🦉: HEY TSUM-TSUMU!
🦊: WHAT?
🦉: Are you a Virgo or a Libra?
🦊: Why in the fuck would you think I was a damn Virgo?
🐦⬛: Oh no… you fucked up
🧽: Did you really just ask Atsumu if he was a Virgo, Kotaro? *shakes head*
🦉: *makes a sad face and tries to hide behind Kiyoomi* help me
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Beware of Myara's astrological ramblings below. This time about Emma.
I was wondering the other day that maybe we won't get a Cancer prince because Emma is a Cancer herself. Not that it makes total sense - I don't think there's anything preventing a prince from having the same Sun sign as her. It was just an idle thought.
Today I got a little curious about the astro chart of Ikemen Prince's release - the Japanese one. Although I could only find the date and not the hour, I assumed it was 10 am because they like to release stuff at 10 am, right?
Well, if the time is correct, then Emma is definitely a Cancer. A Mercury in Cancer. Retrograde. And Cazimi.
The protagonist of any chart is always the ruler of the Ascendant > Virgo Ascending, Mercury is the protagonist. Mercury in Cancer, already very nostalgic, looking back in its retrograde motion.
I wouldn't say Emma is someone attached to her past, but she is definitely the one who rescues the past of every single suitor. And in every single route, she had invariably rescued a man who couldn't remember his past. Rio - the dog who's always howling to the Moon - Emma.
(Cancer is ruled by Moon and is the keeper of memories)
But what caught my attention the most is the Cazimi.
Cazimi is a rare aspect for a chart, because the planet has to be exactly within a very VERY small range to the Sun to be Cazimi. A little less or a little more, and the planet gets combusted. Looking at it this way, it's a very delicate position to be as well.
The thing is, the Sun hides any planet that gets close to it. It's not a good place to be -- the planet gets consumed by its rays, it gets sunblind and lost. It can't see itself, it can't be seen by others.
But Cazimi is different. Cazimi is a word derived from an Arabic term that means "in the heart of the Sun". It's a little controversial position because, while it is said to purify, to enlighten and strengthen the planet that is within the heart of the Sun, many argue that the planet is still hidden by the sunlight and scorched by it.
Anyway, I just thought it was a poetic way to see Emma, the protagonist, standing in the heart of the Sun (remember Sun means royalty too).
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Notes on Demetri Volturi: a Tracker’s tale of Medieval Navigation and Astronomy
Demetri‘s gift works a lot like celestial navigation. This is what differentiates him from other trackers like James and Alastair, who had been hunters in their human lives.
If we are to understand in canon that a vampire’s abilities often manifest based on something from their human lives, than the way Demetri’s tracking ability manifests mirrors navigation.
In my own canon, Demetri was the son of a relatively rich merchant who traveled around the Mediterranean often. Demetri also had six older siblings.
While Demetri was fine enough at the sales and negotiation aspect, his three older brothers had possessed more of a proclivity towards business. His older sisters would have been preened into being perfect Byzantine wives in order to be married off to the sons of other merchants, or men who worked in other highly valued professions, or even marry into nobility.
This is where Demetri’s inadequacy complex begins to take hold. He was the youngest, his oldest brother practically ran the business alongside their dad as it were, and all but one of his sisters had been married off by the time he was in early teens.
However, Demetri did show a proclivity for navigation early on. An interest he had only began taking on because his sister, only two years older than him, was fascinated by astronomy, navigation, and the myths surrounding the stars and constellations. They began their studies together when Demetri was 10 and she was 12.
As he grew older, when Demetri wasn’t drinking and gambling, he threw himself into his studies with his sister. He was exceptional by his late teens and his father and brother began employing his skills in their work as merchants.
Demetri often felt that the only reason his father paid any attention to him was because of his talents. Demetri and his father often squabbled so he truly believed his talent for navigation was the only reason his father hadn’t kicked him out — a feeling not to dissimilar to what he felt when it came to Amun and later Aro.
All in all, Demetri’s gift works similarly to celestial navigation. To the untrained eyes, the stars look all the same, similar to how a person may be obscured by being in a crowd or by immense distance. To Demetri however, much like any good astronomer, he can tell the stars apart as soon as he looks at them — almost like a sixth sense.
The practice of astronomy, especially historically, relied heavily on the myths surrounding the stars to identify them — these stories flavored them, giving each star it’s own particular tenor. Is this concept ringing any bells?
In fact, there were a few times in which Demetri, while in a buzzed stupor, managed to draw out perfect maps for his father and brothers to use in their travels.
His father would often invite him along, especially when he noticed how focused having this purpose made Demetri — there was hope for him yet. It had only taken almost 27 damn years.
Despite this, Demetri, when not at sea, did still participate in some debauchery. Something about idle hands being the devils play things.
His last voyage as a human took him to Egypt. He’d been there a few times before. Whenever he envisioned the place, the hard, sharp, face of a man with a peculiar eye color came to focus in his mind.
He’d met this man in a night market after partying with his brothers — the closest he’d felt to them since his childhood, especially now that all of them had wives, and the two oldest had children. They often teased him over this, because Demetri had had a few women in his life and yet, remained single and childless.
The man had said he’d heard of him and his father, much to the surprise of his brothers. The man had wanted to test Demetri and so, he rolled out some paper and pulled some ink and a feather pen from inside the cloak he wore. He challenged our dear, intoxicated Demetri to draw up a navigation map for him. Currently, Demetri couldn’t recall where exactly the man had wanted to go, he was too drunk to think too deeply about it. Demetri even chatted and explained everything he was doing well while drawing up the a map as well.
Demetri smiled to himself, recalling the story. It was a point of pride for him. His brothers had wives and more of a claim to the family business sure, but he knew that their business wouldn’t be nearly as successful without him.
Smiling to himself, he sat back against the railing as the ship began to set sail for Egypt again.
The rest, as they say, is history. 
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