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[owarifool]

BEHOLD THE FOOL OF OWARI, THE GRAND UNIFIER OF JAPAN, THE DEMON KING OF THE SIXTH HEAVEN

i come to u all with a question!

so uh some lady who wanted me to pay for a "reading" back in that faerie place said my "star sign" was "cancer" the hell does that mean?

who goes around calling people cancers? thats super rude, right? so i was right that i didn't pay her, right?

seriously what gives?

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[owarifool]

okay yeah but

what kind of twisted shit is calling one of them cancer

like thats a real roundabout way of telling someone they suck

[sighsheavily]

Simply put: semantics. The term does not have a singular definition. In the case of astrology, the 'Cancer' you take offense to is not at all related to an umbrella of deteriorating diseases, but is instead the proper name of the constellation.

It's a sea creature. A crab.

[owarifool]

okay other ppl mentioned that and i gotta say the optics here are still pretty bad.

just call it a crab.

ppl know what crabs are.

[sighsheavily]

Considering how easily amended that lack of understanding is, I highly doubt those practicing astrology would go to such lengths. You may very well be in a small minority of persons who walk in not knowing such things.

[owarifool]

what r u, on her side or somethin? "small minority of persons" like hell i am! u sure are makin a lot of assumptions here about people who are literally from different worlds bro

[sighsheavily]

What about it is an assumption? The native population outnumbers the outworlders.

[owarifool]

and i didnt ask this question of the natives, did i?

[sighsheavily]

Indeed not, yet such context is part of the answer given to the question you asked in the first place.
A practice of astrology here bears a sea-creature symbol named "Cancer." And yes, while it does bear the same spelling and pronunciation as the disease, that is the name of it here, and has been for some time.
That you are offended by this is likely not the tipping point which will change this, considering it is simply the way it is for a majority of the people here.

[owarifool]

UUUUGH UR BEING BORING

look okay maybe she wasnt being rude but she WAS probably scamming me so i say im right by proxy. so there. can we please talk about something cooler now?

[sighsheavily]

[Cecelia squints at her phone for a few moments, then looks out the window like she's staring at a camera in The Office.]

As you wish.
It was your inquiry that prompted all of this, after all, so you are free to shift topic as you please.

[owarifool]

okay sort of the same topic but not about semantics; whats the astrology system where u come from?

[sighsheavily]

[after another delay:]

To water it down, there are two primary fields: One focuses on the documentation of history through the constellations, the other is related to divination.

[owarifool]

cool cool

which one do u care about more? talk about that one.

[sighsheavily]

They both have their merits and uses, but I do not excel in divination, so I can only admire it as more of an outsider.
Many cultures in the realm I come from have labeled the stars and written histories among them - a veritable library in the night sky. I find that admirable, for as the written and spoken word may change, the stars themselves seldom do.

[owarifool]

lmao tell me about it. to think of the japanese i spoke in my time and the modern japanese, hell modern conversation in general, is wild. but even if i was summoned two thousand years after my time had come and gone, i could still look up and be under the same sky.

[sighsheavily]

Or at least a discernable one.
The stars are in unfamiliar arrangements under this particular sky - at least in my own regard. Perhaps they sit properly for you.

[owarifool]

oh i dont really know, lmao. i mean i guess the navigational stars are still the same? i hadnt noticed if those were different, but i havent really needed them yet, either.

[sighsheavily]

Busy with more important affairs, I assume.

[owarifool]

nah i just havent needed them! we got like. maps on our phones here.

[sighsheavily]

Fair enough. Few tend to look up in general, I've found.

[owarifool]

but then that just makes stargazing feel more special. u do it because u want to, not because u have to. u do it because it stirs your passions.

[sighsheavily]

Does frequency dilute your passion for something?

[owarifool]

well do u find urself excited by stuff thats mundane?

[sighsheavily]

The things I have no care for, perhaps, but I rarely find the things I love dull, no matter how much I indulge in them.

[owarifool]

its not just about frequency. its just the frequency gets a lot more noticeable when u arent energized by it, u kno?