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Hello and welcome to a new series here on my Substack: the New Pinniped Zodiac (NPZ) Horoscope section.
𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼
Some Basics:
There has long been debate about whether or not astrology is “real.” The cool thing about the New Pinniped Zodiac is that it knows it’s made up, and this is in fact the whole point. The NPZ does not orient itself around the cosmos. It orients itself around our shared schedules, habits, and proclivities. This is why it begins at midnight on January 1st instead of on some astrologically significant date that does not fit conveniently into the modern calendar. The NPZ is about us - our structures, our metaphors and our categories. It is deliberately made up because we make it up. We are making it up right now, and that is the very source of its power. And just as some proponents of astrology may claim that the spiritual practice of astrology is more important than any particular reading you may receive, I believe that the spiritual practice of the NPZ, of seeing yourself as part of a living structure that you help construct, is more important than any particular insight the NPZ may offer.
New Terrain:
One concept in the NPZ that I am finding my footing with is the significance of a sign’s Latitudinal Mirror, Longitudinal Mirror, Complement, and Neighbors. Here is my current theory, which I may revise if another outshines it:
I think a person begins their NPZ journey as their primary sign, which grants a certain lens through which a person can think about themselves and their relationship to others. As we grow comfortable with the lens and insights that this primary sign provides, then we begin to explore other lenses. I see the complement maybe as your first shadow self, or perhaps as having a quality that you covet in others but don’t naturally see represented in yourself.
As of now, I see the order from your most to least relatable sign as:
Primary sign
Complement
Latitudinal Mirror and Longitudinal Mirror
Neighbors
Remaining slices
Perhaps there is some significant distinction between signs whose neighbors and lat/long mirrors overlap versus signs where this overlap does not occur. Thoughts? If you have a theory to share, lmk in the comments!
Ok, onto your questions.
.𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟..𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟..𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟..𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟..𓆝 𓆟
Q1: 4: Seal
I I am C0$MIC(cosmic) I am a seal (I think) I am 13, and my pronouns are she/her this may be a simple boring question but according to my NPZ what are the Chances that I will get a gf this year.
Signed ~ C0$MIC
A1: 🦭 🫧
Hello Cosmic! There is nothing simple or boring about this question. First off, as somebody twelve years older than you I must start by relaying some standard practical advice: you will find wonderful partners when the time is right, and it’s always important to move at your own pace.
Now onto the NPZ. Your question is itself very on-brand for a Seal. Seals are concerned with nature, with the mystical within the real, and with the lines we draw in the sand in order to make sense of our world. Just like the Seal, your question appears at first to be very practical and clear-cut, but upon further examination fractals into a beautiful truth that resists definition.
In a way, there is a finite answer to your question – let’s say the odds are 50/50 that you get a gf this year. The Seal advises you to have faith that things will, in general, work out. If you really want a gf and you’re really ready for a gf, there’s a good chance you get one. If not, you’ll learn, you’ll set a different goal, and that’ll be fine too.
But in another sense, you’re not actually asking the NPZ what your odds are. What you’re really asking for is assurance that you will achieve the milestones you want to achieve. And even though we may have every reason to believe that you will, one of the precious truths of the natural world is that it is impossible to perfectly predict the future. Nobody can know for sure when Cosmic gets a gf, or what happens next. Your choices play a significant role of course, but there is always an element of chance. There is always more truth than model.
Your complement (8: The Un-Seal) deals with this dilemma. She advises you to stay open to the unknowable truths and irreconcilable paradoxes, and to greet them with acceptance and amusement instead of dread and despair.
Your Lat. Mirror (1: The Dog) and Long. Mirror (5: The Woman) are both particularly concerned with gender, which is to say they deal with issues of identity in a particular cultural context. They advise you to take a serious interest in yourself and your own experience before you rush into a romantic relationship with another person. They also invite you to consider the specific pressures you may be under, socialized and perceived in the way that you are. Your remaining neighbor (3: Spirit - Ghost) advises you to look for small, manageable, material changes you may be able to make in your environment and daily life. How can you help create a better headspace for yourself? How might improvements in the physical world lead to improvements in the spiritual world, which might in turn make it easier to describe and achieve various goals?
Q2: 4: Seal
Hellooo writing in to get advice on a life thing! According to NPZ, I am a Seal (birthday June 27). The thing I need advice on concerns another person, so I’ll include their NPZ placement as well, which is Dog.
Me (he/they) and Dog (any pronouns) have been in this kind of limbo between platonic connection and romance for about a year (I know I know). It’s now to the point where we do all the romantic relationship type things but without any label on it :,) For me, that’s uncomfortable. I want to bring it up to them but I don’t want to say something and it mean then end of us talking altogether. To make things more complicated, they recently said something that was really hurtful and it’s making me second guess myself even more.
So, NPZ advisors, I ask you: Should I broach the subject or just stew in uncertainty :,)
Help please!! Your loyal column reader,
Xaine
A2: 🦭 🫧
Hello Xaine,
You are in fact a Seal (good work!) As we discussed in the last answer, the Seal deals with the natural world and our perfectly imperfect understanding of it. Your question has to do with proper categorization, so let’s think about the category “seal.”
We think seals are real. They exist. We see them out and about and say, “ah yes, there is a seal.” And yet, as with all manmade categories for real creatures, the borders are fuzzier than we may realize. A seal is kind of a living version of the classic grain vs. pile paradox. How many deviations from the platonic ideal of a seal exactly are allowed before a creature is no longer a seal? Is the platonic ideal of a seal itself even a seal, or do we actually expect some normal, natural variety in living things? At a certain point, a seal-like creature isn’t a seal anymore, but we can’t be sure exactly where that line is. The truth is, we all kind of know that our categories are made up. Even as our participation in collective sorting and identifying creates legitimacy, it also creates a lack of legitimacy. You’re allowed and even encouraged to pull this thread in the philosophy world, but the science world and the normal conversation world both still use the word “seal” because even though “seal” may not be purely definitively true, it is real. When push comes to shove, we both kind of know what “seal” means, and we both kind of know that seals are real.
Now we apply this same lens to your relationship with your companion. There is a meaningful relationship here. You both observe it and participate in it. People may see you two out and about and think to themselves, “a relationship is present here.” And yet, as you both have surely realized by now, relationship categories are made up. What’s more, you two are in a particularly difficult dating era, because you are trying to find your footing in the midst of a big cultural reckoning with feminism, romance, relationships, loneliness, emotional contamination anxieties, politics, psychology, and sexuality. This is a tough time to be young and to love somebody. Your Latitudinal Mirror and the primary sign of your companion (1: The Dog) is acutely aware of this tension, of relationship across difficult barriers, and of love in the context of cultural noise. Perhaps you are particularly sympathetic to the Dog in your life because you are alert to all this nonsense too. You are appropriately open to the idea that labels are made up and that one is not required in a meaningful companionship.
And yet, you are a Seal. You are living in reality, and you must work with what you have. The Seal advises you to honor your experience exactly as it is, without worrying about if it’s right or wrong, clear or complicated, or if it might cause you pain in the future. You said in your message that you are uncomfortable. You do not feel right about the relationship as it is. The Seal teaches us that you can’t predict the future, but you do have access to information about your own experience right now.
It seems clear that you want a name for your relationship. This is not an unfair request, and it doesn’t matter if it “should” be how you feel, because it is how you feel. Somebody who loves you and takes your experience seriously will care about what you want, even if it may not be exactly what they want. They will meet you in that conversation, and you will be able to proceed as a team with shared consideration for one another.
If this Dog companion cannot do that for you, they may not be ready for the relationship you are currently in, regardless of how you may or may not title it. That’s understandable, we are all on our own journeys. But if this is the case, then you should turn your attention towards your other relationships and other sources of joy and fulfillment in your life. It’s always fruitful to nurture non-romantic relationships, and it’s especially important in times of romantic unease.
Your complement (8: The Un-Seal) advises you to meet this situation, which cannot be fully articulated or perfectly solved, with acceptance and levity. Your Longitudinal Mirror (5: The Woman) urges you to consider your boundaries as an individual, even as you participate in countless collectives. Where do you end and another person begins? How can you tune out the external noise and turn towards your own narrative? What do you want in a relationship, and what are you not willing to accept? How can you set yourself up well, such that any romantic relationship you choose is chosen out of desire, and not out of anxiety? How can you communicate clearly and compassionately to your Dog companion, understanding that you are both learning important relationship skills in real time? Finally, your remaining neighbor (3: Spirit - ghost) reminds you to use your physical world to change your spiritual world. Pay attention to your habits, and try to find little changes you can make that improve your mental and spiritual health, happiness, and clarity.
Q3: 2: Mermaid
Hello!
My name is Eddie, my birthday is 27th of March, my pronouns are she/they and according to the NPZ, I am a Mermaid!
My question is what does my NPZ sign affect in terms of connection with other people? I would also like to know if there's a lucky charm connected to my sign!
Thank you so much for reading,
Eddie
A3: 🐚🫧
Hello Eddie, happy belated birthday!
I too am a Mermaid (or Naiad/Selkie, if you prefer). The Mermaid deals with duality, and with the corresponding impossibility of truly being split neatly into two. The Mermaid’s tension between her complexity and her parsed nature is both troubling and generative (itself another nuanced duality.) She is the mathematical soul of the NPZ.
Now onto the rest of your chart. Your complement (6: The Machine - or system, if you prefer) deals with the power of recursion, the miracles of generation, and the issues of scale and magnitude. Your Lat. Mirror (3: Spirit - Ghost) deals with issues of science and metaphysics and with the ways that our material environment affects our spiritual selves. Your Long. Mirror (7: Spirit - Angel) deals with issues of belief and morality and the ways that our spiritual selves affect our material environment.
Your neighbors (1: Dog) (3: Spirit - Ghost) are interesting counterweights to one another. They each deal with a person’s identity in a complex metaphysical context, and importantly neither of them are particularly concerned with moral purity or perfectionism. However, the Dog and the Ghost make sense of their environments and their social worlds through very different approaches. In a way, you are their middleground.
So now that we know what concepts we’re working with, let’s take another look at your question regarding how your NPZ placement affects your relationships with other people. As a Mermaid, you have a foot in each world, land and sea, here and there, home and away. This can be a useful asset in the social world. Ironically, embracing the vulnerability of feeling out of place is a great way to connect with other people.
As a parsed creature with an eye towards binaries, you should take care not to spend too much time sorting yourself or others into neat little categories. Because you are good at quickly spotting the two sides of every coin, you run the risk of looking for clean lines everywhere you go. It’s important for Mermaids to form bonds with companions who don’t see the world this way.
When you interact with a neighbor sign, a complement sign, a mirror sign, or anybody whose cognition feels familiar to you, challenge yourself to accept the ways in which their cognition is actually not familiar. Are there interesting pieces of your companions that you may be overlooking because you believe you have them “sorted?” When you interact with a sign that you have no clear relationship to, or anybody who feels very unfamiliar to you, challenge yourself to remain open to unexpected similarities. Is it possible that you have much more in common than you realize?
Lucky charm ideas for Mermaids: seashells, seaglass, switches, coins, lenses, prisms, scale (fish), and scale (balance).
Q 4: 1: Dog
This is a question to Penny: were you specifically chosen to guide us along the New Pinniped Zodiac path, or did you just happen upon it? What was the discovery process like?
-Beginnings, 02/02, he/him
A4: ⋆˚🐾˖°
Hello Beginnings! I believe I recognize you, you’ve been active in the WDPJ community as well. Nice to meet you here. I see you’ve included your birthday and sign (1: The Dog). Excellent sign, and particularly well-suited to raising questions about the legitimacy of my authority here.
So your question about the NPZ is, was I chosen as a vessel or did I just happen upon it? Or, is it the secret third thing which you have politely chosen not to ask: Did I make it all up?
“Chosen” is a strong word, but “happen upon it” isn’t quite right either. I also could not have made it all up if I wanted to - to claim that I did might even be a kind of plagiarism. The truth is somewhere in between. I think I would say, the New Pinniped Zodiac came to me through the mystical world of symbols in which we all participate. The various ideas which make up the NPZ are unified through its unique construction, much of which is intuitively coherent for reasons we may not know.
Some elements of the PNZ are very clear to me while others are still in the ether. These ideas only carry the weight that they do and function the way that they function because of the way they’ve all been used before, because of the life breathed into them by countless others. I pick them up and flip them around and try to fit them into a new structure which provides some new value. I discover a grammar as I follow it, I trust the process, and I remain genuine and curious. If I do a good job, I may be able to speak true things that resonate. If I fail, c'est la vie. Is it all real? Is it all made up? Are you really a dog? Well, I don’t know, are you really a human? Are you really a scientist or an atheist or white or a man? Who’s to say? Who’s to think? Who’s to know?
In other words, with (warm) regard to the NPZ, I’d say I looked for some of it, I decided upon some of it, and a good deal of it came together without my knowledge or effort, simply through the magic of the art network and the collective unconscious. I take an active interest in philosophy, aesthetics, metaphors, and meanings, and if you do that for long enough certain patterns will become familiar and you’ll become aware of a certain generative impulse to play a new game, or perhaps a new iteration of a very old game.
Now, I undoubtedly have the highest incentive out of all of us to play my own game and invest in my own bullshit, but everybody possesses the generative impulse towards philosophy and creation. Everybody has a mind. Everybody has a place in the network. Anybody can inspect the symbols for themselves. Any of you may discover meaningful connections, implications, and mechanisms within the NPZ that I haven’t even gotten to yet. It’s quite possible.
Before I discovered the NPZ, I discovered the Not-Seal (or the Un-Seal/The Creature). It wasn’t immediately clear to me that the Un-Seal and the Seal would be complements, but as I studied the structure my album was falling into and tried to fit the puzzle together, I came to understand that that was how it would need to be. They are perhaps the strangest complementary pair in the zodiac, because they are kind of siblings (The Creature is still a pinniped), but also symbolic opposites (The Creature might also be considered a Not-Pinniped). I don’t remember in what order the rest of the signs revealed themselves, but I know that I was the least confident about my name for the sixth sign (The Machine or The System, if you prefer) which is tough for me to pin down verbally. The sixth track on Water Dogs was also the last song to be named. Perhaps this sign is the toughest for me to speak about clearly because it is my complement.
I hope this has been an interesting window into the origin and process of the NPZ.
Q5: 1: Dog
Good afternoon,
I've been having a persistent identity crisis for the past six months. My god complex has been threatened by various adverse events, both sociological and spiritual. What's in store for me? When will it stop (or, alternatively, when will it change)? What should I do about my problem?
My birthday is February 8th, 2009, and my pronouns are he/him.
Warm regards,
Chester Pepperdine
A5: ⋆˚🐾˖°
Hello Chester Pepperdine,
What an interesting predicament you are in. While you have correctly identified yourself as a Dog, your problem as you describe it here is much more reminiscent of the twin Spirit signs, Ghost and Angel. The twin Spirit signs are my Lat. and Long. mirrors, which may explain why their themes are so natural to me. For you, they bear no relation to your primary sign, which may explain why this predicament is so distressing to you. Mermaid to Dog, an identity crisis is nothing to be afraid or ashamed of, and ambiguity can itself become an important part of your identity.
The way I think about the NPZ, I imagine a person beginning life on their primary sign’s slice of the zodiac, and then exploring the rest of the circle throughout their life, more or less according to comfortable geometric operations. So, maybe I began my life as a Mermaid and then had some formative experiences that caused me to consider my neighbors’ lenses, Dog and Spirit. Then maybe somewhere around high school or college I take an interest in my complement and I become wrapped up in the world of systems and machines. Maybe I struggle at some point with my mirror signs, the Spirits, and am defined by how I move through those periods of confusion and exploration.
The three signs which I have no convenient relationship to in the NPZ are (4: The Seal), (5: The Woman), and (8: The Un-Seal). One way to interpret my unfamiliarity with, for example, the Seal might be to say that I struggle to draw lines in the sand, to accept reality on its terms, and to say “good enough” to something I can’t know for sure. Of course the NPZ is a tool we must wield with compassion and intention, not a mandate to be followed obediently. That said, this interpretation is eerily close to my lived experience. As someone with OCD, one of my documented defining struggles is my inability to accept “good enough” in the face of anxiety and uncertainty. In other words, I struggle to call a seal a seal. Since addressing this vulnerability of mine head-on, without overwhelming shame or self-judgement, I have had the opportunity to make little changes in my behavior which add up to big changes, and my life has gotten exponentially better. Perhaps this is the role of our unfamiliar signs.
So here you are, a Dog, alienated from the twin Spirit signs on the Zodiac and from 6: The System, and you are having a spiritual-metaphysical identity crisis. You are struggling to make sense of your place within the systems in which you live. Would you be able to navigate this terrain more effectively, with more hope, if you could reframe this crisis as a very serious part of your story, and not just something in the way? If you understood this moment to be an incredibly valuable reckoning with powerful, unfamiliar beasts, could you show yourself more grace and get more out of it all?
Your primary sign (1: The Dog) advises you to practice humility, but not humiliation. A Dog has an innate understanding of social needs. It learns rules and mechanisms in order to participate meaningfully in its community, but it rejects cruelty and abuse. Your complement (5: The Woman) advises you to accept the unresolvable distance between your singular experience, and the stories other people may tell you about yourself. Your identity may not be articulable, but that does not make it less real.
Your Lat. Mirror (4: The Seal) advises you to accept reality on reality’s terms, and to appreciate the beautiful simplicity of “good enough.” Your Long. Mirror (8: The Un-Seal) advises you to welcome irreconcilable conflicts and paradoxes with amusement, and to accept the truths we cannot prove. Finally, your neighbors (8: The Un-Seal) (2: The Mermaid) offer you the balanced perspectives of the unintelligible world and the parsed world. They offer you the wild and beautiful fractals outbound and inbound. There are things you cannot know outside your mind, and there are things you cannot know inside your mind, and neither of those mysteries need to be a source of fear or shame. As you continue to go through this difficult period of growth, continue to enjoy the little things that make life pleasant and beautiful. The big things may not be under our control, so it’s important not to sacrifice the precious things that are.
Q6: 3:Spirit(ghost)
Hello! I was wondering what inspired you to pick out each symbol included (ex. Mermaid, machine, spirit(ghost) and spirit(angel).) I know zodiac signs have their elements, and the Chinese New Year has its animals, so what does each figure represent in your mind? Is there one you especially wanted to include?
- Glacierthe'Theorist
A6: .˳·˖✶𓆩𓁺𓆪✶˖·˳.
Hello Glacierthe'Theorist!
I covered some of this in my answer to question 4, but to add to that I guess I’d say that the NPZ wants to be a versatile, sleek system of archetypes which are relevant to our modern world. Each NPZ sign can be studied in a material way, a scientific way, a religious and/or spiritual way, a feminist way, and an aesthetic way. My goal in putting them down the way that I did wasn’t to conjure them out of thin air just for fun, but rather to intentionally nurture some of the defining symbols of our era.
As I mentioned in A4, the Seal and the Not-Seal were the first two signs that I knew belonged in the NPZ. The Seal belonged because of its perfect reality, its mathematically significant shape, and its cute/uncanny place between dog and fish. The Not-Seal is a perfect complement because it is so simple and yet so strange, and part of its strangeness is the strangeness of a Seal amplified through the extra scrutiny attracted by the Un-Seal. You might not notice how odd a normal Seal really is until you start trying to do nuanced conceptual backflips with the notion. The other signs came naturally enough. Each of them is derived to some degree from their corresponding track on the album, so the zodiac really is filtered through the art network and through unconscious proclivities towards certain numbers and orders. The whole thing is intentionally organic, grown and pruned to preserve some element of intuition without rendering the NPZ uninteresting or useless to anybody who isn’t familiar with my particular ideas and mannerisms.
Q7: 2: Mermaid
Dear NPZ,
Hello! For your reference, I use she/he pronouns, and I was born at 4:55pm on February 25th. I was delighted to see the latest post, particularly because it was diving into my sign: The Mermaid. It was lovely to read up on the lore, always a fun time! While reading that post, I also saw that you are accepting advice requests for the horoscope, and oh boy do I need advice.
My desires often lead me away from my family, particularly lately, and I am torn between the two. I would not like to actively sadden or hurt any of them, not really, but it seems that in order to live a life I can be happy with, I must do just that. The version of myself that is happiest is incompatible with the version of me that they can see as one of them, and I honestly would not especially mind simply making an Irish exit from them if it weren't for my current reliance on them for things such as housing and financial stability. Thus, I am at an uncomfortable impasse: I cannot be myself until I have gone off into the world successfully, yet I cannot stomach working towards a future of my own when I feel like I'm keeping myself in a box on a shelf just out of reach.
The Mermaid as a sign is between worlds, often out of place, irreconcilable; I believe this suits me far too well. How can one bear to disown themself to get by, even if only for a short time? I know someday if I can manage it I will be someplace that I can come into my own, but I do not know if I can stand not doing so in the meantime. The hardest step is waiting for the outcome, tolerating the in-between long enough to make it through to the other side.
What do I do if the rest of my life is behind one door, but it's locked, and the key is on the other side?
With love and too much sincerity for her own good,
Citrus Selkie
A7:🐚🫧
Hello Citrus Selkie,
Mermaid to Mermaid, I feel for you. By our nature, Mermaids are excellent at splitting things in half and bearing the weight of that split. One split creates two new wholes, which can then be split into more halves, which create more wholes, and so on and so on until the Mermaid feels paralyzed by indecision, living Zeno’s paradox in her own sorted body, afraid to take a step either towards or away from the sea.
A defining struggle for Mermaids is to learn how to worry less about each specific choice they make without giving up on the power of choice in general. Mermaids are so attuned to each split in a decision tree that they may forget to stand back and take a look at the tree itself. A Mermaid may spend hours, days, years on a wet rock in the sun, worrying about whether she should venture up onto land or dive into the sea. As she focuses on this one decision, she loses sight of infinite others:
Should I look up at the sky for a while instead?
Should I see a friend?
Should I take an interest in dendrology?
Should I attend the party I was invited to?
Should I do something different next time I’m in that situation?
Should I change the way I do my laundry?
Should I change the way I think through my problems?
As you stand at the precipice of what you consider to be the biggest and most important binary switch in your life, it’s important to stay aware of the countless other switches that are constantly available to you, some already taking place. If you turn your attention towards some of the little things you have more control over, you may be surprised to look up one day and find that the big bad problem from before has changed significantly, and the right path for you is no longer so scary or difficult to identify.
Your primary sign (2: The Mermaid) advises you to accept the impossibility of taking two paths at once, but to remain open to new possibilities. She reminds you that duality is itself a home, and that you are not failing your “true” identity by embracing the uncomfortable ambiguity of your current situation. It’s not like there is some obvious right answer and you’re failing to choose it - you are correctly identifying a situation with no obvious solution, and you are moving through it exactly as you should: with compassion for yourself and others, appropriate caution, careful consideration, and hope. Your complement (6: The System) reminds you that small actions can become powerful and generative through the magic of recursion. Little things build upon themselves to become big things, so don’t expect yourself to fix everything in one big perfect motion. She also urges you to turn towards community, and to consider support systems for you that may not be immediately apparent.
Your Lat. and Long. mirrors (3: Spirit - ghost) (7: Spirit - angel) advise you to consider the way your physical world impacts your spiritual world, and vice versa. A small change to one may free up new territory in the other, and soon you may have more room to breathe than you previously thought possible on your current side of the door. Your wet rock in the sun may become much more habitable, and you may get some more peace and clarity where you are. The Angel in particular cautions you against moral rigidity, for she knows that life is mess, and total purity is death.
Your neighbors (1: The Dog) (3: Spirit - ghost) advise you to take stock of your environment and look for practical opportunities for improvement. The Dog in particular urges you to pay attention to the information in your own body and in your own experience. How can you change your environment, so that you can change your mind, so that you can change your world, so that you can change your life? How can you meet this challenge as a part of your beautiful and complex life, rather than just something in the way? When you cannot know the future and you cannot solve all the problems, can you still show yourself compassion and change your world in a small way?
𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚𓇼🫧𓆉︎⋆。˚
Thank you all for your questions, and have a happy Spirit(Ghost) Season! And again, if you have something to add to this conversation about the NPZ, please comment your thoughts!
Bye!
Lovely first horoscopes!! I love the obvious intense symbolism and ideology behind this, and the numerous lens of analysis that can be applied to it!! I noticed lots of Penny’s music has some connection to mathematics, and I wanted to note some of the interesting math perspectives you could have on the NPZ as a math major :)
I think the decision to represent NPZ with a circle remind me of sinusoidal curves - if you choose to see you primary as the maxima of a sinusoidal curves, then your complement would be the same over an inverse, or reflected similar to the NPZ, and your mirrors sit on the horizon between positive and negative, and perhaps help you transition between the two states, while your neighbors exist in the same sign as you.
From a number theory perspective too, I find the choice of 8 interesting - the concept of perfect numbers is, in my opinion, a system of conception made by humans ( a perfect numbers is one in which the sum of its proper factors is equal to that number). 8 is not a perfect numbers, but rather deficient by 1, (8 has proper factors 1,2, and 4 and 1+2+4=7 , one off of 8). I see this as signifying how as useful as structures are, they will always fail at capturing the world.
As someone with a love of spiritual categorizations this is exactly my jam!!!! Please tell me you are going to do more horoscopes I loved listening to this while cleaning!
Love a spirit(Angel)