I still don't get how Ishgardian astrology was supposed to work

[Kuroka]

Its nonsense anyways as the light of said star - and most likely its aether as well would take thousends if not millions of years... I never got how that was supposed to work lol

But also i dont think they literally meant the star of his homeworld.

[Gemina]

Its nonsense anyways as the light of said star - and most likely its aether as well would take thousends if not millions of years... I never got how that was supposed to work lol

But also i dont think they literally meant the star of his homeworld.

One way to explain this is if our own closest neighboring star 'Betelgeuse' exploded at the exact moment you read this post, it will still appear as it did last night in the sky, and will continue to do so for hundreds if not thousands of years. You have to right of it due to amount of time it takes light to get from one point to another in the known universe. So if we were to ever witness Betelgeuse explode, that would mean it happened a really, really long time ago.

It's so interesting to think about light in this manner, as it makes it impossible to see things in the present. So next time anyone tells you to stop living in the past... well ;p