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✨🐳ASTROLOGY OF THE CANUCKS 2024-2025🐳✨

Hello again ~extremely niche group of~ Canucks fans and astrology nerds!!! I’m back with the astrology of the ‘Nucks: 2024-2025 edition. I wanted to get this out towards the beginning of the season (with full awareness there will likely be trades/various changes as the season progresses). If you're an astrology fan or just curious, please join me below the cut!

⚠️ THIS IS A VERY. LONG. POST. I'M SERIOUS WHEN I SAY THIS IS A DEEP DIVE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. ⚠️

OMFGGG LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER I POSTED THIS SPRONG GOT TRADED SOOOOOOO YEAH. NUMBERS WILL BE SLIGHTLY OFF. I'M NOT REDOING THIS UNTIL MAYBE THE SPRING SO WE'LL JUST DEAL WITH IT. THAT BEING SAID MY NOTES ABOUT HIM MAY TRACK. 👀

Pretty much the same format as last time but in a few slides for better visuals and by default (hopefully) better understanding.

I’ll just list a bunch of stuff, put in some charts (comparing this year to last year), then dive into my own insights/interpretations (still very much an amateur astro enthusiast). BUT this time i explored more into the team’s moon signs (there’s some weird - or at least very intriguing - stuff going on there), as well as a bit of mercury/venus/mars signs, AND some aspects (i’ll quick cover all this stuff at the beginning if you need a refresher or have no idea wtf any of that means you’re just here to have a good time - and i thank u for that 💕)

MANDATORY DISCLAIMERS:

1) this is just for fun!!! If you’re not into this, that’s totally fine.

2) Again, i’m not a professional so if i’m way off, please be gentle with corrections or your own interpretations.

3) as context for last year’s roster numbers: i included the players who were in at least 10+ games.

4) My percentages will not add up perfectly to 100 every time bc i wanted whole numbers, not decimals.

5) Canucks fambly first and foremost. I am still including Dak and Demmer even though they are presently on IR (because of course! we anxiously await your return, kings!!!), as well as the AHL players we may or may not see a lot of (except Nils Åman - we will miss our most beautiful boy as he goes back to AHL😪).

6) Even if you don’t care about astro or barely know wtf any of this means, i would still LOVEEE to have people just look at the various groups of players and provide their own observations/interpretations - are you seeing patterns, too? What are your thoughts?? Pleaseee share i’d love to chat!!

HERE WE GO!

REVIEW/FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH ASTRO TERMS:

☀️ENTIRE ROSTER SUN SIGNS OBSERVATIONS☀️

🔥 🌊Once again, the canucks are mainly water and fire, which is a very passionate, emotional combination. They are both creative and caring (though they may approach these things differently). They keep each other in check- fire makes water more active while water keeps fire from raging out of control. They are complementary/equal but opposite.

♓For sun sign, pisces STILL reigns supreme with 20% of the roster (5 players, with 4 being forwards. ♈ Next highest is Aries, with one forward, one d-man, and one goalie). We actually have at least one player for each sign (at this point in time). Still very heavy on the fire and water energy, but now we have a little more earth (stability) and air.

Pisces key words: responsive, sentimental, sympathetic, unselfish, psychic, vague, escapist, imitative, shifting - Boeser, Garland, Miller, Sprong, Forbort -

🐺The Lone Wolves are newbies to the team (only person on roster with sign) are Heinen (cancer), Brännström (our new and only virgo!), and Bains (cap).

The Canucks offense vibe is keeping that heavy water and pisces energy. Defense is more air (cerebral, objective). There is a fairly even distribution between modality as well, which I think is good. You need the initiators, the sustainers, and the refiners all to be present to complete the ‘cycle’. Mutable signs are most common on the team, and I do think that energy overall lends itself to a more free-flowing, creative vibe, which i know rick has said he wants to emphasize in their playing style… That being said, i like that there’s at least a little more distribution between the elements as i think that helps build a more rounded team.

✍️COACH & CAPTAIN OBSERVATIONS

Let’s mention coach really quick: rick is an aries sun, pisces moon, taurus mercury (because OF COURSE he has signs that are found repeatedly amongst the nucks…) Last time i looked at this stuff i didn’t dive this deep, but i thought about how for being an aries AND an nhl coach, i think rick does an impressive job keeping his emotions in check. We hardly ever see him truly get pissed off. He always seems very open and forthright in interviews. We know he can flip the switch if necessary - and i bet he does behind closed doors so we don’t see it - but it’s intriguing to me. Now this tracks since checking his chart: aries sun = passion, pisces moon = composure/keeps calm, taurus mercury = practical, common sense. Bingbangboom.

♎️Remember that quinn’s a libra, which is the sister sign to aries. Libras are diplomatic and have go-between/relator energy, but can get bogged down by people pleasing.

to be fair, the way quinn talks about his role and just hockey in general gives me the impression he’s pretty damn well-adjusted and has a good support system. But you can often sense his repression during pre/post-game interviews and how he holds his cards close to his chest. We have seen him be more light-hearted and libra-like, but he takes his leadership role very seriously and doesn’t want to let his guard down and slip up. Very good at compartmentalizing emotions.

I think the players respect him a lot and listen to what he has to say. As an air sign on a team of mostly fire and water signs, he can separate the unnecessary emotion from the necessary logic. He can act as mediator between hotheads and cold shoulders.

☀️FORWARDS SUN SIGNS OBSERVATIONS☀️

Forwards are still mostly mutable signs (followed by fixed and cardinal equally).

Element-wise, forwards are still water-heavy, followed almost equally by fire, earth, and air.

Forwards need constant fluidity and motion, need to look for openings

Water: seek connection, responsive

Mutable: flexible/adaptable, weave, dodge, complete the cycle

I think mutables and water signs are good traits for forwards. They need to constantly be moving/adjusting/trying new paths, responding to situations and making new/different plans, feeling the connection with others and be willing to sacrifice for the greater good/end goal (literally)

☀️DEFENSEMEN SUN SIGNS OBSERVATIONS☀️

Defense has equal mutable and fixed (this is a shift from last year - mutable has overtaken cardinal).

The D-line has mostly air (last year was mostly fire), followed equally by fire and water.

Defensemen need to anticipate, react, and redirect quickly

Air: seek knowledge, communicative

Mutable: flexible/adaptable, weave, dodge, complete the cycle

Fixed: stand one’s ground, patient and stubborn, maintain the energy

Defensemen need to both attack and protect, think ahead, surveying/observing, restart/set the plays, block/interrupt opponents

I think it’s good there’s now an equal presence between fixed (solid/don’t budge) and mutable (evade/be shifty) as they each serve a purpose within the d-man role. There may be something to the logicism of air signs - you cannot let emotions control you or it could lead to a goal for your opponent. You have to stay focused in your specific role. But you also must be willing to make the decision to mix it up. A lot of running through the decision tree as they try to both defend their goal but also help their forwards on the offensive.

☀️GOALIES SUN SIGNS OBSERVATIONS☀️

The three goalies (remember, demmer is still included!!) are two fire and one earth. Fire for keeping energy up and earth for being solid and focused.

Lanks is the earth sign and he as been so damn solid!!

There’s one cardinal, one mutable, and one fixed. Demko has the best track record as a sag (fire & mutable), but I’m very curious to see how each goalie’s stats shake out to compare modality trends.

I think there will be more to analyze here once we are further into the season.

DIGGING DEEPER: MOONS SIGNS (& MORE)

I checked players’ charts for sun, moon, mercury, venus, and mars placements. I’ll focus mostly on moon but there a handful of trends with the other planets that are blatantly apparent that I want to touch on. Given there are 12 signs and it’s presently a roster of 25, you’d expect there to be a fairly even distribution amongst signs, but nope!!

🌕MOON SIGNS OBSERVATIONS aka what the FUCK is going on here???🌕

(Remember moon signs are your feelings/emotional needs/inner self)

If you’re not an aries, libra, or SAGITTARIUS moon and you want to be a canuck, good fucking luck.

Basically ONE FOURTH (24%) of the team are sag moons?!?!?!? (blueger, debrusk, garland, miller, hronek, hughes)

20% are aries moons (sherwood, juulsen, myers, soucy, lankinen), 16% are libra moons (boeser, heinen, höglander, desharnais)

I felt like i was losing it when i kept running charts and saw: sagittarius. Sagittarius. sagittarius. Libra. sagittarius. Aries. Aries. Libra. Like how the fuck….

And NEARLY HALF (48%) have fire sign moons. So if you can’t get the metaphorical fire going emotionally…if you aren’t living and dying by your team…if you aren’t full of passion and fight…get outta here.

Also only TWO fixed moon signs on the entire roster (suter & joshua)

MORE ABOUT THE MOST PREVALENT MOON SIGNS:

🗣️MERCURY SIGNS OBSERVATIONS🗣️

(remember: mercury is all about communication)

OVERALL: mostly taurus (20%) and pisces (16%)

Good distribution amongst elements; mostly fixed (serious, deep, focused) and mutable (open-minded, creative) signs. Lots of players think a lot about what they say. Lots of them are also willing to think about things differently.

Descriptions from astrology.com or cafeastrology.com

“Taurus mercury: concrete, meticulous, productive, sensible, steady, boring, intellectually lazy, narrow-minded, slow, uncompromising”

“Common sense approach, practical and proven, can still be creative, refuse to be rushed - need to open up to different points of view”

Canucks players: joshua, suter, desharnais, juulsen, lankinen (and tocchet!!)

Observations: when i think of these guys (i guess mostly dak, lanks, and rick) speaking, i think of being casual yet still deliberate and thoughtful. They feel trustworthy. I could depend on them for something important and it’d be no big deal for them.

“Pisces mercury: expansive, fluid, receptive, subtle, transcendent, absent-minded, confused, indirect, nebulous, self-deceptive”

“Vague communication, dreamers, intuitive - pick up on things overlooked, compassionate, oversensitive”

Canucks players: garland, miller, sherwood, šilovs

Observations: Have a sort of innocence to them (even if they can all channel aggression come game time). Have a protective love for their teammates that is evident. Well, arty doesn’t say much but still! lol

💗VENUS & MARS SIGNS OBSERVATIONS💪

(Remember: venus is about love/beauty/values and mars is about action/drive/passion)

I’m not as well-versed in these planets so i’m not going to speak on them a lot, but I will use them in my aspects observations.

Venus: fairly even distribution amongst elements, mostly cardinal and mutable modalities.

Mars: less even distribution, mostly earth signs and mutable signs. Need to be stimulated/challenged and can therefore grow and develop.

MY PREVIOUS GUESSES + NEW NOTES

GUESS: JT is so intriguing because i don’t think you would guess he’s a pisces. he definitely has some fire placements in his chart (emotional outbursts but you can tell he cares so deeply). Ngl i kinda dig seeing him fly above all the fighting and then just going ‘fuck it’ and smacking somebody

Miller: pisces sun (water sign), sag moon (fire sign!), pisces mercury (water sign), aries venus (fire sign!), cancer mars (water sign, will go crazy for loved ones)

Square b/w sun and moon: “Strong-willed and very sensitive”

Moon trine venus: “generally amiable” “natural charm”

Mercury trine mars: “likes discussions, debates, polemic” “hard worker and has lots of energy”

I was right - lotssss of fire and water

GUESS: Garly likely has some air (communicative, social butterfly) AND fire (he just does NOT slow down. He’s a spark for the team. Maybe aries energy somewhere).

Garland: pisces sun, sag moon, pisces mercury, taurus venus (physical affection), pisces mars

Conj sun and mars: “have powerful energy stores you can draw upon when needed”

Right about having a lot of energy (just not from fire sign)

GUESS: I am almost willing to put money on quinn being a pisces rising lmao. “Who’s the little canuck that always looks scared or high?”

Can’t confirm anybody’s rising sign without a birth time, but i stand by this guess.

GUESS: Brock’s pretty lowkey so likely a fair amount of water and perhaps earth.

Boeser: pisces sun, libra moon, aquarius mercury, aquarius venus, libra mars (handing stick back after being tripped with it)

Conj sun and venus: “charming and easygoing”

Libra is diplomatic and aquarius is somewhat detached. Go with the flow.

GUESS: Petey is kinda mysterious and aloof (both associated with scorpio) but i would venture a guess that there’s some aquarius in there (maybe moon? Alien vibes lol).

Pettersson: scorpio sun, virgo moon, sag mercury, scorpio venus, virgo mars

Conj sun and venus: “charming and easygoing” popularity can be important - same as brock

Sextile b/w sun and mars: “powerful energy stores”

Virgo moon and mars - can mince words. Particular. Sextile sun/mars- can generate a lot of power.

Wrong about air - aloofness comes from scorpio sun and venus. Sag mercury - dgaf.

OTHER THING I NEED TO SHARE: HRONEK AND HUGHES ARE NEARLY TWINSIES👬

The only difference in personal planets that they have besides their sun sign is their venus sign. And since venus-moon aspects between partnerships are a positive, the fact that fil has a sag venus and huggy a sag moon is a good thing (i mean huggy also just has a fair amount of sag anyway but still).

Hronek: scorpio sun, sag moon, scorpio mercury, sag venus, sag mars

Hughes: libra sun, sag moon, scorpio mercury, virgo venus, sag mars

They may feel like they’re looking in a mirror sometimes - but the houses that their respective planets are in (this is more in-depth astro stuff that i’m not even touching on - because i can’t calculate it without the birth time) will affect how the planets show up and are expressed, but the matching energy is still very much there. I will say quinn’s chart was more ~crunchy~ in terms of aspects going on. So maybe that would explain how they are both sooo similar on paper but the actual pinpoints of those placements has a huge effect in how they come off to others.

Scorpio energy = observant, reserved, intense. Sag energy = freedom, competitive, needs space.

📐THE NITTY-GRITTY: ASPECTS📐

*THIS IS THE LONGEST SECTION SO PREPARE YOURSELF LOL*

(Remember: these are the degrees and angles formed between planets)

I organized these based on planet combos and whether they are beneficial (conjunct, trine, sextile) or challenging (square, opposite) aspects. I tried to include everybody at least once. Some of these aspects aren’t as relevant to hockey/sports, but hey, maybe it gives some insight into them as people which you may find interesting.

*Stuff in quotes is from astrology.com or cafeastrology.com*

☀️BENEFICIAL SUN & MOON ASPECTS🌕

“balanced personality” “emotions and will are at peace with one another” “likely personally popular” “relaxed, easygoing disposition” “has lots of vitality and more potential than they may realize”

These individuals have a good balance between what they want and what they need. They are generally easygoing and well-liked. Their core being is often in alignment with their emotions. The sun and moon work well together, so they have an attractive personality and disposition.

Canucks: These are the chill guys. The cuties. Everybody likes them.

Sun sextile moon: höglander, hughes Sun trine moon: soucy, räty Sun conjunct moon: forbort

☀️CHALLENGING SUN & MOON ASPECTS🌕

“internal struggle between needs and wants” “strong-willed and very sensitive” “Can be one’s own worst enemy”

These individuals have a disconnect between what they want and what they need. Can have a lot of internal turmoil and difficulty reconciling how they feel with how they want to be. The sun and moon are pushing against each other, resulting in a sort of identity crisis unless it is recognized and harnessed.

Canucks: Can be extreme emotionally. Have a lot of feelings and sometimes it’s hard to reign them in.

Sun square moon: heinen, miller

☀️BENEFICIAL SUN & MERCURY ASPECTS🗣️

“verbal, intelligent, observant”

These individuals are often naturally well-spoken and genuinely enjoy communication. They may like to talk but they are also just as good at listening with intention. The sun and mercury are working together, making the individuals easy to talk to.

Canucks: Great conversationalists. Active listeners.

Sun conjunct mercury: blueger, joshua, räty

☀️BENEFICIAL SUN & VENUS ASPECTS💗

“charming and easygoing” “popularity can be important”

These individuals have a great social presence and may often care greatly about how they are received by others. They like to be liked. Enjoy looking good and there may be an interest in art, fashion, style, etc.

Canucks: Have superior fits. You can tell they care about appearances. Can be very charming when they want to be.

Sun conjunct venus: boeser, pettersson, sprong, juulsen

☀️BENEFICIAL SUN & MARS ASPECTS💪

“Powerful energy stores you can draw upon when needed”

These individuals have alignment between their ego and their inner drive. Their energy fuels their personality and vice versa.-They can get going and keep going and this energy is contagious. Need to be careful of sitting still for too long as this disrupts the action that comes naturally to them.

Canucks: Giving 100% effort. Can will the team back into the game themselves. Don’t give up on the play. Seemingly energized all the time. (I will not accept any Petey slander!!) These guys are the ones who people NOTICE as being energetic, don’t let up, checking/falling/popping back up and keep going. Inner drive and don’t give up. They’ll give you everything no matter if you’re flying high or in the depths of hell. THIS ONE GETS ME!! LIKE HELLO?!? ARE YOU SEEING THIS GROUP??

Sun sextile mars: debrusk, höglander, pettersson Sun conjunct mars: garland Sun trine mars: sherwood

☀️CHALLENGING SUN & MARS ASPECTS💪

“competitiveness and a ‘me-first’ attitude” “abundant energy” “can rub people the wrong way” “motivated” mutable signs = “restless and frustrated impatience”

These individuals may have problems with embracing their strength and power and using them constructively. They must recognize how their motivations can get in the way of their natural talent and learn to channel their energy with care. Learning patience is important.

Canucks: Don’t know much about sprong but general guesses: May want too much at times. Gets frustrated more quickly than others.

Sun opposite mars: sprong

🌕CHALLENGING MOON & MERCURY ASPECTS🗣

“conflict between the head and the heart” “love to chat”

These individuals may struggle to communicate their feelings and desires. It may feel unnatural to them or they perhaps cannot articulate themselves in the right way. Things may come out wrong when they speak.

Canucks: Maybe more shy because openness is harder for them to do. Perhaps more uncomfortable than others giving interviews?

Moon square mercury: suter, brännström

🌕BENEFICIAL MOON & VENUS ASPECTS💗

“generally amiable” “natural charm” “diplomatic disposition”

These individuals can have a natural charm and care deeply for others. Highly sensitive to the emotions of themselves and others, there is a softness to them even if their initial impression suggests otherwise.

Canucks: Deeply caring, even if they can show aggression. Good “in-between” personalities - they can get on with many people.

Moon trine venus: miller, desharnais

🌕BENEFICIAL MOON & MARS ASPECTS💪

“passionate person who loves life” “frank, honest, full of vigor and ambition”“emotions are powerful and immediate, your passion is generally controlled and directed”

These individuals have strong emotions, yet they are expressed with intention. They can let things flow through them instead of wallowing in them. They can accept their feelings for what they are. Have genuineness to them. Not afraid to (calmly) tell it like it is.

Canucks: Steady, solid. Calming presence. Even-keeled.

Moon conjunct mars: höglander Moon trine mars: myers, lankinen

🌕CHALLENGING MOON & MARS ASPECTS💪

“unrest is characteristic” / “if you can channel your excitable energy into sports or some other competitive field, all the better”

These individuals probably struggle with having their energy overwhelm them. They want to go, go, go but that doesn’t work for every situation. They likely feel unsatisfied unless they are being active and feeling a sense of accomplishment.

Canucks: Demmer is probably dyinnggg not being able to play. Wants to be out there badly.

Moon opposite mars: demko

🗣️BENEFICIAL MERCURY & VENUS ASPECTS💗

“agreeable, optimistic, sociable, enjoys speaking, very charming”

These individuals likely have a great leadership presence - they are well-spoken and well-liked. People listen when they have something to say. Have light and positive disposition. Get along with others with ease.

Canucks: Mysie is a great veteran leader. Can speak well with everyone - team, coach, staff. Soucy is very well-spoken (and I really enjoy listening to his interviews).

Mercury conjunct venus: myers Mercury sextile venus: soucy

🗣️BENEFICIAL MERCURY & MARS ASPECTS💪

“likes discussions, debates, polemic” “worker and has lots of energy”

These individuals have good alignment with their communication and their actions. They say what they mean and do what they say. They are good at generating ideas and directing others. Take challenges head-on and are always willing to work to find solutions.

Canucks: Enjoy the puzzle of the game. Talk to teammates a lot, which is visible on the ice (especially with Miller!!)

Mercury trine mars: miller Mercury conjunct mars: suter, desharnais

🗣️CHALLENGING MERCURY & MARS ASPECTS💪

“Quick-minded” “spirit is lively, it is also cunning” “often acts without thinking”

These individuals have struggles with controlling their actions and can be too eager for their own good at times. Their minds move quickly, but they must learn to discern the best path forward before committing. Act on instinct, may speak without considering the consequences first.

Canucks: Can be a little wild. When they are focused and stick to the system, they are very effective and can beat opponents with their reaction time.

Mercury square mars: bains, brännström

💗BENEFICIAL VENUS & MARS ASPECTS💪

“amorous” “demonstrative in love” “passionate lover with strong temperament”

These individuals have harmony between how they give and receive love. Very powerful emotions and expectations when it comes to affection and what they expect from those they care about.

Canucks: Lol they don’t say much but there’s a lot going on beneath the surface. They care deeply, but that doesn’t mean it will show on the surface level (depends on other placements). High expectations.

Venus conjunct mars: hronek Venus trine mars: šilovs

👤PLAYER SPECIFICS👤

Here’s everybody’s chart stuff and some notes I made (not everybody got notes - sorry 😓 i just don't know them all well enough to confidently make comments for everyone)

FORWARDS

Bains: cap sun, virgo moon, aqua mercury, aries venus, scorpio mars

Blueger: leo sun, sag moon, leo mercury, libra venus, gemini mars

Has a lot of sociable placements- leo and sag like to have fun and bring energy, libra venus gem mars - likely pretty flirty.

Boeser: pisces sun, libra moon, aquarius mercury, aquarius venus, libra mars

Libra is diplomatic and aquarius is somewhat detached. Go with the flow. Pisces + Libra = a lot of just kindness and sensitivity (of course i must reference the mr. sensitive nickname)

Libra mars - handing stick back after being tripped with it 😭

DeBrusk: libra sun, sag moon, libra mercury, virgo venus, leo mars

Seems like he has pieces in his chart that are the same as several of the core nucks players - probably gets along really well with most of the guys

Garland: pisces sun, sag moon, pisces mercury, taurus venus, pisces mars

Right about having a lot of energy (just not from fire sign)

Taurus venus = enjoys physical affection

Heinen: cancer sun, libra moon, gemini mercury, cancer venus, virgo mars

Höglander: sag sun, libra moon, sag mercury, aqua venus, libra mars

Libra energy = likes to be liked, sag energy = likes to be goofy and have fun!

I feel like he’s kind of a happy-go-lucky lil guy

Joshua: taurus sun, taurus moon, taurus mercury, gemini venus, taurus mars

Heavvyyyy taurus energy. I like taurus mercury and garly’s pisces mercury together (water and earth). Steady. hard-working.

Miller: pisces sun (water sign!), sag moon (fire sign!), pisces mercury (water sign!), aries venus (fire sign!), cancer mars (water sign!)

I was right - lotssss of fire and water. Very intense. Can be hard to contain that emotion.

Cancer mars = will go crazy for loved ones once he’s pushed over the edge

Pettersson: scorpio sun, virgo moon, sag mercury, scorpio venus, virgo mars

Virgo moon and mars - can mince words. Particular. Observant. Sensitive.

Virgo energy is actually pretty sensitive to criticism - especially words. A Virgo moon i know will remember exactly what you said from years ago and call you on it if you contradict yourself. Take words to heart. Driven by sense of duty. Can be perfectionists and get in their heads too much.

Wrong about air - aloofness comes from scorpio sun and venus. Sag mercury - dgaf. Can be blunt.

Räty: scorpio sun, pisces moon, scorpio mercury, scorpio venus, libra mars

Sherwood: aries sun, aries moon, pisces mercury, pisces venus, leo mars

Aries sun/aries moon = firepower, spark, energy!

He has a lot of fire and water like millsy = we know they are both very expressive on the ice and not afraid to show emotion (good or bad)

Sprong: pisces sun, cancer moon, aries mercury, pisces venus, virgo mars

Suter: gemini sun, leo moon, taurus mercury, gemini venus, taurus mars

DEFENSEMEN

Brännström: virgo sun, gemini moon, virgo mercury, leo venus, scorpio mars

Desharnais: gemini sun, libra moon, taurus mercury, gemini venus, taurus mars

Forbort: pisces sun, pisces moon, aries mercury, aqua venus, aqua mars

Hronek: scorpio sun, sag moon, scorpio mercury, sag venus, sag mars

Sag energy - freedom, competitive, need space

Scorpio energy - observant, reserved, intense

Hughes: libra sun, sag moon, scorpio mercury, virgo venus, sag mars

That libra likes-to-be-liked sun and sag likes-to-have-fun moon (reverse sun/moon of höggy)

Everybody looooves huggy :). Might struggle with speaking up.

Scorpio mercury - observant

Juulsen: aries sun, aries moon, taurus mercury, aries venus, virgo mars

Myers: aqua sun, aries moon, cap mercury, cap venus, cap mars

Direct and honest communicator - like lanks

Cap energy is very hardworking, straightforward, grounded

“Consistency, dedication, communication” - descriptors from canucksinsider article

Soucy: leo sun, aries moon, cancer mercury, virgo venus, gemini mars

He has good aspects in his chart so he’s just a pleasure to be around (and look at :))

GOALIES

Demko: sag sun, cancer moon, sag mercury, cap venus, cap mars

Cancer moons are very sweet (also very sensitive) which i think tracks for demmer. Sag energy likes to (lovingly) poke fun at people, which also tracks.

Lankinen: taurus sun, aries moon, taurus mercury, aries venus, leo mars

Has passion and steadiness with some energy/firepower to boot!

Šilovs: aries sun, pisces moon, pisces mercury, aries venus, sag mars

pisces energy - innocence, dreamy-eyed

COACH TOCCHET

Rick: aries sun, pisces moon, taurus mercury, gemini venus, aries mars

His sun sign is the second most present sign amongst players

His moon sign is one of the more present ones on the team but ALSO having a pisces moon will help him mesh well with all the pisces sun players

Has the most common mercury signs present amongst players

So - on astrological paper - he probably gets along well with a majority of the players and they can relate to each other/connect easily

OKAY THAT'S IT *lies on the floor* thanks for reading if you managed to make it to the end 🫂 💕 you're a real one. PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS i know there's observations other people will have that i did not!!! okay thanks and i hope you have a good day!!!

#blue.stats #blue.chats #canucks #vancouver canucks #astrology #hockey astrology #sports astrology #THIS TOOK A LONG TIME Y'ALL 😣#HOPING SO HARD SOMEBODY CARES EVEN A LITTLE

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End of Year Recap + Plans for 2024

Hey everyone!

Belated Happy New Year to everyone! I know this is a very late end of year recap 😂Unfortunately, the past week ended up much busier for me than expected, so I could only get around to doing this now that things have calmed down a little.

This is a crosspost of a public post I made on Patreon a few days ago, so if you prefer the formatting there, you can read the post at this link:

PS: I do free monthly devlogs / posts there on Patreon, so consider joining the free tier of the Patreon even if you aren't interested in the paid tiers!

For those who'd rather read the post here, I'll leave the extraordinarily long ramble in a Read More cut below!

Let's start with a quick recap of the highlights / achievements accomplished in 2023!

Okay, this one may be slightly cheating. While Emberfate only launched on Steam in Jan 2023 so the 92 positive reviews came in in the year of 2023, it was up on Itch.io since mid 2022, so not all 383 Itch.io ratings came in in 2023.

Still, I'm pretty proud of these stats! Perhaps the numbers are nothing compared to some other amazing games' out there, but it's still something I'm proud of. It makes me happy that my silly experimental nostalgic little game struck a chord in so many players — much more than I expected given how niche the topic was!

Now, unfortunately, I could not get Emberfate's DLC for Potato's route out by end of 2023 like I had hoped. Porting the game to mobile also ended up much more difficult than I expected because of just how much of the UI I'm going to have to redesign — and hence, programming to be redone — if I wanted to make the game fit a small mobile screen. So both plans are going to have to be postponed to 2024.

The other notable highlight of 2023 is that both Lyrissa's and Kierdan's routes for Reanimation Scheme were released for beta access! That put the game at 3/5 routes complete, with a total of 431,786 words for the script.

I recruited a handful of beta testers to test the three completed routes a few months ago, and so far, the feedback has been positive overall. That's been a huge relief and lifted a massive weight off my chest — due to the controversial reception of the demo, I've been extremely anxious that the game would be hated by the players, and I've done so many rounds of editing and honestly perhaps somewhat unnecessary and obsessive rewriting of the script, but none of it felt good enough 😂 So hearing the positive comments has been a huge motivation / morale booster. Perhaps I should have done beta testing sooner… LOL

There are two more achievements unrelated to a specific game project that I'd like to mention:

2023 is the year that I became more interested in and better at Ren'Py programming! Most of it is thanks to my amazing programmer friend and Ren'Py wizard, Feniks (whom you may know as the programmer for Our Life series), who sparked my interest in programming and helped teach me a LOT. While I'm by no means a professional now at coding, I feel much more comfortable navigating around Ren'Py code and setting up what I need to in the backend of the games I'm developing, which opens up new doors for me for future projects in terms of what kind of features (big or small) that I may be able to include! Though the side effect of that is I looked back at the code I did for Reanimation Scheme from previous years and was immediately horrified by how ugly and inefficient it was. 😂I did redo the backend code of the Gallery and Achievements system a bit, but the rest will just have to stay for now.

I made quite a few new connections within the indie VN dev sphere in 2023! I made a shocking discovery that there's enough number of indie VN developers from Hong Kong to fill half a minibus, and I was lucky enough to connect with them and share our experiences and learn from each other! Due to new project commissions I took on for $$$ (real life financial needs suck), as well as a couple of small game jam projects I joined as programmer to buff up my programming portfolio, I also made some new VN dev friends unexpectedly. It's been really nice, because honestly, solo dev can be a really lonely and isolating endeavor sometimes. I'm super grateful for the new connections I found myself making in 2023!

Looking Ahead: 2024

Okay, that was a lot of rambling for the recap. More than I thought I would write. Now let's move forward to what the future will look like for this studio in 2024 and what goals I'm setting for myself this year!

Priority #1: Finishing Reanimation Scheme

Of course it's Reanimation Scheme. As mentioned above, we're currently at 3 out of 5 routes completed (sans partial voice acting). So the biggest goal for 2024 will be to get the game done. and out. Finally.

I won't be giving a concrete release date until we're like, literally in beta phase for all 5 routes, just so I won't have to announce a delay and let people down. But given the current progress and pace of work, I'd say probably around mid-year — maybe Q3 latest.

I'll be keeping up with the episodic updates of Reanimation Scheme's beta build on Patreon (and Kickstarter) from this month onwards, beginning with Jori's route and then followed by Sebastien's.

The remaining Kickstarter rewards may take a little longer — but ideally, all of them (artbook / lorebook / short stories collections, etc.) will be done by end of the year as well.

Priority #2: Potato's Route DLC for Emberfate

Potato, poor Potato. His DLC had to be put on the sidelines until Reanimation Scheme is done.

Half of the art has already been commissioned and completed by the amazing Remnantation — we're just missing his selfie CG & his MMO character sprite! So the next step would be the script and then the voice acting for the calls part. I won't be able to start on the script until mid-2024 earliest, but given the fact that his route won't be that long if it's parallel in length compared to the existing three routes, it probably won't take too long to do. Perhaps 2-3 months for the development process of the DLC?

I'll likely be releasing his DLC early on Patreon, potentially also episodically as it's completed, like I did with Emberfate. So if you're interested, keep an eye out for it when the time comes!

Something Secretly Brewing in the Shadows?

If you're pledged to this Patreon on $10 tier or above, you'll probably already know what I'm alluding to.

I won't be announcing or talking much about this for now, since I don't know when I'll be able to start working on this project properly (i.e. I need to meet my above two goals first). For all I know, it might end up being not a 2024 thing but a 2025 thing. So I'll only tease it slightly for now here.

Bonus Goal: Market, for the Love of God

If you follow Wind Chimes Games on either Twitter or Tumblr, you'll probably have noticed the sorry state of my social media. I… really do not like marketing or posting on social media. I never know what to post or say. I'm too unfunny and uncreative to meme or write humorous captions that get engagement. 😂It kind of feels like I'm shouting into the void, and nobody really cares about what I have to say on my projects when there's so many cooler and more interesting things out there. So I always try for a brief period of time, and then I give up 😭

This year though, I really really need to take marketing more seriously. With two releases planned for 2024, marketing is going to be important if I want the games to sell more than like 20 copies LOL

So I guess, uh, hold me to it and call me out if I don't start posting regularly after all 🥹

Conclusion

If you've made it this far on this post, thank you so much for listening to me ramble. 🥹 2024 is going to be a very busy year, but hopefully, a productive one that will end with me meeting all of the above listed goals.

Thank you so much for joining me on the wild and bumpy journey that was 2023, and I hope you'll stick around for the exciting things to come this year too! Here's to a great year ahead of all of us!

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overthinkingkdrama · 5 years ago

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Exit Review: Hotel De Luna

I'm trying to find a new, quick, neat review format that I can use when I don't really have enough to say to give you the whole review. But let's face it. This blog hasn't really been about reviews for a while now. A lot of that comes down to a shifting of my priorities these days. But I definitely am not ready to shut this blog down or stop doing what I've been doing for the past years, which is giving you my completely selfish commentary on Kdramas and how they make me feel.

That said, he's a review for a drama that ended back in September:

Synopsis

Hotel Del Luna is the 12th full length drama written by the Hong Sisters, and like many of their other works is built around ghosts, folklore, and the sisters' particular brand of adapting previously existing stories into the classic Kdrama romcom format.

The drama tells the story of Jang Man Wol (Lee Ji Eun, aka IU), a materialistic, bad-tempered immortal woman who is the caretaker to The Inn of the Moon (rebranded Hotel Del Luna to keep up with the times) the last pit stop for the sprits of the dead before they pass on to the afterlife. She competently undertakes this task as a way to pay off some heavy duty bad karma from her tragic and bloody past. After centuries spent like this, world-weary Man Wol strikes a bargain to bring hardworking, scaredy-cat and Harvard grad, Goo Chan Seong (Yeo Jin Goo) to work as her hotel manager...very much against his will.

Whether he likes it or not, Chan Seong ends up acting as the human liaison for this luxurious ghost hotel, unlocking the secrets of its CEO and her mysterious past, as well as finding out what his connection is to this magical world.

Review

Story: Hotel Del Luna is essentially a gender swapped Beauty and the Beast set up, but with gods and ghosts. Which, is absolutely my cup of tea. And there's some pretty on the nose symbolism alluding to familiar Beauty and the Beast motifs (like enchanted undying flowers, lonely compelling monsters in high towers, well meaning peasant [boys] indentured to said monsters against their will, fancy staircases...)

But after the first couple of episodes the familiar set up recedes more into the background, and the format becomes a straightforward monster of the week, unlikely partners kind of drama. We've seen this before from the Hong Sisters. Hwayugi does it and Master's Sun does too, to a greater or lesser degree of success. This is clearly the Hongs' comfort zone, and they're good at it. I even noticed a couple story lines that had been taken and tweaked from previous dramas (specifically the spirit marriage plot line which is reused from Master's Sun) and it felt like they wanted to redo some old ideas with a bigger budget and a more experience. For the most part it works.

However, the drama suffers from some serious issues with pacing and tone. While the tone issues even out over time, there is a fair bit of one off slapstick humor which feels disconnected and rather corny in the context of the grander narrative. (Think My Girlfriend is a Gumiho's running fart gag, but classed up slightly.) But by far the pacing is the biggest problem Hotel Del Luna struggles with for the entirety of the run. It feels like the episodes are about a quarter filler. An issue that I feel could have been completely sidestepped had the Hong Sisters had only 1 hour to fill per episodes, rather than tvN's monstrous feeling hour and fifteen minute episodes which only grow longer as the run goes on.

Acting: IU owns this drama. This is Man Wol's world and we're all just living it in, ladies and gentleman. It's not just the fact that IU is consistently the most visually enticing thing in any given scene, she gives the drama vibrancy and life and you feel the lack whenever she's not on screen.

It's not that Yeo Jin Goo isn't a solid young actor, or even that he does a bad job in the drama. He doesn't do a bad job at all. It's just that Chan Seong isn't nearly as complex or dynamic as Man Wol. He's very much playing the uptight straight man to Man Wol's capricious and charismatic anti-heroine, and as such he seems to rather shrink beside her. If you want to see Yeo Jin Goo in a role that stretches him and lets him show of his dynamism, The Crowned Clown was his break out moment of the year. In HDL he is more or less another pretty accessory to hang from IU's arm.

Because the Hongs have been around forever they've also worked with everyone, this drama is a wealth of cheeky cameos and familiar faces and the extended cast makes the world feel full and lived in. There were a number of minor characters I felt invested in and enjoyed watching their plot lines play out.

But let's be real, IU is the single best reason to watch this drama.

Production: HDL is gorgeous to look at. The sets and costumes (especially Man Wol's outfits, which she changes at least 5 times an episodes) are downright luscious. We've come a long way from the distractingly chintzy makeup and costume design of Master's Sun. Hell, it even feels like we're lightyears ahead of Hwayugi, which was just two years ago. The style and motifs of HDL feel like they have a real identity, that they all come from the same place. Real love and thought went into the way the hotel looks and feels, as well as the way the characters dress and the supernatural world they live in.

Feels: The biggest thing about HDL that I felt let down by was the romance. It's not that it was bad, or in some way offensive. Quite the opposite really. The romance in HDL was just okay, just middle of the road. They had an excellent template (Beauty and the mofuckin' Beast y'all) to draw from, and two attractive, talented young people to helm the show and it just...didn't ignite for me. I've seen people praising the chemistry between the leads, and I'm sorry to say I just don't see it. It's okay, it's not leaping out of the screen for me. It's...functional. That's it, that's the big hairy gripe I've got with this show (besides the filler and typical tvN bloat).

What I loved about this drama was the heroine. I loved Man Wol and all of the joy and fun and sentiment and sorrow IU poured into her performance. I felt like IU was establishing herself in this role as a Park Min Young-type force in the drama world, who can carry entire productions on her shoulders. Man Wol in HDL isn't Ji An from My Mister--she can't be; she shouldn't be--but like Ji An she is allowed to be flawed, she allowed to be cruel and miserable and petty and sometimes even wicked. And I love that, because we don't get enough female characters like that, who are allowed to be wrong and yet redeemed, who are allowed to be shallow and bitter and do the selfish thing, and yet still learn from their mistakes and do better.

I like that Man Wol's gray morality isn't abandoned half way through the drama, and her arc isn't dropped or subordinated to Chan Seong's. She is the main character, the driver of the story, and that never changes throughout the run. The "happy ending" of the story is about her, not about the male lead. There's really nothing that annoys me more than a drama that builds up its lead as having a dark side, a checkered past, a hair trigger or a penchant for violence, and then refuses to show that side of the character to the audience for fear of making them unlikable. Female characters especially get this sort of treatment all the time. Man Wol is allowed to be an ambiguous character, she is allowed to fuck up and be forgiven, and ultimately be rewarded. And I think that's fabulous.

Would I recommend Hotel Del Luna? For fantasy fans, IU fans, and misguided Hong sisters completionists (that's mainly just me, I think) I would absolutely recommend HDL. It's definitely one of the better Hong Sisters offerings, stronger on its own merits than Hwayugi, and the closest yet in my opinion to reclaiming the glory of Master's Sun in terms of fantasy romance fun. 8.5/10

#hotel del luna #IU #lee ji eun #yeo jin goo #kdrama reviews #exit review #hong sisters

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