Astrologian Seals?

[Local_Custard]

Picking Balance and Cancer as my off-the-dome examples was probably a bad choice, because those actually do track completely as relating to the sun and water respectively, but both AST cards and the real-life zodiac's elemental affinities have some weirdos. One of the other water signs is Scorpio for some reason; meanwhile in FFXIV, The Spear is apparently a celestial card, despite it being partially for the god of the moon.

Ah, yeah that is odd- I did indeed write something about that on a chart I made but didn't really think about it too much. I think I'll take another look at the chart after reading up on the lore for 12. Maybe I should do a particular set of alliance raids when I finally get to log back on- I do know there is lore there too.

The seals really don’t seem to have any meaning beyond generic “things in the sky”

The 8 cards each relate to an element or an alignment
-balance- fire
-spear- ice
-arrow- wind
-ewer- water
-spire- lightning
-bole- earth
-lady- light
-lord- darkness

And each have some form of representation of both of their members of the 12

The cards also when they swapped effects in ShB still retain their alignment effect as the umbral cards are the melee cards (balance/fire, arrow/wind and spear/ice) and the astral cards are the ranged cards

The seals meanwhile have zero connection to anything, the sun seal sits on the fire card but the moon symbol doesn’t sit on the ice card, the seals don’t necessarily sit next to each other in the months either (as spear and spire or ice and lightning share a seal) when the lighting months are in early summer while the ice months are in early winter

The seals are a gameplay mechanic that has no actual relevance to AST’s lore

Oh right- I should definitely consider which months the cards are associated with and write that down on the chart I made. The more I learn the more I realize ast seals probably weren't that carefully made on the lore side of things