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Dark Lilly · Post by **Dark Lilly** » May 24, 2005 4:58pm

Basic sunsign astrology you see in newspapers and magazines is superficial at best. But when you get deeper into it with rising signs, moon signs, ruling houses, planatary aspects and shuch, it really gets uncanny. I've not done enough work to do the predictive sutff, but I can get scary close with personality stuff. Still, it is not something to live and die by, but rather a guide to making choices.

Kyle Bloodheart · Post by **Kyle Bloodheart** » May 24, 2005 5:14pm

Can you tell us about some of the stuff you are talking about?

You seem to have done some research into the subject.

Dark Lilly · Post by **Dark Lilly** » May 24, 2005 5:38pm

Well, yeah. It sort of ties back to the blood type thing in a way.

Actualy, what I was thinking about was how often you see Tarot Cards, which are decidedly European in origin, in anime. They play heavily in Visions of Escaflowne in particular, but I've seen them in others ... most recently Sol Blanca.

Hmmm .... give examples of astrology here .... I may need to think about how to do that for a while. In the meantime take a look at http://www.astro.com/

Just click on the free stuff. You can get plenty info that way. There is no need to buy anything unless you really, really want to.

animegirl008 · Post by **animegirl008** » May 25, 2005 2:25pm

It is rather uncanny how someone can take a sign from the stars and bloodtypes and even the chinese zodiac and figure out there personality with marginal error, you have to figure in the human factor. i wonder how many years it took to perfect systems like that. anyways does anyone know for sure which of these systems started first?

Kyle Bloodheart · Post by **Kyle Bloodheart** » May 25, 2005 2:58pm

I would say both astrology, and the zodiac started around the same time, just in different parts of the world.

Dark Lilly · Post by **Dark Lilly** » May 25, 2005 5:16pm

Astrology is practly prehistoric and the Babylonians were quite good at it.

animegirl008 · Post by **animegirl008** » May 25, 2005 7:46pm

that's true. it really is incredible that something that old can still be used this day in time.

Dark Lilly · Post by **Dark Lilly** » May 25, 2005 9:57pm

It wasn't until after Gallelao's telescope that outer planets like Uranus and Pluto were discovered adding to the overall accuracy. A couple astroids have been added even more recently but I am not as familiar with how they work.

WhoWantsToKnow · Post by **WhoWantsToKnow** » May 25, 2005 11:30pm

It's an interesting thing to think about, definitely. Predestination has always been perhaps a subconscious pursuits of man.

And indeed, there are plenty of different devices in existence (still, it's interesting how things like the Tarot and Astrological alignment attracted the Japanese eye to the point that they were used in anime).

Another thing that comes to mind is I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes. It shoudn't perhaps be considered a device of divination, but it's still a very fascinating work of wisdom.

Dark Lilly · Post by **Dark Lilly** » May 26, 2005 8:19am

Actually, the I Ching is a collection of philosophy as well as a book of divination. I really like it. The traditional method involves throwing coins three times to determine a heads and tails pattern that eventually determines which passage you will read. I generally just flop the book open. The passages are designed to cause introspection that allows you to chose the most correct action. You can pretty much do the same ting with the Bible.

I don't know that I have run across the I Ching in anime, but there certainly are a lot of Christian themes, sometimes a little skewed. Wise Krauss comes to mind Cronos Crusade ...... Drat. there are a bunch more, but I'm drawing a blank.

OK, Who Wants To Know, wonder if we can come up with a list of anime involving divination or Christian Mythology. (Christians, don't get mad, I know Jesus isn't a myth.)

WhoWantsToKnow · Post by **WhoWantsToKnow** » May 26, 2005 10:06am

Well, Evangelion, of course. That one tended to draw on the apocrypha a good deal (the stuff that wasn't exactly according to the Scriptures).

Fullmetal Alchemist uses a number of Christian ideas cratively as part of its world.

My mind draws a blank for the most part, too. But then, it's trickier to find the connections. The Japanese are able to take the Christian ideas more philosophically because its presence in their home country isn't very strong compared to its majority presence and history in America.

animegirl008 · Post by **animegirl008** » May 26, 2005 12:12pm

i haven't seen chrono crusade personally yet, but i thought it was more catholic than christian. and if you don't take into account just christian religions but all of them, then a lot of anime have some hint of religion.

Kyle Bloodheart · Post by **Kyle Bloodheart** » May 26, 2005 4:02pm

One season of Rurouni Kenshin had some christian situations, and fanatics.

And, right about here is where my knowledge comes to an end.

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