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Hello and welcome to the Astra diary for Aster Crosslie and her Astra, Libra! Please do not post here without Aster Crosslie's express permission.
This is Libra!

Name: Libra
Constellation: The Balance
D.O.B.: 9/23/2004
Gender: Female
Stage: Baby
Height: 1'6"
Eyes: Blank grey (blind)
Hair: Short and deep indigo, in three small pigtails
Special Features: Blue and purple jewels embedded in her skin, purple tattoos around her arms, and the ability to see auras
Personality: Sweet and open, Libra makes an excellent confidant. She is extremely tolerant of "different" people due to her own disability, and will go out of her way to be helpful at any cost. She does not let her blindness handicap her if she can help it, and remains upbeat and effervescent at all times. She is very creative, bright, and social, and she strives to treat others fairly.
Mate: N/A

Curiosity - 50%
Intelligence - 65%
Dexterity - 40%
Speed - 30%
Strength - 30%
Charm - 85%

Alignment - 70% (Good)

From Wikipedia. whee

Mythology

The constellation, which originally formed part of the scorpion's claws, is the youngest of the Zodiac and the only one not to represent a living being. In Greek mythology, the constellation depicts the scales held by Astraea (the Virgin), the goddess of justice.


Astrology

The astrological sign Libra (September 23 - October 22) is associated with the constellation.

In some cosmologies, Libra is associated with the classical element Air, and thus called an Air Sign (with Aquarius and Gemini). It is also one of the four cardinal signs (along with Aries, Cancer, and Capricorn). Its polar opposite is Aries. Each astrological sign is assigned a part of the body, viewed as the seat of its power. Libra rules the lower back and internal reproductive organs. The symbol for Libra is the Scales. Libran qualities include physical beauty, strong sensuality, artistic sensibilities, tact and diplomacy, and an innate sense of fairness and balance.

Libra, the Scales, can be found between Scorpius and Virgo, Libra is the age old symbol of justice, harmony and balance.

It is interesting that to the Italians, French, Germans, Anglo-Saxons, and Romans the constellation was the scales.

The early Greeks did not recognize Libra as the scales, but included it as the claws of the scorpion. Credit is usually given to the Romans for creating this constellation as a sign of the autumnal equinox. The constellation first appeared in the Julian calendar in 46 B.C. The constellation appears again in 43 B.C. in which a comet appeared during the same year as Caesar's assassination, the writing indicates the comet took his soul to heaven, this comet may very well be the same one seen in 531, 1106 and 1680; its next apparition will be 2255.

However, the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians and Syrians all had it on their planetspheres and called the constellation the 'weigh beam' or scale beam. The Arabs followed the greeks including it as part of the scorpions claws.

- The Mendels! My other favorite shop on Gaia.

Winged Pard Aviary - Kitties! With wings!

- Slip Seeming. My shop with Zahra Ovaci! Which is... mostly empty. Cause we just use it to play since we're both super busy/lazy. But please, come visit! ; ;

- Piffle Princess! My other job. I'm a colorist! biggrin Purrasha and Caneton are so sweet to put up with my flakyness.. ^^;; heart

- The Terra Pard Sanctuary. Mine and Zahra's main intro to Gaia. Ahh, good times, good times. It's mostly inactive now due to mine and Z's schedules, but hey, you never know!

Journal Entry 2: Shopping!


So, to decorate a nursery. Oh boy. It was something I'd never really considered doing before, for numerous reasons. One was obvious; Pirates aren't notoriously known for being attached to someone [aside from that whole mail order bride thing with Zari. that one is legally binding but if anything, it's more a way for us to share profits from our looting of others' bounties biggrin ]

Aside from that, I figured for the entirety of my piratey life, that well, the only time I'd be envolved with kids was if they were someone else's and I was corrupting the little buggers or murdering their school bullies. It's only proper for an auntie to do so, right? Right.

And now here I was decorating a nursery for my OWN kid. I wondered if somebody up there had something against the poor child...

Regardless, the kid was here, and unless I wanted to be known as the weirdo mom who made her infant sleep in a basket, she needed a room. As Allister so 'eloquently' put it. Damn him and his whole.. logic.. thing. He volunteered to babysit. Ti volunteered to go with me. I think mainly because he wanted to see what he could sneak in for himself. Which.. I'd let him get away with. Just this once. Sure. Mhm.

After several hours of oohing and ahhing and flailing over choices and arguing with Ti that NO, he could NOT get his own entertainment center for Bond movie nights and then stemming myself getting a few new shiny furniture pieces, we finally managed to pick out a fairly cute nursery set.

Inspired by Libra's cute purple skin [that and the pink or blue thing? totally, totally overrated], we settled on a nice purple and silver for the nursery. The crib was white, with a cute little purple stars and moons on the blanket in there. The walls were a lot of the same: moons, stars, little comets and planets in silver on this dusty light purple shade. Not too dark, yet not too light either to make it hard to sleep. We also got a chair in there for those 3 am crying fits and a dresser for all her things.

And Ti also got a few nice things for himself. Eh, he's a teenager, they're all supposed to be consumer whores. That and.. it was either buy it or have him find some way of getting it later behind my back. Still, it's a pretty room, even if it's sorta more for me and knowing Libra has a nice nursery and not so much for her, since the little dear can't see it. But it's the thought that counts right?