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[missfortunately]

I noticed a lot of people have been talking about personality tests lately, which are kind of like astrology and horoscopes! I love horoscopes, because they can tell you so much about yourself! It's amazing how accurate they are, and they can also help you with the future. I mean, nothing can really tell you about the future, but having your daily

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[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

In my whorl we practice several forms of divination, and though it depends upon the talent of the augur to read the omens we're given, the signs given by the gods always have some measure of truth in them.

I would be quite curious to know my horoscope, but the months differ in my whorl. I am curious, though-- on what are your predictions based?

[Voice]

[missfortunately]

Oh, astrology is based on the positions of the planets and stars--at least, how they are on my world. I guess having different planets and stars would make everything different.

What kind of signs do you use to make predictions?

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

There are a great many. The easiest is to use the prophetic nature of the Chrasmologic Writings; opening the Writings at random and choosing a passage will yield a deeper meaning that applies to one's situation. There are lots cast on Thelxday, sacred to Thelxiepeia, a goddess of magic and mysticism. I am an augur; the practice of augury actually refers to observing the flights of birds and making predictions based upon that. Hydromancy is not very common, but in Scylla's name it is possible-- that is, the use of water to foretell the future

[Voice]

[missfortunately]

Wow, that's incredible! That's very different from our world, though I know some civilizations used to make sacrifices and spoke to their gods and things like that. But I was never very good at history!

Yes, those are the stars. They don't move though; they just look like they do, because we're the ones that are moving! Where I come from, we live on a planet named Earth, which is, um, hard to explain, but planets are these big huge round things. I think for something to be a planet, it has to be spherical and have its own gravity, which means it has to be really huge.

But the planets are the ones that move; they go around and around this big star, so they can be in different positions depending on what time of year it is, which is how astrologers make predicitions.

... I'm sorry if that didn't make much sense. I've never had to explain that to anyone before. And don't worry about asking. I don't mind!

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

Wait-- by your planet, you mean your whorl? Or, you would say, your world?

Earth is a sphere? Like a ball?

[Voice]

[missfortunately]

Mm-hm, that's right! My world, or I suppose you would say whorl? Our world is a sphere, a really big one! So big that it feels like you're standing on flat ground, no matter where you are.

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

I-I...
Sorry. This... introduces a new perspective. I had assumed that this whorl-- which, I am told, is very like-- was only much larger than my own, and that the stars were only lights of distant skylands... but I gather that's not right. Amazing.

You live on the outside of the sphere? How is it that you don't fall off? I'm sorry, these must be children's questions to you, as I would have asked Maytera in the Paelestra why we didn't fall across the whorl and into the skylands.

[Voice]

[missfortunately]

The stars, if they're like the ones on my world, are just big spheres of gas that glow so brightly you can see them from far away. The other planets look a lot like stars too, because they're so far away, only a little different.

That's right. We don't fall off or anything because of gravity, which keeps us on the ground. I'm not exactly sure why we have the gravity we do, so you might want to ask someone who knows more than me. I've only taken a little bit of physics in school.

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

I see... I think. My whorl is cylindrical; it never occurred to me that any whorl wouldn't be. What about your sun? I'm told it was a short sun, like the one here?

I was thinking again about your horoscopes. We have twelve months in our calendar; I don't know how yours compares, but my birthday is in the ninth month. Does that help?

[ooc: orz, sorry about belated tagging D: got company last night. will be busyish this afternoon too so feel free to ignore me if you're not into backdating? ^^;;;;]

[Voice]

[missfortunately]

Cylindrical? I've never heard of a cylindrical world--whorl. Um, I'm not sure what a short sun is, but our sun is just a star that our planets orbit around.

I'm not sure if it works for people who don't have our planets, but the ninth month is September, which could make you a Virgo or a Libra! Were you born early in the month or later?

[[ooc; I have to bizzounce pretty soon here too, but I'll be back later tonight if you want to keep going? I really don't mind. :D;;]]

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

I suppose anything but what one is accustomed to seems outlandish. Our sun is a streak across the sky, from East to West; at night a shade falls across it, and the light falls on the skylands opposite us.

I was born on the twenty-second, so late September, I suppose.

[ooc: heh, i am fine with slow moving conversations <3 i just fav the page, hee!]