Meioh Setsuna - Astrology and Mythology
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| Setsuna and Her Sunsign Setsuna is a Scorpio (Scorpio - the Scorpion - eighth sign of the zodiac). To tell you the truth, Takeuchi Naoko confuses me here because Hotaru (Sailor Saturn) and Setsuna got the wrong zodiac signs; let me try to explain that below. First off, you probably know that the Inner and Outer Senshi are named after the ruling planet of their zodiac sign; for example, Makoto is a Sagittarius, Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, and Makoto is Sailor Jupiter. What you need to know then is that the sign of Scorpio is ruled by the planet Pluto while Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. With that said, Hotaru (Sailor Saturn) is a Capricorn, not a Scorpio, but her powers of revolution, death, and rebirth are all VERY much traits characteristic to Scorpio and Pluto; even her change from a twelve-year-old to a baby in Sailormoon Super and then her rapid changes of age in SailorStars are perfect examples of Scorpio/Pluto qualities of rebirth, regeneration, and massive change. Hotaru is not at all like the Capricorn she is supposed to be. As for Setsuna, her powers related to time and her role as the Guardian of Time is a Capricorn thing, not a Scorpio thing, since the zodiac sign of Capricorn is ruled by Cronus, Greek god of time (Saturn is Cronus's Roman name). Also, Capricorn is associated with solitude and solitary living, and while Hotaru certainly has had her share of friendless and solitary living, Setsuna's lonely life guarding the Time Gate for centuries on end is more Capricorn than Hotaru's life is. In other words, when Sailor Pluto/Setsuna first appeared at the Time Gate in Sailormoon Romance, she should have been called Sailor Saturn instead and she should have had Capricorn as her zodiac sign; and when Saturn/Hotaru appeared as the Senshi of death and destruction and rebirth in Sailormoon Super, she really should have been called Sailor Pluto, with the zodiac sign of Scorpio. Setsuna does fit the Scorpio persona in that she is intense and secretive, with a very serious, brooding air (but then again these qualities can fit Capricorns to some degree as well). As said above, Scorpio's ruling planet is Pluto, hence Setsuna's Senshi name (before the planet Pluto was discovered, Mars was considered the ruling planet of Scorpio). Also, Setsuna's favorite color (dark red) is the color associated with both Pluto and Scorpio. Setsuna's Mythology Hades, Greek god of the Underworld, is sometimes called Aidoneus, and he is son to Cronus as well as brother to Zeus and Poseidon. Except for the abduction of his niece Persephone there is no major myth about Hades, and all the myths about Hades don't have anything to do with Setsuna; the only relation between Setsuna and Hades is that Setsuna's last name, "Meioh," means "darkness ruler" and "underworld ruler" - which ties in with Hades' role as god and ruler of the Underworld. In the manga, Setsuna was the Princess of Pluto during the time of the Moon Kingdom, and her castle was called Charon Castle - this is significant because in Greek mythology Charon is a servant to Hades; he is the man who ferries the shades of the dead across the River Styx to their new "life" in the Underworld. Charon is also the name of the planet Pluto's single moon. Mythology Behind the Constellation Scorpio Orion, a beautiful man of gigantic stature, was the son of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, and companion to Artemis, the virgin huntress, maiden archer, and Greek goddess of the moon. Artemis and Orion were great friends (some myths say they were more than friends, others say they were not) and they hunted together often. Aside from her brother Apollo, god of the sun, Orion was the only man Artemis loved (of course she didn't love her brother the way she loved Orion, but anyway... :p). Myths vary here: some say that Artemis and Orion were indeed more than friends and that when Eos, Greek goddess of the dawn, fell in love with Orion, the jealous Artemis shot Orion with one of her silver arrows. Another myth says that Orion and Artemis loved each other as friends, and that Apollo, jealous that his sister should love another man besides him (o.o;;;), tricked Artemis into killing Orion. In the latter myth, Apollo called upon his great-grandmother Gaea (the Earth) to send forth a huge, deadly scorpion to kill Orion for making Artemis love him. Orion fought against the huge scorpion but was unable to penetrate the armor of the giant crustacean, and he fled into the sea and swam far away from shore so that the scorpion could not follow. Apollo then called his sister over to the shore, pointed at Orion swimming in the sea, and said that the swimming man had tried to rape one of Artemis's attendant-nymphs but ran off when he saw Apollo approach. As any student of Greek mythology knows, Artemis is very protective of her chastity and the chastity of the nymphs who attend her, and the goddess, failing to realize that the man swimming at sea was Orion, let one of her silver arrows fly from her bow, shooting Orion through the head. After his death, the distraught Artemis put Orion in the heavens as a constellation, and the scorpion was placed next to him in the heavens as the constellation Scorpio.
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