and suffering and sacrifice. You know, the usual Saturny shit, it just feels right for him. It’s a core part of his identity. (Even in the flashback scene when they’re relaxing in the bar the nerd is taking notes. He can’t chill this is his Virgo cusp/Saturn energy) - BONUS this dark Sun is also in delightful opposition to the spicy heat of Mars in his 8th house. His ambition is partly fuelled by inner conflict. He’s a bit volatile but he keeps most of his rage hidden. When he does lash out it’s usually with strategic rage, maybe a lil psychological warfare, (but sometimes he might just go ham, yell, spit a bit and kick the shit out of someone).

(Bonus option for his sun sign is what I've often seen people peg him as, a Scorpio sun. Sassy jerk, likes to be centre of attention, lashes out. This also tracks.)

So you have a blorbo. You want to gain arcane knowledge of the blorbo's deepest motivations. You want to look at their natal chart. You know in your heart that your blorbo is an earth mars and a fire sun and needs a really traumatic moon placement. It is law. It must be. So where is the chart. How do you find something plausible and suitable for your blorbo? I am gonna show you how to generate a real (here meaning 'possible according to the laws of physics') chart for your blorbo. Natal charts follow rules: planets move at certain rates, certain planets will always be within a few signs of the sun, etc. Fortunately, all this has happened before, and all of it will (eventually) happen again, so we can page through our little planetary history and find what we need.

Here is the tool we'll be using. It's from astro-seek, and it's called the Ephemeris search engine. It's free. It will allow us to page back and forward through planetary time to see what planets were where, when. What you're gonna do first is. You're gonna put in a year range. This is a date range for your blorbo's year of birth. I'll put 1915-1920. My blorbo is old. Or a vampire. Or he fights vampires. Who knows.

You are then gonna put in the planetary placements you KNOW you want your blorbo to have. You know it's true in your heart; let's make it true. I would suggest picking one or two personal planets to be married to to start. Outer placements (neptune, uranus, pluto) are generational placements and move slower (years-deacades). Personal planets (moon, sun, mercury, venus, mars) move the quickest (moon changes sign every 3 days). Saturn and jupiter are 1-3 year transits.

It may not be possible to get every placement you want in one chart, because the planets move at different speeds. (If you are not bound by a date range, this gets easier.) If you want pluto in scorpio in 1918, for instance, you're shit out of luck. Pluto takes 12-30 years to move through a sign, and in 1918 it was in Gemini. My blorbo will win almost every time in a war fight, and he will nurse a grudge in a words fight until it literally destroys him. Let's give him a Libra moon and a Capricorn mars.

I've also asked the tool for a stellium, which just means I'm asking for a chart with 3 or more personal planets/luminaries (sun/moon) in one house. This indicates that my blorbo has an intensity and that the stellium theme will come up again and again in many areas of my blorbo's life. It's a little spice. I think they're fun. I have one in my own natal chart and it's miserable. I have also decided to be mean and ask Ephemeris for a uranus or pluto aspect to my blorbo's moon. I am explicitly asking for conditions of trauma. I'm not gonna specify the exact aspect, because I don't know where all the outer planets were in this date range. It could give me trines (generally nice), or conjunctions (always interesting), or squares (the goal, generally not very nice). If you're going for trauma you might also ask it for chiron or saturn aspects. But we're getting advanced. Back to the blorbo. Click ok.

So. It's telling me my options for this incredibly historical blorbo are all charts during Capricorn/Sag season. I think my blorbo is more of an earth sun than a fire sun, so I'm gonna get rid of the November charts, which leaves me with 3 January charts. From here it gives me three charts cast for noon of that day. Ephemeris also casts the charts for Null Island, where the prime meridian and the equator cross off the West Coast of Africa. For our purposes we can change the time, but not the location. That is Advanced and requires literal hand-drawn math. I'm gonna look at all three charts and I'm gonna pick the one with the most red lines, because those are crunchy squares and we're trying to put heartache, obstacles, and trauma into my blorbo. This one has a grand trine AND two squares so I'm gonna pick that one. Nice.

Next, we're gonna go to the bottom: extended settings. I'm going to change it to whole house, and I'm going to click 'show me the ASC & MC' - this will show you your blorbo's ascendant/descendant line and their midheaven (important for fictional characters because it connotes work of a life, purpose, etc).

Now, we fuss. You can adjust the time backwards and forwards in increments of 10 minutes. This will change your blorbo's ascendant. This might also make some placements crunchier/better/worse as planets move a few degrees. Ascendant changes every two hours. This is why you generally need your exact birth time to get a good reading, unless your reader is specifically doing a rectification for you.

i was like...... i enjoy assigning my faves zodiac signs when they don’t already have them in their stats

and i went ‘hmmmmmmm sesshomaru. maybe.... aries. and scorpio moon?’ and then went to my fave sun/moon combinations resource and........

“Excitement and thrill are always a part of your life. You move ahead in the world because of great concentration and ambition. You love competition as a result. You are defiant and independent and at times this can be your undoing. Aggression is hard for you to restrain and you do not accept compromise well. Those who stand in your way get no sympathy and you have a drive for life that includes the entire spectrum of the spiritual, emotional and sensual. Mars rules both of these signs and according to mythology Mars also rules passion and war, so the result is an aggressive person. Regardless of what you do, fun generally involves a fight. This includes business, love and life itself. Doing something partway is not part of your character because you are an extremist in spirit and thought. The result when you fail is a complete tragedy and when you succeed a total victory. Advice should be listened to at times though, so the next time there is a disagreement, do not be so resistant and prepare for battle, but rather listen carefully. You might learn something. Others might have something helpful to say so compromise sometimes. You are very creative and have an enormous amount of willpower, but you cannot really succeed until you learn to work in cooperation with other people. Constructive and positive outlets need to be found for your aggression so they can be channeled for success. Your concentration is good and you have an excellent intellect. You want to dig deep with your pursuits and are not happy just to get superficial impressions. You have the power of self-rejuvenation as do all Moon in Scorpio people. You may get in trouble at times or even fail, but you always have the ability to bounce back. You are a courageous and freedom loving person. There is a pioneer inside you and great accomplishments are possible with your ambition and enthusiasm. Exploration of the world and seeking adventure when you are young are very likely. You can be very hard to control early in life though, so some professional training is a good idea. Great success later in life is attainable if you are guided properly.”

WHO DAT SOUND LIKE???? HUH????

this is from my fav resource (tao) that gives quicker summaries but a really good even more in-depth one is cafeastrology’s description cafeastrology.com / natal / sun_moon_blends_aries.html (w/o spaces)

So based on this post that had the same idea, I decided to try and make my own version of a Cuphead Zodiac. For this, I decided to choose two characters per sign. I think I was going for a sort of “Light/Dark” or “Good/Bad” sort of thing with one of the characters being antagonistic and the other not so much.

What do you guys think of these selections? Yes, I know some of them are the same as that other post, but that’s because I honestly agreed with those choices.

Aries - Cuphead / Chips Bettigan

Taurus - Cagney Carnation / Tipsy Troop

Gemini - Hilda Berg / Pip and Dot

Cancer - Baroness Von Bon Bon / Mr. Chimes

Leo - Sally Stageplay / Hopus Pocus

Virgo - Elder Kettle / Pirouletta

Libra - Grim Matchstick / Mr. Wheezy

Scorpio - Mugman / Devil

Sagittarius - Cala Maria / Phear Lap

Capricorn - Rumor Honeybottoms / King Dice

Aquarius - Phantom Express / Mangosteen

So very very very basically, in Astrology you’ve got the mid-circle of horizon and sky divided in 12 portions, assigned to some specific constellations you find in them. The relative position of the planets in that sky is what generates the “signs” - and most people know what is their Sun sign! But to truly take in account other aspects of yourself, basically all the planets (and some major asteroids lol) influence a different part of a person’s, well. Personality. Also, the Rising Sign is the constellation that was rising over the horizon at the moment of your birth so. 

The main ones to know (because I know this is A LOT)

Sun : The ego, who you are. Moon : The id, what is in your heart and subconscious Rising Sign : The superego, the public persona & the self you strive to be Mercury : Ideas & Communication Venus : Ways to express what it’s in your heart, affections Mars : Intense impulses like anger and sexuality

For example, you could say an individual like idk, let’s disregard canon birthdates because lol JKR, so. LET’S SAY Credence Barebone is a Pisces Sun (Hidden Depths, Spiritual/Mystical oriented, Empathic and Melancholic); with a Virgo Moon (Needs Structures, Issues with Control and Identity, Expresses Love Through Service); and a Scorpio Rising (Quite Private, Tries to “Read” People, Is Searching Something, “Nobody Hurts Me Unpunished”).

You know as well as I do that JKR doesn’t know beyond Sun signs, my homegirl Tina is SUCH A VIRGO. A badass, badass Virgo!

Jim Moriarty birth chart aesthetic↴