Sunspider (Zodiac)
The Sunspider is the second sign in the Avarian zodiac. It is the birth sign for the month of Ashbat.
| Month | Ashbat |
| Ruling Element | Air |
| Ruling Planet | Salesh |
| Modality | Resolute |
| Ruling Trait | Logic |
| Keywords | Curiosity, communication, clever, restless, energetic, argumentative |
Description
The Sunspider is an endlessly curious sign with a fierce and restless intelligence. Not only do they love to learn and experiment, but they also have a great desire to exchange ideas with others. Sunspiders are happiest in the realm of the intellect, pursuing the current object of their curiosity with the swift avidity of a sunspider after its prey.
Sunspiders enjoy intellectual sparring and debate, and can have a sharp and incisive wit. While they hold many ideas and opinions, some of them quite original, they cannot be truly happy unless they can actively communicate them with others -- and, ideally, argue for or against them. Other signs often exasperatedly feel that a Sunspider will disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing and to able to argue a new point. Sunspiders do love to play devil's advocate, devising clever arguments in favor of ideas they may not necessarily even hold themselves. They can also be insensitive at times, as they easily get caught up in winning arguments or making a stinging display of wit, and tend to thoughtlessly disregard other people's feelings when doing so.
Sunspiders become restless and unhappy when they are deprived of avenues for learning and outlets for their curiosity, and it is when they feel most stymied in their intellectual endeavors that their judgment and mockery become sharpest. When they are surrounded with people as curious and expressive as they are, they can be quite animated and even effervescent. With however much spirit they may argue their ideas, they do not mind being proven wrong if they feel they have learned something interesting from it or found a new avenue for inquiry.
The Resolute Sunspider
Sunspiders have agile minds and can be quite ingenious in joining together new ideas. They are masters of synthesis, both logically assembling and categorizing facts and ideas, and then springboarding off them in flights of intuition. If they are lucky to find a pupil as clever and curious as they are, Sunspiders make very engaged and engaging teachers who delight in making their lessons as entertaining as they are informative. Endlessly curious and obsessed with trying to connect things in new and unexpected ways, they appreciate unconventional insights and unusual questions. This gives Sunspiders an appreciation for children which is often surprising to the other signs.
The Sunspider in the Heavens
The Sunspider is made up of eleven fairly bright stars and five somewhat dimmer ones. Its eight long legs spread out around it, the front two extended out as if it were rushing towards the Peacock. The brightest two stars, pale golden Eridun and bright white Mut, make up its pincer-like jaws. The Sunspider is best seen in the winter, reaching its zenith in the ninth month of Darshali.