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Exploring Astrology Through Sailor Moon

hello my name is Christopher renstrom I'm the creator of ruling planet.com and Christopher runstrom astrology and this week I want to share with you a very special episode where we will be talking about the astrology of Sailor Moon before we do I wanted to ask you what was your first encounter with astrology where did you first come across astrology in your life was it someone asking you what your sign was was it pulling a book off the bookshelf of a bookstore and looking up your sign was it in a newspaper column or a fashion magazine perhaps it was a blog or some sort of social app but I want you to think about where you first encountered astrology I first encountered astrology when I was a little kid I remember that my mom was really into astrology but she wasn't into astrology in a sort of Hardcore sense she was just curious about it and she would bring home things like oh I remember an astrology coloring book and there was a gorgeous astrology jigsaw puzzle there was an astrology game with a dice that I couldn't make heads or tails of but then there was also this wonderful book and I think it was published in about 1967 so I'm dating myself here um it was called the coffee table book of astrology and I remember she would come home and she would plop the book down and start to make dinner for me and my brothers and she would be like while I'm making dinner why don't you go ahead and look up everybody's sign uh let's start with your father he's a Scorpio and so I would read aloud from the book and we would be like wow that fits or no that doesn't fit or we would laugh uously or get rather dramatically silent as we thought about what it really meant but these were wonderful times and it was a wonderful way to engage astrology many of us engage astrology for the first time through popular culture in fact popular culture is responsible for astrology still being around a lot of times we might think because astrology is this ancient art form this ancient science that one must go and study ancient sacred texts in order to understand astrology but no you don't have to and the reason for that is because astrology has never stopped being astrology yes there's an extraordinary library of ancient texts there was an astrological tradition where techniques and interpretations have been handed down through the centuries but that's not what caught the imagination of the Layman what caught the imagination of the Layman was seeing as astrological symbols on the ceilings of synagogues or on the edifices of churches astrology with its zodiacal symbolism was carried down through illuminated manuscripts through prayer books through decorative objects astrology was passed down uh through its almanacs and then eventually periodicals and 19th century women's magazines until in May its Great Leap into the popular culture especially here in America in the 20th century that's when astrology appeared in movie magazines it appeared in its own magazines that you could buy off the news stands it was syndicated in newspapers and it was available for anyone to go and read they could go and read their sunsh sign and look it up and and sort of laugh and say that has nothing to do with me or they'd be like oh this is really intriguing let me read about my husband one of the main reasons if not perhaps the main reason why astrology never became a fossil Science Why astrology never retreated Into Obscurity one famous example of this is Sailor Moon Sailor Moon was created by naoko Takeuchi and it was serialized in a monthly magazine in Japan that ran from December 28th 1991 until February 3rd 1997 Sailor Moon began as what is called a manga uh which is a sort of hybrid of a magazine and a comic book and it featured a young girl who was able to transform herself into a superheroine by the name of Sailor Moon that is how Sailor Moon began Sailor Moon became a very popular manga and eventually in anime which is a Japanese cartoon which was distributed throughout Asia and then it made its way to Europe South America America Canada Australia it it it spread out all over the place Sailor Moon became an extraordinary phenomenon so Sailor Moon was distributed through manga it was distributed through anime um there were musicals uh there was cosplay there were fans and then there was this extraordinary line of toys and merchandise Sailor Moon was originally targeted for oh let's say an audience of 13 to 18yearold girls but because the toys were so cute and they were so popular it was kind of repurposed for younger kids although the themes of the Sailor Moon manga are very very mature but as I said before Sailor Moon was more than just a story about a super heroin this is where a lot of 13 to 18-year-old girls got their first exposure to astrology each of the sailors who were schoolmates were able to channel through themselves the powers of each of the planets in astrology and it's this extraordinary marriage of eastern and western astrology that makes Tak uchi's Sailor Moon such an extraordinary phenomenon Sailor Moon Moon before she transforms herself into Sailor Moon is in reality a 14-year-old Japanese school girl she introduces herself as I'm usagi sukino I'm 14 years old and in my second year of Middle School my hobbies are eating sleeping and slacking off and I have to admit I'm kind of a crybaby now one can immediately recognize in just the opening description of usagi she's born under the zodiac sign of Cancer and this is what's so wonderful about the Manga she immediately is showing off all the cancerian characteristics she's asleep she's always hungry she's late for school she doesn't really want to go to school if she goes to school she actually shows up for school that is if she hasn't wandered off in search of something more interesting uh to do she's behind on her assignments when she gets hungry she wants to eat immediately so she usually has her lunch at about maybe 10: in the morning before lunchtime usagi is not exactly the role model of a superheroine what she is is a typical depiction of a Japanese school girl what's exported as the popular image are these kind of like you know study machines you know girls who cram their heads full of information and facts and really Excel but yagi is more along the lines of a typical uh school girl she's not particularly remarkable she's not particularly gifted or skillful or much interested in anything other than another bite to eat and going back to sleep if she can yet usagi's name is in itself a pun usagi means rabbit in Japanese and sukino means of the moon so that her whole name means rabbit of the Moon and what this references is an old Japanese folk tale one night the man on the moon came down to earth disguised as a beggar and He Came Upon a fox a monkey and a rabbit and he asked them for some food well the fox went right away to Brook and he fished out a fish and gave it to the man the monkey leapt up into the trees and gave him some fruit that it had collected the rabbit knowing that all it did was eat grass realized that a human being was not going to want to eat grass and in the fire that the man on the moon had begun to build the rabbit immediately threw itself into the fire in order to roast itself well the man on the moon was shocked by this rabbit throwing itself into the fire to roast itself to offer itself up as a meal to this man on the moon disguised as a begger and the man on the moon immediately you know reached Into the Fire and grabbed the rabbit out and it was burned and in pain and through the miracle of restoration the man on the moon was able to restore the rabbit to its prior form and so all refreshed and brought back to life and in all one piece again the man on the moon asked this rabbit why did you do such a thing and the rabbit explained to him well you don't eat grass and you needed something to eat so I knew that you would eat rabbit and the man on the moon so deeply impressed by the rabbit's self-sacrifice by its willingness to kill itself to roast itself in order to feed the man on the moon immediately decided to immortalize him to honor the rabbit's kindness the men on the moon took the rabbit back to the Moon to live with him forever now if you look at this picture of the full moon you can see the outline of the rabbit pounding Mochi on the moon Mochi is is a popular snack of mashed sticky rice that's been around for centuries in Japan originally used at religious ceremonies and as an offering to the gods Mochi is nowadays a typical snack one day late for school again yagi is rushing down the street to school and she steps on a black cat and the black cat immediately goes and and yagi is like oh no I'm sorry you know and she races off to school and she doesn't really think anything of it until that night that night she's asleep in her bed she's left her window open because it's a warm evening and the black cat reappears in the window and it has on its head a silver crescent moon and it's staring at usagi and usagi wakes up and she like sees the Black Cat and admires the Crescent Moon on its forehead and the black cat begins to talk to her now this is a manga so the idea of animals talking to people is nothing out of the ordinary it's rather typical but what this black cat communicates to usagi is basically I want you to take this bro and usagi is immediately like Oh What a Beautiful broch it's so gorgeous you know thank you and the black cat says well it's not just for you to wear it's for you to transform and usaki is like transform into what and the black cat says I want you to say moon power make up and usagi's like you've got to be kidding and the cat's like I want you to say Moon power make up so usagi's like all right moon power make up and immediately usagi is transformed into Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon as you see has long flowing blonde hair she has her hair buns done up to resemble a rabbit she carries a moon wand with a crescent moon at the top of it and she's dressed in a sort of transformed sailor outfit uh Japanese school girls wear sailor outfits typically for middle school and sailor Moon's uniform is basically transformed into this superh heroine outfit and she finds herself immediately transformed into this and she immediately goes off to fight a crime to rescue actually it's a schoolmate from an evil demon she hears the cries for help and she goes rushing off to rescue her schoolmate all of this automatically and without thinking now when usagi is Sailor Moon she's much more intelligent she's a lot quicker on the uptake she's very alert and ready to go and rescue schoolmate okay this is what she does and she goes to fight this demon that's trying to suck the life out of her schoolmate sailor moon is full of all sorts of demons or these entropic entities that are sucking the light or the energy out of people it's the opposite of light if you think about it and Sailor Moon isn't particularly gifted or she doesn't really know what to do and she kind of like waves the wand you know the demon throws things at her and she's like ouch she hasn't turned into Wonder Woman or something like this she's not trained for this and so her cat is with her to coach her and to tell her what to do and to take out the brooch I think she shines the brooch and the demon turns into nothingness and she's saved her friend and she transforms back into a soggy who's just like um you know completely bewildered did I just see what I saw did I just knew what I did and she turns to the cat and she's like what just happened cat and the cat says my name is Luna and usagi is like oh okay excuse me I'm sorry but but what just happened and Luna says you have a very important Mission and usagi's like I have a mission and Luna says you need to assemble your teammates so that you can find the princess and the key to finding the princess is the silver Crystal and Luna's like don't worry I'll be right here beside you the whole time and we will go find your teammates and Rescue the Princess and get the silver Crystal because that's what all of these evil villains are after n saki's like evil villains are after a silver Crystal I don't know if I could deal with this now what's fascinating about what's going on here is that the theme of the moon is always being introduced in new and different ways by the Creator takushi we know that the Moon is the queen of the night and that the Moon is associated to dreams and sleep and so what we have right here at this point is literally a sleeper agent usagi doesn't know this but she is a sleeper agent now the word Sleeper Agent comes from the idea of a sleeper and that could be someone asleep but a sleeper is also an unremarkable person that suddenly gains prominence so it could be like for instance a sleeper hit like this movie was made and no one knew that it was going to be a sleeper hit it comes as a great surprise the term Sleeper Agent is this idea that a spy is sent by one country into another country where the Spy lives a normal typical life but a sleeper agent was made Popular by the film made in the early 1960s called The Manchurian Candidate and The Manchurian Candidate if you have a chance to see is really really wonderful it stars Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury as the evil mother of the sleeper agent who I think is played by the British actor Lawrence Harvey Lawrence Harvey was one of a number of soldiers who were brainwashed in a foreign country and he's been given a a signal that if he ever sees I think it's the Queen of Diamonds he will suddenly remember that he has this mission to assassinate the president of the United States so it was this idea that there were spies who weren't aware that they were spies that there were foreign agents who weren't aware that they were foreign agents they were actually American soldiers who had been brainwashed and he's one and so if he ever sees the Queen of Spades that's when suddenly his eyes go into a fog and he picks up a rifle and tries to assassinate the president that's the plot of the movie and so what we see here is this idea of sleeper agents usagi sukino is is a typical 14-year-old girl but when she says moon power make up all of a sudden she remembers her Mission her mission is that she is a sailor Soldier she doesn't really know the origin of the background of this yet but she is a sailor Soldier and Mission her mission is to find her princess and the key to finding her princess is to locate the silver Crystal so this is something that usagi now knows she needs to do but isagi also knows that she's harboring inside of her an entity that is superpowered and that is greater than she is and so her Mission as it's just been imparted to all of us by Luna is to go and find the other sleeper agents in any case usagi is not the only one looking for the mystical silver Crystal there's the evil queen barel and her demons who are looking for this and there is also a fellow by the name of Tuxedo Mask Tuxedo Mask is a young superhero he was styled after Lupen the gentleman Thief who was a famous 1905 character famous for wooing ladies while stealing their jewelry at night so uh usagi of course being a 14-year-old girl falls in love with Tuxedo Mask on First Sight Tuxedo Mask is an archetype that you often find in Japanese manga targeted at teenage girls in the manga the teenage girl is always like 14 she's young she's innocent she's sweet she's very romantic and all she wants is a boyfriend she wants to fall in love and usually the teenage girl will fall in love with an older boy a few years older than herself who's more worldly who's more sophisticated there's a bit of a air of indifference to him and there's also a bit of a bad boy streak Tuxedo Mask being based on Lupen the gentleman Thief Lupen was famous for stealing into the bedrooms of women in the middle of the night to take their jewelry and the women you know even though they were being robbed didn't really seem to mind because it was lupan all right but with in the character of Tuxedo Mask you know he wears a tuxedo he's a gentleman and he's always chased in the way that he treats Sailor Moon so this is their first encounter they're both uh looking for the mystical silver Crystal tuxedo mask's name he has a regular name is mamaru Chiba and once again tokuchi uses the name to hint at the character underneath so mamaru Chiba comes from the Japanese Chiba mamaru which means protector of the Earthly place or protector of the Earthly plane and his powers are psychometry and healing powers that are associated to the Sun and indeed tuxedo mask's birthday is August 3rd he's Leo so psychometry is the ability to touch an object and to immediately read the energy of the object the you could read the history of the object who last touched it or if it's a possession that belongs to someone you can read that person's character their background their history you can even read that person's future fut or where they are it's the perfect talent to have for someone who's seeking a mystical silver Crystal because he can touch different crystals and he can tell for certain whether it's the real thing or whether it's a fake the silver crystal in Japanese its name is maosi no Gino and maosi no Ginsu show is translated as the Phantom silver Crystal maroshi can mean something that has no substance but looks like it does so maroshi stands for the idea of something that's elusory or ephemeral it's legendary it's mythical it's something that may be people made up but there's still something very compelling about it there's something that people I swear you know that it really exists now silver because it's the mystical silver Crystal silver is naturally associated with the moon it's the mineral it's the metal of the moon so what they are looking for is a crystal that is ephemeral it's elusory but it's silver it's Associated to the moon and this is its connection to Sailor Moon now just to return to this comic book panel really quick which is the first uh time that Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon meet he says my name is Tuxedo Mask Sailor Moon I'll remember that and of course he responds with he's just like lupan the gentleman Thief what I wanted to point out here is something which is really wonderful it's a terrific device that the manga uses because it's comic book form and so whenever someone refers to Sailor Moon what you will see down there in the word balloon is a crescent moon with a star above it so this is the symbol this is the sign of Sailor Moon it often appears when people call out Sailor Moon in the manga this is jxap POS with when usagi speaks her word balloons you'll see like little rabbits you know and and remember that usagi's name means rabbit so when she's usagi you always see like a little rabbit and when it's Sailor Moon you'll see this crescent moon and a star I know it's just a little detail and I'm probably being a bit of a geek about that but I just love how in the manga form you know you can read these symbols and this is what really makes reading the manga if you can read the Manga and it is available able in the United States in English it's a great Delight to go and read this because it's a story commenting on the story and it's really quite ingenious the way that she employs this device the next thing that I want to speak about very quickly here is declarations whenever Sailor Moon or any of the Sailor soldiers go into battle they declare who they are now this comes from a samurai tradition in Japan where honor in battle was expressed through announcing one's family name Andor lineage before engaging in fight okay so there was no subterfuge there was no trickery there was no fooling the enemy what you did is that you stood right there in front of your enemy and you declared who you are and one was expected in battle to conduct yourself like a legendary character or a legendary hero and this was popular in the Kamakura period which lasted from 1185 until 1333 so here we see Luna saying you will lead your team of four and together you will defeat the enemy you will find the mystical silver Crystal and the Moon Princess and you will keep them safe and Sailor Moon says you know moon power make up and after she transforms she usually will say something like I am the pretty Guardian who fights for love and Justice I am Sailor Moon and in the name of the Moon I'll punish you okay so this is the Declaration of who she is and her intent and the expectation is whatever villain or opponent that they're facing is going to respond with their background and their declaration and and after they do then they are then free to engage in battle now let me take a moment here to talk to you about Japanese astrology Japanese astrology in and of itself is a composite it's a composite of Indian Chinese and Ne East astrology that is helenistic astrology which has its origin in Iran so all of these astrology mixed together with Daoism to create a form of astrology that was practiced in Japan which is pretty much known as Japanese astrology now Japanese astrology was practiced by by a lineage of Buddhist astrologer monks that emerged in the late 10th Century Chinese astrology which has a very strong influence on Japanese astrology Chinese astrology is much older Chinese astrology appears in the late Zhao Dynasty between 1046 and 256 BCE that's when it appears and it becomes a mainstate it's practiced during that period of time there's a big difference between Chinese astrology and the astrology that we practice here in the west the astrology that we practice here in the west we have 12 Zodiac signs there along the ecliptic the Sun Passes in front of each one of these constellations that's how we know that we've gone from being in the season of Gemini into being in the season of cancer and the planets pass along that same ecliptic and that's basically the model for Western astrology Eastern astrology that's not the setup particularly in Chinese astrology let me say in Chinese astrology that is not the setup in Chinese astrology there is the North Pole the Big Dipper that's the point of reference and Chinese astrology uses the star groups and the constellations that circle around the North Pole and so from them is divided the sky and those Sky divisions descend around our globe so that there is a connection uh between life here on Earth and the poar the Big Dipper star the P star and so that was basically how the sky was set up in Chinese astrology now in Western astrology as the planets move through each one of the zodiac signs and again the zodiac signs do not appear in Chinese astrology at all but as a planet moves from sign to sign it will change its element like let's for instance uh say Mercury is in the zodiac sign of Gemini we know that mercury is in an air sign and so it's going to be particularly cerebral talkative and very interactive and social but when Mercury goes into cancer which is a water sign this is going to emphasize more of the water element in Mercury it's going to be much more emotional in terms of emotional intelligence there's a real emotional intelligence with Mercury in cancer because it's a water sign also Mercury and cancer has a very powerful interior life and a very powerful memory memory is associated to the Moon which is the planet that rules the zodiac sign of Cancer memory plays a very strong role with people who have mercury and cancer and people with mercur and cancer are pretty well known for if they're ever troubled by something falling asleep this is the famous planetary placement in cancer which is associated with water all of this is to illustrate as a planet moves from sign to sign in Western astrology it changes its Elemental makeup it changes its Elemental expression let's return back to Chinese astrology this is not what happens each of the planets in Chinese astrology symbolizes an element and that element never changes so the planet itself is the element so in Chinese astrology we have five elements as opposed to the four elements in Western astrology and two of these five elements have nothing to do with Western astrology so in Chinese astrology the planet Mercury is associated with the element water h uh the planet Mars is associated with the element of fire that makes sense we're able to go okay like Mars fire that that makes sense but Jupiter in Chinese astrology is associated with the element of wood okay we don't have an element of wood in Western astrology Venus is associated with metal the element metal we don't have an element for metal in Western astrology but in Chinese astrology they have metal Venus is associated with metal and finally Saturn Saturn is associated with the element of Earth now Mercury is a water star in Chinese astrology so in DST thought water is associated with intelligence wisdom flexibility softness and pliancy now the first sleeper agent that usagi discovers happens to be a schoolmate and her name is Ami mauno now Amy mauno doesn't really socialize much her IQ is 300 she's absolutely brilliant and what she does all day is take tests she wants to be a doctor one day just like her mother and she comes from a very well too family so there isn't really a lot of common ground for yagi or Ami mauno to meet and in fact they meet when Sailor Moon comes to Amy's rescue Amy mauno is having the life and intelligence sapped out of her by some sort of vampiric test CD disc or something like that anyway um in that moment when Amy is freaked out she's panicking Luna throws her a pen or something like that and Amy catches it and tells Amy to say Mercury power makeup and am's like Mercury power makeup and she transforms into Sailor Mercury so Sailor Mercury is the first sleeper agent that usagi discovers and of course she has incredible Brilliance and all sorts of other abilities as well and so this is the only one who's really a friend of usagi at school and it makes perfect sense when you think of the Moon and Mercury both Moon and Mercury were associated with the mind and both planets were associated to messages now in Western astrology we're used to Mercury being the herald of the Gods and so Mercury is named after the Roman God of communication the Roman god of the old and so we think of mercury in terms of messaging and communication now the best way to think of mercury in a modern context is as a text a text message okay your phone buzzes you look at the phone and you're like oh someone's calling me or someone's telling me this information right so this is mercury in a modern sense it's instant information that's communicated over a social media device you can see Mercury all of that this was Mercury's association with messaging and with the Mind messages that are recognized and read the moon was Associated to what we now call the unconscious mind the sleeping mind the mind at sleep and the reason the moon was Associated to messages in ancient astrology is the moon was Associated to dreams messages that come to you in your dreams so Mercury is connected to messages that are communicated directly to you and the Moon is connected to nighttime messages messages is of a dream and they involve symbolism and you trying to sort of decode or figure out what that message meant so this is really what connects the two of them to one another but what's also really interesting is the atmology of Ami mizuno's name Ami Mizuno comes from the Japanese Mizu Noami which means the water's second Beauty now we all know that mercury is a planet but Mercury is also a chemical element the chemical element mer Mercury is a shiny metallic liquid it's the only metal to exist in liquid form at room temperature unlike I don't know uh gold silver tin copper Etc its chemical symbol is HG and it's derived from the Greek word hydrum now that comes from The Words hydor which is water and argiros which is silver remember silver is connected to the Moon and the meaning of those words is liquid silver or quick silver something that's always been Associated to the speed and the acceleration of mercury and of course sailor Mercury's declaration is I am the pretty Guardian who fights for love and intelligence I am Sailor Mercury douse yourself in water and repent the next sailor guardian we meet is Ry Hino her name comes from the Japanese Hino r which means the spirit of fire she is not a classmate of usagi and Ami she is instead a Shinto Priestess which sounds really quite Noble but actually what it means is that she attends the uh Shinto Temple now Ray is attended by two crows their names are Phobos and deos because they're named after the moons of Mars so you can already see how tokuchi is introducing Sailor Mars just through these motifs now as I said before Ry is a Shinto Priestess it sounds very special well what's interesting is Takeuchi for a time was a Shinto Priestess which basically means that you cleaned up the Shinto Temple and maybe you would attend certain rituals like maybe a wedding ritual or something like that and wav some garlands or leaves or something like that she didn't really have much to say about it I mean she I think she was expecting something more occult more glamorous but Rey comes out of her experience as uh Shinto Temple Priestess now Shinto means the way of the Gods it's indigenous to Japan and it predates all historical records Shinto's many practices attitudes and institutions revolve around the Japanese land and seasons and their relation with human inhabitants so Rey is really the Sailor Guardian who's the most connected to Japan as a country and also to Japan as a nation Rey is a rather unemotional girl she's actually pretty soldierly meaning stoic in her manner she has a very Ry sense of humor and she can be very cutting in her exchanges but there's a very solid camaraderie that she has with the other girls she's very serious she has a six sense and what also makes her stand out from the other girls is that she doesn't get all girly when it comes to Boys in fact she finds boys annoying if not completely beneath her so Rey pretty much keeps her own company except when it comes to the Sailor Guardians she has an ability to read the future and her weapons are the Auda which are Shinto talismans which she can light with fire and she throws at the enemy it's kind of like hex bolts in a way so Rey really in her guise as Sailor Mars is more of a shaman than she is a soldier later on in the series she wields a fiery Arrow but early on she throws these talismans and she can basically cast spells against the enemies now when Ry Powers up into Sailor Mars her declaration is I am the pretty Guardian who fights for love and for passion I am Sailor Mars and in the name of Mars I'll chastise you now just a quick note here but there was an earlier version that appeared in the earlier manga where uh Rey's Declaration was I am the pretty Guardian who fights for love and for passion I am Sailor Mars and in my Chic high heels I chastise you I'm sorry I just love that one and I just had to share it with you now the next Guardian that we meet is Sailor Jupiter her name is Mako Kino and she is a transfer student now Mako immediately stands out from the other girls at the school she's much taller than the girls her age and she's built bigger than the other girls her age in fact she looks like a field hockey goalie all right and one of the first things that she does or how she meets usagi is usagi is Red by something and she's crossing the street she's not looking where she's going and Mako grabs her you know and and and rescues her in the last moment before being hit by a car and and what's fun about that is that you already see the protective nature of Jupiter coming through her that that she is the guardian of all the Guardians moo of course also brings her own lunch to school she's an expert chef and so this is her associate with Bounty and generosity um so when she transforms into Sailor Jupiter there's thunder and lightning and she appears in this wonderful white and green sailor uniform the green is there because of its association with the element of wood so we get the Western understanding of Jupiter by Makoto being the largest of all the girls Jupiter is the sky god of thunder and lightning so s of Jupiter will have thunder Powers so we get the Jupiter component of makodo in that she's larger than the other girls and Jupiter in Western astrology is a sky God so it's ass associated with thunder and lightning Sailor Jupiter indeed has Thunder Powers but makado Kino the atmology of the name makato Kino comes from the Japanese Kino makato which means the trees truth and this is where we start to get into the wood element that is connected to Jupiter the Japanese name for the planet Jupiter is makus which means wood star and as a result Sailor Jupiter has plant-based Powers lightning and thunder belong to Wood and Jupiter's sacred Tree in both Greek and Roman mythology is the oak now this is something that I find really interesting actually this is something that I find really exting um in Western astrology one of the key words for Jupiter is expansion okay it's not a word I'm really thrilled about because what does it say other than expanding Wast lines and associating that with Jupiter but but I think it's meant to denote the idea that uh expansion meaning making bigger making something bigger and maybe that has something to do with Jupiter being the largest the biggest planet in the solar system but what's fascinating is that when you bring in the element of wood being connected to Jupiter wood grows okay if you if you water a plant if you water a tree over a period of time it grows it gets larger it expands particularly a tree it begins to really sort of expand and take over territory so what I find fascinating about this is that perhaps the idea of expansion comes more from the idea of Jupiter being connected to the element of wood than it does just from being a big planet which is often the way that Jupiter is uh referred to in Western astrology when we go further with this into Daoism we discover that the attributes of the element of wood strength and flexibility so it's strength like an oak but flexibility like bamboo boo so it's wood that can be both strong and flexible moreover the attributes of wood in dosm are warmth generosity cooperation and idealism all attributes that we would immediately associate with Jupiter and so we've got the protective quality of Jupiter we have the largess of Jupiter we have the growth the association to things growing being connected to Jupiter so we have a laress which is also connected to generosity warmth cooperation and idealism and as you can imagine these are all qualities of Makoto Kino another thing that Makoto Kino does all the time is that she's always falling in and out of love just like Jupiter and she kind of like uh collects an assortment of boyfriends that you see in one episode and don't appear in another one and are quickly replaced by somebody else so so she has these jupiterian qualities of Falling In and Out of Love makato Kino's declaration when she transforms into Sailor Jupiter is I am the pretty Guardian who fights for love and for courage I am Sailor Jupiter I will fill you with regret that will leave you numb and finally we meet the last sailor Guardian who fills out the team tasked with the assignment of rescuing the princess and finding the mystical silver Crystal her name is minoo which is from the Japanese AO okushi Kumo which means loves beautiful child her name is Sailor Venus now unlike the other Guardians who discovered themselves by transforming from their mortal selves into their sailor Guardian selves Sailor Venus has been around for a while okay so she she's not discovering herself if anything Sailor Venus has been monitoring The Awakening of the different Guardians now unlike her fellow sailor Guardians Sailor Venus is already I don't know woke okay she she she's been in operation for a while she's very well known she's actually very famous as Sailor V and the girls know exactly who she is they've been following her exploits in the manga and because she's a real life superheroin they've also been following her exploits in the newspapers where she battles crime and punishes criminals she's also been making a lot of money Sailor Venus is very astute she has franchised herself she has her own comic book she has a super popular video game and she operates out of a control center with a cat uh she has a cat just like Sailor Moon does and her cat's name is Artemis and what they have been doing is that they have been monitoring the different Awakenings of the uh Sailors and now that all of the sailors have been awakened this is the time that Sailor Venus uh has chosen to introduce herself now to Uchi has a very interesting take on Sailor Venus in Western astrology Venus we know Venus as named after the Roman goddess of of love but in Sumerian cosmology Venus is named after the Sumerian goddess enana and enana is indeed the goddess of love but enana is also the goddess of war and there were two aspects of inana Venus as an evening star was seen as an omen of peace and love okay so Venus as an evening star is more the Venus that we understand which is the goddess of love and beauty the goddess of peace however Venus as a morning star that is she appears before the sun she appears Before Sunrise evening star is after Sunset Morning Star is Before Sunrise she was seen as as a goddess of war all right and this is how Takeuchi chooses to depict Sailor Venus all right so she is marshalling the forces she introduces herself to the other sailor Guardians and they get all Fang girly about it they're like oh Sailor V you know that's how they know it from the manga Sailor V you know oh my God you know you're Sailor V we're meeting you for the first time and so Sailor Venus is like yes yes yes you're meeting me for the first time we have to get to work right away I am the princess that you've been looking for okay and we need to find the mystical silver Crystal or uh before the evil villains do or we're all going to be in a lot of trouble and they're like oh uh all right princess wow we found the princess and usagi um is like yay we found the princess this is great you know like we got we can we can check this off the to-do list and so Sailor V is like yes I'm the princess that you're looking for and we're going to go into battle and you're going to take my direction and I'm going to lead you into battle with my weapon the Venus love me chain whip okay that that's my favorite thing okay she has this weapon called the Venus love me chain whip that she brings out and what you get there is like the chains of love you know like when you fall in love you're chained to someone and then you get the whip you know that sort of element of love you know as well so Venus is ready to lead them into battle with the Venus love me chain whip she is the princess that they've been looking for they're so excited and they're ready to bring it on you know they're ready to fight now Venus in this Marshall aspect is very much connected to the element of metal metal is associated to the planet Venus Venus is associated to the element of metal owsm and this is what takiuchi is working with now the attributes of metal are rigidity persistence strength and determination the metal person can be excessive and controlling as well as ambitious forceful and set in their ways as metal is very strong so this makes perfect sense that uh Sailor Venus uh sees her as the general she's leading the other sailor Guardians into battle and she has declared herself the princess she is the princess that they are all looking for however there remains still the problem of where is the mystical silver Crystal Sailor Venus has no idea where it is the other sailor Guardians have no idea where it is and the cats Luna and Artemis also have no idea where it is and so sailor Venus's idea is like well let's just go and fight crime and but until the villains and villainesses who are looking for the mystical silver Crystal show up and and and maybe they'll show us the way and they're like okay sounds like a plan and almost on Q uh Queen barel who is the queen of the dark kingdom appears she's been sending Knights out to fight every one of the Sailor Guardians she appears once more and sends her strongest Knight to fight them and there is this terrific very dramatic battle that takes place in the Skies over Tokyo and in this battle over the Skies of Tokyo the villain in the orb shoots out like a death ray or something like that and it's aimed right at Sailor Moon and she's kind of Frozen there in a moment and Tuxedo Mask throws himself in front of her and he takes the hit he is hit with the full force of this and he falls okay and he falls and Sailor Moon cries out and dimian and everyone's like huh who's emian that's Tuxedo Mask and she cries out emian Tuxedo Mask begins to fall then downward spiral through the sky and Sailor Moon rushes and catches him in the sky and in that instant an orb of light like a full moon appears around the Fallen Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon so that the other weapons cannot penetrate it at all and in that moment Sailor Moon uh is transformed yet again she loses her costume her hair extends into these long beautiful strands of blonde hair and she appears in this gown this gown by the way is based on the padium Gown which was designed by chrisan Dior and was the Rave it was all the talk in the 1992 Dior collection which takiuchi saw and was completely like oh my God this the most beautiful thing in the world I'm going to have my princess wear that gown so usagi is transformed into the princess and in that instant uh a crescent moon appears on us usagi's uh forehead and the symbol of Venus appears on the forehead of Sailor Venus and we discover that the princess is not Sailor Venus at all that the princess is usagi what's fascinating is how takiuchi combines the two lights of the night in ancient Skies the two brightest lights of the night were the moon which changed its appearance as it went through its lunar cycle and Venus when she would appear either as an evening star or a Morning Star what's happened here with the Guardians is that Sailor Venus without knowing it was herself a sleeper agent she had been set up as a decoy so that if the dark Forces came looking for the princess they would come looking for Sailor Venus Sailor Venus being associated to the element of metal of jewelry jewelry is metal and stones are set on metal but also weapons are made of metal so Sailor Venus in her in her you know Batcave her her her control center has been fighting crime and and has been acting as this kind of like decoy when Sailor Venus fights crime she wears a mask and Fa Sailor Moon is unmasked now if you were to look at them and it often happens when you're reading the manga they look the same both of them have blonde hair and both of them have long dresses but sailor Moon's hair is made up with the rabbit bunny ears and Sailor Venus just has long flowing hair and maybe a ribbon behind her hair they both have cats that are associated to the Moon Sailor Moon's cat is Luna and then sailor Venus's cat is emis and in the story line that takiuchi has shared with us they are they are themselves confused you know Sailor Moon doesn't think in a million years that she's the princess and Sailor Venus knows that she's the princess and so this is the turnaround this is the great reveal that happens in this battle in the Skies over Tokyo let's talk a little bit more about the Crescent Moon and star when the moon is out at night you can see the other planets in the sky if they are visible okay when the sun is out you can't see the other planets maybe you can see the moon but you can't see the other planets and this is really one of the most beautiful things that takiuchi does with Sailor Moon a big criticism in astrology is how patriarchal it is you know two two of the plan planets have feminine identities and the rest of the planets are male you know and in Western astrology it's the Sun that dominates the culture of astrology whereas in eastern astrology like Indian astrology and in Chinese astrology um it's the moon you also see the difference in the calendars in the west we have a solar calendar and in the East there is a lunar calendar and so what takiuchi has done here is that um she has replaced male superheroes with female superheroes but these aren't these female superheroes aren't guys dressed as women okay um you know they're not like Butch and they're not like kicking bud and they're not doing all these things what I love that takiuchi does is that they're girly okay these are Middle School girls and takiuchi does that on purpose she's not going to turn them into people that they aren't you know and what she also wants to bring out in the relationships of these sailor Soldiers with one another these s sailor Guardians with one another is their Sisterhood and their love and care and compassion for one another by basically making Sailor Moon the most girly of them all sailor Moon's heroics aren't defined by her great feats she has superpowers but her heroics aren't defined by her great feats her heroics are defined by her heart and by her love and by her compassion she always leads with her heart she always leads with love nurturing and compassion attributes that are associated with the moon um the moon and Venus are two sides of love with the moon you get a maternal love a motherly love uh nurturing the child okay uh family Hearth homean family almost kind of a trib love and the Moon in Western astrology is certainly Associated to Blood Ties but what you have is love and compassion sailor moons heroics aren't going to be overpowering someone else uh she actually goes through bouts where she you know is weakened or feels weak her heroics are always based on her heroic heart her deep love and her compassion so it's not so much these great challenges that she faces as it is predicaments or dilemmas uh which challenge love okay these are the things that sailor moon faces in the manga and this is in great contrast to Sailor Venus Sailor Venus as I just described is very Marshal and so she she's ready to struggle to beat to overwhelm to dominate the other thing that we don't really see in Sailor Moon is the presence of the sun the sun is always a shadowed or in the dark figure Tuxedo Mask is a Leo but you really only see him at night as Tuxedo Mask so the sun men aren't the dominant figures in Sailor Moon it's women and it's particularly girls and this was the appeal to girls who were reading the manga and so they're shown the two Night Lights they're shown the moon and Venus the crescent moon and the star and so these come together in the story of Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus so the crescent moon and star is a conjoined representation of the Crescent the moon and the star the planet and it was used in a variety of historical contexts it was a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire and that's where it became associated with Islam in the 14th century in contemporary times the crescent and the star appears on Flags ranging from turkey and Croatia to Singapore crescents and stars are a common feature however in Sumerian iconography the Crescent was usually associated with the moon God sin also known as Nana and the star was associated with Ishtar or inana whom we know as the planet Venus so the great reveal is that Sailor Venus is not the Princess Serenity usagi is but right now no one can talk to usagi because she has created an orb of light an orb of protection around her and Tuxedo Mask uh she is appearing as the princess with the long Tresses and this beautiful gown and she is crying she's actually screaming hysterically in the nighttime sky over Tokyo and she is screaming out not again not again not again in Demian in Demian not again and everyone's like what's going on here and indeed we all want to know what's going on here what's going on is that we're meeting another aspect of the Moon which is past lives the Moon is associated with memory in astrology and it's memory in our everyday life you know our ability to recollect something is associated to the Moon the Moon also rules over things like habit and cravings and needs and also our emotions so these are all collected with memory as well but the moon also rules over past life memories okay or the potential at least of being able to access past life memories because the moon in its endless cycle of becoming an Unbecoming of becoming a full moon and then a dark moon only to begin as a new moon and wax towards a full moon Moon again the moon carries our history it carries our history and our memories it carries our body history because it rules the body but also what uh takiuchi is using here is we're having a past life regression in real time or actually it's not really a past life regression we're having a past life realization in real time so what we're looking at here is that Tuxedo Mask is is The Reincarnation of emian and by Tuxedo Mask taking the hit and now lying unconscious dead or either dying that this has triggered usagi to transform herself into Princess Serenity at the same time Princess Serenity cries okay she's crying out but but she also sheds a tear and this tear is a silver Crystal okay we do a closeup in the manga on the tear and it reflects light like a silver Crystal W and what we realize is that not only is usagi Princess Serenity but Princess Serenity is herself the mystical silver Crystal that everyone has been looking for now the etymology of Serenity in the name Princess Serenity it comes from the Greek goddess of the moon Seline which when transliterated to jaese becomes a homophone for Serene and so that's the name Princess Serenity Now a millennia ago Princess Serenity was a 14 or 15-year-old girl the same age that usagi is now and she lived in a beautiful Crystal Palace on the face of the Moon and this was known as the Moon Kingdom and she lived there protected by her sailor Guardians and she lived there with her cat Luna and also her mother and this was a time of peace and this was a time of great Beauty Princess Serenity would go out for walks and she would look down on the earth and on the earth she aspired a beautiful handsome prince named Prince and Demian and he was the ruler of a kingdom and he was very Noble and he was very honorable and she fell in love with him she would sneak her way off the moon and she would come down to Earth and she would hide behind trees or maybe even walls and she would spy on Prince and Demian and she F felt this incredible love in her heart for Him and and Demian of course felt that someone was watching him that someone was looking at him but instead of being alarmed he was comforted he felt an inner Serenity and so he would also go out looking for her who was looking for him well they eventually find one another and they fall deeply in love and she gives her heart to him and he gives his heart to her and they have this heart Bond and they have this Soul Bond and they swear Eternal and undying love for one another now as you can imagine this love between Princess Serenity and emian was frowned upon and the reason it was frowned upon on is because the people of the Moon did not socialize with the people of the Earth the main reason for not socializing with the people of the earth is that they outlived them people of the Moon because of the mystical silver Crystal could live for centuries they could live for a millennium all right whereas people of Earth would die uh very quickly kind of like if you own a pet you know if you own like a cat or a dog you're used to outliving your dog or cat so that was basically the perspective here and so this was really frowned upon it was kind of taboo and Princess Serenity's mother is not really happy about it when she finds out and she forbids Princess Serenity to have anything to do with the Earthman Prince emian but the Sailor Guardians being entrusted to the guardianship of Princess Serenity and them themselves being 14 to 15year old girls you know Finding it all romantic you know of course like enable her you know they cover for her they not only cover for her with the queen but they actually even help her down to the Earth and they watch over her as she and and Demian you know spend time together they're kind of like lunar consorts uh to the princess and to uh emian what happens though is that Queen Barrel who is the leader of the dark Forces but she wasn't all the time she actually an Earthling just like indem she's full of jealousy that Princess Serenity has fallen in love with Indian and that Indian is in love with Princess Serenity the other problem with the uh mystical silver crystal is that it attracts Darkness the easy way of thinking of that is bugs being drawn to a bug Light drawn to the light and they zap okay so so this is the idea here that that dark Forces are attracted to the light but that also extends itself to the idea of the darkness inside people are drawn to the light and what they're drawn to particularly with the mystical silver crystal is jealousy and envy it's like you know I envy you that you have this beauty I envy you your immortality I envy you your uniqueness I want to have your light why should you have the light I want the light and this is the other reason why people of the Moon don't have anything to do with people of the earth they can't help but attract that Envy they can't help but attract that covetousness and it sort of drives people of the earth mad in a way and and and so what happens is that there is an attack or or whatever made on Princess Serenity and the Guardians come to her defense and there's this battle that takes place between the armies of the moon and the armies of the earth which emian is trying to stem he's trying to stop it you know he's like this is ridiculous we can learn so much from them and things about civilization and love and beauty and living together in harmony and people of Earth being people of Earth do nothing but covet and want and go to war and battle and Destroy and dominate and all these sorts of things and that's what they're doing here in this battle emian is killed Princess Serenity cries out in agony and in despair she can't believe that he'd been killed right in front of her eyes and and so the Sailor Guardians immediately come to her and they want to save her they want to take her back up to the moon but what she does instead is that she picks up end demian's sword and she drives the sword through her chest she drives the sword through her heart and she falls dead over Prince and demian's dead body and of course all hell breaks loose I mean the Earth armies can only do so much damage but as the Sailor Guardians go back up to the moon no sooner do they communicate that Princess Serenity is dead that the dark Forces that have been held at Bay around the Moon okay these are dark Celestial forces that have hungered for the mystical silver Crystal well once Princess Serenity is dead they attack the moon and so the Sailor Guardians put up a fight against them but they are vanquished they are defeated in battle and the Moon Kingdom is brought to ruin the the Moon Kingdom collapses and everything that was life and light and good about the Moon Kingdom is destroyed and what is left is only ruins now this story of Princess Serenity and emian is actually based on a Greek myth about Seline the goddess of the moon and emian now in some mids emian is a king and in some mids emian is a lowly Shepherd Seline is a goddess of the moon and she sort of like you know looks over the Crescent Moon down at the sleeping IND Demian and she falls in love with him and and Demian is related to Zeus so she goes to Zeus and she asks for his permission you know for the two of them to be lovers for the two of them to marry and Zeus says well he's a mortal and you're an immortal and that's that's going to be a problem and she's like well is there any way that you could sort of make him Immortal and he's like I can't really make him Immortal but what I can do is I can put him to sleep I can put him to sleep and in that sleep he will never age he will always be youthful and Seline Seline is completely enamored by this idea that she can visit in Demian in his sleep that and Dian basically goes into a coma that he will never awaken from and Seline can come and visit him in his sleep and in his dreams and she even says to Zeus this is wonderful you know because I can watch him sleeping and when he's sleeping he doesn't look distressed or worried when he's sleeping he looks peaceful and and he looks attractive and he looks luminescent and I like him asleep he doesn't say anything he doesn't talk and this is a wonderful thing and Seline finds this to be an absolute abolutely wonderful thing this is such a wonderful Arrangement between Seline the goddess of the moon and the sleeping emian that she comes and visits him in his sleep and winds up having 50 children by him okay that's how wonderful this Arrangement is okay so this is the Greek myth that uh takiuchi based the story of Princess Serenity and emian on so like emian in Greek mythology Mamon or Tuxedo Mask takes on this passive role with Sailor Moon and he's always sacrificing himself for her and it's this sacrifice that emian made a millennium ago that Tuxedo Mask repeats in this battle over the Skies of Tokyo it's this sacrifice that not only triggers uh the transformation into uh princess but it also reveals the presence of the mystical silver Crystal and this tear that rolls down the cheek of Princess Serenity enters into the body of Tuxedo Mask and it keeps him from dying it holds him in this limbo space until they can figure out how to rescue him so this lunar solar symbolism based on this Seline and Adian myth also Echoes the alchema concept of the OS gamos which is the marriage of sun and moon with the Divine wedding the Divine marriage and of course they uh rescue uh uh Tuxedo Mask and and they revive him and make him well again so that Maman and usagi can become boy and girlfriend okay they can't they can't become lovers or or or or man and wife because he's like 19 and she's 14 or 15 okay so they save Maman they save Tuxedo Mask so that they can become boyfriend and girlfriend which they become all right so everything seems like it's wonderful that they're getting together that all is well with the world they've defeated evil forces Queen Barrow and her dark kingdom they've defeated them and everything is all right and they can go back to their life as school girls in middle school and they're sitting in a playground and you know he's leaning over for a kiss and she's leaning over to kiss him back and their lips are about to meet when all of a sudden out of the sky falls chiusa um chiusa is a little girl with pink hair who looks a lot like usagi and she's fallen out of the sky and she lands on the two of them in this marvelous moment of interrupting a kiss I guess we call this kisses interruptus okay and she lands on both of them and they look up at her she is basically you know says give me the mystical silver Crystal and she actually has a gun with her and she's holding it at them and Chi USA maybe looks like she's seven or eight and they're kind of like taking a like who are you what's going on here and basically chiusa comes from musi and it means little bunny and that's her nickname and she is basically a mini me version of salor moon of usagi and so she falls down out of the sky and sort of lands on both of them and what I guess we would call kisses interruptus and chiusa is a girl of about maybe seven or eight and she has cotton candy pink hair and and and she looks at both of them and she pulls out a gun okay this like seven eighty old pulls out a gun and she says bring me the mystical silver Crystal and they're both like a gast well what becomes revealed eventually in another fantastic Twist by to Uchi is that chibi USA is their daughter okay chippy USA is tuxedo masks and usagi's daughter from the 30th Century okay and the Moon is associated to mothering and motherhood without having a daughter all right so so chibusa is introduced as the daughter here and she's on a mission she's on a mission to bring Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon Back to the 30th Century to rescue her mother Princess Serenity so now we're introduced into a Time Warp thing that's going on what's fabulous about this is that this then becomes a motherdaughter feud taguchi really gets into exploring the relationship between mother and daughter between usagi and chiusa but the catch here is usagi isn't the mother yet okay USAG is only 1415 she hasn't grown into a mature woman yet and so she's meeting her daughter from the 30th Century here when she hasn't even kissed uh Mamu chba yet and this is when the daughter shows up so it's a wonderful metaphor for how a child can interrupt and change the Dynamics of of of a relationship you know that a relationship uh changes when a child is introduced but what takushi also introduces here is an edible triangle it's this three-way triangle between mother uh father and daughter and chiusa is definitely playing the daughter card and she's a little girl you know and and she's in world that she doesn't understand and she's shown up here with a mission which was to bring the back to the 30th Century but she doesn't really know how to do that and obviously she needs room and board and and protection and things like that she doesn't have anything here in this world mamaro immediately feels a very protective feeling about her um he offers his apartment where she can stay in the guest room until they can find her parents because he he doesn't know what the mission is yet you know and usagi immediately starts getting jealous she's like why are you paying attention to this little brat because chiusa shouldn't be hanging out at a guy's apartment she should be home with her and she introduces she doesn't know how she's going to introduced chusu to her mother but immediately her mother is like oh look at who you brought home this little girl she's so sweet let's make her a member of the family so chibusa has this ability to make people accept that she's a part of their lives and to feel very familial towards her this effect really impacts people who are connected to usagi either usagi either by Family relations so she immediately becomes a member of the family accepted by sagi's brother father and mother um but also because mamaru is the father of her in the 30th Century he feels a natural fatherlinh.com chiusa and again it's this wonderful reflection of motherdaughter relationships but it's cast at a time before the mother becomes the mother and the daughter ever showed up because of a Time Warp so it's like you know how do you figure it out but it is so much fun to read you know and how she plays with it now what we also have here is the manifestation of the triple goddess all right we have chibusa as the new moon that's the child Moon we have Princess Serenity as the Full Moon the Moon in all of her Splendor at night and then we have Sailor Moon really we can equate Sailor Moon to the quarter moons okay to the first quarter moon and the last quarter moon a quarter moon is that midpoint between the new moon and the full moon and a quarter moon is either waxing gaining and light becoming more powerful or if it's a last quarter moon it's waning it's losing its love it's losing its power and this is something that we see a lot with Sailor Moon Sailor Moon has moments where she is waxing in light she's gaining light she's becoming more courageous and confident more powerful and then we have Sailor Moon when she sort of reverts to her usagi self which is waning losing light losing confidence not sure that she can take on this battle and she begins to even whine a lot so we kind of like have a waxing moon and a whining Moon and these are kind of both symbolized by or or embodied rather by Sailor Moon and so this is where we have the three-headed goddess hecky and we have the triple goddess of being the new moon the waxing waning moon and then of course the full moon now the other side of the equation here you know usagi sees chiusa as you know being a kid who's manipulating people and getting away with it chiusa although she's in the form of a little girl she is a little girl she looks exactly like a seven or an 8-year-old little girl chibusa is in reality because she's a Moon Princess Chi USA is in reality 800 years old right so even though she's acting the girl you know and she has a girl's temperament her Moon age I guess we say in Moon years uh chiusa is actually uh 800 years old and on the flip side of this ch USA has a great deal of anxiety and fear of failure her mother Princess Serenity is someone that she absolutely looks up to that she worships that she sees as Immaculate okay and that she has taken upon herself to travel back in time to meet her mother as a younger age when she was active as Sailor Moon and bring Sailor Moon Back to the Future Chi USA's plan but chiusa knows these things and she's always always plagued by Deep insecurity and anxiety and even anger there's a bit of anger with that as well so where to Uchi goes with this is the Dark Moon Lilith she introduces this in the black lady uh story line the black moon Lilith story line and we're going to now explore a different aspect of the Moon and also a different aspect of astrology driven by her sense of inadequacy uh chi USA is tempted to step over into the dark side okay she's traveling along some sort of space or time continuum and she's trying to maybe perform a rescue or something I forget exactly what it is but chiusa travels through a space-time Continuum and she gets lost she becomes vulnerable to The Temptations of dark Forces which surround the Moon and Tuxedo Mask has gone off in search of her you know he's dad so he's gone off in search of her she can't be alone and the other Guardians are involved in fighting some you know villain dour so chibusa gets lost she loses her way and she gets enticed by the dark Forces to become the black lady and so she's immediately transformed into a seductive chibusa okay so she's no longer the seven or eight-year-old looking girl she's you know seductive and has trim L and and and a bosom and she's she's ready to seduce okay and so this is how uh takiuchi introduces the Dark Moon Lilith storyline now if you're familiar with the Dark Moon Lilith she comes from an old Hebrew legend or folk tale that God created Adam and Eve and Eve tempts Adam with biting from Apple from the Tree of knowledge and Adam takes the bite as does Eve and God condemns them and sends them out of the garden and makes them mortal you know Eve will experience pain and child birth Earth and Adam will toil for the rest of their days and they go from being Immortal to to Mortal you know but this wasn't the first time that God created a female companion for Adam there was someone who came before Eve and the person who came before Eve was Lilith and Lilith was created as an equal to Adam and it was Lilith's understanding that we were equals in the Garden of Eden and so Adam gets Amorous with her and they make love and then they make love again and again but Lilith doesn't like the way that they're making love basically what it comes down to is Lilith isn't a bottom all right Lilith is a top okay and she's to tired of taking the uh submissive position in the love making and she leaves Eden okay she's like you know I've had it you know you're you're you're a lousy lover and I'm going to go out into the world that lives and exists outside of Eden and so she takes off and she leaves Eden and then in Jewish folklore she becomes associated with a demon okay with a demon entity now what's kind of fascinating here is you know when Adam and Eve eat of the fruit you know and they're exiled into the world they become mortal but Lilith never becomes mortal Lilith is Immortal all right and she's regarded as demonic uh the the reason she's regarded as demonic probably part of it is she's Immortal she's not a human um but the other reason that she's regarded as demonic is that she said no to Adam and uh by extension she said no to God all right and so she's demonized all right but there's another part to the story that goes along with that and this comes from German folklore it comes from the medieval period where there were a lot of Jews in what would later become Germany and in German folklore it borrows again from older Origins she's known as Lilith but she's also known as lutu okay and she is a demon goddess but the way that she is demonic and why she's associated with seduction is that she comes to men in their sleep all right uh when they're asleep at night and she extracts from them their seed now you can probably imagine what that means and what that is referring to okay so Lilith comes to men in the middle of their night in the middle of their dreams and she extracts their seed from them and she holds on to the semen and from that semen from that seed that is not properly inserted into the body of the wife but in this uh intervention uh that that that uh Lilith uh performs where she extracts the seed from men in their dreams and in the night she creates demon babies okay and the reason we know about these demon babies in Judaism it was said that these demon babies would appear at the funeral of the man who whose seed Lilith had extracted from his body when he died at his funeral these demon babies would appear at the body of the man in his dying moments and they would be like where is my papa where is my papa are you my papa you know and the man would be like oh no they would torment him in the last moments of his life with Papa you are my papa you know and there could be tens hundreds of who knows children looking for Dad okay so this was all wrapped up in the folklore of Lilith and some of the elements are borrowed to describe Dark Moon Lilith which is rebellious and refusing any sort of patriarchal subserviant and things along those lines what I hope you hear also is a dark mirror parallel version of Seline and emian where Seline GRE emian being put to sleep so he'll look beautiful forever and has 50 daughters by him she comes to him in his sleep a dark moon Lilith comes into the sleep of the man extracts the seed produces demon babies who are asking where Dad is at at the end of his life and tormenting him so we have this setup that takiuchi has created here so chibusa as Lilith uh chibusa seduces Tuxedo Mask okay and and the manga this doesn't appear in the anim which showed up in the United States of America uh the anim was kind of repurposed for a younger audience but the manga was heavily censored in the United States of America and parts of the anime were as well chiusa as dark moon Lilith seduces Tuxedo Mask and they kiss they kiss you know it's fullon father and daughter kiss going on here okay and which is really you know shocking okay and does she go there does Tui go there she goes there you know so she's going into the mythology of it she's going into the astrology of it and chibusa you know completely succeeds in her seduction of Tuxedo Mask so that he becomes kind of like a minion of hers and what eventually happens is that they discover this and they exorcise the Dark Moon Spirit out of chiusa chiusa reverts from Hooters chiusa to um to child chiusa a quick note is that you know in the picture of the Dark Moon Lilith shib Uso where you see her in her seductive outfit in true fashion this is based on an eal uh gown uh that aato was wearing for his ad opium which advertised his fragrance in the 1990s and chiusa is wearing Eon Lon uh this is what a fashionista Toki Uchi was she she she believed that um you know that the that that the villains and the villainesses uh the villainesses should be beautiful women and the villains should be incredibly sexy men and they should be dressed in hot Couture and Princess Serenity when she makes her transformation she's dressed in hot Couture you know and so here we see Dark Moon Lilith in her Eve song luron so they rescue chiusa and they break the spell that she holds over Tuxedo Mask who remembers nothing of it chibusa reverts back to her true form as a seven or eight-year-old girl now what's fascinating about this is that Sailor Moon is faced with having to make a decision she was Driven Crazy with envy and jealousy by the attention that Maman was showing chibusa and chibusa was working it all right and and seeing chibusa as the seductress and that Tuxedo Mask was under her spell and now they've reverted and everything is brought back to normal but what Sailor Moon what usagi also experienced during that time was there's an incident where she's driven to so much anger towards chiusa that she lifts her hand to strike her and then she's horrified she's horrified that I was so angry at this child at my daughter that I was ready to strike her and she you know that really kind of like changes things for her she she stops being so blind in her anger at USA but here chiusa is like standing there in a completely shameful moment I mean she's been reverted back to a child things have been made good again but everyone knows what happened except for Tuxedo Mask he was like under a spell okay so everyone knows what happened in this moment she's faced with a predicament what do you do do you pretend that nothing happened do you get angry and and and confront this child you know and and and your and your boyfriend who doesn't remember what happened but that's not good enough you know you still let it happen you know do you go into that mode and what's so beautiful about Sailor Moon and I think the reason why Sailor Moon has such a strong Universal appeal is that she she draws from her heart and she draws from her love she draws from her love for momon and she draws uh from her heart the love that she has for chiusa she knows that one day she's going to marry and make love to Maman and they're going to have a child and it's going to be chibusa but that's not where they're living right now that's not their reality right now but out of that imagination out of that ability to put herself in that place she expresses this extraordinary compassion and forgiveness she's the adult here but this has a very deep and dramatic impact on chiusa now will chiusa still have jealousy insecurity and anxiety yes but in this moment of forgiveness chiusa changes from being a manipulative little brat into someone who has conscience you know and who realizes that her actions have consequences that they have impact that they can hurt other people that they can also hurt her self and Chi USA really makes this kind of like silent vow to now follow in the footsteps of Sailor Moon to not envy her so much but to follow in the footsteps of her and perhaps to not exploit her advantage over saor Moon which is Sailor Moon is still an expression of an adolescent girl and chibusa knows better chiusa is visiting her mother as a teenager and she knows that her mother is really a beautiful great gracious woman and ruler and so chiusa changes in the way that she acts towards yusagi this is a beautiful moment and it's one that I think really resonated a lot with the teen girl audience and now at last we meet the modern planets this is the story line that follows the black lady we meet a Sailor Uranus and we meet sailor NEP but we don't meet them in the way that we expect to meet them we meet them in their civilian identities Sailor Neptune is a very famous concert violinist uh she's a child prodigy Sailor Uranus is a young man with blonde hair who drives race cars and is known for his championship racing this is how these two sailor Guardians make their first appearance so sailor Uranus's host name for lack of a better way of putting it because these sailor Guardians completely know who they are so they've taken on a human guise to interact in the human world Sailor Uranus's host name is peruka tenno that's from the Japanese tangoku hura where tangoku and O are merged into a single word read as tenno which means remote Sky King or remote Heaven King so this is Sailor Uranus and if you're familiar with the history of Uranus in astrology Uranus was the original God that got creation going in in into motion and he was overthrown by his son Saturn who castrated him and separated Heaven from Earth so with the Japanese working out to remote Sky King or remote Heaven King this makes a lot of sense uh for being the alius for Sailor Uranus in addition if you're familiar with the history of the planet Uranus the history of the planet Uranus in astrology Uranus in an astrological chart was often seen as representing homosexuality androgyny bisexuality the hermaphrodite gender fluid all these things were associated with the planet Uranus and what I want you to remember here is that sailor moon appears between 1992 and 1997 in Japan and Japan is a famously patriarch Society so for takiuchi to be working with gender fluidity in a teenagers manga in 1992 to 1997 Japan is really saying something so Sailor Uranus in their host body is male but when Sailor Uranus transforms into Sailor Uranus Sailor Uranus is clearly female this creates a lot of sexual bewilderment with usagi who doesn't doesn't really know if Sailor Uranus is male or female and at one point Sailor Uranus in his male host form steals a kiss from usagi he's just so dashing and just so sexy and so usagi confronts Sailor Uranus by saying are you a man or a woman and sailor Uranus's response is doesn't matter so this is the take that Sailor Moon as a franchise is taking about gender fluidity at this time the point that I want to make here is that the manga Sailor Moon created a presence for queer identity long before astrology itself did so Sailor Uranus brandishes a sword it's a scimitar which is a short and curved sword in the style of the Middle Eastern sword and Sailor Uranus possesses Powers associated with the wind and the sky as well as precognition sailor Neptune's host name is muru Kao and that is from the Japanese Umi muru where the Japanese character for UMI is read as Kai after the Japanese name for Neptune kosi which uses the same kanji Rising SE King kanji that was borrowed from the Chinese so sailor Neptune's powers are ocean-based they're sea based she can hit people with energy with the force of a wave or or a typhoon her weapons are the mirror and the violin the mirror is a reflecting weapon so that if some villain you know targets her with a death ray the death ray hits the mirror and it's reflected back at the villain and it takes them out and the violin she begins to play the violin and this is how she summons up the forces of the ocean and the waves and things like that and Sailor Neptune uh proves Beyond a doubt the power of a violin Sonata can be just as powerful as a typhoon so Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are lovers they're lesbian lovers and as you can imagine this was censored in the united states in the United States they were cousins but in Japan they were lovers which once again testifies to how Innovative the Sailor Moon manga was so sailor Uranus's declaration is under the protection of the wind planet of the outer solar system I am the guardian of the Skies Sailor Uranus and sailor Neptune's declaration is under the protection of the ocean planet also of the outer solar system I am Sailor Neptune which leaves one modern Planet left and that modern planet of course is Sailor Pluto sailor Pluto's host name is satsuna Mayu and that's from the Japanese Mayu satsuna which means and I love this momentary hell king or literally moment Hades sometimes I just love the way that these translate from the Japanese into the English in any case uh Sor Pluto is the third of the moderns and creates the modern Planet triangle sailor Pluto's element is darkness and Sailor Pluto has power over time and space the movement the manipulation of time and space now sailor Pluto's weapon is the garnet rod and the garnet Rod holds the garnet Stone which is her mystical Talisman now the garnet being associated with Sailor Pluto is due to an elaborate pun regarding her underworld based powers and mythology you see the Japanese name for Garnet is pomegranate Stone if you remember the Greek myth of prapan pomegranates were the food of the underworld so when the Sailor Guardians of the outer planets revealed themselves with sailor Pluto's declaration which is and under the protection of the underworld planet I am Sailor Pluto they declare we three are the guardians of the outer planets it's quite a dramatic moment when the Guardians of the three outer planets reveal themselves to the other sailor guardians but let me take a moment here to talk about the weapons of the Guardians of the outer planets these weapons are the orb the mirror and the sword the sword represents Valor the mirror represents wisdom and the orb the orb represents benevolence now these objects the sword mirror and orb were regarded as sacred objects which only the high priests and the emperor of Japan were allowed to see they were also used in Shinto ritual so these sacred objects that are used in Shinto ritual actually come from an old Japanese myth it's the story of the sun goddess amasu one day Amar tasu and her brother who was a storm God were visiting and being brother and sister they were having one of those sibling moments where amasu brother was really getting on her nerves and really annoying the hell out of her so amasu decided that she was going to leave the visit and she was going to retreat to a cave and disappear into the darkness of the cave and take all of the sunlight with her it's pretty much analogous to when a child getting upset at playing with another child in a sandbox decides that they're going to pick up their toys and go home so this is exactly what amatarasu decides to do she picks up her sunlight and she goes into a cave and she stays in there and of course with the sun goddess in a cave the entire world is plunged Into Darkness and so the other uh Gods and Goddesses are like what are we going to do you know life is going to stop existing no one's going to be able to sacrifice to us and we have to do something we have to get amasu back out of the cave and they turn to her brother and they're like go apologize to her or or something like that he's like no no you know she's a spoiled little goddess she can go sit in the cave if she wants to so so the gods and goddesses have to sort of think on their feet they have to come up with a plan and what they decide to do is that they're going to decorate the branches of the trees outside of the cave where amasu has retreated to they're going to hang on the branches almost like Christmas tree ornaments orbs okay they're going to hang these orbs on the on the branches and then what they're also going to do is that they're going to hold a mirror right there at the mouth of the cave right there at the entrance of the cave and so they've got everything set up and it's pitch dark and they they call into the cave and they say toasu tasu please please come back out you know we're sorry that you had bad words with your brother he was being a jerk come back out and and and share your light and your benevolence with the world and amasu isn't answering and they're like amasu amasu please please come out you know we're plunged Into Darkness and we miss you please please come back and she's like I'm not coming you can hear an echoing from the cave I'm not coming out of the cave until my mother apologizes to me and they're like please they turn to the storm God once again and say please please apologize he's could not apologizing to her you know she's such a spoiled Brad or whatever you know and they're like you know it's so infuriating so at this moment one of the goddesses you know thinking on her feet is like oh oh look look everyone and they're like she's like oh look there's another Sun Goddess yes another Sun Goddess yes there's another Sun Goddess I can see right over there and she's coming over to us hello hello I'm aasu and and so they begin to talk about this other amasu this other son goddess who has appeared and is bathing the world in Golden Light and warmth and isn't this a wonderful thing and oh we don't we don't need that old amasu in the cave who cares about her we have a more beautiful arar tasu point2 who shown up on the scene and Amar tasu down in the cave is like who is that other goddess you know and she starts to get disgruntled and annoyed and actually rather angry so amasu gets up out of the Dark of the cave and she comes to the entrance looking around for this other amatarasu you know that the gods and goddesses are are are celebrating and the goddess who thought of the idea is like sh to all the others you know and so she comes to the mouth of the cave and and there her Golden Light begins to be reflected in the orbs and all the orbs that have been hung on the branches of the tree because this was the plan of the Gods and the goddesses all along so she sees these sparkling shiny objects and then she comes to the mirror and she sees herself in all of her glory but she doesn't know that it's her and she's like there is another Sun Goddess that's out here how dare you you know and she sees this other sun goddess and she vows that she's going to stay and this will be the end of the other Su goddess and that's when the gods and goddesses take away the mirror and show that she was really looking at her own reflection all along now um am tuso could be a little bit of a spoiled goddess but she also has a greats sense of humor so she had a big belly laugh over the whole thing and so what the gods and goddesses do is that they give her the mirror as a gift and they unhook one of the orbs from the tree and they give her that as a gift and her brother finally relenting and finally deciding you know to apologize and to show that there are no hard feelings he gives her his sword as a gift to make up for having annoyed the hell out of Earth and caused this whole crisis to begin with and this is how the orb and the mirror and the sword became regarded as sacred items in the Shinto ritual of Japan now by carrying these sacred objects the orb the mirror and the sword Pluto Neptune and Uranus become the her Heralds of a new age they become the Heralds of the silver Millennium they are here to Mark the approach of the future and this is why they have come to earth or this is what they're telling the other sailor Guardians for now and finally we are introduced to the last sailor Guardian you might have been wondering where she was okay Sailor Saturn Sailor Saturn appears in the series as a girl just like the other original sailor Guardians she has no awareness no idea that she Harbors within her a Sailor Saturn entity and her name is hotaru Tomo that is from the Japanese suim Mo hotaru where sui is read as toe MO is not a Japanese word but rather uses the Chinese character for sprouting putu means Firefly which symbolizes the spirit of the Dead in Japanese folklore so what essentially her name means is the Firefly sprouting from the earth now fireflies were associated to passion and love in Japan but they were also Associated as being the altered forms of The Souls of the Dead particularly The Souls of military soldiers who were killed in battle so this Firefly sprouting from the Earth Earth gives Sailor Saturn this dominion over the realm of the dead now sailor Saturn's story as you might imagine is not a happy one in fact it plays in stark contrast to the story of Sailor Moon usagi is a typical school girl she slacks off in class she's always hungry she falls asleep you know and she has a happy home life and she has lots of friends and she's really happy and cheerful in her life Sailor Saturn or rather the unawakened Sailor Saturn housed in the body of Hutu Tomo her childhood is anything but happy it's actually a childhood of childhood abuse where usagi is loved and welcomed by her family who tau utomo is raised by a mad scientist father who while experimenting on his daughter there was an accidental fire and it scarred and burned her body terribly so that the father response to that was to turn her into a transhuman or basically a cyborg uh her T Tomo is made up of human parts and Android or mechanical parts and these operations were very painful her father driven by the Curiosity of science was relentless treated her daughter worse than a lab rabbit and as a result Hut Tomo um is reclusive she's very dark she's very depressed and she is in constant pain she's in chronic pain because the Android parts were not accepted by the human parts and so they themselves are in Conflict her human body is always rejecting the the mechanical parts that have been attached to it uh it's chiusa who becomes friends with her and and becomes a kind of Confidant to Hut Tomo and they have this friendship now during this period of time there's yet another attack from some sort of an entropy fueled dark force I think it's a pharaoh n or something like that that's that's ready to take over the world and so the modern planets come to the rescue of Earth you know and the Sailor Guardians combine their forces and Powers with the outer planet Guardians to try to defeat this this this dark being which is really quite apocalyptic I mean this is really the most overwhelming of all the enemies they have fought before and so they're blasting away and and things aren't looking good and in the midst of this battle sailor Sailor Moon is is apparently vanquished you know and and and they're like you know no this can't happen this can't be happening again you know and and this gets Sailor Mercury like well what do you mean can't be happening again what are you talking about and they're like we were more than just the Sailor Guardians to announce the Neo silver Millennium we were actually set up in place centuries ago after the fall of the Moon Kingdom and we were set up on the outer planets of the solar system to make sure that that nothing upset the the Moon Kingdom the the ruins of the Moon Kingdom and we were made aware of your presence with the uh reappearance of Sailor Moon and so you know Mercury is like oh okay you know and they continue with their their battle but what happens here is that with the falling of Sailor Moon The Battle Turns South okay it it is going against the combined force of the Sailor Guardians and things are looking things are looking horrible okay the it's not bad to worse it's like the this is looking like the end of the world and in that moment where everything is is is going down the pit okay this this dark force is really bringing destruction to all of the planet Earth in that moment po Tomo transforms into Sailor Saturn all right so Sailor Saturn appears as a little girl and uh her weapon is the glaive so the element uh for Sailor Saturn is the element of Earth uh because that is what has been distressed that is what is being destroyed is the Earth it's crying out in pain and she is carrying the glaive now the glaive is a type of Pole weapon with historical origins in Europe it is similar to other pole arms such as the warye and the Japanese Nagata which was wielded by the female samurai in premodern Japan so Sailor Saturn makes an appearance and when Sailor Saturn appears everyone stops okay and she is accompanied with a trail of fireflies behind her and she is holding this glaive she's actually appears in this almost kind of Straight Arrow vertical position as she comes out of the dark ma of where all this destruction is being waged Sailor Uranus is terrified absolutely terrified and Sailor Uranus Cries Out Sailor Saturn the guardian of Silence under the protection of the planet of ruined she's revived and the other sailor Guardians the ones who aren't the Guardians of the outer planets are completely bewildered they're like what do you mean under the protection of the planet of Ruin and Sailor Uranus turns to them and says okay we're going to come clean we're going to tell you the full story when the moon empire fell and when all of you died Sailor Saturn appeared on the moon and with one swing of her glaive she brought about about the complete and utter destruction of the Moon Empire you had all died there was no one to protect it and so Sailor Saturn being born under the planet of Ruin saw that this was ruin this was disaster and was basically pulling the plug on the moon Empire and so that that glaive is a side it represents death it represents the end of all things and this is why we were given our Guardian tasks we were meant to guard against her making a reappearance basically what we are standing here and witnessing is the end of your world and we have got to stop it and they're like but but how are we going to stop it and Sailor Uranus is like I don't know s Sailor Saturn is more powerful than all of us combined and so sailor s stands there hovering in space her hands on the GLA on on on the side looking at them and she says rather Riley once again it looks like I Am The Uninvited Guest and so the moderns immediately begin to you know power up all of their power and they're going to circle around and they're they're going to blast her out of the sky or at least try to blast her out of the sky and Sailor Saturn says the fact that that so many powerful entities have gathered here and that everything has started down the path to ruin was all determined by Fate now that I have awakened I must let fall my silence glaive and with that she takes a swipe with the glaive and in this illustration if you can see it there's a trail of fireflies that that follow this kind of delicate this very graceful swipe of the glaive and here she is signaling the end of the world now at this point Sailor Moon comes flying out of the Abyss okay everyone had assumed that she had died and she comes flying out of the Abyss to confront the forces of darkness and Sailor Saturn is like you know takes a moment and pauses and Sailor Moon looks at Sailor Saturn I mean she recognizes that she's a a sailor because she's dressed in the Sailor outfit Sailor Moon looks at sailor Saturn and she doesn't really know who she is she's never met her before but she recognizes that she's wearing a sailor suit and immediately Uranus is like kill her kill her you have to kill her and sailor Moon's like why why do I have to kill her and Sailor Uranus says she's the one who destroyed the Moon Kingdom she's the one who pulled the plug on everything and she's going to do that again and once again like before Sailor Moon draws upon her heart all right and she looks at Sailor Saturn and she sees a little girl a a girl who's younger than she is a girl who would be about chibiusa's age all right and she says to Sailor Saturn I don't know what you're here to do I don't know really what you represent but I want you to know that you are welcome that you are loved and Sailor Uranus is going crazy because well as you could imagine Uranus would be rather uh anxious in the presence of Sailor Saturn with good reason and Uranus is like kill her kill her kill her you know and sailor Moon's like no no I'm not going to kill her Sailor Saturn it's clear that you're coming from a place of pain and of hurt and I want you to know that you are loved that you are accepted by all of us that you have a place here in the Kingdom now and Sailor Saturn pauses say Saturn hesitates before making that last final gesture that would Mark the end of things and instead what Sailor Saturn does is Sailor Saturn looks at this dark entity I think its name is Pharaoh 9 or something like that it's Unleashed entropy and Sailor Saturn looks at this dark entity and sizes up the dark entity and the dark entity is like you know I'm dark and I'm going to swallow and eat everything and Sailor Saturn instead takes her glaive and she goes right for the dark entity and somehow she grabs almost the Scruff of the neck of this huge enormous dark entity and Sailor Pluto opens up a Gateway in time and space and Sailor Saturn takes this dark entity and flies through this portal of time and space and disappears on the other side of the portal and the portal is closed so essentially what we've just witnessed is that that instead of bringing about the destruction of the earth Sailor Saturn being moved by the please of Sailor Moon does something that all the other Sailors cannot do because she's clearly the most powerful sailor of them all and she takes it into another dimension where she will battle it for all eternity the difference that begins to Dawn on everyone the difference between what had happened before and what's happening now is that before Princess Serenity had killed herself in despair over the loss of Prince and Demian and now Sailor Moon uh has done the appeal that Princess Serenity wasn't able to do a millennia ago Sailor Moon can now do it and so by appealing to the darkness and the coldness of Saturn which really masquerades a great deal of pain and rejection Sailor Saturn makes in true true saturnian form the ultimate sacrifice and and and takes that dark being into another dimension where they will battle through the end of time and we know it's the end of time because this is Saturn and Saturn is the planet of time and in that moment that Saturn disappears into the portal Sailor Moon is transformed into Neo Queen Serenity and queen Serenity says with every ending there Comes A New Beginning of Hope and rebirth what's so brilliant about Taki uchi's familiarity with astrology is that she knows that the moon rules cancer and Saturn rules Capricorn and so that they sit opposite one another on the zodiacal wheel that cancer is associated to the season of Summer and abundance and that Saturn is associated to the season of winter which is darkness and scarcity Saturn in astrology repres resents the end of things and the Moon the Moon in astrology represents the reappearance of the Moon after having disappeared into the darkness of the balsamic Moon we have the balsamic Moon which is the last phase of the moon we have darkness and then we have a sliver of light that reappears signaling the beginning of a new lunation cycle and having paired these two in this moment that uh ends this story we have the finality of an end and then we have the beginning of a new cycle the beginning of something new what's really going to go on to become the beginning of the Neo silver Millennium and so Neo Queen Serenity appears out of the metamorphosis of Sailor Moon and she holds up the scepter of light you know which shines all over what was the darkened Earth and they call out Neo Queen serenity and queen Serenity's answer is the light is always there leading us guiding us like a brilliant Messiah and of course standing at Top This column Neo Queen Serenity brings about all the restoration of the Moon the Moon was always associated with restoration when you went to sleep you wake up in the morning feeling replenished and rest stored the moon was always associated with new growth Saturn was the clearing away of the Dead wood and the moon was the beginning of the new growth which is why the moon follows Saturn in this progression so Neo Queen Serenity's powers are are the miraculous power of restoration the miraculous power of Revival and the miraculous power of renewal I hope that you have enjoyed this Fusion of East and Western astrology and I hope that you remember that the Moonlight is a messenger of love if you enjoyed what you saw please press the like button it helps more than you know if you could subscribe that would be wonderful I've had such a wonderful time visiting with you this week and I can't wait to get together next time on Christopher renstrom astrology