Son of Comments of the 50th Beginning: The Astrology Table

If anyone was wondering, you can see the horoscopes of the characters in The Game below.

Planet	Character 1: White	Character 2: Purple	Character 3: Brown
Ascendant	Aquarius	Scorpio	Taurus
Sun	Leo	Sagittarius	Pisces
Moon	Gemini	Taurus	Gemini
Mercury	Cancer	Capricorn	Aquarius
Venus	Virgo	Capricorn	Aquarius
Mars	Gemini	Cancer	Sagittarius
Jupiter	Virgo	Virgo	Gemini
Saturn	Sagittarius	Scorpio	Leo

At least this was in the same file and most of it lines up with the story.  I may have tweaked something.  Let me pull out the manuscript and check their attributes.

But first, here are the color associations that I used for the story.

Element	Sign	Color
Fire	Aries	Yellow
Earth	Taurus	Brown
Air	Gemini	Silver
Water	Cancer	Green
Fire	Leo	Orange
Earth	Virgo	Dark Blue
Air	Libra	Grey
Water	Scorpio	Purple
Fire	Sagittarius	Red
Earth	Capricorn	Black
Air	Aquarius	White
Water	Pisces	Light Blue

Now, back to the characters and whether the table at the top of this post contains  the actual horoscopes used for the story.

The first roll was for the ascendant, and the colors match.  The second roll was for the sun sign, and it’s reasonable to shift orange to actual gold for Character 1’s Leo sun sign.  Leo would prefer the prestige of the bling.

For behavior, White looks affable, but is prouder than he looks.  Purple looks aloof and powerful, but has more of a need to be generous and helpful to others that most realize.  Brown looks placid, but his mind spins with possibilities.

The third roll was for the moon sign, which in the story determined eye color.  That fits.  White and Brown have a divided sort of outlook, which unsettles White a bit.  He will work to master it and develop a single worldview.  Brown’s mind is wandering enough that he doesn’t notice the division.  It just lets him think of more angles to see things from.  Purple’s outlook is a steady, calm search for achievement.

The fourth roll was for Mercury.  Cancer – Capricorn – Aquarius.    It would have been appropriate for that roll to change their voices, but their voices were set before the roll and are obviously either controlled by their ascendant or by an ascendant/sun sign mix.

So, instead of changing their physical voices, Mercury changes what they think about, and therefore might talk about more often.  In the story, that's home – success – and Brown dithers prettily.

The fifth roll is Venus. Venus is Virgo – Capricorn – Aquarius and it controls what the characters are drawn to, which shows in the story as a shift in things that they have in their homes.  White gains order, Purple gains an awareness of impressing others, and Brown gets a bit more chaotic, but in a deep and significant way.

The sixth roll is Mars.  Mars is Gemini – Cancer – Sagittarius.  Mars is energy and the urge to do.  It is represented in the story by their hands and what their hands feel pulled to do. 

The seventh roll is Jupiter, the Great Benefic.  This is what will come easily to the character.  They rolled Virgo, Virgo, and Gemini.  So order comes easily to White and Purple, though Purple, getting a strong wish to control her own life from the Scorpio and Capricorn influence, sees it as interference.  Brown gets a little flakier, but since it’s Jupiter, that’s going to work for him. 

The eighth roll is Saturn, the limiter.  If I had extended the story into the game world, Saturn would have provided the conflict, because it’s supposed to be the lesson that the characters need to learn.  Let’s see.  Saturn is Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Leo. 

I’d guess that White will have difficulty getting over himself and being generous and thoughtful to allies and friends.  If Brown’s having Leo troubles, either he needs to develop self assertion, or he’s having trouble with White, or both.  Since Scorpio is also her ascendant, I’m going to say that she has trouble with others seeing her as power-hungry and driven by ambition.  She may get depressed by their fear and distance, especially if White becomes self-absorbed and he and Brown start bickering. 

Not that I’m going to continue the story.  I have trouble completing stories, and this one is complete.  It ends where I planned it to end.  The speculation is just to show what a roll for Saturn could do.

I’ve gone on to write out a table for all of the planet/sign combinations, and how that might influence a character.  As mentioned in the previous post, it’s a table that I’ve lost and re-written more than once.  I may post it, but don’t expect it to match the story in more than a general way.